"Lost" Adrift (2005)

Director:

Stephen Williams

Writers:

Jeffrey Lieber (creator) and
J.J. Abrams (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Lost" (2004)

Original Air Date:

28 September 2005 (Season 2, Episode 2)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Plot:

After the raft explodes, Michael and Sawyer are left on what is left on the raft. They argue and nearly get eaten by a shark. Jin is no where in sight; Meanwhile, what happened to Locke and Kate when they went into the hatch is revealed.

Plot Keywords:

Plane Crash | Doctor | Survival | Flashback | South Pacific

Cast

Naveen Andrews	...	Sayid Jarrah (credit only)
Emilie de Ravin	...	Claire Littleton
Matthew Fox	...	Jack Shephard
Jorge Garcia	...	Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes
Maggie Grace	...	Shannon Rutherford (credit only)
Josh Holloway	...	James 'Sawyer' Ford
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Jin Kwon
Yunjin Kim	...	Sun Kwon (credit only)
Evangeline Lilly	...	Kate Austen
Dominic Monaghan	...	Charlie Pace
Terry O'Quinn	...	John Locke
Harold Perrineau	...	Michael Dawson
Michelle Rodriguez	...	Ana Lucia Cortez (credit only)
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje	...	Mr. Eko
Henry Ian Cusick	...	Desmond Hume

Runtime:

42 min

Language:

English

Certification:

UK:15 | Portugal:M/12 | USA:TV-14 | Venezuela:PG-13 (DVD rating)

Company:

Bad Robot

Trivia:

The World Trade Centre towers were digitally re-added in this episode to show the pre-2001 time-line setting.

Goofs:

Plot holes: When the tailenders come out of the jungle, five figures are seen: Cindy, Eko, Libby, Ana, and a fifth tailender that, in the opening to "Orientation" is clearly not Bernard. The extra tailie disappears between the beach and the prison pit, and is never mentioned to have existed.

Quotes:

Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes: How is it called again, when doctors try to appease their patients?
Jack Shephard: You mean doctor-patient relationship?
Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes: Yeah, that. You suck at that.

Tales from the Hatch

"Adrift", penned by Leonard Dick and Steven Maeda, is an episode a lot of fans dislike and for understandable reasons: there's a pretty perfunctory and average 'fill-in-the-blanks' flashback for Michael, a lot of Michael and Sawyer floating on the water, and a hatch storyline that doesn't further the story at all, merely giving us Locke and Kate's perspective of the events leading up to Jack saying "you" to Desmond at the end of "Man of Science, Man of Faith".

But I've always had a soft spot for the episode. It's never really boring, although it fails to bring anything new to the table with regard to Michael's character, and we get to see a lot more of the hatch than we did in the last episode, and I really do love that hatch (it's brilliantly designed whether you like its impact on the show's story lines or not). The direction by Stephen Williams (his second episode as director after "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues") is very good, and the performances by everyone involved in the episode are quite good.

But of course what really makes the episode is the classic ending, which led to an endless frenzy of speculation amongst "Lost" fans on the internet and elsewhere, with Jin running out from the jungle to meet Sawyer and Michael and screaming UDDERS UDDERS UDDERS, cut to some ominous looking folk, THUD, LOST. Brilliant.

All in all a pretty solid episode which I feel is unfairly maligned by some.

8/10