"Lost"
The Cost of Living (2006)

Director:

Jack Bender

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"Lost" (2004)

Original Air Date:

1 November 2006 (Season 3, Episode 5)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

After Mr. Eko has a vision of his dead brother, he sets out to return to the site of his plane crash.

Plot Keywords:

Death | Family Relationships | Shipper | Father Son Relationship | Flashback

Cast

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje	...	Mr. Eko
Naveen Andrews	...	Sayid Jarrah
Henry Ian Cusick	...	Desmond Hume
Emilie de Ravin	...	Claire Littleton (credit only)
Michael Emerson	...	Ben Linus
Matthew Fox	...	Jack Shephard
Jorge Garcia	...	Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes
Josh Holloway	...	James 'Sawyer' Ford (credit only)
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Jin Kwon (credit only)
Yunjin Kim	...	Sun Kwon (credit only)
Evangeline Lilly	...	Kate Austen (credit only)
Elizabeth Mitchell	...	Juliet Burke
Dominic Monaghan	...	Charlie Pace
Terry O'Quinn	...	John Locke
Kiele Sanchez	...	Nikki Fernandez

Runtime:

43 min | Germany:42 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

Venezuela:PG-13 (DVD rating) | USA:TV-14

Filming Locations:

O'ahu, Hawaii, USA

Company:

Bad Robot

Quotes:

Mr. Eko: I ask for no forgiveness father for I have not sinned, I have only done what I needed to do to survive. A small boy once asked me if I was a bad man, if I could answer him now I would tell him, that when I was a young boy I killed a man to save my brothers life. I am not sorry for this, I am proud of this. I did not ask for the life that I was given but it was given none the less, and with it I did my best.

Movie Connections:

References To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

One step forward, two steps back

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

Mr.Eko is bound to be a favorite character of many losties. Regardless of what he did in the real world the island has seemed to be a fresh start for many of the survivors. He is haunted by a vision of his dead brother the priest and still suffering the effects of the bear attack along with the hatch explosion he takes off into the jungle heading for the plane where he left his brothers body. This ties in with Locke and his group of explorers who decide to head back to the station known as "The Pearl" to try and find an active computer or to see if there is anyway of communicating with other stations on the island. In the pearl we catch a glimpse of a one eyed man in another station but realising that he is being watched he shuts off the camera. Surely more to come from that story. If I am to have one gripe about lost it is the loose ends that really need to be tied up at some stage. We have seen characters being killed in the past who seem to have pivotal roles such as Libby and Anna Maria, cut down before they need to be. It does add to the suspense as no one is safe but why bother with the back story at all. And here's the spoiler. Why kill Eko? If there is a character on the island who was willing to follow his faith and give everyone else hope I would have thought it would be Eko. Locke is going to take this role back again I'm sure but could Locke fight off four or five of the others with his bare hands? Eko had so much more story left in Him! The maze that lost has created contains so many dead ends. I'm not going to lose faith just yet but I'm reminded of the series the X-Files. The truth was out there, or so they tole us for eight or nine years. But in the end it wasn't and we were left feeling let down.