"Lost" D.O.C. (2007)

User Rating:

8.4/10   

Director:

Fred Toye

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"Lost" (2004)

Original Air Date:

25 April 2007 (Season 3, Episode 18)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Plot:

An unlikely person helps Desmond save the life of the mysterious woman who crashed onto the island, and Juliet helps Sun find out whether she conceived on the island or before the plane crash.

Plot Keywords:

Acronym In Title | Plane Crash | Flashback | Survival | South Pacific

Cast

Naveen Andrews	...	Sayid Jarrah (credit only)
Henry Ian Cusick	...	Desmond Hume
Emilie de Ravin	...	Claire Littleton
Michael Emerson	...	Ben Linus (credit only)
Matthew Fox	...	Jack Shephard
Jorge Garcia	...	Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes
Josh Holloway	...	James 'Sawyer' Ford (credit only)
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Jin Kwon
Yunjin Kim	...	Sun Kwon
Evangeline Lilly	...	Kate Austen
Elizabeth Mitchell	...	Juliet Burke
Dominic Monaghan	...	Charlie Pace
Terry O'Quinn	...	John Locke (credit only)
Andrew Divoff	...	Mikhail Bakunin
Byron Chung	...	Mr. Paik

Runtime:

43 min | Germany:42 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Korean | Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

USA:TV-14 | Venezuela:PG-13 (DVD rating) | Netherlands:12

Filming Locations:

O'ahu, Hawaii, USA

Company:

Bad Robot

Goofs:

Factual errors: When Juliet is performing an ultrasound scan on Sun, a heartbeat can be heard while performing a "B-mode Scan". Heartbeats can only be heard on an ultrasound machine when performing a "Doppler Scan", which detects blood flow. There is no indication that the system is operating in Doppler mode. This is a frequent goof that appears in many shows where ultrasound systems are used.

Date of Conception

"D.O.C." is the exact opposite of the episode which came right before it, "Catch-22", in that while that episode was always going to be good simply due to the stories it was telling and the generally professional writing one expects from "Lost", it didn't go beyond expectations and do anything especially interesting, but "D.O.C." has little to work with but ends up being a fine episode in many respects, around as good as "Catch-22". The episode is essentially an extension of the soap-opera 'who's the father?' story with Sun's baby, the story relating to pregnancies on the island, and yet again explores some of the social attitudes in Korea and deals with Sun's father and his powerful nature yet again. Also, the woman who parachuted onto the island in "Catch-22", Naomi, is treated for her injuries. Once again proving themselves to be the perfect writers to handle the more soap-opera-like stories on the show (as opposed to Elizabeth Sarnoff or Christina M. Kim, who have written some truly puke-worthy sappy nonsense), Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz deliver a script that exceeds expectations and make most of the episode very interesting.