The Last Recruit (20 Apr. 2010)

As the battle between Locke and Widmore commences, Sawyer launches his plan to change allegiances. Back in Los Angeles, fate continues to intervene and bring the original survivors together.

Director:

Stephen Semel

Writers:

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

Stars:

Naveen Andrews, Nestor Carbonell, Henry Ian Cusick

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Naveen Andrews	...	Sayid Jarrah
Nestor Carbonell	...	Richard Alpert (credit only)
Henry Ian Cusick	...	Desmond Hume
Emilie de Ravin	...	Claire Littleton
Michael Emerson	...	Ben Linus
Jeff Fahey	...	Frank Lapidus
Matthew Fox	...	Jack Shephard
Jorge Garcia	...	Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes
Josh Holloway	...	James 'Sawyer' Ford
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Jin Kwon
Yunjin Kim	...	Sun Kwon
Ken Leung	...	Miles Straume
Evangeline Lilly	...	Kate Austen
Terry O'Quinn	...	John Locke
Zuleikha Robinson	...	Ilana Verdansky

Storyline

Jack and Locke talks about the real John Locke in the woods and Claire follows them. Locke tells that he was the one that pretend to be their father. Sawyer tells to Hurley that he intends to use Widmore's submarine to flee from the island. Zoe comes to Locke's camp and asks for Desmond and shows the bellicose power of Widmore. Locke asks Sawyer to bring a boat to attack Widmore and asks Sayid to kill Desmond in the well. Jack, Sun Hurley and Frank leave Locke's group but Claire follows them to meet Sawyer and Kate. Jack decides to leave the boat and stay in the island. When he reaches the island, Locke learns that Sawyer took the boat to go to the other island. Widmore bombs Locke's group. In the parallel reality, Ben goes in the ambulance with Locke to the hospital and they arrive at the same time with Sun and Jin. In LAPD, Sawyer talks to Kate and then Miles calls him to tell about the multiple murders in the restaurant and Sayid is the prime suspect. Desmond meets Claire when she ...

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Plot Keywords:

reading of will | hospital | lawyer | spinal surgery | adoption agency | 

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Genres:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English Korean

Release Date:

20 April 2010 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Honolulu, O'ahu, Hawaii, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bad Robot, ABC Studios

Technical Specs

Runtime:

43 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In the elevator, Desmond and Claire are going to the 15th floor - 15 is one of Hurley's numbers.

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Goofs

When Locke gets up, holding his hand out to Desmond, you can see that he says a few words before the last phrase, i.e. "Something I'd like to show you," but these words are muted.

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Quotes

Zoe: Are you sure? I understand Charles.
James 'Sawyer' Ford: Widmore.
[to Zoe]
James 'Sawyer' Ford: What the hell are you doing?
Zoe: What does it look like I'm doing? Hands up now. On your knees, all of you.
Guard: Now!
James 'Sawyer' Ford: We had a deal.
Zoe: Deal's off. We got them. Fire when ready.

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Connections

References Deliverance (1972)

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Soundtracks

"End Title"
Written by Michael Giacchino
Performed by Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra

User Reviews

Poor episode

I really don't know where u get this "best episode so far" review from guys for me it was one of the worse one since silly temple episodes from beginning of the series, all 50 min. it's just walk and silly talk one to each other the only explanation we get is about dead body and how jakob "use" them for his own purpose (i.e. Jacks father ) other than that we got walking, swimming and silly talk,not much explanation in alt. world either, disaster so far 3/10 as me being v. generous hope next episode bring more light ps: and please producers when will you get rid off Said his so annoying and left without any purpose in this season regards - accurist