Lost Season 1 Episode 02 - Pilot: Part 2

Pilot: Part 2 is the Episode #2 of Lost Season 1.
Featured character: Charlie & Kate.
This episode aired on September 29, 2004.

Jack, Kate, and Charlie head back to the beach. Kate asks Charlie what he was doing in the bathroom, and he says he was sick. A flashback reveals Charlie sitting on the plane, nervously tapping his fingers. He sees the flight attendants talking about him and quickly gets up to go into one of the lavatories. Once inside, he takes a hit of heroin. Before he can flush his stash, there is turbulence: he exits and sits in the nearest seat.

While looking for Vincent, Walt discovers a pair of handcuffs. He gives them to Michael. Jack, Kate, and Charlie return to the beach to discover Sawyer and Sayid fighting. Michael gives the handcuffs to Jack, and Sawyer accuses Sayid of crashing the plane. Sayid takes the transceiver and fixes it, however it does not have a signal or much battery life. He reveals to Hurley that he was a communications officer with the Iraqi Republican Guard in the Gulf War. Charlie walks away from the crowd and takes a hit of heroin. Jack asks Hurley to find antibiotics. Sawyer pulls a letter from his pocket and smokes a cigarette while he reads it. John Locke introduces Walt to the game of backgammon, and tells him a secret.

Sayid, Kate, Charlie, Boone, Sawyer and Shannon take the transceiver inland in an attempt to get a signal. Jack stays behind to tend to the wounded man. On the way they are attacked by an unseen animal, which Sawyer kills with a gun; they discover it is a polar bear. Jack wants to pull the shrapnel out of the wounded man, and asks Hurley to hold him down if he regains consciousness during the operation. However, Hurley faints. Sawyer tells the others that he got the gun from the body of a dead U.S. marshal. Sayid accuses Sawyer of being the marshal’s prisoner. Kate takes the gun from Sawyer, and Sayid instructs her on how to dismantle it.

A flashback shows the final moments of the flight. Kate is talking to the marshal, the same man to whom Jack is tending. Kate raises her hands, and she is wearing the handcuffs that Walt found in the jungle. As the turbulence hits, the marshal is knocked unconscious by a falling suitcase. Kate uncuffs herself, and puts the marshal’s oxygen mask on him before attaching her own.

Back at the beach, the marshal wakes up during the operation and asks Jack, “Where is she?” Inland, Sayid turns on the transceiver and it has a signal. However, it’s being blocked by a transmission in French that has been repeating for over sixteen years. Shannon translates it: “I’m alone now, on the island alone. Please someone come. The others are dead. It killed them. It killed them all.” They deduce that whoever sent this message has been stranded on the island for sixteen years.