Season 3
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This article contains episode summaries for the third season of Lost.
See Also: Season 1, Season 2, Season 4, Season 5, Season 6
Summary
In the U.S., original episodes of season three aired between October 4, 2006 and May 23, 2007. For airdates on other networks and in other countries, see Airdates of Lost.
Principal cast
In order of character appearances
- Evangeline Lilly as Kate Austen (20/22)
- Matthew Fox as Jack Shephard (19/22)
- Josh Holloway as James "Sawyer" Ford (18/22)
- Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet Burke (17/22)
- Dominic Monaghan as Charlie Pace (16/22)
- Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond Hume (16/22)
- Naveen Andrews as Sayid Jarrah (16/22)
- Jorge Garcia as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (15/22)
- Michael Emerson as Benjamin Linus (15/22)
- Daniel Dae Kim as Jin-Soo Kwon (14/22)
- Yunjin Kim as Sun-Hwa Kwon (13/22)
- Terry O'Quinn as John Locke (13/22)
- Emilie de Ravin as Claire Littleton (12/22)
- Rodrigo Santoro as Paulo (7/22)
- Kiele Sanchez as Nikki Fernandez (6/22)
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Mr. Eko (3/22)
Recurring cast
In order of character appearances
- M.C. Gainey as Tom/Mr. Friendly (11/22)
- Tania Raymonde as Alexandra Rousseau (8/22)
- Mira Furlan as Danielle Rousseau (7/22)
- Andrew Divoff as Mikhail Bakunin (7/22)
- Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert (7/22)
- Teddy Wells as Ivan (7/22)
- Marsha Thomason as Naomi Dorrit (6/22)
- Ariston Green as Jason (6/22)
- Michael Bowen as Danny Pickett (5/22)
- Dustin Geiger as Matthew (5/22)
- Blake Bashoff as Karl (5/22)
- William Mapother as Ethan Rom (4/22)
- Madison as Vincent (4/22)
- Joah Buley as Luke (3/22)
- Brian Goodman as Ryan Pryce (3/22)
- Sonya Walger as Penelope Widmore (3/22)
- François Chau as Marvin Candle/Mark Wickmund (3/22)
- L. Scott Caldwell as Rose Nadler (2/22)
- Sam Anderson as Bernard Nadler (2/22)
- John Terry as Christian Shephard (2/22)
- Robin Weigert as Rachel Carlson (2/22)
- Brett Cullen as Goodwin (2/22)
- Kevin Tighe as Anthony Cooper (2/22)
- Paula Malcolmson as Colleen Pickett (2/22)
- Kimberley Joseph as Cindy Chandler (2/22)
- Mickey Graue as Zach (2/22)
- Kiersten Havelock as Emma (2/22)
- Byron Chung as Mr. Paik (2/23)
- Fredric Lehne as Edward Mars (2/22)
- Tracy Middendorf as Bonnie (2/22)
- Lana Parrilla as Greta (2/22)
- Kim Dickens as Cassidy Phillips (2/22)
- Julie Bowen as Sarah Shephard (2/22)
Special guest stars
- Ian Somerhalder as Boone Carlyle (2/22)
- Maggie Grace as Shannon Rutherford (1/22)
- Malcolm David Kelley as Walt Lloyd (1/22)
Main plot points
Season three focused on the Others. Major plot points included:
- The Others, who they are, why they are on the island and the way they live their lives and who leads them. Main characters include: Juliet, Ben and Richard Alpert.
- Contact with the outside world, including Penny; the Flame and Galaga being destroyed, and Naomi.
- The DHARMA Initiative in its high point and how it came to an end.
- Desmond's future-telling powers, going back in time and Charlie's imminent death, and to a lesser extent, Time
- The mysteries of the island, mainly pregnancy issues and the healing properties (see Mikhail).
Nikki and Paulo's status
Kiele Sanchez and Rodrigo Santoro, who were introduced in Season 3 as Nikki and Paulo, were considered guest stars by ABC (via press releases from ABC Medianet), and the producers themselves said they weren't "full regulars." The two were not included in a cast photo for the season. They did not participate in the 2007 ABC winter press tour due to their not being contract actors, per the producers (though based on filming, this could have been to cover up the fact that they had already left the show). The were also noticeably absent from the season 3 DVD cover and 2008 calendar (though an initial cover featured them, but excluded Mr. Eko). Ironically, the main credits of the season 3 episodes listed Kiele and Rodrigo as contract actors. This is recognizable by their being listed in the credits of every episode up until their last, including those in which they did not appear. This was different from the way Emilie de Ravin (Claire) and Malcolm David Kelley (Walt) were listed in the first part of season one and season two, respectively, as important recurring characters. Like regulars, they had individual promotional photos released and were featured on the season poster (the second version), and both appeared at the Sunset on the Beach premiere event for Season 3, which introduces the main cast members of each season. Their status has never been resolved, though it has come to be at most LOST websites, they are considered regulars who just suffered from lack of airtime due to the crowded Season 3 cast.
Season summary
After the events at the Pala Ferry, Season 3 picks up with Jack, Kate and Sawyer being held prisoner by The Others on another Island. The Others as a group are revealed to be less omnipotent as first thought, with Ben (Henry Gale) requiring spinal surgery lest he die from a tumor. The Others, meanwhile, manage to steal Desmond's sailboat from Sun, Jin, and Sayid, but not before Sun manages to kill one of them. After some manipulation and deceptions, Jack holds Ben's life ransom, allowing Kate and Sawyer to escape, while Jack accompanies the Others back to their main home after saving Ben's life.
At the beach, the results of the fail safe seem to have a strange impact on Desmond, who starts to see "flashes" of events before they happen (in particular, predicting Charlie's death). As the Season progresses, Kate leads a team to rescue Jack, leading us to discover more information about the Others, and how some of them ended up on the Island. The mission to save Jack is successful, but at the same time Locke destroys a submarine and joins Ben in the hope of learning more about the mysteries of the Island. Jack also brings the Other Juliet back to the beach, after apparently being ostracized from her group. However, she is secretly spying on the group under Ben's orders, to gain information on who amongst the camp might be pregnant (to further research as to why pregnant women die before their third trimester on the Island). Furthermore, a woman named Naomi parachutes onto the Island after her helicopter crashes, after apparently being part of a search and rescue operation to find Desmond for her employer, Penelope Widmore. She explains to everyone's surprise that the full wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815 was discovered at the bottom of the ocean off the coast of Bali, and that chillingly the passengers' dead bodies were all accounted for there.
Events come to a head as Jack plans to lay a trap at the beach for the Others coming to kidnap the pregnant women. They leave dynamite and a small group of survivors to detonate it, and manage to take out ten of the Others' best fighters. Meanwhile, Charlie and Desmond manage to deactivate DHARMA equipment underwater preventing communication off the Island, allowing Jack to lead a team to the radio tower to also deactivate Rousseau's distress signal, which in turn would allow Naomi to phone for rescue using the satellite phone she had with her. However, Charlie communicates with Penelope Widmore in the underwater station, who informs him that she has no knowledge of a boat, or anyone called Naomi. Ben implores Jack to not phone that ship, adding that they are the "bad guys". In the final moments, Jack manages to reach someone named Minkowski, who he assumes is on Naomi's ship, and who put a trace on their location and tell the survivors to sit tight, rescue is on its way.
In a flashforward in the 2 hour season finale Through The Looking Glass set in April 2007, it is revealed that at least Jack and Kate escaped the island. However, Jack clearly regrets contacting the rescue ship as his life is spinning out of control and desperately wants to return to the island. He tells Kate that they made a mistake leaving, but Kate believes they did the right thing. Jack shouts "We have to go back!" with tears in his eyes as she drives away from LAX, leaving him alone.
Season Three episodes
| First part | Second part | ||||
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| --- | "Lost: A Tale of Survival" | --- | "Lost Survivor Guide" | 15 | "Left Behind" |
| 01 | "A Tale of Two Cities" | 07 | "Not in Portland" | 16 | "One of Us" |
| 02 | "The Glass Ballerina" | 08 | "Flashes Before Your Eyes" | 17 | "Catch-22" |
| 03 | "Further Instructions" | 09 | "Stranger in a Strange Land" | 18 | "D.O.C." |
| 04 | "Every Man for Himself" | 10 | "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead" | 19 | "The Brig" |
| 05 | "The Cost of Living" | 11 | "Enter 77" | 20 | "The Man Behind the Curtain" |
| 06 | "I Do" | 12 | "Par Avion" | 21 | "Greatest Hits" |
| --- | "Lost Moments" | 13 | "The Man from Tallahassee" | --- | Lost: The Answers |
| 14 | "Exposé" | 22 | "Through the Looking Glass" | ||
Lost: A Tale of Survival
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A Tale of Two Cities
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The Glass Ballerina
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Further Instructions
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Every Man for Himself
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The Cost of Living
| The Cost of Living
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I Do
| I Do
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Lost Moments
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Lost Survivor Guide
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Not in Portland
| Not in Portland
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Flashes Before Your Eyes
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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Tricia Tanaka Is Dead
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Enter 77
| Enter 77
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Par Avion
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The Man from Tallahassee
| The Man from Tallahassee
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Exposé
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Left Behind
| Left Behind
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One of Us
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Catch-22
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D.O.C.
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The Brig
| The Brig
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The Man Behind the Curtain
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Greatest Hits
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Lost: The Answers
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Through the Looking Glass
See also
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| Themes | Animals • Black & white • Children • Coincidence • Connections • Course-correction • Deceptions & cons • Dreams & visions • Economics • Electromagnetism • Eyes • Fate vs. free will • Fear • Games • Good & bad people • Healing properties • Imprisonment • Irony • Isolation • Leadership • Life & death • Miracles • Missing body parts • Numbers • Parent issues • Philosophy • Physics • Pregnancies • Premonitions • Psychology • Rain • Rebirth • Redemption • Religions • Rivalries • Sacrifice • Salvation • Science • Secrets • Time | |||
| Lists & Tallies | Abduction and kidnapping • Affairs • A-Missions • Automobiles • B-Missions • Bars • Body count • Books • Car accidents • Characters • Character appearances • Churches • Cities & countries • Crashes (stranding) • Crimes • Deceased islanders • DHARMA logos • DHARMA stations • Family Trees • F-missions • Fights • Funerals • Hostages • Hotels • Hygiene • Injuries • Kissing • Law Enforcement • Logos • Medical personnel • Military • Miracles • Music • Missions •Nicknames • O-Missions • Occupations • Regularly spoken phrases • Relationships • Sex • Shootings • Speeches • Station explorers • Surgery • Survivors of Flight 815 • T-shirts • Weapons | |||
| Literary techniques | Comparative: Irony • Juxtaposition • Plotting: Cliffhanger • Plot twist • Stock Characters: Archetype • Redshirt • Unseen character• Story: Deus ex Machina • Flashback • Flashforward • Foreshadowing • Regularly spoken phrases • Symbolism • Unreliable narrator | |||
| See also: All Portals | ||||
