Season 1
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This article contains episode summaries for the first season of Lost.
See also: Season 2, Season 3, Season 4, Season 5, Season 6
Season summary
In the U.S., original episodes of season one aired between September 22, 2004 and May 25, 2005. For airdates on other networks and in other countries, see: Airdates.
Principal cast
In order of character appearances
- Matthew Fox as Jack Shephard (24/24)
- Evangeline Lilly as Kate Austen (24/24)
- Naveen Andrews as Sayid Jarrah (24/24)
- Josh Holloway as James "Sawyer" Ford (24/24)
- Harold Perrineau as Michael Dawson (24/24)
- Jorge Garcia as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (24/24)
- Dominic Monaghan as Charlie Pace (23/24)
- Terry O'Quinn as John Locke (23/24)
- Yunjin Kim as Sun-Hwa Kwon (23/24)
- Maggie Grace as Shannon Rutherford (22/24)
- Ian Somerhalder as Boone Carlyle (21/24)
- Malcolm David Kelley as Walt Lloyd (21/24)
- Daniel Dae Kim as Jin-Soo Kwon (20/24)
- Emilie de Ravin as Claire Littleton (18/24)
Recurring cast
In order of character appearances
- Fredric Lehne as Edward Mars (5/24)
- John Terry as Christian Shephard (4/24)
- L. Scott Caldwell as Rose Nadler (4/24)
- Mira Furlan as Danielle Rousseau (4/24)
- William Mapother as Ethan Rom (4/24)
- Daniel Roebuck as Leslie Arzt (3/24)
- Kimberley Joseph as Cindy Chandler (3/24)
Main plot points
Season 1 concentrated on the middle-section survivors and their fight for survival and rescue. Major plot points included:
- Finding a suitable camp location (half the survivors, including Kate, Sawyer and Sayid settled on a beach near the crash site; the rest, led by Jack, chose to live in the caves in the jungle, which are located near a source of fresh water).
- Investigating the Island (searching for food and water, discovering the caves, and learning about the Black Rock).
- Confrontations with The Monster.
- Getting to know and trust each other (see especially Kate, Locke, Sawyer and Jin).
- Building and launching the raft.
- Hunting for Claire, after she was taken by the Others.
- Opening the Hatch found by Locke and Boone.
Season summary
On September 22, 2004, a plane breaks apart in mid-air, scattering survivors on a remote island somewhere in the South Pacific. A few dozen of these survivors, after the initial shock passes, attempt to set up a camp, and figure out where they are, but are disturbed by loud roaring noises and crashing trees emanating from the nearby jungle.
Three of the survivors set out to find the cockpit. An injured pilot, shortly before he dies, tells them that the plane had lost radio contact six hours after take off, turned back for Fiji and hit turbulence. The plane was a thousand miles off course when it crashed.
One of the survivors, an Iraqi Republican Guard communications officer named Sayid Jarrah, attempts to repair a transceiver. They take it to a higher point on the island in an attempt to get a signal, and are attacked by a polar bear along the way. When they finally do turn on the transceiver, they learn that its signal is being blocked by a transmission of a woman's voice speaking in French, which Shannon translates: "I'm alone now, on the island alone. Please someone come. The others are dead. It killed them. It killed them all." The message repeats, with a count implying that it has been repeating for over sixteen years and five months (according to Sayid's computation).
Sayid finds a cable running out of the ocean and into the jungle. He follows it, but it results in him being trapped by a mysterious woman who takes him to a bunker and tortures him, asking where "Alex" is. She eventually identifies herself as Danielle Rousseau, the person who sent out the distress signal. Sayid eventually escapes, and over the course of the season, Rousseau has other intermittent contacts with the survivors, telling them more of her own story, such as that she was pregnant when she came to the island, but after she gave birth, "The Others" came and kidnapped her baby, with their arrival heralded by a column of black smoke.
Hurley conducts a census of the survivors, and discovers that one of their castaways, Ethan Rom, is not on the passenger manifest. Ethan kidnaps Charlie and Claire, but then discards Charlie, since Claire was the one that "The Others" wanted. Locke eventually finds her. She doesn't initially remember her experience, but her memory slowly returns to her.
Locke discovers a mysterious hatch in the jungle with no handle, and becomes obsessed about what may be inside. He and Boone spend many days digging it out of the ground, thinking of how to open it. While exploring the island, Locke and Boone also discover a Beechcraft lodged on the side of a cliff. Boone climbs up the cliff and into the plane. Inside, he finds a radio and sends a distress call. A male voice answers, "Is someone out there?" to which Boone responds, "We are the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815." The voice replies, "We're the survivors of 815." The Beechcraft then falls from the cliff and badly injures Boone. Locke takes Boone back to the camp, but Jack is unable to save his life.
Michael decides to build a raft to escape with his son Walt, and they are joined by Sawyer and Jin. In the first night after launching, they are surprised and initially delighted to encounter another boat, but it turns out to be a group of the Others who demand that Walt be handed over to them. In the ensuing chaos, the raft is destroyed, Sawyer is shot, and Walt is kidnapped.
Rousseau leads a party of survivors to the Black Rock, a wooden ship in the middle of the island, containing a cache of dynamite which can be used to open the hatch. Along the way, one of them is chased by a black cloud, the "monster", which Rousseau calls the island's "security system." Jack and Locke bring the dynamite back to the hatch, and use it to force open the hatch door to look inside. The season ends with them looking down into the darkness of the shaft below.
Episode summaries
| 01 | "Pilot, Part 1" | 10 | "Raised by Another" | 19 | "Deus Ex Machina" |
| 02 | "Pilot, Part 2" | 11 | "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues" | 20 | "Do No Harm" |
| 03 | "Tabula Rasa" | 12 | "Whatever the Case May Be" | --- | "Lost: The Journey" |
| 04 | "Walkabout" | 13 | "Hearts and Minds" | 21 | "The Greater Good" |
| 05 | "White Rabbit" | 14 | "Special" | 22 | "Born to Run" |
| 06 | "House of the Rising Sun" | 15 | "Homecoming" | 23 | "Exodus: Part 1" |
| 07 | "The Moth" | 16 | "Outlaws" | 24 | "Exodus: Part 2" |
| 08 | "Confidence Man" | 17 | "...In Translation" | ||
| 09 | "Solitary" | 18 | "Numbers" | ||
Pilot, Part 1
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Pilot, Part 2
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Tabula Rasa
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Walkabout
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White Rabbit
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House of the Rising Sun
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The Moth
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Confidence Man
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Solitary
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Raised by Another
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All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues
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Whatever the Case May Be
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Hearts and Minds
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Special
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Homecoming
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Outlaws
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...In Translation
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Numbers
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Deux Ex Machina
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Do No Harm
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Lost: The Journey
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The Greater Good
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Born to Run
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Exodus: Part 1
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Exodus: Part 2
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