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This article lists and tallies all of the flashbacks, flashforwards and flashsideways on Lost.

Characters below are arranged in order of the number of centric episodes. The first flashback by show episode chronology is asterisked

Person Total Flash
Count
Flashbacks Flash-forwards Non-flash Centrics Flash-sideways Centric episodes

Jack-mini
Jack Shephard
25 10 6 1 8
  1. "Pilot, Part 1"
  2. "White Rabbit"
  3. "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues"
  4. "Do No Harm"
  5. "Exodus, Part 1"*
  6. "Man of Science, Man of Faith"
  7. "The Hunting Party"
  8. "A Tale of Two Cities"
  9. "Stranger in a Strange Land"
  10. "Through the Looking Glass, Part 1"++
  11. "Through the Looking Glass, Part 2"++
  12. "Something Nice Back Home"++
  13. "There's No Place Like Home, Part 1"++*
  14. "There's No Place Like Home, Part 2"++*
  15. "There's No Place Like Home, Part 3"++*
  16. "316"**
  17. "The Incident, Part 2"*
  18. "LA X, Part 1"+++*
  19. "LA X, Part 2"+++*
  20. "Lighthouse"+++
  21. "The Last Recruit"+++*
  22. "The Candidate"+++*
  23. "What They Died For"+++*
  24. "The End"+++*
  25. "The End"+++*

Kate-mini
Kate Austen
19 10 3 1 5
  1. "Pilot, Part 2"*
  2. "Tabula Rasa"
  3. "Whatever the Case May Be"
  4. "Born to Run"
  5. "Exodus, Part 1"*
  6. "What Kate Did"
  7. "I Do"
  8. "Left Behind"
  9. "Eggtown"++
  10. "There's No Place Like Home, Part 1"++*
  11. "There's No Place Like Home, Part 3"++*
  12. "The Little Prince"**
  13. "Whatever Happened, Happened"
  14. "The Incident, Part 1"*
  15. "LA X, Part 1"+++*
  16. "LA X, Part 2"+++*
  17. "What Kate Does"+++
  18. "The End"+++*
  19. "The End"+++*

Locke-mini
John Locke
18 11 0 0 7
  1. "Walkabout"+
  2. "Deus Ex Machina"
  3. "Exodus, Part 3"*
  4. "Orientation"
  5. "Lockdown"
  6. "Further Instructions"
  7. "The Man from Tallahassee"
  8. "The Brig"+
  9. "Cabin Fever"
  10. "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"+
  11. "The Incident, Part 1"*
  12. "LA X, Part 1"+++*
  13. "LA X, Part 2"+++*
  14. "The Substitute"+++
  15. "The Last Recruit"+++*
  16. "The Candidate"+++*
  17. "The End"+++*
  18. "The End"+++*

Sun-mini
Sun-Hwa Kwon
15 7 3 1 4
  1. "House of the Rising Sun"
  2. "Exodus, Part 1"*
  3. "...And Found"*
  4. "The Whole Truth"
  5. "The Glass Ballerina"*
  6. "D.O.C."
  7. "Ji Yeon"++*
  8. "There's No Place Like Home, Part 1"++*
  9. "There's No Place Like Home, Part 3"++*
  10. "This Place Is Death"***
  11. "The Incident, Part 1"*
  12. "LA X, Part 1"+++*
  13. "LA X, Part 2"+++*
  14. "The Package"+++*
  15. "The Last Recruit"+++*

Hurley-mini
Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
14 6 3 1 4
  1. "Numbers"
  2. "Exodus, Part 3"*
  3. "Everybody Hates Hugo"
  4. "Dave"*
  5. "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead"
  6. "The Beginning of the End"++
  7. "There's No Place Like Home, Part 1"++*
  8. "There's No Place Like Home, Part 2"++*
  9. "The Lie"**
  10. "The Incident, Part 2"*
  11. "LA X, Part 1"+++*
  12. "LA X, Part 2"+++*
  13. "Everybody Loves Hugo"+++
  14. "The End"+++*

Sayid-mini
Sayid Jarrah
13 6 3 0 4
  1. "Solitary"
  2. "The Greater Good"
  3. "One of Them"
  4. "Enter 77"
  5. "The Economist"++
  6. "There's No Place Like Home, Part 1"++*
  7. "There's No Place Like Home, Part 3"++*
  8. "He's Our You"
  9. "The Incident, Part 1"*
  10. "LA X, Part 1"+++*
  11. "LA X, Part 2"+++*
  12. "Sundown"+++
  13. "The Last Recruit"+++*

Sawyer-mini
James "Sawyer" Ford
14 6 1 0 7
  1. "Confidence Man"
  2. "Outlaws"
  3. "Exodus, Part 1"*
  4. "The Long Con"
  5. "Every Man for Himself"
  6. "LaFleur"+
  7. "The Incident, Part 1"*
  8. "LA X, Part 1"+++*
  9. "LA X, Part 2"+++*
  10. "Recon"+++
  11. "The Last Recruit"+++*
  12. "What They Died For"+++*
  13. "The End"+++*
  14. "The End"+++*

Jin-mini
Jin-Soo Kwon
13 6 0 1 6
  1. "...In Translation"
  2. "Exodus, Part 2"*
  3. "...And Found"*
  4. "The Glass Ballerina"*
  5. "Ji Yeon"*
  6. "This Place Is Death"***
  7. "The Incident, Part 1"*
  8. "LA X, Part 1"+++*
  9. "LA X, Part 2"+++*
  10. "The Package"+++*
  11. "The Last Recruit"+++*

Desmond-mini
Desmond Hume
9 5 0 1 3
  1. "Live Together, Die Alone, Part 1"+
  2. "Live Together, Die Alone, Part 2"+
  3. "Flashes Before Your Eyes"+
  4. "Catch-22"
  5. "The Constant"
  6. "Jughead"**
  7. "Happily Ever After"+++
  8. "What They Died For"+++
  9. "The End"+++*

Charlie-mini
Charlie Pace
6 6 0 0 0
  1. "Pilot, Part 2"*
  2. "The Moth"
  3. "Homecoming"
  4. "Exodus, Part 2"*
  5. "Fire + Water"
  6. "Greatest Hits"+

Michael-mini
Michael Dawson
5 5 0 0 0
  1. "Special"*
  2. "Exodus, Part 2"*
  3. "Adrift"
  4. "Three Minutes"+
  5. "Meet Kevin Johnson"

Ben-mini
Benjamin Linus
7 2 1 0 4
  1. "The Man Behind the Curtain"+
  2. "The Shape of Things to Come"++
  3. "Dead Is Dead"+
  4. "Dr. Linus"+++
  5. "What They Died For"+++*
  6. "The End"+++*
  7. "The End"+++*

Claire-mini
Claire Littleton
6 3 0 0 3
  1. "Raised by Another"
  2. "Maternity Leave"+
  3. "Par Avion"
  4. "The Last Recruit"+++*
  5. "The End"+++*
  6. "The End"+++*

Juliet-mini
Juliet Burke
5 5 0 0 0
  1. "A Tale of Two Cities"*+
  2. "Not in Portland"
  3. "One of Us"+
  4. "The Other Woman"+
  5. "The Incident, Part 2"*

Eko-mini
Mr. Eko
3 3 0 0 0
  1. "The 23rd Psalm"
  2. "?"
  3. "The Cost of Living"

Jacob-mini
Jacob
3 2 0 1 0
  1. "The Incident, Part 1"*
  2. "The Incident, Part 2"**
  3. "Across the Sea"+*

Miles-mini
Miles Straume
3 2 0 0 1
  1. "Confirmed Dead"*
  2. "Some Like It Hoth"
  3. "The End"+++*

Walt-mini
Walt Lloyd
2 2 0 0 0
  1. "Special"*
  2. "Exodus, Part 1"*

Shannon-mini
Shannon Rutherford
2 2 0 0 0
  1. "Exodus, Part 1"*
  2. "Abandoned"



Ana-mini
Ana Lucia Cortez
2 2 0 0 0
  1. "Collision"
  2. "Two for the Road"

Daniel-mini
Daniel Faraday
2 2 0 0 0
  1. "Confirmed Dead"*
  2. "The Variable"

Frank-mini
Frank Lapidus
2 2 0 0 0
  1. "Confirmed Dead"*
  2. "Namaste"+**

Richard-mini
Richard Alpert
2 1 0 1 0
  1. "Follow the Leader"**
  2. "Ab Aeterno"+

Ilana-mini
Ilana Verdansky
2 2 0 0 0
  1. "The Incident, Part 1"*
  2. "Ab Aeterno"*

ManinBlack-mini
The Man in Black
2 2 0 0 0
  1. "Ab Aeterno"*+
  2. "Across the Sea"*+

Boone-mini
Boone Carlyle
1 1 0 0 0
  1. "Hearts and Minds"

Libby-mini
Libby Smith
1 1 0 0 0
  1. "Dave"*

Rose-mini Bernard-mini
Rose Nadler and Bernard Nadler
1 1 0 0 0
  1. "S.O.S."*

M-nikki Mini-paulo
Nikki Fernandez and Paulo
1 1 0 0 0
  1. "Exposé"+*

Charlotte-mini
Charlotte Lewis
1 1 0 0 0
  1. "Confirmed Dead"*

NaomiDorrit-mini
Naomi Dorrit
1 1 0 0 0
  1. "Confirmed Dead"*

5x14DrChang
Pierre Chang
1 1 0 0 0
  1. "Because You Left"+*
+ - flashback at least partially set on the Island.
++ - flashforwards.
* - episode features more than one character's flashbacks or flashforwards.
** - episode has little to no flashbacks or flashforwards
+++ - Flash-sideways

Notes[]

This tally is of major, character-centric flashbacks which take place over the space of an episode of LOST.

  • Does not include the events of "The Other 48 Days", as there are no distinct flashbacks.
  • Clip shows are disregarded, because they do not contain any new information.
  • Nikki & Paulo and Rose & Bernard are grouped together, to avoid repetition of information.
  • Flashbacks of Shannon & Boone, and Jin & Sun are not grouped together, because they are, for the most part, character-centric, unlike "S.O.S." and "Exposé".
  • The episode "Flashes Before Your Eyes" included past events in the form of a "Déjà vu" which was unlike previous flashbacks.

See also[]

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