"Cereal Experience"

Album

Lost: The Last Episodes (Original Television Soundtrack)

Track length

2:25

Track type

Character motif

Episode title

"What They Died For"

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Featured in episode(s)

"Lighthouse"
"The Candidate"
"What They Died For"

©2010 Varèse Sarabande and Michael Giacchino

"Cereal Experience" is an orchestral piece from the Season 6 soundtrack. It serves as a flash sideways motif for Jack.

Scene descriptionEdit

Claire enters the Shephards' kitchen, and David offers her cereal. The phone then rings, and the man at the other end tells Jack that Christian's coffin has arrived at Los Angeles.

On the Island, Jack threads a needle and stitches Kate's wound. She moans. The two talk about Jin and Sun's daughter, and Jack agrees with her that they must kill Locke.

Full list of appearancesEdit

The motif from "Cereal Experience" plays during the following scenes:

• Jack notices his appendectomy scar. ("Lighthouse")
  • Jack collects David from school. ("Lighthouse")
  • Jack gets a call from Margo. ("Lighthouse")
• He gets Anthony Cooper's name from Bernard. ("The Candidate")
• Jack gets a call from Desmond. ("What They Died For")

InfluencesEdit

The piece begins with Claire's flash sideways theme. It then plays its own motif, which later blends with Desmond's flash sideways theme. The second movement is a variation on Jack's theme.

Title significanceEdit

Jack and David offer Claire cereal. The scene appears slightly surreal with its odd perfection, and it turns out to be not entirely real.