"Credit Where Credit Is Due"

Album

Lost (Original Television Soundtrack)

Track length

2:23

Track type

Emotion Track

Episode title

"Pilot, Part 1"

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Featured in episode(s)

"Pilot, Part 1"
"Pilot, Part 2"
"Tabula Rasa"
"Walkabout"
"White Rabbit"
"House of the Rising Sun"
"The Moth"
"Confidence Man"
"Solitary"
"Raised by Another"
"All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues"
"Whatever the Case May Be"
"Hearts and Minds"
"Special"
"Homecoming"
"Outlaws"
"...In Translation"
"Numbers"
"Deus Ex Machina"
"Do No Harm"
"The Greater Good"
"Born to Run"
"Exodus, Part 2"
"Adrift"
"Everybody Hates Hugo"
"Abandoned"
"The Other 48 Days"
"What Kate Did"
"The 23rd Psalm"
"The Hunting Party"
"One of Them"
"The Whole Truth"
"Lockdown"
"Two for the Road"
"?"
"Three Minutes"
"Live Together, Die Alone"
"A Tale of Two Cities"
"The Glass Ballerina"
"Not in Portland"
"Stranger in a Strange Land"
"Tricia Tanaka Is Dead"
"Par Avion"
"Exposé"
"One of Us"
"Catch-22"
"Through the Looking Glass"
"The Deal"
"Buried Secrets"
"Jack, Meet Ethan. Ethan? Jack"
"The Beginning of the End"
"Confirmed Dead"
"Ji Yeon"
"There's No Place Like Home, Part 1"
"There's No Place Like Home, Part 2"
"Because You Left"
"Jughead"
"This Place Is Death"
"316"
"Namaste"
"Follow the Leader"
"The Incident, Parts 1 & 2"
"LA X, Parts 1 & 2"
"Lighthouse"
"Sundown"
"Recon"
"The Package"
"The Last Recruit"
"The Candidate"
"What They Died For"
"The End"

©2006 Varèse Sarabande and Michael Giacchino

"Credit Where Credit Is Due" is an orchestral piece on the Season 1 soundtrack. Its closely-spaced arrangement for strings plays during emotional moments throughout the series, including every season one episode. In later seasons, variations play during action sequences as well.

Main appearanceEdit

Following the turbine explosion, the survivors scurry about the wreckage. Jack rests for a moment, and Boone approaches him with pens for the tracheotomy he suggested.

Full list of appearancesEdit

"Credit Where Credit Is Due" and its variations play during the following scenes.

• Jack walks among the wreckage. ("Pilot, Part 1")
  • Sawyer smokes a cigarette. Hurley organizes trays of food.
  • Kate takes shoes from a dead man. Locke eats a mango.
• Kate bathes in the sea while Sun keeps watch. ("Pilot, Part 2")
  • Claire feels the baby kick for the first time since the crash.
• Sayid's search party returns to the camp. ("Tabula Rasa")
  • Kate tells Jack about Rousseau's signal. She asks him about the marshal's condition.
  • The marshal's screams bother the passengers.
  • Jack tells Kate that their lives before the crash no longer mean anything.
• Claire gives Sayid his picture of Nadia. Jack comforts Rose. ("Walkabout")
  • Rose insists her husband is still alive.
  • Claire reads the names of the dead during their mass funeral.
• Jack visits his father in the morgue. ("White Rabbit")
  • Jack opens his father's coffin and discovers the body is missing.
• In a Previously on Lost recap, the survivors discuss the distress signal. Jack discovers the caves and tells the other survivors. ("House of the Rising Sun")
  • Jack realizes the survivors could set up camp in the caves.
  • Jack tries to convince Kate to live in the caves.
  • Sun contemplates leaving Jin at the airport.
• The survivors begin trying to clear the cave-in. ("The Moth")
  • Jack and Charlie escape the cave-in.
  • Jack talks to Kate before she heads back to the beach.
• Sayid exiles himself from the camp. ("Confidence Man")
• Sayid discovers the cable in the sand. ("Solitary")
  • Nadia tells Sayid that he is pretending to be a person she knows he's not.
  • Sawyer comes to the golf course.
• In a Previously on Lost recap, Sayid says goodbye to Kate. ("Raised by Another")
  • Charlie runs back to Claire after telling Ethan to get Jack.
• Jack succeeds in resuscitating Charlie. ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues")
  • Michael returns to the caves. Charlie, recently returned to camp, thinks about having failed Claire.
  • Shannon asks Kate about the whereabouts of Boone and Locke.
• Kate and Sawyer go swimming. ("Whatever the Case May Be")
  • Kate watches Sawyer walk away with the Haliburton case.
  • Sawyer drops the case from a height to open it. Kate runs away with it.
  • Rose talks to Charlie about Claire's kidnapping.
  • Jack catches Kate with the marshal's key.
  • Jack brings Kate the case.
  • The survivors move their camp up the beach.
• Kate takes Jack to Sun's garden. ("Hearts and Minds")
  • Michael looks at Walt playing with Vincent.
  • Jin gives Hurley a fish.
  • Boone cradles a dying Shannon.
  • Boone sees that Shannon is alive after all.
• Michael considers Susan's request to temporarily split up. ("Special")
  • Michael tells Walt that Brian is letting him keep Vincent.
  • Charlie reads Claire's diary.
• Jin asks Sun if she thinks Claire's baby is alright. ("Homecoming")
  • Claire asks Charlie who Ethan is.
  • Sun tends to Jin after Ethan attacks him.
  • Hurley speaks at Scott's funeral.
• Sawyer decides not to shoot the boar he's been following. ("Outlaws")
• Jin stares out at the sea. ("...In Translation")
  • The survivors try to put out the fire on the raft.
  • Jin tells Sun that he does whatever her father asks him to so they can stay together.
  • The survivors leave after Sun reveals she speaks English.
  • Jin visits his father.
  • Jin leaves Sun.
• Hurley hugs Danielle. ("Numbers")
  • He returns to the others with a battery.
• Sayid forges a pair of glasses for Sawyer. ("Deus Ex Machina")
  • Jack begins tending to Boone.
• In a Previously on Lost recap, Locke brings a critically injured Boone to the caves. ("Do No Harm")
  • Sun tells Jack to get some air while she tends to Boone.
  • Sayid and Shannon arrive at their picnic site.
  • Jack prepares to cut off Boone's leg.
  • Boone lets Jack "off the hook" and starts to die.
  • Claire gives birth. Boone dies.
• The survivors bury Boone. ("The Greater Good")
  • Shannon finds a picture of her and Boone.
• Jin refuses to talk to Sun. ("Born to Run")
  • Charlie plays the guitar while Claire cuts his hair.
  • Jack gets Sun to confess to poisoning Michael's water.
  • Kate stares at the fire.
  • Sun talks to her.
• Kate approaches Jack on the beach. ("Exodus, Part 1")
  • Charlie collects messages for his bottle.
  • The group heading to the Black Rock say their goodbyes to the group leaving on the raft.
• In a Previously on Lost recap, Jack and Arzt discuss the plan to blow open the Hatch. The group heading to the Black Rock say their goodbyes to those leaving on the Raft. The Raft is launched. ("Exodus, Part 2")
  • The survivors arrive at the caves.
  • Sayid and Charlie return to camp with Aaron. In a flashback, the survivors board Oceanic 815.
• Sawyer climbs back onto the broken Raft after swimming to retrieve the pontoon. ("Adrift")
• In a Previously on Lost recap, Charlie collects messages for the Raft. Michael and Sawyer reach the beach after the Raft is destroyed. ("Everybody Hates Hugo")
• Shannon visits Boone's grave. ("Abandoned")
  • Sawyer collapses.
• The tailies deal with the immediate aftermath of the crash. ("The Other 48 Days")
  • Eko retrieves dead from the sea.
  • Ana retrieves Bernard from his tree.
  • Ana and Goodwin try to build a fire.
  • Cindy tells the Tailies that the plane was a thousand miles off course when they crashed.
  • Ana drinks from a river. Goodwin approaches her.
  • Ana cries in the jungle.
• Jack removes Sawyer's clothes in the shower. ("Collision")
  • Eko looks at the guns in the Swan's armory.
• The survivors hold a funeral for Shannon. ("What Kate Did")
  • Kate asks Charlie if he thinks there could be horses on the Island.
• In a Previously on Lost recap, Charlie throws his drugs into the fire. ("The 23rd Psalm")
  • Michael talks to Walt on the Swan computer.
• In a Previously on Lost recap, the Others kidnap Walt and destroy the Raft. Jack and Kate kiss. ("The Hunting Party")
  • Locke and Sawyer talk as they climb up a cliff.
  • The A-Team walks back to camp after looking for Michael.
  • They reach the camp.
  • Charlie sees Locke with Claire.
• Rousseau takes Sayid to her prisoner. ("One of Them")
• Sun's pregnancy test turns out positive. ("The Whole Truth")
• In a Previously on Lost recap, Locke recounts his dealings with his father. Helen convinces him to move on. ("Lockdown")
• Jack and Kate lead Michael back to the camp. ("Two for the Road")
  • Christian and Ana Lucia agree to go to Australia with each other.
• Jack paces right after Libby dies. ("?")
• Michael returns to camp. ("Three Minutes")
  • Michael pets Vincent on the beach.
• Desmond tells Penny about the race he's going on. ("Live Together, Die Alone, Part 1")
• Claire and Charlie kiss. ("Live Together, Die Alone, Part 2")
• Jack wakes up in a holding room in the Hydra. ("A Tale of Two Cities")
  • Sawyer is thrown back in his cage.
• Sawyer kisses Kate. ("The Glass Ballerina")
  • Sun and Jin embrace in the ocean.
• Kate and Sawyer look at Juliet after she shoots Pickett. ("Not in Portland")
• Karl talks to Kate and Sawyer. ("Stranger in a Strange Land")
  • Sawyer tells Karl to go back to Alex. ("Stranger in a Strange Land")
• Sawyer tells Hurley that there is no hope on the Island. ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")
• Danielle tells Kate why she fears meeting Alex. ("Par Avion")
• Paulo promises to Nikki that they will never become as combative as Boone and Shannon. ("Exposé")
  • Paolo tells Nikki he's glad they lost the diamonds. ("Exposé")
• Jack calls Juliet "one of us." ("One of Us")
• Sawyer tells Kate that he won't let her use him. ("Catch-22")
• Jack tells Charlie and Desmond to go to the Looking Glass to turn off the signal jammer. ("Greatest Hits")
  • Claire takes Aaron, not noticing Charlie's ring.
• The survivors prepare to leave for the radio tower. ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 1")
  • Jack tells Kate he loves her.
• Alex meets her mother for the first time. ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 2")
  • Naomi and the survivors try to get a better signal on the satellite phone.

The Losties walk to the radio tower.

• Juliet tells Michael about her deal to save Rachel. ("The Deal")
• Sun buries her California driver's license. ("Buried Secrets")
• Ethan tells Jack his wife died in childbirth. ("Jack, Meet Ethan. Ethan? Jack")
• The beach group reunites with the radio tower group. ("The Beginning of the End")
• The survivors see the helicopter, safely on the ground. ("Confirmed Dead")
• Jin tries to buy a second panda. ("Ji Yeon")
• Daniel begins ferrying passengers to the Freighter. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")
• The survivors board the helicopter. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")
  • Daniel says goodbye to Charlotte. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")
• Rose and Bernard run at each other, confused. ("Because You Left")
• Daniel tells Richard that he's in love with Charlotte. ("Jughead")
• Sawyer and Jin reunite. ("This Place Is Death")
• Jack runs toward Hurley's screams. ("316")
  • Flight 316 takes off.
  • The plane flashes to the Island.
  • We revisit the scene of Jack running to help Hurley and Kate.
• La Fleur and Jin discuss their progress searching the island. ("LaFleur")
• Frank pilots Flight 316 through a storm. ("Namaste")
  • The 2007 316 survivors group together.
  • Juliet cradles baby Ethan.
  • Sawyer hastily gives Jack, Kate, and Hurley a change of clothes.
• Richard says he saw Sun's friends die. ("Follow the Leader")
• Juliet breaks out of her cuffs. ("The Incident, Part 1")
  • Jack and Sayid sneak through the Barracks.
• Electromagnetism pulls down the drill at the Swan site. ("The Incident, Part 2")

Moving on. The doors open for everyone who is ready.

• Sawyer tells Kate Jack deserves to stay stuck on the island. ("LA X, Part 2")
• Sayid, resurrected, talks with Miles and Hurley. ("What Kate Does")
• Jack and Hurley rediscover the caves. ("Lighthouse")
• Ilana and her group find Miles in the Temple. ("Sundown")
  • Ilana hunts for the Temple's secret exit.
• Sawyer talks to Zoe. ("Recon")
  • Sawyer enters Widmore's submarine.
  • Sawyer makes a deal with Widmore.
  • Sawyer talks to Kate after returning from Hydra Island.
• Jack shows Sun a stubborn tomato. ("The Package")
• Jack leaps off the Elizabeth. ("The Last Recruit")
  • Jin wakes Sun in a flash sideways.
• Bernard tells Jack that there was another man in the same accident as Locke. ("The Candidate")
  • The main characters approach Widmore's sub.
  • Jack, Sawyer and Jin try to free Sun as the submarine sinks.
  • Sun and Jin die. (alternate cut)
• In a Previously on Lost recap, Jin and Sun die. The remaining survivors mourn their loss. ("What They Died For")
  • The survivors from Widmore's sub look out at the ocean.
  • Jack volunteers to replace Jacob.
• Richard and Miles find Frank in the water. ("The End")
  • Despite being stabbed, Jack continues to struggle against the Man in Black.
  • Jack says goodbye to Sawyer.
  • Ajira 316 starts backing up and prepares to take off.
  • The light turns back on.
  • Hurley recruits Ben as his helper. In the flash sideways, they see each other one last time.
  • Lost ends.

Sheet musicEdit

InfluencesEdit

Besides its main theme, "Credit Where Credit Is Due" introduces its counterpoint.

VariationsEdit

Variations on the theme from "Credit Where Credit Is Due" appear in "Act Now, Regret Later", "Aloha", "Ana Cries", "Booneral", "Closure", "Can't Kill Keamy", "Crash and Yearn", "Crazy Town", "Departing Sun", "Dharma vs Lostaways", "Flying High," "The Four Amigos", "The Hole Shabang", "Jack's Swan Song", "Just Another Day on the Beach", "Just Die Already", "Locke v. Jack", "The Long Kiss Goodbye", "Maternity Hell", "Monster Eats the Pilot", "Moving On", "Naomi Phone Home", "Naval Gazing", "Oceanic 815", "The Only Pebble in the Jungle", "Paddle Jumper Reprise", "Shepharding Sun", "Sticking to Their Guns", "Sundown", "A Sunken Feeling", "SS Lost-tanic", "Sunny Outlook", "Temple And Spring", "Temple And Taxi", "Through the Window" and "Together or Not Together".

The piece also appears to have influenced a number other themes, including the departure theme.

Title significanceEdit

The first time this music plays is while the opening credits for the show are rolling. In other words, credit is being given to those involved at a time where it would seem appropriate to give them credit.