"Doing Jacob's Work"

Album

Lost: The Final Season (Original Television Soundtrack)

Track length

1:58

Track type

Action Track

Episode title

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Featured in episode(s)

"LA X, Part 1"
"The End"
"The New Man in Charge"

©2010 Varèse Sarabande and Michael Giacchino

"Doing Jacob's Work" is an orchestral piece from the Season 6 soundtrack.

Main appearanceEdit

Jacob tells Hurley he needs to take Sayid and the guitar case he had given him previously to the Temple. Jin, together with Hurley and the injured Sayid, return to the Swan.

Full list of appearancesEdit

The suspense motif from "Doing Jacob's Work" plays during the following scenes:

• The camera glides through the underwater DHARMA barracks. ("LA X, Part 1")
  • Jin and Hurley drive to the Swan site. ("LA X, Part 1")
  • Jin's van pulls a beam from the site. ("LA X, Part 1")
• Jack chases after the Man in Black. ("The End")
• Hurley suggests they all go home, and the van drives away into the night. ("The New Man in Charge")

InfluencesEdit

Besides its own motif, the piece begins with a variation on Jacob's theme.

VariationsEdit

The piece's motif reappears in "A Sunken Feeling".