Exodus, Part 2
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"Exodus, Part 2" is the twenty-fourth episode and 2-hour finale of Season 1 of Lost and comprises the 24th and 25th produced hours of the show overall. As with the previous episode, flashbacks show numerous characters in Sydney before they board their doomed flight. With the dynamite retrieved, the team faces the task of bringing the volatile substance back across the Island to the Hatch. Meanwhile, Charlie and Sayid set off to rescue Aaron after Danielle kidnaps the child from Claire.
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Synopsis
Previously on Lost
- Oceanic Flight 815 suffers a mid-air break-up and crashes on a mysterious island in the South Pacific. ("Pilot, Part 1")
- A few of the survivors attempt to use a transciever to send out a distress call, but pick up a signal of a French woman that has been repeating on a loop for sixteen years. ("Pilot, Part 2")
- Sayid follows a cable on the beach and meets the French woman herself, Danielle Rousseau. Before she lets him go, she warns Sayid to watch his people carefully. ("Solitary")
- After Claire is attacked in her sleep, Hurley conducts a census of the other survivors using the plane's manifest and warns Jack that one of them wasn't on the plane. ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues")
- Locke addresses all the survivors on the beach, telling them that they need to stop suspecting each other and worry about the threat they all know about: the Others on the Island with them. ("...In Translation")
- Danielle ventures into the beach camp early one morning and warns them that the Others are coming, pointing out a plume of black smoke on the horizon that she and her companions saw the day that they came for her baby. ("Exodus, Part 1")
- Jack reveals his plan: using dynamite from the Black Rock, he will blow open the Hatch that Locke found and hide the survivors inside. Leslie Arzt offers to come along to help with handling the dynamite. ("Exodus, Part 1")
- Jack, Kate, Locke, Hurley, and Arzt set off with Rousseau, while Michael, Walt, Sawyer, and Jin set sail on the raft. ("Exodus, Part 1")
Flashbacks
Jin
In the airport, following Sun spilling coffee all down his shirt, Jin goes to the bathroom. Meanwhile, airport security releases Sayid and apologizes to him for the delay. In the bathroom, Jin encounters a casually dressed Caucasian man who conversationally asks him for a paper towel in English. When Jin indicates that he speaks no English, the man switches to Korean. Seeming somewhat more menacing now, he then reveals that he works for Mr. Paik, and knows that Jin was attempting to run away with Sun. He tells Jin to complete his delivery of a watch to an associate in Los Angeles. If Jin does anything else, he says, Jin will lose Sun.
Charlie
Charlie looks for his stash before leaving for his flight. A girl from the previous night is in his bed, and is needing a fix. As Charlie finds the drugs, she asks if he has any left. He lies and says that he's out and tries to escape in a hurry while claiming he will send her a free Driveshaft album. She can tell that he's lying and attacks him for the drugs. After a struggle in the hotel room, Charlie refuses to let go of his heroin. She calls Charlie pathetic and storms out of the room.
Michael
Michael and Walt sit in the airport waiting for their flight. Walt is absorbed in his Game Boy Advance SP, and Michael is obviously frustrated that they can't connect. He gets up, claiming to need to call work, but he really calls his mother. He expresses his exasperation to his mother, and asks if she can take care of Walt, eventually offering to pay her. While Michael is on the phone, Locke makes a split second on screen appearance, being pushed in his wheelchair. When Michael hangs up, Walt is right next to him asking for new batteries for his game, and may have heard the whole conversation.
Hurley
Hurley is shown waking up late for his flight due to a localized power outage, apparently caused by Hurley plugging too many devices into a blackened electrical outlet in his room. In a mad dash for the airport, he experiences several other problems, including a flat tire, arriving at the wrong terminal; he buys an electric scooter from an old man for $1600 and manages to get to the terminal just as they are closing the gate. At the gate, Hurley finds the doors closed, but the gate attendant is able to get them to reopen the doors for him, and he hugs her effusively. Hurley is shown to be staying in room 2342, his digital display in his car shows that it is 23 degrees outside, and he is originally going 42 km/h; when he gets a flat tire he slows first to 16, then 15, then 8, and finally 4 before the display cuts out altogether. As he is running through the airport, he passes a team of soccer players, wearing jerseys with the Numbers in numerical order. We also see Oceanic Flight 815's gate number was 23. Another revelation from this flashback is that Hurley, Charlie, Michael, and Walt all stayed in the same hotel (Charlie yells at him for holding up a full elevator, and the elevator bank looks exactly like the hotel that Michael and Walt stayed at as well).
Locke
Locke feels humiliated and vulnerable as staff report to him that they have lost the wheelchair normally used to load disabled passengers onto the plane, and he must be carried on to the plane by two attendants. When he drops a pamphlet from his seat, he is unable to reach it. He is clearly frustrated by the whole situation, and struggles to maintain his dignity.
Finally, all of the passengers board Oceanic Flight 815. They take their seats, unaware of each other, and of the relationships they will form as they casually engage in friendly smiles and gestures to the strangers. As Hurley boards, he gives Walt a thumbs up, who looks up from his Gameboy for the moment and smiles. Hurley smiles back, sitting down and settling in with his headphones and comic book. Leslie Arzt also helps Claire put her bag in the overhead compartment.
On the Island
Though Locke pleads with Jack to let him get dragged under, Jack instead tells Kate to grab dynamite out of his bag and drop one down, revealing that he had in fact switched the content of their packs. Kate drops the dynamite down the tunnel, causing an underground explosion, resulting in black smoke similar to that seen before coming out of a nearby hole on the horizon, moving in a bizarre, almost supernatural way, and disappearing, all in less than a second. The hold on Locke slackens, and they are able to extract him. Later, Locke reveals that the reason he wanted to fall in the cavern is because it was his destiny and he felt the Island was testing him.
On the beach, Sayid is leading the group back to the caves, awaiting Jack's party's return. Charlie and Claire are alone on the beach when Rousseau runs up, telling Charlie that she needs to see Sayid urgently. When Charlie runs off to get Sayid, Rousseau begins asking Claire to hold her baby, and Claire tries to make several excuses why she can't give Rousseau the baby. Claire sees a strange scar on Rousseau's arm and has a short ambiguous flashback to a struggle between Rousseau and herself. Soon Charlie and Sayid return to find Claire exclaiming that her baby has been taken, and Sayid surmises that Rousseau intends to attempt an exchange of the baby, which Claire has named Aaron, for her own child, Alex, with "The Others". Charlie and Sayid go toward the black smoke, with little daylight left. On their journey they encounter the downed drug smugglers' plane, and Sayid reveals to Charlie that it is full of heroin, ignorant of Charlie's junkie past. They also encounter a trap set by Rousseau, which injures Charlie. Charlie's wound is bleeding profusely, and Sayid orders him to go back to the camp, but Charlie refuses. Sayid then cuts open a round of ammunition, pours the gunpowder into the wound, and sets it on fire to cauterize the injury. When Sayid and Charlie arrive on the beach with the black smoke, there are no other people, just a pyre burning the smoke. The sound of the baby crying alerts them to Rousseau hiding in the bushes. She cries and tells them that she overheard the Others saying that they were going to go after "the boy," and she thought that if she brought him to them, they would return her child. She returns the baby, and they reunite it with Claire. It is revealed that Charlie kept at least one of the statues filled with heroin in his bag.
On the raft, the crew is sailing according to plan, and Michael bonds with Walt. Walt learns about Sawyer's long term search for revenge. Jin returns Michael the watch which caused a fight between them earlier in the series. At one point, the rudder breaks off, and Sawyer dives into the water after it, risking his life. At this point, Michael discovers that Sawyer has a gun, but decides not to tell the Others. That night, their radar sweep turns up a boat in the distance. They fire their single flare, and the boat approaches them. Though they think they are about to be saved, it turns out to be a group of four strangers. The boat's captain demands that they hand over "the boy." Sawyer tries to pull his gun, but he is shot by one of the other crewmen and falls into the water. Jin jumps into the water to try and save Sawyer, while the strangers overpower Michael and kidnap Walt. As they sail off, one of the crewmen throws an explosive onto the raft, destroying it.
Meanwhile, Jack, Kate, Locke, and Hurley arrive at the Hatch. They manage to set the dynamite up on the hinge of the Hatch, and are about to set it off when Hurley notices the appearance of the Numbers on the side. He yells at them not to light it, but Locke lights the fuse anyway. Hurley tries to stamp out the fuse, repeating "the Numbers are bad," but Jack tackles him, and the dynamite explodes. They pry open the Hatch to reveal a deep, dark metal tunnel. A partial ladder (with broken rungs) can be seen near the top of the tunnel. Jack and Locke stare down into the pit before them, with no idea of what might be at the bottom.
Trivia
General
- This season finale, along with Season 5 are the only seasons to end on The Island (Season 2 ends in the outside world, and Season 3 and Season 4 end in flash-forwards).
- When they come upon the smoke monster in the jungle, a huge bird takes flight out of a tree, making a noise that sounds something like "Hurley". This is the same bird that they come across in the jungle in the Season Two finale "Live Together, Die Alone".
- As Hurley is rushing to leave his hotel, Charlie is a passenger in the overcrowded elevator. As Hurley heads for the exit stairs, Charlie shouts after him, "Some of us have a bloody flight to make!!"
- At the airport Michael is talking to his mother. However it is not until the season 4 episode "Meet Kevin Johnson" that Michael's mother is finally seen.
Production notes
- For the Europe and Australian markets, this episode was cut into two hour-long episodes, therefore making it Exodus, Part 2 and Exodus, Part 3 (episode 1x25) for the Region 2 and 4 DVD release.
- This was the final episode to feature Ian Somerhalder as a main credited cast member.
- The actress playing the gate attendant reappears as Moira a desk clerk at Oxford University in Season 5 episode "Jughead".
Bloopers and continuity errors
- Walt asks for new batteries for his Game Boy Advance SP, although SPs run on rechargeable batteries that last for nearly 2,000 charges, making it unlikely that Walt would already need his replaced.
- The sound effects used for the video game Walt was playing was for the Atari 2600 Pac-Man game.
- At 35 minutes 47 seconds, a motorboat (presumably being used by the film crew) can be seen a short distance from the raft.
- Sawyer's hair on the plane during the sequence at the end is noticeably longer than it was in Pilot part 1 and Pilot part 2. As is Sun's and Shannon's.
- After Hurley purchased a second ticket at the domestic Oceanic counter and found out that he needs to get to the Oceanic international terminal, several errors occur on his way there. First, after running down some stairs, he is seen running through a hallway past a door that sports the name "Kamehameha" above it, which is rather unusual for an airport in Australia. (The name is permanently present over the exhibit hall door at the filming location for that scene, the Hawaii Convention Center [1].) Immediately afterwards, he is seen running up an escalator (the same one Shannon and Boone were using in the previous episode). After that, he is suddenly shown entering the airport building from the outside again (at the same location he entered it before making it to the domestic Oceanic ticket counter), but with only one suitcase instead of the two he was carrying when running up the escalator. Artz is also still seen way behind going through security and would have not made the flight in time since he was behind Hurley who took the scooter to barely make 815.
- During the scene at the end, Charlie is trying to stuff his guitar into some compartment on the plane. However, in The Moth, he states that he had to check it and couldn't bring it into the cabin.
- The flight staff may have forced him to check it, after seeing that it would not fit.
- After the hatch is blown, Hurley can be seen ending to do the sign of the cross, but in the next shot, he's shown starting it.
- Despite the fact that Arzt's body exploded with the dynamite, nobody on the expedition has any blood on them afterwards (except for a small bit of bloody debris on Jack's shoulder; Hurley points out to Jack that "you got some...Arzt...on you.").
- During the scene where Sayid and Charlie recover Aaron from Danielle, the face of the doll used as a substitute for Aaron can clearly be seen twice. Once when Sayid is given the baby and again when Charlie calls Danielle "pathetic".
- The story Arzt tells about the discovery of nitroglycerin is incorrect. The man who discovered it, Ascanio Sobrero, survived his experiments.
- Arzt was probably making his story up.
Recurring themes
- The episode opens with Aaron's eye in view. (Eyes)
- Hurley stays in the same hotel as Charlie, Michael, Walt, Shannon, Boone, Ana Lucia and Steve. (Character connections)
- Hurley runs past a team of soccer players with the Numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 on the back of their jerserys. (The Numbers)
- The number of the gate they enter to get on the plane is 23. (The Numbers)
- The man that Hurley takes the scooter from in the airport is wearing a "Crazy Eight's" (8) hat. (The Numbers)
- Locke refers to extracting the dynamite as the game "Operation". (Games)
- Hurley's hotel room number is 2342. (The Numbers)
- Hurley almost misses his plane because his alarm clock stops working. (Time)
- Jack, Locke and Kate draw straws to choose who will bring the dynamite. However Jack refuses to give it to Kate and takes it (Fate versus free will)
- Sun thinks they are being punished by fate, while Claire thinks there's no such thing as fate. (Fate versus free will)
- Locke tells Jack that he thinks the Island chose them to be there; Jack says he doesn't believe in destiny. (Fate versus free will)
Cultural references
| Cultural references in Lost (direct references only) |
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| Art • Books • Cars • Games • Movies and TV • Music • Philosophy • Religion and ideologies • Science |
- The Wages of Fear: The dynamite transport scene (and Montand's name) are an homage to this movie (Official Lost Podcast transcript/May 19, 2006). The plot of the extraordinarily tense movie involves transport of dangerous explosives in a desperate situation with few safety precautions. It also featured the idea of separating into two groups that keep their distance from one another, planning for the "worst-case scenario" of one of them not making it, that the other will reach the destination with adequate explosives to accomplish the mission (much like Locke's idea). (Movies and TV)
- "Redemption Song": When the raft is in the water, Sawyer starts to sing this song from Bob Marley. The beginning of the first verse, which he does not sing aloud, has lyrics are somewhat prophetic towards Walt's situation: "Old pirates, yes, they rob I; sold I to the merchant ships". Exodus is also the name of a Bob Marley song and the name of this episode(Music)
- Star Wars: When Sawyer is explaining that they need to fire the flare, he refers to Michael and Jin as Han and Chewie. (Movies and TV)
Literary techniques
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| Comparative: Irony • Juxtaposition • Foreshadowing Plotting: Cliffhanger • Plot twist Stock Characters: Archetype • Redshirt • Unseen character Story: Flashbacks • Flash-forwards • Regularly spoken phrases • Symbolism • Unreliable narrator |
- Artz goes to the Black Rock to stop everyone else blowing themselves up, but ends up being blown up himself. (Irony)
- Michael asks Sawyer why he is on the raft, saying it is because he either wants to die or be a hero, thus foreshadowing his own failure to be a hero and subsequent desire to die. (Foreshadowing)
Storyline analysis
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| A-Missions • Crimes • Economics • Leadership • O-Missions • Relationships • F-Missions • Rivalries |
- Rousseau and Jack lead Kate, Locke, Hurley and Dr. Arzt to take dynamite from the Black Rock that will blow open the Hatch. (A-Missions)
- Sayid & Charlie try to reach the pillar of smoke in order to rescue Aaron from Danielle and return him to Claire. (A-Missions)
Episode references
- The comic book that Hurley is reading on the plane is the same one that Walt finds on the beach. ("Special")
- Hurley spots the numbers on the side of the hatch. ("Numbers")
Unanswered questions
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- For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Exodus, Part 2/Theories
- Why did the Monster become aggressive toward Locke?
- Where was the Monster taking Locke?
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