Season 1
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Emilie de Ravin as Claire Littleton
Matthew Fox as Jack Shephard
Jorge Garcia as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
Maggie Grace as Shannon Rutherford
Josh Holloway as James "Sawyer" Ford
Malcolm David Kelley as Walt Lloyd
Daniel Dae Kim as Jin-Soo Kwon
Yunjin Kim as Sun-Hwa Kwon
Evangeline Lilly as Kate Austen
Dominic Monaghan as Charlie Pace
Terry O'Quinn as John Locke
Harold Perrineau as Michael Dawson
Ian Somerhalder as Boone Carlyle
This article contains episode summaries for the first season of Lost.
Season summary
In the U.S., original episodes of season one aired between September 22, 2004 and May 25, 2005. For airdates on other networks and in other countries, see: Airdates.
Principal cast
In order of character appearances
- Naveen Andrews as Sayid Jarrah (25/25)
- Matthew Fox as Jack Shephard (25/25)
- Jorge Garcia as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (25/25)
- Josh Holloway as James "Sawyer" Ford (25/25)
- Evangeline Lilly as Kate Austen (25/25)
- Harold Perrineau as Michael Dawson (25/25)
- Yunjin Kim as Sun-Hwa Kwon (24/25)
- Dominic Monaghan as Charlie Pace (24/25)
- Terry O'Quinn as John Locke (24/25)
- Maggie Grace as Shannon Rutherford (23/25)
- Malcolm David Kelley as Walt Lloyd (22/25)
- Daniel Dae Kim as Jin-Soo Kwon (21/25)
- Ian Somerhalder as Boone Carlyle (21/25)
- Emilie de Ravin as Claire Littleton (18/25)*
*Only listed in the episodes she appeared in through "Homecoming," and then became a full regular.
Recurring cast
In order of character appearances
- Mira Furlan as Danielle Rousseau (5/25)
- Fredric Lane as Edward Mars (5/25)
- John Terry as Christian Shephard (5/25)
- L. Scott Caldwell as Rose Nadler (4/25)
- William Mapother as Ethan Rom (4/25)
- Kimberley Joseph as Cindy Chandler (3/25)
- Daniel Roebuck as Leslie Arzt (3/25)
- Michelle Rodriguez as Ana Lucia Cortez (1/25)
Main plot points
Season 1 concentrated on the middle-section survivors and their fight for survival and rescue. Major plot points included:
- Finding a suitable camp location (half the survivors, including Kate, Sawyer and Sayid settled on a beach near the crash site; the rest, led by Jack, chose to live in the caves in the jungle, which are located near a source of fresh water).
- Investigating the Island (searching for food and water, discovering the caves, and learning about the Black Rock).
- Confrontations with The Monster.
- Getting to know and trust each other (see especially Kate, Locke, Sawyer and Jin).
- Building and launching the raft.
- Hunting for Claire, after she was taken by the Others.
- The kidnapping of Walt by The Others.
- Opening the Hatch found by Locke and Boone.
Season summary
On September 22, 2004, a plane breaks apart in mid-air, scattering survivors on a remote island somewhere in the South Pacific. Forty-eight of these survivors, after the initial shock passes, attempt to set up a camp, and figure out where they are, but are disturbed by loud roaring noises and crashing trees emanating from the nearby jungle.
Three of the survivors; Jack, Kate and Charlie, set out to find the cockpit. An injured pilot, tells them that the plane had lost radio contact six hours after take off, turned back for Fiji and hit turbulence. The plane was a thousand miles off course when it crashed. The Monster rips the pilot from the cockpit, consequently killing him, and the remaining three run for the beach.
Jack, a spinal surgeon from Los Angeles, tries to save an injured survivor. However, he discovers a mugshot of a fellow survivor who he has begun a close friendship with. After initial mistrust and the death of the Marshal, both of them agree to start afresh.
One of the survivors, a former Iraqi Republican Guard communications officer named Sayid, attempts to repair a transceiver. A few survivors trek high into the mountains in an attempt to get a signal, and are attacked by a polar bear along the way. When they finally do turn on the transceiver, they learn that its signal is being blocked by a transmission of a woman's voice speaking in French, which Shannon translates as: "I'm alone now, on the island alone. Please someone come. The others are dead. It killed them. It killed them all." The message repeats, with a count implying that it has been repeating for over sixteen years and five months (according to Sayid's calculation). Coupled with the pilot's last words, this dampens the survivors' hopes of rescue and the news initially spreads through the camp throughout the first few days.
When food supplies run low, Locke leads the first hunting party for boar. As Kate's resourcefulness comes in handy, Michael and Walt, father and son, struggle to get along. On the sixth day, a woman drowns, and a young man named Boone tries to prove his worth. Jack goes on a spiritual quest when he begins to see visions of his deceased father on the island, and his Science versus Faith conflict with Locke is born. Eventually, the group of survivors split in half, whilst a few moved inland to a cluster of caves with fresh water and protection. Others stayed at the beach in hopes of rescue, and they moved once again when the tide began to carry the wreckage of the plane into the sea. Jack becomes the de facto leader. Intense rivalries emerge when disagreements on allocation of supplies becomes an issue, especially between Jack, Sayid and Sawyer. As conflict comes to head, Sawyer is accidentally stabbed in the arm by Sayid, who then leaves the camp to map the island in shame.
Sayid finds a cable running out of the ocean and into the jungle. When he follows it, he encounters Danielle Rousseau, the person who sent out the distress signal, and she tells her story of how she came to be on the island. Sayid eventually escapes, with potential knowledge of a group of hostile individuals on the island, who kidnapped Rousseau's baby daughter. Over the course of the season, Rousseau has other intermittent contact with the survivors.
Hurley (who tries his best to make life on the island as comfortable as possible) conducts a census of the survivors, and discovers that one of their castaways, Ethan Rom, is not on the passenger manifest. Ethan kidnaps Charlie and Claire, but then attempts to hang Charlie, since Claire was the one that "The Others" wanted. Two weeks later, Locke eventually finds her, completely distraught with amnesia. This starts many confrontations between the survivors and the Others, which in turn leads to the death of one other survivor and Ethan himself, whom Charlie kills for revenge.
There are fleeting confrontations with polar bears, the Monster and Danielle Rousseau. Violence is sporadic, but the survivors' close-knit society is held together due to the de facto leader Jack, the level-headed Kate, Sayid and Hurley, along with distant hunter Locke, who appears to have some supporters among the survivors despite disagreements with Jack, such as the young couple Charlie and pregnant Claire, and Boone. However, Locke and Walt begin to converse and he practices unorthodox activities with him with knives, angering his protective father Michael. Sun eventually reveals she speaks English, causing a momentary lapse of trust between her husband, Jin.
After two weeks, Locke discovers a mysterious hatch in the jungle with no handle, and becomes obsessed about what may be inside. Along with his accomplice, Boone, they spend many days digging it out of the ground, pondering over what it may contain. While exploring the island, Locke and Boone also discover a Beechcraft lodged on the side of a cliff. Boone climbs up the cliff and into the plane. Inside, he finds a radio and sends a distress call. A male voice answers, "Is someone out there?" to which Boone responds, "We are the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815." The voice replies, "We're the survivors of 815." The Beechcraft then falls from the cliff and badly injures Boone. Locke takes Boone back to the camp, but Jack is unable to save his life. At the same time, Claire goes into labour in the jungle and Kate delivers the baby.
Michael decides to build a raft to escape with his son Walt, and they are joined by Sawyer and Jin. In the first night after launching, they are surprised and initially delighted to encounter another boat, but it turns out to be a group of the Others who demand that Walt be handed over to them. In the ensuing chaos, the raft is destroyed, Sawyer is shot, and Walt is kidnapped.
Rousseau leads a party of survivors to the Black Rock, a wooden ship in the middle of the island, containing a cache of dynamite which can be used to open the hatch. Along the way, one of them is chased by a black cloud, the "monster", which Rousseau calls the island's "security system." Jack and Locke bring the dynamite back to the hatch, and use it to force open the hatch door to look inside. The season ends with them looking down into the darkness of the shaft below.
Many of the character's lives before the crash are explored, and they are detailed here;
- Jack Shephard is a spinal surgeon living in Los Angeles, who has had a strained relationship with his alcoholic father, especially after Jack betrayed him. Jack was married to a woman named Sarah, after fixing her when her car crashed.
- Kate Austen is a fugitive from the law, but it's not known the true reason why she ran until later. After her childhood love dies because of her, she goes to great lengths to retrieve his favorite toy from a bank in New Mexico, but is then apprehended by the Marshal in Australia.
- Charlie Pace is a rock star based in Great Britain, however his domineering brother caused him to get involved with drugs.
- Sayid Jarrah is a communications officer in the republican guard from Iraq who tortured suspects for information. Sayid saved Nadia, his childhood love, and has been searching for her for seven years.
- John Locke was paralyzed from the waist downwards before the crash, but was healed by the island, which has restored his faith and vigor for life. It's unknown how he became paralyzed, but his father conned him for his kidney.
- Hugo "Hurley" Reyes is a multimillionaire from Los Angeles after winning the lottery with The Numbers: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42, however he believes they are a curse that brings bad luck.
- James "Sawyer" Ford is a con man who's life was ravaged by a con man, from whom he takes his name. Sawyer constantly hunts for his revenge for the death of his parents.
- Michael Dawson is a construction worker and part-time artist from New York. Susan, his partner, left him and took Walt, his son, with her. However after her death, Walt was left in his custody after eight years of separation.
- Walt Lloyd is a young boy who lived most of his life on the move with his mother. Walt preferred his step-father to Michael, which caused a potential rift between them on the island.
- Sun Kwon is a housewife from Korea, who is married to Jin. Her father owns Paik Heavy Industries who employs Jin to do terrible things, putting strain on their marriage. Sun plans to leave her changed husband.
- Jin Kwon is an employee of his father-in-law's company, which leads him to do terrible things that puts strain on his marriage with Sun, who he only wants to provide for.
- Boone Carlyle was the CEO of a wedding company his mother owned. Boone saved his stepsister from an abusive boyfriend in Australia, only to be conned for money. Boone had always loved Shannon, and they had a one-night stand before they boarded the plane.
- Claire Littleton is a fast food worker from Australia who became pregnant eight months before the flight, but the father left her early in the pregnancy. A psychic prophesied that her baby is in danger if it is not raised by her alone.
Note 1: Shannon Rutherford, although a main character, was devoid of a flashback episode dedicated to her and her alone.
Note 2: Many connections between the survivors before the island becomes increasingly apparent later in the season.
Episode summaries
| 01 | "Pilot, Part 1" | 10 | "Raised by Another" | 19 | "Deus Ex Machina" |
| 02 | "Pilot, Part 2" | 11 | "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues" | 20 | "Do No Harm" |
| 03 | "Tabula Rasa" | 12 | "Whatever the Case May Be" | --- | "Lost: The Journey" |
| 04 | "Walkabout" | 13 | "Hearts and Minds" | 21 | "The Greater Good" |
| 05 | "White Rabbit" | 14 | "Special" | 22 | "Born to Run" |
| 06 | "House of the Rising Sun" | 15 | "Homecoming" | 23 | "Exodus, Part 1" |
| 07 | "The Moth" | 16 | "Outlaws" | 24/25 | "Exodus, Part 2" |
| 08 | "Confidence Man" | 17 | "...In Translation" | ||
| 09 | "Solitary" | 18 | "Numbers" | ||
Pilot, Part 1
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Pilot, Part 2
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Tabula Rasa
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Walkabout
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White Rabbit
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House of the Rising Sun
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The Moth
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Confidence Man
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Solitary
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Raised by Another
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All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues
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Whatever the Case May Be
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Hearts and Minds
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Special
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Homecoming
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Outlaws
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...In Translation
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Numbers
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Deux Ex Machina
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Do No Harm
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Lost: The Journey
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The Greater Good
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Born to Run
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Exodus, Part 1
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Exodus, Part 2
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