"For Love of the Dame"

Album

Lost Season 5 (Original Television Soundtrack)

Track length

3:19

Track type

Emotion/Action Track

Episode title

"The Variable"

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Featured in episode(s)

"Catch-22"
"The Variable"

©2010 Varèse Sarabande and Michael Giacchino

"For Love of the Dame" is an orchestral piece on the Season 5 soundtrack. It plays during "The Variable".

Main appearanceEdit

In 1977, Daniel Faraday warns a young Charlotte Lewis, to never come back to the Island or she would die, fulfilling Charlotte's dying words about Daniel visiting her when she was a girl.

Then, Daniel meets Jack and Kate at the Motor Pool, where they are caught getting guns by Radzinsky. The two groups exchange gunfire, before Daniel, Jack, and Kate escape in a DHARMA Jeep.

Full list of appearancesEdit

The motif plays during the following scenes:

• Desmond convinces Charlie to follow them to the parachutist. ("Catch-22")
• The survivors prepare for the Motor Pool battle. ("The Variable")

InfluencesEdit

The piece's first movement is Faraday's theme. It then plays its own motif, before ending on Eko's action motif.

Title significanceEdit

The title refers to the book or film, For the Love of the Game. In this context, it refers to Daniel's love for Charlotte being his motivation during "The Variable".