"The Last to Know"

Album

Lost Season 2 (Original Television Soundtrack)

Track length

2:22

Track type

Character Theme

Episode title

"The Whole Truth"

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Featured in episode(s)

"...And Found"
"What Kate Did"
"The Hunting Party"
"The Whole Truth"
"The Glass Ballerina"
"D.O.C."
"Greatest Hits"
"Buried Secrets"
"Eggtown"
"Ji Yeon"
"There's No Place Like Home, Part 1"
"There's No Place Like Home, Part 3"
"This Place Is Death"
"The Incident, Part 1"
"LA X, Part 2"
"The Substitute"
"The Package"
"The Last Recruit"
"The Candidate"
"The End"

©2006 Varèse Sarabande and Michael Giacchino

"The Last to Know" is an orchestral piece on the Season 2 soundtrack and Sun and Jin's love theme. The theme contains seven simple piano chords (i - VI - VII - III - VI - v7 - V), sometimes with iv replacing the second chord and/or a melody playing in the strings.

Main appearanceEdit

After having told Jin that she is pregnant, Sun reveals "The whole truth": her fertility doctor told her that Jin is sterile. Jin does not suspect Sun of infidelity. Instead, he says a miracle has occurred.

Full list of appearancesEdit

"The Last to Know" and its variations appear in the following scenes:

• Sun finds her lost wedding ring. In a flashback, she meets Jin for the first time. ("...And Found")
• Sun and Jin wake up after a night together. ("What Kate Did")
• Sun and Jin talk about obedience. ("The Hunting Party")
• Sun tells Jin she is pregnant though he is sterile. ("The Whole Truth")
  • Sun and Jin work on the garden together. ("The Whole Truth")
• Sun and Jin talk on the Elizabeth. ("The Glass Ballerina")
  • Sun attends Jae Lee's funeral. ("The Glass Ballerina")
• In a Previously on Lost recap, a fertility doctor tells Sun that she is incapable of having children. Sun finds out that she is pregnant. ("D.O.C.")
  • In the present, Sun looks out over the ocean. In the past, Sun goes to visit Mr. Kwon. ("D.O.C.")
  • Mr. Kwon tells her not to tell Jin about his mother. ("D.O.C.")
  • Sun tells Juliet about her affair. ("D.O.C.")
  • Juliet begins the sonogram on Sun. ("D.O.C.")
  • Jin discovers the money Sun got from her father. ("D.O.C.")
  • Juliet tells Sun Jin is the father. ("D.O.C.")
  • Later, Sun thanks Juliet for the news. ("D.O.C.")
• Sun lies to Jin about Juliet's tape. ("Greatest Hits")
• Sun and Michael almost kiss. ("Buried Secrets")
• Jin and Sun discuss living in America. ("Eggtown")
• Sun and Jin agree not to discuss baby names. ("Ji Yeon")
  • Juliet tells Jin about Sun's affair. ("Ji Yeon")
  • Jin leaves to go fishing.("Ji Yeon")
  • Ji Yeon Kwon is born. ("Ji Yeon")
  • Jin forgives Sun for her affair. In a flashback, Jin gives the Ambassador a panda. ("Ji Yeon")
  • Sun and Hurley take Ji Yeon to Jin's grave. ("Ji Yeon")
• Sun and Jin board the freighter. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")
• Jin runs to catch up to the helicopter as it takes off. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 3")
• Sun talks to her daughter on the phone. ("This Place Is Death")
• Sun finds Charlie's ring. In a flashback, she and Jin marry. ("The Incident, Part 1")
• Jin guides a group to the Temple wall. ("LA X, Part 2")

Jin and Sun reunite after three years apart. ("The Last Recruit")

• Ilana tells Sun Jin is probably at the temple. ("The Substitute")
• Sun tells Jack that all she wants is to find Jin and get off the Island. ("The Package")
  • Sun strips for Jin. ("The Package")
  • Sun yells at Richard in Korean, and storms off. ("The Package")
  • Jin sees photos of Ji Yeon on Sun's camera. ("The Package")
  • Sun takes Jack's hand. ("The Package")
• Sun and Jin reunite after a 3 year, 29 episode absence. ("The Last Recruit")
• They talk in the polar bear cage. ("The Candidate")
  • They embrace as water fills the submarine. ("The Candidate")
• Juliet gives Sun a sonogram. ("The End")

VariationsEdit

Variations on "The Last to Know" include "Bobbing for Freighters", "Deadly Fertility", "Ji Yeon", "Pagoda of Shame", "Reunion And Reneging", "Shepharding Sun", "SS Lost-tanic" and "Ultrasonic Flash". The Kahana theme "Time and Time Again" also seems to borrow the piece's theme.

Title significanceEdit

Jin is "the last to know" about Sun's pregnancy — after Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Bernard and others. Jack also refers to how Jin was the last to know she spoke English. "Know" is an anagram of Jin and Sun's surname, "Kwon".