"Lying for the Island"

Album

Lost Season 4 (Original Television Soundtrack)

Track length

4:53

Track type

Suspense/Emotion Track

Episode title

"There's No Place Like Home, Part 3"

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Featured in episode(s)

"There's No Place Like Home, Part 2"
"There's No Place Like Home, Part 3"
"The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"
"The Incident, Part 2"
"LA X, Part 1"
"Recon"

©2009 Varèse Sarabande and Michael Giacchino

"Lying for the Island" is an orchestral piece on the Season 4 soundtrack. It plays as the Oceanic Six find and board the Searcher.

Main appearanceEdit

Frank catches sight of a boat, and everyone on the raft starts trying to get its attention. Jack warns them that they'll have to lie about what happened to them, and that the others should let him do all the talking.

They approach the boat. Penny appears aboard, and Desmond climbs up to embrace her. She's tells him her tracking station traced his call.

The Oceanic Six board the boat, and Desmond introduces them to Penny.

Full list of appearancesEdit

The motif from "Lying for the Island" plays during the following scenes:

• Locke tells Jack he must lie once he returns to civilization. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")
• Jack tells the rest of the Six that they must lie. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 3")
• Locke is rescued from the desert. ("The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham")
• Jacob tells Ben that he can do what the Man in Black says or leave. ("The Incident, Part 2")
• In a Previously on Lost recap, Jacob talks to the Man in Black on the beach. Locke tells Ben to kill Jacob. ("LA X, Part 1")
• The Man in Black tells Kate about his crazy mother. ("Recon")

InfluencesEdit

The piece begins with its own motif then plays the love theme. It then moves into Desmond's theme. The motif itself shares elements with Locke's first theme.

VariationsEdit

The motif from this piece appears in "Crazy Town", "Locke's Excellent Adventure" and "Jacob's Stabber".