"McGale's Navy"

Album

Lost Season 2 (Original Television Soundtrack)

Track length

2:22

Track type

Suspense Track

Episode title

"Live Together, Die Alone"

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Featured in episode(s)

"Three Minutes"
"Live Together, Die Alone"
"A Tale of Two Cities"
"Dead Is Dead"

©2006 Varèse Sarabande and Michael Giacchino

"McGale's Navy" is an orchestral piece on the Season 2 soundtrack. The piece contains bouncy, chromatically-moving intervals of a minor third in the trombones, sometimes with a secondary melody in the strings. Its serves as an early theme for the Others.

Main appearanceEdit

The Others dump Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley on the dock at the Pala Ferry. Kate tells Tom she knows his beard is fake, and he removes it.

A boat arrives. Henry steps out.

Full list of appearancesEdit

• Michael arrives at the decoy village. ("Three Minutes")
• The survivors leave on their mission to rescue Walt. ("Live Together, Die Alone, Part 1")
• Ben joins the kidnapped survivors on the dock. ("Live Together, Die Alone, Part 2")
  • He tells Michael how to sail back to civilization. ("Live Together, Die Alone, Part 2")
• The Others leave their houses following the Swan's system failure. ("A Tale of Two Cities")
• Widmore arrives at the Others' camp on a horse. ("Dead Is Dead")

InfluencesEdit

Besides its own theme, the piece contains the Others' main motif and a riff that later appears as Ben's theme in "Dharmacide".

VariationsEdit

"Bon Voyage, Traitor" and "In with a KABOOM!" include variations on this theme.

Title significanceEdit

The piece's title inserts Ben's pseudonym, Gale, into McHale's Navy, the title of a '60s TV show, because Ben arrives at the ferry by boat.