"Sawyer's Theme"

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Featured in episode(s)

"Confidence Man"
"All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues"
"Outlaws"
"Exodus, Part 2"
"...And Found"
"The Long Con"
"Every Man for Himself"
"Enter 77"
"Exposé"
"Left Behind"
"Through the Looking Glass, Part 1"
"Tropical Depression"
"Confirmed Dead"
"Because You Left"
"LaFleur"
"Namaste"
"He's Our You"
"Whatever Happened, Happened"
"The Variable"
"Follow the Leader"
"The Incident, Part 1"
"The Incident, Part 2"
"What Kate Does"
"Recon"
"The Last Recruit"
"The End"

© Michael Giacchino

"Sawyer's Theme" plays during many scenes featuring James "Sawyer" Ford. This surly motif consists of four notes, moving in parallel fourths in the low register of a harp.

Full list of appearancesEdit

"Sawyer's Theme" and its variations plays during the following scenes:

• Kate walks away from Sawyer, carrying bananas. ("Confidence Man")
  • Boone blames Sawyer for his injuries. ("Confidence Man")
  • Jack asks Sawyer about Shannon's inhalers. ("Confidence Man")
  • Kate reads Sawyer's letter. ("Confidence Man")
  • Jack punches Sawyer, interrogating him about the inhalers. ("Confidence Man")
  • Jack and Sayid leave to get the inhalers from Sawyer. ("Confidence Man")
  • Following torture, Sawyer says he'll talk to Kate. ("Confidence Man")
  • Sawyer spots Jessica's son. ("Confidence Man")
  • He tells Kate the truth about his letter. ("Confidence Man")
• Sawyer learns Sayid has returned to camp. ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues")
  • He later confronts Sayid. ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues")
• Sawyer's watches his father kill himself. ("Outlaws")
  • Sawyer visits a shrimp stall. ("Outlaws")
• He tells Walt he plans to kill his letter's recipient. ("Exodus, Part 2")
• Sawyer tells Jin that Michael "ain't comin' back without Walt". ("...And Found")
• Sawyer warns Jack off ransacking his stash. ("The Long Con")
  • Sawyer tells Locke to move the guns. ("The Long Con")
  • Gordy threatens Sawyer and Cassidy. ("The Long Con")
  • Sawyer reveals the guns are gone. ("The Long Con")
  • He later explains his con to the camp. ("The Long Con")
  • He tells Cassidy he was conning her. ("The Long Con")
  • They say they love each other and part. ("The Long Con")
  • Sawyer and Kate talk about the con. ("The Long Con")
• Sawyer hears the warden's protecting a prisoner. ("Every Man for Himself")
  • He advises Munson about the warden's plans. The warden arrives and threatens to extend his sentence. ("Every Man for Himself")
  • He sees a photo of Clementine. ("Every Man for Himself")
  • Sawyer shares the information he learned with the warden. ("Every Man for Himself")
  • Ben tells Sawyer that he didn't actually have a pacemaker put in him - the Others conned him. ("Every Man for Himself")
• He notices Hurley and the other survivors carrying a ping pong table. ("Enter 77")
• Hurley interrogates Sawyer about the death of Nikki and Paulo. ("Exposé")
• Sawyer tries to catch a fish. ("Left Behind")
  • Sawyer feeds the camp a feast of boar. ("Left Behind")

Sawyer hosts a feast, after Desmond caught a boar. (promotional still)

• Locke tells Sawyer he read his file. ("The Brig")
  • After knocking Locke to the ground, Sawyer lets him go. ("The Brig")
• Sawyer and Juliet talk on the way to the beach. ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 1")
• Arzt tells Michael why he was in Australia. ("Tropical Depression")
• After giving Ben a beating, he reminds Locke that Ben is still dangerous. ("Confirmed Dead")
• Sawyer decides to seek beer from the Swan. ("Because You Left")
• We get out first sight of Jim LaFleur. ("LaFleur")
  • Sawyer and Miles go out to apprehend a drunken Horace. ("LaFleur")
  • Sawyer leaves the infirmary to get Juliet. ("LaFleur")
  • Juliet gives instructions as she attempts to help Amy give birth. ("LaFleur")
  • Sawyer tells Horace his cover story. ("LaFleur")
• Jack, Kate and Hurley agree to Sawyer's plan. ("Namaste")
  • Sawyer says that Jack "just reacted" as a leader. ("Namaste")
• Sawyer leaves Sayid, who claims to have found a "purpose". ("He's Our You")
• Sawyer tells Kate that he's helping Ben for Juliet. ("Whatever Happened, Happened")
  • Kate tells Sawyer about visiting Cassidy and Clementine. ("Whatever Happened, Happened")
• Sawyer reluctantly agrees to let Jack into his house. ("The Variable")
  • Juliet tells Sawyer "it's over" for them in DHARMA. ("The Variable")
• Sawyer asks to leave on the submaring. ("Follow the Leader")
  • Sawyer boards the Galaga. ("Follow the Leader")
• Sawyer tells Kate that he is not going to help her stop Jack from bombing the swan ("The Incident, Part 1")
  • Sawyer writes his letter. ("The Incident, Part 1")
• Juliet tells him she's changed her mind about setting off the bomb. ("The Incident, Part 2")
• In a Previously on Lost recap, Sawyer kisses Juliet. She dies. ("What Kate Does")
• Sawyer wakes Jin up. ("Recon")
  • Sawyer arrives on Hydra Island. ("Recon")
  • The Man in Black debriefs him after the mission. ("Recon")
• Jack's group reaches the boat. ("The Last Recruit")
  • Sawyer argues with Jack about whether or not to leave the Island. ("The Last Recruit")
• Sawyer elbows Ben, steals his gun, and leaves. ("The End")
  • Sawyer talks to Sun and Jin in a flash sideways. ("The End")
  • He says goodbye to Jack. ("The End")

VariationsEdit

"Sawyer's Theme" appears in "Dharma Delinquent", "Follow the Leader", "The Long Kiss Goodbye" and "The Sub Group". A more cheerful variant appears in "Heart of Thawyer".