"The Substitute"

Album

Lost: The Final Season (Original Television Soundtrack)

Track length

4:45

Track type

Mystery Track

Episode title

"The Substitute"

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Featured in episode(s)

"The Substitute"
"Sundown"

©2010 Varèse Sarabande and Michael Giacchino

"The Substitute" is an orchestral piece from the Season 6 soundtrack. It plays at the end of the episode of the same name.

Main appearanceEdit

In a flash sideways, Dr. Linus introduces himself to Locke.

On the Island, the Man in Black shows Sawyer the names in the cave and explains that Jacob approached the survivors, including Sawyer, and recruited them as potential substitutes. He gives James three choices - do nothing and risk death, protect the island from nothing, or leave. James chooses to leave.

Full list of appearancesEdit

• The Man in Black shows Sawyer the cave. ("The Substitute")
• Dogen gives Sayid a knife. ("Sundown")

InfluencesEdit

The piece begins with the deja vu motif. It later includes the cue that becomes Sayid's flash sideways theme. The piece's own theme is a variation of FLocke's theme.

Title significanceEdit

The piece takes its name from the episode in which in appears in.