"The Fall of Man"

Album

Lost: The Final Season (Original Television Soundtrack)

Track length

2:58

Track type

Character Theme

Episode title

"Ab Aeterno"

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Featured in episode(s)

"Ab Aeterno"
"Across the Sea"
"The End"

©2010 Varèse Sarabande and Michael Giacchino

"The Fall of Man" is an orchestral piece on the season 6 soundtrack. It is the theme for the Man in Black in his original form and represents his wanting and ultimate failing to leave the Island.

Main appearanceEdit

The Man in Black reveals to Richard that he is the black smoke. He dodges Richard's other questions though, and pushes him to kill Jacob, saying it's the only way to again see his wife.

Richard walks to the ruined statue. Jacob spots him, and the two fight until Jacob disarms Richard.

Full list of appearancesEdit

The piece and its variations play during the following scenes:

• The Man in Black instructs Richard to kill "the Devil", so Richard can be with Isabella again. ("Ab Aeterno")
  • Jacob dunks Richard in the ocean. ("Ab Aeterno")
  • As Richard gives him the white rock, the Man in Black lets him know that the offer to see Isabella again still stands. ("Ab Aeterno")
  • The Man in Black sits alone on a log when Jacob approaches him. ("Ab Aeterno")
• The Boy in Black finds a Senet board. ("Across the Sea")
  • The Boy in Black tells Jacob and his Mother that he is going to live with the other people. ("Across the Sea")
  • Jacob visits the Man in Black at his camp. ("Across the Sea")
  • The Man in Black explains to Jacob how he intends to leave the island. Later, Jacob tells his mother that the Man in Black has found a way to leave. ("Across the Sea")
  • The Man in Black discovers his camp has been burned down by his mother. ("Across the Sea")
  • The Man in Black stabs his mother and is attacked by Jacob. ("Across the Sea")
• Defeated by Jack and Kate trying to be free of the Island, the Man in Black is kicked off the cliff and falls to his death. ("The End")
  • Sawyer looks over the cliff and sees the Man in Black dead on the rocks below. Kate questions why the Island is still going down even with Locke dead. ("The End")

InfluencesEdit

Besides its own theme, the piece includes the Others' main motif and a variation on Richard's theme.

VariationsEdit

The theme reappears in "And Death Shall Have No Dominion", "Dead Man Talking", "Jacob's Advocate", "Locke v. Jack", "The Long Kiss Goodbye", "Make Like A Tree", "Mother of a Plan", and "Mother of Sorrows".

Title significanceEdit

In religion, the Fall of Man refers to humanity's turning from God, specifically the story of Adam and Eve. When the piece plays last, the Man in Black falls off a cliff.