"Time and Time Again"

Album

Lost Season 4 (Original Television Soundtrack)

Track length

2:40

Track type

Setting Theme

Episode title

"The Constant"

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Featured in episode(s)

"Confirmed Dead"
"Eggtown"
"The Constant"
"The Other Woman"
"Ji Yeon"
"Meet Kevin Johnson"
"The Shape of Things to Come"
"Cabin Fever"
"There's No Place Like Home, Part 1"
"There's No Place Like Home, Part 2"
"316"
"The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"
"The Variable"

©2009 Varèse Sarabande and Michael Giacchino

"Time and Time Again" is a orchestral piece on the Season 4 soundtrack. The alternately noble and ominous five-note theme serves as the main theme of the freighter people, particularly Frank, as well as the theme of the freighter in general.

Main appearance

In the helicopter, Sayid restrains Desmond who is struggling to escape. Frank pilots the helicopter toward the freighter, while Desmond looks down at his photo. The helicopter lands, and Frank and Sayid talk to Keamy and Omar.

Full list of appearances

"Time and Time Again" and its variations appear in the following scenes:

• Charlotte unearths a Polar Bear. ("Confirmed Dead")
  • Frank watches coverage of the discovery of Oceanic victims. ("Confirmed Dead")
  • Frank meets a cow. ("Confirmed Dead")
• Charlotte calls Regina. ("Eggtown")
• The helicopter flies toward the Kahana. ("The Constant")
  • The crew tries to calm Desmond. ("The Constant")
  • Keamy and Omar lock Sayid and Desmond in the infirmary. ("The Constant")
• Jin asks Jack if the people from the freighter are really friends. ("The Other Woman")
• Frank talks to Keamy and Regina. ("Ji Yeon")
• Michael, posing as Kevin Johnson, arrives at the Kahana's dock. ("Meet Kevin Johnson")
  • He boards the Kahana. ("Meet Kevin Johnson")
  • The Kahana heads out to sea. ("Meet Kevin Johnson")
• Ray is found on the beach. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
• The mercenaries return to the freighter. ("Cabin Fever")
  • Gault takes Keamy to Michael's cell. ("Cabin Fever")
  • The crew move the injured men in stretchers. ("Cabin Fever")
  • Sayid and Desmond prepare the Zodiac Raft. ("Cabin Fever")
  • The helicopter departs the Kahana again. ("Cabin Fever")
• The Zodiac drops the first lot of survivors on to the freighter. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")
  • The Captain starts the engine. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")
  • Jack and Sawyer reach the helicopter. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")
  • Desmond shows Sun and Jin the C4. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")
• Jin races to get to the helicopter before it leaves the freighter. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 3")
• Frank is revealed to be the pilot of Ajira Flight 316. ("316")
• Locke tells Walt that the last he heard of Michael, he was on a boat near the Island ("The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham")
• Daniel exits the submarine and arrives back on the island ("The Variable")

Influences

The piece begins with the psychic motif and a variation on Desmond's theme. It moves into its own theme, which strongly shares elements with Sun and Jin's. It then plays the freighter motif and ends on the mystery theme.

Variations

"Bobbing for Freighters", "C4-titude", and "Locke-about" use the theme from "Time and Time Again".

Title significance

Prior to the scene in which the piece plays, Desmond's mind jumps between two different time periods.