"Timecrunch"

Album

Lost Season 4 (Original Television Soundtrack)

Track length

2:06

Track type

Adventure Track

Episode title

"There's No Place Like Home, Part 2"

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Featured in episode(s)

"Adrift"
"There's No Place Like Home, Part 2"
"Some Like It Hoth"
"The Variable"

©2009 Varèse Sarabande and Michael Giacchino

"Timecrunch" is an orchestral piece on the Season 4 soundtrack.

Main appearanceEdit

Michael explains his plan to freeze the freighter's explosives' battery with liquid nitrogen.

Back at the island, Juliet gets the next group ready to board the Zodiac.

Full list of appearancesEdit

The motif from "Timecrunch" plays during the following scenes:

• Michael and Sawyer fend off a shark. ("Adrift")
• Michael explains his plan to inhibit the freighter bomb. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")
• Howard Gray says that he cremated his son, which Miles says may make it harder to communicate with him. ("Some Like It Hoth")
  • Miles tells Howard Gray that he didn't really speak to his son. ("Some Like It Hoth")
• The survivors discuss Faraday's plan. ("The Variable")

InfluencesEdit

The piece begins with the discovery theme before moving into its own motif. It ends on a variation on the second traveling theme.

Title significanceEdit

The piece's title is a play on the phrase "crunch time".