Exodus: Part 1
- Episode aired May 18, 2005
- TV-14
- 43m
The French woman arrives at the camp with a dire warning about a group of survivors known as the Others.The French woman arrives at the camp with a dire warning about a group of survivors known as the Others.The French woman arrives at the camp with a dire warning about a group of survivors known as the Others.
- Marshal Edward Mars
- (as Fredric Lane)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis is the first episode since the pilot that didn't center on one individual character for the flashbacks. Instead, we get flashbacks from Michael, Walt, Kate, Sawyer, Jack, Sun, Jin, Shannon, Boone, and Sayid, all showing what each one was doing before they got on the plane.
- GoofsLeading a party in the woods, Danielle Rousseau announces that they have reached the "territoire fonce" (dark territory), pronouncing "fonce" with one syllable; in French it ought to be "foncé", two syllables. Furthermore, the word means 'dark' only in the sense of a deep shade of a color.
- Quotes
Sawyer: Jack! About a week before we all got on the plane, I got to talking to this man in a bar in Sydney. He was American too. A doctor. I've been on some benders in my time, but this guy, he was going for an all time record. It turns out this guy has a son. His son's a doctor, too. They had some kind of big time falling out. The guy knew it was his fault, even though his son was back in the States thinking the same damn thing. See, kids are like dogs, you knock them around enough, they'll think they did something to deserve it. Anyway, there's a pay phone in this bar. And this guy... Christian... tells me he wishes he had the stones to pick up the phone, call his kid, tell him he's sorry, that he's a better doctor than he'll ever be. He's proud and he loves him. I had to take off, but something tells me he never got around to making that call. Small world, huh?
Jack: [unable to hold back tears] Yeah...
- ConnectionsFeatures Power Rangers S.P.D. (2005)
It's all beautifully set up right at the beginning, with Rousseau showing up on the beach with a warning: the Others are coming. At this point, Jack, Locke, Kate, Hurley and Leslie Arzt (Matlock veteran Daniel Roebuck) decide to find a safer place for the survivors. Thinking the hatch would be an ideal hideout, they follow Rousseau's advice and set off to the Black Rock to retrieve dynamite they can use to blow up the hatch door. Everyone else prepares to say goodbye to Sawyer, Jin, Michael and Walt, who will leave on the raft and try to get help from the outside world.
As for the flashbacks, they hark back to the pilot by showing what part of the group was up to before they got on the plane. Most notably, Jack had an encounter with a fellow passenger named Ana Lucia (Michelle Rodriguez), while Sun kept hiding her English-speaking skills from Jin during an awkward dinner. We also get glimpses of the last pre-Island moments of Kate, Sawyer, Shannon and Boone (who run into Sayid as well).
Being the first part of the finale, this episode acts more as a set-up, laying the ground for the full works in Part 2. But hey, what a set-up: the threat of the Others, already expressed previously in the season, feels more real than ever, and the presence of the mysterious, unsettling black smoke is another palpable source of tension. Not that there aren't any happier moments throughout the episode: the raft scenes are filled with a hitherto unseen optimism, and it's nice to see Somerhalder again in the flashbacks, which also serve the mythology by subtly underlining the possible connection between the characters. And this is just the appetizer...
- MaxBorg89
- Nov 6, 2010