"Lost"
Whatever the Case May Be (2005)

Director:

Jack Bender

Writers:

Jeffrey Lieber (creator) and
J.J. Abrams (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Lost" (2004)

Original Air Date:

5 January 2005 (Season 1, Episode 12)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Kate and Sawyer discover a briefcase and the race begins to win ownership of it. Charlie is still depressed over Claire, and is given a sharp talking to by Rose.

Plot Keywords:

Mysterious Island | Labrador Retriever | Parent Child Relationship | Surrealism | Head Butt

Cast

Naveen Andrews	...	Sayid Jarrah
Matthew Fox	...	Jack Shephard
Jorge Garcia	...	Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes
Maggie Grace	...	Shannon Rutherford
Josh Holloway	...	James 'Sawyer' Ford
Malcolm David Kelley	...	Walt Lloyd
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Jin Kwon (credit only)
Yunjin Kim	...	Sun Kwon
Evangeline Lilly	...	Kate Austen
Dominic Monaghan	...	Charlie Pace
Terry O'Quinn	...	John Locke
Harold Perrineau	...	Michael Dawson
Ian Somerhalder	...	Boone Carlyle
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Victor Browne	...	Jason - Shooter
L. Scott Caldwell	...	Rose Henderson
Emilie de Ravin	...	Claire Littleton (credit only)
Achilles Gacis	...	Six Foot Five Robber
Dezmond Gilla	...	Robber with Baseball Hat
Tim Halligan	...	Bank Official Mark Hutton
Madison	...	Vincent the Dog
Michael M. Vendrell	...	Trucker

Runtime:

43 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Certification:

UK:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Venezuela:PG-13 (DVD rating) | USA:TV-14

Filming Locations:

O'ahu, Hawaii, USA

Company:

Bad Robot

Trivia:

(Episode #1.12), Shannon describes having been in France and seeing a children's animated movie about "computer fish" that ends with the song "La Mer" (known as "Beyond the Sea" in English). Although Shannon doesn't know the name of the movie, it is clearly Finding Nemo (2003), although the French dub of Finding Nemo, like the original American movie, ended with Robbie Williams's English cover of "Beyond the Sea" instead of the French source. This show and Finding Nemo are both products of the same parent company, Disney. On the DVD region 2 release (Eurpoe/france) the french track does have the french version of Beyond The Sea, this may have only been changed on the DVD release as Williams recorded a french language version for a disc being released of combined hits for a international market, and so may not have been available for a theatrical release.

Goofs:

Miscellaneous: Sawyer's fingers are okay after Sayid pushed the bamboo under his fingernails. They should be blue/black. Wounds like that have to grow out

Quotes:

Sawyer: Got a proposition for ya. You tell me what's inside and I'll give it to ya.
Kate: You serious?
Sawyer: Hell, no way to open the damn thing! At this point all I care about is satisfying my own curiosity.

Movie Connections:

References Finding Nemo (2003)

The Dark Past of Kate Austen

Kate Austen is plucking and picking fruits and seeds in the woods, and James "Sawyer" Ford meets her. They find a beautiful lake with a waterfall and decide to swim. They find on the bottom of the lake a wallet, and Kate, while recalling her past, tries unsuccessfully to take the wallet from Sawyer. Meanwhile, Rose helps Charlie Pace to recover, and Sayid Jarrah asks Shannon Rutherford to translate some French maps he stole from Danielle Rousseau.

"Whatever the Case May Be" discloses the dark past of Kate Austen, but the reason for the dispute for the wallet sounds silly, at least at this moment of the story. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "Whatever the Case May Be"