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*When Sawyer is getting ready to swim to the other platform, a shark swims by the screen. For a brief, brief second, one can see [[the DHARMA Initiative]] insignia near its back fin. |
*When Sawyer is getting ready to swim to the other platform, a shark swims by the screen. For a brief, brief second, one can see [[the DHARMA Initiative]] insignia near its back fin. |
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*Originally this episode was supposed to be a Sawyer-centric episode. |
*Originally this episode was supposed to be a Sawyer-centric episode with Jolene Blalock guest starring in it. |
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Adrift is the 27th episode of Lost. It is the second episode of the show's second season. The episode was directed by Stephen Williams, and written by Steven Maeda and Leonard Dick. It first aired on September 28, 2005 on ABC. The character of Michael Dawson is featured in the episode's flashback.
Plot
Aftermath of Walt's kidnapping
Sawyer surfaces in the ocean after the attack on the raft. The raft is burning, one whole side of it blown away. Pieces of wreckage float everywhere. Michael is heard screaming for Walt repeatedly, and Sawyer screaming for Jin. Sawyer decides to rescue Michael first, and swims over to him, dragging him onto a piece of flotsam.
Shark sighting
On their makeshift raft, Michael blames Sawyer for making him fire the flare, drawing their attackers to them, while Jin is nowhere to be found. Shortly after, something pounds on the raft from below. When Sawyer and Michael investigate, they see the distinctive fin of a shark. Michael blames Sawyer's bleeding wound for attracting the shark, and this devolves into an argument which ends when Michael orders Sawyer off his piece of raft. Sawyer complies, moving onto another piece of the raft, but soon the two are arguing again (while Sawyer digs the bullet out of his shoulder by hand). Sawyer's piece of raft disintegrates, forcing him to rejoin Michael.
As they continue to float along with the current, one of the raft's pontoons appears, and they decide to board it. At this time we get a glimpse of the shark underwater and we see a strange marking on its tail. Sawyer swims to the pontoon, giving Michael his gun in case the shark appears. When it does, Michael fires several times, apparently injuring the shark, which breaks off. Momentarily shocked by the experience, Michael numbly swims for the pontoon, where Sawyer waits for him.
Michael's flashback
During Michael's flashbacks, he remembers his early custody struggles with Susan, who has asked Michael to sign away his paternal rights to Walt. Though Michael initially resists, suing to keep his rights, he eventually relents as Susan persuades him to doubt his own motivations and whether he is pursuing his own desires or Walt's best interests. As part of the flashback there is a parting scene between Michael and Walt. Michael gives Walt a toy polar bear.
Washing ashore
When day breaks on the raft, Michael is crying. He realizes that he should not have brought Walt with him on the raft, even if all he really wanted was to be with his son. As with his custody battle, Walt's safety and security should have been paramount, and Michael tells Sawyer that Walt's kidnapping was his own fault. At this point, Sawyer looks around and notices that they are back at the island. When they wash ashore, on a beach they do not recognize, they are greeted by Jin running toward them, hands tied behind his back, shouting the word "Others", and fleeing a group holding him captive.
At the hatch before Jack arrives
Back at camp, Claire discovers Charlie carrying the Virgin Mary statue stolen from the Beechcraft 18, but does not know about the heroin contained inside.
Also shown are the events at the hatch before Jack's arrival. After Kate disappears into the hatch, Locke descends as well, finding an unconscious Kate in the computer room. An armed Desmond walks up behind them, quizzing Locke if he is "him". Locke at first claims to be whom Desmond is seeking, but fails to answer the riddle correctly that Desmond poses to him. This failure prompts Desmond to round up the two. Desmond orders Kate to tie Locke up, but Locke, explaining that Kate is the bigger threat, convinces Desmond she should be tied up. When Desmond concurs, Locke slides her one of his knives, and locks her in a dark room. Kate frees herself, and turns on a light, amazed to find herself in a large pantry filled with foodstuffs, all in boxes bearing a strange marking. After enjoying an "Apollo" brand chocolate bar, she climbs into a ventilation shaft, while Locke and Desmond take turns asking each other questions.
The plotline converges to the same point at the end of the last episode, Man of Science, Man of Faith (Lost episode). An alarm klaxon begins to sound. Desmond walks Locke at gunpoint to the computer terminal, and forces him to enter "the numbers" into the computer, which resets a timer for the alarm. Soon after, Desmond detects Jack, and after channeling him to the computer room, forces Locke to greet Jack as seen in the previous episode (though this time, we see Kate's perspective too, overhead in the ventilation shaft).
Trivia
- When Sawyer is getting ready to swim to the other platform, a shark swims by the screen. For a brief, brief second, one can see the DHARMA Initiative insignia near its back fin.
- Originally this episode was supposed to be a Sawyer-centric episode with Jolene Blalock guest starring in it.
