This is really the episode where finally things kick off. The only "important" thing that happens in the episode before is when they hear the monster in the forest. This episode starts to pile questions on you, starts Kate's story, the French Woman's significance, Charlie's story, and finally the polar bears.
This episode revolves around Kate, Charlie, Shannon, Boone, Sayid, and Sawyer's trip to get the transceiver working. Jack, Kate, and Charlie head back to the beach and we discover that Charlie was retrieving drugs he lost in the toilet during the flight when he was in the bathroom in the previous episode. Walt finds handcuffs on the beach and shows Micheal. This leads Sawyer to believe that Sayid is an Iraqi terrorist. Sayid fixes the transceiver but it doesn't have much battery life. During this, it is revealed that Sayid was a communications officer with the Iraqi republican guard in the Gulf War. Sawyer decides to join the group that is going to try to retrieve a better signal by reaching higher ground on the island. Along the way, they are attacked by a polar bear which Sawyer shoots and kills and later explains that he got the gun off of a dead U.S. marshal. Kate takes the gun from Sawyer and it is revealed in a flashback that she was the marshal's prisoner.
Back at the beach, the marshal wakes up and is looking for Kate. Inland, the group reaches the top of a mountain and listens to a French transmission on the transceiver that's blocking access to them communicating to the outside. Shannon translates it: "I'm alone now, on the island alone. Please someone come. The others are dead. It killed them. It killed them all." The group gives each other meaningful looks before Charlie says "Guys, where are we?".
I absolutely love this episode. It was probably the episode that really got me interested. Granted, you have to wait for the French transmission to be explained for another nine episodes. The flashbacks in the first episode never really reveal anything too important or startling but when you see them with this episode, it all becomes clear. I love the little things this episode does to foreshadow episodes to come (Sawyer reading the letter). I love the realism of everyone blaming and suspecting the most obvious people to be the prisoner that was on the plane, its so realistic. The irony is also well done when Kate finally gets the gun. It's when of those "ARGH!" moments.
But on the downside, I hate how everyone seems to know and like Charlie's band. Granted, there is a deleted scene where Shannon says she hated them. But that really should have been shown in the episode. Also, Shannon could have totally translated the signal wrong, they just sort of believe everything she said. And I'll repeat again, the characters seem very calm after a plane crash.
My favorite part of the episode: Watching the plane crash from Kate's point of view. She was the only one that stayed awake through most of it.
This episode revolves around Kate, Charlie, Shannon, Boone, Sayid, and Sawyer's trip to get the transceiver working. Jack, Kate, and Charlie head back to the beach and we discover that Charlie was retrieving drugs he lost in the toilet during the flight when he was in the bathroom in the previous episode. Walt finds handcuffs on the beach and shows Micheal. This leads Sawyer to believe that Sayid is an Iraqi terrorist. Sayid fixes the transceiver but it doesn't have much battery life. During this, it is revealed that Sayid was a communications officer with the Iraqi republican guard in the Gulf War. Sawyer decides to join the group that is going to try to retrieve a better signal by reaching higher ground on the island. Along the way, they are attacked by a polar bear which Sawyer shoots and kills and later explains that he got the gun off of a dead U.S. marshal. Kate takes the gun from Sawyer and it is revealed in a flashback that she was the marshal's prisoner.
Back at the beach, the marshal wakes up and is looking for Kate. Inland, the group reaches the top of a mountain and listens to a French transmission on the transceiver that's blocking access to them communicating to the outside. Shannon translates it: "I'm alone now, on the island alone. Please someone come. The others are dead. It killed them. It killed them all." The group gives each other meaningful looks before Charlie says "Guys, where are we?".
I absolutely love this episode. It was probably the episode that really got me interested. Granted, you have to wait for the French transmission to be explained for another nine episodes. The flashbacks in the first episode never really reveal anything too important or startling but when you see them with this episode, it all becomes clear. I love the little things this episode does to foreshadow episodes to come (Sawyer reading the letter). I love the realism of everyone blaming and suspecting the most obvious people to be the prisoner that was on the plane, its so realistic. The irony is also well done when Kate finally gets the gun. It's when of those "ARGH!" moments.
But on the downside, I hate how everyone seems to know and like Charlie's band. Granted, there is a deleted scene where Shannon says she hated them. But that really should have been shown in the episode. Also, Shannon could have totally translated the signal wrong, they just sort of believe everything she said. And I'll repeat again, the characters seem very calm after a plane crash.
My favorite part of the episode: Watching the plane crash from Kate's point of view. She was the only one that stayed awake through most of it.