Four high school girls lie sprawled on a sandy beach. After an accident strikes their class trip, the girls find themselves stranded on a deserted island. While the four introduce themselves, one of them, Onishima Homare, seems unusually calm. Then she says something shocking! "This isn’t the first time I’ve been stranded."
In order to procure water, the girls explore the island. Homare and Asuka find a dry stream bed. In order to get water from the dirt they dig up there they’ll have to…!? Meanwhile, left behind on the beach, Shion and Mutsu, both faint from dehydration, make a certain promise…
While on the run from Mars, Kate is taken in by a farmer, but he discovers her identity and tries to turn her in. She crashes his car but stops to save him from the wreckage, getting her captured by Mars. In the present, Jack discovers her mugshot and refuses to euthanize a dying Mars. Sawyer shoots him but misses his heart, forcing Jack to kill him. Kate offers to tell Jack why she was in custody, but he rebuffs her, stating that the island can be a new start for all of them. The enigmatic John
Locke plans an Australian walkabout that he believes he is destined to complete. In the present, he goes into the jungle to hunt boar as the camp's food runs low. Kate accompanies him, and when the monster attacks Locke, he later emerges from the jungle with a dead boar and denies seeing anything. Jack decides to burn the fuselage, which is being used as body storage. As the survivors burn it, a flashback reveals that Locke was paraplegic prior to the crash, preventing him from going on the walk
Jack's mother guilts him into retrieving his estranged father Christian from Australia. He goes and finds that Christian drank himself to death, loading his coffin onto the flight. In the present, Jack rescues Boone Carlyle from drowning, though a woman Boone was trying to save dies. Jack sees Christian walking through the jungle and encounters Locke while chasing him, who affirms his belief in the island's power and advises Jack to keep looking. He follows Christian to his coffin, which he find
Wealthy Korean Sun-Hwa Paik and waiter Jin-Soo Kwon fall in love, and he works for her father Woo-Jung for her hand in marriage. They argue frequently as his work turns criminal, and she sets up a way to escape their relationship as she secretly learns English, only to board Flight 815 with Jin when he affirms his love for her. In the present, he attacks Michael. Sun explains that he found Woo-Jung's watch after the crash and Jin assumed he stole it, and Michael returns it. Locke recognizes Char
Charlie's brother and band member Liam uses heroin, his unstable nature pressing Charlie into starting. Several years later, he encourages Charlie to stay with him in Sydney and get sober, but he refuses and leaves for Los Angeles. In the present, Sayid attempts to triangulate the French signal, but is attacked before he can corner it. Suffering from withdrawal, Charlie begs Locke for his drugs, who says he will return them if asked three times. He shouts at Jack and causes a cave-in. Charlie fo
Sawyer cons a woman he is sleeping with, but before he can leave with the money, he realizes she has a young son and abandons the job. In the present, Boone's stepsister Shannon Rutherford cannot find an asthma inhaler, which he believes Sawyer has in his hoard of items from the crash. Sawyer tells Kate that he will give up the inhalers for a kiss, who asks about a letter she often sees him reading, which is written by a boy who blames him for his parents's murder-suicide. After Sayid tortures h
Sayid is ordered to torture his childhood friend Nadia Jaseem, but he instead kills his superior and stages her escape. In the present, Sayid is captured by native Danielle Rousseau while following a cable, who tortures him and demands to know where "Alex" is, believing him to be one of "the Others." He explains the crash to her and she identifies herself as the originator of the transmission. Sayid tries to escape, but she corners him and demands he stay, needing companionship. She admits she k
Claire Littleton's boyfriend leaves her over her pregnancy and her psychic Richard Malkin warns her that the baby will be in danger if not raised properly. He gives her a ticket for Flight 815, insisting that a couple in Los Angeles can take it. In the present, she has disturbing dreams about being attacked and losing the baby. Her fear of an attack prompts Hugo "Hurley" Reyes to start making a census. Claire starts having contractions while Charlie moves her to the beach, telling Ethan Rom to g
A drunken Christian botches a surgery and Jack takes over, but is unable to save the patient. Christian has Jack vouch that he was sober, but when a hospital board meeting is called about the patient, Jack is horrified to learn she was pregnant and recants his statement. In the present, the survivors go after Ethan and Jack finds Charlie hung from a tree. Despite him not breathing, Jack performs frantic CPR, reviving him. While searching for Ethan, Boone and Locke find a metal hatch in the groun
Kate helps a trio of men rob a bank, betrays them when she gets to the back, and takes an envelope from a safety deposit box. In the present, Sayid asks the French-speaking Shannon to translate Rousseau's notes, which she recognizes as lyrics from "La Mer". Kate and Sawyer find a locked suitcase while swimming. She tricks Jack into digging up Mars so she can take the key from his body, but he catches her and makes her open it with him. The envelope is inside, which contains a toy plane that she