Lost (TV series) episode
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Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 21
Guest star(s)	Brooke Mikey Anderson (Charlotte Malkin), Adetokumboh McCormack (Yemi), Peter Lavin (Caldwell), Oliver Muirhead (Monsignor), Melissa Bickerton (Joyce Malkin), Felix Williamson (Dr. Ian McVay), Nick Jameson (Richard Malkin)
Writer(s)	Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof
Director	Deran Sarafian
Production no.	221
Original airdate	May 10, 2006
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? is the 45th episode of Lost. It is the twenty first episode of the second season. The episode was directed by Deran Sarafian, and written by Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof. It first aired on May 10, 2006 on ABC. The character of Mr. Eko is featured in the episode's flashbacks. Lost is an American drama television series that follows the present and past lives of a group of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, somewhere in the South Pacific. ... Carlton Cuse is a television writer and executive, most recently for the ABC television series Lost where he serves as writer and executive producer. ... Damon L. Lindelof is a television writer and executive, most recently noted as the co-creator, producer and head writer for the hit television series Lost. ... May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... Mr. ...

Plot

The episode opens with a dream sequence, of Mr. Eko chopping wood with his axe on the beach. Ana-Lucia shows up, and asks him what he is building. Eko explains that the idea of a church came from a dream. Ana-Lucia responds, "A dream like this one?" Eko then notices that Ana-Lucia is bleeding from the stomach and out of her mouth. She tells Eko, "You need to help John." Eko then finds himself in the Swan, with his dead brother Yemi sitting at the computer. Yemi tells him that Locke has lost his way, and that Eko needs Locke to take him to "the question mark." He also tells him to bring the axe. The room starts to violently shake. The timer is back at the red and black tiles, only the strange markings previously seen are replaced by question marks. Eko wakes up hyperventilating. Mr. ... John Locke is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Terry OQuinn. ...

Michael stumbles out of the hatch, claiming that he had been shot in the arm by a person unknown to him. Sawyer, Kate, and Jack discover the shooting victims -- Ana-Lucía is dead, and Libby is near death. Jack asks Sawyer for the heroin, to treat her, and when Sawyer goes to fetch it, it is revealed that he had the supplies hidden under his tent all along.

Eko offers to track down Henry Gale, with the assistance of Locke, but after they've left he reveals that his real goal is to force Locke to take him to the question mark, where they discover the burned plane containing Eko's brother. They camp at the site, and when Locke is sleeping, Yemi appears before Eko and directs him to climb the cliff. Upon reaching the top, Yemi tells Eko to wake up, and in terror, he loses his grip off the cliff and falls back to the bottom, at which point it is revealed that this was Locke's nightmare, not Eko's. Eko tells Locke that the priest he saw was his brother, Yemi. Locke stated that Yemi wanted him to follow. He then looks up the cliff where Eko had climbed, and Eko proceeds to climb the cliff. At first Eko sees only a rugged green-covered landscape, but when he looks down, he discovers the question mark marked in the soil, which had been salted. Upon closer examination of the area, they discover a hatch buried underneath the plane. It leads to another station, which has nine television screens, one of which shows a live surveillance feed from The Swan. Jack is shown walking past the camera. Salting the earth refers to the practice of spreading salt on fields to make them incapable of being used for crop-growing. ... Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, in the Columbine High School Massacre. ... On the American television show Lost, the fictional DHARMA Initiative has built several research stations on an island located somewhere in the South Pacific. ...

The printed report

Locke finds another computer terminal with a command prompt: >: PRINT LOG? Y/N. Locke inputs Y, and a print-out is generated from a dot-matrix printer. Eko also finds another Orientation movie where it is revealed that the hatch they are in is "Station 5 - The Pearl", and it was made to observe the other station(s) and to record how the subjects act to that which they believe to be of great importance. Image File history File links Lost_S02E21_Report. ... Image File history File links Lost_S02E21_Report. ... On the American television show Lost, the fictional DHARMA Initiative has built several research stations on an island located somewhere in the South Pacific. ...

In flashbacks, Eko is seen in the confessional, speaking to a man who claimed to have committed adultery, but also had forged an Australian passport for Eko to enter the United States. Another priest comes to inform Eko that a miracle has happened: a woman claimed that her child drowned in a river and resurrected the day after, and she wanted to tell the world the news. Eko declines to be concerned with this matter, as he does not believe the woman, to which the priest responds, "Why do you think I chose you?"

Later, Eko is seen interviewing a medical examiner about his account of the "miracle" that happened. The examiner informs a skeptical Mr. Eko that the girl was resurrected during the autopsy, and provides an audio tape as supporting evidence. When Eko goes to visit the woman who reported this miracle, he finds the girl on the porch. The mother comes out and informs him that it is not an appropriate time for him to visit. Richard comes out and orders her to go back inside, and tells Eko that the whole incident was a misunderstanding. He claims that his wife knows that his psychic services are a fraud, and she was attempting to "spite" him. Eko then tells him that he will report that the incident was not a miracle. As he leaves, he sees the daughter staring at him from the window.

In the final flashback, Eko can be seen at the Oceanic Airlines terminal picking up his tickets for the flight, when the drowned girl confronts him as he steps away from the desk. She informs Eko, to his anger and disbelief, that his brother Yemi has contacted her when she was "between places". She then says she knows that Eko's not a real priest, but he should have faith in himself, as Yemi still has faith in him. Eko's fury causes Libby to overhear their conversation and ask them if everything is alright. Eko shrugs it off and leaves. Oceanic Airlines is a fictional airline used on television and in movies, not to be confused with real airlines Trans-Oceanic Airways and Ocean Airlines. ...

Back on the island, at the Swan, Hurley requests to speak to Libby, and he tearfully apologizes to her for forgetting the blankets. In her dying breath, she says "Michael!", with a look of terror in her eyes. Jack, mistaking her horror as fear for Michael's safety, assures her that Michael is fine. The episode ends with Michael in the vault, looking gravely toward the doorway.

Notes

• Although credited, Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews), Claire Littleton (Emilie de Ravin), Jin Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim) and Sun Kwon (Yunjin Kim) do not appear in this episode.

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Trivia

• Claire's psychic, Richard, who arranged her trip to Los Angeles is the father of the "resurrected" girl Eko visited.

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