Season 3 episode guides

[Abbie]

EPISODE 314 SYNOPSIS
Exposé
Skimpy outfits...heavy, pounding music...a crowd of excited men waving money in the air...It can only mean one thing: there's a stripper on Lost, and it's Nikki! She works the stage with abandon, then notices a man sneaking into a back room.She runs off the stage, confronts the man and is shot! Nikki dies...and then we hear, "Cut!" Turns out Nikki's not a stripper - she's an actress on the TV show Exposé that films in Sydney.She's also having an affair with the septuagenarian executive producer, Howard L.Zuckerman, who of course is very married and very wealthy.

On the island, Nikki runs like mad through the jungle, stops, digs a hole, and buries something.Then she runs to the beach camp, where Sawyer and Hurley are playing ping-pong, and collapses right in front of them.She struggles to eke out one unintelligible word and then dies!

Sawyer and Hurley begin an investigation and find Paulo's body in the jungle.He's dead, too.They search Nikki and Paulo's tent for clues and find a bug collection.
Charlie says they were Dr.Arzt's collection.Sawyer finds a walkie talkie.He says the Others had similar walkie talkies, which means they were working with the Others.Hurley doesn't think the Others are near their camp, but Sun vehemently reminds them that she was abducted.If she hadn't gotten away, they would've killed her.Charlie knows that isn't true - he was the one who grabbed her.Sawyer tries to calm them down and says he'll do a perimeter sweep.But when he shows off his gun, Hurley becomes suspicious.

Hurley asks Desmond to use his psychic powers to see who killed Nikki and Paulo.Desmond says it doesn't work that way, but offers that he saw Nikki arguing with Sawyer earlier this morning right before she died.Hurley tells Charlie and Sun his theory.Sun says Sawyer's not a murderer - she's convinced it's the Others.Feeling guilty, Charlie confesses to Sun that it was him who took her.Sun is stunned.He explains why he did it, and as the horror of it washes over her, Sun simply walks away.
Sawyer says he argued with Nikki because she wanted a gun.He didn't give it to her, and she was mad.He didn't tell them earlier because he noticed dirt under Nikki's fingernails and realized she was burying something.He hands Sun a pouch filled with diamonds.

While Sawyer is digging the graves, Sun tells him she knows it was his idea to kidnap her.It's a tense moment.He asks if she's going to tell Jin, and she says no.If she does, they'll have to dig another grave - then she slaps him, hard, and leaves.

WHOOSH BACK 84 days ago when Nikki eats breakfast with Zuckerman.He introduces his new chef, Paulo, to her.It seems like the first time they have met, but then Zuckerman falls over, dead.Paulo poisoned him.Paulo and Nikki are lovers, and it was their plan to kill Zuckerman and steal the stash of diamonds he had hidden in his safe.

80 days ago: waiting for their flight, Paulo has hidden the diamonds in an Exposé bag.They see Shannon and Boone looking for a table.
Shannon is rude and snotty while Boone apologizes for her behavior.Nikki makes Paulo promise they'll never end up like them.

The crash: Nikki frantically searches for Paulo.She finds him and asks about the diamonds, expressing no concern for him.Paulo doesn't know where the bag is.75 days ago: Nikki and Paulo root through the scavenged luggage looking for the diamonds.They meet Ethan, who tells them they might find their bag further inland.They then listen as Jack gives his "live together, die alone" speech.

57 days ago: Dr.Arzt shows Nikki his latest acquisition: latrodectus regina, the dangerous Medusa spider.Nikki flirts with him, and he draws a map to help her find her luggage.Using Arzt's map, Nikki and Paulo search in the jungle for the bag.They find the Nigerian plane nestled in the tree top and the Pearl station hatch in the ground.

48 days ago: Nikki learns that Sawyer and Kate found the case of guns, and drags Paulo out to the waterfall.He dives in, finds the bag with the diamonds but lies to Nikki about it.
31 days ago: Paulo hides the diamonds inside the Pearl station bathroom toilet.As he's about to leave, Ben and Juliet climb down into the station.Paulo hides and watches Ben use the monitors to show Juliet who Jack is.He'll convince Jack to do the surgery by finding out what he's emotionally invested in and exploit it.

9 days ago: Locke, Desmond, Nikki and Paulo at the Pearl station.Paulo pretends to use the bathroom and recovers the diamonds.

This morning: Nikki realizes Paulo has the diamonds, and the cold, calculating, murdering side of Nikki emerges.She demands a gun from Sawyer, but he won't give her one.She then lures Paulo out into the jungle and throws Arzt's Medusa spider on him.It bites him and paralyzes him.The poison won't kill him but it makes him seem dead.Then she hears the strange sounds of the smoke monster.She looks around but doesn't see it.Paulo signals for her to look down, and she sees another spider on her ankle.It bites her! Her fate is sealed.She immediately runs off, hiding the diamonds for herself later when the paralysis wears off.
She stumbles up to Hurley and Sawyer and tries to explain what happened but falls over, seemingly dead.

WHOOSH to their funeral.Sawyer dumps the diamonds over Nikki and Paulo while he and Hurley grimly shovel dirt onto their bodies.But then Nikki's eye pops open! Surely somebody will notice and stop.But nobody does.They continue shoveling dirt until finally the grave is full.Rest in peace, Nikki and Paulo.Rest in peace.

[Luna]

omg that sounds horrible

Thats going to be a hard on to watch buried alive...... ***shiver*******

[Siobhan]

omg that sounds horrible

Thats going to be a hard on to watch buried alive...... ***shiver*******

it was on Sunday..do you not have SKY?

[Luna]

omg that sounds horrible

Thats going to be a hard on to watch buried alive...... ***shiver*******

it was on Sunday..do you not have SKY?

is that supposed to be a joke

Ive downloaded it will watch when im off tomorrow

[Siobhan]

is that supposed to be a joke

Ive downloaded it will watch when im off tomorrow

and here was me thinking you are a rebel.. good episode by the way...

[Abbie]

EPISODE 315 SYNOPSIS
Left Behind
Kate is held captive by the Others.She scuffles with Juliet but is unable to escape.Locke comes in to say good-bye.He's leaving with the Others.Kate asks if he's brainwashed and tells him not to believe them if they promise to take him home.Locke tells her he doesn't want to go home.He made a strong case for her, but then they told him who she was and what she'd done.Forgiveness isn't one of their strong suits.

Flashback to Kate in Iowa.Her car breaks down, and she is towed into a service station.She overhears a man and a woman arguing.The woman is Cassidy, whom Sawyer trained and then stole all her money.She's working the jewelry con on the man.He's not buying it and wants to call the police.But police are the last thing Kate wants there, so she intervenes, defusing the situation.They go have drinks together, and Cassidy asks why Kate didn't want the police there.Kate says her stepfather was a bad guy.So she killed him, escaped from the Federal Marshal who arrested her, and she's back now to talk to her mother.
Cassidy offers to help.She says she was conned and embarrassed by a bad guy, too, and that one of them deserves something good.

WHOOSH to the island, where Hurley tells Sawyer that after the Nikki/Paulo thing with the diamonds, the camp is going to vote on whether or not to banish him.Hurley says there are benefits to living as part of a society and suggests he make amends to fix things.

At the barracks, Kate can see the Others packing to leave.Then she sees them all put on gas masks.Suddenly, the door flies open, someone tosses in a canister and slams the door shut.The canister pops open and gas starts pouring out.It knocks her out cold.She wakes up in the jungle...handcuffed to Juliet! Kate takes Juliet's knife and tries to unlock the cuffs.It doesn't work.Kate asks what Juliet did to piss the Others off.Juliet doesn't answer.Kate says they are going back for her friends.

She follows a trail leading to the barracks.Juliet hopes Kate isn't dragging them back for Jack, because now that she's ruined his chance to get off the island, he might not want to see her.
Juliet tells Kate that there were cameras on the cages and Jack saw her with Sawyer.Jack told her not to come back for him because she broke his heart.Kate is stunned.She knows it's true, but she hates that she's hearing about it from Juliet - and then they hear the monster's roar! They hide in the roots of a banyan tree.The smoke monster roils up in front of them, and FLASH FLASH FLASH - Juliet's face is lit up by bright flashes of light coming from the monster.Then the monster retreats and it's over.

WHOOSH back to Iowa, where Kate knocks on her mother's door.Diane opens the door, but before she can say anything, cops surround Kate and cuff her.Federal Agent Mars walks out and realizes it isn't Kate.It's Cassidy dressed as Kate.She says she was just selling Bibles.Watching through binoculars down the street is the real Kate, and she realizes just what she's up against.Later at their motel, Cassidy wants to know why Kate needs to talk to her mom.Kate admits that her mom gave her up to the police.
Her mom chose her abusive husband over Kate, betraying her, and Kate needs to know why.

Cassidy goes to the restaurant where Kate's mom works.She accidentally on purpose dumps a bowl of chili on Diane, and Diane goes to the bathroom to clean up& and Kate is waiting there for her.Kate wants to know why Diane turned her in.Diane says Kate killed the man she loved.But Wayne abused her.Diane snaps back you can't help who you love, and says Kate didn't kill Wayne for anyone but herself.Diane promises not to say anything now, but the next time she sees Kate she'll yell for help.Kate is hurt, and realizes that even though she got her answer, she wished she had never asked.

On the island, Sawyer realizes he can't be on his own.He tells Hurley he's ready to make amends.He apologizes to Hurley for calling him all those names, is nice to Claire and gives her a blanket for the baby, and partners with Desmond to hunt for boar and provide food for the camp.

Kate and Juliet continue to the barracks, and then - MRRROOOOOWWW! The monster is back.
They take off running, and come upon the pylons.Kate jerks Juliet to a stop, says they can't go through them.Juliet reaches into her back pocket, takes out a key, and unlocks the cuffs.She then runs to a pylon, enters an access code on a key pad, and they run across the barrier.Juliet jams the setting into the red zone.The smoke monster zooms in and bounces off the barrier.It roils and rises, unable to pass through the fence.Then it quickly shoots away.Juliet admits that they don't know what it is, but they do know it doesn't like their fence.Kate asks about the key.Juliet says she was left behind, too.She hoped that if Kate thought they were in it together, Kate wouldn't leave her behind in the jungle.Kate unlocks her cuff, and they continue on.

Flashback to Iowa.Cassidy drops Kate off at the service station.Cassidy tells her she's pregnant.She wants the guy dead yet she still loves him.Kate says call the cops and have him locked up.Cassidy asks if Kate would forgive her mom for calling the cops.
Kate says no, but that this guy has it coming.Maybe something good will come out of it.

On the island, Sawyer roasts the boar and everyone eats.It's a happy moment.Charlie tells Sawyer he hadn't heard about any vote, and Sawyer realizes he was conned by Hurley.Hurley tells Sawyer that if he's going to be their temporary leader, he needed to do damage control.With Jack, Locke, Kate and Sayid gone, Sawyer is all they've got.

Kate and Juliet reach the barracks.It's completely empty.Everyone is gone.Juliet goes to get Sayid, and Kate goes to get Jack.He is passed on the floor of his house.Kate wakes him up and tells him the Others left because of her.She apologizes for messing up his plans to go home.But Jack's first question is about Juliet, and Kate pulls back emotionally.She says they left her, too.They join Juliet and Sayid.Jack suggests taking what they can find and starting back before dark.Sayid objects to Juliet coming with them, but Jack is insistent.The Others left her, too.
Kate and Sayid trade looks, both worried about this new development, and head out.

[Chloe O'brien]

Juliet is up to something, the witch. Why did Locke go with the others.

[Abbie]

Juliet is up to something, the witch. Why did Locke go with the others.

I know, she is pure evil
And im not sure ut Locke has always been kinda a mad man if you ask me

[Abbie]

EPISODE 316 SYNOPSIS
One of Us
Kate, Sayid, Juliet, and Jack trek back to the beach camp.They stop for the night, and Jack explains to Kate the deal he made with Ben.He kept his head down and didn't ask questions.Though Jack is talking to her, Kate feels an emotional distance between them.Sayid grills Juliet for answers, but Jack returns and tells Sayid to leave her alone.She is under his protection.Juliet confesses to Jack that she's nervous about joining the beach camp.

Flashback to Juliet arriving at a private airport.Richard Alpert and Ethan Rom are there to escort her the rest of the way.It's a security thing.Juliet says good-bye to her sister, Rachel, promising to be back before the baby's born.In the airport terminal, Ethan checks Juliet's vitals, telling her it's routine.Alpert pours sedative into a glass of orange juice and gives it to Juliet to drink, saying some people can't take the trip's intensity.It's easier if they're asleep.Juliet says she was fine with signing all the paperwork, not being able to talk with anyone for six months, and that no one had ever heard of Mittelos BioSience, but.
..Alpert interrupts and tells her she was fine with it because she knows the place they're taking her is special.Juliet has a gift, and isn't she supposed to do something significant with it?Juliet drinks the orange juice and passes out.She wakes up strapped down in the sleeping compartment - of a submarine! Ethan unstraps her, and she follows him through the submarine, up the ladder and sees the awe-inspiring sight of the island.

At the beach camp, Charlie hears Aaron crying and wakes up Claire.Claire says she's not feeling well, so Charlie offers to take care of Aaron.Sawyer sees Jack, Kate, and Sayid returning.It's a joyous reunion& and then he sees Juliet.Sawyer is not pleased.Hurley engages Juliet in casual conversation.Juliet guesses that Hurley was sent to keep an eye on her.He tells her the last Other who came over, Ethan, was killed and buried nearby.Um, wow, was that a threat from Hurley?

Flashback to Juliet talking to Ben.She tells him she thinks the pregnancy complications happen at conception but there's nothing she can do about it& unless she takes a woman off the island.
Ben says no.Juliet tells him she's done all she can and wants to go home.Rachel will give birth in three months.Ben says she won't.Rachel's cancer is back and she'll be dead before then.Juliet is horrified.Ben promises to cure Rachel's cancer if Juliet stays.Juliet wants to know how.Ben says Jacob will take care of it himself.

At the camp, Jack tells everyone that he trusts Juliet and that should be enough.Sayid reminds him it's not.Jack defends his time with the Others saying he was there looking for a way off the island.Then Claire collapses.Juliet takes Jack and Kate aside and tells them she knows what's wrong with Claire because she did it to her.

Flashback to Juliet in bed& with Goodwin.There's a knock on the door and she is given x-rays.Juliet looks at them and knows they have a problem.She walks to Ben's house and tells him he has a tumor.She accuses him of lying about curing Rachel's cancer.How can he if he has cancer himself?Ben denies lying and says he doesn't understand why he has cancer.
Juliet wants go home, but he refuses to let her go.

At the camp, Juliet explains that Claire's immune system has turned on her due to a latent reaction to medication in her bloodstream.The medication was designed to keep Claire alive during the late stages of her pregnancy.Juliet knows because she designed it.She was brought to the island to solve why women here couldn't have children.The mother's body treats the pregnancy as a foreign invader and the immune system attacks.Every pregnant woman on the island died.Claire was the first to survive.Even though she didn't conceive on the island, Claire developed the same symptoms.Juliet developed the serum to reverse what was happening, and Ethan was giving it to her.Without the serum, Claire is in a form of withdrawal.Ethan kept a stash of the serum close by.

Juliet goes out into the jungle and retrieves the serum.Sayid and Sawyer have followed, and they want answers.Juliet tells them there isn't time.Realizing they aren't going to budge, she stands up to them and says she finds it interesting that they are the camp's moral police.
Did Sayid tell everyone what he did in Basra?And did Sawyer gather everyone into a circle and explain how he shot a man in cold blood?She says the serum can save Claire's life.The last thing they would want is Claire's blood on their hands.She takes the serum back to the beach and gives it to Jack.He warns her that if anything happens to Claire, he won't be able to protect her.

Flashback to Juliet and Ben as they watch flight 815 break apart above them.Ben then leads Juliet out to the Flame station.Mikhail is there, and Ben tells him he wants detailed files on every passenger.Then Mikhail brings up a live video feed.They see a close-up of a newspaper with the current date.The camera swings around& and reveals Rachel in a park with her newborn son.Ben tells Juliet that Rachel's cancer was cured.It went into complete remission and shortly thereafter that she gave birth.The boy's name is Julian.

At the camp, Claire wakes up.She's feeling and looking better.Juliet is now trusted.
Jack brings her supplies to set up her tent area and tells her eventually everyone will need answers.Juliet asks why Jack trusts her and doesn't ask for answers.He says because when the sub exploded, he saw in her eyes that she wanted to get off this island more than anything.That makes her "one of us."

Flashback to Juliet and Ben going over their plans.Juliet will handcuff herself to Kate and say she was gassed and left behind, too.If Kate questions that, Juliet will say it was the only way to earn Kate's trust.Ben tells Juliet that Claire's implant has been activated, and she'll symptomatic in forty-eight hours.By the time Juliet gets to the camp, she'll have a nice crisis to solve.Pryce is already on his way to hide the case in Ethan's old drop point.Ben tells her to tell Jack she can save Claire.Jack trusts her.He says he'll see her in a week.

And back at camp, as Juliet looks around and sees Hurley and Sun talking, Charlie with Claire, and Jack smiling at her, she smiles back& and we realize the whole thing was a set-up.
What is Juliet up to?

[Abbie]

EPISODE 317 SYNOPSIS
Catch-22
Charlie and Hurley trek through the jungle.Charlie steps on a trip wire and SCHLICK! An arrow embeds itself into Charlie's neck.Then FLASH! Hurley lifts a cable out of the sand.FLASH! In the night sky, a blinking red light slowly descends.FLASH! Jin shouts and pulls a sheet taunt.FLASH! A helmeted figure dangles from a tree in a tangle of cords.FLASHFLASHFLASH! The images repeat themselves, finally resting on the photo of Desmond and Penny Widmore - and then FLASH!

Desmond gasps, sweating and disoriented.For the first time we experienced what it's like for Desmond to see the future.He finds Hurley and wants to be taken to the cable in the sand.Why?Because he knows someone's coming.Desmond explains he saw a sequence of events that are going to happen.Usually he sees just one thing, but this was different.It was like a jigsaw puzzle, and he doesn't know how the pieces fit together.Hurley wants to know what the other images were, but Desmond's worried if he tells it might change events.
Hurley realizes that Desmond wants the events to happen and guesses that "someone coming" relates to them getting rescued.

FLASHBACK to Desmond silently waiting in what looks like a small prison cell.A monk comes in and tells Desmond it's time.The monk says that God tests our faith in many ways.A vow of silence challenges one's patience and faith, and he wasn't sure Desmond would last a week let alone a month.But he passed the test and now Desmond is one of them."Welcome, Brother."

On the island, Sawyer slips into Kate's tent and catches her changing clothes.He asks if she told Jack about him and her.She tells him Jack saw them together on the monitors.They had cameras on the cages.Then Sawyer asks her for a little afternoon delight.Kate walks out on him.Sawyer asks what he has to do, make her a mix tape?

Because Charlie and Jin were also in Desmond's visions, he has to convince them to come, too.Jin easily agrees, but Charlie is suspicious of it.He doesn't want to go.
Desmond lies and tells Charlie nothing will happen to him.He agrees to go.Hurley leads them to the cable.He lifts the cable out of the sand, and Desmond smiles.It's the vision he saw.They're on the right track.They make camp and wait for Desmond's mysterious "someone" to show up.

FLASHBACK to Desmond in the monastery helping the other monks bottle wine.Brother Campbell explains the name of the winery, Moriah Vineyards, was taken from the name of the mountain where Abraham was asked to kill Isaac.Another monk tells Brother Desmond he has a visitor, a guy named Derek.Desmond doesn't react as Derek punches him.Derek looks at the other monks, apologizes and leaves.

On the island, Kate runs into Jack in the kitchen area.They chat about how strange it is to be back, and then Jack leaves taking two bowls of oatmeal.Kate watches as he crosses to Juliet's tent and eats dinner with her.Kate is stunned.She crosses to Sawyer's tent, tells him not to talk, and she kisses him passionately and rips his clothes off.
That night, Desmond looks at the picture of him and Penny.Desmond explains he tried to run away from her but still she tracked him down.He now hopes she spent the last three years doing the same.Then they hear the sound of a helicopter out over the dark ocean.But then the sound changes and it crashes into the ocean.Then they notice a blinking red light slowly falling to earth.It's another one of Desmond's images he saw.They can't see what the beacon is attached to, but they watch as it falls into the jungle.

FLASHBACK to Desmond visiting Ruth, sister to the guy who punched Desmond.Desmond apologizes for disappearing one week before their wedding.Desmond says he had a calling.He was scared about the wedding, but after blacking out from drinking too much, he woke up in the street with a monk helping him up.Desmond knew then that he was supposed to leave all that mattered to him behind for a greater calling.Ruth ridicules his story, telling him next he wants to break up with a girl to simply tell her he's scared.
On the island, Desmond races through the jungle looking for the beacon.He finds a bag hanging in a tree containing supplies and a high-tech satellite radio-phone.Hurley quickly tries it, but it doesn't work.They also find a copy of the Desmond and Penny photo.They're shocked.Who would be carrying the same photo?Desmond is convinced it's Penny coming to rescue him.As they continue looking for Penny, they get to a clearing and Desmond realizes this is where he saw Charlie impaled by the arrow.He struggles whether he should say something to Charlie or let it play out, desperate not to change anything that would alter him finding Penny, but at the last minute he relents and shouts a warning.Charlie ducks, and the arrow lodges in the neck of his guitar.

At the beach, Sawyer brings Kate the mix tape.Kate is charmed.It's a genuinely sweet moment.Then Sawyer asks if she jumped him the night before because she saw Jack with Juliet.Kate denies it, but Sawyer doesn't buy it.He tells her she doesn't need to use him.
All she has to do is ask.

Charlie confronts Desmond about the arrow.Desmond says if the flashes don't happen the way he saw them, it changes the future.He was supposed to let Charlie die, but he's saved him again and again and again.What good has it done?Desmond guesses that it's a test, like God testing Abraham, but he's failed.He's changed what he saw, and now everything he wanted is gone.But Jin shouts for them in Korean.They follow him and find the parachutist dangling from a tree in a web of cords.

FLASHBACK to Desmond in the monastery.Brother Campbell tells him he's not cut out to be a monk - he's been fired.Desmond protests, but Brother Campbell tells him the Abbey isn't the place Desmond was meant to end up.Before he leaves, Desmond helps load cases of wine into a waiting car.The driver is Penny Widmore! This is how Desmond and Penny officially met.She is charmed by him, and he's captivated.There's definitely chemistry between them - it's love at first sight.

On the island, Desmond cuts Penny down.
Desmond removes her helmet& and sees that it is not Penny.It's a woman Desmond has never seen before.He's stunned and confused.Who is this woman?Her eyes flutter open, and she sees him.Before she loses consciousness, she mutters one word: "Desmond?"