Keep watching. If you have read the boards you know that they have episodes sort of dedicated if you will, to each character. You will end up getting backstories on all of the main characters.

>A-ha. That makes sense. I really
>wanted to like Charlie, but
>there was something bothering me
>about him.
he ends up bein a likeable guy

Glad to know
>it's just heroin.

lol... yeah thats all .... just a regular heroin addict, nothing to worry about....
Welcome Silverstar.... this is the best non-reality series ever

never give a drug addict a gun

I'm watching it for the first time too Silver!! I don't want to know what happens but I want to watch with "better eyes"....And Pooh, I had read the Tivo description of the 2nd part of the pilot about the handcuffs so when I watched the first part I knew it was Kate that was the prisoner because I saw her rubbing her wrists!!

This is a really good show, I have no idea why I did not watch it the first time around but I'm glad they are replaying it. I have it on my TIVO--season pass--I know that some eps. went long..does anyone know if that will be the case this summer?

Opens with Jack in jungle. Vincent is there staring at him. Vincent then moves toward Jack, makes a crying sound, jumps over Jack and takes off into the jungle. (Keeping my eye on that dog!)

Jack gets up and starts walking. Camera pans in on white tennis shoe hanging on a tree branch.

Seems like Jack walks quite a distance to get to the beach.

Jack has two scratches on upper left cheek and two on lower right cheek. (Scratches from monster???)

During chaos on beach there are multiple black wispy smokey things flying around.

Jack revives Rose. Boone appears to be as dippy as Shannon with the pen episode.

When Hurley, Jack and Claire are thrown in the sand after the one explosion Hurley is holding a watch in his hand. (I've never seen him where a watch in the last few epi's)

First appearance of Kate is her coming out of the jungle and runs into Jack.

Jack tells Kate a story about his residency. His first surgery was a spinal on a 16 year old female. Very messy, yadda, yadda. He put her back together and she was fine. (Could this be the wife??)

Ding dong Shannon is seen painting her toenails!

Kate said she saw the whole thing. Tail broke off first then the front of plane.

All on the beach at night. They heard the air horn type sound and very tall trees moving. IT'S NOT RAINING!

Rose says that sounds awful familiar. Someone asks her where she's from. She answers the Bronx.

Kate, Charlie, Jack walk to find the cockpit. Kate tells Charlie "Beth" loves the band Driveshaft. (Is Beth the name of Tom's wife?)

Vincent is shown in jungle just looking...

Walk to cockpit doesn't seem to take very long. HERE COMES THE RAIN. They climb into the cockpit Charlie disappears into the bathroom to get a fix. The pilot wakes up. Jack tells pilot 48 people survived. (When did he have time to count?)

16 hrs into flight lost radio no one can see them on radar they turned toward Fiji and were a 1000 miles off course when they crashed.

Monster pulls pilot out of cockpit window. (What kind of dumb*ss would stick his head out a window in that situation!)

The three take off running through the jungle. Kate ends up alone and hides in a tree hut (don't know what else to call it, seems a lot of people find these to hide in throughout the show) She says something. What does she say??? I could only make out "what...do we"

Charlie scares the hell out of Kate. Rain stops.

They go back for Jack. Kate sees pilot wing pin in muddy water. Picks it up and sees reflection of pilot in tree above.

Jack appears looking very calm, cool and collected. Kate asks if he saw it. He casually says no, it was right behind me, I dove into the bushes. (How can anyone be that calm after that!)

Jack's got engaged to his wife during her recovery. I doubt there is any connection to the girl he performed surgery on.

Kate is counting to five when she is in the trees. She's doing what Jack said he did when he was terrified during the operation - letting the fear take control for five seconds, then going forward.

Charlie had hid his stash of heroin in the lavatory right before the plane crashed. That's why he wanted to go to the cockpit with Jack and Kate- to retrieve his drugs.

I forgot Rose said the monster sounded "familiar". That's probably something important. Whenever someone is running from the monster they think it is right behind them, but it doesn't seem like the monster is ever right behind them- but it sounds like it?

ABC episode summary 1 "Pilot"
http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/episodes/2004-05/1.html

>Jack's got engaged to his wife
>during her recovery. I doubt
>there is any connection to
>the girl he performed surgery
>on.
>
>

This girl would have gone through recovery. I still thinks it's possible she's the one.

But this girl was 16 when she was injured. It was Jack's first operation, so that puts him around 25-26. The ages just don't work out.

>But this girl was 16 when
>she was injured. It was
>Jack's first operation, so that
>puts him around 25-26. The
>ages just don't work out.
>
>
>

That's funny. My husband is 14 years older than I.

And I'm 13 years older than my wife. But I didn't meet her when she was 16.

This is from the official summary of "Do No Harm"

We learn that Sara met Jack because she was in a car accident -- an accident so bad she was deemed irreparable. But Jack promised he would fix her and he did just that -- because when Jack says he's going to do something, he does it. And Sara raises her glass to the most committed man she's ever known -- Jack Shepherd, her hero.

That just doesn't sound like a description of the girl Jack talked about last night. The operation seemed routine, it was only his actions that put the girl in jeopardy. And I can't imagine a resident would be allowed to perform surgery on a patient deemed irreparable.

Weasel, guess we will have to wait for next season.....

I think I have to agree with Dweeze here. I think the patient he did the surgery on is important but I don't think it was his finace.

I got the impression that Jack working on his fiance comes later. And that they did not know each other for long before becoming engaged. No where to prove that. Just my gut feeling.

One more of J Slice's Awesome Creations!

I dont know. During your residency, you are what? 25/26? That would make him at least 10 years older than the girl. It looks like he would have been maybe 30 when getting married and that would make her 20 - the girl that he married seemed to be the same age as him.

I think the "tree hut" is a banyan tree. They have those crazy above ground root systems.

I like all the small things this show does. Like when Kate walked out of the jungle in the first episode, she's rubbing her wrists. We now know because she was handcuffed - but we didn't know that then - or probably even notice it. I'm going to watch for other little foreshadowing things with the repeats - it might help us watch with sharper eyes next season.

I kept getting the feeling the pilot was an Other. He knew precisely what he had to do and accomplish and how to finish it.

The whole cockpit scene with him is weird. The way he wakes up and the questions he answers. Plus the information he gives. Just odd to me.

One more of J Slice's Awesome Creations!

I just think it was necessary to give us information. There would be no one else that would have been able to explain why there was no search team out for them and why no one knew where they were. Only the pilot would have been able to give that information.