Lower Decks

Here at Lower Decks we’ve decided to start a Lost Season Four Rewatch in anticipation of the premiere of Season Five in January of 2009. There were fourteen episodes in Season Four and if two episodes are viewed every Sunday starting today (December 7th), the entire season can be seen just in time for the fifth season premiere.

4×01 – “The Beginning of the End”
(Originally Broadcast January 31st, 2008)

In the aftermath of the Season Three finale, the survivors fracture into two groups after learning of Charlie’s death and his message that the boat doesn’t belong to Penny. Locke, Hurley, Claire, Sawyer and others (plus Ben) decide head to the barracks, not trusting the people on the freighter. Jack, Kate, Sayid and everyone else will wait for rescue on the beach. Naomi dies after communicating with the freighter. In the future, Hurley is back in the institution and is visited by the “ghost” of Charlie and a mysterious man named Matthew Abaddon. Hurley later tells Jack that they made a mistake leaving the island.

Did You Notice?
When Hurley was giving his speech about listening to Charlie and not Jack, the background music was the recurring “sad piano” motif “Life and Death,” often played when a main character dies.

4×02 – “Confirmed Dead”
(Originally Broadcast February 7th, 2008)

A team from the freighter lands on the island. They are:

• Daniel Faraday, a physicist who had an uncontrollable emotional reaction to the news that Oceanic 815 had been found
• Miles Straume, a ghost whisperer
• Charlotte Lewis, an anthropologist who found a DHARMA logo on a collar near the remains of a polar bear in Tunisa
• Frank Lapidus, a pilot who was supposed to be on Oceanic 815 and realized the wreckage found was fake

Jack, Kate, Juliet and Sayid learn that the team’s primary mission isn’t to rescue the survivors but to find Ben. They were all hired by Matthew Abaddon along with Noami, who was in charge of keeping them alive. Locke’s group “captures” Charlotte and eventually Ben reveals that he knows all about the team because he has a man on their boat.

Did You Notice?
Sawyer looked at Hurley briefly when he was contemplating killing Ben and Hurley gave him an almost imperceptible shake of the head no.