"The Other 48 Days" is the seventh episode of the
second season of the American drama television series ''
Lost
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'', and the 32nd episode overall. The episode was directed by
Eric Laneuville
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, and written by executive producers
Damon Lindelof
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and
Carlton Cuse
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. It first aired on
ABC
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in the United States on November 16, 2005.
Unlike in previous episodes, where the flashbacks focused on events leading up to the crash, "The Other 48 Days" centers around the backstory of the tail-section characters, showing the events leading up to "
Abandoned
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** Chi ...
". The episode was seen by an estimated 21.87 million American household viewers.
Plot
After the tail section of the plane crashes into the water off the beach, the survivors swim ashore.
Mr. Eko
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pulls a young girl (Emma) out of the water, and
Ana Lucia Cortez
Ana Lucia Cortez is a fictional character on the ABC television series ''Lost'', played by Michelle Rodriguez. Ana Lucia made her first appearance as a guest star in the first season finale, and became part of the main cast for season two. After ...
performs
CPR
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on her, saving her life. Ana and Eko then go to aid more people, leaving the girl and her brother in the care of
Cindy Chandler.
Libby helps a man, later to be identified as Donald, by setting his broken leg. A man runs out of the jungle asking for help, saying there's someone alive in the jungle. The man, "Goodwin", brings Ana to
Bernard
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, who is still belted into his airplane seat, stuck up in a tree. Ana coaxes him to grab the tree branch, just before the seat crashes to the ground. Back on the beach, Goodwin, who claims to be in the
Peace Corps
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, builds a signal fire.
That night, three of the adults are taken and Eko kills two of the
"Others" with a rock when they try to take him. From that night on, he refuses to speak. Despite this incident, nobody organizes
shifts to guard the group.
Three survivors die from injuries on the second through fourth day. A survivor who identifies himself as Nathan suggests staying on the beach, and the group does so. On the fifth day, Donald dies from the leg injury and is buried. On the twelfth day, the Others take nine more, including Emma and her brother Zack; Zack is shown holding a teddy bear in this episode, and this shows that he is the boy Mr. Eko and Jin saw when they hid from the Others in
...And Found (they observed that same teddy bear). Ana manages to kill another one, who is discovered to be carrying an antique
United States Army
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knife and a list of the nine to be taken, along with their descriptions. While trying to sort out what happened, the notion of an infiltrator in their midst is discussed, as well as a proposal to leave the beach.
The survivors opt to head into the jungle. They make a camp near a source of fresh water and fruit trees. Ana digs a pit, which she turns into a cage. As soon as it is done, she knocks Nathan unconscious and throws him into the pit. She interrogates him, believing he is one of those who took the children, due to his unexplained absences and how nobody remembered seeing him on the plane. When asked where he came from, he replies
Canada
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(the same country that Ethan Rom claimed to hail from). She begins starving him, demanding to know the location of the children, but Mr. Eko feeds him when she is not looking. Ana tells Goodwin she intends to start torturing Nathan the next day. That night, Goodwin frees Nathan, warning him of Ana's plan; when Nathan turns to leave, Goodwin breaks his neck, revealing to the viewers that he is the infiltrator.
The survivors move again and find a bunker marked by a
DHARMA Initiative
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logo, with an arrow in the center. Inside a box they find a
glass eye
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, a
Bible
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and a radio. Goodwin and Ana go to higher ground to try to pick up a signal. While there, Ana reveals that she suspected that Goodwin is one of the Others, because on the first day, he ran out of the jungle with his clothes completely dry, ten minutes after the plane crashed into the water. Goodwin admits he killed Nathan, saying that he thought that if Ana tortured him and he didn't say anything, than Ana might view Nathan as innocent, and thus he'd no longer be a scapegoat. Goodwin comments that those taken were "good people", and that Nathan was not on the list because he was "not a good person", and states that the children are fine but doesn't elaborate on where they or any of the other captives are. The two fight; when they roll down a hill, Ana impales him on a sharpened stick (Goodwin's impaled body was seen by Jin and Eko
two episodes earlier and when Jin asked if he was killed by the Others, Eko misunderstands him as asking if he was one of the Others).
Ana returns to the survivors and tells them, "We're safe here now". On the forty-first day, Bernard picks up
Boone on the radio, and responds to Boone's "We're the survivors of the crash of
Oceanic Flight 815
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" with "''We're'' the survivors of flight 815." This shows the truth behind what Boone was hearing when he originally made the transmission in a previous
episode from the first season. Before any further conversation can take place, Ana turns off the radio, dismissing the transmission as another trick by the Others. Bernard asks how they would know their flight number, but Ana points out that they would know since Goodwin knew, and tells them to accept that this is their new lives. She goes off by herself to cry, and Eko tells her everything will be all right. She tells him it took him
forty days to speak; he tells her it took her forty days to cry.
Soon after, Cindy and Libby find
Jin washed up on the shore. After pulling him from the water, they tie him up and blindfold him while they try to find out who he is. As Eko and Ana Lucia argue, Jin breaks free and runs to the beach.
The remainder of the episode is shown as a montage of the events already seen in the episodes "
Orientation
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" through "
Abandoned
Abandon, abandoned, or abandonment may refer to:
Common uses
* Abandonment (emotional), a subjective emotional state in which people feel undesired, left behind, insecure, or discarded
* Abandonment (legal), a legal term regarding property
** Chi ...
", including the tail-section survivors' acceptance of Jin,
Sawyer
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*Sawyer, a fallen tree stuck on the bottom of a river, where it constitutes a danger to boating.
Places in the United States
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*Sawyer, Kansas
*Sawyer, Kentucky
* Sawyer, Michigan
* Saw ...
and
Michael
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Given name "Michael"
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, the trek to the midsection's camp, Sawyer falling ill, Cindy listening to the forest's whispers just before she is "taken", and the shooting of
Shannon by Ana Lucia.
Reception
The episode gained 21.87 million American viewers when it first aired.
References
External links
"The Other 48 Days"at ABC
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Lost (season 2) episodes
2005 American television episodes
Television episodes written by Damon Lindelof