First Episode (in pretty vivid detail) "Spoilers" abound...
Stephen Donner
Opening scene: a man wakes up, can't see his face. He's in a large room,
geodesic dome kind of architecture...takes a shower...can't see his face
but from behind he looks nothing like anyone we've seen before. Takes
out a phonograph record (clue alert), puts the needle from an industrial
kind of turntable on (clue alert) and this music from the 60's plays
(clue alert) I can't remember the artist but it was like Petula Clark or
something..."Sing my own kind of music, play my own special song" Make
breakfast, still all we see is body parts, no face. Puts into a blender
some powder, a FRESH egg, liquid. Shoots a vial of yellow liquid into
his bicep with one of those "shot" guns. Starts excercising on a
stationary bicycle. I see it is an old kind. YES WE ARE IN THE
HATCH!!!!!!! acomputer is beeping with some kind of radar...I think it
was at the beginning of the scene. All of a sudden the record skips with
a violent "BOOM" Our castaways just blew the hatch. The nameless man
goes and uses something that looks like a series of cameras and mirrors
that goes down various dank, cellar like hallways, and we see an image
of Jack and Terry (sorry I keep jumping back and forth between real
names/character names).
Lots of dark jungle scenes. Hurley is great. has some really good lines.
Explains to Jack the whole mental institution, crazy guy, numbers, 114
million, father dies, house burns down...chicken place where he worked
getting hit by a meteor? the curse, the numbers on the hatch. All Jack
says is "You were in a mental instutution?" Hurley says his bedside
manner sucks and we go to Jack's past.
We meet his future wife...she is a car wreck patient in emergency...
broken back. He struggles with his bedside manner.
Goes running in a stadium at night. Another runner shows up going really
fast. Testerone kicks in and Jack tries to keep up with the stranger,
falls, hurts his ankle. The guy comes over, nice Austrailan accent. Asks
Jack if he is ok. they talk. Jack opens up a little to this perfect
stranger. Talks about the patient, the guy tells him that he might not
be able to "fix" her but he can "Lift her" whatever the hell that means.
There are a lot of flashbacks throughout between Jack and this woman.
has importance but not worth detailing.
ANYWAY...Shannon has lost the dog. Goes into the jungle with Sahid to
look for him...they spot him Sahid goes around behind him, then Shannon
doesn't see the dog, she calls for Sahid, no answer. All of a sudden,
there is WALT. I can't tell if he is bloodied or wet he says
something..but I couldn't hear....remember this is being shown on a big
screen, out on the beach. 14 foot waves on the South shore and it's
raining, so I probably missed a lot of dialog and visual details.
So, Walt says something then Sahid is heard running back to Shannon, she
turns to see where Sahid is coming from, turns back and Walt is not
there. Back at camp, no one believes her, but we all know Walt has
special powers so I'm sure she did see him, he just wasn't physically there.
Earlier, after blowing the hatch, Jack made everyone go back to camp. He
didn't want anyone going down and didn't see how everyone could get down
to "hide" from the others.
Terry and Kate decide to go back. KAte is lowered down with a
flashlight. The rope slips, she drops the flashlight. She decides to
keep going down, but when she looks down, she sees something next to the
flashlight (damn this weather, I cannot for the life of me figure out
what it is) it might be a photo, it might be a camera, it might be a
mirror...sorry I could not tell. Kate freaks out, then suddenly a bright
light shoots out of the hatch, Kate screams. Kate is gone. Terry goes
down the hatch.
back at camp,Jack finds out where those two have gone...goes after them.
Gets to the hatch opening, no one around. He goes down. Gets to the
bottom. Dusty old hallways....dust covered plastic containers here and
there...dungeon or bomb shelter like hallways...a key, he enters the
place where we saw the guy in the first scene. The music is playing
REALLY LOUD "Sing my own kind of music, play my own special song..."
sees the computer....looks like something from the 80's. about to touch
a button and Terry says "I wouldn't do that" He has a gun to his head.
Jack has his gun up...we hear Kate somewhere in the background, muffled
yells for Jack. Can't see the man holding the gun. He yells at Jack to
put it down. Jack keeps yelling "where's Kate?" see half of man's
face....yelling at Jack to "drop it" in....A NICE AUSTRALIAN ACCENT....
WE SEE HIS FACE........
It's the man from the stadium...the one that Jack was racing when he
hurt his ankle. He looks darker but it is him.
OH MY GOD. TRIPPPINNN
Cut back to Jack and his patient/future wife. He's crying as he tells
her he can't fix her...that she will be paralyzed from the waist down
for the rest of her life....He is so sorry, crying...she says "are you
yanking my chain?" and startled he said no, it's true...so she says "so
why can I wiggle my Toes? and amazed, disbelieving, goes down and damn
if she doesnt have feeling in her legs...they are so happy! They don't
understand, but she is miraculously cured!! He thought he failed, but he
didn't.
The end.
Lallia
Stephen Donner wrote:
> NOTE: Not my synopsis; taken from ABC.com's Forums board.
>
> Opening scene: a man wakes up, can't see his face.
thank you..well done!
WG...@webtv.net
answer they give us there are at least 50 more questions. It is just
another continuation of one huge never ending Mystery. And we are
compelled to tune in just to find out what happens next, even though we
never do! JMO
J.T.
You motherfucker! You just totally ruined it for me!!!! I've been
waiting all summer to see the first episode and now, only days before
it will be broadcast, you have the audacity to post a synopsis here so
now I can't possibly enjoy it. Way to go. I hope you're happy,
showing off how you can get stuff before everyone else; you're a real
hotshot. Go to hell.
. . . just kidding. Good post - sounds like it will be worth the wait.