Lost
Pilot
Season 1, Episode 1 · Aired 2004-09-22
Synopsis
Out of the blackness, the first thing Jack senses is pain. Then burning sun. A Bamboo forest. Smoke. Screams. With a rush comes the horrible awareness that the plane he was on tore apart in mid-air and crashed on a Pacific island. From there it's a blur, as his doctor's instinct kicks in: people need his help.
Pilot desk note
From the desk: Lost opens its catalog run with “Pilot” (2004-09-22). Watercooler serialization at global scale; podcast-era theory culture. Writers' room mythology, cast romances, and the finale civil war.
In the series
This episode is part of Lost (2004–2010) on ABC.
The island that broke forums and taught networks to fear mystery boxes.
Key cast
- Matthew Fox as Jack Shephard
- Evangeline Lilly as Kate Austen
- Josh Holloway as James "Sawyer" Ford
- Terry O'Quinn as John Locke
- Naveen Andrews as Sayid Jarrah
- Yunjin Kim as Sun-Hwa Kwon