1x04 Walkabout - Lost Episode Guide

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- Episode 01x04

Episode: 01x04
Title: Walkabout
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 103
First Aired: Oct. 13, 2004

Season 1 » Episode #04 - Walkabout

Summary: Survivors are jolted awake in the middle of the night when wild island beasts (which are wild boars) invade the beach encampment. Kate and Michael join the mysterious Locke on a hunt for food -- and a shocking secret about Locke is revealed. On the hunt for food someone is injured. Meanwhile, some survivors are horrified by Jack's plan for the dead bodies still scattered among the wreckage -- he wants to burn them. Jack sees someone that's not there, and we find out that one of the survivors was not able to walk but now he can.A Locke-centric episode.

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01x04 Walkabout (42:39) (Full Episode)

Who appeared in this episode?

Rose Nadler	played by L. Scott Caldwell
Travel Agent	played by John Simon Jones
Randy Nations	played by Billy Ray Gallion
Warren	played by Stephen J. Rafferty
Scott Jackson	played by Dustin Watchman

Episode Quotes

	Season 1 / Episode 4: - Walkabout John Locke: [after he is refused a spot on the walkabout tour due to his paralysis] Hey... Hey don't you walk away from me! You don't know who you're dealing with! Don't ever tell me what I can't do, ever! This is destiny, this is destiny... This is my destiny! I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can't do! Don't tell me what I can't do!
	Season 1 / Episode 4: - Walkabout Shannon: I'm not gonna starve. Boone: Right. What're you gonna eat? Shannon: Ocean's full of fish. Boone: Hate to break it to ya, but the ocean is not going to take your gold card.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: When Hurley and Charlie are trying to catch fish with the spear, Hurley's t-shirt changes from being wet all over the front to only wet halfway up his chest.
FAIR: Locke speaks on the phone to a woman named Helen, whom he offers to take to his walkabout, but she can't get involved with her clients. She also mentions that they had been speaking for only a few months. Later in the series, we find that Locke was romantically attached to a woman named Helen to whom he proposed. This is an attempt by Locke to re-create his relationship with Helen, who rejected his proposal and left him.

TRIVIA

While Locke's paralysis, and subsequent cure, have become a central element of the show, they were introduced relatively late in production. As late as the second episode, when Locke tells Walt "I have a secret" the writers did not know what that secret was.
Right after Locke gets off the phone in his office, his boss reminds him that he needs the "TPS reports", a possible reference to Office Space (1999) further showing that Locke is a merely a simple office worker.
This episode reiterates a lot of scenes from the pilot, featuring the mayhem immediately after the crash. These are not the original scenes but were all actually economically recreated for this episode.
After this episode aired, ABC announced that "Lost" had been picked up for the full season.
This episode's original title was "Lord of the Files", a reference to the revelation that John Locke was nothing more than an office drone.