2x23 Live Together, Die Alone - Lost Episode Guide

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- Episode 02x23

Episode: 02x23
Title: Live Together, Die Alone
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 223
First Aired: May. 24, 2006

Season 2 » Episode #23 - Live Together, Die Alone

Summary: Desmond's return to the island opens up a whole box of revelations---particularly about life prior to his "race" and what went on during his three years inside the Swan Hatch. Meanwhile, Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley go off toward the Others in search of Walt as Sayid, Sun and Jin begin reconnaissance of the north shore.As Locke and Eko battle over the "108 minute" button, Desmond comes to a startling conclusion about the crash of Flight 815 and the purpose of the Swan Hatch. In the jungle, Michael's betrayal is revealed as Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley are taken captive by the Others, and Sayid discovers the truth about the north shore camp.A Desmond-centric episode.

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02x23 Live Together, Die Alone, Part 1 (42:59) (Full Episode)

Who appeared in this episode?

Ana Lucia Cortez	played by Michelle Rodriguez
Kelvin Inman	played by Clancy Brown
Bea Klugh	played by April Grace
Penelope Widmore	played by Sonya Walger
Henry Gale	played by Michael Emerson
Master Sergeant	played by Stephen Page (II)
Mathias	played by Len Cordova
Henrik	played by Alex Petrovitch
Barista	played by Dustin Gomes

Season 2 / Episode 23: - Live Together, Die Alone

Desmond: [after Locke smashes the computer] You killed us... you killed us all

Season 2 / Episode 23: - Live Together, Die Alone

Kate Austen: [to Mr. Friendly, about his beard, muffled] It's fake. We know that your beard is fake.
Mr. Friendly: Sorry missy, I didn't get you.
Ms. Klugh: She says she knows your beard's fake, Tom.
Mr. Friendly: Well thanks for pointing that out Kate. [Removes the beard] I can't tell you how much this thing itches. [to Ms. Klugh, angry] And thanks for telling them my name, Bea.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

FACT: When Jack, Sayid and Sawyer board the "Elizabeth," Hume fires several rounds through the hatch. They find him cradling a semi-automatic shotgun, probably 12-gauge. But the holes in the hatch are too small for buckshot and too large for slugs.
FACT: SPOILER: When the bird swoops down on the rescue party, Michael tries to shoot it with a Glock pistol that turns out to be empty. The pistol "clicks empty" several times. The way a Glock pistol works, it will click once and only once when empty and "in battery."
FAKE: When Michael opens the flare gun to examine the flare, the primer cap has a dent in it, showing that it has already been fired; moments later he fires the same flare to illuminate the boat from 'The Others'.
CONT: When Pennys voice-over reads Desmonds letter when he's suicidal after Kelvin's death, she misses out a sentence (probably just done for flow of script), but in the next scene, the layout of the letter has changed - the missed out sentence is in a different position on the letter.

TRIVIA

After Desmond is released from military prison and dishonorably discharged from the Royal Scots Regiment of the British Army, Penelope's father reveals Desmond's last name when they have a talk in the limo. Desmond's full name is Desmond David Hume. David Hume, like John Locke, was an important philosopher of the 18th century. Hume was a Scotsman, just as Desmond is (hence he was in the Royal Scots Regiment). Both were Empiricists, and Hume was heavily influenced by Locke. This would serve to explain the friendship between John and Desmond on the show, and why Desmond goes along with John's plan to stop pressing the button without having seen the Pearl Orientation tape. It appears the show's writers have a habit of naming characters after famous philosophers in history. Rousseau is named after Jean-Jacques Rousseau, also of the 18th century, a French-Swiss philosopher of the Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution. Fleeing criticism in Switzerland, Rousseau took refuge and lived with Hume in Great Britain for a time.
In Desmond's flashback the woman who pays for his coffee and gives him a boat is Libby.
The boat named "Elizabeth" was from Newport Beach, California. Guest star Alan Dale (I) played Caleb Nichol on the TV series "The O.C." (2003) which took place in Newport Beach.
The man that Desmond replaces in the hatch is called Kelvin Inman; the man in the army that lets Sayid go and gives him some money is called Joe Inman - but they are both the same man.