3x08 Flashes Before Your Eyes - Lost Episode Guide

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- Episode 03x08

Episode: 03x08
Title: Flashes Before Your Eyes
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 308
First Aired: Feb. 14, 2007

Season 3 » Episode #08 - Flashes Before Your Eyes

Summary: A suspicious and determined Hurley enlists Charlie to help him wrangle the truth out of Desmond, who has been acting strangely ever since the implosion of the hatch.A Desmond-centric episode.

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03x08 Flashes Before Your Eyes (43:07) (Full Episode)

Who appeared in this episode?

Benjamin Linus	played by Michael Emerson
Penelope Widmore	played by Sonya Walger
Donovan	played by Shishir Kurup
Delivery Man	played by Jeremy Colvin
Jimmy Lennon	played by David Cordell
Receptionist	played by Katie Doyle
Bartender	played by Michael Titterton
Photographer	played by Stephen Quinn (III)

Episode Quotes

Season 3 / Episode 8: - Flashes Before Your Eyes

Desmond Hume: Hey, brotha'!

Season 3 / Episode 8: - Flashes Before Your Eyes

Charlie: So, you're telling me you saw a flash of Claire drowning this morning, so you knew how to save her?
Desmond: I wasn't saving Claire, Charlie... I was saving you. This morning, you dove in after Claire. You tried to save her but you drowned.
Charlie: What do you mean? I didn't drown.
Desmond: When I saw the lightning hit the roof, you were electrocuted. And when Claire was in the water, you drowned trying to save her. I dove in myself so you never went in. I tried, brother. I've tried twice to save you, but the universe has a way of course-correcting, and I can't stop it forever. I'm sorry - I'm sorry because, no matter what I try to do... you're gonna die, Charlie.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

DATE: There are now very few places in Britain that retain the classic red telephone boxes: most of those that remain are in rural villages. However, in the exterior scenes that are allegedly set in London, there's one on just about every street corner.
FAKE: Desmond passes an army recruitment office in London near where he and Penny pose for photo. First of all the main army in GB has been known since Cromwell's time as the "Regular Army" not Her Majesty's or Royal Army, hence the distinction of the Regular Army as opposed to the "Royal Navy" and the "Royal Air Force". A recruiting poster displayed spells "Honor", the American way not "Honour" as it would be spelled in the UK. Also, British Troops do not carry M16s, as shown in the poster. The couple's London flat is shown with stripped stonework and brick. There are no flats in London with interior walls made from rough stone, "London" brick has always been the material. Fine cut blocks of Portland limestone are often used in the exterior walls of office or public buildings bit not rough cut stone except in the North-East of England and Scotland.

TRIVIA

When Desmond is waiting to see Mr. Widmore, the delivery guy says "parcel for 815" - the number of the Oceanic flight.
The clock in the nightstand reads 1:08. A reference to the mysterious number sequence.
The book Hurley is reading is Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Laughter in the Dark". It is a book about a guy whose sex addiction is his undoing.
The art in Widmore's office has echos of Dharma, and LOST island. The painting behind Desmond has a Polar Bear, an upside down Buddha, and the word Namaste backwards.
Charlie's full name is Charles Hieronymus Pace.