4x01 The Beginning of the End - Lost Episode Guide

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- Episode 04x01

Episode: 04x01
Title: The Beginning of the End
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 401
First Aired: Jan. 31, 2008

Season 4 » Episode #01 - The Beginning of the End

Summary: Feeling that their rescue is close at hand, the survivors don't know whether to believe Charlie's final message that the people claiming to liberate them are not who they seem to be.

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04x01 The Beginning of the End (43:33) (Full Episode)

Who appeared in this episode?

Benjamin Linus	played by Michael Emerson
Rose Nadler	played by L. Scott Caldwell
Big Mike Walton	played by Michael Cudlitz
Matthew Abaddon	played by Lance Reddick
George Minkowski	voiced by Fisher Stevens
Randy Nations	played by Billy Ray Gallion
Lewis	played by Steven Neumeier
Nurse Susie	played by Grisel Toledo

Episode Quotes

Season 4 / Episode 1: - The Beginning of the End

Jack Shephard: Where is it?
Benjamin Linus: Okay, I probably should have told you that I saw her take the phone, but you beat me up, Jack. I owed you one.
Jack Shephard: What are you talking about?
Benjamin Linus: Kate took it when she hugged you... She found the right trail too, but you wouldn't listen to her, so I guess she's taken matters into her own hands. But look on the bright side - at least somebody around here knows what the hell they're doing.

Season 4 / Episode 1: - The Beginning of the End

Big Mike Walton: You wanna know a funny coincidence?
Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes: Sure.
Big Mike Walton: I knew someone on your plane.
Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes: Really?
Big Mike Walton: Her name was Ana-Lucia Cortez, she was my partner before I made detective. Dark hair, gorgeous. Maybe you knew her... maybe you met her on the plane, before it took off?
Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes: Sorry, never met her.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CREW: When the detective tells Hurley that he can put him in the nut house, Hurley respond by hugging him. Over the detective's right shoulder, during the over the shoulder shot of Hurley, you can clearly see the left hand of the camera operator, and most of the lens.

TRIVIA

When Hurley crashes the Camaro his old boss at the chicken shack, Randy Nations, can be seen video taping the whole thing.
Christian Shephard is seen in Jacob's cabin wearing a single white tennis shoe - the other shoe was seen hanging from a branch on the beach in 'Pilot, Part 1'.
Jorge Garcia (I) did the painting that Hurley has outside the hospital ground before Charlie appears.
Harold Perrineau is once again credited as a main character having left the show at the end of season 2. Despite having his name in the opening titles he does not appear in this episode.
In Hurley's vision in the interrogation room, Charlie has the words "They Need You" written on his hand.