# Lost season 3

The third season of the American serial drama television series Lost commenced airing in the United States and Canada on October 4, 2006, and concluded on May 23, 2007. The third season continues the stories of a group of over 40 people who have been stranded on a remote island in the South Pacific, after their airplane crashed 68 days prior to the beginning of the season. In the Lost universe, the season takes place from November 28 to December 21, 2004. The producers have stated that as the first season is about introducing the survivors and the second season is about the hatch, the third season is about the Others, a group of mysterious island inhabitants.
In response to fan complaints about scheduling in the previous seasons, ABC decided to air the episodes without reruns, albeit in two separate blocks. In the United States, the first block consisted of six episodes aired on Wednesdays at 9:00 pm and after a twelve-week break, the season continued with the remaining 16 episodes at 10:00 pm. In addition, three clip-shows recapped previous events on the show. "Lost: A Tale of Survival" aired a week before the season premiere, "Lost Survivor Guide" aired before the seventh episode and "Lost: The Answers" aired before the season finale. Buena Vista Home Entertainment released the season under the title Lost: The Complete Third Season – The Unexplored Experience on December 11, 2007, in Region 1 on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.

## Crew

The season was produced by Touchstone Television (now ABC Studios), Bad Robot and Grass Skirt Productions and was aired on the American Broadcasting Company network in the United States of America. The executive producers for the third season were co-creator J. J. Abrams, co-creator Damon Lindelof, Bryan Burk, Jack Bender, Jeff Pinkner and Carlton Cuse. The staff writers were Lindelof, Cuse, Pinkner, co-executive producers Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz, co-executive producer Drew Goddard, supervising producer Elizabeth Sarnoff, story editor Christina M. Kim and executive story editor Brian K. Vaughan. The regular directors were Bender, supervising producer Stephen Williams, Paul Edwards and Eric Laneuville. Lindelof and Cuse served as the show runners.

## Cast
### Main

This season featured sixteen actors with star billing playing major characters. The list is in alphabetical order by the actors' last names.
* Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as warlord turned priest Mr. Eko
* Naveen Andrews as Sayid Jarrah, a former Iraqi Republican Guard
* Henry Ian Cusick was promoted to the main cast, playing three-year islander Desmond Hume
* Emilie de Ravin as single new mother Claire Littleton
* Michael Emerson as Ben Linus, the manipulative leader of the Others
* Matthew Fox as doctor Jack Shephard, the leader of the castaways
* Jorge Garcia as unlucky millionaire and comic relief Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
* Josh Holloway as the sardonic con-man James "Sawyer" Ford
* Daniel Dae Kim as non-English speaking Jin Kwon, the son of a fisherman
* Yunjin Kim as Jin's English-speaking pregnant wife Sun
* Evangeline Lilly as fugitive Kate Austen, who is unsure whether she loves Jack or Sawyer more
* Elizabeth Mitchell joins the cast as fertility specialist Juliet Burke, an Other trying to escape the Island
* Dominic Monaghan as former rock star Charlie Pace
* Terry O'Quinn as John Locke, an alienated survivor with a deep connection to the island
* Kiele Sanchez and Rodrigo Santoro also join as previously unseen crash survivors Nikki and Paulo

### Special guest stars

These actors each had star billing in at least one episode of the show, but they do not have star billing in any episodes this season.
* Maggie Grace as Shannon Rutherford, a survivor of Oceanic Flight 815, who is Boone Carlyle's step sister
* Malcolm David Kelley as Walt Lloyd, a survivor of Oceanic Flight 815
* Ian Somerhalder as Boone Carlyle, a survivor of Oceanic Flight 815, who is Shannon's step brother

### Recurring

* Sam Anderson as Bernard Nadler, a survivor of Oceanic Flight 815, who is Rose's husband
* Blake Bashoff as Karl, an Other, who is Alex's boyfriend
* Michael Bowen as Danny Pickett, an Other
* L. Scott Caldwell as Rose Henderson, a survivor of Oceanic Flight 815, who is Bernard's wife
* Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, an Other, who does not age
* Andrew Divoff as Mikhail Bakunin, an Other, who wears an eye patch
* Mira Furlan as Danielle Rousseau, who is the only surviving member of a team of scientists who arrived on a ship to the island sixteen years ago, and is Alex's mother
* M.C. Gainey as Tom Friendly, an Other
* Kimberley Joseph as Cindy, survivor of Oceanic Flight 815, who is kidnapped by the Others
* William Mapother as Ethan Rom, an Other
* Tania Raymonde as Alex Rousseau, a young woman kidnapped and raised by the Others, who is Danielle's long lost daughter
* Marsha Thomason as Naomi Dorrit, a woman who arrives on the Island.
* Sonya Walger as Penny Widmore, Desmond's girlfriend back home

## Reception
### Critical reception

   After criticism… reached its zenith, the backlash drew a backlash. Down the stretch, critics lauded Lost for one powerhouse episode after another, satisfying frustrated viewers by providing long-sought answers to some mysteries while simultaneously igniting strong new plotlines.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the season has an approval rating of 71% with an average score of 7.9/10 based on 12 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "Lost asks its audience to suspend their disbelief in ways that can be extremely trying for the grounded sci-fi show, but its character-driven plot holds season three together."
The first block of episodes was criticized for raising too many mysteries and not providing enough answers. Complaints were also made about the limited screen-time for many of the main characters in the first block. Locke, played by Terry O'Quinn, who had tied for the highest second-season episode count, appeared in only 14 of the 23 episodes in the third season – only two more than guest star M.C. Gainey, who played Tom. Reaction to two new characters, Nikki and Paulo, was generally negative, with Lindelof even acknowledging that the couple was "universally despised" by fans. The decision to split the season and the American timeslot switch after the hiatus were also criticized. Cuse acknowledged that "No one was happy with the six-episode run."
The second block of episodes was critically acclaimed however, with the crew dealing with problems from the first block. More answers were written into the show and Nikki and Paulo were killed off. It was also announced that the series would end three seasons after the third season, which Cuse hoped would tell the audience that the writers knew where the story was going.

### Awards and nominations

The third season was nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards. It was nominated for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series (Jack Bender for "Through the Looking Glass), Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse for "Through the Looking Glass"), Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series (Michael Emerson), Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series, and Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series. Terry O'Quinn won for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
"Flashes Before Your Eyes", written by Damon Lindelof and Drew Goddard, was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award in the "Episodic Drama" category. The producers were nominated for a Producers Guild Award in the "TV Drama" category. Lost's stunt team was nominated for the season's only Screen Actors Guild Award. Lost's third season also received a Television Critics Association nomination in the drama category. The season also received two Directors Guild Award nominations, Eric Laneuville for "The Brig" and Jack Bender for "Through the Looking Glass".

### Ratings

The season averaged 13.74 million American viewers per episode, ranking 17th in viewership and ninth in the key adults 18–49 demographic. The first block had an average close to four million more viewers than the second block, with the 14th episode meeting a ratings low for the series, with 11.52 million viewers. However, Lost was the most recorded program of 2007.

## Episodes

The number in the "No. in series" column refers to the episode's number within the overall series, whereas the number in the "No. in season" column refers to the episode's number within this particular season. "Featured character(s)" refers to the character(s), whose back story is featured in the episode's flashbacks. "U.S. viewers (million)" refers to the number of viewers in the United States in millions who watched the episode as it was aired.
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Featured character(s) | Original release date | U.S. viewers (millions) |
| 50 | 1 | "A Tale of Two Cities" | Jack Bender | Story by : Damon Lindelof Teleplay by : J. J. Abrams & Damon Lindelof | Jack | October 4, 2006 (2006-10-4) | 18.82 |
| In a village, the Others watch Oceanic Flight 815 crash, and Ben Linus or "Henry Gale" orders Ethan Rom and Goodwin Stanhope to infiltrate the survivors. Off the island, Jack obsessively tries to find out who Sarah Wagner is dating, suspecting it to be Christian Shephard. He fights him at an AA meeting and Sarah bails him out of jail, leaving with another man. In the present, Sawyer wakes in a cage outside the "Hydra" station, being freed by Other Karl Martin, though both are quickly caught. Kate is put in Karl's now vacant cage. Jack wakes in a cell underneath the station, where he tries and fails to escape. Interrogator Juliet Burke shows Jack a file that documents his entire life and tells him that Sarah is happy. ||||||||
| 51 | 2 | "The Glass Ballerina" | Paul Edwards | Jeff Pinkner & Drew Goddard | Sun & Jin | October 11, 2006 (2006-10-11) | 16.89 |
| Woo-Jung Paik discovers that Sun is having an affair with Jae Lee and orders Jin to kill him, who is unaware of the infidelity. Jin beats him and Lee commits suicide, unable to be with Sun. In the present, the Kwons and Sayid have taken the Elizabeth to meet Jack's group, unaware that they have been kidnapped. Ben orders Colleen Pickett to steal the boat and she is shot by Sun. Forced to work in a quarry, Sawyer tries to escape by kissing Kate and disarming the guards who come to break them up, but is forced to stand down when Juliet threatens to kill her. He and Kate discuss escaping in their cells, unaware that Ben is monitoring them through cameras. Ben promises Jack that they will be let go if they cooperate and proves that the Others have contact with the outside world. ||||||||
| 52 | 3 | "Further Instructions" | Stephen Williams | Carlton Cuse & Elizabeth Sarnoff | Locke | October 18, 2006 (2006-10-18) | 16.31 |
| Having joined a marijuana commune, Locke befriends an undercover cop. The leaders learn his identity and Locke confronts him. He admits that his superior saw Locke as easily manipulated and is allowed to leave. In the present, Locke returns to camp and takes hallucinogens, learning from a vision of Boone that Eko is trapped in a polar bear's cave. He rescues him, while a returning Hurley encounters a deranged Desmond, who talks about Locke having made a seemingly non-existent speech about saving their friends. Hurley informs the camp of the trio's abduction and Locke makes his speech. ||||||||
| 53 | 4 | "Every Man for Himself" | Stephen Williams | Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz | Sawyer | October 25, 2006 (2006-10-25) | 17.09 |
| Imprisoned after conning Cassidy Phillips, Sawyer learns he had a daughter with her. Sawyer manipulates a man who stole millions into giving up its location and sells it to the warden to commute the rest of his sentence, asking that his cut be put in an account for his baby. In the present, Desmond builds a lighting rod next to Claire's hut hours before a storm that would have destroyed it. Ben has a pacemaker implanted in Sawyer that will explode if his heart rate gets too high. Juliet gets Jack to operate on Colleen, but she dies during, while Jack notices nearby x-rays of a man with a spinal tumor. Her widower Danny tries to kill Sawyer, forcing Kate to admit that she loves him to keep him alive. Ben brings Sawyer to the edge of the island, revealing that the pacemaker was faked and they are on a smaller island separate from the one he crashed on. ||||||||
| 54 | 5 | "The Cost of Living" | Jack Bender | Alison Schapker & Monica Owusu-Breen | Mr. Eko | November 1, 2006 (2006-11-1) | 16.07 |
| After Yemi's death, Eko takes over his church and learns that guerillas are stealing the town's vaccines. Eko plans to sell the vaccines first and is attacked, but kills the men inside the church. The villagers close it down and Eko is advised to repent. In the present, Juliet asks Jack to operate on Ben and "accidentally" let him die. Locke leads a group to the Pearl and they encounter a delirious Eko, who does not join them in the station when he cannot find Yemi's body in the Beechcraft. The group turns on other cameras, finding one station run by a one-eyed man who turns his camera off. A vision of Yemi tells Eko to confess his sins, who insists that his actions were always to survive and protect those he loved. Yemi denies being his real brother and walks off, and Eko follows him and is attacked by the smoke monster. The group finds him dying, and he tells Locke that "you're next." ||||||||
| 55 | 6 | "I Do" | Tucker Gates | Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse | Kate | November 8, 2006 (2006-11-8) | 17.15 |
| Kate marries and finds happiness with a man but is called by Edward Mars, who promises to stop chasing her if she can truly settle down. After taking a negative pregnancy test, she tells her husband the truth, drugs him, and flees. In the present, Locke, certain that Eko died for a reason, notices a bible verse on his staff saying to "look north." Believing Ben will not free them if he removes the tumor, Jack refuses despite Kate insisting that Danny will kill Sawyer. She has sex with Sawyer when returning to her cage, and Ben "accidentally" lets Jack out to view it on the cameras, convincing him to operate. As Danny prepares to kill Sawyer, Jack cuts Ben's kidney during surgery, giving him an hour to live unless fixed and refusing to save him unless Kate and Sawyer get to leave. ||||||||
| 56 | 7 | "Not in Portland" | Stephen Williams | Carlton Cuse & Jeff Pinkner | Juliet | February 7, 2007 (2007-2-7) | 14.49 |
| While treating her sick sister Rachel with an experimental drug that restores fertility, Juliet is interviewed by researcher Richard Alpert, where she laments her ex-husband and boss not letting her quit unless he was "hit by a bus," which happens to him the next day. Ethan and Alpert refute her questions about his death and ask Juliet to join them in their work. In the present, Juliet tells Jack that they are on another island, so he tells Tom about her plan to kill Ben. Ben wakes and convinces her to trade Kate and Sawyer's safety for Jack finishing the surgery. Alex Rousseau helps Sawyer and Kate escape from Danny and promises them a boat if they rescue her boyfriend Karl, who is being held in a brainwashing facility. They save him but are stopped by Danny, who Juliet kills. Jack asks Juliet what Ben offered her despite her plot against him, and she says that he finally let her leave the island after three years. ||||||||
| 57 | 8 | "Flashes Before Your Eyes" | Jack Bender | Damon Lindelof & Drew Goddard | Desmond | February 14, 2007 (2007-2-14) | 12.84 |
| Desmond saves Claire from drowning and Charlie presses him to admit his precognitive abilities. He attacks Charlie when accused of cowardice, during which he remembers what happened after the Swan blew. He wakes in 1996 and recognizes Charlie, but finds his abilities failing him after a fight he witnessed does not happen. While Desmond ring shops for Penny Widmore, shopkeeper Eloise Hawking correctly predicts that a nearby man will die, explaining that it was destined and that he would have died later even if saved. Desmond leaves Penny because he does not have enough money to support them and later witnesses the fight, realizing he miscounted the day it took place. He is injured trying to stop it and wakes up after the Swan explosion. In the present, Desmond admits that Charlie would have died both times he saved Claire, meaning he is destined to die soon. ||||||||
| 58 | 9 | "Stranger in a Strange Land" | Paris Barclay | Elizabeth Sarnoff & Christina M. Kim | Jack | February 21, 2007 (2007-2-21) | 12.95 |
| While in Thailand, Jack begins seeing a local tattoo artist, who he forces to give him one. The next day, he is beaten and exiled by locals when they see his markings. In the present, Kate and Sawyer return to the island, where Karl explains that the Others live there but do their work on Hydra Island before he leaves to save Alex. With Juliet under scrutiny after killing Danny, Jack is asked if she asked him to kill Ben, which he denies. He is put in the outside cages, where tailies, now part of the Others, watch him from their group. Jack treats Ben's infected back, getting Juliet's sentence reduced from execution to branding. As Jack is taken back to the island, an Other translates his tattoo: "He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us." ||||||||
| 59 | 10 | "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead" | Eric Laneuville | Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz | Hurley | February 28, 2007 (2007-2-28) | 12.78 |
| Hurley buys his old workplace with his lottery money, only for it to be destroyed by a meteorite. As he plans to go to Australia to break his curse, his absent father David Reyes returns to get in on the money. He bribes a tarot card reader to convince Hurley she can remove the curse, but when he learns she is a fraud, he vows to take his trip. In the present, Vincent leads Hurley to a van in the jungle with a dead DHARMA worker inside. He puts a group together to fix it, deciding to push the van down a hill with him driving to jump-start it. Charlie, paranoid about dying, decides to risk riding with Hurley to get rid of his fear, and the van starts just before they crash. Determined to save Jack, Kate takes Sayid and Locke to Danielle Rousseau, who she convinces to work with them when she mentions meeting Alex. ||||||||
| 60 | 11 | "Enter 77" | Stephen Williams | Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof | Sayid | March 7, 2007 (2007-3-7) | 12.45 |
| Hiding out in Paris, Sayid is detained by a man whose wife he tortured. Sayid insists that he never hurt the woman until she talks to him alone, getting him to admit that he is haunted by guilt over her. She gets her husband to let him go. In the present, Kate's group comes across the "Flame" station, where they get in a standoff with the one-eyed man, Mikhail Bakunin. Sayid realizes he is an Other and restrains him while Locke beats the station's computer in chess and unlocks a secret menu. Mikhail attacks him while Sayid and Kate find an Other hiding in the station and hold her hostage. Mikhail kills her to prevent information from leaking, and the Flame explodes when Locke enters a code in the menu signifying that the Others raided the station. ||||||||
| 61 | 12 | "Par Avion" | Paul Edwards | Christina M. Kim & Jordan Rosenberg | Claire | March 14, 2007 (2007-3-14) | 12.48 |
| Claire's mother Carole falls into a coma after a car accident and is visited by Christian in the hospital, who tells Claire that he is her father. Disgusted that she is the result of an affair, she tells him to leave. In the present, she realizes that seagulls on the island may be tagged, but Charlie, being coached by Desmond to avoid fatal situations, refuses to help. Desmond uses his abilities to help her catch a gull and admits the truth about Charlie's inevitable death. She reconciles with Charlie and they attach a note to the gull before setting it free. Mikhail explains that the Swan's EMP damaged the Others's underwater "Looking Glass" beacon station, meaning their submarine would not be able to return if it left the island. They reach the Others's "sonar fence," and Locke tests Mikhail's claim that is offline by pushing him through it, killing him. The group scales the perimeter and makes it to the "Barracks", revealed to be the Others's village, and find Jack living comfortably amongst them. ||||||||
| 62 | 13 | "The Man from Tallahassee" | Jack Bender | Drew Goddard & Jeff Pinkner | Locke | March 21, 2007 (2007-3-21) | 12.22 |
| A man asks Locke to help him stop Anthony Cooper from marrying and robbing his mother. Locke rebuffs him but demands Cooper leave the family alone, and the man is found dead soon after. When Locke confronts Cooper on what happened, Cooper throws him out a window and flees the country, leaving Locke paraplegic. In the present, Kate and Sayid are captured after finding Jack compliant, having made a deal with Ben to be allowed to leave in the sub. Locke takes Alex, who Ben claims as his daughter, hostage and demands the location of the sub, which he destroys. Ben reveals that he never wanted Jack to leave and Locke solved his problem for him, showing him that the Others have captured Cooper. ||||||||
| 63 | 14 | "Exposé" | Stephen Williams | Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz | Nikki & Paulo | March 28, 2007 (2007-3-28) | 11.52 |
| Survivor couple Paulo and Nikki Fernandez kill a TV producer and steal his diamonds, but lose them in the crash. Paulo recovers them and hides them in the Pearl. He happens upon Ben and Juliet, where they discuss their plans to turn Jack by kidnapping Kate and Sawyer with him, and Paulo takes a radio they leave behind. In the present, Nikki stumbles onto the beach before dying and Paulo is found dead nearby. When the survivors find the radio, Sun suspects the Others killed them after her attempted kidnapping, forcing Charlie to admit the truth to her. After finding the diamonds, Sawyer tries to give them to Sun as penance, but she rebuffs him. A flashback reveals that Nikki discovered Paulo had the diamonds and set a temporarily paralyzing spider on him, only to also be bitten. She buried the diamonds and ran to the beach, and in the present, she opens her eyes just before the two are buried alive. ||||||||
| 64 | 15 | "Left Behind" | Karen Gaviola | Damon Lindelof & Elizabeth Sarnoff | Kate | April 4, 2007 (2007-4-4) | 11.66 |
| Returning home to find out why Diane Janssen sold her out, Kate meets Cassidy, who helps her get to Diane. She admonishes Kate for killing Wayne Janssen, who she loved earnestly despite his abuse. Kate parts ways with Cassidy after encouraging her to turn in the man who conned her, unaware it is Sawyer. In the present, the Others abandon the Barracks and Locke goes with them, while Kate is gassed and wakes up in the jungle handcuffed to Juliet. As they walk back to the Barracks, Juliet tells Kate that Jack intended to stay with the Others because she chose Sawyer over him. They are attacked by the monster, who Juliet fends off with the sonar fence. Returning to the Barracks, they regroup with Sayid and Jack, the latter of which insists Juliet should come back with them. ||||||||
| 65 | 16 | "One of Us" | Jack Bender | Carlton Cuse & Drew Goddard | Juliet | April 11, 2007 (2007-4-11) | 12.09 |
| Juliet is taken to the island to solve the problem of pregnant Others dying. Ben offers to cure Rachel's cancer if Juliet stays, later showing her through the Flame's cameras that Rachel had been cured as promised. In the present, Jack is the only one who trusts Juliet upon the group's return to camp. Claire falls ill and Juliet explains why she was brought to the island, having given Claire medication to keep her alive, making her the first woman to survive giving birth on the island. She retrieves serum from Ethan's stash and gives it to Claire, restoring her health, and is allowed to move onto the beach. A flashback shows Ben ordering her to set up the handcuffing to gain Kate's trust after Claire's "implant" is "activated," promising to meet her in a week. ||||||||
| 66 | 17 | "Catch-22" | Stephen Williams | Jeff Pinkner & Brian K. Vaughan | Desmond | April 18, 2007 (2007-4-18) | 12.08 |
| Desmond joins a monastery to avoid marrying his fiancee and she accuses him of cowardice, prompting him to drink the wine the monastery sells and be kicked out. As he helps a monk load their wine, he meets the buyer, Penny. In the present, Desmond has visions of Charlie dying in one of Rousseau's traps while out in the jungle with him, Jin, and Hurley. Desmond gathers the three and they hike out, witnessing a helicopter crash and a parachutist land in the jungle. They find their belongings nearby, amongst them a picture of Penny and Desmond, convincing him that she has come for him. He narrowly saves Charlie when they get to the point of his death, though he fears that saving him may alter the future and prevent him from getting to Penny. They find her, only to realize she is a different woman. ||||||||
| 67 | 18 | "D.O.C." | Frederick E.O. Toye | Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz | Sun | April 25, 2007 (2007-4-25) | 11.86 |
| A woman blackmails Sun over Jin being the son of a prostitute. His father confirms this when Sun goes to visit him, and Woo-Jung gives Sun the money on the condition that Jin begins working as his enforcer. Realizing that the woman is Jin's mother, Sun warns her to never return. In the present, Juliet asks takes Sun to the Staff to test her baby's date of conception and see if she is danger. She agrees and is informed that the baby is Jin's, leaving her overjoyed. Juliet secretly leaves a tape behind informing Ben of what transpired and that she will reluctantly take "samples" from other women. Mikhail, having survived the fence, comes across Desmond's group and the heavily injured parachutist, Naomi Dorrit. He treats her wound and they reluctantly let him go. When she wakes, she informs Hurley that Flight 815's wreckage was already found and all of the passengers were confirmed dead. ||||||||
| 68 | 19 | "The Brig" | Eric Laneuville | Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse | Locke | May 2, 2007 (2007-5-2) | 12.33 |
| Ben orders Locke to kill Cooper as part of his initiation, which he is unable to do. Richard gives him Sawyer's file and Ben warns Locke to not join them without Cooper's dead body, while he plans to kidnap the pregnant survivors. In the present, Desmond's group, mistrustful of Jack, take Naomi to Sayid. She explains that she was hired by Penny to find Desmond and a freighter is waiting offshore for her signal. Sayid fixes her radio, but finds the signal blocked. Locke returns and takes Sawyer to the Black Rock, locking him in a room with Cooper, who he realizes is the real "Sawyer". He forces Cooper to read his letter, but when he tears it up, Sawyer kills him. Locke gives him the tape Juliet made for Ben and, when asked if he was paraplegic before the crash, Locke replies "not anymore" and leaves with the body. ||||||||
| 69 | 20 | "The Man Behind the Curtain" | Bobby Roth | Elizabeth Sarnoff & Drew Goddard | Ben | May 9, 2007 (2007-5-9) | 12.11 |
| Ben's mother dies giving birth to him. Horace Goodspeed, a man Ben's father Roger met during the incident, invites him to the island to work for DHARMA, who are constantly besieged by the Others. Ben follows a vision of his mother into the jungle and meets the unaged Richard. Twenty years later, he and Roger take a van out for his birthday, where Ben kills him, abandons the van in the jungle, and returns to find the rest of DHARMA gassed by the Others. In the present, Sawyer confronts Juliet, who explains that she told Jack about Ben's plan and is on the camp's side. Ben tells Locke that the Others follow a man named "Jacob" and complies with Locke's demand to meet him. He takes Locke to a cabin where he speaks to Jacob, who Locke cannot see or hear, though he hears Jacob say "help me." Ben takes Locke to the mass grave of the DHARMA purge and shoots him, leaving him to die after Locke repeats what Jacob said to him. ||||||||
| 70 | 21 | "Greatest Hits" | Stephen Williams | Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz | Charlie | May 16, 2007 (2007-5-16) | 12.32 |
| Charlie recalls the five best moments of his life, involving his band, his family, saving Nadia Jaseem from being mugged, and meeting Claire. Alex learns that Ben plans to attack a day earlier and has Karl warn the survivors. They plan to hide dynamite near the tents and have Sayid, Jin and Bernard Nadler detonate it with gunfire when the Others arrive. Juliet explains that Naomi's radio is being blocked by the abandoned Looking Glass, and Charlie, having learned from Desmond that he will die after shutting off the blocking signal, volunteers to go. He records his best moments and asks Desmond to give it to Claire as they take a boat to the Looking Glass, incapacitating him when he tries to take Charlie's place. Charlie infiltrates the station, only to be held at gunpoint by a pair of Others. ||||||||
| 71 | 22 | "Through the Looking Glass" | Jack Bender | Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof | Jack | May 23, 2007 (2007-5-23) | 13.86 |
| 72 | 23 | "Through the Looking Glass" | Jack Bender | Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof | Jack | May 23, 2007 (2007-5-23) | 13.86 |
| A suicidal Jack attends a funeral for an unknown person. In the present, Locke decides to commit suicide but is stopped by a vision of Walt. Desmond goes after Charlie while being pursued by Mikhail, who kills the Looking Glass's guards on Ben's orders. He is shot by Desmond while Charlie turns off the signal and makes contact with Penny, who does not know Naomi. Mikhail kills himself with a grenade to flood the station and Charlie seals the control room, writing "NOT PENNY'S BOAT" on his hand and showing it to Desmond before drowning. Sayid's group kills some of the attackers but are captured. Sawyer rescues them and kills Tom. After learning that Alex helped them, Ben tells Richard to take the Others to "the temple" and takes her to intercept Jack's group, who are turning off Rousseau's distress call. She is reunited with her mother when they arrive, and Jack brutalizes Ben despite his claim that Naomi is there kill them. They turn off the call, but before Naomi can call her boat, Locke appears and stabs her, though Jack calls them anyway. Some time later, Kate reluctantly meets with Jack, revealing his story to be in the future. Jack insists that they need to return to the island. ||||||||

## Home media release

Lost: The Complete Third Season – The Unexplored Experience :
| Set details | Set details | Set details | Special features | Special features | Special features |
| 23 episodes 7-disc set/6 Blu-ray Discs 1.78:1 aspect ratio Subtitles: English English (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround) – DVD English (PCM 5.1 Surround) – Blu-ray | 23 episodes 7-disc set/6 Blu-ray Discs 1.78:1 aspect ratio Subtitles: English English (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround) – DVD English (PCM 5.1 Surround) – Blu-ray | 23 episodes 7-disc set/6 Blu-ray Discs 1.78:1 aspect ratio Subtitles: English English (Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround) – DVD English (PCM 5.1 Surround) – Blu-ray | Audio commentaries "A Tale of Two Cities" by Damon Lindelof and Elizabeth Mitchell "I Do" by Carlton Cuse, Evangeline Lilly and Josh Holloway "Exposé" by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz "The Man Behind the Curtain" by Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse and Michael Emerson "The World of the Others" "The Lost Flashbacks" "Lost in a Day" "Lost on Location" "The Lost Book Club" Deleted scenes Bloopers Cast in Clay: Creating the Toys of Todd McFarlane Terry O'Quinn: Throwing from the Handle Crew Tribute with Evangeline Lilly The Next Level: Inside the Video Game Easter Eggs Blu-ray exclusives: Access Granted: Rethink what you know about the show with an interactive panel that unlocks answers to your most pressing Lost questions Blu-Prints: Take a guided tour of the island through never before seen blu-prints | Audio commentaries "A Tale of Two Cities" by Damon Lindelof and Elizabeth Mitchell "I Do" by Carlton Cuse, Evangeline Lilly and Josh Holloway "Exposé" by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz "The Man Behind the Curtain" by Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse and Michael Emerson "The World of the Others" "The Lost Flashbacks" "Lost in a Day" "Lost on Location" "The Lost Book Club" Deleted scenes Bloopers Cast in Clay: Creating the Toys of Todd McFarlane Terry O'Quinn: Throwing from the Handle Crew Tribute with Evangeline Lilly The Next Level: Inside the Video Game Easter Eggs Blu-ray exclusives: Access Granted: Rethink what you know about the show with an interactive panel that unlocks answers to your most pressing Lost questions Blu-Prints: Take a guided tour of the island through never before seen blu-prints | Audio commentaries "A Tale of Two Cities" by Damon Lindelof and Elizabeth Mitchell "I Do" by Carlton Cuse, Evangeline Lilly and Josh Holloway "Exposé" by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz "The Man Behind the Curtain" by Damon Lindelof, Carlton Cuse and Michael Emerson "The World of the Others" "The Lost Flashbacks" "Lost in a Day" "Lost on Location" "The Lost Book Club" Deleted scenes Bloopers Cast in Clay: Creating the Toys of Todd McFarlane Terry O'Quinn: Throwing from the Handle Crew Tribute with Evangeline Lilly The Next Level: Inside the Video Game Easter Eggs Blu-ray exclusives: Access Granted: Rethink what you know about the show with an interactive panel that unlocks answers to your most pressing Lost questions Blu-Prints: Take a guided tour of the island through never before seen blu-prints |
| Release dates ||||||
| Brazil | United States Canada | Australia | Japan | United Kingdom |
| September 26, 2007 | December 11, 2007 | October 17, 2007 | February 20, 2008 | October 22, 2007 |