"Lost" The Constant (2008)

Director:

Jack Bender

Writers:

Jeffrey Lieber (creator) and
J.J. Abrams (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Lost" (2004)

Original Air Date:

28 February 2008 (Season 4, Episode 5)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Plot:

During the helicopter ride to the ship, Desmond's consciousness begins jumping back and forth between present day 2004 and 1996. He is forced to find Daniel Faraday in 1996 in order to get answers and stop the jumps. |

Plot Keywords:

Helicopter | Urinal | University | Bell 205 Helecopter | Push Ups

Cast

  (Episode Cast overview, first billed only)

Naveen Andrews	...	Sayid Jarrah
Henry Ian Cusick	...	Desmond Hume
Jeremy Davies	...	Daniel Faraday
Emilie de Ravin	...	Claire Littleton (credit only)
Michael Emerson	...	Benjamin Linus (credit only)
Matthew Fox	...	Jack Shephard
Jorge Garcia	...	Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes (credit only)
Josh Holloway	...	James 'Sawyer' Ford (credit only)
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Jin Kwon (credit only)
Yunjin Kim	...	Sun Kwon (credit only)
Ken Leung	...	Miles Straume (credit only)
Evangeline Lilly	...	Kate Austen (credit only)
Rebecca Mader	...	Charlotte Lewis
Elizabeth Mitchell	...	Juliet Burke
Terry O'Quinn	...	John Locke (credit only)

Runtime:

43 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Canada:14 | Australia:M | Netherlands:12 | Venezuela:PG-13 (DVD rating) | USA:TV-14

Filming Locations:

O'ahu, Hawaii, USA

Company:

ABC Studios

Trivia:

When Daniel tells Desmond that he needs to find Daniel back in 1996 at Oxford, he tells Desmond to tell the past Daniel to set the device to 2.342, oscillating at 11 Hertz. 23 and 42 are both in the sequence of Hurley's "numbers."

Goofs:

Continuity: When Desmond is speaking with Mr. Widmore in the restroom, Widmore washes his hands by grabbing a towel from a tray to the right of the sink. He leaves the water running and leaves the restroom. Desmond then flashes back to the boat. When Desmond flashes back to the restroom it is obvious that the tray is to the left of the sink that was left on by Mr. Widmore in the previous scene.

Quotes:

Desmond Hume: I won't call... for eight years. December 24, 2004. Christmas Eve. I promise. Please, Pen.
Penny Widmore: If I give you the number, will you leave?
Desmond Hume: Aye.

I wish we constantly had episodes like 'the Constant'

I've watched it for the second time. The same feeling came over me when I watched it the first time. It's just such a great episode. I've followed ER, x-files, millennium, Dawsons Creek (even), Gilmore Girls, Buffy, Friends, even stuck to Ally McBeal for a while, but never has there been one episode that has even come close to 'the constant'. Lost will never get boring, because the concept of the show will never get old. They'll never seem to run out of mind-blowing story lines, and even all the little sidetracks are interesting. There has never been a show like lost.

But with this episode they've made it possible to stand above EVERYTHING else that we've seen before. Daniel Faraday made me watch Saving Private Ryan for the 30th time, and I was kinda amused I guess, but it was nothing compared to 'the constant'!! I guess that if I write more, I would only come to the conclusion that I can't to this episode justice with words, so I stand up in my room and give it an applause! GREAT JOB!!!