Lost 102 The Pilot Part 2 Trivia, Facts & Description

• This episode's "Previously on Lost" was not built into the episode.
• Throughout "Pilot, Part 1" and "Pilot, Part 2", it is only shown what Jack, Charlie, Kate, Rose, Locke, Boone, Shannon, and Edward Mars were doing on the plane.
• If Sayid's estimation of the French transmission being on a loop for sixteen years and five months is correct, then the recording was most likely made in April 1988.
• J.J. Abrams won an Emmy for the directing of this episode.
• Abrams, Damon Lindelof, and Jeffrey Lieber received an Emmy nomination for the writing of the episode.
• Sawyer can be heard using a non-Southern accent in some scenes. Josh Holloway masked his southern accent while filming the pilot. It wasn't until J.J. Abrams explained a couple of weeks into shooting he was hired for his southern accent that he stopped. Some of these scenes have been left in the episode. (Welcome to Oahu)
• When Sayid and Sawyer are fighting, Sayid says "Ibn Al-Kalb" to him. This is Arabic for "son of a dog." Sawyer's favorite expletive is "son of a bitch", which is a female dog.
• Charlie's shoe, a Vans classic checkerboard slip-on, is size eight and is made in China.
• Bolivian television channel PAT was the victim of a hoax when shots from this episode, specifically Kate's flashback of the crash, were broadcast as "the final moments of Air France Flight 447", which crashed in 2009 over the Atlantic
  

• This episode is rated TV-14-LV.

 

- The comic book that Walt reads is Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends #1, published by DC Comics, and a polar bear really appears in it.

- The plane crash sequence was Evangeline Lilly's first day of shooting on the show. Because she is Canadian, a special U.S. employment visa had to be arranged for her. Since this took such a long time, all scenes that featured her character had to be pushed to the end of the shooting schedule. When the visa finally came in, she was flown to the set the very same day.

- The episode won 4 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series, Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore), Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series and Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series.

- Sawyer can be heard using a non-Southern accent in some scenes. Josh Holloway masked his southern accent while filming the pilot. It wasn't until J.J. Abrams explained a couple of weeks into shooting, that he was hired because of his southern accent, that he stopped. Some of these scenes have been left in the episode.

- John Locke mentions that backgammon sets were found in the ruins of ancient Mesopotamia, widely considered the cradle of civilization. Today, Mesopotamia is known as present-day Iraq.

 

Spoilers

 

• When Sayid and Sawyer are fighting, Sayid says "Ibn al-kalb", which translates from Arabic to "son of a b*tch".
• Broadcast restrictions prevented any shots of Charlie ingesting her*in. The producers got around this problem using clever cutting.
• Locke's description of the rules of backgammon ("Two players, two sides. One is light, one is dark.") foreshadows the conflict between Jacob and the Man in Black, which is an integral part of the show's mythology in later seasons.
• The case that flies out of the locker and hits Fredric Lehne's character on the head was made of rubber. Lane had tiny tubes hidden in his hairline, which then released blood to run down his face.
• Many people have speculated as to the meaning/reason behind the polar bear. One theory is that it's a reference to the popular children's joke - "Q. What do you call a polar bear in the jungle? A. Lost". But the real reason behind the polar bear is it was used in the DHARMA Initiative's experiments on the Island at the Hydra Station. Another polar bear was also used at the Orchid Station.

This is the second of the two-part pilot episode of Lost. It was originally broadcast on September 29, 2004, one week after "Pilot, Part 1". The two parts re-aired together on October 2, 2004.