Continuazione Note 4x02
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GeneralProduction notes
- The Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 Hotline Number 1-888-548-0034 is seen on Frank's television. Calling this number results in an automated message, not a human operator as seen on the show.
- The helicopter's marking, N842M, if interpreted as the registration number, would make it registered in the USA.
- N842M is a Bell UH-1 Iroquois, a.k.a Huey.
- N842M is owned by Garlick Helicopter Corporation in Hamilton, Montana. This helicopter is most likely on lease to the Production Company (FAA Registration Information)
- Daniel Faraday's flashback takes place in Essex, MA. Ben reveals that Charlotte Lewis was born in Essex, England.
- Day 94 is Christmas' Eve 2004.
- As happened in previous episodes, this one brings many prominent red objects (lights in the helicopter, transponder lights, bag in the metal chest, fence in California, item in Miles' trunk, Rebecca's translator's garment, gallon in the desert, Charlotte's parachute handle, flowers in the forest, Frank's flare gun, a.o.).
Bloopers and continuity errors
- Desmond, Jin, Michael and Sun do not appear.
- These are the earliest off-island flashbacks that have taken place after the crash.
- This episode features the first flashback from a dead character's perspective.
- Actors from Tunisia did a looping/voice over session for this episode. DarkUFO
- In his interviews prior to the season 4 premiere, Lance Heddick consistently referred to his character as "a recruiter", as seen on this episode (but not on the first).
Recurring themes
- Daniel greets Jack and Kate with "Are you Jack?" at the end of Beginning of the End, but when he sees them in this episode, he says, "Hey there. Are you Jack?"
Cultural references
- Daniel calls Jack and Kate "good people". (Good and bad people)
- The room Miles "works" in has a poster with the number 15 and two ticket stubs pinned on the wall can be seen with the number 15 as well. (The Numbers)
- It is revealed that the people from the freighter are not on a search and rescue mission as Naomi had originally stated. (Deceptions and cons)
- There were 324 (108 x 3) passengers on flight 815. (The Numbers)
- The team on the helicopter is comprised of 4 people. (The Numbers)
- The helicopter prefix is N-8-42-M. (The Numbers)
- Ben is "Yoda", John Locke is "Johnny". (Nicknames)
- Frank sees a cow on the Island. (Animals)
- Locke is enjoying the rain during a stop. (Rain)
- We learn about a previous connection between Naomi and Abaddon. (Character connections)
- Lapidus was supposed to be the pilot of Oceanic 815, but his fate was completely altered. (Fate versus free will)
- Locke explains he hasn't died from being shot because he doesn't have a kidney where the bullet trespassed him. (Missing body parts)
Literary techniques
- Staples Lewis: The name Charlotte Staples Lewis is a reference to Clive Staples Lewis (commonly referred to as C.S. Lewis), author of the Chronicles of Narnia and The Great Divorce. (Books)
- Faraday: Michael Faraday was an English chemist and physicist who contributed to electromagnetism as a field of study. From Wikipedia: "He established that magnetism could affect rays of light and that there was an underlying relationship between the two phenomena." In this episode, Dan Faraday comments on abnormalities in the light rays on the Island and defines himself as a physicist.
- Minkowski: The name Minkowski is a reference to Hermann Minkowski, the mathematician who pioneered the idea of 4-dimensional space-time continuum.
- Lapidus: The name Lapidus may be a reference to the movie Sleeper, in which one character says "No one touches my brain - they may drop it, then I would talk like Mr. Lapidus, who got hit by lightning.(Movies and TV)
- Apocalypse Now: Sawyer calls Locke "Colonel Kurtz" after Marlon Brando's character in this movie (1979). In the movie (but not in the original book, Heart of Darkness), Colonel Kurtz is a great man who leads his followers out into the jungle where he subsequently goes insane. The reference is also to Locke's baldness (Brando was shaved bald in the film). (Nicknames) (Movies and TV)
- Star Wars: (Movies and TV)
- Sawyer calls Ben "Yoda".
- Daniel tells Kate and Jack "I'm here to rescue you", exactly what like Luke says to Leia in Star Wars.
- Tunisia was used by George Lucas as a location for filming the Tatooine scenes, and the musical cue when Charlotte arrives there is very similar to the "Binary Sunset" musical cue of John Williams' score for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
- The scene where Charlotte is hanging upside down from her parachute trying to free herself is an homage to Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back where Luke attempts to free himself from the ice cave he hangs upside down from.
- Battle Royale: In the room in which Miles "works" these words can be seen. This could be a reference to the Japanese novel and movie by this name, in which high school students are taken to an isolated island and forced to fight to the death as a part of what is called "The Program". (Books)
- Battle Royale is also a chapter of Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"
- Ghostbusters: Naomi calls Miles a ghostbuster. (Movies and TV)
Find 815 references
- Ben's life was saved by Charlotte, through her acknowledgement that his information about her is correct. He was saved by the woman he tried to kill. (Irony)
- Locke muses that Ben's bullet would have killed him if he had a second kidney, because it would have pierced the kidney. That means that, in effect, his father who tried to kill him eventually saved his life. (Irony)
- Naomi is instructed by Matthew Abaddon to get the team in and out safely and to make sure no one gets killed. Unfortunately, Naomi, who according to her, is the only one with training, and who doubted the abilities of the other team members, ends up dead. (Irony)
- We finally get to see some of the circumstances in which the passengers of Oceanic flight 815 were all confirmed dead, and how the wreckage was found in deep waters. But we also saw the plane fall on the island with many survivors. (Mindf*ck)
- The miniature plane in the water tank is shown just as Frank Lapidus learns that the wreckage of Oceanic 815 was found in the Sunda Trench. (Juxtaposition)
- In the beginning of the episode, Hurley warns Locke that if he stays on the rain, he could be struck by a lightning. Later on, we learn the helicopter was hit by a lightning, causing the instability and the landing. (Foreshadowing)
- While a wedding ring bears its own symbolism (the union and love within a marriage), the pilot's absence of a ring means something completely different to Frank Lapidus. (Symbolism)
- In the bedroom of Miles' client, there's a poster with the word "resurrection" and a Christ-like figure on it. (Christ Figure)
- The telephone number is the same number given as a clue in Chapter 1 of the Find 815 ARG.
- The Christiane I, the boat from Find 815, is briefly mentioned.
- The Sunda Trench, also from Find 815, is mentioned.
- One of the Find 815 clues for Season 4 was "Tunisian Newspaper".
Episode references
- Daniel Faraday, Miles Straume, Charlotte Lewis, and Frank Lapidus were all clue words in Find 815.
Unanswered Questions
- Charlie called Hurley “Colonel-bloody-Kurtz.” in "Numbers"
- A poster for the fictional band 'Dirt Spigot' can be seen in the room Miles works in. In the episode "Fire + Water", the director of the Butties Diapers commercial says that he actually wanted Dirt Spigot for the ad instead of Driveshaft.
About the WreckageDaniel
- When was the wreckage found in relation to events on the Island?
- Where did the wreckage in the ocean come from?
- Why was the wreckage found near Bali?
- Whose bodies were on the wreckage?
Miles
- Why was Daniel so upset when he learned Flight 815 had been found?
- Why does Naomi refer to Daniel as a "head case"?
Charlotte
- What was the machine Miles was using in the bedroom?
- What is the nature of Miles' abilities?
- How did Miles know to look for "it"?
- Why did the photographs and their frames change in the grandmother's home, from Miles' entrance to Miles departure?
Frank
- Why is Charlotte disbelieving of the discovery of Flight 815?
- How did the polar bear get to Tunisia?
- Why was she not surprised by the polar bear with the DHARMA tag?
- Who sent her to Tunisia?
Naomi
- Why was Frank replaced by Seth Norris as Flight 815's pilot?
On the Island
- When did the meeting between Matthew and Naomi take place?
- Who is Abaddon working for?
- Why did Naomi think there would be survivors of Flight 815 on the Island?
- Why does Abaddon insist that there aren't?
- Why were Daniel, Miles, Charlotte, Frank and Naomi selected for the operation?
- Why have the people on the freighter been sent to search for Ben?
- Why did Naomi have a picture of Desmond if they were looking for Ben?
- Why did the Freighter team bring gas masks?
- Why couldn't Minkowski take the team's call?
- Does sunlight scatter differently on the Island?
- Why didn't Charlotte say anything when Ben was about to be shot by Locke?
- Who is Ben's inside man on the freighter?
- Why did he announce this in front of Charlotte?
- How did Ben infiltrate a man there, and on what purpose?