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Lost S4E1 — The Beginning of the End

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Lost•Season 4•Episode 1

The Beginning of the End

8.7/10 · 9,241 votesJan 31, 200843 min

Ranked #5 of 13 in Season 4•+0.2 vs season avg

They thought they had met the enemy. They thought they had seen evil. They thought wrong. As the new season begins, the survivors feel that rescue is close at hand, but they don't know whether or not to believe Charlie's final message that the people

Directed byJack Bender

Written byCarlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof

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Cast16

Matthew Fox

Matthew Fox

Jack Shephard

Evangeline Lilly

Evangeline Lilly

Kate Austen

Terry O'Quinn

Terry O'Quinn

John Locke

Josh Holloway

Josh Holloway

James Sawyer

Michael Emerson

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Benjamin Linus

Jorge Garcia

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Hurley Reyes

Naveen Andrews

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Sayid Jarrah

Elizabeth Mitchell

Elizabeth Mitchell

Juliet Burke

Jeremy Davies

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Daniel Faraday

Harold Perrineau

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Michael Dawson

Henry Ian Cusick

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Desmond Hume

Yunjin Kim

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Sun-Hwa Kwon

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Carlton Cuse

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Damon Lindelof

Damon Lindelof

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Jack Bender

Jack Bender

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Episode Summary

"The Beginning of the End" is episode 1 of Lost season 4. It scored 8.7/10 from 9,241 votes, ranking #5 of 13 episodes this season (season average 8.5). Directed by Jack Bender and written by Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, it aired on January 31, 2008.

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