- 9.1/1012 votes
#1 - Through the Looking Glass (2)
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 5/23/2007
The season 3 finale finds the castaways preparing for an invasion by the slightly less mysterious Others, while Charlie and Desmond find more than they were looking for in the underwater "Looking Glass Hatch".
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 9.1/1039 votes
#2 - The Constant
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 2/28/2008
Sayid and Desmond hit a bit of turbulence on the way to the freighter, which causes Desmond to experience some unexpected side effects.
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 9.0/1041 votes
#3 - Through the Looking Glass (1)
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/23/2007
The season 3 finale finds the castaways preparing for an invasion by the slightly less mysterious Others, while Charlie and Desmond find more than they were looking for in the underwater "Looking Glass Hatch".
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.9/1034 votes
#4 - The Incident (1)
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 5/13/2009
Jack's decision to put a plan in action in order to set things right on the island is met with some strong resistance by those close to him, and Locke assigns Ben a difficult task.
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.8/1011 votes
#5 - Forever
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 5/9/2016
Norma and Norman try to reconnect as they plan for the future. Frustrated by Norma's blind eye, Romero and Dylan decide to take action for Norman's own good.
Director: Tim Southam
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.8/1039 votes
#6 - Lockdown
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/29/2006
When the hatch suddenly takes on a life of its own, Locke is forced to enlist the help of an unlikely ally to control the matter. Meanwhile, Ana Lucia, Sayid and Charlie go off into the jungle to find out the truth about Henry Gale and see if there really is balloon craft out there in the jungle that carried him and his wife to the island.
Director: Stephen Williams
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.8/1042 votes
#7 - Live Together, Die Alone (1)
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/24/2006
After discovering something odd just offshore, Jack and Sayid come up with a plan to confront "The Others" and hopefully get Walt back. At the same time there will be an answer to the question of where Michael has been and resolution of him and Walt. Meanwhile, Eko and Locke come to blows as Locke makes a potentially cataclysmic decision regarding the "button" and the hatch. Lastly, Desmond returns and he sheds some more light on his experience on the island in the three years prior to when Locke came down into that hatch.
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.8/1029 votes
#8 - The Incident (2)
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 5/13/2009
Jack's decision to put a plan in action in order to set things right on the island is met with some strong resistance by those close to him, and Locke assigns Ben a difficult task.
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.7/1035 votes
#9 - Happily Ever After
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 4/6/2010
On the island, Widmore subjects Desmond to a large amount of electromagnetic energy as an experiment. In the flash sideways, Desmond, with the aid of Charlie, starts to have visions of his life in the original timeline.
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.7/1012 votes
#10 - The Cord
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 4/24/2017
Norman Bates comes home.
Director: Tucker Gates
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.6/105 votes
#11 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 8/27/1993
Bounty hunter Brisco is hired by the West's most powerful robber barons to bring down the John Bly gang.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.6/1052 votes
#12 - Exodus (2)
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/25/2005
The castaways on the raft are surprised at sea by something unexpected. Meanwhile, remaining islanders attempt to blow open the hatch, and a visitor to the encampment might be a threat to Claire's infant son.
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.5/1053 votes
#13 - Deus Ex Machina
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/30/2005
Locke thinks he's being sent a sign on how to get the hatch open, and he and Boone venture inland. Jack is reluctant to offer assistance when Sawyer begins to experience excruciating headaches and needs glasses.
Director: Robert Mandel
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.5/1031 votes
#14 - The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 2/25/2009
Locke's mission off the island as Jeremy is revealed.
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.5/1033 votes
#15 - The Brig
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 5/2/2007
After abandoning the Others, Locke takes Sawyer on a trek through the jungle to help him eliminate a common enemy. Meanwhile, back at the beach, the parachutist Naomi has crucial information about flight 815.
Director: Eric Laneuville
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.3/1036 votes
#16 - There's No Place Like Home (2)
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 5/29/2008
The face-off between the survivors and the freighter people continues, and the Oceanic Six find themselves closer to rescue.
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.3/1041 votes
#17 - One of Them
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/15/2006
After Sun is attacked, some of the survivors begin to think that one of the "other survivors" might be one of "The Others." When French woman Danielle Rousseau leads Sayid to a mysterious captive in the jungle, he becomes determined to find out if he is one of "The Others". Meanwhile, Sawyer discovers Hurley’s potentially devastating breach of the survivors’ trust and blackmails him into helping track an elusive island creature that won’t leave Sawyer alone.
Director: Stephen Williams
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.3/1036 votes
#18 - There's No Place Like Home (1)
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 5/15/2008
Sayid goes back to the island to bring the rest of the people to the freighter. Ben, Locke, and Hurley go to another Dharma station in order to "move the island".
Director: Stephen Williams
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.3/1033 votes
#19 - 316
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 2/18/2009
The members of Oceanic 6 discover how to get back to the island, but not all of them want to return.
Director: Stephen Williams
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.3/1037 votes
#20 - LA X (1)
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 2/2/2010
Two outcomes of the detonation of the hydrogen bomb are presented. Flight 815 lands safely at LAX, where Kate escapes from the marshal and Jack learns that his father's body was lost in transit.
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.3/1036 votes
#21 - Not in Portland
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 2/7/2007
Jack has the Others in a desperate situation as he holds Ben's life in his hands. Meanwhile, Kate and Sawyer try to escape from their captors. Flashbacks reveal Juliet's past as a medical researcher in Miami.
Director: Stephen Williams
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.2/1034 votes
#22 - Because You Left
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 1/21/2009
The remaining island survivors start to feel the effects of the aftermath of moving the island, and Jack and Ben begin their quest to reunite the Oceanic 6 in order to return to the island with Locke's body in an attempt to save their former fellow castaways.
Director: Stephen Williams
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.2/1039 votes
#23 - The Beginning of the End
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 1/31/2008
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 claiming to liberate them are not who they seem to be. As unlikely alliances are formed, those they thought could be trusted may turn against them, as the enemy of their enemy becomes their friend. But who can be trusted? Is rescue really as close as it seems?
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.2/1046 votes
#24 - The Other 48 Days
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/16/2005
The harrowing first 48 days in the lives of the tail section survivors are revealed. Flashbacks reveal the point of view of Ana-Lucia, Mr. Eko, Bernard and Libby and other survivors as they landed on the other side of the island on the beach. As the days progress danger hits their camp as well when "The Others" start taking people against their will. As the survivors race inland, trying to stay a step ahead of The Others, they realize that someone among them wasn't on Flight 815.
Director: Eric Laneuville
Writer: Carlton Cuse
- 8.2/1042 votes
#25 - The 23rd Psalm
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/11/2006
This episode will shed more light on why Eko took a mysterious 40-day vow of silence, and possibly information on his stick. Also, Claire begins to lose faith in Charlie after Eko begins to question him about the Virgin Mary statue, and Kate gives the recovering Sawyer a much-needed haircut.
Director: Matt Earl Beesley
Writer: Carlton Cuse