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"Sundown" is the sixth television episode of the American Broadcasting Company's sixth season of the serial drama television series Lost and 109th episode overall. The episode aired on March 2, 2010, on ABC in the United States.
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- Episode Connections
- Unanswered Questions
Previously on Lost
1. Sayid is shot by Roger Linus. ("The Incident, Part 1") 2. Sayid is held under the surface of the water in the well until he drowns and dies, but soon resurrects. ("LA X, Part 2") 3. Sayid is tortured by Dogen after resurrection. ("What Kate Does") 4. Dogen asks Jack Shephard to poison Sayid because there is a darkness growing in him. ("What Kate Does") 5. Jack tells Sayid of Dogen's intentions. ("Lighthouse")
On the Island
As Dogen calmly reads a book (Deep River by Shusaku Endo), Sayid barges into his chambers and confronts him about the machine he was hooked up to when they stuck him with needles and said they were testing him. Dogen tells him that for every man, there is a scale and on one side of the scale there is good and on the other side evil. The machine tells them how the scale is balanced and that Sayid's scale tipped "the wrong way". ♪ Dogen admits he tried to poisonSayid because he thinks it would...
Flash sideways
Sayid is sitting nervously in a cab in Los Angeles. He pays the cabbie and gets out, carrying a bouquet of yellow roses. He walks up to the front door of a house, rings the doorbell and sees his reflection in the door window. Nadia greets him warmly, as do her two children, Sam and Eva. ♪ Sayid's brother, Omer joins them and half-jokingly confronts Sayid about bringing roses for his wife. After dinner, Sayid sends the children to get his gifts from Australia in his bag. Sayid's brother receiv...
With this episode, Sayid becomes the third character to have a flashback episode, a flash-forward episode, and a flash sideways episode centered solely around him. The others are Kate and Jack.Keamy is wearing the Rolex watch Jinwas to deliver to Los Angeles.Miles is the first regular character who time traveled to re-encounter other regulars in the present - Lapidus, Ben, and Sun- who were not on the Island when it was moved.Matthew Fox (Jack Shephard) becomes the first cast member to appear in 100 episodes.This is the first Season 6 episode to break the centricity pattern mirroring Season 1.Recurring themes
1. Dogen alludes to an accident he was in with his son after he picked him up from baseball practice. Dogen had been drinking beforehand, which was the cause of the accident. (Car accidents) 2. In the flash sideways, Nadia is married to Sayid's brother, Omer; Sayid still holds strong affection for her but believes he doesn't deserve her. (Relationships) 3. It is lightly raining when Sayid returns to the Temple to relay the Man in Black's message and it begins to rain when they all leave the t...
Cultural references
1. Baseball: Dogen mentions how he used to pick his son up from baseball practice every Friday night. (Games) 2. Solitaire: Miles is playing Solitaire in the courtyard when Kate enters. (Games) 3. Shen ring: The hieroglyph tile on the wall in the Temple hallway that Ilanapushes to open the secret passage is a Shen ring. The Shen ring is an ancient Egyptian symbol of eternity and protection. In ancient Egypt, the Shen Ring also represents dual concepts of time; the cyclic line of periodicity a...
Literary techniques
1. Sayid was asked by Dogen to kill the Man in Black by stabbing him through the chest with a knife - the exact same way that Ben killed Jacob - but the Man in Black did not die from this attack. (Juxtaposition) 2. All the Temple people who remained behind were killed by the Man in Black. (Redshirts) 3. Sayid tells Omer, "I'm not that man anymore." (Regularly spoken phrases) 4. Omer says to Sayid that there is little adventure in the dry cleaning business, yet his dealings create the main plo...
Episode references
1. Kate tells Claire she took Aaron off the Island. ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3") 2. Sayid states that the only thing he ever wanted died in his arms. The episode context indicates this is most likely Nadia, who died in Sayid's arms after being hit by a car in Los Angeles. On the other hand, Shannon died in his arms after being accidentally shot on the Island, and they later wake each other up in the flash sideways world. ("The Incident, Part 1") ("Abandoned") ("The End") 3. Mil...
Episode allusions
1. Sayid carries a picture of Nadia with him in the flash-sideways timeline. ("Solitary") ("The Greater Good") 2. Claire sings "Catch a Falling Star", which has appeared in several episodes: Claire asked the Stewarts to sing it for her baby, ("Raised by Another") the mobile in the Staff station nursery played the melody, ("Maternity Leave") and Kate sang it to Aaron while she was raising him. ("Whatever Happened, Happened") 3. Nadia is married to Sayid's brother, Omer, in the flash sideways....
For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Sundown/TheoriesHow did Dogen's death enable the Man in Black to enter the Temple?Mar 2, 2010 · Sundown: Directed by Bobby Roth. With Naveen Andrews, Nestor Carbonell, Emilie de Ravin, Henry Ian Cusick. Claire arrives at the temple and warns the inhabitants that the being inhabiting Locke wants to talk, but Dogen sends Sayid to kill him instead.
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- Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
- Bobby Roth
- 2010-03-02
Mar 2, 2010 · After a ride in a black SUV, Sayid arrives at some strange industrial kitchen and we see that Martin Keamy (the leader of the mercenary team that came to the island on Charles Widmore’s...
Mar 3, 2010 · "Sundown" is a Sayid story that focuses on his belief that he is inherently a good man, but as the episode progresses, both the flash-sideways and events on the island...
Plot. Sundown. Lost. Jump to. Summaries. Claire arrives at the temple and warns the inhabitants that the being inhabiting Locke wants to talk, but Dogen sends Sayid to kill him instead. In Los Angeles, Sayid saves his brother, who is in trouble with a loan shark.
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