List of crossovers on Lost

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On the ABC Television series Lost, characters are frequently shown to have interacted in their pasts, in ways typically only obvious to the viewers. Sometimes these crossovers directly or indirectly affect the course of characters' lives. The creative team of the show have stated such interactions are part of the show's "mythology".^[1]

• In the first season episode "Outlaws", Sawyer meets an alcoholic doctor in an Australian bar who, unbeknownst to Sawyer, is actually fellow castaway Jack's father, Christian Shephard. Christian talks to Sawyer about his inability to tell his son that he loves him, and how proud he is of him. He also inadvertently helps persuade Sawyer to kill a man whom Sawyer mistakenly believes to have been responsible for his own parents' deaths many years earlier. Later, on the island, Sawyer realizes the relationship between the two men, and eventually shares this knowledge with Jack, along with his father's last words. In the second season episode "Two for the Road", while Christian is speaking with Ana Lucia in his car, he accidentally hits Sawyer with his car door as Sawyer walks by on his way into the bar. Christian soon follows Sawyer into the bar, where they will have the conversation described above.

• Jin goes to a man's house to "deliver a message" in the episode "...In Translation", and Hurley appears briefly on the television.

• In "Exodus, Part Two", Sun spills something on Jin, and Kate's mugshot is visible in the newspaper he is reading.

• Jack's future wife, Sarah, was involved in the car accident that killed fellow castaway Shannon's father. Like Locke, Sarah later miraculously recovered from what were thought to be permanently crippling injuries. (Season 2, "Man of Science, Man of Faith") Conversely, in "Abandoned", when Shannon and her stepmother arrive at the hospital, Jack passes them in the hallway.

• Later in the same episode, Jack meets a man named Desmond while jogging; Desmond later turns up on the island, as the occupant of the mysterious hatch.

• In "Hearts and Minds", when Boone is at the Australian police station, he sees Sawyer being brought in, under arrest.

• In the episode "Everybody Hates Hugo" when Hurley is having a dream he is eating all the food in the hatch, there is a picture of Walt a missing person on the carton of milk Hurley is drinking from.

• Locke's superior at the box company, Randy (seen in the first season episode "Walkabout"), is later revealed to have been Hurley's manager at the fast food restaurant where he worked before winning the lottery. (Season 2, "Everybody Hates Hugo") After winning the lottery one of Hurley's business investments is the majority share of the box company where Locke works. (Season 1, "Numbers")

• While at a record store, Hurley listens to an album by DriveSHAFT, fellow castaway Charlie's band. (Season 2, "Everybody Hates Hugo")

• In the episode "What Kate Did," Sayid appears briefly on a television screen in the Army recruiting office where Kate goes to visit her father.

• In the episode "The Long Con," Sawyer and an associate have lunch together in a diner; the woman who waits on them is Kate's mother (introduced in the first season episode "Born to Run").

• In the episode "One of Them," Sayid shares a military transport with Sam Austen, the man Kate considers to be her father.

• The U.S. military officer who used Sayid to torture information out of Iraqi prisoners in "One of Them" is eventually revealed to be Kelvin, Desmond's companion in the hatch during his first three years on the island. (Season 2, "Live Together, Die Alone")

• In the episode "Lockdown," the woman whose home Locke inspects is Sayid's childhood friend and star-crossed love, Nadia.

• In the episode "Dave," Libby is revealed to have been a patient at the same psychiatric ward as fellow castaway Hurley.

• In the episode "S.O.S.," Rose drops a bottle of pills in the airport, which Locke picks up and hands back to her.

• The psychic who buys Claire a ticket to Los Angeles in the first season episode "Raised by Another" later tells Eko that he is a fake. At the airport, Eko is confronted by the psychic's daughter, and Libby intervenes to stop them from arguing. (Season 2, "?")

• In the second season finale, "Live Together, Die Alone," Libby supplies Desmond with the boat he later uses to try and sail around the world, and with which he eventually reaches the island. In the same episode, Desmond is shown arriving at a stadium to exercise. Jack is seen leaving his car in the background, before beginning to run up and down the stadium stairs. This leads to their aforementioned encounter.

• In the episode A Tale of Two Cities the nurse who appears briefly in Jack's flashback is the same nurse that spoke to Locke after he woke up from the kidney transplant in Deus Ex Machina.

[edit] Notes

Potentially, only a few survivors are actually aware that they may have crossed paths with other survivors prior to their time on the island:

• Sawyer and Jack know it was Jack's father that Sawyer met in the bar.
• Libby knew she was in the same psychiatric facility as Hurley, although Hurley is unaware of this.
• Rose knows Locke picked up her pills in the airport, and is the only survivor aware that Locke was previously in a wheelchair and was cured of his paralysis upon arriving on the island.
• Desmond and Jack are aware that they've met before, although Jack denies any significance, thinking it to be mere coincidence.

Not counting encounters at the airport on the day of the flight, all of the characters are connected by the crossovers in a single group, except the following: Rose and Bernard, Claire and Eko (who both met the Australian psychic), and Michael and Walt, who connect only with each other.

[edit] References

Lost
Production:	DVD releases | Episode list | Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3
Primary characters:	Ana Lucia | Ben | Boone | Charlie | Claire | Desmond | Hurley | Jack | Jin | Juliet | Kate Libby | Locke | Michael | Mr. Eko | Nikki | Paulo | Sawyer | Sayid | Shannon | Sun | Walt
Secondary characters:	Bernard | Others | Rose
Organizations:	DHARMA Initiative | Hanso Foundation | Oceanic Airlines
Elements:	DHARMA Initiative stations | List of crossovers | Mythology | Thematic motifs
Miscellaneous:	Lost Experience | Oceanic Flight 815 | References in popular culture | Soundtrack