Second Round Begins

Time to begin the second round. This round will be divided into two posts. Here then is the first half. Winning this round will give the episode a spot in the Sweet 16.

First up is Live Together, Die Alone. The finale episode for the second season and a number one seed. Locke finds out what happens when the button isn't pushed.

"We're the good guys, Michael."

After Desmond turns the fail safe key the sky turned purple. This caused a pulse that this guy could see on radar. He quickly called Penny Widmore.

VERSUS

The final season premier of the series LA X, a 9th seed. They showed us what was in the guitar case.

Is Sayid channeling his inner Godspell after he dies in the pool that was supposed to heal him?

"Good to see you out of those chains, Richard."

The next pairing brings us the fourth seeded Exodus. In the very first season finale we saw Charlie go through some gruesome steps to get back Claire's baby.

Hurley sees the numbers on the cover of the hatch and freaks out.

In one of the most iconic shots of the entire show, Jack and Locke look down into the hatch after they use dynamite to blow open the door.

VERSUS

"Weirdest damn funeral I've ever been to." Frank admits as he begins to shovel dirt into John Locke's grave. This happens during The Substitute which is a 5th seed from season 6.

"An inside joke." The MIB tells Sawyer as he throws away the white rock he took from the scale inside of the cave.

In the flash sideways Ben Linus meets John Locke for the first time.

Pilot is the 3rd seeded very first episode of the entire show. Here, Jack surveys the situation as the first full day dawns for the survivors.

Sayid tries to fix the radio as he tells Hurley that he was on the other side of Desert Storm.

"Guys, where are we?" Charlie asked at the end of the episode.

VERSUS

The sixth seeded episode The Incident. The fifth season finale shows that Jacob went to see some of the survivors during their lives. Here he tells Locke that he is sorry for what he had to go through.

He tells Sun and Jin, at their wedding, to never take love for granted.

He helps Jack get the stuck Apollo bar.

During the second seeded The Shape Of Things To Come, Sawyer tries to get to Claire's house and rescue her as the freighter goons begin to shoot up the barracks.

After Keamy kills Alex, Ben goes under his house to a secret area where he seems to "call" the smoke monster.

In the flash-forward it is explained how Sayid ends up working for Ben after they get off of the island.

VERSUS

It would almost seem that when Jack is asking Sawyer some questions about his health history that Sawyer might actually have an std. This is during the 7th seeded Deus Ex Machina.

Boone makes contact with someone, who later turns out to be Bernard with the taillies, while checking out the drug smugglers plane.

Something that would eventually cost Boone his life.

No Place Like Home Parts 2 & 3 is up next. Here we see the freighter blow up; leaving the condition of Jin very much in question.

Ben turns the frozen donkey wheel.

Jack trying to break into the now infamous Hoffs Drawler Funeral Parlor.

VERSUS

After Michael shoots and kills Ana Lucia, she makes a ghostly visit to Mr. Eko who is busy cutting down trees he wants to use to make a church. The seventh seeded ? episode was filled with sadness.

Sawyer and Kate break the bad news about Libby being shot to Hurley.

While elsewhere on the island, Locke and Eko find the Pearl Station.

"You told her?" Sawyer asks Daniel after Ellie inquirers if Sawyer is also a time traveler during the 11th seeded Jughead.

Locke has a meeting with Richard where Locke puts into motion the events that will put his life on the course it took to get Locke on the island in the first place. Did that make sense?

The time jumpy sickness turns as Charlotte gets worse.

VERSUS

Remember that radio Sayid was trying to get to work back in the Pilot episode? Well, in The Long Con, a 14th seed from season two, he gets it to work. Sort of.

Hurley finds The Bad Twin manuscript by Gary Troup. I read it. Don't bother. By the way Gary Troup was the guy who got sucked into the plane engine in the Pilot episode.

At the end of the episode Sawyer, while wearing a dashing leather jacket, counts to "Five Mississippi" to no one.

Sawyer asks Hurley if he has a "load he wants to drop in" when they talk about helping Libby with the laundry.

Locke asks Helen to marry him but because he lied to her, she turns him down and leaves.

Sayid returns to the hatch after finding Henry Gale's balloon. But he also found Henry Gale's identification. Uh-Oh! This all happened on the fourth seeded episode called Lockdown. Just thought I should tell you that.

VERSUS

"I don't even know my own bloody blood type!" Charlie tells Jack during the 12th seeded Do No Harm.

They had some great make up on Matthew Fox during the transfusion scene. Jack looks like he is about to pass out from loosing too much blood.

Shannon grieves the loss of her step brother.

The final pairing for this post includes the 9th seeded Happily Ever After. Here, Desmond checks the arrival board at the airport.

During an MRI, Desmond experiences part of what would later be described as "an awakening".

Meeting Penny fully allowed Desmond to know the truth of the sideways reality.

VERSUS

The one seed Through The Looking Glass. Here we see everyone gathered on a hill and told to look in a certain direction. Most of them got it right on the first take. "Jack, look that way. See where everyone else is looking, yes, that way. Look there." Sun and Juliette tried to explain.

Later, Juliette would leave with Sawyer to go back to the beach but first she gave Jack a little something to remember her by.

Meanwhile, Mikhail failed to see the humor when Ben transmitted I Only Have Eyes For You over the others radio communications.



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Ones And Twos

We have the eight top seeds against the eight biggest long-shots left so let's not wait any longer. Here's some 1's, 2's, 15's and 16's:

The long awaited story of Richard Alpert is told in Ab Aeterno a number 1 seed from the final season. Richard is accused of murder after accidentally killing the doctor when he tries to get medicine to save the life of his wife.

Richard is taken aboard a slave ship headed for the "new world". That slave ship just happens to be the Black Rock.

By episodes end we discover that Richard is indeed able to live forever and doesn't age thanks to a gift given to him by Jacob. Here we see the MIB break the bottle of wine that Jacob had used to represent the evil in the world. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Ab_Aeterno

It's opponent will be 16th seeded Outlaws. A young Sawyer witnesses his parents death.

While in Sydney, Sawyer meets Christian Shephard in a bar. The two share a meaningful conversation over a few drinks.

Believing his old partner Hibbs, Sawyer kills the man he thinks is the original Sawyer. Turns out the man isn't the original Sawyer but a man Hibbs just wanted dead for an outstanding debt. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Outlaws

Our next pairing brings us the one seed Live Together Die Alone. The season 2 finale gave us some of Desmond's back story. Here we see him right after accidentally killing Kelvin which leads to him being too late to push the button.

In the current time-line, Locke believes that not pushing the button won't cause anything to happen. Something Desmond knows is incorrect as he is sure that Oceanic 815 crashed onto the island because he was late pushing the button. As a last resort Desmond uses the fail-safe key.

While elsewhere Michael leads the group of survivors right into an ambush. Along with Walt; Michael is allowed to leave the island. Hurley is sent back to the other survivors with a message to never come back there. And Kate gets felt up apparently. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Live_Together%2C_Die_Alone

It will be taking on a 16 seed from the first season Confidence Man. Kate tells Sawyer that she figured out the letter he has wasn't sent to him but rather was written by him.

Wanting an inhaler for Shannon who is having difficulty with her asthma condition. Sawyer denies them. Sayid and Jack try to get it from him the hard way.

In the flashback we discover that Sawyer is a con man with a heart of gold as he is not able to go through with a con that would have netted him a hefty amount of money because the couple he is conning have a young boy. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Confidence_Man

Desmond begins a strange trip while on-board the helicopter heading to the freighter. A number one seed The Constant. Desmond trades consciousness with himself from the past.

The problem is if he cannot make contact with his constant, he will eventually die like Minkowski did early on in the episode. Penny is his constant and he is able to call her on Christmas eve.

Daniel Faraday played a big part in Desmond making it through the ordeal. Turns out he had ulterior motives; he needed Desmond to stay around since Desmond was Daniel's constant. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Constant

Solitary has the unenviable task of taking on The Constant. This sixteen seed is a Sayid episode where we find him making a decision between his job and Nadia, his childhood sweetheart.

On the island, Sayid is captured by a woman named Danielle Rousseau. She tells him the story of how she came to the island.

Elsewhere Hurley makes a golf course. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Solitary

The final number one seed is the season three finale Through The Looking Glass. Here we see Hurley, inside of a Dharma van, discussing strategy on how to save Sayid, Jin, and Bernard who are being held captive at the beach camp.

Down at the Looking Glass station Charlie is able to make contact with Penny Widmore and asks her about the freighter. She tells him she doesn't know anything about the freighter.

In the first ever flash forward we see Jack and Kate discuss leaving the island. The quote "We have to go back!" may be Jack's most memorable line. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Through_the_Looking_Glass

And it will be taking on the 16th seed Tabula Rasa. Jack tries to save the marshal's life. While doing so Jack finds out that Kate is a fugitive. Sawyer tries to put the marshal out of his misery but ends up only making it worse. Jack ends up being the one to do it.

Afterward, Jack tells Kate that they all have a clean slate and that they were all reborn the minute the plane crashed on the island.

At the end of the episode Locke uses a dog whistle he whittled himself to find Vincent and then allowed Michael to return the dog to Walt. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Tabula_Rasa

We see how Ben came to be on the island during the flashback in The Man Behind The Curtain. We see Ben meeting Richard Alpert for the first time as well. What we don't see is Jacob.

We see how Ben killed his father as well as how the others killed the rest of the Dharma Initiative during the purge.

We saw Ben shoot Locke. We saw the giant Dharma grave. We heard Jacob's voice. Rather Locke heard it. Ben didn't. And was it really Jacob or was it the MIB? http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Man_Behind_the_Curtain

It will be facing off against the 15th seed ...In Translation. Jin works for Sun's father Mr. Paik. Jin is a sort of hit-man/enforcer. This makes Jin feel less of a man and it leads to him taking it out on Sun.

Meanwhile, Locke tells the rest of the survivors "We're not the only people on this island and we all know it!"

By the end of the episode the survivors find out that not only being able to speak English really well, she also can rock a bikini. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/In_translation

The Shape Of Things To Come is another second seed from season four. Keamy gives Ben the ultimatum of either giving himself up or he will kill Alex. Ben tells Keamy that Alex doesn't mean anything to him. Keamy kills Alex.

This causes Ben to go under his house where he seems to "call" the smoke monster. Smokie attacks the freighter goons.

At the end of the episode Ben goes to visit Charles Widmore where the two discuss the island, the rules, their daughters, yadda yadda yadda. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Shape_of_Things_to_Come

It will take on the number 15 seed The Greater Good from season 1. In the aftermath of Boone's death Locke finds out too late that when trying to say that someones death was an accident you should probably change out of the blood soaked shirt first. Especially if the blood belongs to the person you supposedly didn't kill. Just sayin'.

In flashbacks we see that Sayid was working with the feds to stop a terrorist ring that old friends of his were involved in.

Sayid tried to talk Shannon out of killing Locke. Was it him talking her out of it, Shannon's horrible aim or something else that saved Locke's life? http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Greater_Good

The Man From Tallahassee finds Ben and Locke face to face once again. Ben is still recovering from surgery. Locke, Kate, and Sayid come to try and break Jack out. Jack doesn't seem to want to go and Locke doesn't really give a hoot about Jack. Locke wants to blow up the sub.

We finally see how Locke was paralyzed. Cooper pushed him through an eighth floor window.

Surprise surprise. Ben has a funny way of saying thank you to Locke for blowing up the submarine. He brings Locke's daddy to the island. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Man_from_Tallahassee

In What Kate Did we are shown just what made Kate a fugitive. In an attempt to free her mother from her step-father and cash in the life insurance policy Kate blows up their house with step daddy inside.

Locke and Mr. Eko discuss the differences between fate and coincidence. Eko shows Locke a piece of film that he found in another hatch. It was the missing part of the orientation video.

Kate Austin stars in the remake of Black Beauty. Or something like that. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/What_Kate_Did

There's No Place Like Home pts. 2 and 3, the season 4 finale is the last two seed. In an attempt to get everyone to the freighter for rescue, the helicopter is riding one too heavy. Sawyer dons his white cowboy hat and takes one for the team.

Desmond tries to get the helicopter away from the freighter as he discovers there is a bomb on the freighter.

At the end of the episode and the season, we see a coffin that holds the remains of John Locke. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/There%27s_No_Place_Like_Home%2C_Parts_2_%26_3

Our final episode of the competition is a 15 seeded episode titled The 23rd Psalm. In it we find out more about Mr. Eko. He is a drug lord trying to convince his brother who is a priest to help him move some heroine.

Mr. Eko, on the island, stares down the smoke monster as it seems to gather information about him in flashes.

Charlie and Mr. Eko go to the drug smugglers plane that Mr. Eko was supposed to be on but his brother was on instead. Making up for his brother leaving home Eko became a priest to fill in. Eko and Charlie burn the plane while reciting the 23rd Psalm giving the episode it's title. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_23rd_Psalm

Vote now! The next round will begin in a few days to make sure everyone has had time to vote.