Lost/Season One Mysteries

Mysteries Introduced in Season One

Pilot, Part 1

• What caused the plane to crash?
• What is the thing making strange noises and toppling trees in the jungle?
• What caused the radio malfunction?
• Why did the plane get lost on its way to Los Angeles?
• What happened to the tail section?

Pilot, Part 2

• Why is there a polar bear on the island?

Tabula Rasa

• What did Kate do to get the Marshal chasing after her?

Walkabout

• How did Locke get away from the monster? What was the monster?
• Why was Locke in a wheelchair?

White Rabbit

• How did Jack find the caves? Was it luck or, as Locke suggested, did the island lead him there?
• If we assume the coffin Jack found was his father's, where was the body?

House of the Rising Sun

• Who are the two corpses in the caves?
• What is the significance of the black and white stones found on one of them?

Confidence Man

• Who is the real Sawyer?

Solitary

• What is the cable and where does it lead to?
• What exactly happened to Rousseau's science team?
• Who are the Others?
• Who or what is the whispering?

Raised by Another

• Who attacked Claire in her sleep?
• Who is Ethan Rom?

All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues

• What did Ethan want with only Claire?

Whatever the Case May Be

• Why did Rousseau write song lyrics on her notes?

Hearts and Minds

• What is inside the hatch?
• Why is Locke's compass off (is it defective or is there something else)?

Special

• What's at the location on Rousseau's maps?
• Why is there a second polar bear on the island?

Homecoming

• How did Claire escape from Ethan?
• What happened to Claire while she was gone?

Numbers

• How did the doctor at the mental hospital know Hurley?
• What are the numbers - 4 8 15 16 23 42? Are they really cursed?
• Where is Danielle Rousseau's new shelter?

Deus Ex Machina

• How did the Nigerian smuggler's plane end up on the island? Is it really from Nigeria?
• Who responded to Boone's mayday?
• What is the light inside the hatch?

Do No Harm

• What happened to Jack's marriage with Sarah to cause them to get a divorce?

Exodus, Part 1

• Why does the column of black smoke appear when the others are coming?
• Does Ana-Lucia survive the crash in the tail of the plane?
• How did the Black Rock get so far inland?

Exodus, Part 2

• What was the black cloud that tried to take Locke?
• Who took Walt?

Mysteries Answered in Season One

• Why hadn't anyone come to rescue the survivors after several hours? (Question: 1x01 - Pilot, Part 1)
  • No one had come to rescue the survivors because the plane was about 1000 miles off its projected course. (Answer: 1x01 - Pilot, Part 1)

• What is the "secret" that Locke told to Walt? (Q: 1x02 - Pilot (2))
  • The "secret" Locke told Walt was that a "miracle" happened to him, although we do not yet know what the "miracle" was. (A: 1x03 - Tabula Rasa)
• What favor was Kate going to ask of the Marshal? (Q: 1x02 - Pilot (2))
  • The promise Kate wanted to ask the Marshal was to be sure that Ray (the farmer) got his reward money. (A: 1x03 - Tabula Rasa)

• What is the "miracle" that Locke told to Walt? (Q: 1x03 - Tabula Rasa)
  • The "miracle" that Locke mentioned to Walt was his ability to walk upon waking up from the crash, having previously being confined to a wheelchair. (A: 1x04 - Walkabout)

• Who was the man in the suit that Jack saw? (Q: 1x04 - Walkabout)
  • The man Jack has been seeing was his father. (A: 1x05 - White Rabbit)

• What was on the piece of paper Sawyer was reading? (Q: 1x02 - Pilot (2))
  • The piece of paper Sawyer was reading was a letter he had written as a boy to the real Sawyer. (A: 1x08 - Confidence Man)

• Who was the Frenchwoman that recorded the distress call? Was she already rescued? (Q: 1x02 - Pilot (2))
  • Danielle Rousseau is the Frenchwoman that recorded the distress call. She was never rescued. (A: 1x09 - Solitary)
• Who is the girl in the pictures Sayid had? (Q: 1x04 - Walkabout)
  • The girl in Sayid's pictures is Nadia, a childhood friend of his. (A: 1x09 - Solitary)

• What happened between Jack and his father? (Q: 1x05 - White Rabbit)

• • Jack testifying against his father, which led to the removal of his father's license, was what happened between them. (A: 1x11 - All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues)

• What did Locke and Boone find in the jungle? (Q: 1x11 - All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues)
  • Locke and Boone found a hatch out in the jungle. (A: 1x13 - Hearts and Minds)

• Who attacked Sayid? (Q: 1x07 - The Moth)
  • Locke was the one who knocked Sayid unconscious and smashed his equipment. (A: 1x21 - The Greater Good)
• What happened to Nadia? (A: 1x09 - Solitary)
  • Nadia is alive and living in Irvine, California. (A: 1x21 - The Greater Good)

• How did Kate kill the man she loved? (Q: 1x12 - Whatever the Case May Be)
  • Kate killed the man she loved when she tried to drive through a police barricade with him as a passenger. (A: 1x22 - Born to Run)

• What is the Black Rock? (Q: 1x09 - Solitary)
  • The Black Rock is actually an old ship. (A: 1x23 - Exodus, Part 1)
• What is the Dark Territory? (Q: 1x18 - Numbers)
  • The Dark Territory is an area of the island named by Rousseau. It is the resting place of the Black Rock and, presumably, the transmission tower is nearby. (A: 1x23 - Exodus, Part 1)

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