Lost > The Barracks Season 3

The Barracks

Plot

Flashbacks

The life of "Henry Gale," whose real name is Ben, is outlined. When Ben is a child in the 1980s, he and his father move to the island where his father works for the Dharma Initiative. He lives in a place called "the Barracks" where there are suburban homes surrounded by a sonic fence that keeps the islands natives - the Others - out. After seeing his deceased mother in the forest, Ben goes outside the sonic fence and encounters an Other named Richard, who does not age throughout the thirty year timeline that he is seen on the show. Twenty years later, Ben works with the Others to kill all of the Dharma Initiative and they move into the Barracks, with Ben as their leader. The Other Juliet is brought to the island by Richard and Ethan after she cures her sister's inability to have children.

After Helen rejects Locke's marriage proposal, he works in a marijuana plant, until he accidentally brings in a cop. Later, Locke meets his father again, who pushes him out a window, paralyzing him from the waist down and causing him to be in a wheelchair.

After finding out that Sun is having an affair with Jae Lee, Sun's father orders Jin to kill Jae. Jin is unable to, but threatens Jae to move to the United States. Jae then commits suicide.

While in prison, Sawyer learns that he has a daughter.

After Mr. Eko becomes a priest, he murders a few men who were blackmailing his town.

Kate is married but leaves suddenly when she fears that she will be caught.

Jack gets his tattoos after an unusual month in Thailand. It is revealed that Claire shares her father with Jack.

Hurley struggles with his father after he returns after a 17-year absence due to Hurley's lottery win.

Desmond was once a monk.

Island

The third season begins on November 28, 2004, 68 days after the crash of Oceanic Flight 815. Jack, Kate and Sawyer are imprisoned on a small island off the coast of the island where they were previously living. Kate and Sawyer are kept in cages and let out to smash rocks. Their relationship advances as they have sex. Jack is kept in an underwater Dharma Initiative station called the Hydra. He is interrogated by the Other Juliet, an obstetrician who wants off the island. Jack operates on Ben, who has a spinal tumor, which was the reason for capturing him. With Ben at his mercy, Jack bargains for Kate and Sawyer's successful release. They escape the island with the help of Juliet and a canoe supplied by Alex. The Others return to the Barracks with Jack. Jack cuts a deal with Ben to leave the island via submarine with Juliet, whom he is now romantically interested in.

Before making their way back to the beach, Sun, Jin and Sayid encounter the Others, and Sun kills one of them. After the implosion of the hatch, Desmond have premonitions of future events, most notably Charlie's death. Mr. Eko is killed by the smoke monster, after it takes the form of Mr. Eko's deceased brother and lures him into the forest. Hurley finds and fixes a DHARMA-issue VW bus. Nikki and Paulo are paralyzed by spider venom, mistaken for dead, and buried alive.

Kate, Locke, Sayid and Rousseau went to save Jack, who is now with the Others at their main compound on the main island. En route, Locke destroys a Dharma communications station called the Flame. They take the Flame's operator Mikhail, whom Locke apparently kills after pushing him through a sonic fence outside the Barracks. Locke blows up the submarine, and learns that Ben is holding his father, Anthony Cooper. The Others, Locke and Cooper promptly leave the compound, while Jack, Juliet, Kate and Sayid return to the beach. An undercover and unwelcome Juliet confirms to Sun that Jin is the father of her unborn child and tells her that all women who conceive on the island die.

Locke is urged by Ben to kill Cooper if he wants to join the Others. Locke does not kill his father, but after learning from Richard that Cooper also caused the death of Sawyer's parents (i.e. Cooper is the original Sawyer), he finds Sawyer and ultimately manipulates him into killing Cooper in the brig of the Black Rock. Locke sends him back to the beach with a tape recorder revealing Juliet to be a spy, as well as news of the Others' impending raid on the beach. Ben leads Locke to the cabin of the unseen leader of the Others, Jacob. Jacob is invisible to Locke, but he hears him say "help me." Ben fears Locke's ability to hear Jacob and shoots him, leaving him to die. Locke is about commit suicide when he is stopped by what appears to be Walt.

Desmond has a vision involving Penny and being rescued. After taking Hurley, Charlie and Jin into the jungle, a parachutist named Naomi lands, is injured, and claims to be hired by Penny to find Desmond. She reveals that Oceanic Flight 815 had been found, with everyone still on board and declared dead. Naomi tells everyone of the rescue freighter 80 miles offshore, and that her satellite phone is being jammed. A three-part plan is devised: Jack will lead most of the survivors to the radio tower in order to shut off Rousseau's distress signal, while Jin, Bernard, and Sayid stay behind to kill the raiding Others, and Charlie and Desmond go to the underwater Looking Glass station to shut off its jamming signal. Charlie disables the jammer and speaks with Penelope via videophone, who has no knowledge of Naomi. Mikhail who survived the sonic fence, detonates a hand grenade, causing Charlie to drown. Before dying, Charlie tells Desmond that it is not Penny's boat that is coming. Jack and the tower-bound group are intercepted by Ben and Alex. Ben says that Naomi is lying, and she will be the death of everyone on the island. Ben is taken captive, and Alex is introduced to her mother Rousseau for the first time. After the frequency is cleared, Naomi reaches her ship via a satellite phone, but is killed by Locke, who tells Jack they are not meant to leave the island. Defiant, Jack speaks to the person on the phone, who says they will be there soon.

Flash Forwards

Jack's life is a mess sometime after he escapes the island. He is addicted to Oxycodone, and drinks heavily. Every Friday, he flies overseas, hoping to crash on the island. After reading about the death of someone he knew, he goes to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. He is distracted by a car accident, and he rushes to the burning car to aid the victims. Jack contacts Kate and tries to convince her that they were not supposed to leave the island; however, they have had this discussion before and Kate disagrees.

Broadcast history

Production of the season began on August 4, 2006. Twenty-two episodes were produced in total, the season finale being twice the length of a normal episode. To limit the number of reruns in the United States and Canada, the first six episodes, that started October 4, 2006 and ended on November 8, were followed by twelve weeks with no episodes at all, and continued consecutively with the next sixteen episodes, which premiered on February 7, 2007. 30-second teaser clips from the second segment of the season, entitled "Lost Moments" was aired on television and online from November 15, 2006 until February 1, 2007. Three clip-shows were also aired, "Lost: A Tale of Survival" on September 27, 2006, the "Lost Survivor Guide" on February 7, 2007, and "Lost: The Answers" on May 17, 2007.

Impact

Ratings

The third season premiere was watched by 18.82 million viewers in the United States, a drop from the second season premiere, which was viewed by 23.47 million. The six autumn episodes averaged 17.84 million viewers. The second set of episodes switched timeslots from 9:00 to 10:00, so as not to again lose viewers to American Idol; however, Lost saw a huge drop in the ratings, despite consistently winning its timeslot in the key 18-49 demographic, and the producers later admitted that the timeslot change had been a mistake for ABC. Lost also met new series lows with the eighth episode, which was watched by 12.84 million viewers, the tenth episode, watched by 12.78 million viewers, the eleventh episode with 12.45 million viewers, the thirteenth episode watched by 12.22 million and the fourteenth episode with 11.52 million viewers. However, ratings slowly improved and the remaining episodes averaged 12 million viewers per week. The season's two hour finale was watched by an average of 13.65 million viewers. 15.45 million viewers tuned in for the finale's last half hour.

Reception

The third season, while still popular, endured more criticism than the show had in its previous years. The first segment of episodes has been criticized as not bearing the same quality of the prior seasons. Show runner Damon Lindelof responded that when the second season was aired, it was criticized as not being as enjoyable as the first season. The main complaint is that new mysteries are being introduced at a faster rate than old mysteries being solved, and numerous articles on this criticism were written for newspapers and online journals. A recurring complaint of the first half of the third season was that the storyline concentrated too much on the captivity storyline, resulting in limited screen-time for the rest of the cast on the beach. Some fans also complained that the advertisements were misleading and the episodes did not live up to the hype. After the return of the series, the episodes have been raved as fantastic, with the season finale receiving rave reviews from critics.

Awards

The episodes, writers, producers and actors of the third season have won Image and Golden Reel awards and have been nominated for Golden Globe, Saturn, C.A.S., Golden Reel, Episodic Television Producer of the Year and Writers Guild of America awards.

First Aired: October 4, 2006
Last Aired: May 23, 2007

Notes:

• There are 22 episodes in this season.

New Casts Member:

1. Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond David Hume
2. Michael Emerson as Benjamin Linus
3. Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet Burke
4. Kiele Sanchez as Nikki Fernandez
5. Rodrigo Santoro as Paulo

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