Lost 3/18/09 Episode "Namaste" Recap  3/19/09

The episode begins with the crash of Ajira Airways Flight 316, a transpacific flight piloted by Frank Lapidus (Jeff Fahey), on the small island off the coast of the main island, where the Dharma Initiative Hydra Station is located. Lapidus crash lands the plane on a runway that was built by the native population of the island, known as the Others, and the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 (as seen in "The Glass Ballerina"). Afterwards, crash survivor and previous leader of the Others Ben Linus (Michael Emerson) begins to travel to the main island. He is followed by Frank and survivor Sun-Hwa Kwon (Yunjin Kim), who believes her husband Jin-Soo Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim) is on the main island. After reaching a group of canoes, Sun knocks Ben out with an oar and travels with Frank to the abandoned barracks of the Dharma Initiative. There, Christian Shephard (John Terry) shows Sun and Frank a picture of new recruits to the Dharma Initiative from 1977, including Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox), Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) and Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia). He also tells her that Jin is with them in 1977.

In 1977, following the events of the previous episode "LaFleur", James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway) explains to Jack, Kate and Hurley the situation regarding Dharma and the shift in time. James has the three of them join the Dharma Initiative as new recruits, with help from Juliet Burke (Elizabeth Mitchell) who fakes the necessary documentation, after finding out that Amy and Horace's baby is named Ethan. Meanwhile, Jin travels to the Dharma Initiative Flame Station because he believes that its occupant, Radzinsky (Eric Lange), will know if Flight 316 crashed on the island. There is no evidence of a plane crashing on the island as the plane is in 2007. Soon, an alarm is set off and Jin finds Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews) wandering in the jungle. After a brief moment of reunion, Jin acts as if Sayid were a Hostile as Radzinsky approaches Jin from behind. Radzinsky belives Sayid to be one of the Others and Jin is unable to speak to Sayid alone. James is summoned to the Flame and has no choice but to pretend Sayid is one of the Others and lock him in a jail cell at the barracks.

Later in the evening, Jack visits James and Juliet's house, to discuss the situation with Sayid. James tells Jack that he is in charge of the situation and that he has different approach to leadership than Jack had with the survivors of Oceanic 815: James prefers to carefully plan out his actions as opposed to Jack, who simply "reacted" to what happened. Jack confirms to be "relieved" by this transfer of power, as the constant responsibility of leading the survivors of Flight 815 was a recurring conflict to him. Meanwhile, at the jail, a young Ben Linus (Sterling Beaumon) brings Sayid a sandwich. After asking Sayid if he was a Hostile, he introduces himself as Ben.

"Namaste" is the ninth television episode of the fifth season of ABC's Lost. The ninety-second episode of the show overall, "Namaste" aired on March 18, 2009 on ABC in the United States, being simulcast on A in Canada. The episode was written by supervising producer Paul Zbyszewski and producer Brian K. Vaughan and directed by executive producer Jack Bender.

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