The Variable
Daniel Faraday's plan to undo the crash, and his mother's gun.
"The Variable" is the 14th episode of the fifth season of Lost and the 100th episode overall. Written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz and directed by Paul Edwards, it aired on ABC on April 29, 2009. It is a companion piece to the season four episode "The Constant".
Quick Facts
- Series
- Lost
- Season
- 5
- Episode
- 14
- Writer
- Edward Kitsis; Adam Horowitz
- Director
- Paul Edwards
- Air date
- 29 April 2009
- Production
- 514
- Length
- 43 minutes
Facts from the source article.
Background
In 1977, Daniel Faraday returns to the Island to warn of a catastrophe involving the DHARMA Initiative's Swan station. He plans to detonate the Jughead inside the Swan's energy to prevent Flight 815 from crashing in 2004, and a gunfight with DHARMA leads them after Sawyer and Juliet. Daniel enters an Others camp and demands to see Eloise, who shoots him; dying, he realizes she sent him to the Island knowing she would kill him.
Flashbacks show Daniel's relationship with his parents, Eloise Hawking and Charles Widmore, who push him to continue his time research and go to the Island.
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