All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues

Season 1, Episode 11, Aired
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With the revelation that Ethan (guest-star William Mapother) was never on the plane, the survivors rush to find the missing Claire and Charlie, whom they realize have been taken. Leading the way is Jack, who feels guilty after never believing Claire's claims that she was in danger. Flashbacks in this episode concentrate on Jack's decision to stand up to his father and fight for what is right.moreless
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  • Awesome.

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    By Sarah_LOST, May 08, 2011 Report Abuse
    While swimming, Kate finds the marshal's locked case. Jack agrees to help Kate open the case if she will show him what is inside it. There are guns inside and a toy airplane. Kate says the airplane belonged to the man she loved-and killed. In a flashback, Kate robs a bank so that she can recover the toy airplane. So Locke and Boone find the hatch - whihch is awesome. Kate and Sawyer swim and find a suitcase - which they both wamt, it's so funny what they do to get it and how they act together. I feel sorry for Charlie, but I love the way Rose is with him. I love Kate's back story in this episode she is awesome. I also love Sayid and Shannon, I also love the new camp! Oh, and when Charlie cried, I cried - it's because I love this man.moreless

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  • All can say is "wow"!

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    By Cajungirl26, Dec 01, 2010 Report Abuse
    This epi had me so drawn in half way through I realized I was sitting in my chair with all my muscles tensed up. It was awesome. We learn more about Jack's stand-up character, as flashbacks show us, even if it's his own father that he has to set things right against. We sit here wondering why the heck Ethan has taken Claire and Charlie and what are his intentions? Jack and Locke take off into the woods trying to find them then decide on adding Lily and Boone to their search party. They follow the clues left by Charlie along the path and eventually decide to split up. Out of nowhere Jack runs into Ethan, who threatens to kill one of them if they keep following, the tension mounts as Jack and Lily finally find Charlie, and OMG I was bawling my eyes out when they did. However, we are still left with the question of what Ethan wants with Claire? Also, Locke and Boone have stumbled upon something in the forest buried in the ground...what is it? This was a very thrilling heartpounding episode to say the least. Awesome.moreless

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  • The search for Claire and Charlie, and more flashbacks into Jack\'s past.

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    By CTU81, Dec 01, 2010 Report Abuse
    The flashbacks into Jack\'s past were very good as they showed the tension between him and his father. I can\'t believe his father operated on someone while he was drunk and ended up killing her, and her unborn baby. I was glad to see Jack let the truth be known during the board meeting.

    The search for Claire and Charlie was the most suspenseful plotline yet. I liked how Charlie left the finger tapes behind as a trail.

    It was so suspenseful to watch Jack try and revive Charlie. I really thought Charlie was dead. That would have been horrible, he is a great character.

    Another good cliffhanger on this episode. I really want to know what that steel plating is. Can\'t wait for the next ep.moreless

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  • More delays

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    By orison731, Dec 01, 2010 Report Abuse
    When "Lost" started, it was the most exciting thing on TV I'd seen for a long time. Mysteries abounded, characters were full of possibilities and intrigue and the pilot was a major motion picture, one might say.

    Alas, ca. 10 episodes into the show's run, it seems to have lost all steam. Starting just one episode after the premiere, each show focused heavily on clumsy character "development" via formulaic flashbacks and else displayed a leisurely pace when it came to developing the ongoing plot/mystery. "All the Best Cowboys..." is no exception.

    So we learn that Jack is an honest guy who would stand up to his powerful Daddy and be his own man when it comes to truth and consequences. Yawn. What else is new? Like 80% of the show's flashback sequences (notable exceptions being Locke's and Kate's), this is trite, uninspired, obvious. And it doesn't add much to the story of the characters being stranded on this mysterious and dangerous island.

    The writers appear to hold back the good stuff for later, the revelations about where the castaways really are, what the deal is with the "monster" in the jungle, why Locke can walk again, who the "others" are etc. And this episode is even worse for not even doing much for the most recent development, Claire's abduction by the "non-passenger" Ethan.

    I'll stick around waiting for the show to get back to those things, but it had better stop boring me with stuff of secondary importance or else it has "lost" me.moreless

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  • All the Flamboyant Surgeons Get Beaten Up By Creepy Abductors

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    By Rufam, Nov 09, 2010 Report Abuse
    Jack and Locke separate in order to retake the abducted Claire and Charlie. Jack's party ends up discovering defeat by Ethan but miracle doc Jack also manages to somehow rescue Charlie from the brick of death. I guess it's called payback. It's not good. As for Locke and his faithful follower Boone, they discover a Mysterious Hatch and share some Star Wars-related witty cues. -

    JACK EPISODE aka Anoyinggggggggggggg!!!!!!!!!

    Anyhow, JACK cuts across the jungle (poor jungle) and yet, he does not get killed by the Monster. BUT, he is attacked by Ethan (yay!). Afterwards, followed by his faithful worshiper Kate the Murderer, he discovers Charlie hanged from a branch or something and heroiclly manages to bring him back to life and jackish (that's not a word) reality. That is a really well-directed scene (props to Stephen Williams), but its conclusion is far from awesome. In fact, it's kinda lame. As for the flashbacks, they are also well-directed (double props to Stephen Williams) but Jack is present (not) to save the day. On a brighter note, Locke and Boone discover the Hatch, which is going to evolve into a very interesting key-storyline in Season 2.moreless

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    • Goof: As Hurley is fishing, his shirt is soaked. In the next shot just a few seconds later, it's dry. This goes back and forth about two more times. Edit
    • At 32 letters, this is the longest title for a Lost episode ever. Edit
    • Walt blows on the dice 4 times before Hurley stops him. 4 is one of "The Numbers". Edit

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    • This episode was the last to air before a four week hiatus. Edit
    • When Walt tells Sawyer about Ethan, a microphone boom pole briefly appears on the upper edge of the screen during Sawyer's line "Okay, then it must be true". Edit
    • In 2006, rock band Senses Fail named a song Still Searching, after this episode. Edit

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    • Locke: It's gonna start raining in one minute. Boone: One minute? Locke: Give or take a few seconds. It begins raining Boone: They teach you how to predict the weather at a box company? Edit
    • Christian: I know I have been hard on you...but that is how you make a soft medal into steel. That is why you are the most gifted young surgeon in this city...I mean this, this is a career that is all about the greater good. I've had to sacrifice certain aspects of my relationship with you so that hundreds of thousands of patients will live because of your extraordinary skills...I know it's a long, long time coming. Edit
    • Michael: I'm getting sick of getting treated like a second class citizen around here cause old baldie can bag a boar. Walt: He knows a lot more than how to catch a boar. Mr Locke's a warrior. He can hunt, he can track stuff and he's the only one who brought a knife. So if it were me, I'd listen to him. Edit

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    • Hansel and Gretel: Jack, John, Boone and Kate follow Charlie's "breadcrumbs" while John marks the trees so they don't get lost.

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    • Sawyer called Jack "Dr. Do-Right". He alluded Dudley Do-Right, a cartoon about a dimwitted canadian mountie. The joke was that they were both heroic. Edit
    • Sawyer: (to Walt) So a tribe of evil natives planted a ringer in the camp to kidnap a pregnant girl and a reject from "VH-1 has-beens"? A reference to the VH-1 show Where Are They Now?, which featured updates on the lives of popular entertainment figures of the 1960s and 1970s. Charlie was briefly a 'celebrity' as a member of the fictional band "Drive Shaft". Edit

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