Hearts and Minds

Season 1, Episode 13, Aired
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Locke and Boone continue to uncover the mysterious metal that they had found in the woods. When Shannon begins to investigate, Locke put Boone's feelings and strengths to a deadly test. Flashbacks center around Boone's and Shannon's past right before the plane crash.
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  • One of the Best episodes of this Season, however, it can be misunderstood by some people.

    9.5
    "Superb"
    By Dante_Edy, May 23, 2011 Report Abuse
    This episode is Boone/Shannon centric, but with locke participation, could have been even a Locke centric too.

    In 40 minutes, you have what i and my buddies call - Key Moments - can be funny moments, surprises, shocking moments, twists or cliffhangers, it doesnt matter, in 40 minutes, only a few minutes (maybe 3 to 5 minutes), make a episode worth watching. It is what make the diference. The Rest is only details, that are necessary to understand a story.

    However, in this episode, they produced a minimum of 20 Key Moments. We have some funny moments with Hugo and Jin, Kate discovers Sun Secrets, we see how charlie is feeling, we see boone take a unique experience with twists and some suspense (and "that" thing, they call a monster), and the flashbacks had some Key Moments too, as usuals.

    The dialogues between the characters in this episode was very well done too.

    It is like nothing was left to be done in this episode. However, the finals scenes of Boone/shannon flashbacks, produced some controversy, even when you know what happened to boone in the island, you can be disappointed. However, I liked almost moment of this episode. One thing is sure, this episode entertains enough, with high quality Scenes.moreless

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  • Awesome.

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    By Sarah_LOST, Oct 12, 2010 Report Abuse
    Shannon's relationship with Sayid gets more personal. Locke and Boone try to get into the hatch they found. Boone wants to tell Shannon about the hatch and Locke gives him a drug that causes him to hallucinate and let go of Shannon. In flashbacks, Boone tries to get rid of Shannon's abusive boyfriend by paying him off, only to find out that it was all a scam perpetrated by Shannon, who proceeds to sleep with Boone. Wow - this episode is just wow. I mean this episode was/is awesome! I loved every minute of it. Locke and Boone are amazing. I love Boon and Shannons back stpry and the "story" in this episode. I just love Boone. I love Jack and Hurleys scene. Sun has made a garden. Kate finds out that Sun speaks English. I love Jin and Hurley in this episode so funny. I also love the Jack and Charlie scene too.moreless

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  • A solid episode...

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    By Jacob316, Feb 19, 2010 Report Abuse
    When Locke learns that Boone wants to share their "secret" with Shannon, Locke decides to teach him a lesson. This leads to Shannon's life being placed in what seems like peril. Boone and Shannon's dark past is revealed in a shocking backstory that recalls their relationship right before the plane crash and presages the return of the beast. Kate, who has become a confidante to the soft-spoken Sun, is puzzled by Sun's mysterious behavior and the revelation that she can speak English. A hungry Hurley must convince Jin to share his fish by making up for offending Jin by rejecting his offer of raw fish early on, or he'll continue to suffer digestive problems from the limited island diet. Hearts and minds is a solid episode of Lost, it was bound to be after the dissapointment of the last episode. We learn more about Boone and Shannon its intresting but still kind of predictable backstory with no real importance to the series. The Boone and Locke story was finally developed more the scene between Boone and Locke were the best, I loved the final scene where they had a arguement but soon went back to the Hatch. This was a entertaining episode even if it developed only small parts of the the hatch story and the monsters scenes where great but looking back they didnt mean anything because it was just an allusion.moreless

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  • Give Me Sweet, Sweet Hallucinations

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    By Rufam, Dec 28, 2009 Report Abuse
    Boone gets beaten up and tied up by Locke a fact, and a surprising one providing they 've been BFF since the Hatch discovery and then hunted by the Monster and witnesses Shannon's death a hallucination created by the Island. Still, pretty awesome. -

    Although I was never a big fan of Boone or a fan of the actor portraying him, I must admit that his was one of my favorie episodes of the season. However, it wasn't appreciated by some mainly because Shannon's death was revealed to be a hallucination in the end. Still, the scenes involving Boone and Shannon being chased by the Monster where superb, wheras the flashbacks were also excellent and full of twists and turns. The episode ended with a gripping cliffhanger that had me asking for more.moreless

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  • A little betetr, but this is one heart that needs to know its mind

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    By DavidB226Morris, Feb 01, 2009 Report Abuse
    Despite Jack's warning: 'live together, die alone, it's becoming increasingly clear that the castaways are beginning to fragment. Jack, Kate, and Sun seem to be involved in the concept of survival and escape, with Sayid and Michael nominally on their side. On the other side or Locke, Charlie, Walt and now apparently Boone who are more interested in trying to figure out the mysteries of the island. Locke seems to be aware of this; when Boone tries to tell Sayid to stay away from Shannon, he says that "they're going to want to have him on their side". He doesn't mean the caves, which is the only split we've seen so far (and which he and Boone elected to be a part of) he means something far deeper. This becomes a lot clearer in 'Hearts and Minds'

    It's been a week since Locke and Boone began excavating what they refer to the first time as 'the hatch'. Unearthing it seems to be only part of what Locke has in mind, it's clear that he believes the island is testing him somehow, and this test seems to presume that he can take whatever actions he wants. He has to know at some point this discovery has to be share with his fellow castaways, but is instead going to all efforts to make sure as few people as possible know. He's been lying to the others saying their hunting boars, but since they're not coming back with any, Hurley, Jack and Shannon are becoming suspicious. Furthermore, he's not even trying to coordinate his stories: when both Syed and Jack ask where Boone is, he tells conflicting stories that he has to know will come back to bite him. Eventually, his lies do catch up to him, and the results are fatal--- just not to him. This episode is a trademark example. Just as he did when he put Charlie through hell to kick his heroin addiction, he puts Boone through a painful and excruciating experience--- knocking him out, tying him up, and applying what we eventually learn is some kind of hallucinogenic substance to his head in order to help bring Boone to an epiphany. Not surprisingly, it involves Shannon. The two of them have been disagreeing since they got here, and its clear that their problems clearly predate this. In fact, that's the whole reason Boone was in Australia to begin with: to get Shannon out of trouble. The situation that unfolds is so convoluted we're not sure who was trying to play who, but Boone was bailing his stepsister (as we learn for the first time their true relationship) out of another jam. However, as messy as this was, it's clear their relationship was even more complicated. It's not clear whether they had been having sex before what happened in Sydney, but Boone's been carrying a torch for her for some time. For one thing, his girlfriend is almost exactly identical to Shannon. For another, he is far angrier at Syed for pursuing Shannon on the island then the situation deserves. Yet in his heart, he knows that his obsession with Shannon is unhealthy. Granted, it takes her (fake) death for him to realize this, but Boone is probably better off getting her out of his heart.

    Life is going on, though like in the previous episode, it seems really odd that everyone's not only given up looking for Claire, but doesn't seem concerned about the possibilities that there are other, unfriendly people on this island. For that matter, a lot of people seem a lot out of characters with how things were last episode. Jack and Kate are acting friendly again, even though he was practically at her throat in the last episode, and Charlie seems a lot more normal considering everything's that happened to him. Furthermore, no one seems to be considering the unbelievable. When Syed finds out that the compass Locke has given him is not working properly, he and Jack write it off as simply being defective rather than attributing it to the island. As it turns out, there's an excellent reason the compass isn't working, but we won't find out why until next year.

    In the meantime, everybody's trying to contribute to something like surviving. Jin has been continuing catching fish for the islanders, and has been gradually appearing more and more human. The scene between him and Hurley is the funniest between them, but it is clear that Jin is making more of an effort to try and help. When he gives Hurley a fish, it's the first real nice things that he's done since we've met him. However, he won't become truly sympathetic for a little while longer.

    Sun, in the meantime is continuing her effort to plant a garden, this time trying to grow fruit. As Kate helps her with it, she realizes the secret that she has been keeping, and we also learn that she's not doing it because she's afraid of him, she's afraid that it will hurt him. She is still in love with her husbands, despite everything she thinks that he has done.

    'Hearts and Minds' is a step forward compared with the last episode, but it does still seem that we aren't making much progress. It is never entirely clear how this experience that Boone went through was supposed to help him survive the island, nor did it help them get any further with their problems. We still seem to be running in place, and the character development doesn't seem quite up to what we have seen before (particularly as Shannon comes across as being even less sympathetic, if such a thing were possible).However, things are about to get started again, in directions we didn't expect.moreless

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  • Trivia

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    • NUMBERS: 4 Bryan, Shannon's boyfriend punched Boone 4 times. Edit
    • NUMBERS: 15 Boone's flight to Sydney took 15 hours. Edit
    • Numbers: 4 The camp is 4 miles west of the hatch. In Locke' story, Michelangelo looked at the block of marble for 4 months. Edit

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    • International Airdates: - Denmark: April 1, 2005 on Kanal 5 - Greece: August 20, 2008 at 23.00 on ANT1 Edit
    • This episode features a commentary by executive producer Carlton Cuse, supervising producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach, and actors, Ian Somerhalder and Maggie Grace on the season 1 DVD set. Edit
    • Like the previous two episodes, Emilie de Ravin (Claire) does not appear in this episode and is not credited. Edit

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    • (Kate and Sun are kneeling by Sun's garden) Kate: Can you believe we've been here for over three weeks? I was on my way to Bali. I travel a lot. I was looking forward to exploring the island. Somehow I ended up on a flight to LA instead. I guess that falls under the category of "Be careful what you wish for." (Sun smiles and then looks at Kate) You understood me. (Sun gets worried look on her face) You did, didn't you? You just understood what I said. You speak English? Sun: Please... don't tell anyone. Edit
    • Hurley: You want to wish something on your worst enemy? Hope they step on a sea urchin. Edit
    • Boone: I'm going to give you 25,000 U.S. Dollars. Bryan: I love her. Boone: How much? Bryan: My love for her? It's worth closer to $50,000. Edit

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    • Locke: (to Sayid) Well you made a compass. I haven't seen one of those since I was a Webelos. "Webelos" is the highest rank a Cub Scout can achieve, the last step before becoming a Boy Scout. The requirements include familiarity with the requirements of being a boy scout, as well as the completion of various physical tasks. Edit
    • Episode title: Hearts and Minds
      Hearts and Minds was 1974's Oscar-winning documentary, a provocative look at the US involvement in the Vietnam War. Expression was based on the military pacification program, "Winning the Hearts and Minds" of the Vietnamese villagers. Edit
    • Hurley: "I saw it on TV once!"
      Hurley either saw an episode of Friends where Monica gets stung by a jellyfish and Chandler has to pee on it or he saw an episode of Survivor where the same thing happened. Edit

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