Solitary

Season 1, Episode 9, Aired
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Trekking around the Island, Sayid finds himself the prisoner of a mysterious woman (guest-star Mira Furlan) who apparently lives on the Island. Elsewhere, Hurley builds a golf course to try to help the survivors unwind after their traumatic ordeal. Flashbacks in this episode focus around Sayid's choice between his career and his childhood love, Nadia.moreless
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  • Awesome.

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    By Sarah_LOST, Oct 12, 2010 Report Abuse
    Sayid finds a cable running out of the ocean and into the jungle. While following it, he is caught in a trap and captured by Rousseau, the woman who sent out the distress signal. Rousseau tells Sayid she was part of a science team, and that they crashed on the island sixteen years ago. She identifies a group of island inhabitants she calls the "Others" as the carriers of a sickness that her companions caught, and says that the Others whisper in the jungle. Sayid escapes and while trying to find his way back to camp, Sayid hears the whispering she told him about. In flashbacks, Sayid is tasked with torturing a prisoner named Nadia, who was a childhood friend. Sayid's superior tells him to execute Nadia, but instead he helps her escape. I wasn't expecting another person on the island - awesome storyline. I didn't really enjoy Sayid's back story, more than the other ones but I liked his story on the island though.I love the way Jack and Sawyer are when they are together - I love them when their talking about Kate. I lvoe Hurley's golf course, he is so cool and so is the golf course, i find it so funny - awesome storyline. WHISPERS!!!moreless

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  • Hurley's PGA Tour 04...

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    By Jacob316, Feb 13, 2010 Report Abuse
    Lost gets better with each episode, This one was really great and we saw the French woman was still alive absolutely crazy. I thought the writers would have dragged this one out a bit but nine episodes into the series we meet the French woman called Danielle Rousseau, I really liked this character she is very mysterious and you know she has loads of back story. Sayid's flashbacks were about torturing the woman he loves probably my favourite Sayid centric episode thus far of the series, most of Sayid's episodes are very similar, he normal gets tortured, or he interrogates someone or he tortures someone he is a bit of a one note character to be honest, I like him and I'm glad his role is decreased throughout the series because I felt in the first season we learn everything about him. The golfing scenes are always fun to watch although it is just to fill the rest of the episode and that they a pretty useless its good to see the survivors bond because we all knew they would be together on this island for a long time.moreless

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  • Cosmopolitan Breakthrough

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    By Rufam, Dec 27, 2009 Report Abuse
    Sayid was a tormented torturer back in Iraq who rescued the love of his live by killing one of his fellows. On the Island, Sayid is the one being tortured. He also points a gun to a wacky Frenchwoman, steals her mysterious notes and wanders through the jungle surrounded by whispers. Meanwhile, Hurley invents golf and brings civilization to the camp he also brings Jack a brand new opportunity for showing off. -

    Sayid's first episode is one of the best of the first season, with great revelations, the introduction of a likable if MAD character (Danielle, of course) and an intresting and touching flashback. Naveen Andrews is superb, David Fury's ("Walkabout") writing solid and Greg Yaitanes' (Emmy Award for "House's Head") direction spectacular. Unfortunartely, my grade is brought down by the episode's secondary storyline which involves Hurley "building" a golf course and, subsequently, Jack showing off his abilities in sports (too). Meh.moreless

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  • Sayid Solitary episode!!!

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    By Dante_Edy, Jun 17, 2009 Report Abuse
    The writers tryied to make a connection between sayid present an past plot, but this time, is not well done.

    This happens because the main theme is solitude and this is why sayid was the one who found the French woman. The sayid flashbacks were very good, the contrary happens with his plot in the island. The apperance of the French woman could made this episode much more interesting, instead of that, she seems to be crazy for having past a lot of time alone in the island. With that, she doesn't have any credibility and it is exactly what the writers want you to think.

    Al least, we Know that there are more people in the island, so our survivors are not alone.

    The island events were calm enough.moreless

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  • english with an arabic accent???

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    By hp79, Feb 22, 2009 Report Abuse
    This was a pivotal episode in the way that we get the first signs that they may not be alone after all. the story on the island was very good, also the golf story.

    however, what brings the grade down for me, and something i cant understand why someone hasnt brought up on this reviewpage, is the Sayid storyline. the thing i have a problem with is why they speak english in Iraq! they start with arabic and then move over to english with an arabic accent! that is just lazy. im guessing that the actors arent fluid in arabic, but most of the people watching wouldent notice the diffrence, and as an actor it shouldent be so hard to du the few scenes that was supposed to be in Iraq in arabic! lazy, and really takes away all credability of the storyline!!!moreless

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    • The name "The Others" is first used in this episode by Rousseau. Edit
    • When Jack is shown golfing for the second time and the other survivors are watching him, you can see the cord for his microphone pack on the left side of his shirt coming up from the waist of his jeans. Edit
    • When Sayid is upside down in Rosseau's trap we can hear him whisper something in arabic; "La illaha illalah, Muhammadun Rasulullah", known as the "Shahada" this is translated as "There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his Messenger", a very well known sentence that, among other situations, is pronounced by muslims about to die as a way to enter paradise. Edit

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    • International Airdates: - Denmark: March 4, 2005 on Kanal 5 - Greece: August 14, 2008 at 23.00 on ANT1 Edit
    • Although credited, Daniel Dae Kim ("Jin") didn't appear in this episode. This was the first episode without him. Edit
    • Naveen Andrews received a 2005 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in this episode. Edit

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    • Jack: We're surviving here, Hurley. And that's my main concern is keeping us alive. Things could be worse. Hurley: How?! Edit
    • Sayid: (Turning on Danielle's music box) You see...some things can be fixed. Danielle: Thank-you! Thank-you so much, thank-you so much. Sayid: Danielle, please let me go. Danielle: Go? Sayid: Back to the people I told you about. Danielle: You can't. You have to stay - it's not safe. Sayid: Not safe? What's not safe? Danielle: You need me! You can't leave. Sayid: Danielle... (The sound of an animal comes from outside) Danielle: If we're lucky it's one of the bears. Sayid: If we're lucky? It might be that thing out there! The monster. Danielle: There's no such thing as monsters. Edit
    • Hurley: What are you guys doing out in the jungle at night? Ethan: Best time to hunt. Locke: Ethan here has some experience...spotted some tracks, looked like they might be rabbit or some other rodent. Hurley: Rodent, yum. Edit

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    • Episode title: This week's song title was most likely "Solitary" by Yearning. Edit
    • Michael: Sink this shot and you get to wear the blazer. Golf pros who win the Masters golf tournament get the privilege of wearing a green blazer. Edit
    • Rousseau is named after the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of his more famous papers, "Origins and Foundations of Inequality Among Men", asserted that civilization created all the ills of mankind. He asserted that people were horrible to one another and did not help one another because of civilization and the only way for man to be free was to spurn civilization and become a "natural man", living in the woods away from all convieniences and civilizations. Edit

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