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Episode I – Force Majeure (Day 1)
Elliott Maslow wakes up on the Island after the crash of Flight 815
and starts to explore the jungle. He finds an unlucky passenger of
Oceanic Flight 815 dead caught in some branches, and a mysterious woman
standing beside the body. Elliott has flashes about a dead body and the
woman’s face. She suddenly disappears and then reappears nearby.
Elliott follows her until he meets Kate.
They have a brief conversation and then when Kate gives him a bottle of
water, Elliot has a flashback to when he is on the plane and sees the
marshal and Kate in handcuffs, realizing that Kate was a fugitive, but
promising to keep her secret. Elliott follows Walt’s Yellow Labrador,
Vincent, to the crash site. Jack,
who is seen trying to revive a man, tells Elliott to shut off the
fuselage so that the engines do not explode. Later, Elliott tells Jack
he cannot remember anything, which Jack diagnoses as amnesia. Jack
recommends that he try to find any of his belongings. Kate tells him she
found a backpack where they met and left it near the end of camp.
Elliott then gets attacked by a mysterious man, known as “Beady Eyes”,
who demands to know where the camera is and threatens to kill Elliott.
Episode II – A New Day (Day 2)
Elliott wakes up the next day and sees Jack, Kate and Charlie running from the Monster.
Elliott talks to Kate about why Jack is guarding the only entrance to
the jungle, and she tells him that Jack doesn’t want anyone in the
jungle after the encounter from the Monster. Elliott then remembers to
go to the cockpit when the flight attendant stowed away his camera. He
thinks that the camera might restart his memory. Elliott then sees the
woman again at the edge of the beach. Elliott has a flashback to a
vacation in Thailand,
when the woman expresses her desire to explore a nearby island and
tells a lie to steal a boat. He and the woman seem to be in a
relationship. In the present, Elliott goes to Jack and tells a lie that Claire has fainted, and while Jack rushes to her, Elliott uses the opportunity to go to the cockpit. On the way, he is stopped by Locke
who is hiding in some banyan trees. Locke calls out, “Hey son, over
here. I’m over here in the banyan trees.” Locke further helps out by
claiming, “I don’t know what’s in this jungle, but I do know the banyan
trees provide cover. Hide inside the hollowed roots, and you should be
safe.” Elliot then leaves Locke in the banyan trees and avoids the
Monster on his way to the cockpit by hiding in the banyan trees that
Locke told him about earlier. Eventually he finds his laptop and camera,
but on the way out is knocked out by Ben, Juliet and Tom.
Episode III – Via Domus (Days 17–21)
Back at the beach, Hurley tells Elliott that the other survivors do not trust him. Sayid tells him that Locke
found some batteries in the wreckage and that Elliott should go talk to
him, so that he may start up his laptop. Locke tells him he doesn’t
need his laptop because the Island is a fresh start, but this triggers a
memory of Elliott in a thrift shop in Sydney,
spying on Lisa Gellhorn, the woman he’s been seeing on the Island, who
is seeking information from Rico, the store owner. Elliott sees Locke,
still in his wheelchair, trying to sell the camping equipment from his
failed Walkabout.
Locke decides to help Elliott find his batteries, but only if he is
able to pass through the jungle and caves unharmed by the Monster or the
Others. Elliott comes upon Locke’s excavation of the Hatch,
and visions of Lisa lead him safely through the caves. Elliott finds a
corpse in the caves, holding a golden compass with the words Via Domus
(Latin for “The Way Home”) inscribed on it. Locke gives him the battery,
saying “the Island provides”, and believes that the Island gave Elliott
the compass so that he may find the answers he is looking for.
Episode IV – Forty-Two (Days 44–45)
Elliott
is at the beach camp examining his compass when he hears an explosion
in the jungle, which the compass is pointing directly at. Kate and
Hurley confirm that they’ve blown open Locke’s hatch, and discovered the
Swan station inside. At the Swan entrance, Sayid offers to fix the
battery for his laptop, on the condition that Elliott can prove he was
on the plane. Talking to Hurley triggers a flashback to Rico’s pawn
shop, where Rico tells Elliott of a deal happening that night in room 42
of Hotel Persephone between Chenchey Research Institute president Zoran
Savo and some businessmen, in exchange for pictures of Rico’s cheating
wife. Lisa bursts in, claiming that the Savo story was hers, but Elliott
claims he was “just looking out for her”. Thus Elliott learns who he is
and why he was in Australia. He returns to Sayid with the information,
who confirms it on the flight manifest and lets him into the hatch to
help enter the numbers. Elliott’s entrance into the Swan closes the
door, trapping him inside. He notices that his compass points toward a
cement wall in the hatch, and when he activates the electrical panels,
the station enters a lockdown and the timer resets to 4 minutes. The
computer prompts Elliott to enter “the way home”, and when he enters
“Via Domus”, the computer unlocks, allowing him to unlock the blast
doors. Jack and Sayid burst into the station, confronting him about
information discovered on his laptop about C4 and deadly sarin gas. They
lock him in the armory until they can discover the truth.
Episode V – Hotel Persephone (Day 46)
Elliott
wakes up in the armory and has another vision of Lisa, which prompts a
flashback to the lobby of the Hotel Persephone in Sydney, the night of
the Savo exchange. Beady Eyes checks for messages at the front desk for
Savo’s room, 42, and Elliott confronts Lisa, who claims that Savo is
responsible for the death of her sister. They decide to expose Savo
together, and Lisa distracts his guards so Elliott can sneak upstairs.
Back in the Swan, Elliott uses his new-found memory of his job as a
journalist to convince Kate to release him. Elliott discovers
ultraviolet maps of the Island hidden around the hatch that point him to
the entrance to the concrete room, hidden behind a waterfall outside
the Swan. The door is sealed shut, but Hurley tells him about the
dynamite they used to blow the hatch, hidden at the Black Rock deep in
the jungle. The Monster chases Elliott through the Dark Territory, and
eventually comes upon the Black Rock, an old ship in the middle of the
jungle. He retrieves the dynamite and, after evading the Others and the
Monster, successfully blows open the door to the Incident Room. The room
contains a large malfunctioning reactor, which interferes with his
compass, Elliott uses a computer to neutralize the reactor, which fixes
the compass. A beeping noise from the computer draws Elliott back, and
on the screen is written “Elliott Maslow. We know what you did. And we
will find you.”
Episode VI – Whatever It Takes (Day 46)
Elliott
is following his compass in the jungle when the Monster begins to chase
him. When Elliott reaches the edge of the Others’ sonic fence, the
Monster confronts Elliott directly, but lets him live and disappears
into the jungle. Juliet appears and warns him not to cross the fence.
Juliet tells Elliott that he is responsible for Lisa’s death, prompting
another flashback to the Persephone lobby. Lisa approaches Savo’s guards
at the elevator, but is unable to distract him. Elliott tells the guard
that Lisa is a journalist, hinting that she knows about Savo. The guard
grabs Lisa, and Elliott takes the elevator to room 42. Back at the
fence, Juliet lets Elliott through, saying that Ben wants him for some
unknown purpose, and allows him access to the tunnels that lead him
through the basement of the Flame station. Upon climbing the ladder to
the main floor, Elliott finds Beady Eyes holding Mikhail hostage, but
Elliott shoots and kills him. Mikhail thanks him and apologizes, as a
dart strikes Elliott’s neck and he falls to the ground.
Episode VII – Worth a Thousand Words (Day 67)
Elliott
wakes up in a holding tank in the Hydra station, to another vision of
Lisa. Tom asks him about Hanso and Lisa, which triggers another
flashback to the night of the Savo deal. Elliott hides in Savo’s room
and witnesses Thomas Mittelwerk, President of the Hanso Foundation,
giving Savo a briefcase containing sarin gas, which Savo intends to use
to research ESP. Beady Eyes brings in Lisa. In the tank, Elliott
realizes that he betrayed Lisa, and Tom lets him go. Elliott enters the
Advisory Room, where Ben tells him that his compass will lead him to a
boat that will take him off the island. But first, Elliot must lead Jack
to the Black Rock, where Tom will be waiting for them. Elliot returns
to the beach camp and tells Jack that he has found a way off the Island
and to meet him at the Black Rock. At the ship, Jack hands Elliott a
gun, and Tom and another Other step out with Kate as their hostage. Tom
tells Elliott he can go, giving him his compass back. This triggers the
final flashback scene, as Savo interrogates Lisa as to what she knows
and the whereabouts of Elliott. Savo shoots her in the head as Elliott,
still hiding, snaps a picture of the murder. Elliott runs, and realizes
he sacrificed Lisa for the sake of a single photo. Elliott shoots the
dynamite on the ship, incapacitating the Others and allowing Kate and
Jack to escape, but leaving Elliott unconscious. Jack decides to leave
him there, despite Kate’s objections. Elliott is awakened by Juliet, who
tells him that Ben has ordered him killed and his boat destroyed. She
tells him to follow a bearing of 325 to get home, and that he has to
hurry to the boat before the Others get there. He arrives in time at the
dock, and is surprised to find Locke there. Locke fends off the Others
and tells Elliott that he wants to stay on the Island. Elliott boards
the sailboat, named the ‘Via Domus’ and sails away from the Island. As
he does so, he picks up a mayday transmission on the radio and the sky
begins to shake, making the same noise as the day of the implosion of the Swan station.
Elliott looks up to see a plane breaking apart and crashing on the
Island. Elliott wakes up again on the day of the crash, only to be
confronted by a very much alive Lisa Gellhorn, who exclaims “Oh my God,
we made it. We’re alive”.
Gameplay
The player is cast as a previously unseen survivor, Elliott Maslow, a photojournalist with amnesia. Gameplay involves Resident Evil-style
fetch quests and puzzle solving. The use of flashbacks as a
storytelling device, which are integral to the television show, is part
of the game play. Also, owing to the main character’s amnesia, they are
often just as revealing to the character as they are to the player. The
player explores locations seen in the show, such as the beach camp, the
dark territory, The Pearl Station, The Hydra Station, the Flame station,
the Black Rock and the Swan Station. The player also interacts with
some of the major characters of the television show; Sawyer, Jack, Sun,
Kate, Ben, Juliet and Locke, among others. Elliott must also avoid the
“Black Smoke” monster. Trading with other survivors and taking photos
with a camera are also part of the gameplay.
Development
On May 22, 2006, Ubisoft announced that they had licensed the rights from Touchstone Television to create a video game based on Lost planned for release at the end of February 2008.[2]
Although it was not in development hell,
there had been no updates on the game since its initial May 2006
announcement when Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse stated in the official
Lost podcast of April 16, 2007 that the game was in production
and that they had seen playable footage of the game. The game was
officially unveiled at Comic-Con 2007.[3]
