After a quick, panicky run through the jungle, Jack finds himself on the beach amid a hellish tableau of airplane and human wreckage. Charlie wandering too close to the still running airplane engine, Jin, yelling for his wife and Michael yelling "WAAAAALTT?!? WAAAALTTT!?!"
Shannon's first appearance sees her standing alone and screaming, nicely foreshadowing her almost total lack of contributory skills. Jack springs into action and with the help of a fully mobile Locke and an extra, they pull someone from under some twisted up airframe.
Jack spots Claire and trots over to help her and Aaron. While he's asking Claire questions, Mr. Darwin Was SO Right wanders too close to the running engine and gets turned into hamburger.
Jack then enlists Hurley as contraction monitor while he rushes off to stop Boone from killing Rose with kindness. At this point, Hurley foreshadows his role as island comic relief with the line "Oh, you gotta be kidding me..." Hurley further foreshadows the whole show after they nearly get blown up and he's lying on the beach face down and says "Dude. I'm not goin' anywhere."
Darn tootin', Jabba.
Once he's saved as many as he can, Jack finds a sewing kit and heads out into the jungle for his fateful meeting with Kate. This nicely foreshadows Kate's ability to suck it up and get the job done when necessary.
Cue a panorama of most of the Lostaways and are introduced to the most practical guy on the island, Saayid. He's building a signal fire. And not asking, but telling Charlie and others to help him.
The next moment shows ill fated Marshall and his ugly chest wound along with Kate's impressive ability to both tell and obscure the truth at the same time.
In an intimate campfire setting, out comes the island's first real mystery. Mechanical and eerie sounding, something is moving through the jungle.
The first flashback shows Jack talking to Cindy, the future "tailie". She slyly gives Jack some extra booze and smiles fetchingly at him. Jack talks to rose and Rose and learns she's married but the husband is in the bathroom.
Panic, Oxygen Masks, Beach
Jack, Kate and Charlie decide to find the cockpit and Charlie's back story as a former musician is revealed. Vincent the dog shows up before the bad news does. Serious rain rolls in.
"Hey guys, is this normal? Kind of day turning into night, you know, end of the world type weather... Guys?"
At this point, Locke is shown, as is his unique take on the situation. While the rest of the survivors are scrambling for shelter from the rain, Locke sits on the beach, spreads his arms and embraces the weather, symbolically accepting his fate and the island itself.
The Plane Truth
Naturally, Jack and company find the nose of the plane After a long hard climb through bodies and seats, while Charlie is off powdering his nose, they reach the cockpit. The pilot just happens to regain consciousness as they arrive, so he can relay the unfortunate news.
They're in serious trouble.
"Six hours in, my radio went out. No one could see us. We turned back to land at Fiji. By the time we hit turbulence we were a thousand miles off course. They're looking for us in the wrong place."
Cue the Great Tree Pusher, again. It pulls right up to the drive thru window and gets itself a pilot to go. Rare.
The three heroes get separated but as the rain stops, Kate finds Charlie, the two of them find the body of the pilot in the tree and Jack finds them all.
Charlie Gets The Last Word
"Guys? How does something like that happen?"
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