- Oceanic Flight 815 from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles, USA crashes on a tropical island in the Pacific
- The 48 crashed include Kate, Sawyer, Locke, Hurley, Sayid, Rose, and:
- Jack is a doctor and bosses everyone around
- Claire is pregnant
- Sun and Jin are a married couple who only speak Korean
- Charlie is in a rock band called Drive Shaft
- Boone and Shannon are brother and sister
- Michael and Walt are father and son; They have a dog named Vincent
- At the crash site, Jack saves Rose using CPR and then saves Hurley and Claire from being crushed by a wing
- Kate sews up a deep wound on Jack's back
- The Monster makes a lot of noise and freaks all of the survivors out
- Jack, Kate, and Charlie find the cockpit
- Charlie goes in the plane's bathroom, raising Kate's curiosity
- The severely-injured pilot explains that they were 1,000 miles off course and hence the search parties are looking for them in the wrong place
- The Monster rips the pilot out of the cockpit, kills him, and leaves the body in a tree
- Jack, Kate and Charlie escape with the non-working transceiver