"What They Died For" | |
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Lost episode | |
Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 16 |
Directed by | Paul Edwards |
Written by | Edward Kitsis Adam Horowitz Elizabeth Sarnoff |
Production code | 616 |
Original air date | May 18, 2010 |
Running time | 43 minutes[1] |
Guest appearances | |
Mark Pellegrino as Jacob Alan Dale as Charles Widmore Michelle Rodriguez as Ana Lucia Cortez Mira Furlan as Danielle Rousseau Tania Raymonde as Alex Dylan Minnette as David Shephard Sheila Kelley as Zoe Kenton Duty as Young Jacob Wendy Pearson as Nurse Kim Kondracki Ashlee Kyker as Kid Ernesto Lopez as Police officer | |
"What They Died For" is the 16th and penultimate episode of the American serial drama series Lost, and 119th and penultimate episode overall. The episode aired on May 18, 2010, on ABC in the United States.[2] The episode's flash-sideways are centered on Jack Shephard, Desmond Hume, Benjamin Linus and James "Sawyer" Ford.
In the flash-sideways timeline, Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick) continues his attempt to gather all the passengers of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815. In 2007, The Man in Black (Terry O'Quinn) devises a new strategy. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) takes the role as leader of the island while he and his group search for Desmond.