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Feb 8, 2006 · The Long Con: Directed by Roxann Dawson. With Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Naveen Andrews, Emilie de Ravin, Matthew Fox. Survivors fear that "The Others" may have returned after someone attempts to kidnap Sun. Sawyer is an amused, highly interested bystander when tension escalates between Jack, Locke, Kate, and Ana Lucia over control of the ...
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"The Long Con" is the 38th episode of Lost. It is the 13th episode of the second season. The episode was directed by Roxann Dawson, and written by Leonard Dick and Steven Maeda. It first aired on February 8, 2006, on ABC. The character of James "Sawyer" Ford is featured in the episode's flashbacks.
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Previously on Lost
1. Locke confronts Charlie, who had kidnapped Aaron. He punches him, sending him to the ground. ("Fire + Water") 2. Tom warns Jack not to cross "the Line." ("The Hunting Party") 3. Jack asks Ana about training an army. ♪ ("The Hunting Party")
Flashback
Sawyer lies in a hotel room bed with the beautiful Cassidy. Sawyer attempts to perform the same trick he performed on Jessica, except when the brief case opens this time, Cassidy doesn't bite. She doesn't believe the coincidence, and also notices that the money is fake. She chides him for a clumsy attempt, and informs him that she didn't get any money from the divorce. Sawyer offers to leave - no harm, no foul; but Cassidy would rather he stayed. She wants to learn the con. Sawyer stands outs...
On the Island
Inside the Hatch, Jack and Locke open the gun vault. Jack enters, opens the Halliburton case, and removes the guns. Along with the weapons, the vault also contains the seven Virgin Mary statues that Locke confiscated from Charlie. Locke's left the heroin in the statues, because he's too self-admittedly superstitious to break open seven religious icons. Locke gives Jack the combination to the gun vault, and then suggests that Jack might consider keeping the medicine in there as well. It seems...
The call sign of the radio station Hurley and Sayid find is WXR.As Sayid and Hurley sit on the beach tuning the radio, at timeframe 39:27, a spark can be seen flying up from the fire and hitting Hurley just above the upper lip.When Sayid approached Hurley with the radio he had modified, Hurley was reading the manuscript Bad Twin by Gary Troup. Gary Troup was the man who was sucked into the airplane turbine engine shortly...Kate's mother Diane was briefly seen as the waitress when Sawyer and Gordy ordered their food.Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Eko) and Cynthia Watros (Libby) appear without speaking lines.This is the third extended episode of Lost running 5 minutes longer than the standard 1 hour episodes of Lost, other episodes that were extended were "The Other 48 Days," "What Kate Did," "Maternit...Kevin Dunn, who plays Gordy, appeared in the rejected Sawyer flashback from "Adrift". However, it is unknown what relation those flashbacks had to the ones in this episode.Recurring themes
1. Kate's mother is at Sawyer's diner. (Character connections) 2. Sawyer cons both the survivors on-island and Cassidy and various others off-island. (Deceptions and cons) 3. Sawyer tells Charlie that he is "not a good person." (Good and bad people) 4. Sawyer tricks Locke into moving the guns so that he would be able to get the guns (with help from Charlie) where he can fool everyone. (Deception and cons) 5. Sawyer's pills have a theme of black and white. (Black and white) 6. Sawyer lied to K...
Cultural references
1. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge: One of the books Locke is looking at while alphabetizing them in the Hatch is this Civil War-era short story written by Ambrose Bierce (1890). The story is famous for its unreliable narrator, irregular time sequence, and twist ending. (Literary works) 1.1. The Twilight Zone: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge was made into a short film that was featured as an episode of this television series (1964). (Movies and TV) 2. Donkey Kong: Sawyer says he is "this...
Literary techniques
1. It appears as though Sun is kidnapped in her garden by the Others. It is then revealed that Charlie had faked the kidnapping as part of an elaborate con by Sawyer to get hold of the guns. (Plot twist) 2. When Sayid picks up the radio waves he says they can be "from anywhere" to which Hurley replies "or any time." It was later confirmed by the directors that the radio wave was from the past. (Foreshadowing) 3. Cassidy asks Sawyer to show her how to do a "long con" but it turns out that she...
Episode references
1. Sayid and Hurley hear Rousseau's distress signal on the radio. ("Pilot, Part 2") 2. Jack corrects Ana Lucia that she means Steve, because Scott died. ("Homecoming") 3. Hurley mentions Bernard hearing Boone's transmission on the radio. ("Deus Ex Machina") ("The Other 48 Days") 4. Sawyer is angry that his stash was raided while he was on the raft. ("Exodus, Part 2") 5. Locke says that they should hide the guns before there is another incident, referring to Shannon's death. ("Abandoned") 6. L...
Episode allusions
1. Sawyer pretends to pull the same con routine on Cassidy as he successfully did on Jessica earlier. ("Confidence Man") 2. Kate states that both she and Sawyer know he doesn't know how to track. ("Outlaws") 3. Locke suggests to Jack that the reason Jack wants to know the combination to the gun vault is that Locke might, for example, fall off a cliff. Jack reminds him that there are a lot of cliffs on this Island. Locke saved Jack from falling off a cliff before. ("White Rabbit") Jack's respo...
Nov 5, 2014 · Score. A-. Episode. 14. “The Long Con” (originally aired 02/08/2006) Serial television is a long con. This is a dangerous sentiment to raise in a review of the television series Lost,...
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In flashbacks, Sawyer pulls his old "drop open a briefcase full of money" trick on a woman named Cassidy, who isn't fooled at all and realizes he's trying to con her. She asks him to teach her how to con people. Eventually it's revealed that Sawyer is pulling a long con on her, but he has genuinely fallen for her in their time together.
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