“Meet Kevin Johnson” is the 80th television episode of the American Broadcasting Company’s Lost. It first aired March 20, 2008, on ABC in the United States and on CTV in Canada. Most of the episode consists of a continuous flashback showing what happened to Michael Dawson in the month that he spent away in New York.
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“Meet Kevin Johnson” is the 80th television episode of the American Broadcasting Company’s Lost. It is the eighth of 16 ordered scripts for the fourth season. The episode was written in October and November 2007 by supervising producer Elizabeth Sarnoff and co-producer Brian K. Vaughan, and directed in November by co-executive producer Stephen Williams. It first aired March 20, 2008, on ABC in the United States and on CTV in Canada. Most of the episode consists of a continuous flashback showing what happened to Michael Dawson in the month that he spent away in New York and on the freighter. It was watched by 13 million Americans and was met with mixed reactions. The writers felt that the episode’s cliffhanger was unsuitable as a potential season finale, but ABC ultimately overruled their opposition and aired the episode. It won the fourth-season’s sole Primetime Emmy Award for its achievement in sound mixing. The episode’s opening is set on December 26, 2004, over three months after the crash of Oceanic 815. The freighter is owned by Charles Widmore, who is intent on extracting the Others’ leader Ben Linus. Captain Gault stops two crewmembers from deserting thefreighter in a raft. He publicly beats them and shouts that this is to save their lives, reminding the crew of what happened when George Minkowski left the boat. The next morning, Sayid Jarrah confronts Michael about his motivations, and the narrative shifts into an uninterrupted flashback of Michael’s life after escaping from the island.
Michael and his son Walt Lloyd return to New York. Overcome with guilt, Michael confesses that he murdered Ana Lucia Cortez and Libby as part of his rescue of Walt from the others’ captivity. Michael becomes estranged from Walt, who goes to live with Michael’s mother. Michael is haunted by apparitions and nightmares of the late Libby. He sells the watch that Jin gave him in the first-season finale and buys a gun for suicide, too, but this attempt is unsuccessful, because the gun jams. Michael is confronted by Tom, who explains that the Others will not allow Michael to kill himself, and Tom explains that he will only allow Michael the chance to kill the Others. After Michael tries to detonate a bomb provided by Ben, he finds Martin Keamy and his associates with guns to sabotage the mission until he finds a fake bomb that is only provided to discover it is a fake. Michael agrees to kill everyone on board, who may try to kill his fellow survivors, and boards the freighters from Fiji. He becomes acquainted with the crew and hesitates to do it until he becomes acquainted to Michael becomes the only one on the crew who is willing to help him. He is eventually recruited as a spy for the Others, and he joins them on a mission to find out what is going on on the island, and how they plan to get back to the mainland.
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