Namaste

Namaste aired on March 18, 2009, after a two-week break. The title is a greeting from Hindi. Jack Bender directed, and Paul Zbyszewski wrote it with Brian K. Vaughan.

Where things stand: three years have passed for the people on the Island, and Sawyer has built a new life in an unexpected time. The Oceanic Six have found their way back, and Locke’s journey off the Island has been told.

This one spreads the focus across Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sawyer. The returning group has to fit into DHARMA in 1977, while Sun searches for Jin in the present. DHARMA has been part of the show since the hatch was opened, so this is a chance to see it from the inside. Keep the season’s two timelines straight in your head as you go. The show trusts you to.