Recurring Phrases - Loop/Circle

PILOT 2

The group finds a radio broadcast:

SHANNON: It's repeating.

SAYID: She's right.

BOONE: What?

SAYID: It's a loop. Iteration, it's repeating the same message. The counter -- the next number will end 533.

RADIO: Iteration: 17294533.

TABULA RASA

The radio expedition discuss the radio broadcast:

SAWYER: Okay, really enjoyed the puppet show. Fantastic. But we're stuck in the middle of damn nowhere. How about we talk about that other thing? You know that transmission Abdul picked up on his little radio? The French chick that said, "They're all dead." The transmission's been on a loop for. . . how long was it, Freckles?

KATE: 16 years.

SAWYER: Right. Let's talk about that.

WALKABOUT

Locke explains how to hunt boar:

JACK: Okay Mr. Locke, what is it that we're hunting?

LOCKE: We know there are wild boar on the island. Razorbacks, by the look of them. The one's that came into the camp last night were piglets, 100, 150 pounds each. Which means that there's a mother nearby. A 250 pound rat, with scimitar-like tusks, and a surly disposition, who'd love nothing more than to eviscerate anything that comes near. Boar's usual mode of attack is to circle around and charge from behind so I figure it'll take at least three of us to distract her long enough for me to flank one of the piglets, pin it, and slit it's throat.

Sayid explains to Kate that he is trying to triangulate the radio signal:

KATE: You're trying to pick up the transmission aren't you? The one we heard on the transceiver.

SAYID: If the French woman's transmission has truly been playing on a loop for 16 years then there must be a power source on the island. A significant one.

KATE: And you can find it?

SAYID: Hypothetically, yes. I'm making an antenna of sorts. With a few of these mounted at different points on the island I may be able to use the transceiver to triangulate the signal, find out where it's coming from.

THE MOTH

Jack and Kate disagree about moving to the caves:

KATE: Sayid has a plan.

JACK: Yeah, to find the source of the distress code, I know.

KATE: The signal's coming from somewhere on the island. If we can find it. . .

JACK: The signal has been running on a loop for 16 years, Kate. And the woman that left it, she wasn't rescued. What makes you think it's going to be any different for us?

KATE: I believe it.

JACK: Well, I wish I shared your faith.

CONFIDENCE MAN

Sawyer meet his marks, and describes the "deal:"

SAWYER: I'm not sure this is such a good idea.

JESS: Why not?

SAWYER: Because business between friends is always a little sticky. I don't know you well, but I know your wife. Working with her at the auto dealership, I'm just not sure I'm comfortable.

DAVID: Louisiana will invest two thirds of the drilling costs. What is this? A loophole?

SAWYER: Look David, you're reluctant. I get it. You got your lumbar yard, you don't need this.

SOLITARY

Danielle tortures Sayid:

SAYID: Please just listen to me. I keep telling you I don't know who Alex is. I'm a survivor of a plane crash. I found a wire on the beach, I followed it. I thought it might have something to do with the transmission we picked up on our receiver. A recording, a mayday, with a French woman repeating on a loop for 16 years.

[Danielle Says something in French: "Si quelqu'un m'entend, je vous en prie, venez notre aide... Il les a tus. Il les a TOUS tus..."1.]

DANIELLE [coming out of the shadows]: 16 years. Has it really been that long?

ALL THE BEST COWBOYS HAVE DADDY ISSUES

Jack searches for Claire and Charlie. Locke finds him:

LOCKE: Jack. Jack. Good thing you were going in a circle. Not much of a search grid, but we never would have found you otherwise.

KATE [to Jack]: Did you find anything?

JACK: No.

HOMECOMING

Jack, Charlie and Locke discuss what to do about Ethan:

CHARLIE: What do we do? We go out and we bloody kill him!

LOCKE: Calm down, Charlie. We don't want the others to get upset and. . .

CHARLIE: Forget the others. He's out there right now, Locke.

JACK: I think he's right. A man threatens to kill one of us unless we bring him Claire, and what, we just wait for that to happen? We tracked him once before, we can track him again.

LOCKE: You both seem to have forgotten how that turned out. [to Jack] He bested you physically. [to Charlie] He hung you from a tree. Running into the jungle unarmed is not going to get the job done.

CHARLIE: So what does get it done?

LOCKE: We circle the wagons, tell a select few about the threat. We post sentries here and back at the caves.

THE GREATER GOOD

Jack is still furious at Locke:

JACK: Kate? What are you doing out here?

KATE: Looking for you.

JACK: Well, you found me.

KATE: You're walking in circles. You need to come back.

JACK: Not without Locke.