Enter 77
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Episode transcript
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"Enter 77" (pronounced "enter seven seven") was the eleventh episode in Season 3, and was broadcast on March 7, 2007. While Sawyer tries to regain his stash in a game of ping pong, Sayid, Locke, and Kate investigate a mysterious building on the Island, culminating in a confrontation with a familiar face.
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Synopsis
Flashback
Sayid is chopping vegetables in the kitchen of the Portail d'Arabie restaurant in Paris, France. A waiter enters, calling him "Najeev", and tells him in Arabic that a man outside is waiting for him. Sayid exits to the outdoor dining area and a man sitting at a table alone compliments Sayid's cooking and introduces himself as Sami. He asks where Sayid is from and Sayid claims he is Syrian but Sami counters that he can tell that they are actually both Iraqi. He offers Sayid the cook position at his restaurant.
Later, Sayid enters Sami's restaurant, Le Jardin Croissant Fertile (literally "the Fertile Crescent garden", possibly referring to the Garden of Eden), and asks for him. Sami introduces his wife Amira, who holds his hands, revealing burn scars on her arm. One of the men grabs Sayid's arm and the rest hold him down while Sami knocks him unconscious with a kick to the head.
Sayid wakes up on the floor of a locked room with his hands chained together. Sami enters and gives him a bowl of water. He asks Sayid if he was a torturer in the Republican Guard, and if he recognizes his wife as one of his victims. He says Amira was held and questioned for three months for harboring an enemy of the state. Sayid admits to everything except knowing his wife, but Sami states that she recognized Sayid when she saw him at the restaurant. Sami tells Sayid that he must admit to his crimes or he will be killed.
Amira enters and Sayid tells her he doesn't know her and wouldn't torture a woman. Sami hits him. He says that Amira confessed to a crime she didn't commit when her interrogators poured boiling oil on her arms. He goes to grab a metal bar, but Amira tells him that it is enough for today.
The next day, Amira enters, holding a cat similar to the one Sayid would later see at the Flame station. She tells him that when she and her husband came to Paris, she was afraid to leave their apartment until she heard a cat being tortured by firecrackers and rescued it. She has kept him as a pet even though the cat sometimes bites her because she knows what it is like to never feel safe, because of Sayid. She asks him to show her the respect of acknowledging what he did, and that he remembers her. Sayid is stunned, and then tells her that he does remember her face, that it has haunted him ever since. He starts to cry, and tells her that he is sorry for what he has done to her. Amira forgives him and tells Sayid she will tell her husband that she is mistaken and should release Sayid. Sayid asks why and she says that she does not want to be the same as him and her cat's torturers.
At the beach
Sawyer finds Hurley and some of the other survivors building a ping-pong table from materials found in the Swan remains. He asks Hurley if he's seen Kate. Sawyer sees Paulo carrying a Guns & Ammo magazine and confronts him. Paulo says they share things now and that Sawyer can have it, but Sawyer realizes it has become bathroom reading and gives up.
Sawyer approaches the group putting together the ping pong table and holds up a whiffle golf ball. He tells them that he wants his stash back but that he's willing to play them for it. Sun tells Sawyer that if he loses, he can't call anyone by a nickname for an entire week.
At the game Hurley steps up as Sawyer's opponent. He asks if Sawyer wants to play with the mercy rule (if the score is 11-0 the leader automatically wins) and Sawyer agrees and offers him first serve. Hurley wins the first point with considerable ease, to the cheers of the spectators.
Later, Hurley finds Sawyer cleaning his glasses and sulking. He consoles Sawyer, who claims he was hustled even though he got three points. Hurley says he had plenty of practice in his basement and another place he hung out (after he cuts himself off about to give away the fact that he was in a mental institution). He gives Sawyer back his pornographic magazines and tells him he knows he's worried about Kate but he thinks that she'll be okay since she's with Sayid and Locke. Sawyer starts to call him a name but is told he must refer to him as "Hurley" or "Hugo" now. Sawyer tells him to get bent.
At the Flame
Sayid confronts John about their plan to use the heading of 305 from Eko's stick to navigate. He goes to pick some fruit and hears a cow bell. Following the sound leads him to a cow, and Sayid is shocked to hear someone whistle for the animal. Through the bushes he spies a small building with a satellite dish on top. Outside is a horse and the same man with an eye patch that Sayid saw on the Pearl video feed (in "The Cost of Living").
After circling the area, Sayid confirms to the group that the building is isolated, and that a satellite dish like that could broadcast for thousands of miles. He asks Danielle if it is the radio tower that she had talked about, but she denies ever having seen this place before. Sayid then tells Kate his plan to approach unarmed, with the other three as backup in hiding. Danielle says that she had survived on the Island for so long by avoiding such confrontations, and will wait for them by the stream.
Sayid approaches the building with his hands in the air. He notices the saddle on the horse and a cat sitting on a work table. Suddenly he is shot in the arm. Kate is restrained from acting by Locke as Mikhail Bakunin points his gun through an open window, shouting at Sayid. He yells that he didn't cross the line, that he had a truce and this is his land. Sayid says he isn't who Mikhail thinks he is, that his plane crashed, and he's unarmed. Mikhail comes out, wearing a DHARMA jump suit with a flame logo patch. Locke and Kate rush in and force him to drop his gun. He introduces himself as Mikhail Bakunin, the last surviving member of the DHARMA Initiative.
Mikhail and Kate help Sayid to the couch inside. Mikhail offers to help with Sayid's wound, having spent some time in the Soviet Army in Afghanistan getting field medicine experience. Mikhail asks Kate to get a medical kit from the kitchen and starts to patch up Sayid. Mikhail says he grew up in Kiev and joined the Soviet Army. He was stationed at a listening post in Vladivostok. His unit was decommissioned when the Cold War ended, and he later replied to a newspaper advertisement that read, "Would you like to save the world?" He joined the "very secretive, rich, and smart" Initiative and came to the Island eleven years ago. He was put in this station, called the Flame, the purpose of which is to communicate with the outside world. He says that everyone else in the DHARMA initiative died in a foolish attack they called "the purge" on a group they called "the Hostiles". Mikhail survived by not getting involved and agreeing to a truce according to which he could stay behind as long as he did not cross a designated line around the valley. He says they weren't interested in the satellite dish because it hadn't functioned in years. He doesn't know who the hostiles are, but they were on the Island for a very long time before the Initiative or anyone else.
Locke looks at a document in a typewriter written in Russian with some notes written in the margin in red. He finds another room in which there is a computer displaying a chess game, and decides to start a new game.
Sayid is unsettled when Mikhail calls his cat Nadia. Although he claims he told the cat "to be polite", he actually tells it to "let the carpet alone" in Russian ("Оставь ковёр, Надя"). He says he named his cat after the world famous Romanian Olympian gymnast Nadia Comaneci. Her poster is on the wall, Mikhail notes that they share birthdays. Mikhail finishes the stitches and offers them iced tea. As he goes to fetch the drinks, Sayid and Kate quickly converse, and Sayid is adamant that he believes Mikhail is actually an Other. He also thinks they should play along as the horse outside was saddled for someone smaller, meaning there is another person somewhere in the building. Meanwhile, Mikhail enters the computer room telling Locke that the computer's chess game is too difficult to beat, that it cheats. Locke disagrees, sardonically claiming cheating is something that makes humans uniquely "wonderful".
Mikhail brings them the iced tea and Sayid asks more questions about the Initiative.
They tie up Mikhail while Sayid explains his theory that the Others sent someone else to the station because they lost communications when the sky turned purple. Locke thinks the station is empty, but Sayid lifts the rug and reveals a hatch door.
Sayid and Kate climb down the Hatch ladder while Locke watches Mikhail's unconscious body upstairs. Locke, however, hears the computer speaking and goes to it, leaving his prisoner unsupervised. He starts to play another game of chess and achieves a mate in 2, which the computer erroneously claims is a checkmate. A video clip of Marvin Candle appears and says, "Manual override achieved. For pallet drop enter 2-4. For station up-link enter 3-2. For mainland communication enter 3-8". Locke enters 3-8. A new clip is called up saying "The satellite dish is inoperable. Communications are down. For sonar access enter 5-6". Locke enters 5-6. A new clip says, "Sonar is inoperable. Has there been an incursion on this station by the Hostiles? If so, enter 7-7". Locke's finger aims hovers over the 7 key when Mikhail puts a knife to his neck from behind stopping him from typing the second 7.
Sayid and Kate see C-4 wired throughout the entire underground room. Sayid sees a shelf lined with binders, one of which is a food drop protocol and one of which is an operations manual. Kate investigates a closet area and is attacked from behind by Ms. Klugh. Sayid arrives and tells Klugh to drop her gun. Kate hits her, saying she helped kidnap them and knows where Jack is. Sayid asks Klugh if there are any others there, but she acts unafraid hardly intimidated by the rifle.
They take her upstairs and outside, where Mikhail has Locke at gunpoint. Mikhail offers a hostage exchange but John claims Mikhail wouldn't kill him. Klugh talks and argues with Mikhail in Russian while Kate, Locke and Sayid shout. Finally she orders him to "do it" and he shoots her in the heart. Mikhail is knocked over and Sayid points his gun at him. Mikhail tells him to finish it, but Sayid doesn't shoot.
Later when it's dark, Sayid takes Mikhail outside and calls for Danielle. Mikhail says that he was never a member of DHARMA but that everything else he said was true, and that DHARMA did really attack the Hostiles. Sayid tells Danielle that Locke and Kate are gathering anything useful from the station and that now he has their ticket to the Others' location, where they will find Danielle's daughter and Jack, and perhaps a way home. Mikhail refuses to lead them, but Sayid says he has a map of the cables, which leads to an area called the barracks, which he believes is where the Others are staying. Mikhail threatens to kill them the next time they let their guard down. Danielle says that since they don't need him, they should kill him.
However, Sayid takes responsibility for deciding Mikhail's fate and refuses to kill him. Locke and Kate join them and Locke says he knows why Mikhail didn't want him playing with the computer. Suddenly the station explodes. Sayid demands to know what Locke has done, and Locke tells him that the computer said if there was an incursion to enter 7-7, so he did. Sayid tells Locke that he may have destroyed their only chance of communication with the outside world. They leave the station, and Sayid notices the cat staring back at him as he turns around.
Trivia
General
- The DHARMA binders found by Sayid have the codes “DI 90M1654-21644: Food Drop Protocol” and “DI 90M1664-21644: Operations Manual”
Production notes
The entering codes
- Enter 2-4: Pallet drop
- Enter 3-2: Station up-link
- Enter 3-8: Mainland communication
- Enter 5-6: Sonar access
- Enter 7-7: Hostile incursion
Foreign dialogues
- The dialogue in Russian (both characters speak with very heavy American/English accents):
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Klugh: Михаил. Михаил! Ты знаешь что делать. | ” |
- English translation of Russian dialog:
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Klugh: Mikhail. Mikhail! You know what to do. | ” |
- For the Russian document in the typewriter, see Mikhail's document
- The Paris cafe dialog in Arabic (the dialect/accent used by Sami is not Iraqi; possibly Lebanese or Egyptian):
| “ |
Sayid: I'm Syrian. | ” |
Recurring themes
- Locke plays a computer chess game with black and white pieces. (Black and White) (Games)
- Cats are found in Sayid's flashback and at the Flame Station. (Animals)
- Bea Klugh is shot and killed by Mikhail. (Life and Death)
- Mikhail mentions that he prefers isolation. (Isolation)
- Sayid argues with John about finding a more rational method of finding the Others than Eko's stick. (Fate versus free will)
- The chess game Locke played against the computer would have ended with checkmate on move 42. (Numbers)
- Mikhail lacks an eye. (Eyes) (Missing body parts)
- Hurley allows Sawyer to believe no one around plays ping-pong like Sawyer, but Hurley actually does it better than him. (Deceptions and cons)
- Mikhail pretends to be a good person to the extent of giving Sayid proper care, when in fact he belongs to the side of the aggressors. (Deceptions and cons) (Good and bad people)
- The whole flashback story revolves around punishment and redemption. (Redemption)
- Mikhail mentions he has been on the Island for 11 years. (Time)
- This episode occurs on Day 77. (Timeline)
Cultural references
| Cultural references in Lost (direct references only) |
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| Art • Books • Cars • Games • Movies and TV • Music • Philosophy • Religion and ideologies • Science |
- Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov: The finish to the chess board was from a match between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov from the 1985 World Championship. In that match, called the "Brisbane Bombshell", Kasparov, playing black, defeated Karpov in 40 moves. Incidentally, that game did not end in checkmate, but in a yield by Karpov. The board, as shown on the show, had two valid moves for the computer. (Games)
- Zorro: Sawyer calls Paulo "Zorro", a fictional costumed hero known for his Spanish heritage and sword fighting skills. (Movies and TV)
- Hillbilly: Paulo calls Sawyer "hillbilly", a pejorative term for people who live in remote rural areas and are supposedly ignorant. (Pop culture misc. references)
- Hanukkah: December 7 2004, the day that this episode takes place, is the beginning of Hanukkah. (Religion)
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sawyer calls Sun and Jin "Crouching Tiger" and "Hidden Dragon", referring to the Chinese language martial arts film. (Movies and TV)
- Grimace: Sawyer calls Hurley "Grimace", the McDonald's restaurant mascot for their milk shakes known for his purple color and large size. (Pop culture misc. references)
- Avalanche: Sawyer calls Hurley "Avalanche", a super heavyweight professional wrestler from the 1980's. (Games)
- Number one draft pick: Sawyer calls Hurley the "number one draft pick", referring to professional sports drafting. (Games)
- Nadia Comăneci: The cat at the Flame hatch is named Nadia after Nadia Comăneci. Nadia Elena Comăneci was a famous Romanian gymnast who won five gold medals at the Olympics and the first to score a perfect 10 in Olympic Gymnastics. In 1967, she joined a team called "The Flame". (Games)
- Mikhail Bakunin: The Lost character Mikhail shares his name with a well known 19th century Russian Revolutionary that is considered one of the fathers of anarchism. (Philosophy)
Storyline analysis
| Storyline analysis in Lost |
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| A-Missions • Crimes • Economics • Leadership • O-Missions • Relationships • F-Missions • Rivalries |
- Paulo told Sawyer "we share things now". (Economics#Tribal Economics (Locke))
- Sawyer told Hurley "we need to do a little quid pro quo first" and then told the group "you all thought the general store was having a going out of business sale". (Economics#Capitalism (Sawyer))
- The A-Mission to Locke's heading from Eko's stick was completed. (A-Missions#Rescuing Jack Part 1: The Flame)
- The A-Mission to find the barracks begins. (A-Missions#Rescuing Jack Part 2: The Cabling Map)
Literary techniques
| Literary techniques in Lost |
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| Comparative: Irony • Juxtaposition • Plotting: Cliffhanger • Plot twist • Stock Characters: Archetype • Redshirt • Unseen character• Story: Flashbacks • Flashforwards • Regularly spoken phrases • Symbolism • Unreliable narrator |
- The name of the station ("The Flame") foreshadows the climax of the episode as well as the station's fate. (Foreshadowing)
Episode references
- After Hurley wins the ping pong match for the rights to keep all of Sawyer's stash, he decides to give a few of the magazines back that he had previously taken, including the fictional pornography magazine PLAYPEN. ("Flashes Before Your Eyes")
Unanswered questions
| Unanswered questions |
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- For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Enter 77/Theories
- What is the significance of the Russian letter in Mikhail's typewriter?
- Why were the override functions in The Flame hidden behind a virtual game of chess?
- Who were the previous DHARMA employees of this station?
External links
- ABC Medianet Press Release
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| Centric episodes | "Solitary" • "The Greater Good" • "One of Them" • "Enter 77" • "The Economist" • "There's No Place Like Home, Part 1" • "There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3" | |||
| Flashback characters | Amira • Arabic man • Sam Austen • SGT Buccelli • Alyssa Cole • Falah • Haddad • Robbie Hewitt • Imam • Kelvin Joe Inman • Noor "Nadia" Abed Jazeem • Omar • Sami • Tariq • Essam Tasir • U.S. Soldier No. 1 • U.S. Soldier No. 2 • Waiter • Yusef | |||
| Flashforward characters | Arabic reporter • Kate Austen • Mr. Avellino • Blonde reporter • Karen Decker • The economist • Elsa • Guy in car • Noor "Nadia" Abed Jazeem • Korean reporter • Sun-Hwa Kwon • Ben Linus • Aaron Littleton • Mr. Paik • Mrs. Paik • Reporter No. 1 • Carmen Reyes • David Reyes • Hugo "Hurley" Reyes • Jack Shephard • Margo Shephard | |||
| Items | Radio • DHARMA cabling map • Looking Glass schematic | |||
| See also: Main Characters | ||||
