Dead Is Dead

"Dead Is Dead"
Lost episode
Benjamin Linus faces the smoke monster.
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 12
Directed by	Stephen Williams
Written by	Brian K. Vaughan Elizabeth Sarnoff
Production code	512
Original air date	April 8, 2009
Guest actors
Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert Tania Raymonde as Alex Sonya Walger as Penny Widmore Alan Dale as Charles Widmore Sterling Beaumon as Young Ben Linus Jeff Fahey as Frank Lapidus Zuleikha Robinson as Ilana Saïd Taghmaoui as Caesar Melissa Farman as Young Danielle Rousseau Brad William Henke as Bram Devon Gearhart as Young Ethan Rom Marvin DeFreitas as Charlie Hume Matt Hoffman as Jed David S. Lee as Young Charles Widmore

"Dead Is Dead" is the 12th television episode of the fifth season of ABC's Lost.^[1] The 98th episode of the show overall, "Dead Is Dead" aired on April 8, 2009, on ABC in the United States and aired on April 12, 2009 on Sky1 in the United Kingdom. The episode was written by editor Brian K. Vaughan and co-executive producer Elizabeth Sarnoff and directed by Stephen Williams.^[1]

In 2007, Benjamin Linus (Michael Emerson) summons the Monster in order to atone for his sins. In flashbacks, the origins of the strained relationship of Ben and Charles Widmore (Alan Dale) are revealed.

In 2009, Emerson won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in this episode.

Plot

Flashbacks

In 1988, Ben kidnaps Alex as a baby from her mother Danielle Rousseau (Melissa Farman), whose life he spares. Before leaving, Ben tells Rousseau to run the other direction if she hears whispers. He returns to the Others' camp with the baby, which disappoints their leader, Charles Widmore (Alan Dale), who wanted Ben to kill both mother and daughter. Some time later, Charles is banished from the island for breaking the rules by leaving the island frequently and fathering a daughter with an outsider. Before he leaves the island by submarine, Charles tells Ben that Ben will ultimately be banished as well, because he was unable to sacrifice Alex's life. Following Alex's death and his leaving the island, Ben confronts Penny Widmore (Sonya Walger), Charles's daughter, and shoots her husband Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick). Ben states his intention to kill Penny in retribution for his own daughter's death, but hesitates upon seeing Penny's son, Charlie. Ben's hesitation allows Desmond to recover and severely beat him.

2007

Following the final scene of the previous episode, "Whatever Happened, Happened", Ben Linus (Michael Emerson) wakes up after having been knocked unconscious by Sun-Hwa Kwon (Yunjin Kim) in the episode "Namaste". He is greeted by John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), whom Ben previously murdered. Ben tells Locke that he (Ben) has broken "the rules" by returning to the island after he left it in the episode "There's No Place Like Home", and that he must be judged by the smoke monster. Locke agrees to accompany him to the main island. Before leaving, Ben retrieves a picture of his adopted daughter Alex (Tania Raymonde) from his old office at the Dharma Initiative Hydra Station. Ben also tricks one of the other survivors from Ajira Flight 316, Caesar (Saïd Taghmaoui), and steals his shotgun. When Ben and Locke try to leave the smaller island on a canoe, they are halted by Caesar, whom Ben suddenly shoots in the chest.

Upon arriving on the main island, Ben and Locke travel to the Dharma Initiative's barracks, where they find Sun and Flight 316 pilot Frank Lapidus (Jeff Fahey). Sun shows him the photograph of Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox), Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) and Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia), who have traveled back in time to 1977 and joined the Dharma Initiative. Sun also tells Ben that Christian Shephard (John Terry) instructed her to wait for Locke because together they will be able to rescue the others from the past. Frank decides to return to the smaller island where he is taken hostage by Ilana (Zuleikha Robinson) and several of the other 316 survivors, who ask him if he knows "what lies in the shadow of the statue." Meanwhile, Ben, Locke and Sun travel to a temple belonging to the island's native population, called the Others. Underneath the temple, Ben is separated from Locke and confronted by the smoke monster, which replays several of Ben's memories of Alex. The smoke dissipates and a manifestation of Alex appears to Ben, telling him that she knows of his intention to kill Locke again. She warns him to follow Locke's lead without question if he wishes to live. Ben agrees and his life is spared.

References

1 2 "Lost (4/8)". ABC Medianet. March 23, 2009. Retrieved March 23, 2009.

External links

"Dead Is Dead" at ABC
"Dead Is Dead" at the Internet Movie Database
"Dead Is Dead" at TV.com

Lost

Awards and nominations Cast Soundtracks

Episodes	Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6

Characters	Alex Rousseau Ana Lucia Cortez Ben Linus Boone Carlyle Charles Widmore Charlie Pace Charlotte Lewis Christian Shephard Claire Littleton Daniel Faraday Danielle Rousseau Desmond Hume Ethan Rom Frank Lapidus Hugo "Hurley" Reyes Ilana Verdansky Jack Shephard Jacob James "Sawyer" Ford Jin-Soo Kwon John Locke Juliet Burke Kate Austen Libby Smith Man in Black Martin Keamy Michael Dawson Miles Straume Mr. Eko Nikki and Paulo Penny Widmore Richard Alpert Rose and Bernard Nadler Sayid Jarrah Shannon Rutherford Sun-Hwa Kwon Tom Friendly Walt Lloyd

Mythology	Dharma Initiative Oceanic Airlines

Related articles	Find 815 Lost Experience Lost: Missing Pieces Lost: Via Domus

See also: Category

Lost episodes

Season 1	"Pilot" "Tabula Rasa" "Walkabout" "White Rabbit" "House of the Rising Sun" "The Moth" "Confidence Man" "Solitary" "Raised by Another" "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues" "Whatever the Case May Be" "Hearts and Minds" "Special" "Homecoming" "Outlaws" "...In Translation" "Numbers" "Deus Ex Machina" "Do No Harm" "The Greater Good" "Born to Run" "Exodus"

Season 2	"Man of Science, Man of Faith" "Adrift" "Orientation" "Everybody Hates Hugo" "...And Found" "Abandoned" "The Other 48 Days" "Collision" "What Kate Did" "The 23rd Psalm" "The Hunting Party" "Fire + Water" "The Long Con" "One of Them" "Maternity Leave" "The Whole Truth" "Lockdown" "Dave" "S.O.S." "Two for the Road" "?" "Three Minutes" "Live Together, Die Alone"

Season 3	"A Tale of Two Cities" "The Glass Ballerina" "Further Instructions" "Every Man for Himself" "The Cost of Living" "I Do" "Not in Portland" "Flashes Before Your Eyes" "Stranger in a Strange Land" "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead" "Enter 77" "Par Avion" "The Man from Tallahassee" "Exposé" "Left Behind" "One of Us" "Catch-22" "D.O.C." "The Brig" "The Man Behind the Curtain" "Greatest Hits" "Through the Looking Glass"

Webisodes	Lost: Missing Pieces

Season 4	"The Beginning of the End" "Confirmed Dead" "The Economist" "Eggtown" "The Constant" "The Other Woman" "Ji Yeon" "Meet Kevin Johnson" "The Shape of Things to Come" "Something Nice Back Home" "Cabin Fever" "There's No Place Like Home"

Season 5	"Because You Left" "The Lie" "Jughead" "The Little Prince" "This Place Is Death" "316" "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham" "LaFleur" "Namaste" "He's Our You" "Whatever Happened, Happened" "Dead Is Dead" "Some Like It Hoth" "The Variable" "Follow the Leader" "The Incident"

Season 6	"LA X" "What Kate Does" "The Substitute" "Lighthouse" "Sundown" "Dr. Linus" "Recon" "Ab Aeterno" "The Package" "Happily Ever After" "Everybody Loves Hugo" "The Last Recruit" "The Candidate" "Across the Sea" "What They Died For" "The End"

Epilogue	"The New Man in Charge"

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