"The Economist" is the third episode of the American Broadcasting Company's fourth season of the serial drama television series Lost and seventy-fifth episode overall. It was aired on February 14, 2008 on ABC in the United States and on CTV in Canada. The episode was written by co-executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz and directed by executive producer Jack Bender. In the episode's narrative, Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews) and Kate A...
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"The Economist" is the third episode of the American Broadcasting Company's fourth season of the serial drama television series Lost and seventy-fifth episode overall. It was aired on February 14, 2008 on ABC in the United States and on CTV in Canada. The episode was written by co-executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz and directed by executive producer Jack Bender. In the episode's narrative, Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews) and Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) negotiate for John Locke's (Terry O'Quinn) hostage Charlotte Lewis (Rebecca Mader), while physicist and Kahana crew member Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies) discovers that time on the island runs at an offset from the rest of the world. Another storyline follows Sayid working as an assassin after being rescued from the island.
"The Economist" was watched by 14 million American viewers and received positive reactions from critics.
Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) and Miles Straume (Ken Leung) argue about what to do about leader...
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