Season 5
LOST - Awarded the 2005 Emmy and 2006 Golden Globe for Best Drama Series, "Lost" returns for its fifth season of action-packed mystery and adventure -- that will continue to bring out the very best and the very worst in the people who are lost, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21 (9:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. In the first part of the season premiere, entitled "Because You Left," the remaining island survivors start to feel the effects of the aftermath of moving the island, and Jack and Ben begin their quest to reunite the Oceanic 6 in order to return to the island with Locke's body in an attempt to save their former fellow castaways. (ABC/MARIO PEREZ)JEREMY DAVIES, REBECCA MADER, ELIZABETH MITCHELL, JOSH HOLLOWAY
The Lie
Season 5 | Episode 2 | Aired 01/21/09

Here is your brief recap of "The Lie." For the more detailed recap of this episode, go to the next page!

- After escaping the island, The Oceanic Six along with Desmond, Penny and Frank the helicopter pilot agree to lie about what's happened to them, but Hurley is very reluctant to go along with it.

- Three years later, Hurley is pulled over by a police cruiser after driving wildly in an attempt to get Sayid to safety. The cop turns out to be Ana Lucia, who tells Hurley what to do.

- On the island, the survivors, including Sawyer, Juliet, Faraday, Charlotte and Miles, are attacked with flaming arrows and flee into the jungle.

- Hurley takes Sayid to his parents' house where his father, Dave, asks him what's going on. The police arrive, but don't find Hurley or Sayid. They continue to stake out the house.

- Hurley's mother arrives and wants to know what's happening. Dave takes the unconscious Sayid to see Jack.

- Dave tells Jack to leave Hurley alone and hands over Sayid. Jack takes Sayid to the hospital and wakes him up.

- Hurley tells his mother what happened on the island as best he can as says they shouldn't have lied.

- Ben arrives at Hurley's house and offers to save him from the police and take him back to the island. Hurley refuses and turns himself over to the police.

- Sawyer and Juliet are attacked by men in old U.S. Army uniforms. Locke rescues them and they take two of the men prisoner.

For the detailed recap of this episode, go to the next page!

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