Episode Title: "Abandoned"

Episode Number: 30

Production Number: 206

Air Date: 11/9/05

Synopsis: Things heat up in the romance department with Shannon and Sayid. As a gesture of his devotion he builds her a new shelter, where they share a brief moment of romantic abandon. In the afterglow, Sayid leaves to fetch some water, and Shannon sees Walt in her tent. He's uttering some garbled and incoherent speech, but Shannon doesn’t know if it’s reality or a hallucination. Back in the tent, Sayid thinks it's the latter, which upsets Shannon and makes her determined to track down Walt in the jungle. As Sayid follows Shannon deeper into the jungle during her search, he soon believes her when he is haunted by a vision of Walt as well.

Flashback: Unless we saw it with our own eyes in this week's flashback, we never would have believed that Shannon was once a kind ballet teacher. Life (and a wicked stepmother) deals some tough blows, however, and we learn what led to Shannon's bitter and angry demeanor on the island.

OMG moment: Shannon and Sayid meet up with the Tailies in the jungle and Shannon gets clipped by a trigger-happy Ana Lucia.

Questions and clues: Some say that if you play the episode backwards, Walt can be heard warning Shannon "Don't push the button, the button is bad." Shudder!