Episode Title: "The Glass Ballerina"

Flashback Characters: Jin and Sun

Episode Number: 3.02 (Overall: #49)

Production Number: 302

Air Date: 10/11/06

Synopsis:
We start out with Sun as a child; she breaks a glass ballerina on a shelf and is scared and tries to hide what happened. When her father comes in and asks how it happened, she lies and says the maid did it. He asks again and she repeats, "the maid did it." She lied. This is the first of the many lies and secrets Sun keeps, which destroy her life, as seen in this episode.

Sayid places Sun and Jin's lives in danger while trying to locate Jack, while Jack gets a tempting offer from his captors. Kate and Sawyer begin their hard labor carrying rocks and chopping them.


Flashbacks: Sun and Jin
Sun and Jae (the same man who teaches Sun english) are having an affair and Jae presents her with a beauitful pearl necklace. Sun cannot accept because she is married. Jae emotes to Sun about how he wants the two of them to run away together to America. After finding Sun and Jae together, Sun's father orders Jin to restore the family's honor by killing Jae (though he does this without actually telling Jin that he found the two lovers together). Jin goes to "deliver the message" to Jae but couldn't bring himself to kill him. He lets him live on the condition that Jae leave the country, never to return. Jin returns to his car at the base of the apartment building and is just about to pull away when Jae lands on his hood after jumping to his death

OMG Moments:

• Sawyer gives Kate the SMOOCH!
• The Others know what is happening in the outside world and prove it by showing a snippet of the Boston Red Sox winning the World Series.
• Sun's father walking in and catching her in bed with Jae, the man who was secretly giving her English lessons.
• Ben introduced himself to Jack "properly" and said, "I've lived on the island my whole life," but is he lying or not?
• Sun shooting Colleen.
  

New Clues:

• The Others could leave the island if they wanted to.
• The Others have TVs!
• Ben and Juliet used to be in a relationship, Colleen came down to tell Ben about Sayid, Jin, Sun, and the boat, and she asked, "Am I interrupting something?". Also, Ben said, "You never made me soup".
  

New Characters:

• Colleen (Paula Malcomson of "Deadwood" fame.)
  

Episode Theories
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Questions (help ask and answer questions here):
Q: Who was the girl that talked to Kate while she was in hard labor?
A: The girl was Alex, Rousseau's daughter.

Q: What is the "task" that Ben wants Jack to agree to doing?
A: Operate on his spinal tumor.

Q: Will Ben really release Jack as he states when the task is completed?
A: It seemed like he was going to, but Locke blew up the submarine.

Q: Why are they having Kate and Sawyer doing hard labor and Jack sitting in an enclosed room? Safe to say that they realize Jack is pretty much the leader, and if any type of change or compromise is to come it would start with him?
A: They want Kate and Sawyer to help build the runway, and they need Jack to operate on Ben.

Q:Who killed Sun's lover, Jae?
Definitive Answer: In the 10/30/06 edition of The Official Lost Podcast, Damon and Carlton felt the need to clear up the confusion of Jae's death. They said that it was an "unintentional mystery," that they hadn't intended there to be a question about. Definitvely, and multiple times during the podcast, they stated that Jae Li committed suicide by jumping.