"
The Beginning of the End" is the
fourth season premiere, and seventieth
episode overall, of the
American Broadcasting Company's
serial drama television series Lost. It was aired on ABC in the
United States and
CTV in
Canada on January 31, 2008. Co-creator/executive producer
Damon Lindelof and executive producer
Carlton Cuse wrote the premiere in late July 2007, with most of the episode directed
on location in
Oahu,
Hawaii in August and September by executive producer
Jack Bender. With this premiere,
Jeff Pinkner no longer serves as an executive producer and staff writer. The episode was watched by 16 million Americans, bringing in the best ratings for
Lost in seventeen episodes. According to
Metacritic, "The Beginning of the End" garnered "universal acclaim". The narrative takes place 93 days after the crash of
Oceanic Flight 815, on December 23, 2004. The stranded crash survivors make contact with
Naomi Dorrit's (played by
Marsha Thomason) associates on a nearby freighter, but the survivors divide when they hear that those on the freighter may not be coming to rescue the survivors.
Flashforwards show the post-island lives of
Hurley Reyes (
Jorge Garcia) and
Jack Shephard (
Matthew Fox). They are lying to the public about their time on the island. In flashforwards, Hurley has visions of his deceased friend
Charlie Pace (
Dominic Monaghan); in the present, Hurley grieves over Charlie's death on the island.
Daniel Faraday (
Jeremy Davies) makes his first appearance in "The Beginning of the End".
Digital television (DTV) is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound by means of digital signals, in contrast to analog signals used by analog (traditional) TV. DTV uses digital modulation data, which is digitally compressed and requires decoding by a specially designed television set, or a standard receiver with a set-top box, or a PC fitted with a television card.
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