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"The Variable" is the 14th television episode of the fifth season of Lost, and the 100th episode overall. It originally aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States on April 29, 2009. The hundredth episode milestone was celebrated by cast and crew on location in Hawaii. In the episode, Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies) returns to the island in order to warn its inhabitants of a catastrophe involving the Dharma Initiative research station, The Swan. Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Daniel begin a gun fight with Dharma, leading Dharma to go after Sawyer (Josh Holloway) and Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell). In flashbacks, Daniel's relationship with his parents, Eloise Hawking (Fionnula Flanagan) and Charles Widmore (Alan Dale), is shown. The episode was written by executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz and directed by Paul Edwards. It serves as a companion piece to the season four episode "The Constant", another episode that heavily features the character Daniel, and the third Lost episode to deal directly with the concept of time travel. Since airing, the episode has received generally positive reviews from television critics, mostly complimenting Davies's performance.
Original Release
04/29/2009
US Release
04/29/2009
Cast
Name | Character |
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Naveen Andrews | Sayid Jarrah |
Henry Ian Cusick | Desmond Hume |
Jeremy Davies | Daniel Faraday / Dr. Daniel Faraday |
Michael Emerson | Benjamin Linus / Ben Linus |
Matthew Fox | Jack Shephard / Dr. Jack Shephard |
Jorge Garcia | Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes / Hurley Reyes |
Josh Holloway | James 'Sawyer' Ford / James Sawyer |
Daniel Dae Kim | Jin-Soo Kwon |
Yunjin Kim | Sun-Hwa Kwon |
Evangeline Lilly | Kate Austen |
Directors
Writers
Creators
Jeffrey Lieber, J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof
Cast
Name | Character |
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Naveen Andrews | Sayid Jarrah |
Henry Ian Cusick | Desmond Hume |
Jeremy Davies | Daniel Faraday / Dr. Daniel Faraday |
Michael Emerson | Benjamin Linus / Ben Linus |
Matthew Fox | Jack Shephard / Dr. Jack Shephard |
Jorge Garcia | Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes / Hurley Reyes |
Josh Holloway | James 'Sawyer' Ford / James Sawyer |
Daniel Dae Kim | Jin-Soo Kwon |
Yunjin Kim | Sun-Hwa Kwon |
Evangeline Lilly | Kate Austen |
Elizabeth Mitchell | Juliet Burke / Dr. Juliet Burke |
Terry O'Quinn | John Locke |
Nestor Carbonell | Richard Alpert |
Alan Dale | Charles Widmore |
Sarah Farooqui | Theresa Spencer |
Patrick Fischler | Phil |
Fionnula Flanagan | Eloise 'Ellie' Hawking |
Eric Lange | Stuart Radzinsky |
Sonya Walger | Penelope 'Penny' Hume |
Spencer Allyn | Young Faraday |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Edward Kitsis | Executive Producer |
Adam Horowitz | Executive Producer |
J.J. Abrams | Executive Producer |
Damon Lindelof | Executive Producer |
Jack Bender | Executive Producer |
Bryan Burk | Executive Producer |
Carlton Cuse | Executive Producer |
Jean Higgins | Executive Producer |
Elizabeth Sarnoff | Executive Producer |
Stephen Williams | Executive Producer |
Patricia Churchill | Producer |
Ra'uf Glasgow | Producer |
Amanda Lencioni Barnett | Producer |
Greggory Nations | Producer |
Noreen O'Toole | Producer |
Richard Peter Schroer | Producer |
Samantha Thomas | Producer |
Jim Triplett | Producer |
Brian K. Vaughan | Producer |
Paul Zbyszewski | Producer |
Alice Maison | Producer |