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ANALYSIS AND PLANNING AWARD OF EXCELLENCE Providence 2020 Plan, Providence, Rhode Island Sasaki Associates, Inc., Watertown, MA

	"An incredible exploration of urban design with a clear, strong vision. All cities should be so lucky. Beautifully done." — 2006 Professional Awards Jury Comments

The Providence 2020 Plan links the valley to the bay along an arc of public waterfront parks and a spine of transit. The new definition of downtown encompasses 1200-acres along this crescent, embracing the traditional downtown as well as adjacent industrial districts. Building on unique characteristics of topography, access, and architecture, each district will be positioned slightly differently to attract investment and economic development, ultimately offering a variety of experiences. Waterfront landings in each district will welcome residents and other visitors into the continuous waterfront park system. A network of new streets will repair areas rent by infrastructure and will regenerate industrial zones. These pedestrian friendly streets will extend up to the neighborhoods on the surrounding hills, joining them to the life of downtown.

Intent
The goal of the project is to overcome the barriers of 19^th and 20^th century infrastructure and regenerate the languishing industrial districts that have dominated much of the waterfront. Providence is determined to position itself for the new economy, but new downtown development must be meaningful to the residents in the surrounding neighborhoods.

The purpose of the plan is to direct and shape private investment through consistent policies and targeted capital improvements. A fundamental underpinning of the current planning process has been to include public outreach so that this input can help shape the vision and the recommendations.

Analysis
Providence is a city of many distinct districts, with residential neighborhoods occupying the high ground, overlooking the river valleys and the bayfront. In these low lying waterfront areas, industrial and commercial neighborhoods have traditionally dominated. Interstate highways and rail lines slice through the city isolating neighborhoods from each other and from downtown, and separating districts along the waterfronts. Over the years, a patchwork of plans has dealt with each district without ever looking at the connections and the relationships between the whole. Some districts are highly desirable for investment, while other areas languish. New proposals often exceed existing zoning limitations, raising the question of where to direct height and density. The residential neighborhoods on the surrounding hills currently feel disenfranchised from the downtown.

The commercial center, which grew up along the historic river port, features narrow streets lined with architectural gems. Over the last 20 years, public projects moved rails and river beds to restore a portion of the downtown riverfront for public access. In the adjacent downtown industrial districts, however, the waterfront is largely inaccessible: in the Promenade, the Woonasquatucket River is neglected and overgrown; in the Jewelry District, the Providence River is dominated by the highway and utilities; in Narragansett Landing, port activities over the years have left a residue of contamination, and several non-water dependent nuisance uses cluster there. The diminishment of industry in the City has left shells of buildings, vacant land, and brownfields. Without an adequate road network, many of these areas are relatively inaccessible.

The scale of new development and its parking has the potential to overwhelm the narrow streets and 19th century architectural fabric of the historic core in Downcity. Even in the surrounding downtown districts, the scale of medical research buildings and institutional expansion can be daunting. Allowing height and density in the surrounding downtown districts could threaten the preeminence of the traditional downtown and alter property values. Allowing height in the historic downtown seems out of scale.

Many plans have been developed over the years, but each one focused on a small geography creating a patchwork without physical or economic connections. In a city where downtown used to be the job center and the primary tax base, concern exists about the opportunity costs of ongoing residential development and institutional expansion. With the larger definition of downtown, priorities need to be established to direct private investors and to target public investment.

Reclaiming the right-of-way of an interstate in the heart of the downtown is a once in a lifetime situation. The vision for this land is hotly contested, while at the same time the new location of Interstate 195 creates a new set of barriers.

Design and Planning Concepts
The Providence 2020 plan sets forth a flexible framework for development integrating and anticipating the actions of the public sector, the private sector, the institutions, and the many non-profit organizations. Seven principles form the foundation for every recommendation in the plan. Within this framework, a great variety of decisions can be made over time to create the richly textured city, while still ensuring a shared vision of the overall outcome. The seven principles are summarized as follows:

1. Connect the neighborhoods to downtown and to the waterfront.
2. Link the Valley to the Bay with transit and a continuous waterfront esplanade.
3. Position each district according to it unique assets to promote diverse mixed use environments.
4. Create a network of pedestrian-friendly streets.
5. Design parks and surrounding development as an integral place.
6. Celebrate great architecture in both old and new buildings.
7. Develop shared parking in strategic locations.

Part of the city's distinct charm is the variety of places that have grown up along the river valley and the bay: the Promenade District, Capital Center, Downcity, Jewelry District, and the Narragansett Bayfront. Different architecture, activities, and tradition make each area stand on its own merits. Opportunities for infill development, adaptive reuse, and new streets and parks are vast, suggesting that each district could host both residential and commercial uses as well as supporting retail and civic uses. The concept of 18-hour mixed-use districts with places to live and work in close proximity to the arts as well as services encourages a committed downtown residential community.

The continuous waterfront greenway will weave through each downtown district, punctuated by a series of distinctive park landings for the neighborhoods. While Providence has made great strides on its continuous waterfront parks, these efforts need to extend upriver to the Woonasquatucket River and down to the Bayfront. The distribution of new waterfront parks will make every neighborhood and every resident welcome to the larger recreational system. Walkable streets, for which Providence is already well known, will extend into the former industrial districts to create more permeable access and real estate frontage. The relocation of Interstate 195 offers the opportunity to create a seamless pattern of new streets, parks, and development blocks with an emphasis on connections down to the water's edge.

A transit spine will connect the head of the valley to the bayfront, following along the length of the waterfront. The concept for the transit line can evolve over time, beginning with a rubber-wheel trolley, expanding into bus rapid transit, and if driven by demand, eventually being replaced by light rail transit. Transit stops will be spaced about one half mile apart to collect a five minute walk zone. At a few key locations, intermodal centers will interface with regional bus service, the existing trolley system, and automobile commuters using nearby structured parking.

Looking to the future, the character of each district should be celebrated to underscore different strengths. In this way the districts will complement one another and lessen the threat to the traditional core of downtown. This approach will build a city with a variety of choices for living, many different destinations for visiting, and investment decisions based on physical and economic competitive advantages.

Process and Implementation Strategy
The goal of the planning process was to inspire joint action toward a shared vision. Leaders in every sector were identified and gathered in small groups and one-on-one meetings in January 2005. These discussions brought forward a range of issues, goals, and ideas from a broad base. Interest groups included neighborhood representatives, arts and cultural organizations, real estate developers, large employers, economic development entities, environmental groups, health care and higher education institutions, and State and City staff and elected public officials.

As the team synthesized the key issues and developed design concepts and planning strategies for implementation, these ideas were discussed with the community leaders and with the broader public. A series of events held in May and June 2005 combined open houses and public forums. The dialogue from these meetings shaped the urban design and planning recommendations of the Providence 2020 plan. Through a close working relationship with many of the community leaders, the plan was able to identify the appropriate roles and responsibilities for implementation.

The implementation strategy focuses on phasing and the designation of roles and responsibilities of the different involved entities. Unlike previous plans, the Providence 2020 plan addresses the greater downtown and prioritizes public investment across this broader area. In this way, the public and the private sector can target development to the appropriate district within the context of a schedule for improvements over a 15 year period. Phasing plans allow the involved stakeholders to focus their efforts, and direct capital budgets and fundraising for the immediate projects. The strength of the plan, however, is its flexibility to accommodate opportunity-driven projects and unforeseen situations within an overall development framework.

Summary
The Providence 2020 Plan provides the city, the developers, the institutions, and the many other stakeholders with a shared vision of connected downtown districts. Cities need a broader vision and a new set of rules to shape uneven development pressures for residential, mixed use, institutional and entrepreneurial business uses in a variety of inner city locations. The emerging districts can develop unique identities that complement the traditional core and create a multiplicity of places to invest, to visit, and to explore. Access to the water, so long denied, will once again be possible through the regeneration of derelict industrial land. Through this planning process, Providence will reclaim its position as a beloved waterfront city drawing energy from a new economy that thrives in the diversity of multiple districts joined to the heart of downtown.

China's top landscape architect is on a quest to bring unexpected beauty to the nation's boomtowns 
BY SUSAN JAKES | ZHONGSHAN

 

Monday, Apr. 03, 2006
In 1999, officials in the city of Zhongshan decided to tear down a shipyard and replace it with a park. The city, situated across the mouth of the Pearl River from Hong Kong, has a tradition of putting its wealth to good civic use: its tidy streets are adorned with banks of flowers and well-manicured trees, and it has racked up model-city awards from Beijing and the United Nations. But these shiny credentials presented a dilemma for local leaders their political promotion would depend in part on outdoing their predecessors, and Zhongshan didn't leave much room for improvement. So when the Yuezhong shipworks went bankrupt, it wasn't long before plans emerged to remove an eyesore, cut ribbons and make progress.

Yu Kongjian, China's pre-eminent landscape architect, was brought down from Beijing to lend the project some cachetnd, as is often the case, his first move was to throw a wrench into other people's plans. Zhongshan didn't need more flowers, Yu told the city officials; it didn't need fountains, ornate wrought-iron fences, or hedges shaped like animals. Instead of bulldozing the shipyard, he proposed, they could put it to new use. A gantry crane would make an interesting gate, a crumbling water tower could become the base of a lighted beacon. Instead of grass, the city should grow weeds. Zhongshan's leaders found the plan unsettling. "We wanted something distinctive, but this made us nervous," says He Shaoyang, then head of the city's planning commission. "It wasn't like a Chinese garden with a rock here and a tree there." But, in time, the ecological soundness and low cost of Yu's ideas won them over. "After all," says He, "Zhongshan has a lot of parks. They shouldn't all have to look the same."

That's an unusual attitude in today's China. The nation is in the throes of the fastest urban growth in human history. In recent years the country has built an average of 2 billion sq m of floor space annually half the world's yearly total and plans to add another 20-30 billion by 2020. In theory, this should offer limitless opportunities for innovative urban planning. But as China's cities have grown larger, they have only become more uniform, so that each now seems to boast a skyscraping government office, roads scaled like highways and a vast Tiananmen-like square. This alikeness results largely from a dearth of professional designers and from the fact that breakneck growth leaves scant time for subtlety. But it also reflects a value system in which city infrastructure is conceived in symbolic rather than practical terms and where extravagance is the accepted symbol for modernity.

Yu, a professor of landscape architecture at Peking University, argues that China's current approach to urban development, with its emphasis on size and status over originality, is as environmentally reckless as it is visually dull. With farmland and forests disappearing and water running out, Yu says, cities can't afford be so wasteful: "China needs a dramatic shift. We've misunderstood what it means to be developed. We need to develop a new system, a new vernacular, to express the changing relationship between land and people." When Yu, now 42, returned home in 1997 with a doctorate in design from Harvard and a teaching appointment at Peking University's Architecture Center, landscape design wasn't even an officially recognized profession. The country had a long tradition of private gardens cultivated by gentry, and more recently of austere Stalinist-style parks designed to project state authority. But he felt the country needed more. "Landscape architects can't just be garden artists," says Yu. So, in 1998, he founded Turenscape, China's first private landscape-design firm, and set about finding places like Zhongshan where officials were willing to try something different.

Turen is an odd name for a Chinese company. Ren means person, but tu is more complicated. Literally the word translates as "earth" or "soil," but it's often used as a slur, a put-down for anything that is backward or unsophisticated the manners of a migrant worker, bad teeth, cloth shoes. When Yu's colleagues answer the phone, "Turen," it sounds like they're calling themselves bumpkins. Yu himself remembers being called tu when he arrived in Beijing from a rice farm in Zhejiang to enroll at the Beijing University of Forestry in 1980. He was 17, could barely speak Mandarin and was awestruck by the straightness of the city's poplar-lined roads. This "farmerist outlook," as Yu describes his own first impressions of Beijing, is the reason Chinese cities look the way they do: "We're a country of farmers. When we make it to the city we want to feel as far away from the land as possible. We hate weeds. We want to look up at tall buildings. We shun nature." To be truly urban, Yu says, China needs a new attitude toward tu.

Last month, on the sunday when Premier Wen Jiabao opened the annual National People's Congress with a speech about building a "new socialist countryside," Yu headed for the town of Changgou, in a rural district of Beijing, "to try to save some trees." Friends in the district government had phoned with news that Changgou had announced it would bulldoze several of its constituent villages and bring in 5,000 laborers to create an enormous man-made lake as part of a program to attract real estate investment and tourism. They'd recommended that local leaders give Yu an audience and consider hiring him. "It sounds like the Great Leap Forward"Mao's disastrous campaign to boost economic productivity in the 1950s,Yu said, as he sped toward Changgou in a van full of landscape designers. "But maybe I can stop them."

A group of local leaders took Yu on a tour of their project. Chalk lines marking the lake's proposed shores ran through villages and along roads. Yu leapt out of the car to take photos of a pair of bulldozers that looked tiny against the vast swath of empty land where they were mounding up dirt. Bounding past the officials, he turned his camera on a bird's nest high up in a poplar next to the mineral spring supposed to supply the lake. "He even takes pictures of that," marveled one official when Yu was out of earshot. Driving through town Yu passed a cluster of empty villas, waiting for the lakeside they'd overlook. Nearby, on a fenced-off piece of grass grazed an elephant and a giraffe, both made of plaster.

Back at the town office, the officials presented their plan. They played a DVD that showed pictures of large lakes in other places. Changgou's lake would be the center of a new resort, they told Yu. They would have windsurfing, golf and maybe skiing. The DVD played a montage of flowers opening in time-lapse followed by pictures of ripe fruit and beachside cottages. "This is our concept," one official told Yu, as the screen filled with hot-air balloons.

When it was Yu's turn to speak, he smiled. "I think you have a very good idea," he said quietly. "But I don't think your lake needs to be quite so big. What you have here is very rare. You're one of the only places in North China with spring water. If you use it up to make a giant lake, no one will come here. Right now I'm worried you're going to spend a lot of money, but lose value. Other places have lakes. Why not do something different? You could be a model of innovation."

Yu showed some slides of his work. "Wild grass," he said, pausing for emphasis. "It can be beautiful. It's very modern." Before long someone brought him a box of children's markers and a map, and he went to work sketching in islands of existing rice paddies within the planned lake's neat, rectangular perimeter. The official in charge of the project (who asked not to be named) winced. "I have plenty of paddies in this town," he told Yu. "If people want to look at them, they can go somewhere else. I don't need paddies in my lake."

The power of Yu's designs is the succinctness with which they communicate his ideas. His parks pair bushy tufts of native plants (which don't need to be watered or trimmed) with angular paths and minimalist sculptures in brightly-colored metal. The contrast between these rustic and futuristic elements is intended to attract people to the natural landscape, while changing it as little a possible. Yu studies the sites of his projects intensively before he starts planning and tries to work with what's already there梐n approach he calls "anti-planning."

In Shenyang, when an architecture school moved to the suburbs, Yu designed its campus to incorporate the rice paddies of the farms it had displaced. The rice became both a decorative element and a kind of literal food for thought reminder that landscaping needn't be expensive and that even agriculture can look modern. In Taizhou, Yu un-channeled a local river, removing cement barriers and letting it flood into a wetland through which he snaked bicycle paths, docks and terraces. In Zhongshan, Yu's shipyard park, which like the campus was honored by the American Society of Landscape Architects, has quickly become a local landmark. On a recent weekday afternoon, the park was full. Toddlers climbed happily over pebbled railroad tracks, men played chess on a platform surrounded by tall reeds, a bride posed for a portrait amid some (deliberately) unraked leaves, and two vanloads of officials on a study tour listened to a guide talk about environmental protection.

Despite his success as a designer, Yu sees himself primarily as an educator. In 2003 he founded and personally funded China's first graduate program in landscape architecture (at Peking University) and he serves as its dean. He writes prolifically and, again at his own expense, has mailed copies of his book, The Road to Urban Landscape: A Discussion with Mayors, to some 3,000 city officials. The book is a direct but gently mocking assault on monumentalism: its illustrations show absurdly massive plazas and people squatting on low fences designed to keep them off mosaics of hedges that can only be appreciated from the sky. Recently, Yu's ideas have gained new traction in high places. Environmental sustainability, green growth and resource conservation were major themes of last month's meeting of the National People's Congress. And Yu has been approved to help Shanghai rehabilitate a decrepit industrial stretch of its main river for its 2010 World Expo and to create a corridor of parkland along 1,700 m of the Grand Canal.

But it's the smaller victories that seem to excite him the most. The day after his visit, Changgou's leaders called to say they'd accept his plan. "I'm putting in islands and bike paths," says Yu. "The rice paddies are staying. They'll be beautiful.

夏建统：哈佛情人，陀山鹦鹉

《名牌》2006新年特刊

哈佛校训：艺术和科学无非异曲同工，毕业于哈佛设计学院的夏建统对此心有戚焉。他游走于GIS（地理信息系统）与建筑规划设计之间，在东西方两种文化体系下自由辗转。师从世界顶级大师，投身中国城市设计与数字化管理。未到而立之年的夏建统少年老成，希望用GIS和设计改变中国。

查尔斯·哈里斯是他的导师。这位哈佛设计学院终身名誉教授视夏建统为得意门生，一直把他比作“中国的佐佐木英夫（日裔美国设计大师）”。在他的努力下，致力于新一代国际主义设计文化的XWHO设计公司落户杭州，探索东方现代设计文化的光荣与梦想。

Jack Dangermond是他的师兄，也是他正在挑战超越的人。2000年哈佛设计学院百年校庆时曾做过一个调查：从设计学院出去的前50名对社会最有影响的人是谁？结果显示，不是贝聿铭、格罗皮乌斯、丹·凯利、库哈斯等建筑师，而是Jack Dangermond！其1969年创立的ESRI是全球最大的地理信息系统（GIS）软件公司，垄断地位相当于GIS界的微软。

建筑艺术可以永恒，但技术从根本上改变人类社会。“很难让人想像，这是一个规划设计师行业的人产生的转变。”哈佛最年轻的设计学博士、毕业论文就是关于GIS的夏建统，找到了自己的方向。
在哈佛校友会上，夏建统见过贝聿明，深感“两个时代从中国走出去的区别”，但他比在不同文化中选择的大师幸福。景观规划的感性不妨碍他技术的理性，他用编软件程序的手写出了漂亮的小说和散文，讲述科学和艺术的美丽新世界，《做一回哈佛情人》、《从西方到东方》成为他哈佛生涯的象征。

然而，这看似文理贯通、自由转换的中西游历，却是一趟精神苦旅。法国景观设计师雅克·西蒙的一句话，“中国看起来没有什么属于现代的设计”，刺激夏建统反省。他是多个城市的市长城市建设顾问，却往往对现状无言。他记得“陀山鹦鹉濡羽灭火”的典故，“商业竞争火热、传统文化失势的现代中国，探索现代设计文化就更需要陀山鹦鹉的精神。”

城市设计之路

《做一回哈佛情人》：“春愁，新大陆的春风……海的对岸，江南怀春的少女古中国的春心望帝，还在等他赴约，等一群富强的少年的赴约，赴一个千年的邀约。”

当夏建统学成归来，第一个大手笔就是重游小时候流连忘返的西子湖畔，给杭州做申请世界自然与文化遗产的西湖未来多维规划。待回老家江南古镇衢州，赋予从小在那儿长大的老城墙以新的意义，他完成了“赴千年的约会”。

每个人的一生，都会有因缘际遇。如果1991年，14岁的夏建统直接保送到清华微电子系，他也许如今已是著名的互联网上市“海龟”了。可他执意参加高考，因一分之差就读了北京林业大学风景园林设计专业，从此走上了一条城市设计的不归路；后来他到哈佛又迷上了GIS，又走上了GIS的不归路——夏建统认为，设计和IT是殊途同归的，都用来最优化组合地球上的资源，“所有东西对我来说都是基本的社会哲学层面的。”

北林毕业后，夏建统在建设部工作过一段时间，后为出国，他还到新东方当英语老师，每天骑数小时自行车奔波，晚上则忙一些设计的活。“那个过程很艰苦，但很亢奋，对自己帮助很大，具备了在哈佛承受压力的能力，生活岌岌可危的情况下还要考虑将来走什么路。”他认同李阳说的，“要成功先发疯”，人的潜力可极大激发。

1996年，弱冠之年的夏建统从哈佛、耶鲁等六所国外大学的Offer中选择了哈佛，开始了终生受益的经历。

哈佛设计学院声望卓著，尤其在现代景观领域更具优势，诞生了很多大师级的人物。近十年，该院的杰出校友录上增添了“夏建统”这个中国人的名字。几位导师如哈里斯、佐佐木英夫等对夏建统评价很高，他疯狂学习，还选修了别的学院，如商学院迈克尔·波特的课。“我在哈佛最大的一个改变是自信，长时间面对压力、挫折或失败，这可能比接触到不同专业知识更重要。”

与众位建筑名家为伍，光那种氛围就让夏建统顺利登堂入室，他也形成了自己的设计理念、判断及风格。比如结构主义建筑大师丹·凯利，就是他很好的朋友。他还尊敬巴西景观设计师罗伯特·马克斯，此人以“巴西风格”享誉世界。至于亦师亦友的库哈斯，夏建统更看重他以前做的关注社会的“非洲计划”项目，CCTV新大楼则有些哗众取宠。

针对中国成了建筑实验场的现象，夏建统倒认为不能一味谴责国外建筑师不负责任，只能怪我们自己消化理解有问题。用马斯洛理论来看国家大剧院“巨蛋”、2008体育馆“鸟巢”，他持否定态度，个性需求要到很高层次上的，而我们很多基本东西还没满足。

夏建统曾经被郑州请去做评委，日本建筑师黑川纪章在该市做了有争议的“龙湖”新区规划，“龙”形固然有创意，但却忽略了交通、生活等城市主要功能。

哈佛规划学者莫什·萨夫迪在《后汽车时代的城市》中写道，他1999年重返北京时，难以相信那是他1973年第一次见到的城市，“二战后中国几乎没有什么城市建设，因而有机会从西方的错误中学到许多东西。”可这二十多年的城市化进程，天翻地覆。马可·波罗笔下的城市没有了，沈从文笔下的凤凰变样了……夏建统希望中国建筑恶补、消化的时间长一点，否则建得越快毁得越快，最后又推倒重来。
“如果有一天全球化抹杀了人的Identity（身份），你的区域文化特征被消灭了，我觉得是很可怕的一件事。”

一次国际建筑论坛上，夏建统援引托尔斯泰的《三隐士》，说当代中国景观规划设计所面临的境地，就像一个很久没人拜访的孤岛，他建议我们“用自己的方式祈祷”，怀着高度的责任感，用文化和科技手段来解决传统的继承、地域的体现。会后，一位美国设计公司副总裁握着他的手说：“我听到了一个21世纪中国景观规划界的‘梁思成’的声音。”

生于70年代

明末清初周栎园《栎园书影》：“昔有鹦鹉飞集陀山，乃山中大火，鹦鹉遥见，入水濡羽，飞而洒之。天神言：尔虽在志意，何足云哉？对曰：常侨居是山，不忍见耳！天神嘉感，即为灭火。”

香港作家董桥曾为一本杂志组织一辑《中国情怀》专页，哈佛学者余英时寄来的文章即引用了“陀山鹦鹉”的典故。“中国情怀”确实存在于每一个受过中国文化熏陶的人的身上，遇到现实际遇考验，应该发挥陀山鹦鹉的操守。

但这种情怀大都出自阅历之人，何以一个生于70年代的年轻人竟有如此胸襟？加上建筑师是属于老人的行业，成功来得很晚，要做很多年才得到认可（贝聿明说）。

小时候受晚清文人的爷爷的影响，夏建统积淀了古典文学的修养，中学时期文理科皆很优秀，上大学以后又培养逻辑及艺术的能力，后来又做数字化设计，坚持“西技中魂”……“可能我是一个很矛盾的人，处在后现代社会，做着很前卫、高科技的一些事情，但是我的内心却很怀念一些人性、传统的东西。”

因此应邀参加云南红河州的哈尼族两亩梯田项目时，夏建统有一种冲动，建筑要与自然、人文环境水乳交融——方案是把房子嵌到梯田里，不破坏原来的景致。在规划2008奥林匹克森林公园时，他和美国大师理查德·海格一起完成了“萌丘”（MaNature），即人＋自然，反映“天人合一”的哲学及生命运动不息的创造力。他给苏州设计文化长廊，像日本建筑师矶崎新说的，符号尽量抽象化，回到更自然主义的状态。

其实建筑史上他真正欣赏的，是发明流水别墅的赖特和使用清水混凝土的安滕忠雄。“我很欣赏赖特对建筑内外环境的处理，在景观和建筑之间找到平衡。安滕忠雄对氛围、崇高感的营造，受本国传统文化熏陶，对我产生了影响。”

不谈工作的时候，夏建统才卸下与年龄不相符的老成持重。他写过一篇文章就叫《生于70年代》。这是最难定义的一代，70年代初和70年代末出生的人价值观截然不同。由于家庭背景，他反而觉得跟上一代有很深的体验。少年天才的成长过程中有早熟，也有压力，“父亲对我影响很大的一点是，早日成为一个男人。其实我现在倒很想回去做男孩。”

对他影响更大的是哈佛导师哈里斯，“很多朋友说他是Saint（圣人），他身上有阿甘的影子。我很感激他，我做很多事情也无非是对他补偿，对他另一个侧面的反应。”

年轻的夏建统心态十分平和。比尔·盖茨来哈佛开圆桌会议，安南是跟他同时毕业的荣誉博士……“经历多了，不以物喜，不以己悲。等上市了我也不会有太多感觉，至少不会像李彦宏那样激动得热泪盈眶。”夏建统令人惊奇地在设计、软件开发和管理之间轻松转换，他有时候把痛苦当作一种享受，每天最大的压力是没经历过置之死地而惨败。

平静的背后隐藏着波澜。夏建统不是一个“赌徒”，在商业运作上求稳、前瞻，但他却用自己的生命在赌——他在哈佛时查出心脏是危险的“双心桥”构造，一旦压力太大，就会导致气喘、心跳加快，甚至有可能猝死。很多朋友听说陈逸飞去世的消息，都第一反应给他打电话。

他从苹果电脑的斯蒂夫·乔布斯的经历中感悟颇深。这位美学设计大师十年来判若两人：从被出局到重新杀回来，从独裁狂傲变得宽容，因胰腺癌差点死掉，治愈后越加沉静，以iPod征服世人。夏建统向公司员工讲话，引用乔布斯的名言：“Stay hungry，Stay foolish”（永葆求知的欲望）。“当你不能亲身经历，最好的办法就是通过别人的经验教训有所启迪。”他喜欢看传记，比如IBM、胡雪岩、华为、柳传志等。

反过来，他也希望能把自己实践体会的东西与别人分享。明年30岁，夏建统最想要的礼物是公司上市，然后办一所大学，采取哈佛案例教学法，囊括设计、GIS、管理等内容。

命中不能承受之轻。

Takes PlaceDay 1 & 2 1/2

A man awakes in a jungle. He is bruised and bloody, and doesn't know where he is. A yellow Labrador Retriever watches him from the trees, then suddenly runs off. He forces himself up and winces in pain, leaning against a tree. He checks his jacket pocket and finds a small bottle of vodka. Recognition of where he is begins to float across his face. He winces back the pain and begins to run through the trees, reaching a beautiful beach.

He hears sounds — people screaming. He wanders around a bend and finds what has brought him here — a plane crash, survivors in shock. A man trapped beneath wreckage. A woman not breathing. A pregnant woman screaming for help. He runs to help those he can, and rallies the others to help him. One of these strangers asks his name: "Jack."

After the initial shock of the crash has settled a little, Jack digs through the scattered luggage and finds a sewing kit. He goes off into the woods to check his own injuries, where he meets a young woman. He enlists her help in stitching a laceration on his back closed, and he explains that he is a doctor.

Back at the crash site, the survivors do their best to make themselves comfortable. Sayid introduces himself to Charlie, and gets Charlie to help build a bonfire, for the rescuers to see. Hurley gathers together the food from the plane, and distributes it amongst the survivors. Michael checks on the welfare of his son, Walt. And Jack has returned to the beach with his new friend, Kate. Jack explains to her that if they can find the front of the plane, they may be able to radio for help with a transceiver. Kate says she saw smoke coming from the jungle — and tells Jack if he's going to look for it, she's coming with him. Just as Jack is about to argue, the group hears a sound from inside the trees — a loud, terrifying, monstrous howl that goes on and on. The tops of the trees shake, and eventually whatever is making the sound goes away, leaving the survivors marooned, exhausted — and now terrified.

The next day, Jack and Kate tell the survivors that they are going to look for the rest of the fuselage. Charlie invites himself along for the trip, and the three head off. On the way, Kate realizes that she knows Charlie from somewhere, but can't place him. Charlie gleefully announces that he's the bassist for Drive Shaft, which pleases Kate. As the trio works their way across a valley and re-enters the jungle, the sky darkens, and a rainstorm strikes from out of nowhere. Back at the crash site, everyone rushes for cover as the strange sounds from the jungle begin again.

Jack, Kate and Charlie find the wreckage in the jungle. They see no signs of survivors as they climb up into the fuselage towards the cockpit. After breaking their way in, they find the Pilot still strapped to his seat. As Kate and Jack search for the fuselage, the seemingly-dead Pilot wakes up. After they give him some water, they tell the pilot "at least 48" of the passengers have survived, and it's been sixteen hours since the crash. The Pilot then tells them they lost their radio six hours into the flight, and couldn't be seen by anyone. They turned around to head to Fiji, and by the time they hit turbulence and crashed, they were a thousand miles off-course. The rescuers are looking in the wrong place.

The Pilot shows them where the transceiver is kept, and as he tries to get it to work, and Kate finds Charlie in the bathroom for some reason, the strange sounds are heard again — this time just outside the fuselage. They try to catch a glimpse of whatever is making the sound through the cockpit windows, and when the Pilot crawls out to take a look, he is snatched up by the mysterious force. The fuselage is then knocked to the ground, and Charlie, Jack and Kate try and make a run for it.

The three survivors run for their lives, with whatever-it-is hot on their heels. Charlie falls, and when Jack goes back to help him, Kate finds herself alone in the jungle, terrified. Charlie comes upon her suddenly, and the rain stops just as quickly as it began. They go back looking for Jack, and find him a little ways back, along with the body of the Pilot — hanging from the top of a tree above them. They stand there, wondering what could do something like that.

 

Episode 2 - Pilot, Part 2

Air Date9/29/2004

Takes PlaceHalf day 2 - day 3

Shannon has found her belongings and retrieved a bikini to take advantage of the sun. Boone arrives to tell her that he and the other survivors are going through the wreckage and salvaging everything they can. She makes it clear that she has no intention of helping. What's the point, they're going to be rescued any minute, right?

Jin wades through the tide pools gathering sea urchin. Sun is watching from the beach when Michael arrives to ask her if she has seen his son, Walt. Jin overhears the conversation and chastises Sun for having the top button of her sweater open.

While searching the woods for Vincent, Walt stumbles across something lying on the ground. Michael catches up with him and scolds him for running off without telling him. Michael shows his father what he found — a pair of handcuffs.

And as we're wondering where those cuffs came from, we catch up with Jack, Kate and Charlie who appear to have escaped…whatever was chasing them. Kate asks Charlie what he was doing in the bathroom of the cockpit. Charlie confesses he was throwing up, but we soon learn this isn't true. Charlie left something in the airplane bathroom just before the crash. Something he was desperate to get back.

Back at the beach Sawyer and Sayid are in the middle of a brawl and it's all Jack and the others can do to break them up. Sawyer is convinced that Sayid is a terrorist and responsible for the crash. But when Kate asks if anyone can fix the transceiver, Sayid is the only one who is able to help. How? He was a military communications officer. Sayid goes off to fix the transceiver as Jack is called to tend to a horribly injured survivor who needs an operation to remove the piece of wreckage from his abdomen.

Hurley learns that Sayid saw action in the Gulf War. Not in the Air Force or Marines, but The Republican Guard! He gets the transceiver working, but can't get a signal. He tells Kate he has an idea — If they can climb that mountain they might get a signal at high ground.

Elsewhere, Boone lays into Shannon for being incredibly selfish. She lashes back at him and tells her brother that she is going on the hike to find high ground with the others. Knowing she won't change her mind, Boone goes along to look after his sister. Charlie and Sawyer decide to join the group at the last minute.

As the Signal Party climbs the steep slopes of the mountain, Jack asks Hurley to search the luggage for antibiotics while he looks for a blade he can use to operate. Along the way Jack runs into Michael and tells him he saw Vincent in the jungle earlier.

Walt, wandering alone, without his dog, comes upon Locke placing the pieces on his backgammon board. Walt's curiosity gets the best of him. After teaching Walt the history of backgammon, Locke asks Walt a very creepy question: "Do you want to know a secret?"

Jin, who has been handing out the sea urchin he caught, finds Claire sitting alone writing in her. Soon after swallowing the food she feels her baby kick for the first time since the crash. In the joyful realization, Claire admits that she thinks of the baby as a "He."

Meanwhile the Signal Party is walking through a new stretch of jungle. Just as Sayid and Sawyer are about to go at each other again, they discover that they have bigger problems. Something big is out there and it's coming their way. They all turn to run; all except Sawyer that is who pulls a gun out of his belt and fires at the charging animal until it falls dead at his feet. We get our first good look at what came at them. But there must be some mistake. We're on a tropical island…and that's a polar bear!

Jack begins his operation to remove the piece of metal from the belly of the survivor. Hurley tries to help but faints at the first sight of blood.

Back in the jungle, Sawyer explains that he got the gun off on one of the bodies. And guess what, he took the guy's badge too. There was a US Marshall on the plane and that would suggest a prisoner was being transported. But who was it? As Kate takes the gun apart and divides the pieces among the group we get to see her memory of the crash. And in the process we learn that Kate is keeping quite a secret herself.

In the middle of his primitive surgery, Jack's patient regains consciousness. He is consumed by one question: "Where is she?"

At high ground, the group is finally able to get a signal, but they can't transmit because something else is already transmitting. It's difficult to hear, but…it sounds French. It's a distress signal that has been playing over and over for a very long time. Shannon spent a year "studying" in France and is called upon to translate. But what they learn is more terrifying than anything they could have imagined…

 

Episode 3 - Tabula Rasa

Air Date10/6/2004

Featured CharacterKate

Takes PlaceDay 4

Reason for Title : Medieval Latin for "Blank Slate"

In a makeshift infirmary tent, Jack is tending to the Marshal who mutters the same thing over and over through his pain: "Don't trust her…She's dangerous." When Jack asks him who "She" is, the Marshal tells him to look in his Jacket pocket. What he finds there will change things on the island forever. It's a mug shot…of Kate!

The Signal Party is working their way back down the mountain. It's getting dark and some of them want to make camp for the night. Sawyer wants to press on through the jungle at night, but anyone who has seen the last two episodes knows that isn't a very good idea and he is convinced to stay. Sitting around the fire, they discuss what they should tell the others about the French transmission. That information hasn't exactly done a lot for their peace of mind, so in the end they decide not to tell the others anything in order to preserve hope. At least for now…

And speaking of hope, back in the tent Jack is using a great deal of it trying to save the Marshall. Hurley enters, stumbles across Kate's mug shot and asks the question we all want answered: "What do you think she did?" — off which we FLASHBACK TO:

Kate, being prodded by a shotgun held by a farmer (Ray) who wants to know what she is doing sleeping in his barn. After a frank exchange, the two find that they can be of service to each other. He needs some help on the farm, she needs a job and a place to stay. She says her name is "Annie."

Back at the Signal Party, Boone lifts the gun from Sawyer and the clip from Sayid as they sleep. They wake up and an argument ensues over who should have the gun, but they can't agree on a trustworthy candidate — until they arrive at Kate. She reluctantly agrees to keep it.

The next morning, Hurley arrives at the infirmary tent to tell Jack the Signal Party has returned. Kate pulls Jack aside and says she has something she wants to tell him…in private. Jack is relieved, assuming that she is going to confide in him. But when they get down to it, Kate tells Jack about the French transmission. He asks if there is anything else she'd like to tell him. She asks if the Marshal has regained consciousness. When Jack tells her he did briefly during the surgery, Kate asks if he said anything to Jack. Jack considers the question for a moment before answering, "No."

The Marshal has taken a turn for the worse. If they don't find some stronger antibiotics, he's not going to make it. Hurley tells him he's looked everywhere…except the fuselage — but that's full of bodies "and they're all…dead."

Jack enters the wreckage and does his best to avoid disturbing the bodies as he makes a desperate search for anything that will help the Marshal. Hearing something rustling behind him, he finds Sawyer combing the fuselage for a different reason — turns out he's doing a little personal shopping. Jack berates him for disrespecting the dead, but Sawyer tells Jack to get with the program. Jack still thinks they are back in civilization while Sawyer realizes they are "in the wild."

At one end of the beach, Charlie is helping Claire collect luggage using a wheelchair from the plane and they begin to form a bond. Meanwhile, Sun presents a suitcase to Jin, but after closer inspection Jin determines it is the wrong one and tells Sun to keep looking. But before she does, he tells her to go and clean up her face, she is embarrassing him. As she turns leave, he tells her he loves her. And the strange thing is that he appears to mean it.

Hurley bumps into Kate at the infirmary tent and tries to play it cool about knowing her secret and in the process notices the gun in her waistband. He is not a smooth liar. And off the gun we FLAHBACK to:

Kate, who decides it's time to move on from the Australian farm. But when she accepts a ride from Ray to the train station, she learns that he is planning on turning her in to the authorities. He saw her picture at the post office and he really needs that reward money. Kate looks in the side mirror to see the Marshal, hot on her heels. In a desperate attempt to get away, Kate jerks the wheel and crashes the truck off the road. Saving the farmer from the truck costs her a chance to escape and she is captured by the Marshal.

Back in real time, while leaning over her body, the Marshal wakes up and lunges at Kate's throat, choking her. Jack has to pull him off of her before it's too late.

Michael struggles to forge bond with Walt — wants to know what the bald told him yesterday. Walt says it's a secret, but when Michael presses the issue, Walt reveals that Locke told him "a miracle happened." Michael wants him to stay away from Locke.

When the rain stops, Michael searches for the dog in jungle. He hears something in the tall grass; something dangerous. He runs as fast as he can to get away from it and runs smack into Sun, who is topless and washing herself. There is an awkward moment between them.

Back on the beach, the Marshal is dying. Loudly. His screams are taking a physical toll on the rest of the group. Sayid asks Jack if anything can be done. Jack says he is doing all he can. The Marshal tells Jack he wants to speak to Kate…alone. While she is in the tent, Hurley tells Jack about the gun he saw in her pants. Jack races back to the infirmary tent before it's too late… "BANG!"

Out of the tent walks…Sawyer! He did what had to be done —what Jack couldn't do. Horrible groans come from the tent again. We go in to find that the Marshal still isn't dead — Sawyer shot him in the chest! He was aiming for the heart, but he missed! It will take hours for him to bleed out and he will suffer horribly. Jack throws an extremely shaken Sawyer out of the tent. And a few moments later…the moans stop for good. Jack emerges and walks past Sawyer without a word.

 

Episode 4 - Walkabout

Air Date10/13/2004

Featured CharacterJohn Locke

Takes PlaceDay 5 & Day 6

Reason for TitleLocke was supposed to do a Walkabout Tour

We are in Locke's dream as the show opens and it's moments after the crash. As his eye opens, we see the experience from his perspective. Chaos rages around him as he very cautiously looks down to his feet. We see him wiggle his big toe — Good, everything works.

Back in real time, Locke's dream is interrupted by Vincent barking. In fact, he's waking up the entire camp. He won't stop barking at the fuselage and when Jack and the others listen closely they can hear something rummaging around in there. But that can't be, everything in there is…dead. Sawyer? Nope, he's right behind Jack. When they shine a flashlight inside, two glowing eyes shine right back at them. Uh oh…

Three squealing beasts charge out of the wreckage and tear through the camp. As they disappear back into the jungle, Locke is able to determine what they are —Wild Boars. They've been attracted by the bodies that have been baking in the fuselage for the last 4 days. Something has to be done. Bury them? They wouldn't stay buried, not for long anyway. Jack makes the only call he can — The bodies have to be burned.

But, as usual, just as one problem is solved, another rears its ugly head. They're out of food. It's all gone. And just as panic begins to set in, Locke steps forward with his own brand of problem solving. They can hunt the boars. What are they supposed to hunt with? The case of knives Locke checked into the luggage compartment. "Who is this guy?"

In FLASHBACK Locke gets a cryptic phone call from someone who calls him "Colonel." Of course, he's in the military! But we soon discover that isn't true at all — Locke is just another cubicle jockey with an active imagination.

Back on the island, Michael is getting ready to go with Locke. Walt wants to come, but Michael manages to communicate with Sun well enough to convince her to watch his son until the hunting party returns. Meanwhile, Sayid has a plan to try and locate the source of the French Transmission using homemade antennas to triangulate the signal. Kate agrees to help him and tells Jack of her plan before setting off with Locke and Michael to hunt for boar. Back at the fuselage, Claire is beginning to collect the personal effects of the dead for use in a eulogy during the cremation. She asks Jack to be the one to give it, but he doesn't want the job. Claire decides to do it herself.

Boone remarks to Shannon that one of the survivors, Rose, has been sitting by herself way down the beach. He's pretty sure she hasn't eaten since the crash. When Shannon tells him to butt out, Boone reminds Shannon that she would starve without his help. She vows to show him she can take care of herself.

Deep in the jungle, Locke has found the boar trail. They're close. He sends Michael and Kate out to surround the beast, but it turns on them and charges. Michael is gored in the leg and as Kate helps him up she calls to Locke to see if he is okay. "I'm fine, Helen, I just got the wind knocked out of me." Who is Helen?

In FLASHBACK, we see Locke enjoying an intimate conversation with "Helen" over the phone. He has a surprise for her — he finally saved up the money to go to Australia and take that authentic aboriginal walkabout. And guess what? He bought two tickets. Sadly, we learn that Helen doesn't share the same feelings for Locke as he does for her.

Back on the island, Kate agrees to help Michael limp back to the beach, but Locke is determined to bring down that boar. Kate tells him he can't go out there alone. Locke disagrees. "Don't tell me what I can't do."

Back on the beach, a hunter of another sort has found her quarry. Shannon flirts with Charlie and mentions how much she would like a fish. Charlie is only too happy to catch her one…as soon as he can learn how to from Hurley.

Jack has made his way over to Rose and tries to get her to open up to him. After some time, she does and tells him that, even though he has not been found, she believes her husband, Bernard is still alive. She agrees to rejoin the others. Meanwhile, back at the fuselage, Claire has found an envelope with Sayid's name on it. He opens it and we find a woman's picture inside. Sayid can't seem to take his eyes off her.

On the way back to the beach, Kate stops to climb a tree and attach the antenna. But when she is up there, she sees the monster knocking down trees in the distance and drops the antenna, breaking it. And the monster…is heading straight for Locke.

On the beach, Sun is teaching Walt about natural substitutes for toothpaste when Michael and Kate return. The others learn that the hunt was unsuccessful and worse still, that Locke is probably dead.

When Jack is making the final preparations to the fuselage, he sees something — wait - someone, off in the forest. When he chases after him, he runs smack into Locke, who has somehow managed to survive his run in with the monster. And that's not all — he brought back a boar with him.

As night falls, the fuselage is ignited and the names of the dead are read in memorial to them. Michael congratulates Locke on the hunt and asks him if he got a look at the monster. Locke tells him he didn't see anything.

But as we get one more glimpse into his past, we learn that Locke is keeping a secret — one that must be seen to be believed.

 

Episode 5 - White Rabbit

Air Date10/20/2004

Featured CharacterJack Shepherd

Takes PlaceDay 7

Reason for Title : Jack's dad is his "white rabbit"

As the eye opens, we see a trickle of blood beginning to flow from a cut just above it. We pull back to see a boy laying flat on his back. Beside him another boy is being ruthlessly beaten against a school yard fence. "Walk away now and you won't get your ass kicked," says the bully. And the truth of it is, walking away would definitely be the smart thing for him to do - the bully is much bigger than he is. But the boy against the fence is in real trouble and, mixed in with the pain and the terror there is something else written on his face — written so clearly you'd have to be blind not to see it. Please, help me! The first boy is up in a flash and goes to help his friend, but he's grabbed from behind by the bully and spun around, the bully's fist already cocked and ready to fire. "Should've stayed down Jack." WHAP! Lights out…

That was a Young Jack. Back in real time, Charlie races down the beach towards him, rousing Adult Jack from his FLASHBACK. "Jack! JACK! There's someone out there!" Charlie points out to the ocean — And oh my God, there IS someone out there yelling for help and struggling to stay afloat. Before Charlie can explain that he doesn't know how to swim, Jack is in the water, pounding through the surf towards the target. When he gets there, he scans the surface and finds nothing but open water. He dives under. Nothing. He dives again and he's down there a long time until…he's up and he's got someone with him. It's Boone! And just as we're about to breathe a sigh of relief, Boone asks a terrible question: "Did you get her?" Did he get who? "That woman, did you get her?" Jack turns around and, sure enough, there is someone else further out, calling for help and about to go under. Kate and Charlie take an exhausted Boone from Jack at the breakwater and Jack turns around and dives right back in. But we widen out we see the awful truth laid out before us. Jack can swim as hard as he wants… but there is no one left to save.

Back on the beach, while Kate is trying to prevent Jack from beating himself up for the life he didn't save, Jack sees the man in the suit standing in the water. When he asks Kate if she saw him too, Kate recognizes that Jack's exhausted and asks how long it's been since he slept.

Meanwhile, Sawyer has begun his own business, providing luxuries to the survivors from the stash of goodies he collected from the wreckage and as the prices reflect, he's got the market cornered in that department. "But don't worry", he tells Shannon…he'll take a check.

Hurley and Charlie tell Jack that they are dangerously low on water. It hasn't rained in a few days and there are 47 people to take care of. Jack has to point out the mathematical error. Better make that 46. They want Jack to decide what should be done, but he wants no part of it.

In FLASHBACK we see young Jack in his father's study receiving a very important lesson on what it takes to be a leader. He tells Jack he doesn't have it. And while that might not be the easiest lesson to learn, Jack needs to know there are consequences for getting involved in other people's business. Consequences like that shiner on his eye.

Back in real time, Jack is speaking with Boone when he sees the man in the suit again. This time, he's not going to let him get away. He races off into the woods and sees the man standing there with his back turned. When he turns around, the shock knocks Jack right off his feet because the man in the suit looks an awful lot like his FATHER!

On the beach, the heat and the lack of water are taking their toll. When Claire faints, the others rally to her side, but when they go to give her some of the precious water, they make a frightening discovery — it's all gone — stolen! Locke offers to go into the jungle to find more — just enough to keep Claire going.

IN FLASHBACK, we see Jack back in the same study, but he's older now - the Jack we know on the island. His mother tells him that his father is missing and that it's Jack's fault. She tells him to go and bring his father back home. Jack asks his mother where he is. She answers, Australia.

In the jungle, Jack races after the man in the suit. Just as he is getting close, he trips and falls down an incline, barely catching himself on a vine before falling off a cliff. He hangs there, slowly losing his grip on the vine. But just before he falls to the rocks below, a hand comes over and pulls him up. It's Locke! He tells Jack that the others are all looking to him to tell them what to do. Jack doesn't want the job and tells Locke about his hallucinations. Locke tells Jack that he should consider the possibility he is not hallucinating. But that's impossible. Locke tells him that possible is a relative term… especially on this island.

Back at the beach, Sayid and Kate catch Sun with a bottle of water. When they learn she got it from Sawyer, they confront him about stealing their supply. Turns out he didn't do it and he can prove it — he made a trade with Jin, "cave-man style". As Charlie does his best to comfort Claire, we wonder how long she can hang on.

In FLASHBACK, Jack finally catches up with his father in Australia…in the morgue. Back in reality, Jack wipes away his tears as he sits alone in the jungle struggling with the loss all over again. Suddenly, the man in the suit crosses by again. Jack follows him through the dark and into an undiscovered part of the island where Jack discovers fresh water and a COFFIN.

In the final FLASHBACK, we learn that Jack put his father's coffin on the plane to fly back to California for the funeral. In real time, Jack finds that the coffin is EMPTY. In a fit of frustration at not being able to bury his father and the pure exhaustion that may be causing him to hallucinate, he destroys the coffin.

Back at the beach the water thief is caught. It was Boone! And just as the mob is about to have at him, Jack returns to the scene. He tells them they can't go on like this. It's been six days and rescue hasn't come, they have to start accepting the idea that it may never come. He tells them about the water he found in the jungle and explains to them all that things have to change or more people are going to die. "If we can't live together, we're going to die alone."

 

Episode 6 - House of the Rising Sun

Air Date10/27/2004

Featured CharacterSun

Takes PlaceDay 8

Reason for TitlePlay on words with Sun's name and race

We open on the eye of Sun — who looks out at her husband Jin as he catches and kills fish with his bare hands — when we launch into…a FLASHBACK — where Jin is a waiter at a lavish party for Korean high society; and Sun is a cocktail-clad part of that society. Both are in positions that highly contrast the characters we know on the island. Jin approaches Sun and offers her a glass of champagne, but there is another exchange going on between them — in their eyes — and when they meet later, we learn that they are lovers, as they steal a kiss in private. Sun wants to run away to America while Jin is worried about her father's approval. Jin presents her with a white orchid — all he can afford for now.

Back on the island, Jin is distracted by the sight of Michael and Walt walking down the beach, when suddenly, for no apparent reason, he charges Michael and proceeds to beat the crap out of him near the shoreline. Jin nearly drowns Michael as Walt and Sun look on helplessly, until Sawyer and Sayid step in to break it up. Sawyer uses the Marshal's handcuffs to chain Jin to a piece of the fuselage.

Meanwhile, Jack, Kate, Charlie and Locke trek towards the fresh water source. When Charlie separates from the group for a fix, he inadvertently steps on a bee hive. Locke, who seems to have followed him, instructs Charlie not to move, but Charlie has an irrational fear of bees. As he balances precariously on top of the hive — bees buzzing all around his head, we cut back to —

— the Beach, where Michael is explaining what happened. Defending himself, his frustration grows as the language barrier and race card come into play. Sayid insists that Jin remain handcuffed until they can sort things out. Sun looks on as we go into — another FLASHBACK, by an idyllic lake, where Jin announces his intentions of marrying Sun, with her father's blessings and gives her an engagement ring. Sun is overjoyed until she learns that, in return, Jin has agreed to work for her father's business. And off her look of concern, we cut back to —

— the island, where Charlie struggles to remain still as more bees buzz around him. Jack has a plan — he'll cover the hive, but before he's able to put his plan in action, Charlie is stung and stomps on the hive in reaction. The angry swarm is instantly on them and they all run off in separate directions, swatting bees and shedding clothes. Kate runs into a cave, where she stumbles into the skeletal remains of two bodies, one male, the other female, giving evidence to the fact that there were people on this island before them. When Jack examines "Adam & Eve", we learn that they've been dead for approximately 40 years and were laid to rest without any evidence of trauma. Among their few possessions, Jack finds a pouch containing two stones — one black, one white.

At the beach, Sun applies aloe to Jin's handcuffed wrist, which is chaffed and cut from the cuff. In FLASHBACK, we watch Sun enter a well appointed home to find a gift wrapped box waiting for her, with an adorable Sharpei puppy inside. But instead of looking pleased, Sun looks depressed. Jin is also distant and instead of sharing this moment with his wife, he retreats into the bedroom to take a business call.

Back in real time, Jack is encouraged by the discovery of the bodies at the caves. He suggests that, instead of bringing the water to the people, they bring the people to the water. While Charlie and Locke agree and stay behind to begin to prepare things for the others, Kate isn't quite convinced and remains unwilling to settle in.

Meanwhile, back on the beach, Walt is upset and confused over the attack and questions his father's part in it. Michael immediately assumes that Walt's mother said bad things about him, but the truth is even harder for him to take. His mother never spoke of him at all. And off these relative strangers we find —

— strangers of a different sort. As Sun tends to Jin, we FLASHBACK once more to their home, which has become even more ornate, and where Sun seems further trapped by her gilded cage. Jin enters and rushes into the bathroom with blood on his hands. Sun follows and begs Jin for an explanation, but he ignores her and will only say that he was working. Frustrated at his lie, Sun slaps her husband hard across the face, but instead of a reaction all she gets is a cold stare from a pair of dead eyes. Sun realizes for the first time that she doesn't know her own husband anymore. Jin tells her that he does whatever her father asks of him — and that what he does, he does for them. But Sun doesn't buy it and recoils from him in fear.

Back at the caves, Charlie cannot escape from the watchful eye of Locke, who claims to know who he is and what he's looking for. In his paranoia, Charlie assumes that Locke is wise to his drug habit, when in fact, Locke is talking about his status in Drive Shaft and the fact that he lost his guitar in the crash. Locke tells Charlie to have faith — this island will give you a great deal…if you are willing to give it something in return. Meanwhile, Jack returns to the beach and finds the people seriously divided about whether to move to the caves. Kate tells Jack that she just isn't willing to dig in and the two part ways.

Sun finds Michael chopping wood. In perfect English, she explains that her husband attacked Michael over a watch that belonged to her father — a watch that Michael is wearing on his wrist; a watch that symbolized honor amongst the men in her life. And as Michael attempts to take all this in, we go into another FLASHBACK, where a woman posing as a home decorator gives Sun instructions on how to make a getaway at the airport while on a business trip with Jin. We learn that Sun has been studying English for some time in anticipation of leaving her husband.

Back in real time, Charlie finally shakes Locke and sneaks away for a hit. The minute Charlie takes out his drugs, Locke is on him, demanding that he hand them over before he runs out — because then, as Locke reasons, he will be in control of his choice. Charlie is fed up with Locke and asks to be left alone, but Locke will not be denied. In a moment of desperation, Charlie hands over his bag to Locke. And, sure enough, he looks up to see his guitar, hanging in a tree.

Michael approaches Jin wielding the axe, but instead of killing the guy, Michael explains that he innocently found the watch and cuts Jin loose. He warns Jin to stay away from him and his son and walks away as Sun looks on. And in her FINAL FLASHBACK, we are at the airport in Australia. Sun is about to walk away from her husband, eyes darting from the clock to the car waiting outside. But when she looks back at Jin, she finds him holding a white orchid in his hands, reminding her of the simple love they once had. Sun makes a decision to stay with her husband and allows the car to leave without her.

At the caves, Charlie plays his guitar as Hurley, Jin, Sun and Jack arrive. Meanwhile, back at the beach, Sayid, Sawyer, Boone, Shannon, Michael, Walt and Kate keep the signal fire burning. The camps are divided as Jack and Kate stare into their separate fires…

 

Episode 7 - The Moth

Air Date11/03/2004

Feature CharacterCharlie

Reason for Title : Charlie is like the moth in overcoming his addiction

Takes Place Day 9

We open on the eye of a guitar and pan up to find Charlie, struggling to play the chords that once came easily. He's going through the initial stages of withdrawal -sweating, nervous and agitated. Locke encourages him to take a walk, but Charlie refuses.

Meanwhile, Jack tries in vain to convince Kate to come to the caves and Sawyer moves into the infirmary tent on the beach.

Charlie walks through the woods, hears what he thinks might be the monster and runs. We FLASHBACK to a confessional booth, where Charlie confesses to giving in to the temptations that come with his rock-star lifestyle. On the advice of the priest, Charlie considers quitting the band, until his brother Liam delivers news that they've been signed to a recording contract.

Back in real time, it turns out that Locke was using Charlie as bait to catch a boar. Fed up, Charlie demands his drugs back. Locke explains that he's going to let Charlie ask three times and that on the third time, he's going to let him have the drugs back—this was the first. Charlie begs Locke to throw the drugs away, but Locke reasons that would take away his choice, the only thing that separates us from the animals.

Back on the beach, Sayid tells Kate about his plan to triangulate the French broadcast -they'll set up three antennae and signal one another with bottle rockets as to when to turn them on. However, he needs a battery for the transceiver. Kate goes to Sawyer, knowing full well he has been hoarding stuff, and attempts to persuade him into contributing a battery. Kate claims to understand Sawyer—he has nothing and no one to return to, which is why he acts so selfishly. She says that she pities him. In an act of defiance, Sawyer gives up the battery.

Jack and Hurley continue to move bags from the beach to the caves. Charlie offers his help, but only gets in the way. When one of the bags pops open, Charlie spots some pill bottles and considers pocketing one. Jack catches him in the act. Charlie claims he has a "headache", but Jack tells him Diazepam is a little strong for a headache and dismisses him. Charlie returns to his guitar and we launch into another FLASHBACK, where Liam attempts to talk Charlie into staying with the band—tempting him with fame & fortune and appealing to his ego. Liam promises to look out for him and Charlie agrees so long as Liam promises they can walk away if things get too crazy.

At the caves, Hurley asks Charlie to move his guitar to make room for supplies. This pushes Charlie over the edge and he confronts Jack, going on an irrational rant. Suddenly, the cave walls begin to collapse, sending rocks and dirt everywhere. While Charlie escapes, Jack is trapped inside!

Kate & Sayid trek through the jungle to set the antennae and talk about fate, while Charlie runs to the beach to gather help. Boone leaves Shannon with the responsibility of firing off his bottle rocket and powering up his antenna. Sawyer volunteers to go tell Kate what happened to Jack, leaving Charlie behind. We FLASHBACK to the heyday of Drive Shaft. Charlie is up on stage next to Liam, enjoying the throngs of screaming fans. But as they launch into their hit song, "Y'all Everybody" Liam takes the chorus and sings it himself. Backstage, Charlie confronts his brother for singing his part. Liam claims that he was just caught up in the moment and dismisses Charlie, who stands by watching as his older brother takes a film canister from a girl and pulls out a familiar bag of brown powder. Liam throws Charlie a wink and a smile, before retreating to do the drugs.

Back in real time, everyone works together to clear the rocks from the mouth of the cave. When Michael arrives, he puts his eight years of construction experience into action and halts the work until he can figure out a good place to dig based on stability.

Out in the jungle, Sawyer intercepts Kate & Sayid to deliver news of Jack. But Kate's harsh comments cause Sawyer to have a change of heart and he decides to withhold the information and invite himself along on their mission.

As Locke works to skin another boar, Charlie approaches and tells him about the situation with Jack. But Locke knows the real reason Charlie came out into the jungle — he wants his stash. Locke shows Charlie a cocoon, where a moth struggles to emerge. He explains that he could help it out, but it would be too weak to survive—the struggle is nature's way of strengthening it. And off that nugget of wisdom, Locke reminds Charlie that if he asks again, the drugs will be his.

At the caves, Michael tunnels through to where Jack is able to hear their calls. Jack tells them he's pinned down and unable to move. Michael informs the group that someone small will have to go in after Jack. Charlie emerges from the woods and volunteers.

Back in the jungle, Sayid, Kate and Sawyer stop to place the second antenna. Sayid instructs Kate to watch for his bottle rocket at 5 o'clock, then sets out on his own, leaving Kate and Sawyer together. Sawyer attempts to suss out what Kate sees in Jack. Kate tells Sawyer he doesn't hold a candle to Jack, which leads Sawyer to reveal that Jack is probably dead.

Charlie crawls through the small tunnel towards Jack. In his FLASHBACK, he tunnels his way through the crowd backstage. Charlie finds Liam drinking and drugging with some groupies and berates Liam for missing sound check again and getting high before another show. While Liam takes it all very lightly, Charlie threatens to cancel the rest of the tour, claiming that things have gotten out of control and that it's time to walk away, as they agreed. Charlie tells Liam that he's destroying Drive Shaft, but Liam's ego has grown out of control—he thinks he is Drive Shaft. Liam tells Charlie he's nothing without the band and leaves him behind. Devastated, Charlie picks up one of the film canisters and empties its contents into his hands. He stares at it, tears welling up in his eyes as he contemplates taking them himself…

Halfway through the tunnel, the walls begin to collapse behind Charlie. He makes it to Jack, but now they're both trapped inside. Charlie unpins Jacks arm from under a rock and fixes his dislocated shoulder before we go into another FLASHBACK—

—to a suburban house in Australia. Charlie knocks on the door and a clean-cut Liam answers it. Charlie delivers news that he's lined up a gig for Drive Shaft as an opening act in L.A. Charlie wants a revival—needs a revival. But Liam is settled and likes his new life—he has a wife and child now. When Charlie takes off his sunglasses, Liam realizes that he's using again. Liam offers to get him some help and invites him to stay, but Charlie storms out and heads for the fateful flight back to Los Angeles.

Outside the cave, the group has nearly given up hope until Kate arrives and insists on continuing the rescue effort. Inside, Jack is quick to recognize signs of Charlie's withdrawal and tells him he'll help him though it, if they ever make it out—they're using up oxygen—FAST. But Charlie notices a moth flying around inside the cave and he follows it to a shaft of light where he begins digging for fresh air—

—as Kate and the others dig on the other side. Charlie and Jack break through the surface and stumble back into camp. Kate turns, relieved to see Jack alive and runs into his arms. Jack credits Charlie for getting them out.

Meanwhile, Sayid prepares to turn on his antenna and sets off his bottle rocket. Shannon miraculously holds up her end of the bargain from the beach and the third rocket is launched from Kate's position. Sayid turns on the antenna, about to receive the signal, when he's suddenly conked on the head with a log—someone or something doesn't want them to get off the island.

That night at the caves, Charlie goes to Locke and asks for his drugs. This is the third request and Locke sticks to his word, surrendering the little bag to Charlie. But Charlie unexpectantly tosses the bag into the fire. Locke tells Charlie he's proud of him and knew he could do it. Charlie watches as a moth dances over the fire, finally free of his addiction. 

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