Hearts and Minds (Lost)

Infobox Television episode | Title = Hearts and Minds
Series = Lost (TV series)
Season = 1
Episode = 13
Airdate = January 12, 2005
Production = 111
Writer = Carlton Cuse & Javier Grillo-Marxuach


Caption = Shannon seduces Boone.
Director = Rod Holcomb
Guests = Charles Mesure
Adam Leadbeater
Kelly Rice
Episode list = "Lost" (season 1)
List of "Lost" episodes
Prev = Whatever the Case May Be
Next = Special

"Hearts and Minds" is the 13th episode of "Lost". It is the thirteenth episode of the show's first season. The episode was directed by Rod Holcomb and written by Carlton Cuse and Javier Grillo-Marxuach. It first aired on January 12, 2005 on ABC. The character of Boone Carlyle is featured in the episode's flashbacks.

Plot

Centric Character(s): Boone

Boone sees that Shannon's relationship with Sayid is getting more personal. He tries to tell Sayid that he would be better off staying away from Shannon, but he is ignored. Hurley scolds Boone for not bringing back any boar. Locke says that what he and Boone are doing with the hatch is far more important than hunting. Kate shows Jack to a garden that Sun has started. At the hatch, Locke makes a paste and tells Boone it is for later. Locke suggests that staring at the hatch will tell them how to open it.

"In a flashback, Shannon calls Boone and, after hearing violent displays over the other line, asks him to come to Sydney. When he gets there he sees that her boyfriend, Bryan, has been beating her. Boone reports this to the police, and reveals that Shannon is his stepsister. While Boone is speaking to the officer, a man (Sawyer) is brought to the station handcuffed shouting in anger. The detective ignores Boone. He offers Bryan $25,000 to break up with Shannon but Bryan asks for $50,000 and Boone agrees. Boone also states that Bryan is not the first man he has paid off to leave Shannon alone."

Boone explains to Locke that he is tired of lying, and wants to tell Shannon about the hatch. Locke reluctantly agrees but as Boone leaves Locke knocks him unconscious with the handle of his knife. Boone awakes to find himself tied up in a position from which it is apparently impossible to break free. Locke applies a strange paste on Boone's head wound from when he was knocked out and leaves a knife embedded in the ground in front of Boone so he'll be able to free himself. Locke explains that he will be able to reach it once he is properly motivated. After several unsuccessful attempts to do so, Boone hears Shannon's screams and the sounds of the 'monster' approaching. This is the impetus he needs, and after a short struggle, and in excruciating pain, he is finally able to reach the weapon. He then frees himself and searches for his sister.

Kate discovers that Sun speaks English when the two are working in the garden, and Sun asks her not to tell anyone. Sun took English lessons in Korea, but doesn't want Jin to know. Locke finds Sayid trying to make sense of Rousseau's maps, and gives him a compass. Boone runs through the jungle, and locates Shannon tied from head to toe to a tree. She screams for Boone, telling him to untie her. This he does, and they run through the jungle together, away from the monster.

Sayid tells Jack that according to Locke's compass, north is not where it should be, causing him to believe that the instrument is defective. Jack finds Locke and asks him about Boone. Locke says he hasn't seen his acolyte all day, and the boars are migrating outside of their valley. Hurley and Jin spend the day fishing, and when Hurley fails to catch anything, and is injured in the attempt, Jin gives him a fish out of sympathy.

"In a flashback, Shannon refuses to leave with Boone. He realizes that Shannon lied to him to get the money, and she has done this all the other times he had to pay off her boyfriends. Bryan says that Boone's mother stole money away from her, and she is getting what is rightfully hers. After a brief fight with Bryan in which he is beaten, Boone leaves. That night, a drunk Shannon comes to Boone's hotel room and tells him that Bryan stole the money. She tells Boone that she knows he loves her and, although he first tries to refuse her advances, they sleep together."

Boone tells Shannon about the hatch right before the monster attacks them again, this time while they are hiding in a clump of trees. It takes Shannon, and the distraught Boone runs through the jungle searching helplessly. He later finds her mutilated body by a creek and watches her die. That night Boone returns to the camp and tries to kill Locke, screaming that he had killed his sister, but Locke reveals that Shannon is alive. The paste caused Boone to have a vision that, according to Locke, is crucial to his survival. Boone says seeing Shannon dead made him feel relieved. Locke says to come with him. The two disappear into the jungle.