Lost season 3

Template:BbSpoiler This article will contain episode summaries for the third season of the American drama/adventure television series Lost; the season's episodes will begin airing October 4, 2006. The original airdates (U.S.) are listed here for each episode. Episode summaries from the first season can be found here and episode summaries from the second season can be found here.

There are twenty-three episodes, consisting of the first six with a mini-cliffhanger, several weeks with no episodes at all, and then the next seventeen.

According to an ABC Press Release, Rodrigo Santoro will be joining the cast of Lost, as are Elizabeth Mitchell (according to Hollywood Reporter) and Kiele Sanchez. Michael Emerson and Henry Ian Cusick are both included in the main cast list, rather than as guest stars.

Damon Lindelof has mentioned that J.J. Abrams is set to direct the seventh episode of the season.

A Tale of Two Cities

• Original airdate: October 4, 2006
• Flashback: Unknown
• Written by: J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof
• Directed by: Jack Bender

During an interview at Comic-Con 2006, Carlton Cuse revealed:

We pick up where we left off, but obviously there are different stories on different parts of the island, and, you know, we will get to all of them in the first few episodes. But like last year, we didn't deal with the raft survivors in the first episode. Not everything is going to be answered in the first episode. But the captivity story [with Jack, Kate and Sawyer] will definitely be addressed.

As for season three of the show itself, co-creator and executive Damon Lindelof said:

The sort of big fundamental 'What's-in-the-hatch?' question we feel we want to be addressing in season three is: Who are these Other people? What are they doing on the island? Why have they been taking us? Why did they take Walt? Like, what's their story? And by the end of season three, in much the same way that by the end of season two you knew the story of the hatch, ... I think [people] will have the same level of comprehension for the Others, and the doors will be blown off the show in a really fundamental way, a way that we've started ... setting up in our finale in season two and will begin to sort of creep its way back into the show again.