Exposé (Lost)

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“Exposé”

Lost episode

Nikki and Paulo look at the diamonds

Episode no.

Season 3
Episode 14

Written by

Edward Kitsis &
Adam Horowitz

Directed by

Stephen Williams

Guest stars

Maggie Grace
Ian Somerhalder
Billy Dee Williams
William Mapother
Daniel Roebuck
Jacob Witkin

Production no.

314

Original airdate

March 28, 2007

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"Exposé"^[1] is the fourteenth episode of the third season and sixty-first episode overall of the American Broadcasting Company's serial drama television series Lost. It was aired as on ABC in the United States and on CTV in Canada on March 28, 2007. The episode was written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz and directed by Stephen Williams.

The episode's story focuses on couple Nikki Fernandez (Kiele Sanchez) and Paulo (Rodrigo Santoro). The flashbacks reveal their lives before arriving on the island, and what they have been doing between day one and day eighty-one. The episode marks the first appearance of Shannon Rutherford (Maggie Grace) since her on-screen death early in the second season. Boone Carlyle (Ian Somerhalder) returned for the fifth time since his death late in the first season. Furthermore, Ethan (William Mapother) and Dr. Arzt (Daniel Roebuck) reprised their guest roles in flashbacks.

1 Plot
2 Production Notes
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Plot

The episode begins with Nikki breathing heavily and running through the jungle. She frantically buries a small bag. On the beach of the island, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes and James "Sawyer" Ford are playing ping pong. Nikki stumbles out of the jungle and falls to the ground. As Hurley and Sawyer rush to her, she says something barely audible. She is soon pronounced dead.

Hurley and Sawyer try to recount what Nikki said before she died and come to the conclusion that she said, "Paulo lies." Sawyer and Hurley begin an investigation and find Paulo lying lifeless in the jungle. Sawyer finds a walkie talkie in Nikki and Paulo's tent. He says the Others had similar walkie talkies, and concludes they were working with the Others. Hurley does not think the Others are near their camp, but Sun vehemently reminds them that she was abducted (unaware that it was Charlie who grabbed her). Sawyer tries to calm them down and says he will do a perimeter sweep. But when he shows off his gun, Hurley becomes suspicious.

Hurley asks Desmond to use his psychic powers to see who killed Nikki and Paulo. Desmond says it does not work that way, but offers that he saw Nikki arguing with Sawyer earlier this morning right before she died. Hurley tells Charlie and Sun his theory. Sun says Sawyer's not a murderer - she is convinced it is the Others. Feeling guilty, Charlie confesses to Sun that it was he who took her. Sun is stunned. He explains why he did it, and as the horror of it washes over her, Sun simply walks away.

Sawyer says he argued with Nikki because she wanted a gun, but did not give it to her, angering her. He hands Sun a pouch filled with diamonds. Later, Sun confronts Sawyer about his kidnapping her. She slaps him and gives him back the diamonds. The survivors then hold a funeral for Nikki and Paulo, with Hurley giving a short eulogy.

The flashbacks begin with Nikki performing a strip-tease in a lap-dancing club to Wreckx-n-Effect's 1992 hit Rump Shaker. It soon emerges that the scene is in fact part of an episode on the popular Charlie's Angels-like TV show Exposé filmed in Sydney, Australia, in which she is a guest star. She is also having an affair with the septuagenarian executive producer, Howard Zuckerman, who is very wealthy, while Paulo works as his chef. Paulo poisons his food, and the couple steals his bag of diamonds, which are worth $8 million. At the airport, while waiting to board Oceanic 815, they hear Shannon and Boone arguing. Nikki ironically extracts a promise from Paulo that they will "never end up like them."

Upon surviving the plane crash, Nikki and Paulo realize that they have lost the bag with the diamonds. Nikki consults Dr. Arzt and he tells her of a spider with the ability to paralyze people. He also gives her a map which leads them to The Pearl and the Nigerian Plane; they explore neither. When Kate mentions that she found luggage from the plane in a lake, Paulo finds the diamonds, but does not tell Nikki. Instead, he hides them in the toilet at The Pearl and overhears Juliet and Ben discussing their plan to have Jack do surgery on Ben. Paulo keeps this a secret and takes the walkie-talkie that was left behind. Later, when Sayid, Locke, Desmond, Nikki and Paulo visit The Pearl, Paulo retrieves the diamonds by pretending to use the bathroom.

Nikki figures out that Paulo has found the diamonds and decides to lure him into a trap. When he denies that he has the diamonds she unleashes one of the paralyzing spiders on him. She finds the diamonds and Paulo apologizes, claiming that he did it so that she would not end their relationship. As Nikki stands in a state of regret, the pheromones of the female spider attract a group of the male spiders of the same species and she is bitten on her leg. She buries the diamonds and sprints to the beach.

The first scene is repeated, during which it can now be determined that Nikki is actually saying "paralyzed" and not "Paulo lies" in an attempt to alert Hurley and Sawyer to her condition. At the funeral, Sawyer pours the pouch of diamonds into the grave. Nikki's eyelids open just as Hurley and Sawyer are filling the grave, burying her and Paulo alive.

[edit] Production Notes

The Producers would later reveal that the swarm of male spiders that appear is actually the smoke monster^[2].

[edit] References

^ March 9, 2007 ABC Medianet Episode Press Release
^ Lindelof, Damon; Cuse, Carlton. (2008-03-21). The Official Lost Audio Podcast [Podcast]. ABC.

[edit] External links

Exposé at the Internet Movie Database

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