Something Nice Back Home

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"Something Nice Back Home"
Adam Horowitz
Production code410
Original air dateMay 1, 2008 (2008-05-01)
Running time43 minutes[1]
Guest appearances
Jeff Fahey as Frank Lapidus
Sam Anderson as Bernard Nadler
L. Scott Caldwell as Rose Nadler
Kevin Durand as Martin Keamy
John Terry as Christian Shephard
William Blanchette as Aaron
Bill Fiddler as Dr. Stillman
April Parker Jones as Dr. Erica Stevenson
Carla Von as Ms. Berenberg
Michelle Ruff as Jane (Voice, Uncredited)
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"Something Nice Back Home" is the tenth

Adam Horowitz and directed in March and April by supervising producer Stephen Williams.[3]
Critical reviews were mixed and the broadcast of "Something Nice Back Home" brought in 13 million American viewers, one of the smallest audiences for an original episode of Lost in the show's history.

The narrative begins on December 28, 2004, 98 days after the crash of

Aaron continue their trek to the beach from the Barracks. In a flashforward, Jack experiences visions of his deceased father Christian Shephard (John Terry), while his relationship with Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) is strained soon after he proposes marriage. Kitsis said that the episode "was interesting because [it shows] a time, maybe brief, where Jack was happy."[4]

Plot

On the beach

After feeling ill for a day,

Bernard Nadler (Sam Anderson
)—knocks him out with chloroform. The appendectomy is a success; afterwards, Juliet tells Kate that Jack really does love Kate and not Juliet. When Kate leaves, Juliet tells Jack that she knows he's awake, after which he opens his eyes.

In the Jungle

En route back to the beach camp, Sawyer, distrustful of Miles, gives him a "restraining order" to keep him away from Claire as they travel to the survivors' beach camp with Claire's infant son, Aaron. On their way, Miles discovers the partially buried bodies of Danielle Rousseau (Mira Furlan) and Karl (Blake Bashoff). They encounter Frank Lapidus (Jeff Fahey), who saves their lives by instructing them to hide from the nearby band of mercenaries led by Martin Keamy (Kevin Durand), who are revealed not to have been killed by the smoke monster in the previous episode. The mercenaries are on their way back to the helicopter to return to the freighter Kahana. At night, Miles watches Claire as she leaves with her deceased father, Christian. Sawyer awakes the next morning to find Aaron alone under a nearby tree and calls out for Claire with no response.

Flashforwards

In flashforwards, Jack has returned to work as a doctor in Los Angeles. He is engaged to Kate and lives with her while helping to raise Aaron (William Blanchette). Jack visits Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia), who is in a mental institution. Hurley has not been taking his medication and suffering from hallucinations of his deceased friend, Charlie Pace (Dominic Monaghan). He believes that the Oceanic Six have died and gone to heaven. Hurley gives Jack a message from Charlie: "You're not supposed to raise him." Charlie has also told Hurley that Jack will be receiving a visitor. On two separate occasions, Jack sees his father; Jack asks his colleague Erika Stevenson (April Parker Jones) to prescribe him the anti-anxiety drug clonazepam. After overhearing a phone call, Jack becomes suspicious of Kate. The next night, a heated argument ensues, in which she reveals that she is doing an errand for Sawyer, who Jack says is on the island by choice. Aaron walks into the room as Jack blurts out that Kate and Aaron are not related.

Production

The episode was written by March 10, 2008[6] and was done alongside "The Shape of Things to Come" and "Cabin Fever".[7] Shooting began by March 24,[8] alongside filming of the previous episode[9] and continued through April 4.[10] The flashforwards were written partially to explain what led Jack to become the drug addict that he is in third-season finale's flashforwards, who believes that his father is alive.[11] Matthew Fox stated that the fourth season is "starting to close the loop on the end of [the third] season. Jack in the future is a man marked by weakness, but the Jack [on the island in December 2004] is strong. ['Something Nice Back Home' explains] how he made that transition."[12] When asked why Hurley does not take drugs to see Charlie, but Jack starts his drug addiction to try not to see Christian, Edward Kitsis said that "Jack has … always been a man of science, and there has to be something logical. The scene where Jack is staring at the bench where Hurley sits when Charlie visits him, I think in that moment he's thinking, my life right now is pretty good, I don't want to end up here." In regard to the contrast in Kate's character on the island and after the island, Kitsis said that "you could say [that] motherhood suits her. In the flashforwards … there's a sense of purpose to her, there's some clarity to her. There's so much devotion to that child, and she appears to be such a great mother … taking care of Aaron may have helped her put away some other issues."[4]

Reception

Critics of Entertainment Weekly and The Palm Beach Post speculated that Claire had been dead since the previous episode.[13]

"Something Nice Back Home" was viewed live or recorded and watched within four hours of broadcast by 10.726 million American viewers,[14] scoring a 4.7/13 in the key adults 18–49 demographic,[15] ranking Lost as the twenty-first most watched series of the week[16] and setting a ratings low for the series.[17] A total of 12.946 million Americans watched the episode live or recorded it and watched it within seven days; this number was factored into the season's average.[18] The episode was viewed by 1.322 million Canadians, making Lost the nineteenth most watched show of the week.[19] 647,000 in the United Kingdom tuned in to the local broadcast.[20] In Australia, "Something Nice Back Home" was watched by 505 000 people,[21] having been moved to a later timeslot of 10.30 pm, outside the prime time viewing block.[22]

Verne Gay of

TMZ graded "Something Nice Back Home" as a "B". In his recap, he wrote that "if that's the last we ever see of Claire again, that would be BEYOND awesome."[32]

Robert Bianco of

TV Squad called "Something Nice Back Home" "a break after last week's action- and information-packed episode", argued that Rousseau was not given a proper death and enjoyed Rose and Bernard's roles.[39] UGO's Sara shared Martell's sentiments in regard to Rose and Bernard's appearances and speculated that "Something Nice Back Home" would not be enjoyed by fans who like Rousseau or do not like Jack.[40] Ben Rawson-Jones of Digital Spy gave the episode three out of five stars, saying that "the Jack-Kate romantic intrigue is rather dull, while the appendix plot feels like an unnecessary narrative obstacle for viewers to surmount."[41]

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