Exposé (Lost)

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“Exposé”
Lost episode
Paulo and Nikki
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 14
Guest stars	Maggie Grace (Shannon Rutherford), Ian Somerhalder (Boone Carlyle), William Mapother (Ethan Rom), Daniel Roebuck (Dr. Leslie Arzt), Billy Dee Williams (Mr. LaShade/Himself), Jacob Witkin (Howard L. Zukerman)
Written by	Edward Kitsis Adam Horowitz
Directed by	Stephen Williams
Production no.	314
Original airdate	March 28, 2007
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"Exposé"^[1] is the fourteenth episode of the third season of Lost. It was aired on March 28, 2007, and is the 61st episode of the series. The characters of Nikki Fernandez and Paulo are featured in the episode's flashbacks.

This marks the first appearance of Maggie Grace as Shannon Rutherford since early Season 2. Ian Somerhalder as Boone Carlyle has now appeared five times since his death in Season 1 (Exodus: Part 1 & 2, Abandoned, Further Instructions and Exposé). Furthermore, Dr. Arzt and Ethan reappeared in flashbacks.

[edit] Plot

In the first scene, we see Nikki breathing heavily and running through the jungle. She falls to the ground and buries something resembling a small bag.

Flashback - Nikki's an actress on the popular Charlie's Angels-like TV show Exposé that films in Sydney. She's also having an affair with the septuagenarian executive producer, Howard L. Zuckerman, who is married and very wealthy.

On the beach of the island, Hurley and Sawyer 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.

Sun and Charlie join Sawyer and Hurley around Nikki's body. Sawyer recounts her saying "something like 'plywood'". Hurley remembers it as "power lines", but is then convinced it is "Paulo lies". Sawyer and Hurley begin an investigation and find Paulo laying lifeless in the jungle. They speculate about what happened to him .

Sawyer finds a walkie talkie in Nikki and Paulo's tent. He says the Others had similar walkie talkies, which means they were working with the Others. Hurley doesn't 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'll 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 doesn't 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's convinced it's the Others. Feeling guilty, Charlie confesses to Sun that it was him 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. He didn't give it to her, and she was mad. He hands Sun a pouch filled with diamonds.

In a flashback 84 days earlier, Nikki and Zukerman are dining in his home. Zukerman introduces his chef, Paulo, shortly before he dies — evidently, from poisoned food. Nikki seizes a key from around his neck and rushes to his safe. She and Paulo open it and retrieve a Matryoshka doll (which we later find out is a pouch full of diamonds).

In a flashback 80 days earlier, Nikki and Paulo are in an airport lounge reading Zukerman's obituary, laughing at the conclusion of 'heart failure' as his cause of death, and celebrating their accomplishment. They hear Shannon berating Boone, complaining that there is nowhere to sit. Boone asks Paulo if he can take a seat from their table but Shannon walks off yelling at Boone that if he would stop "flirting with random guys, maybe we could actually get on the plane." Nikki ironically extracts a promise from Paulo that they will "never end up like them."

On the island right after the plane has crashed, Nikki frantically searches for Paulo in the reckage. She finds him and asks about the diamonds, expressing no concern for him. Paulo doesn't know where the bag is.

In a flashback 75 days earlier, Nikki is pressuring Paulo to search inland for their bag. Ethan introduces himself and offers to help them, suggesting they look further inland.

Paulo is paralyzed

In a flashback 57 days earlier, Nikki approaches Dr. Arzt and enquires about his collection of specimens. He cautions her against handling a jar containing Latrodectus regina, called the Medusa spider. He describes her pheromones as "very strong" and says she'd "attract every male on the island." She asks Arzt for advice on the plane's trajectory, and convinces him to draw a map. Following Arzt's map, Nikki and Paulo happen upon the Nigerian plane and The Pearl DHARMA station. Nikki wants Paulo to climb up to the plane to see if there's a radio in there, Paulo refuses. They stumble upon the hatch and Paulo wants to go down the hatch, but Nikki shoots down his idea because he shot down hers.

In a flashback 48 days earlier, Shannon and Arzt are confronting Kate about the keeping secret their discovery of a case of guns. Nikki asks where they found the case.

Nikki and Paulo find the lake. Nikki presses Paulo to dive in. Nikki says that what is in that bag is worth $8,000,000. Paulo finds the bag at the bottom of the lake, but does not tell Nikki.

In a flashback, Paulo returns to the Pearl station to hide the diamonds. While stashing the doll in the toilet tank, he overhears Ben and Juliet discussing how to get Jack to do his surgery. Apparently, one of them left a walkie talkie and Paul picks it up.

Hurley and Sawyer digging

In a flashback 9 days earlier, Locke, Desmond, Nikki and Paulo at the Pearl station (when they discover the man with the eye patch). Paulo pretends to use the bathroom and recovers the diamonds.

In a flashback 8 hours earlier Nikki figures out that Paulo found the diamonds and did not tell her. She throws one of Dr. Arzt's Medusa spiders at him, which bites and paralyzes Paulo. A group of the same poisonous spiders appears and Nikki 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 during the funeral. Nikki's eyelids open just as Hurley and Sawyer are filling the grave, burying them alive.

[edit] Production notes and continuity

• The slate board shown at the beginning of the episode informs that the fictional season finale episode of "Exposé" was directed by Stephen Williams, who directed this episode of Lost as well.
• The show's creators had stated a gay character would appear in this episode,^[2] but not explicitly declare that they are gay. Some interpret this as meaning it was Boone, and criticized the move as a cynical attempt.^[3][4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Exposé at the Internet Movie Database