I heart LOST: Episode Guide & Trivia

"Not In Portland"

Episode Number: 55

Season Num: 3

First Aired: Wednesday February 7, 2007

Jack has the Others in a desperate situation as he holds Ben's life in his hands. Meanwhile, Kate and Sawyer try to escape from their captors. Flashbacks reveal Juliet's past as a medical researcher in Miami.

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The "Wookiee prisoner gag" that Sawyer, Kate, and Alex use to fool Aldo at the Dharma facility where Carl is being held is the same trick Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Chewbacca use to enter the Death Star's prison during Episode IV: A New Hope .Karl is kept in room 23, Similarly Han, Luke and Chewbacca rescue Princess Leia from Cell Block AA23

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

The room where Kate, Sawyer and Alex find Alex's boyfriend, is a near reenactment from the movie A Clockwork Orange where the anti-hero Alex de Large played by Malcolm McDowell is 'treated' in a psychiatric facility to abandon his unlawful ways. In the movie, Alex de Large is made to watch propaganda films and fed drugs all day.