Follow the Leader (Lost)

"Follow the Leader"
Lost episode
John Locke is leading The Others toward Jacob.
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 15
Directed by	Stephen Williams
Written by	Paul Zbyszewski Elizabeth Sarnoff
Production code	515
Original air date	May 6, 2009 (2009-05-06)
Running time	42 minutes[1]
Guest appearances
Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert François Chau as Dr. Pierre Chang Doug Hutchison as Horace Goodspeed Patrick Fischler as Phil Eric Lange as Stuart Radzinsky David S. Lee as Young Charles Widmore Alice Evans as Young Eloise Hawking Leslie Ishii as Lara Chang Sebastian Siegel as Erik Kevin Chapman as Mitch Elisabeth Blake as Vanessa William Makozak as Captain Bird Victoria Goring as Jeanette Lewis Maya Henssens as Young Charlotte Lewis
Episode chronology
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"Follow the Leader" is the 15th television episode of the fifth season of ABC's Lost.^[2] The 101st episode of the show overall, "Follow the Leader" aired on May 6, 2009, on ABC in the United States. The episode was written by supervising producer Paul Zbyszewski and co-executive producer Elizabeth Sarnoff and directed by Stephen Williams.^[2] This episode marks the lowest recorded audience for Lost.

In 2007, John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) solidifies his leadership with the Others, but Benjamin Linus (Michael Emerson) and Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell) start to be suspicious of Locke. In 1977, Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) and Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) dispute over whether to initiate the plan of the recently deceased Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies). Sawyer (Josh Holloway) and Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) are interrogated by the DHARMA Initiative. Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia), Miles Straume (Ken Leung) and Jin-Soo Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim) finally reveal the truth to Pierre Chang (François Chau).