Live Together, Die Alone

"**Live Together, Die Alone**"
"Live Together, Die Alone"
Lost episodes
Episode nos.	Season 2; Episodes 23 and 24
Directed by	Jack Bender
Written by	Carlton Cuse; Damon Lindelof;
Featured music	"Make Your Own Kind of Music" by Mama Cass Elliot; "Voi Che Sapete" from Le Nozze Di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; "Chains and Things" by B.B. King;
Production codes	223 & 224
Original air date	May 24, 2006
Running time	84 minutes
Guest appearances
	Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond Hume; Clancy Brown as Kelvin Inman; M. C. Gainey as Tom; Sam Anderson as Bernard Nadler; Tania Raymonde as Alex; Michael Bowen as Danny Pickett; April Grace as Bea Klugh; Alan Dale as Charles Widmore; Sonya Walger as Penny Widmore; Michael Emerson as Henry Gale; Stephen Page as Master Sergeant; Len Cordova as Mathias; Alex Petrovitch as Henrik; Teddy Wells as Ivan; Dustin Geiger as Matthew; Dustin Gomes as Barista;

"Live Together, Die Alone" is the second season finale of the ABC television series Lost, consisting of the 23rd and 24th episodes of the second season. It is also the 48th and 49th episodes overall. The episode was written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, and directed by Jack Bender. It first aired in the United States on May 24, 2006, on the American Broadcasting Company. The episode was watched by 17.84 million people and received positive reviews.

In the episode, flashbacks reveal how Desmond came to the island. In the present, Desmond unintentionally returns to the beach and is enlisted by Locke to help him stop the button in the hatch from being pushed. Meanwhile, several castaways head off to rescue Michael's son Walt from the Others.