The Incident (Lost)

"**The Incident**"
"The Incident"
Lost episodes
	Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) prepares to use the hydrogen bomb core on the electromagnetic pocket.
Episode nos.	Season 5; Episodes 16 and 17
Directed by	Jack Bender
Written by	Damon Lindelof; Carlton Cuse;
Production codes	516 & 517
Original air date	May 13, 2009
Running time	86 minutes
Guest appearances
	Mark Pellegrino as Jacob; Titus Welliver as Man in Black; Zuleikha Robinson as Ilana Verdansky; Jeff Fahey as Frank Lapidus; Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert; François Chau as Dr. Pierre Chang; Eric Lange as Stuart Radzinsky; Brad William Henke as Bram; L. Scott Caldwell as Rose Nadler; Sam Anderson as Bernard Nadler; John Terry as Christian Shephard; Alice Evans as Young Eloise Hawking; Patrick Fischler as Phil; Jon Gries as Roger Linus; Andrea Gabriel as Nadia Jazeem; Emily Rae Argenti as Young Kate Austen; Keegan Boos as Young Sawyer; George Gerdes as Mr. Springer; Amy Stewart as Juliet's mother; Savannah Lathem as Young Rachel Carlson; Daniel James Kunkel as Anesthesiologist; John Pete as Prison clerk; Sally Davis as Woman; Kevin Chapman as Mitch; Tanner Maguire as Young Tom Brennan; Agnes Kwak as Aunt Soo; Rylee Fansler as Young Juliet Carlson; William Makozak as Captain Bird; Sonya Masinovsky as Nurse; Colby French as Uncle Doug; Michael Trisler as Juliet's father; Adam Bazzi as Taxi driver;

"The Incident" is the season finale of the fifth season of ABC's Lost, consisting of the 16th and 17th episodes. Both parts of "The Incident", the show's 102nd and 103rd episodes overall, aired on May 13, 2009, on ABC in the United States. The episode was written by executive producers and showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and directed by Jack Bender.

Jack Shephard's (Matthew Fox) plan to change the future is met with resistance from others, while John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) assigns Ben Linus (Michael Emerson) a difficult task. This episode features the first appearance of the mysterious leader of the Others, Jacob, after being mentioned several times throughout the series. Jacob is portrayed by Mark Pellegrino and appears in the flashbacks of various Oceanic Flight 815 survivors and mysterious Ajira Flight 316 survivor Ilana (Zuleikha Robinson).

The episode was watched by 9.428 million viewers, and was well received by critics and audiences. It was also nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series in 2009.