20 'Lost' Scenes That Made Us Cry

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”The Candidate” (Season 6, Episode 13)
We were still basking in the glory of Jin and Sun’s reunion when we were faced with the loss of not one but both of them. Jin’s choice not to leave his wife’s side was pure agony. Poor Ji Yeon.

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”There’s No Place Like Home” (Season 4, Episode 14)
Nooooo! That’s all we thought when the helicopter pulled away from the freighter without Jin. Sun’s heartbreaking scream made us ache for her loss.

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”Through the Looking Glass” (Season 3, Episode 22)
The fact that our lovable drug addict-turned-hero was actually dying (after his fakeout death in season 1) was almost too hard to bear. His stoicism through it all spoke to the change he’d undergone on the Island, but none of us could claim such acceptance as we watched.

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”The Constant” (Season 4, Episode 5)
Penny: ”I’ll find you, Des —”
Desmond: ”I promise…”
Penny: ”…no matter what…”
Desmond: ”…I’ll come back to ya —”
Penny: ”I won’t give up…”
Desmond: ”I promise.”
Penny: ”I promise.”
[simultaneously]
Desmond: ”I love you.”
Penny: ”I love you.”

Heartbreakingly beautiful, that scene with Desmond on the freighter and Penny in front of her Christmas tree cemented them as the show’s big love.

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”The Glass Ballerina” (Season 3, Episode 2)
Jack’s face when Ben showed him the Red Sox winning the World Series captured both a real-world astonishment (join the club!) and a castaway’s longing for home.

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”LA X” (Season 6, Episode 1)
We wanted to believe that in the Sideways world Locke was as whole in body as he seemed to be in spirit. When he was helped into the wheelchair getting off the plane, it just broke our hearts.

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”Tricia Tanaka Is Dead” (Season 3, Episode 10)
The uplifting, unifying scene when Hurley got the Dharma van started, with Three Dog Night’s ”Shambala” playing over it, was a fitting near-end to this Hurley-centric episode.

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”The Incident” (Season 5, Episode 16)
Juliet had helped make Sawyer a better man, which won her our hearts — and helped us forget her beginning as a mole for the Others. It was hard enough that she paid the price to course-correct Jack’s scheme, but Sawyer’s face just took us over the edge.

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”Two For the Road” (Season 2, Episode 20)
Hurley had finally made his love connection only to have her gunned down searching for blankets for a picnic with him. Hurley’s plaintive sobs nearly wrecked us.

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”Through the Looking Glass” (Season 3, Episode 22)
Charlie’s last talk with Hurley, when Charlie knew he wouldn’t be returning, was painful to watch. Hurley’s face went from wounded to bemused as Charlie harshly attempted to dissuade him from coming along to the sub station and then turned around and hugged the big man and told him he loved him. Everyone but Hurley knew we were watching these besties give one final goodbye.

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”Exodus: Part 1” (Season 1, Episode 23)
There was a real sense of hope and anticipation (and some fear) as we watched Walt, Michael, Jin, and Sawyer board the raft in search of rescue.

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”Do No Harm” (Season 1, Episode 20)
Shannon’s steps back at the news of Boone’s death and her subsequent breakdown mingled with the rest of the castaways’ joy at Aaron’s birth was one sad stew of joy and pain.

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”The Last Recruit” (Season 6, Episode 12)
The moment didn’t play out as grandly as their first reunion (and it was way too short-lived), but by the time Jin and Sun had traveled between the Dharma past and the temporal anomalies to get back to each other, seeing them embrace was a victory for us.

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”Whatever Happened, Happened” (Season 5, Episode 11)
Kate spent three years loving and raising Aaron as her own, so it wasn’t easy to watch her hand him over to his biological grandmother, kiss him goodbye, and head back to the Island to rescue Claire.

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”Do No Harm” (Season 1, Episode 20)
”You are not alone. This baby is all of us.” And with that Kate got Claire to push and deliver little Aaron for one of those rare moments of hope and release we love about the show.

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”Collision” (Season 2, Episode 8)
Emotions were already heightened as Jin returned to the beach, but then Rose and Bernard stared at each other unbelievingly and kissed so passionately… yeah, we lost it.

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”Collision” (Season 2, Episode 8)
She was a spoiled obnoxious girl, but we cared about Shannon because Sayid did. Her death at the hands of newcomer Ana Lucia (coming the season after the loss of her brother Boone) sunk our hearts.

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”Exodus: Part 1” (Season 1, Episode 23)
Right before Sawyer got on the raft, he brought Jack (and us) to tears by sharing his encounter with Jack’s father in a bar in Sydney, and giving the brooding doc more daddy-issue fodder.

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”Ji Yeon” (Season 4, Episode 7)
When Sun had to deliver Ji Yeon by herself and then visited Jin’s grave with Hurley, we wept at Sun’s strength and the idea that that little girl would grow up without her father.

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”What Kate Does” (Season 6, Episode 3)
There was such a huge chasm between Sawyer and Kate on the dock as he mourned Juliet. The lone wolf had reverted back as he insulated himself from the pain, and the tears streaming down Kate’s face reflected those on ours.

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