S1E4 · Walkabout

Survivors are jolted awake in the middle of the night when wild island beasts invade the beach encampment. Kate and Michael join the mysterious Locke on a hunt for food -- and a shocking secret about Locke is revealed. Meanwhile, some survivors are horrified by Jack's plan for the dead bodies still scattered among the wreckage, and Jack sees someone in the jungle who might not have been on the plane.

Plot summary and ending

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Complete story — includes the ending

Locke plans an Australian walkabout that he believes he is destined to complete. In the present, he goes into the jungle to hunt boar as the camp's food runs low. Kate accompanies him, and when the monster attacks Locke, he later emerges from the jungle with a dead boar and denies seeing anything. Jack decides to burn the fuselage, which is being used as body storage. As the survivors burn it, a flashback reveals that Locke was paraplegic prior to the crash, preventing him from going on the walkabout, and woke up on the island with the use of his legs.

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