"
Jughead" is the third television episode of the
fifth season of
ABC's
Lost. The eighty-sixth episode of the show overall, "Jughead" aired on January 28, 2009 on ABC in the United States, being
simulcast on
A in Canada. The episode was written by supervising producers
Elizabeth Sarnoff and Paul Zbyszewski and directed by
Rod Holcomb.
The episode opens with a flashback of
Desmond Hume (
Henry Ian Cusick), in the
Philippines, searching for a doctor to help his wife
Penny Widmore (
Sonya Walger), who is giving birth to their son, Charlie. In 2007, Desmond and Penny arrive in
London, where Desmond plans to look for the mother of
Daniel Faraday (
Jeremy Davies), who is believed to be at
Oxford University. However, the school has no record of either Faraday, even though Daniel was a professor there. Desmond searches Faraday's lab and meets a janitor who tells him that Faraday conducted experiments on a woman and provides an address for her. At her house, Desmond finds that the woman is in a
vegetative state after experiencing temporal disassociation, similar to Desmond's experiences on the freighter (as seen in "
The Constant"). He learns that Penny's father,
Charles Widmore (
Alan Dale), is not only paying her medical expenses, but also funded Daniel's research. Desmond confronts Widmore, who gives him the address of Daniel's mother in
Los Angeles. Desmond returns to Penny, who agrees that they must travel to Los Angeles.
In 1954, following the events of the previous episode, "
The Lie",
Juliet Burke (
Elizabeth Mitchell),
John Locke (
Terry O'Quinn) and
James "Sawyer" Ford (
Josh Holloway) interrogate the two men they have captured. Juliet deduces that they are members of the
Others because they can speak
Latin. One of the men, a younger Charles Widmore (Tom Connolly), kills the other when he agrees to help Juliet, Sawyer, and Locke, and flees to his campsite to warn
Richard Alpert (
Nestor Carbonell). Locke follows him and meets with Alpert, using Jacob's name and the compass Alpert gave him to gain his trust; however, Alpert is not entirely convinced. Locke tells Alpert to visit him after he is born in 1956 (a visit depicted in the episode "
Cabin Fever", during which Alpert shows a young Locke the compass), but cannot convince Alpert to show him how to leave the island before the next time jump occurs.
At the same time, the freighter team, consisting of
Miles Straume (
Ken Leung),
Charlotte Lewis (
Rebecca Mader) and Daniel Faraday are captured by another group of Others, led by Ellie (
Alexandra Krosney). Faraday deduces that the American military has come to the island to test
hydrogen bombs, and that the Others are in possession of one which is leaking radiation. He convinces Alpert to let him defuse the bomb, confessing his love for Charlotte as proof that he won't detonate it on purpose. Ellie leads Faraday to the bomb (the titular
Jughead), and after an inspection he advises her that the bomb should be buried and will not go off for at least 50 years, inadvertently revealing that he is from the future. Ellie doesn't believe him, but Juliet and Sawyer show up and disarm her. The time jump occurs and the group is safe, but Charlotte suddenly collapses with a nosebleed.
