Lost bosses say reaching 100 episodes is 'surreal'

Lost is marking its 100th episode this week, an achievement its producers think is as surreal as the TV drama's plots.

The episode, The Variant, begins when Daniel Faraday, played by Jeremy Davies, coming clean regarding what he knows about the island.

"We're not promising any big whiz-bang flash pyrotechnics," said producer Damon Lindelof.

But it does serve as what he calls 'a companion piece' to another memorable episode, last season's The Constant, in which Desmond (played by Henry Ian Cusick) endured vicious, turbulence-caused side effects.

"This season has really been about the rules of time travel as explained by Daniel Faraday," Lindelof said, referring to Jeremy's brainiac character.

"We've never done a flashback story for Faraday, so he's very mysterious. Some of those mysteries will be answered in this episode."

He added that he had no idea the show would get past episode 13, and was once asked where the Lost saga would stand at, say, episode No 74.

"I said, 'We're probably not going to get past episode 13. Let's all be honest about that upfront," he recalled. "If I travelled back in time to tell myself after that meeting that we were going to make it to 100 and still have a season beyond that, I would have laughed in my face."

The milestone 100th episode is airing in the UK on Sky1 on Sunday, May 3.

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