The Prisoner (Henry Gale)

[sledgeweb]

DAY X (2x14) [SWLS TIMELINE DAY 56]:

• Rousseau captures The Prisoner and turns him over to Sayid.
• Sayid brings The Prisoner to the hatch, where he tortures him.

NOTE: The sun is setting when Sayid and Charlie talk, marking the end of DAY X.

DAY X+1 (2x15) [SWLS TIMELINE DAY 57]:

• Aaron becomes sick during the NIGHT and Claire wants to take him to the hatch to see Jack. Locke tells her it isn't safe, and that he'll go to the hatch and get Jack. In the hatch, Locke asks about The Prisoner, and Jack says that he hadn't made a sound all NIGHT. This seems to indicate it is the first night after DAY X.
• Locke asks The Prisoner if he needs to use the bathroom, he replies "No", and Locke tells him to let them know when he does. Later, we see Jack escorting The Prisoner to the bathroom. This also seems to indicate it is the first day after DAY X.
• Later the same day, Eko asks to speak to The Prisoner. He asks The Prisoner how long he has been in the armory, and The Prisoner responds "two days". It is later in the day when this happens, and it is unclear if he is counting the current day as one of the days, or if he is on his third day, and only counting the two previous days he has been in the armory.

NOTE: There is an outdoor shot at the end of this episode showing the sun low in the sky, indicating it is towards the end of this day.

DAY X+2 and DAY X+3 (2x16) [SWLS TIMELINE DAY 58, 59]:

• When Locke asks Ana to talk to the Prisoner, Ana says she has been with the main group of survivors for over a week. (Ana and the group arrived at Day 48 - so that makes this particular day DAY 56+).
• Locke tells Ana The Prisoner has been in the hatch for three days. This seems to indicate it is the next day after the day depicted in 2x15. Again, though, it is unclear if Locke is counting the current day as one of the three days.
• Ana gets The Prisoner to draw a map, and she sets out with Sayid and Charlie to find the balloon. They make it some ways, when it becomes dark, and they set up a camp for the NIGHT.
• The next MORNING (still episode 2x16), Ana, Sayid and Charlie continue their trek and find a clearing. In the hatch, Jack lets The Prisoner out for some BREAKFAST (cereal).

NOTE: This episode covers two days, and ends on the MORNING of the second day.

DAY X+3 (2x17) [SWLS TIMELINE DAY 59]:

• 2x17 picks up right where 2x16 left off, with Gale still at the table with the cereal and Ana, Sayid and Charlie searching the clearing for the balloon.
• Hurley tells Jack that Ana-Lucia took off into the jungle YESTERDAY (the first day covered in 2x16).
• Jack is heading back to the hatch after his poker game at NIGHT, with Kate, when they find the parachute and supplies and run into Sayid, Charlie and Ana returning from their balloon hike

NOTE: This episode ends at night, signaling the end of this day.

DAY X+4 (2x18) [SWLS TIMELINE DAY 60]:

• During the MORNING, survivors pick apart the supplies dropped the previous NIGHT. Charlie asks if anyone heard a plane fly by last NIGHT.

DAY X+6 (2x19) [SWLS TIMELINE DAY 62]:

• Ana says The Prisoner hasn't eaten or talked in TWO DAYS (He last talked to Ana, Sayid and Locke in 2x18).
• Bernard says they have been on the island TWO MONTHS.
• At NIGHT, Jack and Kate set up camp at the line they aren't suppose to cross. That night, Michael stumbles into their camp.

DAY X+6 and DAY X+7 (2x20) [SWLS TIMELINE DAY 62, 63]:

• This scene picks up where the previous episode left off, NIGHT of DAY X+6, and spans into the following day.
• Ana tells Michael that The Prisoner has been in the hatch for over a week (if my count is right, she says this during the 8th day of Gale's imprisonment).

DAY X+7 and DAY X+8  (2x21) [SWLS TIMELINE DAY 63, 64, 65]:

• This scene picks up where the previous episode left off, NIGHT of DAY X+7, and spans into the next day.
• Sawyer tells Jack that he gave him all the meds "two days ago". This doesn't really give us a good time reference. Although we know Jack won the rights to the meds in 1x17, one DAY X+3, Jack told Sawyer at that time that he would come back for the meds "later". It appears that Sawyer handed over all the meds on DAY X+6.

It is possible that the day I have marked as DAY X+1 is really DAY X+2, which would push each day ahead by one. I believe it is MOST LIKEY that the events in 2x15 are, however, on DAY X+1.

[Ladybug]

you are awesome!  this is great, i've been trying to figure out the recent timeline, because it seemed fishy, but you have made perfect sense.  (okay, almost perfect)

[BobBX542]

Just a note, don't know if this was already mentioned, but in the 2nd season finale, Locke tells Desmond they have been on the island 65 days (I think it was 65, possibly 63), so the date can't be any later than November 27, 2004 at the time when Desmond blows the failsafe.

[Geronimo Jackson]

It was 63 days.

[sledgeweb]

It was 63 days.

Where are you getting 63? I checked the transcript and found the following:

DESMOND: The island -- when did you come here? How long ago?
LOCKE: 60-65 days.
DESMOND: The date -- what was the date?
LOCKE: September 22nd.

I want to be sure this is right, because I'm working on updating the timeline right now. Currently, I have Locke telling Desmond this on Day 66, but it isn't definitive.

[Geronimo Jackson]

It was 63 days.

Where are you getting 63? I checked the transcript and found the following:

DESMOND: The island -- when did you come here? How long ago?
LOCKE: 60-65 days.
DESMOND: The date -- what was the date?
LOCKE: September 22nd.

I want to be sure this is right, because I'm working on updating the timeline right now. Currently, I have Locke telling Desmond this on Day 66, but it isn't definitive.

hey Sledge,could be wrong wouldn't be the first or last time, but in finale as I kept waiting for some one to say how much time had gone by like they did in S1 that Locke or some else said specifically 63 days. I was alll excited okay now we know tota lof 63 days.