This episode has no flashback or a flashforward - instead, it jumps from 1996 to 2004, as Desmond leaps around from time to time and place to place.<\/p>
Frank appears to fly the helicopter towards an electrical storm.<\/p>","url":"2008/8/15/Lost-Season-4-Episode-77-The-Constant-04-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Lost Season 4 Episode 77 - The Constant 04"},{"captionHeading":"Lost: The Constant","caption":"
Suddenly Desmond finds himself in 1996 and is back in the army. He tells his officer that he was having a dream about being on a helicopter in the middle of the ocean. Suddenly Desmond is back on the Helicopter, but doesn't recognise anyone or remember why is there.<\/p>","url":"2008/8/15/Lost-Season-4-Episode-77-The-Constant-05-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Lost Season 4 Episode 77 - The Constant 05"},{"captionHeading":"Lost: The Constant","caption":"
They arrive on the freighter. The leader of the freighter squad, a man named Keamy is not happy that Frank brought Sayid and Desmond aboard.<\/p>","url":"2008/8/15/Lost-Season-4-Episode-77-The-Constant-09-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Lost Season 4 Episode 77 - The Constant 09"},{"captionHeading":"Lost: The Constant","caption":"
Keamy locks Sayid and Desmond in the sick bay.<\/p>","url":"2008/8/15/Lost-Season-4-Episode-77-The-Constant-12-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Lost Season 4 Episode 77 - The Constant 12"},{"captionHeading":"Lost: The Constant","caption":"
Desmond has another flash to 1996 but is soon jolted back to the present. He is locked in the sick bay with a man strapped onto a bed. He looks at Desmond and says \"You have it too\".<\/p>","url":"2008/8/15/Lost-Season-4-Episode-77-The-Constant-07-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Lost Season 4 Episode 77 - The Constant 07"},{"captionHeading":"Lost: The Constant","caption":"
Back on the island, Daniel tells Jack that as long as Frank stuck to the co-ordinates he gave him that they will be fine. If he doesn't, there may be side effects. <\/p>
Once again Desmond flashes back to see find himself calling Penny. She tells him not to call her again.<\/p>","url":"2008/8/15/Lost-Season-4-Episode-77-The-Constant-08-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Lost Season 4 Episode 77 - The Constant 08"},{"captionHeading":"Lost: The Constant","caption":"
Desmond manages to call Daniel back on the island. Daniel asks Desmond what year he thinks it is, he replies 1996. Daniel tells him that next time he goes back he must take the train to Oxford University to speak to him as he was lecturing there in 1996.<\/p>
He gives Desmond some co-ordinates and to say the word \"Elois\" when he sees him.<\/p>","url":"2008/8/15/Lost-Season-4-Episode-77-The-Constant-10-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Lost Season 4 Episode 77 - The Constant 10"},{"captionHeading":"Lost: The Constant","caption":"
He finds Daniel back in 1996 to find him experimenting with a rat called 'Elois', his experiments involve time travel.<\/p>","url":"2008/8/15/Lost-Season-4-Episode-77-The-Constant-13-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Lost Season 4 Episode 77 - The Constant 13"},{"captionHeading":"Lost: The Constant","caption":"
When Desmond returns to the freighter, the sick man tells them that his name is 'Minkowski' and was the ship's communication officer. He continues that they used to get incoming calls that were forbbiden to answer. Calls from Penny.<\/p>
Back in 1996 he finds that the rat 'Elois' has died. Daniel explains that this is because that she didn't a 'constant' thing or person in each time to anchor her mind to.<\/p>","url":"2008/8/15/Lost-Season-4-Episode-77-The-Constant-03-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Lost Season 4 Episode 77 - The Constant 03"},{"captionHeading":"Lost: The Constant","caption":"
Desmond knows that Penny is his constant. Minowski agress to take them to the radio room......<\/p>","url":"2008/8/15/Lost-Season-4-Episode-77-The-Constant-02-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Lost Season 4 Episode 77 - The Constant 02"},{"captionHeading":"Lost: The Constant","caption":"
.....to try to contact Penny.<\/p>","url":"2008/8/15/Lost-Season-4-Episode-77-The-Constant-06-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Lost Season 4 Episode 77 - The Constant 06"},{"captionHeading":"Lost: The Constant","caption":"
They find a mystery person on board has opened the door for them.<\/p>
They go to the radio room, Minowski gets a nose bleed and dies. Desmond flashes back to 1996. He finds Penny and beggs for her phone number, he tells her that he will phone her in eight years. <\/p>
Suddenly he back is the radio room.<\/p>","url":"2008/8/15/Lost-Season-4-Episode-77-The-Constant-01-1.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Lost Season 4 Episode 77 - The Constant 01"},{"captionHeading":"Lost: The Constant","caption":"
He phones Penny on the number she gave him. She tells him that she has been searching for him for years and that she knows about the island. The battery dies but Desmond can now remember everything having made contact with his constant.<\/p>
Back on the island, Daniel is looking through an old journal. He has written on one of the pages. 'If anything goes wrong, Desmond Hume will be my constant'.<\/p>