Lost was always an innovative show, but it also maintained many of the network TV standards, like a love triangle, standalone episodes, and long 20-plus-episode seasons. Part of that was a classic villain: Sawyer, the mononymous, drawling stranger who hoarded supplies after the crash. He had everything you could want in an antagonist: quips, uncompromising self-interest, and Josh Holloway’s bad-boy looks.
But 20 years ago, a third of the way through its first season, Lost changed everything with one episode that revealed some dark truths about Sawyer not just in flashbacks, but on the island as well — completely reshaping his character and the dynamics of all the survivors.
