Alcohol of various forms has been associated with characters throughout the Lost storyline. Sometimes the effects of alcohol have lead to the revealing of interesting plot points, such as the fail-safe discussion and Christian's attempted visit to see his daughter.
Before the crash
- Jack's father Christian Shephard was an alcoholic.
- He met Sawyer in a bar
- He met Ana-Lucia in a bar.
- He attended Alcoholics Anonymous ("A Tale of Two Cities")
- He was fired from his job as chief of surgery after botching a surgery while drunk.
- Charlie met Lucy in a bar.
- Shannon spent a year in France, "drinking, not studying"
- Ana Lucia met and flirted with Jack in the airport bar, while she drank a tequila and tonic.
- Locke and Anthony Cooper discuss a plan to get Cooper's money over drinks at a bar in the episode "Lockdown".
- A drunken Christian has Ana-Lucia drive him to the home of his daughter in Sydney.("Two for the Road").
- In Locke's anger management group, Francine discusses her mother stealing money from her to buy alcohol ("Orientation")
- Jack ordered vodka from Cindy during the flight of Flight 815, before the crash.
- Desmond and Donovan share a drink in "Flashes Before Your Eyes". Desmond later drinks alone. Widmore uses his MacCutcheon Scotch whisky as a symbolic gesture.
- Before Anthony pushed Locke out of an 8 story window, he poured 2 glasses of MacCutcheon whiskey.
After the crash
- Jack finds a small bottle of vodka in his pocket upon regaining consciousness in the pilot episode and uses it to sterilize his wound when Kate sews it up.
- Hurley says to Libby in "Two for the Road", that if he gets drunk enough he might remember where he knows her from.
- Sawyer and Kate play a game of "I never" with 2 bottles of spirits Sawyer stole from the plane wreckage. What begins with playful questions soon escalates to the shocking revelation that both Sawyer and Kate have killed a man—shown by both of them drinking to the question.
- Sawyer gives Kate his entire stash of alcohol, which she attempts to bring to Jack in his efforts to save Boone. She falls and smashes some of the bottles inside her backpack.
- Kelvin finishes off a bottle of Dharma Merlot just before his fail-safe discussion with Desmond in "Live Together, Die Alone, Part 1"
- Desmond is found in his boat drinking alcohol. He brings it to land with him and shares it with Locke.
- The DHARMA Initiative provides alcohol in its supply drops. This fact is confirmed by Rose and Bernard retrieving wine from the supply drop, and Desmond drinking hard liquor branded with the DHARMA logo.
- Hurley and Charlie liquor up Desmond with MacCutcheon to try and get him to reveal how he sees the future. ("Flashes Before Your Eyes")
- Hurley and Jin discover cans of DHARMA Initiative beer in the DHARMA van. ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")
- Mikhail Bakunin cleans his hands with DHARMA Initiative vodka before attending to Sayid's bullet wound. ("Enter 77")
- DHARMA Initiative beer is spotted in Ben's refrigerator. ("The Man from Tallahassee")
Miscellaneous
- Cast members Michelle Rodriguez and Cynthia Watros were arrested in Hawaii, where Lost is filmed, for traffic violations involving alcohol on December 1, 2005.
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