
Over the course of the season, Rousseau has other intermittent contact with the survivors. Sayid eventually escapes, with potential knowledge of a group of hostile individuals on the Island, who kidnapped Rousseau's baby daughter. She tells Sayid her story of how she came to be on the Island. When he follows it, he encounters Danielle Rousseau, the person who sent out the distress signal.

Sayid finds a cable running out of the ocean and into the jungle.

As conflict comes to head, Sawyer is accidentally stabbed in the arm by Sayid, who then leaves the camp in shame for hurting Sawyer.

Intense rivalries emerge when disagreements on allocation of supplies becomes an issue, especially between Jack, Sayid and Sawyer. Others stayed at the beach in hopes of rescue, and they moved once again when the tide began to carry the wreckage of the plane into the sea. Eventually, the group of survivors split in half, whilst a few moved inland to a cluster of caves with fresh water and protection. Jack goes on a spiritual quest when he begins to see visions of his deceased father on the island, and his Science versus Faith conflict with Locke is born. On the sixth day, a woman drowns, and a young man named Boone tries to prove his worth. As Kate's resourcefulness comes in handy, Michael and Walt, father and son, struggle to get along. When food supplies run low, Locke leads the first hunting party for boar. Coupled with the pilot's last words, the survivors' hopes of rescue are dampened and despite the group trying to keep the discovery undercover, the news spreads through the camp throughout the first few days. It killed them all." The message repeats with a count implying, according to Sayid's calculation, that it has been repeating for over sixteen years and five months. When they finally do turn on the transceiver, they learn that its signal is being blocked by a transmission of a woman's voice speaking in French, which Shannon translates as: "I'm alone now, on the island alone. A few survivors trek high into the mountains in an attempt to get a signal, and are attacked by a polar bear along the way. One of the survivors, a former Iraqi Republican Guard communications officer named Sayid, attempts to repair the transceiver from the plane. After initial mistrust and the death of the Marshal, whom he tries to save, both of them agree to start afresh. Jack, a spinal surgeon from Los Angeles, discovers a mugshot of Kate, with whom he has begun a close friendship. The Monster rips the pilot from the cockpit, consequently killing him, and the remaining three run for the beach. The plane was a thousand miles off course when it crashed. An injured pilot tells them that the plane had lost radio contact six hours after take off, turned back for Fiji, and hit turbulence. Three of the survivors, Jack, Kate, and Charlie, set out to find the plane's cockpit. Forty-eight of these survivors, after the initial shock passes, attempt to set up a camp and figure out where they are, but are disturbed by loud roaring noises and crashing trees emanating from the nearby jungle. On September 22, 2004, a plane breaks apart in mid-air, scattering survivors on a remote island somewhere in the South Pacific.
