Production
The plot would be centered in cementing Boone and Locke's relationship, by making the former go through a test of character. The producers thought it would be interesting for there to be more to Shannon and Boone's relationship than just Boone's possessive brotherly interest. They came up with the idea for them to be non-blood related stepsiblings, who have a romantic encounter, which became the twist for their backstory. Initially, it was conceived that Boone would be convinced into eating Locke's drug, but the writers thought it would make the plot twist that it had been an hallucination easier to guess, and changed it into spreading the concoction into a head injury. Locke's scene with Sayid was introduced late into production, because the episode was running short and Locke did not have scenes without Boone. Many future plot points are introduced into the episode, such as Sayid facing a magnetical anomaly, main characters crossing paths (Sawyer is being arrested in the police station where Boone is filing a complaint) and Michael's box of drawings, which sets up the following episode, "Special".
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