Lost: Episode 1

The show starts with an eye.  It opens and the pupil dilates.  A man wakes up in the middle of a jungle, disoriented.  He examines his wound- a massive gash crossing his stomach like a crack in the earth- and begins to run, searching for a way out of the dense brush.  He bursts out onto a beach and into chaos.  Screams, shouts, and the sounds of machinery get louder as he stumbles forward.  The source of this noise comes into view.  People are scrambling around the beach, injured, crying.  Wreckage of a passenger plane is strewn everywhere, and the hulking mid-section of the craft is sitting at the center, one wing pointed to the sky.  The man immediately goes to work, enlisting other survivors to help him pull people from under debris.  He finds a young woman, 8 months pregnant, having contractions on the beach.  After finding someone to take her to a safe area, he moves on to a woman who is being resuscitated by a young man.  He takes over and manages to revive the woman, but immediately is interrupted by the sound of snapping cables.  Looking up, he sees that the plane's wing is poised to fall directly on the pregnant girl.  He sprints, screaming as he does, and pushes them out of the way before the wing crashes to the ground, exploding.  Finally, as everything calms down, his name is revealed to be Jack, and he is a neurosurgeon.  It seems that Jack has assumed the leader role without formal election.  The survivors are preparing shelters and settling down, when a terrible noise rips through the silence.  All look toward the jungle, where clumps of trees are falling like dominoes.  The sound is very mechanical, but impossible to define.  As the survivors gather on a hilltop overlooking the jungle, the screen goes black.  The answers to the island's mysteries will have to be left for another episode.