Namaste

It was recently brought to my attention that Lost's episode titles are always used as lines in the show, be it before the episode, in the same episode, or afterwards.

In the case of the next episode, 5x09 - 'Namaste', the word has been used many times before, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out where. Until I started researching the DHARMA station orientation videos. At the end of every video, Pierre Chang (Marvin Candle, Edgar Halliwax, Mark Wickmund, whatever you want to call him), somewhat ominously says "Namaste...and good luck". 'Namaste' is Hindu for, literally, 'I bow to you'.

In the Lost expanded universe, a woman named Rachael Blake has been investigating the Hanso Group, the financial backers of the DHARMA Initiative. She finds a film, presented by the mysterious Alvar Hanso, that explains what the numbers are, and why DHARMA is really on the Island. At the end of the video he says...? That's right, 'namaste'. Interesting connotations for the next episode...