Some Like It Hot (2016) Timeline Explained – Every Event in Order

Miles can hear the voices of deceased people, but only when their physical remains are in close proximity. Without the body nearby, the voices are inaudible. This is why he was completely unable to contact the boy whose remains had been cremated, forcing him to fabricate a message for the grieving father.

Foreshadowing: As a child, Miles first discovers that proximity to remains is required, a limitation that later shapes every job he takes.

• miles hears dead
• ability
• voices
• cremated
• supernatural gift

The boy's body had already been cremated before Miles was hired, meaning Miles could not actually hear the child's voice. Rather than admit his limitation and lose the payment, Miles invented a comforting message, telling the father that his son knew he was loved. It establishes Miles as an opportunist who exploits his gift for profit.

Foreshadowing: This early lie becomes the catalyst for Miles's eventual return of the money and his moral turn later in the episode.

• miles lied
• grieving father
• cremated
• fabrication
• deception

Naomi Dorrit offers Miles $1.6 million to travel to a mysterious island aboard a freighter owned by Charles Widmore. The island is connected to the Dharma Initiative and harbors supernatural phenomena, including the ability to communicate with the dead. Naomi's mission appears tied to a larger conflict over who controls the island's resources and secrets.

Foreshadowing: Naomi first confirms Miles's abilities are genuine before extending the job, suggesting she knows the island requires someone with his talents.

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• naomi dorrit
• 1.6 million
• freighter
• widmore

Miles is abducted by a group led by Bram, who oppose Charles Widmore's agenda regarding the island. They label Widmore as belonging to the 'wrong team,' indicating a factional conflict over how the island should be approached or who should benefit from it. Their goal is to either stop Miles from completing Widmore's mission or redirect him to their own cause.

Foreshadowing: Bram's mysterious knowledge of Miles hints that this faction has been tracking him and others with island connections for some time.

• bram
• kidnapping
• wrong team
• widmore
• rivals

When Bram poses this riddle to Miles, Miles cannot answer, and Bram declares he is not yet ready to return to the island. The riddle appears to be a metaphysical test rather than a literal question, gauging whether Miles has reached the spiritual or emotional maturity required for what awaits him. Failing it suggests Miles still has unresolved personal work to complete first.

Foreshadowing: Miles's inability to answer contrasts with the eventual resolution he finds through Hurley, implying the riddle measures inner readiness.

• statue riddle
• shadow
• bram test
• readiness
• island

When kidnapped by Bram's group, Miles negotiates aggressively, demanding double the original $1.6 million offer as the condition for abandoning the island mission. It is a deliberate power play, signaling that he will not be intimidated into cooperation. The move showcases Miles's shrewd, mercenary personality before his eventual transformation.

Foreshadowing: Miles's instinct to monetize every situation here contrasts sharply with his later decision to return money he did not earn.

• 3.2 million
• double price
• negotiation
• miles bargaining

After being tested by Bram and confronted with his own unreadiness, Miles has a crisis of conscience. He tracks down the grieving father, confesses that he fabricated the message, and returns the payment. He also advises the man that love must be expressed to the living rather than the dead, marking the beginning of Miles's shift from cynicism toward honesty.

Foreshadowing: This is the first concrete sign that the Bram encounter has shaken Miles out of his purely transactional worldview.

• returned money
• confession
• conscience
• moral turn
• miles

After Roger Linus reports Ben missing and Jack alerts Sawyer, Sawyer is confronted by Phil, who has reviewed security footage showing Sawyer taking Ben. To protect their secret, Sawyer knocks Phil unconscious on the spot and instructs Juliet to find rope to bind him. The swift violence ensures the Others cannot immediately retaliate or expose the abduction.

Foreshadowing: Phil's access to security footage foreshadows that the Barracks' surveillance system is a recurring vulnerability for the group.

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• phil
• ben linus
• abduction
• knocked unconscious

While riding along in the van to deliver food to the Orchid Station, Hurley stumbles upon the corpse Miles is transporting. When he confronts Miles about it, Miles reveals his ability to hear the dead. Hurley then discloses that he shares this supernatural gift, leading the two to compare how their powers manifest differently.

Foreshadowing: Hurley's casual attitude toward the body hints early on that he has encountered death-related phenomena before.

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• miles
• ability
• dead
• van
• orchid station

While Miles discovers that Hurley is writing The Empire Strikes Back screenplay from memory, Hurley draws a parallel between Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader and the strained bond between Miles and his absent father. Hurley shares that forgiving his own father for leaving was the most healing decision he ever made, urging Miles to consider the same. The metaphor reframes abandonment as something that can be transcended.

Foreshadowing: Hurley's calm acceptance of his own painful past hints he has already walked the road he is now suggesting to Miles.

• hurley
• darth vader
• empire strikes back
• forgiveness
• father

Miles delivers the body to Dr. Chang at the Orchid Station without realizing the connection. The full truth comes when Miles visits Chang's home and sees him caring for a three-month-old version of himself, revealing that the man he has been working for is the same father Lara claimed never cared about him. The discovery reframes everything his mother told him.

Foreshadowing: Lara's claim that his father 'never cared' is contradicted by the tender scene of Chang with baby Miles, planting doubt much sooner.

• pierre chang
• father
• revelation
• baby miles
• orchid station

Lara revealed to Miles, while dying of cancer, that his father had died when he was an infant and never showed affection for either of them. However, the closing scenes contradict this narrative, showing Dr. Chang tenderly caring for baby Miles. It suggests Lara's version of events was either a lie to shield Miles, a distortion born of abandonment trauma, or a truth shaped by a separation she could not forgive.

Foreshadowing: Her cold, dismissive tone when speaking about Miles's father is later undercut entirely by Chang's visible devotion to infant Miles.

• lara
• mother
• father lied
• cancer
• chang
• abandonment

When the submarine delivers new Dharma scientists to the island, Daniel Faraday greets Miles as though they have known each other for a very long time. Given the island's unstable timeline, Faraday likely recognizes Miles from a future encounter or from research, implying their relationship extends across multiple points in the island's chronology rather than this single moment.

Foreshadowing: Faraday's calm familiarity suggests he has studied the island's timeline extensively and knows what is coming.

• daniel faraday
• recognition
• dock
• dharma scientists
• timeline

Hurley reveals that he is transcribing the entire Empire Strikes Back screenplay from memory in order to deliver it to George Lucas. The absurd premise serves as a vehicle for the deeper conversation about father-son relationships, since Hurley's pop-culture knowledge allows him to draw the Luke-and-Vader metaphor that ultimately guides Miles toward forgiveness.

Foreshadowing: Hurley's offhand mention of writing the script sets up the emotional core of the scene long before the comparison becomes explicit.

• hurley
• empire strikes back
• screenplay
• george lucas
• writing

Sawyer instructs Juliet to find rope to bind Phil so that the abduction of young Ben remains hidden from the rest of the Barracks. With Phil secured, the group has a short window to manage Roger's mounting suspicion and prevent the Others from mobilizing a search before their mission is compromised.

Foreshadowing: Phil being bound rather than killed suggests Sawyer wants information kept quiet, not bodies piling up.

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• sawyer
• rope
• juliet
• tied up
• aftermath