"Something Nice Back Home" is the tenth episode of the American Broadcasting Company's fourth season of the serial drama television series Lost and eighty-second episode overall. It was aired on May 1, 2008, on ABC in the United States and on CTV in Canada. The episode was written in February and March by co-executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz and directed in March and April by supervising producer Stephen Williams. Critical reviews were mixed and the broadcast of "Something Nice Back Home" brought in thirteen million American viewers, one of the smallest audiences for an original episode of Lost in the show's history.The narrative begins on December 28, 2004, ninety-eight days after the crash of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815. The survivors' leader Jack Shephard (played by Matthew Fox) develops appendicitis and Juliet Burke (Elizabeth Mitchell) operates on him. Meanwhile, James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway), Miles Straume (Ken Leung), Claire Littleton (Emilie de Ravin)... more