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"Lost: Confirmed Dead (#4.2)" (2008)

Kate Austen: Dan? Your name's Dan, right? Listen, Dan, I know that toi don't want anyone to get hurt, right? So why don't toi put the gun away.
Daniel Faraday: Because Miles would kill me?

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George Minkowski: [on the radio phone] Dan, the chopper com went dead. What the hell happened up there?
Daniel Faraday: Yeah, I don't know, George, there was an electrical storm. All the instruments, I think they just went down. Listen, I made contact with some of the survivors and we just, uh...
George Minkowski: Dan, am...

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Prior to arrival on the island

After the events of LaFleur, Daniel along with Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, and Jin are shunted through time and stranded sometime in 1974. Sawyer is able to bluff the Dharma Initiative of this time into giving his "crew" jobs/positions within the Dharma Initiative on the island. Daniel would end up assisting the group in the construction of the Orchid Station. This appears to have taken place in the late 1970's. Presumably, much of the information about the Dharma Initiative that Daniel would end up compiling in his notebook...