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What is the Button?

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Question: What is the Button?
The term "The Button" was first introduced in Episode 2x1, Man of Science, Man of Faith.
Answer: The button refers to the "execute" button on the computer in the Swan Hatch. Once the timer sounds, survivors have four minutes to input the numbers 4 8 15 16 23 42, and press the execute button to reset the timer.

When the hatch implodes (Ep: 2x23, Live Together, Die Alone), the computer and button are destroyed.

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