The science fiction/ mystery thriller series revolves around the titular room and some of the everyday items from that room which possess unusual powers. The show’s protagonist, Joe Miller, is searching for these objects to rescue his daughter, Anna, who has disappeared inside the Room. Once a typical room at a 1960s motel along U.S. Route 66, the Lost Room exists outside of normal time and space since 1961, when what is only referred to as “the Event” took place.


Episodes:
1. The Key and The Clock
2. The Comb and the Box
3. The Eye and the Prime Object
Inside the Lost Room Bonus and Extras

The Room is the nonexistent Room 10 at the abandoned Sunshine Motel outside of Gallup, New Mexico. At 1:20:44 p.m. on May 4, 1961, something happened at the site of the Room that erased it and all its contents from history. This is referred to as “the Event” or “the Incident”, and is thought to be the reason for the unusual properties of the Room and the Objects. At the time of the Event, the motel was in quite serviceable condition, holding nine rooms total. One of the Objects, the undeveloped Polaroid picture, allows the user to view the post event tenth room as it was at the time of the Event by standing in its currently vacant location at the Sunshine Motel ruins in the real world.

The Room can be accessed only by the holder of the Key. The Key will open any hinged door with a pin tumbler lock anywhere in the world, turning the door into a portal accessing the Room regardless of where that door would open normally. As Joe sees on the surveillance tape, while the door that originates the portal is open, it still appears closed to the observer on the other side of that door. When exiting the Room, the door opens, not necessarily to the original place of entry, but to any room that the holder of the Key has in mind, or to a random room if the user doesn’t focus. To reach a specific room, the user must have a clear picture of the room’s own door and the area around it. The Room can thus serve as a way station for rapid travel between similar doors anywhere on Earth. Doors with types of locks other than a tumbler lock, or without a lock at all, cannot be used to access the Room; sliding doors are unusable for travel in either direction.

The holder of the Key can bring other people into the Room, but they must either leave together or the holder must let other people out of the room while remaining behind, because the Room “resets” whenever the door is opened from the outside using the key: everything is restored to the way it was originally, minus any Objects that are outside the Room. If something from outside the Room (including a person) is left in it when the holder of the Key leaves, it disappears. If Objects are left in the Room, they return to their original position as of the moment of the Event when the Room resets. A benefit to this is that one can retrieve an Object from something within which it may be encased or hidden (such as a safe) by leaving whatever the Object is in inside the Room and resetting it. This can also let someone sort out a real Object from fakes, since the fakes disappear.

Objects lose their special abilities while in the Room, and can be destroyed. However, according to the Occupant, a new Object will take the destroyed Object’s place, a fact he refers to as the Law of Conservation of Objects. The Occupant states that there are many Rooms; thus, any non Object left in the Room hasn’t actually disappeared, but is simply in a different instance of the Room. The reset, in turn, represents a confluence of these Rooms, allowing the Occupant (the only Object capable of consciously existing during a reset) to retrieve things lost during a reset provided they have a clear idea of what they wish to retrieve.