Lost, Season 5

Hugo "Hurley" Reyes:
So this conversation we're having right now...we already had it.

Miles Straume:
Yes!

Hugo "Hurley" Reyes:
Then what am I gonna say next?

Miles Straume:
I don't know.

Hugo "Hurley" Reyes:
Ha! Then your theory is wrong!

Miles Straume:
For the thousandth time, you dingbat, the conversation already happened, but not for you and me. For you and me, it's happening right now.

Hugo "Hurley" Reyes:
Okay, answer me this. If all this already happened to me, then...why don't I remember any of it?

Miles Straume:
Because once Ben turned that wheel, time isn't a straight line for us anymore. Our experiences in the past and the future occurred before these experiences right now.

Hugo "Hurley" Reyes:
Say that again.

Miles Straume:
Shoot me. Please. Please!

Hugo "Hurley" Reyes:
Aha! I can't shoot you. Because if you die in 1977, then you'll never come back to the island on the freighter 30 years from now.

Miles Straume:
I can die because I've already come to the island on the freighter. Any of us can die because this is our present.

Hugo "Hurley" Reyes:
But you said Ben couldn't die because he still has to grow up and become the leader of the Others.

Miles Straume:
Because this is his past.

Hugo "Hurley" Reyes:
But when we first captured Ben, and Sayid, like, tortured him, then why wouldn't he remember getting shot by that same guy when he was a kid?

Miles Straume:
[beat] Huh. I hadn't thought of that.

Hugo "Hurley" Reyes:
Huh.