Lost, Season Five

Dharma Worker:
There's an open chamber about twenty meters in behind the rock. There's something in there. And the only way to get it is to lay charges here and here, blast through it-

Pierre Chang (From Orientation videos):
Under no circumstances. This station is being built here because it's proximity to what we believe to be an almost limitless energy and that energy, once we can harness it correctly, it's going to allow us to manipulate time.

Worker:
Right... Okay, so what? We're gonna go back and kill Hitler?

Pierre Chang:
Don't be absurd. There are rules. Rules that can't be broken.

Worker:
So what do you want me to do?

Pierre Chang:
You're gonna do nothing. If you drill even one centimeter further, you risk releasing that energy. If that would've happened... God help us all.

(Jack stares at Locke's body, Ben comes up with a stretcher)

Ben:
Why don't you close that up now Jack? Come on, let's get him in the van, it's out back.

Jack:
Where are we taking him?

Ben:
We'll worry about that once we pick up Hugo.

Jack:
Hurley - is locked away in a mental institution.

Ben:
Which should make recruiting him considerably easier than the rest of your friends.

Jack:
They're not my friends anymore.

Ben:
Well that's the spirit...

Jack:
How did we get here...? How did all of this happened?

Ben:
It happened because you left, Jack... Now let's get started shall we?

(Ben closes Jeremy Bentham's coffin)

Sawyer:
First things first. Give me your shirt.

Daniel:
My shirt?

Sawyer:
Yeah.

Daniel:
I really think we have far more pressing matters then me giving you a shirt. How about we just keep moving, okay?

Sawyer:
How about we call a time out so you can tell us what the hell's going on?

Daniel:
How about you trust me?

Sawyer:
Trust you? I don't even know you!

Daniel:
We really do not have time for me to try to explain. You have no idea how difficult that would be for me to try to explain this-this phenomenon to a quantum physicist. That would be difficult. So for me to try to explain whatevers happened-

[Sawyer slaps Daniel]

Charlotte:
Oy! What the bloody hell do you think you're doing?

Sawyer:
Shut it, ginger, or you're getting one too. Now talk.

Daniel:
This island... Think of the island like a record spinning on a turntable. Only now, that record is skipping. Whatever Ben Linus did down at the Orchard station... I think it may have... dislodged us.

Miles:
Dislodged us from what?

Daniel:
... Time.

Hurley:
So when'd you become so paranoid?

Sayid:
If you'd spent the last two years doing the things I was doing, you'd be paranoid, too.

Hurley:
Oh, yeah? Paranoid like what? What kind of things?

Sayid:
I was working for Benjamin Linus.

Hurley:
Wait. He's on our side now?

Sayid:
Listen to me, Hurley. If you ever have the misfortune of running into him, whatever he tells you, just do the opposite.

[At drive through]

Hurley:
Wanna fry?

Sayid:
No, thank you.

Hurley:
You know maybe if you ate more comfort food, you wouldn't have to go around shooting people.

Hurley:
So that dude you pocked outside Santa Rosa, who was he?

Sayid:
I don't care. He was armed and he was watching you. That made him an enemy.

Hurley:
You think he was going to kill me?

Sayid:
I'm not taking risks after Bentham died.

Hurley:
You mean Locke?

Sayid:
Yeah, I mean Locke.

Hurley:
I need a cool code name.

Charlotte:
Hey, you think he's looking for us?

Miles:
Who?

Charlotte:
Widmore

Miles:
It took him, like, 20 years to find this place the first time. I'll start holding my breath now.

Dan (staring at the hatch crater):
Is this the hatch?

Sawyer:
It was. Blown up, just like we left it.

Dan:
Okay. So when we are now... It's now after you and your people crashed on the island.

Sawyer:
You sayin' our camp is back on the beach again?

Dan:
It's possible, yeah.

Sawyer:
Good. I'm going back.

Dan:
Hey. No, no. (stoping him) It's pointless.

Sawyer:
More pointless than staring at a hole in the ground?

Dan:
We don't know when the next flash is coming. By the time you get back to the beach, the camp could be gone again.

Sawyer:
Yeah. But what if it ain't? Hell, what if the helicopter hasn't even taken off yet?

Juliet:
We could warn them. Stop them from ever flying to that boat.

Dan:
That is not the way it works.

Sawyer:
Who says?

Dan:
You cannot change anything. You can't. Even if you tried to, it wouldn't work.

Sawyer:
Why not?

Dan:
Time it's like a street, all right? We can move forward on that street, we can move in reverse, but we cannot ever create a new street. If we try to do anything different, we will fail every time. Whatever happened, happened.

Richard:
Next time we see each other, I'm not gonna recognize you, all right? You give me this.

(He gives Locke a compass)

Locke:
What is this?

Richard:
It's a compass.

Locke:
What does it do?

Richard:
It points north, John. Look, I wish I had time to be more sensitive about this because it's a lot to swallow, but you need to know it in order to do what you gotta do. So I'm just gonna say it, okay? The only way to save the island, John, is to get your people back here. The ones who left.

Locke:
Jack, Kate? But the chopper was headed for the boat. The boat...

Richard:
No, they're fine, John, and they're already home, so you have to convince them to come back.

Locke:
How... How am I supposed to do that?

Richard:
You're gonna have to die, John.

(The sky flashes again and Richard disappears)

Dan (knocking at the hatch back door):
Please, please, please. Let this work.

(The door opens, Desmond comes out and aims at Dan with a rifle)

Dan:
Don't shoot.

Desmond:
Then you'd best explain why you've been bangin' on my door for the last 20 minutes, brother.

Dan:
Desmond.

Desmond (slowly lowering the rifle):
Are you him?

Dan:
"Him"? Who?

Desmond:
My replacment.

Dan:
No, I'm not. (Desmond points the rifle at him again) I'm not. I'm not. I'm...

Desmond:
Do I know you?

Dan:
Yeah... in a way. But listen, that's not important. What is important, Desmond, is what I'm about to say to you. I need you to listen. You're the only person who can help us because, Desmond... The rules... The rules don't apply to you. You're special. You're uniquely and miraculously special.

Desmond:
What are you talking about?

(The sky begins to hum)

Dan:
Okay, listen to me. Listen! If the helicopter somehow made it off the island, if you got home...

Desmond:
What helicopter? What are you talking about?!

Dan:
Listen, I need you to listen, or people are gonna die. My name is Daniel Faraday, and right now me and everyone else you left behind. We're in serious danger. You're the only person who can help us. I need you to go back to Oxford University. Go back to where we met. I need you to go there and find my mother. Her name is...

(The sky flashes and Desmond wakes up in his bed)

[As sky lights up for third time shift]

Sawyer:
Son of a-

[Time shifts, shows it's daylight]

Sawyer:
Bitch...

Hurley:
Dude they'll find out.

Jack:
Not if we stick to the story.

Sayid:
I don't know, Jack. It could be a risk.

Jack:
It's the only way. We have to do this.

Lapidus:
You're still at it, huh?

Jack:
Look, we're running out of time. We've got to make a decision now. So are we all okay with this?

Sayid:
This is a decision that will affect the rest of our lives. I'm not taking it lightly.

Jack:
Kate?

Kate:
Yeah.

Jack:
Sun?

[Sun nods]

Jack:
Frank?

Lapidus:
What?

Jack:
Sorry you got dragged into this, but we need to know that you're with us.

Lapidus:
Whatever you guys decide, I'll just roll with.

Jack:
Hurley, what about you?

Hurley:
I don't think we should lie dude.

Jack:
We need to protect the people that we left behind, Hurley.

Hurley:
How does lying protect them?

Jack:
It protects them from Charles Widmore. The guy hired a boatload of people to kill all of us. He faked the plane crash, and you think telling him the truth he's just gonna.. he's gonna leave them alone?

Hurley:
[To Penny] Look he's your dad right? Can't you just like.. call him off?

Penny:
There's no calling my father off.

Hurley:
But, he'll never find 'em. I mean the Island disappeared, we all saw it, it's gone... BLUP!

Jack:
You thing anyone's gonna believe that? Believe any of it? They're gonna think you're crazy.

Hurley:
Unless someone backs me up.

[He looks at Sayid]

Hurley:
Sayid, come on. They'll think I'm nuts if I tell the truth but what if we all do? I mean if we can stick together, we can make 'em believe us. I don't wanna spend the rest of my life lying, do you?!

Sayid:
No, but I don't believe we have a better choice... I'm sorry Hurley but we have to lie.

Hurley:
You know what dude? I'm gonna remember this. And some day you're gonna need my help and I'm telling you right now... You're not getting it.

[After being pulled over]

Hurley:
Okay, okay, okay. Just stay calm.

[Cop knocks on window, Hurley rolls it down]

Cop:
What the hell where you thinking?

Hurley:
... Ana Lucia?

Ana Lucia:
You were driving like a maniac. And why'd you pull over?

Hurley:
I just... I thought...

Ana Lucia:
You didn't think. What if I were real? What if a real cop stopped you? They already have pictures of you covered in blood with a gun in your hand.

Hurley:
Actually, it's ketchup. We, uh, went to a drive-through and uh...

Ana Lucia:
Bro, you need to pull it together. You've got a lot of work to do.

Hurley:
I do?

Ana Lucia:
Let's start with the basics. First off, you need new clothes. Then, you need to go to a safe place and take Sayid to somebody you trust. You getting all this?

Hurley:
Yeah.

Ana Lucia:
Then get to it. And stay away from the cops. Do not get arrested.

Hurley:
Thanks, Ana Lucia.

Ana Lucia:
Oh, yeah... Libby says hi.

Hurley:
Okay. See, we did crash, but it was on this crazy island. And we waited for rescue, and there wasn't any rescue. And there was a smoke monster, and then there were other people on the island. We called them the Others, and they started attacking us. And we found some hatches, and there was a button you had to push every 108 minutes or... well, I was never really clear on that. But... the Others didn't have anything to do with the hatches. That was the DHARMA Initiative. The Others killed them, and now they're trying to kill us. And then we teamed up with the Others because some worse people were coming on a freighter. Desmond's girlfriend's father sent them to kill us. So we stole their helicopter and we flew it to their freighter, but it blew up. And we couldn't go back to the island because it disappeared, so then we crashed into the ocean, and we floated there for a while until a boat came and picked us up. And by then, there were six of us. That part was true. But the rest of the people... who were on the plane? They're still on that island.

Ben:
Hello, Hugo.

Hurley:
Ahh! [Throws Hot Pocket at him, misses and it hits wall] Get away from me. Get away!

Ben:
Hugo, I know you're in trouble. And I can assure you, I've taken care of everything. I have a car waiting for us out back. The police didn't see me come in. I can get you out of here.

Hurley:
No way, dude. Sayid warned me about you.

Ben:
I'm taking you to Sayid. He's with Jack. That's why I'm here, Hugo. Jack called me. How else would I know that they're together?

Hurley:
No. You're playing one of your mind games. They'd never trust you.

Ben:
In their defense, I'm not an easy person to trust. But they came around when they realized that we all want the same thing.

Hurley:
And what's that?

Ben:
To go back to the island. Come with us, Hugo. And this'll be over. You can stop hiding. You can stop worrying about the stories and the deceptions. If you come with me, you won't ever have to lie again. Please... Let me help you.

Hurley:
Never, dude.

[Hurley turns and runs]

Young Widmore:
I want you to tell me everything or I'll cut off her other hand.

Juliet:
What?!

Sawyer:
Other?

Young Widmore:
The first one isn't negotiable. It's just to illustrate how serious I am.

Carmen Reyes:
Why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch?

Richard:
How do I know you weren't sent here on some suicide mission? I'll take you out to the bomb, and you'll just detonate it.

Dan:
[pause] Because I'm in love with the woman sitting next to me. [Charlotte looks up in shock] And I would never...I would never do anything to hurt her.

Sawyer:
How'd you learn to speak Latin?

Juliet:
Others 101. It's the language of the enlightened.

Sawyer:
Enlightened, my ass.

[Dan and Charlotte are sitting at a table]

Charlotte:
You didn't have to say that.

Dan:
Say what?

Charlotte:
[smiles] That you loved me. And I'm pretty sure that there are other ways you could have convinced him you weren't going to blow up the entire island.

Dan:
I said what I said because I meant it, Charlotte.

Sawyer:
Hate to break this up, but Heidi's taking the geek on a death march in the jungle.

[Locke, Charlotte, Dan, Miles, Juliet, and Sawyer are in a longboat headed to the Orchid Station, being attacked by an unknown assailant. The sky lights up for a time shift]

Sawyer:
Thank you, Lord!

[Time shift puts them in the middle of a thunderstorm]

Sawyer:
I take that back!

Sawyer:
I saw Kate.

Juliet:
What?

Sawyer:
Last night, in the jungle. Before the last flash. She was delivering Claire's baby.

Juliet:
But that was two months ago.

Sawyer:
Time travel's a bitch.

[Locke, Sawyer, Juliet, Miles and Jin finally reached "The Orchid"]

Locke:
We're here.

Juliet:
Thank God. What are the odds that we would end up in the same time as this thing?

[Time shifts and "The Orchid" disappears]

Sawyer:
You just had to say somethin'.

[Locke, Sawyer, Juliet, Miles and Jin finally find the well Charlotte talked about]

Sawyer:
You're going down there?

Locke:
Aha...

Sawyer:
What exactly are you hoping to find?

Locke:
A way off the Island.

Sawyer:
Expecting a subway!?

Locke:
[Smiling] Goodbye, James.

Jin:
Please, translate!

Sawyer:
You heard the man, translate!

Miles:
Dude, he's Korean. I'm from Encino.

Charlotte:
I've been here before.

Dan:
You've been...you've been here before?

Charlotte:
I grew up here. On the island. There was this thing, this DHARMA Initiative, and then I moved away with my mum. Just my mum, and I never saw my dad again. Then when I got back to England, I would ask my mum about this place, but she would say that it wasn't real, and that I'd made it up. That's why I became an anthropologist. To find this island again. It's what I've been searching for my whole life.

Dan:
Charlotte, why are you telling me this?

Charlotte:
Because I remember something now. When I was little, living here, there was this man, this crazy man. He really scared me. And he told me that I had to leave the island and never ever come back. He told me that if I came back to the island, I would die.

Dan:
Charlotte, I don't understand.

Charlotte:
Daniel! I think that man was you.

[Jack looks into coach and sees other passengers]

Jack:
And the other people on this plane--what's gonna happen to them?

Ben:
Who cares?

[Jack and Ben, in the 316 Ajira flight]

Jack:
[Nervous] How can you read?

Ben:
[Keeps reading] My mother taught me. [Pretty funny smile] I can read, Jack, because it beats what you are doing.

Jack:
What's that?

Ben:
Waiting for something to happen.

Jack:
And what is gonna happen?

Ben:
You tell me, Jack, you're the one that got to stay after school with Ms. Hawking.

Jack:
Did you know that Locke killed himself?

Ben:
No. No, I didn't.

Jack:
[Takes out the suicide note Locke left for him] They found this stuffed in his pocket... and I've been trying to get rid of it but it's like it's... following me. I know it sounds crazy but... it feels like John needs me to read it.

Ben:
Why don't you then? Is it because you're afraid?

Jack:
Afraid of what?

Ben:
Afraid that he blames you, that it's your fault he killed himself.

Jack:
Was it my fault?

Ben:
No, Jack, it wasn't your fault. Let me give you some privacy.

[Ben changes his seat, and Jack reads the note:
"Jack, I wish you had believed me. JL"]

[Turbulences and a flash like those from the Island start]

[Jack and Frank, who is the pilot of Ajira Flight 316]

Frank:
Well. Hello, Doc. Small world. What are you doing going to Guam?

Jack:
What are you doing here, Frank?

Frank:
Well, I picked this gig up about eight months ago. I fly this route all the time. Sometimes I take the big birds into New [looks up and sees Sayid]...Delhi. Is that Sayid? [sees Hurley] And Hurley. [sees Kate, then Sun] Wait a second...We're not going to Guam, are we?

Jack:
It's pretty crazy, huh?

Kate:
Which part?

Jack:
Hurley, Sayid and Ben on the same plane. How did they end up here?

Kate:
They bought a ticket.

Jack:
You don't think that it means something? That somehow we're all back together?

Kate:
We're on the same plane, Jack. Doesn't make us together.

Charles Widmore:
There is a war coming, John. And if you're not on the Island by the time it starts, the wrong side is going to win.

Locke:
What makes you think that I'm so special?

Charles Widmore:
Because you are.

Ilana:
Nobody remembers you being on the plane

Locke:
Well, I don't remember being on it either.

Ilana:
What do you remember?

Locke:
I remember a lot.

Ilana:
Like why you're dressed up so nice?

Locke:
No, but I can guess.

Ilana:
Please. Guess.

Locke:
I think this suit is what they were gonna bury me in.

Ilana:
Sorry?

Locke:
You asked what I remembered. I remember dying.

[Locke is staring at injured and unconscious Ben]

Ceasar:
You know him?

Locke:
Yeah. He's the man who killed me.

[The episode ends]

[1974 - Sawyer and Juliet step out of some foliage to find Daniel Faraday kneeling alone and crying in the jungle.]

Daniel:
[muttering] Not gonna tell... I'm not gonna tell...

Sawyer:
[whispering to Juliet] Where's Red?

Juliet:
I dont know.

[Juliet walks over to Faraday and stoops down to talk to him. Sawyer, Miles and Jin hang back.]

Daniel:
[mutters indistinctly] No. I won't do it. I won't tell her. I won't do it. Won't...

Juliet:
Daniel? Are you okay?

Daniel:
I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna tell her.

Juliet:
Daniel, where's Charlotte?

Daniel:
[Voice breaking] She's not here. She... She's gone.

Juliet:
Where?

Daniel:
She's... dead. She's dead. There was another flash, and... and she was... she was just gone.

[Juliet nods sympathetically.]

Daniel:
Her... body just... [crying] disappeared. She moved on, and we stayed.

Juliet:
I'm so sorry.

Sawyer:
Hold on. Wait a minute. We "stayed"? We're not traveling through time anymore? You saying it's over?

Daniel:
Of course it's over. Wherever we are now... whenever we are now... we're here for good. :[To Juliet, or perhaps to himself] I won't do it.

Juliet:
Okay. Okay.

Daniel:
I won't. I'm not gonna--I'm--I'm...

Juliet:
Okay.

Daniel:
I'm not gonna--I w--I won't.

Juliet:
Okay. [pats Dan on head] Okay.

[Juliet stands up and goes back towards Sawyer]

Daniel:
...Tell...

Sawyer:
Okay. Swell. Until Dan checks back in, I say we head back to the beach. When Locke gets back with everybody, that's where they'll be looking for us.

Miles:
The beach? What, you didn't get enough flaming arrows shot at you? And your camp is gone. Why bother?

Juliet:
Sawyer's right, Miles. We should go back to the beach. We survived there before. We can do it again.

Miles:
[To nobody in particular] Or maybe when we get there, you'll--you'll wanna go back to the Orchid again. And then when that gets boring, we can head back to the beach. It's the only two plans you people have.

Jin:
Daniel... No more flash?

Daniel:
No. No more flash. The record is spinning again. We're just not on the song we wanna be on.

Sawyer:
I got good news and bad news. What you want first?

Horace:
Good news.

Sawyer:
You're a daddy. Bad news is you missed it.

Horace:
Oh, gosh. Amy... She had the baby?

Sawyer:
It's a boy.

Horace:
A boy?

[Sawyer shakes his head "Yes"]

Sawyer:
Now how about you tell me... why you're too busy drinking and blowing up trees to see him be born?

Horace:
I was, uh... I was looking for a pair of socks, and all of mine were dirty, so I went to grab a pair of Amy's, and... I found this... In the back of her drawer.

[He shows Sawyer Paul's necklace]

Horace:
It was Paul's.

Sawyer:
You got in a fight over a necklace?

Horace:
I know. But... It's only been three years, Jim. Just three years that he's been gone. Is that really long enough to get over someone?

Sawyer:
I had a thing for a girl once. And I had a shot at her, but I didn't take it. For a little while, I'd lay in bed every night, wondering if it was a mistake. Wondering if... I'd ever stop thinking about her. And now I can barely remember what she looks like. I mean, her face... it's.. She's just gone, and she ain't never coming back. So... Is three years long enough to get over someone? Absolutely.

[Commercial airliner Ajura Airlines Flight 316 is flying through a night sky through some thick dark coloured clouds. Inside the plane; Jack, Ben, Kate, Hurley, Sayid and Sun all sit in first class waiting to be returned to the island. In the cockpit pilot Frank Lapidus is enerved by the situation after seeing Jack and all the rest of the Oceanic Six on board the plane. Sitting next to him is a co-pilot who is monitoring the planes dials]

Co-Pilot:
Do you want to hear something crazy?

FRANK:
Yeah. What's that?

Co-Pilot:
Did you see the big guy; who got on in L.A.? Sitting in first class, curly hair, guitar case?

Frank:
What about him?

Co-Pilot:
He's one of the Oceanic 6. The guy must have nerves of steel, man. He survives a full on commercial airliner crash now he's flying over the same South Pacific.

Frank:
Yeah, well. Maybe he doesn't believe lightning will strike twice in the same place.

[The co-pilot smiles at Frank when suddenly a severe case of turbalance strikes the plane rocking it for several seconds. Frank appears nervous. A few seconds later the turbalance subsides. The co-pilot looks over at Frank]

Co-Pilot:
You all right there Frank?

Frank:
I'm just fine.

[Following the crash of Flight 316, Frank leaves the cockpit and enters the first class seating area which is in pieces with seats and plane parts all over the place. Frank looks around, Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sayid are all gone. Sun gets up and she and Frank notice each other]

Frank:
Sun?!

Sun:
Frank.

Frank:
Sun. You alright?

[Sun scans the cabin noticing the mess and that the rest of the Oceanic Six have disappeared]

Sun:
Oh my God! What happened?

Frank:
I don't know.

[Pause]

Frank:
Where's everyone else? Jack? Kate? Hurley? Sayid? Where'd they all go?

[Ben Linus suddenly appears behind Frank]

Ben:
They're gone!

Frank:
Gone? Gone where?

Ben:
How would I know?

[Having been reunited with Hurley, Kate and Jack at the end of Namaste, Sawyer speaks to the trio for the first time in three years]

Hurley:
[To Sawyer] You're alive! DUDE! I can't believe it!

[Hurley embraces Sawyer, lifting him off the ground in the process]

Sawyer:
Ha, ha. Easy on the ribs there Kong.

Hurley:
Kong...I actually missed that.

Sawyer:
I missed you too Hugo.

[Jack moves in to shake Sawyer's hand]

Jack:
Sawyer.

Sawyer:
Doc.

[Kate approaches Sawyer and hugs him]

Sawyer:
Hi. Good to see you, Kate.

Kate:
You too, James.

[Sawyer looks at the group]

Sawyer:
I can't believe it! You're really here. Son of a bitch actually did it. [John] Locke said he was gonna bring you back, but...[looks around] where is he?

Jack:
[Bluntly] John's dead.

Sawyer:
Dead? How?

Jack:
Doesn't matter, he's gone.

Hurley:
So what's up with you guys in the old Dharma jump suits?

[Sawyer turns to Jin]

Sawyer:
You didn't tell them?

[Jin now speaks perfect English]

Jin:
No. I was waiting for you.

Kate:
Tell us what?

Sawyer:
We're in the Dharma Initiative.

Jack:
They came back to the Island?

Sawyer:
No, we came back. And so did you. [Pause] It's Nineteen Seventy-seven...

[While waiting in the North Valley for Sawyer to return to tell them what to do, Kate approaches Jack who is tapping his now broken wristwatch]

Kate:
So this woman who told you how to come back, did she mention that it would be thirty years ago?

Jack:
No! Nope, she left that part out.

Kate:
So what are we supposed to do now?

Jack:
I'm not sure yet.

[In the North Valley, Sawyer retruns with clothes and instructions for Jack, Kate and Hurley. He gets out of the van]

Sawyer:
Alright listen. Y'all gonna be the second batch of recruits coming in off the sub. It should be pulling into port right about now so we ain't got much time. [Looks at Jack] Nice suit, doc. Not exactly Island wear, try this.

[Sawyer throws Jack some 1977 style clothes including a shirt and a pair of trousers]

Jack:
You want us to say we came in on the sub? How's that going to work?

Sawyer:
Everyone gets knocked out before the trip, so no one meets each other until we process 'em.

Jack:
Look. We need to find the rest of people from the plane.

Sawyer:
If there was a plane then Jin will find it. So we've got about ten minutes to make intake or you'll be camping in the jungle for a long time. There isn't another batch of recruits due in for six months.

[Jack turns to Kate]

Jack:
Whaddya think?

Kate:
I think we should listen to Sawyer.

Hurley:
I vote for not camping too.

Sawyer:
Trust me doc. You'll do what I say then everything will be fine.

[Brief pause. Jack nods in agreement]

Sawyer:
Ok then. Let's move.

[Sawyer followed by the other three get into the Dharma Minivan]

[In his Dharma Minivan, Sawyer drives Hurley, Jack and Kate to the Barracks]

Hurley:
Ok. So, it's Nineteen Seventy-seven?

Sawyer:
Yup.

Hurley:
And you guys are all members of the Dharma Initiative?

Sawyer:
Yup.

Hurley:
Well, you do realise those dudes get wiped out right? I mean I saw the pit where all the bodies got dumped.

Sawyer:
What about it?

Hurley:
Well; aren't you gonna warn 'em? Aren't you gonna stop it from happening?

Sawyer:
I ain't here to play Nostradamus to these people. Besides, Faraday's got some interesting theories about what we can and can't do here.

[Jack leans into the conversation from the backseat]

Jack:
Did you say Faraday? He's still here?

Sawyer:
Not any more!

[After arriving back on the main island in 2007; Sun and Frank arrive at the Dharma Barracks. The place is derserted and falling apart. suddenly the wind picks up blowing the trees and errie whispers are heard. Sun and Frank turn to and look as the light in the Dharma processing building comes on. They exchange uneasy glances as the door creaks open to reveal Jack's father Christian Shepard]

Christian:
Hello.

Frank:
Who the hell are you?

Christian:
My name is Christian.

Sun:
I'm looking for my husband. His name is Jin Kwon. Do you know where he is?

Christian:
Follow me...

[Christian re-enters the dilapidated Dharma Processing Centre and Sun follows. A nervous Frank follows after Sun. Inside; Christian shines a torch on several pictures looking for one to show Sun]

Sun:
What is this place?

Christian:
Seventy two, Seventy six, Seventy eight...

Sun:
Where is my husband?

Christian:
Ah! Here we go. Seventy seven. [Removes the picture from the wall] He's um, he's with your friends.

Sun:
What are you talking about? What friends?

[Christian walks over to Sun and Frank as the wind begins to blow strongly outside causing the door to open. He hands Sun the picture and shines the torch on it so that both Sun and Frank can see it]

Christian:
I'm sorry but you've got a bit of a journey ahead of you.

[Sun looks at the picture. There is a banner labeled "New Recruits" hanging over a group of people including Jack, Kate and Hurley. They are wearing Dharma jump suits. Sun and Frank look at each other shocked and confused]

[Having seen Sayid been arrested and locked up by Sawyer and Jin, Jack heads round to Sawyer's house to speak with him about the situation]

Sawyer:
What can I do for you, Jack?

Jack:
I don't even know where to start. Uh... How about with Sayid?

Sawyer:
I had no choice. He was running around in the jungle, got caught by my people. And seein' as how he can't tell the truth about how he got here, I had to improvise.

Jack:
Improvise?

Sawyer:
Aha. And for now, Sayid is safe, which is all that matters.

Jack:
So where do we go from here?

Sawyer:
I'm working on it.

Jack:
Really? Because it looked to me like you were reading a book.

[Sawyer smiles]

Sawyer:
I heard once Winston Churchill read a book every night, even during the Blitz. He said it made him think better. It's how I like to run things. I think. I'm sure that doesn't mean that much to you, 'cause back when you were calling the shots, you pretty much just reacted. See, you didn't think, Jack, and as I recall, a lot of people ended up dead.

Jack:
I got us off the island.

Sawyer:
But here you are... Right back where you started. So I'm gonna go back to reading my book, and I'm gonna think 'cause that's how I saved your ass today. And that's how I'm gonna save Sayid's tomorrow. All you gotta do is go home, get a good night's rest. I do what I do

[He leads Jack to the door and opens it]

Sawyer:
Now ain't that a relief?

Jack:
Yeah.

[Jack leaves]

[In the Dharma security facility security guard Phil is on duty. A teenage boy enters the room and approachs Phil at his desk]

Young Ben:
Hey Phil. I am just going to go in there and deliver him a sandwich.

Phil:
Alright.

[The boy enters an adjacent room where Sayid is being held in a cell]

Young Ben:
Hello. I brought you a sandwich.

[Sayid goes over to the cells railings and takes the paper bag containing the sandwich from young Ben]

Sayid:
Thank you.

Young Ben:
I didn't put any mustard on it, but if you want some, I can go and get some.

[Sayid looks in the paper bag and then back to the boy]

Sayid:
This will be fine thank you.

Young Ben:
Are you a Hostile?

Sayid:
What do you think I am?

Young Ben:
What's your name?

Sayid:
My name is Sayid. What's yours?

Younger Ben:
I'm Ben.

[Pause. It suddenly dawns on Sayid who the little boy infront of him is]

Sayid:
It's nice to meet you Ben...

[There is a knock at Jack's house. Jack opens the door and Faraday bursts in with Miles]

Faraday:
Hey Jack, how did you get back? How did you do it, how did you get back to the island?

Jack:
Dan, wow....where have you been?

Dan:
I've been at Dharma Headquarters in Ann Arbor, I was doing some research, but whats more important right now, how did you get back here, to 1977?

[Jack looks over at Miles]

Jack:
What's going on?

Miles:
Hey don't look at me, I just carried his luggage.

Faraday:
Jack. How?

Jack:
We were on a plane and then...

Faraday:
And who told you to get on that plane?

Jack:
As a matter of fact Daniel it was your mother.

[Dan nods]

Faraday:
And how did she convince you Jack? Did she tell you it was your destiny?

Jack:
Yeah thats exactly what she said.

Faraday:
Well I got some bad news for you Jack, you don't belong here at all. She was wrong.

[Sawyer holds a meeting to discuss what the survivors should do next before their true identities are discovered by Dharma. Suddenly there's a knock at the front door]

Sawyer:
Hold your horses, I'll be right there.

[Sawyer picks up and cocks a handgun, placing it behind his back as he opens the door which he opens to reveal Dan and Miles]

Faraday:
Hey James.

Sawyer:
Welcome to the meeting Twitchy. Good to see you again. Come in, pound cake's in the kitchen, help yourself to the punch.

[Dan enters the house. Miles starts to follow. Saywer pulls him to one side]

Sawyer:
Is he still crazy?

Miles:
It's on a whole new level man.

Sawyer:
[Sarcastically] Great!

[In flashback to mid-late 2004, Faraday is being looked after by a carer in his flat while he is watching footage informing the public that the wreckage of Flight 815 has been found in the Sunda Trench]

On TV:
These pictures come from a research vessel off the coast of Indonesia...

Faraday's Carer:
How do want your eggs Dan?

[Dan is crying at the footage being shown on the TV]

Faraday's Carer:
Dan whats the matter? Why are you so upset?

Faraday:
I don't know...

[There is a knock at the door, Dan's carer goes to answer, Charles Widmore enters]

Faraday's Carer:
Hello come in. Can I get you a cup of tea?

Charles Widmore:
Thank you that would be nice.

Faraday's Carer:
Dan you have a visitor.

[Faraday gets out of his chair and in a confused manner he shakes Widmore's hand]

Charles Widmore:
Hello Daniel.

Faraday:
[Almost in tears] Er...Hello. I'm sorry sir I don't remember...I have a condition that effects my memory and...

Charles Widmore:
Don't be embarrased Daniel, weve never met. I'm Charles Widmore.

Faraday:
Charles Widmore? Charles Widmore from my research grant?

Charles Widmore:
Yes.

Faraday:
Its nice to meet you at last, I kept meaning to come and see you but I got a bit...take a seat.

Charles Widmore:
Thank you.

[They sit]

Faraday:
I just want you to know that I tested it on myself first. I would never hurt Teresa.

Charles Widmore:
It's alright Daniel I'm not here because of that. I want to offer you a new opportunity.

Faraday:
Really?

Charles Widmore:
Yes.

[Dan stares back at the footage of the wreckage of 815 on the TV and starts to cry]

Charles Widmore:
Daniel. Whats making you so upset?

Faraday:
It's this plane crash. All those poor people...and their families. They're dead!

Charles Widmore:
What if I was to tell you Daniel that they're not dead. What if I told you that that plane they have found is an elaborate and expensive hoax.

Faraday:
How would you know that?

Charles Widmore:
I know Daniel because I'm the one that put it there.

Faraday:
Why would you tell me that?

Charles Widmore:
I told you Daniel because come tomorrow you're not likely to remember.

[The pair continue to discuss the crash and Widmore offers Dan the chance to go to the island on the frighter]

[Juliet and Sawyer are in their home packing in preparation to leave Dharma for the beach, Juliet packs and is slient. Sawyer stops her]

Sawyer:
You called it the minute those yahoos got here. I should have listened to you. You can say I told you so!

Juliet:
Maybe after we get to the beach.

Sawyer:
Hey. You still got my back?

Juliet:
You still got mine?

[Faraday enters The Others/The Hostiles camp alone while Jack and Kate watch from behind some trees]

Faraday:
Nobody move. I only want to speak to Eloise. Where is Eloise? Come on! Where is she?

Richard Alpert:
I'm sorry but Elo..

[Faraday points his handgun to Richards head]

Richard Alpert:
She's not here right now. Do we know each other?

Faraday:
It doesn't matter. I need you to take me to Eloise.

Richard Alpert:
I already told you that she's not here, so why don't we just...

Faraday:
Wheres the bomb Richard?

[Richard looks confused]

Faraday:
The Hydrogen Bomb I told your people to bury. Where is it?

Richard Alpert:
Listen to me, lower your gun and we'll talk ok? Nobody has to get hurt here. Just put the gun down.

Faraday:
I'm going to give you three seconds...One...

Richard Alpert:
Don't do this.

Faraday:
Two...Thr...

[A gun goes off. Faraday looks down - He's been shot. Richard drops the mug he was holding and heads foward learning over a dying Faraday. As Dan falls it is revealed that he has been shot by his mother Eloise]

Richard Alpert:
Why did you do that?

Eloise Hawking:
He had a gun on you.

Richard Alpert:
He wasn't going to shoot me, Eloise.

[A dying Faraday looks up at his young mother]

Faraday:
You knew... that's why you sent me back here... You knew!

Eloise Hawking:
Who are you?

Faraday:
I'm your.. son. [Faraday dies.]

[Miles, Jin and Hurley follow Sawyers plan and start to head out towards the beach. Suddenly they hear something. Jin and Miles raise their weapons, but notice that it's Miles' dad - Dr. Chang who has come to meet them. They lower their weapons]

Miles:
Dr. Chang? What are you doing here?

Dr. Chang:
I could ask you the same question. [Pause] Please I must know is what your friend Faraday said true? Are you from the future?

[Hurley briefly glances over at Miles and Jin and then turns to Dr. Chang]

Hurley:
Dude that's ridiculous.

Dr. Chang:
Oh really. What year were you born?

Hurley:
Erm....1931.

Dr. Chang:
[Eyeing Hurley] You're 46?

Hurley:
Yeah.....Yes I am.

Dr. Chang:
That means you must have fought in the Korean War?

Hurley:
[nervous] There's no such thing...

Dr. Chang:
Who is the US President?

Hurley:
Ok, we're from the future.

[Hurley turns to Miles and Jin]

Hurley:
Sorry dudes.

[Richard Alpert sits in his tent fixing a model ship in what appears to be a large glass bottle. An Other enters his tent to inform him of John Locke's return]

Other:
Richard. He's back!

Richard Alpert:
Who?

[They exit Richard's tent, coming up the beach is John Locke carrying a boar over his shoulders]

John Locke:
I brought dinner!

Richard Alpert:
[Confused and shocked] John?

[Locke chucks the dead boar in the sand]

John Locke:
Hello Richard. It's been a while.

Richard Alpert:
It's...been three years. John what happened? Where were you?

John Locke:
I'll explain that on the way.

Richard Alpert:
On the way? On the way where?

John Locke:
It's going to be night soon and you and I have an errand to run and we don't have a lot of time. [Pause] What's wrong?

Richard Alpert:
There's something different about you.

John Locke:
I have a purpose now...

[Ben and Sun watch on from afar as Locke talks to Richard in The Others camp]

Sun:
Who's that man that John's talking to?

Ben:
He's Richard Alpert. He's a kind of...advisor. And he has had that job for a very, very long time.

[Sun takes off her rucksack and unzips it talking out the picture of the 1977 Dharma recruits in which Jack, Kate and Hurley feature. She drops the bag and heads into the camp, towards Richard and Locke]

Ben:
Sun? What are you...

[Ben follows her]

Sun:
[To Richard] Where you here in 1977?

Richard Alpert:
Excuse me?

[Sun shows Richard the photo]

Sun:
These people. Jack Shepard, Kate Austen and Hugo Reyes, they were here with my husband Jin Kwon. Were you here? Do you remember them? Any of them?

Richard Alpert:
Yes, I was here 30 years ago and yes I do remember these people. I remember meeting them very clearly because...I watched them all die.

[Having been caught by the 1977 version of The Others. Jack and Kate sit alone in a tent and discuss Faraday's plan]

Kate:
Before we got captured you said that we had to put things back the way they were meant to be. What did you mean by that?

Jack:
If we can do what Faraday said our plane never crashes. Flight 815 lands in Los Angeles and everyone we lost since we got here, they'd all be alive.

Kate:
And what about us? We just go on living our lives because we never met.

Jack:
All the misery that we have been through would just wipe clean, like it never happened.

Kate:
It was NOT all misery!

Jack:
Enough of it was!

Jack:
Maybe I was wrong!

Kate:
No, you were right!

[Jacob sits in a darkened room. He weaves something on a wooden wheel. He then heads outside and into the ocean to a fishing net and places the contents (a red herring) on a rock where he guts it and cooks it. He places it on a leaf to eat and sits back to watch as a wooden ship (presumably The Black Rock) approaches the island. The Man in Black approaches Jacob and sits in the sand next to him]

The Man in Black:
Morning.

Jacob:
Morning.

The Man in Black:
Mind if I join you?

Jacob:
Please. You want some fish?

The Man in Black:
No thank you, I just ate.

Jacob:
I take it you're here because of the ship.

The Man in Black:
I am. How did they find the island?

Jacob:
You'll have to ask them when they get here.

The Man in Black:
I don't have to ask: you brought them here. Still trying to prove me wrong, aren't you?

Jacob:
You are wrong.

The Man in Black:
Am I? They come. They fight. They destroy. They corrupt. It always ends the same.

Jacob:
It only ends once. Everything that comes before is just progress.

[Pause]

The Man in Black:
Do you have any idea how badly I want to kill you?

Jacob:
Yes.

The Man in Black:
One of these days, sooner or later, I'm going to find a loophole, my friend.

Jacob:
Well when you do, I'll be right here.

The Man in Black:
Always nice talking to you Jacob.

Jacob:
Nice talking to you, too.

[The Man in Blackgets up ends heads off leaving Jacob alone on the beach. The camera pulls back to reveal that both men have been sat below the giant statue that is of a crocodile like figure]

[In 1977; Juliet and Sawyer are on the Dharma Sub, they are joined by Kate and the sub leaves the island heading to the mainland]

Kate:
We have to get out of here.

Sawyer:
Out of here? We're underwater. What the hell are you doing here? How'd you get caught?

Kate:
I came back to get you.

Sawyer:
Came back to get me for what?

Juliet:
Where's Jack?

Kate:
Jack is... on his way to blow up a hydrogen bomb.

Sawyer:
Why the hell would he do that?

Kate:
Does it matter? We have to stop him.

Sawyer:
Sorry, I'm gonna pass.

Kate:
Did you hear what I just said?

Sawyer:
Yeah, I heard you. You just don't get it, Kate - we were happy in Dharmaville 'till you all showed up, and now that's all over...

[Juliet smiles at Sawyer]

Sawyer:
So we're going to drink our OJ and take our chances in the real world. [Pause] And if Jack wants to blow up the island... good for Jack.

[After arriving back on the island via a life-raft, Sawyer, Juliet and Kate encounter Rose and Bernard who have not been seen since 'The Lie']

Sawyer:
Did you not hear me shout "meet at the creek"?

Bernard:
There were flaming arrows raining down around us, killing everyone we knew - well sure, we heard you!

Sawyer:
Well we spent all sorts of time looking for you. I had Jin out searching the island grid-by-grid.

Rose:
Yeah, we know.

Juliet:
You know?

Rose:
Yeah sure, you lot joined up with Dharma.

Sawyer:
Well damn, I could have brought both of you in! Why didn't you find a way to tell us you were out here?

Rose:
Because we're retired.

[Flashback to Hurley being released from prison following the events of 'The Lie.' He exits the prison and heads out to a taxi opening the door]

Hurley:
Sorry, I didn't see it was taken, dude.

Jacob:
Actually, I'm only going a few blocks, if you want to share...?

Hurley:
Cool. You sure?

Jacob:
Come on in.

[Hurley gets into the taxi and sits on the backseat next to Jacob. As the taxi starts to move off, Hurley opens a package of Fruit Roll-Ups and offers some of it to Jacob]

Hurley:
You want some? It's cherry.

Jacob:
No, thanks.

Hurley:
So what were you in for?

Jacob:
Excuse me?

Hurley:
Jail? I was there because I shot three guys... well, I didn't really. I guess they figured it out. What about you?

Jacob:
I wasn't in jail.

Hurley:
Then what were you doing sitting outside the prison in a cab?

Jacob:
I was waiting for you, Hugo.

[Jacob smiles at Hurley, who looks unnerved]

Hurley:
Oh?! [Pause] Then you must be dead.

Jacob:
I'm definitely not dead.

Hurley:
Then what do you want from me?

Jacob:
I want to know why you won't go back to the island.

[Another long pause]

Hurley:
Because I am cursed.

Jacob:
Is that so?

Hurley:
Uh-huh. That's why the plane crashed, my friends died: Libby, Charlie. And now they visit me and I can't make it stop.

Jacob:
What if you weren't cursed? What if you were blessed?

Hurley:
How do you mean 'blessed'?

Jacob:
Well you get to talk to the people you've lost, seems like a pretty wonderful thing to me.

Hurley:
Sure it's wonderful apart from the part where I'm crazy.

Jacob:
I got some news for you, Hugo, and you're just going to have to take my word on this. You are not crazy.

[Hurley looks nervous and confused]

Hurley:
Who are you, dude?

Jacob [to taxi driver]:
I'm just up here on the left.

[The taxi stops. Jacob once again turns to Hurley]

Jacob:
Ajira Airways Flight 316 out of LAX leaves in 24 hours. All you have to do is be on that plane. It's your choice, Hugo. You don't have to do anything you don't want to.

[Jacob touches Hurley on the shoulder and exits the taxi leaving a guitar case next to Hurley]

Hurley:
Wait! You forgot your guitar!

[Jacob peers back into the taxi answers Hurley and then leaves]

Jacob:
It's not my guitar.

Ilana:
Which one of you is Ricardus?

Richard:
It's Richard, actually.

Ilana:
What lies in the shadow of the statue?

Richard:
Ille qui nos omnes servabit.

Ilana:
Richard...I'm Ilana. I have something you need to see. [to her crew] Open it up.

[The Others cock their guns.]

Richard:
It--it's okay. It's okay. Let them.

[Ilana's team turns over the crate. It contains John Locke's body.]

Richard:
[stunned] Where did you find him?

Ilana:
In the cargo hold of the plane we came here on...in a coffin.

Sun:
I don't understand. If this is Locke... who's in there?

The Man in Black:
[Disguised as Locke] Hello, Jacob.

Jacob:
...Guess you found your loophole.

The Man in Black:
Indeed, I did. And you have no idea what I've gone through to be here.

Ben:
You two know each other?

The Man in Black:
In a manner of speaking. Do what I asked you to, Benjamin.

Jacob:
Benjamin, whatever he's told you, I want you to understand one thing: you have a choice.

Ben:
What choice?

Jacob:
You can do what he asks, or you can go, leave us to discuss our... issues.

Ben:
Oh... so now, after all this time... you've decided to stop ignoring me. Thirty-five years I lived on this island, and all I ever heard was your name, over and over. Richard would bring me your instructions, all those slips of paper, all those lists... and I never questioned anything. I did as I was told. But when I dared to ask to see you myself, I was told, "You have to wait. You have to be patient." But when he asks to see you, he gets marched up here as if he was Moses. So why him? Hmm? What was it that was so wrong with me? What about me?

Jacob:
[spitefully] What about you?

Ben:
...Ah. Well... [He stabs Jacob twice in the chest and watches as he falls to the ground]

Jacob:
[Quietly] They're coming...

The Man in Black:
What? I can't hear ya.

Jacob:
They're coming!

[With this, The Man in Black looks alarmed. He then kicks Jacob into the fire and he and Ben watch him burn]

Sawyer:
Wait, Juliet, we've got to talk about this!

Juliet:
There's nothing to talk about, James. We have to let Jack do what he came here to do.

Sawyer:
Well maybe you should have told me about your change of heart before I brought him out to the jungle to kick his ass!

Juliet:
Would that have stopped you?

Sawyer:
No -

Juliet:
Well, then, I'm glad you got it out of your system.

Sawyer:
Hey! Ju - [He makes to grab her]

Juliet:
[She pulls away] No, James, don't you -

Sawyer:
[He backs off, shocked] ...I need you to tell me where all of this is coming from. One minute you're leading the Great Sub Escape and now you're on board with blowing up the damn island?!

Juliet:
I -

Sawyer:
I got a right to know why you changed your mind.

Juliet:
...I changed my mind when I saw you look at her.

Sawyer:
I don't care who I looked at. I'm with you.

Juliet:
...And you'd stay with me forever, if I let you, which is why... I will always love you. And we knew what we had was just for a little while, and - and just because we love each other doesn't mean that we're meant to be together, so if... if Jack can make it so that you guys never come here, then... he should.

Sawyer:
[upset] ...Why are you doing this, Juliet?

Juliet:
[sadly] I... if I never meet you... then I never have to lose you. [She leaves]