Through the Looking Glass: Part 1

[Flash-forward - A heavily bearded Jack sits on a plane sipping a drink, as a stewardess walks down the aisle.]

STEWARDESS: Would you fasten your seat belts? Would you put your seat belt back on, please?

WOMAN: Oh.

STEWARDESS: Would you fasten your seat belt, please?

[Jack taps her on the back.]

JACK: Uh, excuse me. Excuse me. [Hands her his empty glass] Can I get another one of those, please?

STEWARDESS: I'm sorry, sir. We'll be landing in 20 minutes.

JACK: Well, 20 minutes is a long time.

STEWARDESS: [Hands him a newspaper] How about a newspaper instead? ... And if you could buckle your seatbelt, sir?

[She moves on.]

STEWARDESS: Please fasten your seatbelt. Thank you.

[The plane shakes with turbulence. A tannoy bell sounds.]

CAPTAIN: Sorry about the bumps, folks, we're just hitting a little warm air as we make our descent into Los Angeles. Please keep those seatbelts fastened and we'll have you on the ground shortly.

[Jack looks at the newspaper and notices something which seems to upset him. He rips out part of the paper.]

[Jack drives over a bridge and stops on the side. He looks at the paper clipping and cries with his head on the steering wheel. He gets out his phone and dials.]

VOICEMAIL: You've reached (310) 555-0148. Please leave a message.

JACK: Hey. It's me. I, er, I just read... [hangs up]

[Jack steps out of the car and climbs up a ledge on the side of the bridge, looking over to a steep drop to solid concrete. He takes a deep breath.]

JACK: Oh, forgive me.

[At that moment, sounds of a swerving car can be heard behind him, and a loud collision and smashed glass. The light of a fire brightens Jack's face, and a honk beeps continuously.]

KID: Mom! Mom! Mom!

MOTHER: Help!!!

KID: Mom!

[Jack heads toward the incident.]

[On-Island - The beach camp are all set to leave. Jack nods to Kate, who then looks at Sawyer with a long face. Jack heads to see Sayid]

JACK: You have everything you need?

SAYID: No, but I made the best out of what we have.

JACK: Bernard and Jin?

[They watch Bernard load a gun, while Jin speaks with Sun.]

SAYID: They're both excellent shots...and highly motivated. The dynamite's in place. We won't miss. Jack, no matter what happens here, I want you to keep moving; keep moving for that radio tower. Don't turn back for any reason. I'm willing to give my life if it means securing rescue, but I'm not giving it up for nothing. You understand?

JACK: [Nods] Yeah. I understand.

[They shake hands.]

SAYID: And good luck.

JACK: You too.

[Rose prepares to leave and heads over to Bernard.]

ROSE: If I told you that I'd help you with your SOS sign, would you change your mind?

BERNARD: No ma'am.

ROSE: Then I want you to say it again.

BERNARD: Rose—

ROSE: Say it, Bernard.

BERNARD: I am a dentist. I am not Rambo.

ROSE: And don't you forget it.

[They hug. Rousseau watches Hurley as he holds Aaron, smiling.]

HURLEY: Charlie's gonna be fine.

CLAIRE: Yeah. 'Course he is.

[Jin intimately speaks with Sun.]

JIN: 잭 옆에서 떨어지지 말고, 피곤하면 꼭 쉬어라. [Subtitle: Stay close to Jack, and rest if you feel tired.]

SUN: 진수 씨... 왜 이러는 거에요? [Subtitle: Why are you doing this?]

JIN: Because...we have to go home.

[Sun cries and they kiss, Juliet watches further away stood with Naomi.]

JACK: [To the group as a whole] All right. Let's do it.

[Rousseau leads on as almost the entire camp start following. Sayid, Bernard and Jin stand by themselves further away.]

[Rousseau leads the survivors along the shoreline.]

NAOMI: Jack. Can I ask you a question?

JACK: Sure.

NAOMI: What did you do for a living before you became Moses?

JACK: [Laughs] I was a doctor.

NAOMI: Right, course you were. Well, I need your attention for a minute, doctor.

[Naomi looks at Juliet, who has stopped with Jack.]

NAOMI: [To Jack] Is she OK?

JACK: Why wouldn't she be?

NAOMI: Because none of your people trusts her. No offense.

JULIET: [To Jack] You know what why don't you catch up to me when you're done.

JACK: Juliet...

JULIET: It's fine.

[She moves on.]

NAOMI: [Pulls out her phone] So, I need to show you how this wonderful gadget works in case anything happens to me. You need to be able to call my boat.

JACK: OK. Show me.

NAOMI: It's actually simple. You turn her on here. This opens a direct channel to the freighter. Give her a tap here. Wait for the beep, and say hello.

JACK: And that's it?

NAOMI: That's it. Once the rock star turns off whatever underwater contraption's jamming us up, this red light will turn a lovely shade of green. That'll be any time now, yeah?

JACK: Hopefully.

[In the Looking Glass station, the blonde woman hits a tied-up Charlie.]

BLONDE WOMAN: Who are you?

BRUNETTE WOMAN: Look, if you tell us how you got down here, we won't hurt you.

CHARLIE: I came in my invisible submarine. Don't you see it?

[The blonde woman hits Charlie again.]

BRUNETTE WOMAN: Hey! Take it easy.

BLONDE WOMAN: Take it easy? He's one of them. Why are you here, huh? How did you find out about this station?

CHARLIE: Juliet told us. She's one of us now. In case you haven't heard.

[The blonde woman hits Charlie again.]

BRUNETTE WOMAN: Stop. We gotta call Ben.

CHARLIE: Oh yeah. Let's call Ben.

BLONDE WOMAN: Come on.

[The two women go into a small communications room. Charlie watches and remembers Desmond's words.]

DESMOND: You're inside a room full of equipment. There's a blinking yellow light, above a switch...

[Charlie sees the light in the room.]

DESMOND: ... You flick the switch, light goes off. Then you drown.

[At the Others camp, Ben is writing in his diary when he receives a transmission on his walkie.]

BLONDE WOMAN: Come in. Come in, Ben.

BEN: Hello?

BLONDE WOMAN: Ben, it's Bonnie. Ben, are you there? Can you hear me, Ben?

[Mikhail and Richard are playing chess, and notice Ben on his walkie outside for signal.]

BEN: Why are you breaking radio silence?

BONNIE: One of them's down here.

BEN: I'm sorry, what?!

BONNIE: We have him tied up but he's here. One of them swam down here.

BEN: Who? Which one?

BONNIE: He won't tell us.

CHARLIE: [Overhearing] It's Charlie! Tell him I said hi!

BEN: How did... how does he know about the station?

BONNIE: He said Juliet told them.

[Pause.]

BEN: All right, sit tight, don't do anything, I'm sending help. [To Mikhail] Mikhail you need to go down to the Looking Glass and find out what Charlie Pace is doing down there.

MIKHAIL: You told us The Looking Glass was inoperable. Flooded.

BEN: I lied. Mikhail, I need you to go now.

MIKHAIL: I can be there by dawn. But if Juliet told them about the Looking Glass, what else did she tell them?

[Mikhail goes, as Ben fiddles with his walkie.]

BEN: Ryan, come in. Ryan, are you there?

[At the beach, Ryan's walkie is off as he looks at the quiet camp with binoculars.]

RYAN: Your walkies all off?

TOM: Yes, sir.

[A female Other approaches.]

RYAN: Did you get a good look?

FEMALE OTHER: The tents are marked with white coral, three of 'em. Juliet did her job.

RYAN: All right, let's do this.

[The Others advance as a unit, and fan out to the three tents. Sayid, Bernard and Jin are all at their vantage points waiting. Sayid waits until the Others literally pull back the sheets inside his marked tent.]

FEMALE OTHER: It's empty!

RYAN: Get away from the tent!

[Sayid fires, and the tent explodes, knocking down at least three Others.]

RYAN: It's a trap! Move!

BERNARD: Please, God.

[Bernard fires, and at least another two Others are thrown across the beach by the explosion. Jin aims and fires his short barreled handgun, but misses the dynamite. He fires again, but still misses.]

MALE OTHER: Tree line!

[Jin is shot at numerous times. He counters and shoots two of them down. He crawls out from his vantage point but is knocked down by the blunt end of Ryan's shotgun.]

RYAN: I got your man! Drop your weapons!

[Bernard runs for the jungle, but is clotheslined by Tom, and kicked unconscious.]

RYAN: I got your man!

[Sayid has his sniper scope dead on Ryan as he approaches with his gun at Jin's head.]

RYAN: It's over!

[Sayid prepares to pull the trigger but feels another gun against his own head. Another male Other has survived the attack.]

MALE OTHER: Don't. Finger off the trigger.

[Sayid does so.]

[Miles away, the main group watch the smoke rise from the beach.]

ROSE: There were supposed to be THREE explosions.

KATE: [To Jack] It didn't work.

[Flash-forward - Jack is in a hospital.]

TANNOY: Doctor Leon to surgery, Doctor Leon to surgery.

[Jack is having stitches put in on a cut on his forehead by a female doctor.]

DOCTOR: There you go. Good as new.

JACK: Thanks.

DOCTOR: The news people are waiting for you outside. You being a hero and all.

JACK: Right. The woman, how is she?

DOCTOR: She's been stabilized. Thank god you were on that bridge.

JACK: Right.

[Sarah Shephard enters.]

DOCTOR: Sorry, no visitors in ER.

JACK: It's OK. She... we used to be married.

DOCTOR: Come on in.

[The doctor leaves.]

SARAH: What happened?

JACK: We saw... a car accident.

SARAH: Are you OK?

JACK: Yeah. Yeah I'm fine.

SARAH: Are you drinking again?

JACK: No.

SARAH: Are you, Jack?

JACK: No. Why did you come down here, Sarah?

SARAH: Erm, I'm still your emergency contact. What were you doing driving around at two o'clock in the morning?

[Pause.]

JACK: You think maybe you could give me a lift home?

SARAH: I don't think that would be appropriate.

JACK: Well, thanks for coming down, Sarah.

SARAH: Goodbye, Jack.

[She leaves.]

[On-Island - Jack continues to watch with the rest of the group the smoke rising from the beach.]

SUN: Why were there only two explosions?

JACK: Maybe they didn't have to blow the third tent.

ROSE: But those gunshots, what was that all...

JACK: He's OK, Rose.

SUN: Do you believe that?

JACK: Listen, they had no idea that we were waiting for them. And Sayid's with your husbands, they're gonna be fine and they're gonna be a couple of hours behind us.

SUN: Then we should wait for them here. You go on...

JACK: No. No-one gets left behind.

ROSE: If you say live together die alone to me Jack, I'm gonna punch you in your face.

JACK: [Laughs] Fair enough, Rose. Fair enough. [To the group] But we have a plan. And for all we know, it worked. It's gonna be OK, everything's gonna be all right. Let's just keep moving, OK?

[They do so.]

SUN: [To Rose] It's OK, let's go.

[Naomi looks at her phone, which is still beeping red.]

[At the Looking Glass, Bonnie and the brunette woman continue to question Charlie.]

BONNIE: I'm gonna ask you this one more time. Why are you here?

CHARLIE: I'm here, to turn off your jamming equipment. It's in there, next to the flashing yellow light.

BRUNETTE WOMAN: How do you know about that?

CHARLIE: I know, because I know. Whatever you ladies do to me, I'm going to turn it off.

BONNIE: You are, huh?

CHARLIE: Most definitely am.

BONNIE: So what's the code?

CHARLIE: What?

BONNIE: Oh Charlie if you're gonna turn off the jamming equipment you're gonna need the code. And only three people know it. Me, her and Ben.

CHARLIE: Well, guess I won't need the code. Since this entire station's gonna be flooded anyway. I just turn off your little jammer and the helicopters come and rescue all my friends.

BONNIE: But if this station floods, what happens to you?

CHARLIE: I die.

[Ben uses his walkie at the Others' camp.]

BEN: What?

TOM: They're all dead. Diane, Ivan, all of em, dead. And Shephard and his people, they're all gone.

BEN: Gone, gone where?

TOM: I dunno. Did you hear me? They killed seven of our—

RYAN: Tom! Calm down and tell him the good news.

BEN: What good news?

TOM: We caught three of 'em. The one's who stayed behind to blow up the tents. Ben, they knew we were coming.

BEN: It was Juliet. She betrayed us.

TOM: What?

BEN: Just figure out where she is, Tom.

RYAN: [To Sayid] Get up.

[He pulls him up.]

RYAN: OK, junior, where the hell did—

[Sayid spits in his face, and Ryan hits him hard over the head with his handgun.]

TOM: They're not talking.

BEN: Who do you have?

TOM: Jarrah, Kwon and the dentist.

BEN: Shoot Kwon.

TOM: What?

BEN: If you want them to answer questions, kill Kwon. Do it now.

JIN: 지옥에나 떨어져라. [Translation not shown: Go to hell.]

RYAN: I dunno what that means, but I'm sure it's lovely.

[He cocks his gun.]

BERNARD: No, wait. No.

JIN: No. No talk.

BERNARD: No please.

TOM: You talk to me, nobody will get hurt. Now tell me where your people are.

SAYID: He's lying, he's going to kill us all any—

[Sayid is kicked down.]

RYAN: Where are they?

[Short pause. Ryan puts his gun at Jin.]

RYAN: Sayonara.

BERNARD: A radio tower. They're hiking to a radio tower.

TOM: Why in the hell are they going there?

BERNARD: A woman, parachuted here. She has a satellite phone and they're gonna call her ship.

BEN: [On walkie] Juliet thought we were coming tomorrow. So why were they waiting for us tonight?

RYAN: [To Bernard] You heard him. How'd you know?

BERNARD: A kid, told us, he came in a canoe, and he warned us.

TOM: What kid?

BERNARD: Karl. He said his name was Karl.

TOM: You heard that, Ben? [Pause] Ben?!

BEN: I heard.

[Ben looks out of his tent and stares at Alex.]

TOM: What do you want us to do, kill 'em?

BEN: No. Not yet.

[In the morning, Ben draws a line to the radio tower on a map, as Richard watches.]

RICHARD: We're going to the radio tower?

BEN: Not we, Richard, me. You're going to take everyone to the Temple as planned.

RICHARD: Now might not be the best time to go tromping off on your own.

BEN: Oh really and why not?

RICHARD: Because people are asking questions, Ben. About leaving home, about what happened to Locke, about Jacob. Not to mention the rapidly spreading rumor that everyone that went down to the beach is dead.

BEN: They're not all dead.

[Ben gets up to get some things.]

ALEX: Where are you going?

BEN: Hello, Alex.

ALEX: I asked where you were going.

BEN: Well I thought I might go for a walk! See if I can't find Jack and all his friends.

ALEX: [Defiantly] I'm coming with you.

BEN: All right.

ALEX: [Surprised] What?

BEN: I said all right. In fact I think it's a good idea. I mean you do want to see Karl again, don't you? [Pause] Get your pack, I'm leaving in 10 minutes.

RICHARD: There's 40 of them. And you're alone. They're gonna do whatever it takes to get off the Island. What do you think is gonna happen when you get there?

BEN: I'm going to talk them out of it.

[In the jungle, the group have stopped to collect some water from a stream. Rose and Sun share anxious looks. Kate goes to speak with Sawyer.]

KATE: Something's wrong.

SAWYER: Lots of things are wrong, Kate.

KATE: Jin, Bernard and Sayid... they should have caught up to us by now. I want to go back to make sure they're all right.

SAWYER: 'Course you do.

KATE: What's that supposed to mean?

SAWYER: It means, Kate, there's always someone to go back for.

KATE: What's the matter with you?

SAWYER: Nothing.

KATE: [Sarcastically] Nothing?

SAWYER: I'm fine.

KATE: Why don't you just tell me what happened?

[Sawyer pauses, and Kate splashes him with water from the stream.]

SAWYER: What you do that for?

KATE: To wake you up. Ever since you got that tape from Locke it's like you've been sleepwalking. You don't care about our friends, fine, but it's like you don't care about anything anymore. And since when did you start calling me Kate?

[Sawyer starts to go.]

KATE: You know. They sent Juliet to check out Sun, but she was there to check and see if I'm pregnant too.

SAWYER: Well, let's hope you're not.

[Sawyer goes, giving Jack a brief look. Jack walks over to Naomi who is holding the satellite phone.]

JACK: The light's still red?

[Naomi nods.]

[Out on the canoe, Desmond wakes up slowly. He looks over the edge where Charlie dove down. Suddenly, he takes cover as he is attacked by gunfire. On the shore, Mikhail is shooting at him at range. Desmond dives down to escape the bullets, and swims up into the moon pool at the station. Inside, Bonnie and the brunette woman are arguing in the comms room with the door closed as Desmond emerges from the water.]

CHARLIE: Des. Des!

DESMOND: Charlie! Bloody hell! You all right?

CHARLIE: Not for long if you don't get out of here. You have to hide, Des, hide, hide, there's people in there! Quick, hide hide hide. Go go go! Hide hide hide.

[The women hear him.]

BONNIE: Who's he talking to?

CHARLIE: [Singing] I feel like standing... stupid people...

BONNIE: Who are you talking to?

CHARLIE: I wasn't talking to anyone, I was just singing. [Sings] You all everybody! You all everybody! You all everybody! You all everybody!

[Bonnie hits Charlie across the face.]

BONNIE: Shut up.

CHARLIE: Right, OK, you got it.

BONNIE: [To brunette woman] Come on.

[They go back into the comms room. Charlie looks over. Desmond is hiding in a locker/behind a door nearby.]

[Flash-forward - Jack is in the hospital. Jack stands at the foot of a patient's bed looking at their chart. His hand shakes, and he takes a pill as a male doctor enters]

MALE DOCTOR: Can I help you?

JACK: Just checking her chart.

MALE DOCTOR: I'm sorry. I'm Dr. Hamill, Rob. The new chief of surgery. I don't think we've met yet.

JACK: Jack Shephard.

DR. HAMILL: Dr. Shephard, the hero? Twice over.

[He gestures his hand to shake, and Jack reluctantly does so.]

DR. HAMILL: You all right? After last night I'm surprised that you'd even want to come in. Talk about right place right time, huh? This woman is very lucky you were there.

JACK: If she was lucky she wouldn't have a fractured back that was impinging upon her spinal cord. I'd like to operate first thing in the morning.

DR. HAMILL: You want to operate?

JACK: Yes.

DR. HAMILL: I'm sorry, Jack, but this isn't your patient. And we are well aware of the issues, Gary Nadler is doing the surgery at 6 a.m..

JACK: [Pauses] With all due respect, Doctor Hamill, I'd rather do it myself.

DR. HAMILL: Jack. Last night you pulled this woman's 8-year-old son out of a burning car, then you went back for her. I think you've done enough.

JACK: I want to do the surgery.

DR. HAMILL: Look. Everything's under control. She'll be fine. Go home, have a drink. You deserve it.

[He pauses]

DR. HAMILL: The chart please, Jack.

[Jack also pauses then gives him it.]

JACK: You call me. I wanna know what happens.

[Jack walks down the ward to see the news on a television.]

REPORTER: This morning .. [inaudible]... bridge was shut down for several hours in the wake of a fiery car accident that left two injured, an unidentified 40-year-old woman and her son...

[The child is by the TV, and waves to Jack from his seat, and Jack gestures back kindly.]

REPORTER: ...Fortunately for the two of them, Dr. Jack Shephard, who was at the scene of the crash, pulled both victims from the burning wreckage and treated them at the scene until paramedics arrived. The victims were later transported to Saint Sebastian Hospital. Further details of their conditions have not yet been....

[On-Island - The group continues to walk to the tower.]

SAWYER: I'm going back.

JACK: What?

SAWYER: I'm going back to the beach.

JACK: No way. We keep moving.

SAWYER: I ain't asking permission.

[Juliet and Kate both stop also.]

SAWYER: [To Jack] Look, you got a job to do here. I ain't gonna stand in your way of doing it. And you sure as hell don't need me.

JACK: What do you think you're gonna get done. Alone and unarmed.

KATE: He won't be alone, I'll go with him.

SAWYER: No!

KATE: Twenty minutes ago you weren't even interested in going, and now all of a sudden you're telling Jack that I'm—

SAWYER: I didn't wanna go with you.

JACK: Sawyer, it's a suicide mission without guns.

JULIET: I know where there are some guns. There's a hidden cache a couple of miles from here. I can take us back to the beach on a route past it.

JACK: Juliet, you don't have to do that.

JULIET: Yeah, Jack, I kinda do.

SAWYER: Let's do this.

[Sawyer goes.]

JACK: [To Juliet] Don't do anything stupid.

JULIET: I won't if you won't.

[She kisses him, Kate watches.]

JULIET: Don't wait up.

[She leaves, and Jack sees that Kate was watching.]

[At the underwater station, Charlie hums while Desmond still hides.]

CHARLIE: [Sings and hums inaudibly]

BONNIE: AH!! I told you to shut up!!!

CHARLIE: You know when you get a tune stuck, in your head? This song just started coming to me, it's almost finished. Just need to find the bridge. [Hums and sings inaudibly again]

BONNIE: Get the speargun!

BRUNETTE WOMAN: What, why?

BONNIE: Cause I want it to hurt.

BRUNETTE WOMAN: No, Ben said—

BONNIE: You don't want to get it, I will.

[Bonnie heads to where Desmond is hiding.]

BRUNETTE WOMAN: Bonnie.

CHARLIE: Oi, oi, oi, no! I'll, I'll shut up, I'll shut up, I'll shut up, I'll shut up.

[Mikhail suddenly emerges from the water with diving gear.]

BONNIE: Mikhail?

MIKHAIL: I thought you two were on assignment in Canada?

BRUNETTE WOMAN: He made us promise not to tell anyone.

CHARLIE: Hello again.

MIKHAIL: Where is the other one?

BONNIE: What?

MIKHAIL: This idiot swam down from a boat. I was just shooting at his friend. He dove down here.

BONNIE: He's alone.

MIKHAIL: Are you sure about that?

[Mikhail approaches Charlie with a knife.]

CHARLIE: Here's a better question to ask, Cyclops. Why did your little friend Ben tell you people that this entire station was flooded when it isn't. Or, why these two have been jamming transmissions off the Island.

MIKHAIL: What? Is that true?

[A bleeping sound can be heard from the comms room.]

BRUNETTE WOMAN: That's Ben.

MIKHAIL: [Holds up his knife] I'll get it.

[In the jungle, Ben talks to Mikhail on his walkie as he and Alex walk.]

BEN: You have to understand, everything I did, I did for the Island.

MIKHAIL: The Island told you it was necessary for you to jam your own people?

BEN: Yes it did. You've always been a loyalist, Mikhail, now I'm asking you to trust me, to trust Jacob who told me to do this.

MIKHAIL: Why would Jacob ask you to lie to your own people?

BEN: Because this Island is under assault by forces stronger than anything it's had to deal with in many many years. And we are meant to protect it, Mikhail, by any means necessary. The jamming was for everyone's security. We are in a serious situation here.

MIKHAIL: So why not trust me?

BEN: I made a mistake. I should have told you, and I apologize.

[Pause.]

BEN: Mikhail, are you still there?

MIKHAIL: Yes.

BEN: I need you to help me. I need you to help me clean up this mess that I've made. I need you to kill Charlie. Make sure that the jamming mechanism continues to function at all costs. And we can't risk Greta and Bonnie telling the others about what we've done, so you'll have to take care of them too.

[Alex looks shocked.]

MIKHAIL: How do I know you didn't say the same thing to them about me

BEN: Because if I had, Mikhail, you'd already be dead.

[Mikhail thinks.]

[Out in the jungle, Juliet and Sawyer head for the beach.]

SAWYER: So, when you pulled us out of those polar bear cages and put us on the chain gang, what the hell did you have us breaking all those rocks for anyway?

JULIET: We were building a runway.

SAWYER: Runway, for what?

JULIET: [Turns to him] The aliens.

[She smirks.]

JULIET: I don't know what for, do you think they told me everything?

SAWYER: Yeah, yeah, whatever you say. So you screwing Jack yet?

JULIET: No. Are you?

[Sawyer chuckles.]

SAWYER: How far away are these guns?

JULIET: There aren't any guns.

[Sawyer grabs her.]

SAWYER: What?

JULIET: I lied.

SAWYER: You lied?

JULIET: It was the only way he'd let us go back.

SAWYER: So why are you going back?

JULIET: Karma. Why are you going back, James?

HURLEY: Hey! Hey guys, wait up!

[Hurley emerges from the brush.]

SAWYER: What the hell do you want?

HURLEY: I'm coming with you guys.

SAWYER: Uh uh, no way. Not a chance.

HURLEY: Come on, I can help. They're my friends too, man. Look, Charlie wouldn't let me go with him, Jack's too busy leading to even talk to me. I just wanna help, please?

SAWYER: For God's sake, Hugo, look at you. You're just gonna get in the way. You want to get us killed? [To Juliet] Come on.

[Sawyer leaves, and Juliet reluctantly follows, leaving Hurley abashed.]

[Further away, Ben and Alex have stopped while Ben studies his map.]

BEN: If we head North, we should get to 'em before they reach the tower.

ALEX: Why did you let me come?

BEN: I let you come because I'm delivering you to your new family. I let you come because you betrayed me, Alex.

ALEX: You locked Karl in a cage. You put him in a room and tried to brainwash him.

BEN: I didn't want him to get you pregnant. I suppose I overreacted. We better get going.

ALEX: Ben. Why do you have to stop them? Why won't you just let them leave.

BEN: Because I can't, Alex.

[They carry on.]

[At the DHARMA mass grave, Locke opens his eyes. He moves his legs with his arms, and sees a gun on one of the skeletons. He drags himself to it barely, and checks it to see it has bullets in. He prepares to shoot himself in the head, amidst whispers.]

VOICE: Don't, John.

[John looks suddenly to see Walt stood over the grave.]

WALT: Put the gun down.

LOCKE: Walt!

WALT: Now get up, John.

LOCKE: He shot me and I can't, move my legs.

WALT: You can move your legs. Now get out of the ditch, John.

LOCKE: Why?

WALT: Because, you have work to do.

[Locke smiles.]