Dr. Jack Shephard quotes from Lost

Which part?

Jack

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

They bought a ticket.

Jack

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

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

S5 E6 316

View quote →

Ben Linus

Thomas the Apostle. When Jesus wanted to return to Judea, knowing that he would probably be murdered there, Thomas said to the others, "Let us also go, that we might die with him." But Thomas was not remembered for this bravery. His claim to fame came later... when he refused to acknowledge the resurrection. He just couldn't wrap his mind around it. The story goes... that he needed to touch Jesus' wounds to be convinced.

Jack Shephard

So was he?

Ben Linus

Of course he was. We're all convinced sooner or later, Jack.

S5 E6 316

View quote →

[Locke wakes up in a hospitel bed, with Jack staring darkly at him]

Jack Shephard

What are you doing here?

Jack, how did you find me?

Jack Shephard

You were in a car accident and you were brought into my hospital. What are you doing here?

We have to go back.

Jack Shephard

[laughs bitterly] Of course. Of course we do.

Jack, the people I left behind need our help. We're supposed to go back--

Jack Shephard

--because it's our destiny? How many times are you gonna say that to me, John?

How can you not see it? Of all the hospitals they could've brought me to, I end up here. You don't think that's fate?

Jack Shephard

Your car accident was on the west side of Los Angeles. You being brought into my hospital isn't fate, John. It's probability.

You don't understand. It wasn't an accident. Someone is trying to kill me.

Jack Shephard

Why? Why would someone try to kill you?

Because they don't want me to succeed. They wanna stop me. They don't want me to get back because I'm important.

Jack Shephard

[beat] Have you ever stopped to think that these delusions that you're special aren't real? That maybe there's nothing important about you at all? Maybe you are just a lonely old man that crashed on an Island. That's it. [standing] Good-bye, John.

S5 E7 The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham

View quote →

[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]

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

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

Ha, ha. Easy on the ribs there Kong.

Kong...I actually missed that.

I missed you too Hugo.

[Jack moves in to shake Sawyer's hand]

Jack

Sawyer.

Doc.

[Kate approaches Sawyer and hugs him]

Hi. Good to see you, Kate.

You too, James.

[Sawyer looks at the group]

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.

Dead? How?

Jack

Doesn't matter, he's gone.

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

[Sawyer turns to Jin]

You didn't tell them?

[Jin now speaks perfect English]

Jin

No. I was waiting for you.

Tell us what?

We're in the Dharma Initiative.

Jack

They came back to the Island?

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

S5 E9 Namaste

View quote →

[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]

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.

So what are we supposed to do now?

Jack

I'm not sure yet.

S5 E9 Namaste

View quote →

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

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?

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.

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?

I think we should listen to Sawyer.

I vote for not camping too.

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

[Brief pause. Jack nods in agreement]

Ok then. Let's move.

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

S5 E9 Namaste

View quote →

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

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

Yup.

And you guys are all members of the Dharma Initiative?

Yup.

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

What about it?

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

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?

Not any more!

S5 E9 Namaste

View quote →

[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]

What can I do for you, Jack?

Jack

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

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?

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

Jack

So where do we go from here?

I'm working on it.

Jack

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

[Sawyer smiles]

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.

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]

Now ain't that a relief?

Jack

Yeah.

[Jack leaves]

S5 E9 Namaste

View quote →

Jack Shephard

What the hell happened?

JFJames "Sawyer" Ford

Three years--no burning buses. Y'all are back for one day...

S5 E10 He's Our You

View quote →

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

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.

Jack. How?

Jack

We were on a plane and then...

And who told you to get on that plane?

Jack

As a matter of fact Daniel it was your mother.

[Dan nods]

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

Jack

Yeah thats exactly what she said.

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

S5 E14 The Variable

View quote →

Daniel Faraday

In about four hours, the DHARMA folks at the swan work site--they're gonna--gonna drill into the ground and accidentally tap into a massive pocket of energy. The result of the release of this energy would be catastrophic. So in order to contain it, they're gonna have to cement the entire area in, like Chernobyl. And this containment--the place they built over it--I believe you called it "the Hatch." The Swan hatch? Because of this one accident, these people are gonna spend the next 20 years keeping that energy at bay... by pressing a button... a button that your friend Desmond will one day fail to push, and that will cause your plane--Oceanic 815--to crash on this Island. And because your plane crashed, a freighter will be sent to this Island--a freighter I was on and Charlotte was on and so forth. This entire chain of events--it's gonna start happening this afternoon. But... we can change that. I studied relativistic physics my entire life. One thing emerged over and over--can't change the past. Can't do it. Whatever happened, happened. All right? But then I finally realized... I had been spending so much time focused on the constants, I forgot about the variables. Do you know what the variables in these equations are, Jack?

Jack Shephard

No.

Daniel Faraday

Us. We're the variables. People. We think. We reason. We make choices. We have free will. We can change our destiny. I think I can negate that energy under the Swan. I think I can destroy it. If I can, then that hatch will never be built, and your plane... your plane will land, just like it's supposed to, in Los Angeles.

Kate Austen

And just how exactly do you plan on destroying this energy?

Daniel Faraday

I'm gonna detonate a hydrogen bomb.

S5 E14 The Variable

View quote →

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

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.