Dr. Jack Shephard quotes from Lost

The Man in Black

Well this oughta be interesting.

Kate

[Immediately grabs Sawyer's rifle and opens fire on MIB] YOU KILLED THEM!

The Man in Black

I'd save your bullets.[Confronts Jack] So it's you?

Jack

Yeah, it's me.

The Man in Black

Jacob being who he is, I was expected to be a little more surprised. You're sort of the obvious choice, don't you think?

Jack

He didn't choose me. I volunteered.

The Man in Black

I assume you're here to stop me?

Jack

I can't stop you. In fact I uh, I wanna go with you.

The Man in Black

I'm sorry Jack, I think you're a little confused about what I came here to do.

Jack

No I'm not. You're going to the far side of the bamboo forest, to the place I've sworn that I'll protect. And then you think you're going to destroy the Island.

The Man in Black

"I think?"

Jack

[Smiles]That's right, because that's not what's going to happen.

The Man in Black

And what's gonna happen, Jack?

Jack

I'm gonna kill you.

The Man in Black

[Visibly intimidated]... How are you planning to do that?

Jack

That's a surprise.

The Man in Black

Alright then, let's get on with it.

The Man in Black

This remind you of anything, Jack?

Jack

What?

The Man in Black

You and me, Desmond going down into a hole in the ground. If there was a button down there we could argue whether or not to push it. It'd be just like old times.

Jack

You're not John Locke. You disrespect his memory by wearing his face, but you're nothing like him. Turns out he was right about most everything. Just wish I could have told him that while he was still alive.

The Man in Black

He wasn't right about anything, Jack. And as soon as this Island drops into the ocean and you drop with it, you're going to realize that.

Jack

Well I guess we'll just have to see which one of us is right.

Locke

[Brought to tears] Did you see that?

Jack

See what? [Locke looks at Jack, overjoyed to see him; Jack has a flash of when he and Locke opened the Hatch but ignores it, confused] Mr. Locke, you need to lie back and take it easy.

Locke

[Trying to get up, very emotional] No, what we need to do is go.

Jack

No, you can't get up.

Locke

[Smiles happily] Will you come with me?

Jack

We are not going anywhere. You've just had extensive spinal surgery. Now you need to lie back. I- I need to see my son.[Starts to leave]

Locke

You don't have a son.

Jack

What?

Locke

You don't have a son, Jack.

Locke

Jack! I hope someone can do for you what you just did for me.

Jack

Get some rest, Mr. Locke.

Hurley

No, no way. I'm not going to let you die.

Jack

Hurley, I'm already dead.

Hurley

You said you would protect the Island.

Jack

And that's what I'm doing.

Hurley

You're committing suicide!

Jack

I'm not. This is the way its supposed to happen. This is what I'm supposed to do.

Hurley

You're not supposed to die! The island needs you!

Jack

Hurley, it needs you.

Hurley

What?

Jack

It needs to be you, Hugo.

Hurley

[Overcome with emotion]...I can't...It's supposed to be you.

Jack

No it was only supposed to be me so I could do this. But if someone has to take care of it, if someone has to protect it, then it should be you. Hurley, I believe in you.

Hurley

...All right, I'll take it. But its only temporary, as soon as you get that light back on, I'm pulling you straight up and giving it rightt back to you, deal?

Jack

Deal.

Jack

Desmond, you've done enough. You want to do something, go home and be with your wife and son.

Desmond

What about you, Jack?

Jack

I'll see you in another life, brother.

Christian

Hey, kiddo.

Jack

[Shocked] Dad?

Christian

Hello, Jack.

Jack

...I don't understand. You died.

Christian

Yeah, I did.

Jack

Then how are you here right now?

Christian

How are you here?

Jack

[Pauses] I died too.

Christian

[They hug as Jack becomes wracked with emotion] It's ok, it's ok, son. It's ok.

Jack

I love you, dad.

Christian

I love you too.

Jack

Are you...are you real?

Christian

[Laughs] I sure hope so. I'm real, you're real, everything that happened to you is real. The people in that church, they're real.

Jack

And everyone else, they're all dead too?

Christian

Everyone dies, Jack. Some before you, some long after you.

Jack

Are they all here now?

Christian

Well, there is no NOW here.

Jack

Where are we, dad?

Christian

This is the place that you all made together so that you could find one another. The most important part of your life was the time that you spent with these people. That's why all of you are here. Nobody does it alone, Jack. You needed all of them and they needed you.

Jack

For what?

Christian

To remember and let go.

Jack

Kate. She said we were leaving.

Christian

Not leaving, no. Moving on.

Jack

Where are we going?

Christian

Let's go find out.