Dr. Jack Shephard quotes from Lost

Jack

You've got hyperopia.

Sawyer

Hyperopia? That's..... What is that?

Jack

You're farsighted.

Kate

Thank you for helping him [Sawyer] I know it was probably the last thing you wanted to do.

Jack

I didn't do it for him.

Jack

[on Charlie's scant collection of responses to the "blood type" question] You only asked four people?!

Charlie

I asked the whole sodding camp! Nobody knows their blood type! Most don't know their blood type! I don't know my own bloody blood type!

Boone

[between raspy breaths] I know you made a promise. I'm letting you off the hook. Let me go, Jack.

Jack

I'm sorry.

Boone

Don't be.

Jack

He (Boone) didn't die, he was murdered.

Kate

Where are you going?

Jack

To find John Locke.

Kate

I crushed up some sleeping pills and put them in your juice.

Jack

You drugged me?

Kate

Yeah.

Kate

Hey, brought you something to eat.

Jack

What's in it, chloroform?

Jack Shephard

[about the hatch] Best case scenario there's supplies -- worst case, we use it as a shelter.

Sayid Jarrah

Actually, Jack, I can think of much worse cases than that. You notice anything about this hatch? There's no handle. Could the reason for that be more obvious?! Maybe it was never meant to be opened from the outside.

Arzt

You know what? I'm going back.

Jack

Hey. I thought you wanted to help.

Arzt

Yeah, I wanted to help, but that was before Montand lost his frickin' arm.

Sawyer

By the time you get back we'll be in the water. Guess this is pretty much goodbye, then.

Jack

Yeah, I guess it is. Good luck, Sawyer.

Sawyer

[pause] Jack! About a week before we all got on the plane I got to talking to this man in a bar in Sydney. He was American, too. A doctor. I've been on some benders in my time, but this guy he was going for an all time record. It turns out this guy has a son his son's a doctor, too. They had some kind of big time falling out. The guy knew it was his fault even though his son was back in the States thinking the same damn thing.

Jack

[starts to recognize who Sawyer's talking about]

Sawyer

See, kids are like dogs, you knock them around enough they'll think they did something to deserve it. Anyway, there's a pay phone in this bar. And this guy, Christian... tells me he wishes he had the stones to pick up the phone, call his kid, tell him he's sorry, that he's a better doctor than he'll ever be he's proud and he loves him. I had to take off, but something tells me he never got around to making that call. Small world, huh?

Jack

[unable to hold back tears] Yeah...

Sawyer

Good luck, Jack.

Jack

What the hell was all that about back there, John?

Locke

What was what about?

Jack

You asked me to let you go.

Locke

That's right.

Jack

That thing was taking you down the hole and you asked me to let you go.

Locke

It wasn't going to hurt me.

Jack

No, John, it was going to kill you.

Locke

I seriously doubt that.

Jack

Look, I need for you -- I need for you to explain to me what the hell's going on inside your head, John. I need to know why you believe that that thing wasn't going to...

Locke

I believe that I was being tested.

Jack

Tested?

Locke

Yeah, tested.

Jack

I think...

Locke

That's why you and I don't see eye-to-eye sometimes, Jack -- because you're a man of science.

Jack

Yeah, and what does that make you?

Locke

Me, well, I'm a man of faith. Do you really think all this is an accident -- that we, a group of strangers survived, many of us with just superficial injuries? Do you think we crashed on this place by coincidence -- especially, this place? We were brought here for a purpose, for a reason, all of us. Each one of us was brought here for a reason.

Jack

Brought here? And who brought us here, John?

Locke

The island. The island brought us here. This is no ordinary place, you've seen that, I know you have. But the island chose you, too, Jack. It's destiny.

Jack

Did you talk with Boone about destiny, John?

Locke

Boone was a sacrifice that the island demanded. What happened to him at that plane was a part of a chain of events that led us here -- that led us down a path -- that led you and me to this day, to right now.

Jack

And where does that path end, John?

Locke

The path ends at the hatch. The hatch, Jack -- all of it -- all of it happened so that we could open the hatch.

Jack

No, no, we're opening the hatch so that we can survive.

Locke

Survival is all relative, Jack.

Jack

I don't believe in destiny.

Locke

Yes, you do. You just don't know it yet.

Jack

If we survive this, if we survive tonight, we're gonna have a Locke problem. And I need to know that you got my back.

Kate

I got your back.

Hurley

What's that thing where doctors make you feel better just by talking to you?

Jack

Bedside manner?

Hurley

Yeah, that. Yours sucks, dude.

Charlie

Jack, where's Doctor Arzt?

Jack

He.. uh.. he didn't make it.

Desmond

Lower your gun, or I'll blow his damn head off, brother!

Jack

You.