Dr. Jack Shephard quotes from Lost

Jack

How do we know he hasn't snapped her neck?

Locke

How do we know she hasn't snapped his?

Sawyer

Wanna play real stakes? Name 'em!

Jack

It's a pile of fruit, man.

Sawyer

And I want it back.

Kate

Should I go get a ruler?

Sawyer

When I asked you what you wanted for stakes, why didn't you ask for the guns?

Jack

When I need the guns, I'll get the guns.

Kate

I'm sorry I kissed you.

Jack

[pause] I'm not.

Sawyer

So what happened out there in the jungle?

Jack

Exactly what he said happened. He found a camp-

Sawyer

I ain't talking about Mike. You and Freckles. Before you found him, you all were gone all night.

Jack

We were caught in a net.

Sawyer

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

Jack

It means we got caught in a net.

Sawyer

Is that what they're calling it these days?

Sawyer

Who's gonna talk?

Jack

What?

Sawyer

The funeral. Who's gonna talk?

Jack

I'm sure Hurley'll wanna say something about Libby.

Sawyer

I never even knew her last name. Ana-Lucia.

Jack

It's Cortez.

Sawyer

Cortez. Well there you go. [silent pause] I screwed her.

Jack

What?

Sawyer

That's how she got my gun. Ana, she jumped me. We "got caught in a net."

Jack

Why're you telling me this, Sawyer?

Sawyer

Cause you're about the closest thing I've got to a friend, Doc. And cause she's gone- Well at least now we get to kill somebody.

Jack Shephard

So, before you ran off, I guess you just forgot to mention that you still have a sailboat. Why'd you come back?

Desmond Hume

[laughing] Do you think I did it on purpose? I was sailing for two and half weeks, bearing due West and making 9 knots. I should have been in Fiji in less than a week. But the first piece of land I saw wasn't Fiji, was it? No. No it was here... this, this island. And you know why? Because this, is it. This is all there is left. This ocean and this place here. We are stuck in a bloody snowglobe! There's no outside world! There's no escape! So, just go away, huh. Let me drink.

Desmond Hume

Are you still pushing it?

Jack Shephard

Yeah, we're still pushing it.

Juliet

What do you do, Jack? What's your profession?

Jack

I'm a repo man. You know, when people don't pay their bills I go into the bank and collect their possessions. I'm a people person so I really love it.

Juliet

Are you married?

Jack

No. I never saw the point. What about you? What's your job, besides making sandwiches?

Juliet

Oh, I didn't make it. I just put the toothpicks in.

Jack Shephard

So, you're a doctor, huh?

Juliet Burke

No, I'm a repo woman.

Ben

Your flight crashed on September 22 2004. Today is November 29. That means you've been on our island for 69 days, and, yes, we do have contact with the outside world, Jack. That's how we know that, during those 69 days, your fellow Americans re-elected George W. Bush, Christopher Reeve has passed away. Boston Red Sox won the World Series.

Ben

What?

Jack

[still laughing] If you wanted me to believe this, you probably should've picked somebody else, besides the Red Sox.

Ben

No, they were down, three games to none, against the Yankees in the league championship, and then they won eight straight.

Jack

Sure, sure, of course they did.

...back to Foulke...Red Sox fans have longed to hear it! The Boston Red Sox are world champions! [Jack gets up, moves towards the glass screen, stops laughing and appears lost for words] The Red Sox celebrate in the middle of the diamond...

Ben

[turns off video] That's home, Jack, right there, on the other side of that glass, and if you listen to me, you trust me, if you do what I tell you, when the time comes, I'll take you there. I will take you home.

Juliet

It doesn't work that way over here Jack, we make decisions together.

Jack

Really? Because when I was holding that broken plate to your neck, he seemed happy to just let you die. It seemed like he made that decision alone.

Juliet Burke

[about Ben] We make decisions together.

Jack Shephard

Really? Because when I was holding that broken plate at your neck he seemed happy to just let you die. I mean, it felt like he made that decision on his own.

Juliet Burke

You don't know what you're talking about. I don't answer to him.

Ben Linus

Juliet, I need you.

Ben

Do you believe in God?

Jack

Do you?

Ben

Two days after I found out that I had a fatal tumor on my spine, a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky. If that's not proof of God I don't know what is.

Ben Linus

I was hoping you might join me for a walk.

Ben Linus

What?

Jack Shephard

Well, you say that like...you're not going to just throw a bag over my head and drag me out of here if I say no.

Ben Linus

Then don't say no.

Jack

[After explaining what the surgery for Ben's cancer will entail] You need to be in surgery yesterday.

Ben

Alright then, whatever you need, it's yours. I'm ready.

Jack

No, I think you misunderstood me. I didn't say I was gonna do it. I just wanted you to understand how you're gonna die.[Ben and Juliet are astonished] You think I believe you people? You think I trust you? You think I'm just going to do the surgery and then I'm just gonna hope that you let me go?!

Juliet

Jack!

Jack

NO, DON'T!

Ben

Well Jack, I'm very disappointed in your decision.

Jack

Well Ben, at least you won't have to be disappointed for very long.