Dr. Jack Shephard quotes from Lost

His blood pressure's dropping. He shouldn't be bleeding like that.

Jack

No, he shouldn't. [Punches out the Other]

Kate

I can't leave without you!

Jack

Yes, you can! Go!

Kate

Jack, I can't!

Jack

Go! Now!

Kate

Jack, I can't!

Jack

Kate, Dammit, RUN!

Jack

Tell me

Kate

Tell you?

Jack

The first day on the beach, the day of the crash, the story that I told you. If you're safe, tell me.

Tom

Do you think this is the best time?

Jack

Shut up!

Kate

You were doing surgery on a girl, and you messed up. You made a mistake. You tore something on her back, and all the nerves came loose. And you said the fear was so... real. And you didn't know what to do. So you counted to five.. [Kate starts to cry] And then you weren't afraid anymore. And then it was just gone. And you fixed her, you saved her.

Jack

(after a pause) I need you to make me a promise, Kate.

Kate

Jack-

Jack

Promise me that you'll never come back here for me. Don't come back, Kate.

[about Jack's tattoo] He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us. That's what they say.

Jack

That's what they say. It's not what they mean.

Juliet

I hear you only liked them grilled.

Jack

Let me see.

Juliet

Jack...

Jack

They marked you? Let me see.

Jack

If you would break off that aloe plant there...

Juliet

It's ok, Jack.

Jack

Please, please do it.

Juliet

Why did you help me?

Jack

He told you that you could leave the island. He told me the same thing. We're going to make sure he keeps his promise.

Juliet

We're? How are we going to do that?

Jack

Together.

Tom Friendly

What kind of people do you think we are, Jack?

Jack Shephard

Oh, I don't know, Tom -- the kind of people that would take a pregnant woman -- that would hang Charlie from a tree -- would drag our people out of the jungle -- would kidnap children. That's the kind of people I think you are.

Tom Friendly

[tapping the glass] You see this glass house you're living in, Jack? How about I get you some stones?

Jack Shephard

Who's that woman?

Tom Friendly

That'd be the sheriff.

Jack Shephard

You have a sheriff?

Tom Friendly

[exasperated] Not literally, Jack.

Jack Shephard

I'd be more impressed with you people if you had a good surgeon.

Ben Linus

We had an excellent surgeon, Jack. His name was Ethan.

Jack

Better get going. Rousseau said it's about a day's walk up to the radio tower.

Sayid

I'm not taking them up to the tower--you are.

Jack

Excuse me?

Sayid

You're not staying behind.

Jack

This was my idea.

Sayid

And I'm perfectly capable of executing it.

Jack

I owe them!

Sayid

What are you more concerned about: killing the Others or getting our people off this island? This afternoon you said you were our leader. It's time for you to act like one. Lead them to the radio tower, Jack and then take us all home.

Sayid

Hey.

Jack

Hey.

Kate

So here we go again, huh?

Jack

[Laughs.] Here we go again.

Jack

Sawyer, it's a suicide mission without guns.

Juliet

I know where there are some guns. Ethan left a stash near the beach.

Jack

Juliet, you don't have to do that.

Juliet

Yeah, Jack, I kinda do.

Sawyer

Let's do this.

Jack

Don't do anything stupid.

Juliet

I won't if you won't.

Ben

Not so long ago, Jack, I made a decision that took the lives of over forty people in a single day. I'm telling you this because history is about to repeat itself, right here, right now.

Jack

Let me guess you've got us surrounded and if I don't do what you say you're gonna, you're gonna kill all of my people?

Ben

No, Jack, you are.

Jack

[Laughs] And how am I going do that, Ben?

Ben

The woman you've been traveling with. The one who parachuted onto the island from that helicopter. She's not who she says she is.

Jack

She's not, huh?

Ben

No she's not.

Jack

Then who is she?

Ben

She's a representative of some people who've been trying to find this island, Jack. She's one of the bad guys.

Jack

Oh, I almost forgot, you're the, you're the good guys.

Ben

Jack listen to me. If you phone her boat, every single living person on this island will be killed. So here's what has to happen. Get that device, that phone she carries with her, and give it to me. I will turn around, we'll walk back to my people, you will turn around and walk back to your people.

Jack

I'm not going anywhere.

Ben

May I have my walkie talkie back?

Jack

What?

Ben

There's something you need to hear. Please?

Ben

Tom are you there?

Tom

Yes I'm here.

Ben

[To Jack] Your plan killed seven of my people, but the ones you failed to kill are now holding your friends: Jin, Sayid, Bernard, at gunpoint.

Sayid

Jack, don't give him anything.

Bernard

Leave him alone!

Ryan

I said shut up!

Jack

And what's to stop me from snapping your neck?

Ben

Tom unless you hear my voice in one minute, shoot all three of them.

Tom

Got it.

Ryan

I said don't move.

Ben

Bring me the phone, Jack.

Sayid

Don't negotiate with him-

Ben

Forty Five seconds.

Jack

No. I'm getting them all of the island. All of them!

Ben

Let me ask you something, Jack. Why do you wanna leave the Island? What is it that you so desperately want to get back to? You have no one. Your father's dead, your wife left you, moved on with another man. Can you just not wait to get back to the hospital? Get back to fixing things? It's twenty seconds now. Just get me the phone, Jack.

Jack

No.

Ben

Ten seconds. Bring me the phone.

Jack

No.

Ben

I'm not bluffing!

Jack

I WON'T DO IT!

Ben

Five. Four. Three.

Jack

No.

Ben

I'm so sorry, Jack.

Jack

Tom are you there?

Tom

Yeah, Jack, I hear ya.

Jack

I'm going to lead my people up to the radio tower. And I'm going to make a call and get them all rescued. Every one of them. And then I'm gonna come find you. And I'm gonna kill ya.

Kate

What happened? What'd he say?

Jack

It's not important right now. Just, get everything together...

Kate

Jack, your knuckles. Here

Kate

What happened?

Jack

He killed them. Bernard, Jin, Sayid, all three of them. He radioed the beach. And I let it happen. We can't tell Rose. Or Sun, not yet. We gotta keep moving, I promised Sayid that we would keep moving.

Kate

So why did you bring him back? Why didn't you just kill him?

Jack

Because I want him to see it. I want him to experience the moment that we get off this island, and I want him to know he failed. Then I'll kill him.

Kate

Why are you sticking up for Saywer? He'd never do it for you.

Jack

Because I love you.

Ben

Jack, I know you think you're saving your people, but you need to stop this.. It's a mistake.

Jack

Listening to you was the mistake.

Ben

This will be your last chance Jack. I'm telling you, making that call is the beginning of the end.