The tent's all set. Everything's ready.
Good. Thanks. Listen, I could use an extra pair of hands in there. You wanna help me out?
Um, I don't...I don't think that's a good idea.
It's just holding a mirror. Jack wants to watch the surgery, "talk me through it."
[Kate smiles]
I'm just surprised he's not taking it out of himself by now.
[They see Jack walking]
Jack? What are you doin'?
[Jack tries to walk without help]
JackI don't need a stretcher. I can walk 50 feet.
[Kate arrives]
They're gonna be back with the instruments soon. We need to be ready to go as soon as they get back. See you in there.
[Kate helps Jack and they walk together]
So it looks like I'm gonna be your nurse.
Jack
Wouldn't be the first time.
[Brief pause]
[Sighs]
Jack
Listen, um... if something happens to me...
[Jack smiles]
Jack
Fair enough.
Jack
Kate? Kate? Wake up, Kate.
Jack
It's late. I just got home.
Jack
No. I... I just...had to stop and get something. It just took a while.
What's going on? What's wrong?
Jack
The other night, when I was reading to Aaron, you said... that I was a natural. [Sighs] do you really... do you really think that I'm good at this?
Yeah! You're good at this.
Jack
[pauses] Will you marry me?
[Jack pulls out a small box and shows the ring]
[He wears it on her finger]
[They hug]
[On the phone]: Yeah, I'll just have the nanny stay for an extra couple hours. Jack's never home before 8:00. I could stay for at least an hour.
[Kate sees Jack watching her]
I-I gotta go. Jack's home. Yeah, okay. I'll call you later. Bye.
[Kate hangs up]
Jack
[Smiles] Sorry. I thought you'd be in bed. [Brief pause] Who was that?
Jack
Noreen..
She's one of the moms from the park.
Jack
[Smiles] Nothing. I just...never heard you mention her before.
[She kisses him]
[Kate arrives at home]
Hey you're home early. Where's Veronica?
Jack
I sent her home. The baby's sleep.
[Ice cubes rattle]
Jack
Why was she here?
Jack
The nanny. She only works till 4:00. I came home 6:00.
I had to run some errands so... [Sets keys down] I asked her to stay a couple extra hours [Pauses] What's going on, Jack? Why are you home so early?
Jack
I went to see Hurley.
Jack
Last Friday.
Why didn't you tell me? I would've gone with you.
[Jack laughs]
Jack
Because he's crazy, Kate and I didn't wanna upset you. [Pauses] Where were you today?
[Kate kneels in front of him]
I'm gonna ask you... to trust me. Trust me and just leave it be.
Jack
Where were you?
Jack
No, I heard you on the phone last night. Who were you talking to?
Jack
No, no, I wanna know!
Jack
I wanna know where you were. I wanna know who you were with.
It doesn't matter, Jack. Please.
Jack
No, TELL ME!
[Kate starts to cry]
I was doing something for him.
Jack
For who?
For Sawyer. I made him a promise...
Jack
What?
It doesn't matter. It has nothing to do with us!
Jack
Then why won't you tell me?
Because, because he wouldn't want me to.
Jack
But he's not here, is he? No, no, he made his choice. He chose to stay.
Jack
I'm the one who came back. I'm the one who's here. I'm the one who saved you.
Jack -You can't, you can't do this. If you have problems, you need to figure them out. All right? 'Cause I can't have you like this around my son.
Jack
Your son? You're not even related to him!
[Jack, Kate, Sun, Hurley, Sayid, and Aaron are about to arrive in Honolulu and be questioned by the press]
Jack
If we get any questions we don't wanna answer, or that we can't answer, let's just keep our mouths shut. [Everyone stares at him without saying anything] It's okay, they'll think that we're in shock.
Jack
Well, then this should be easy.
Jack
We have to go back! WE HAVE TO GO BACK!
"We have to go back"? "We have to go back"?
Jack
Now hold on--
Who do you think you are?! You call me over and over again for two days straight, stoned on your pills! And then you show up here with an obituary for Jeremy Bentham. [Sighs] When he came to me and I heard what he had to say, I knew he was crazy. But you... you believed him.
Jack
Yes.
Jack
Yes, Kate, I did, because he said that that was the only way that I could keep you safe--you and Aaron. [Kate slaps Jack]
Don't you say his name. I still have to explain to him why you are not there to read to him, so don't you say his name!
Jack
I'm sorry.
I've spent the last three years trying to forget all the horrible things that happened on the day that we left. How dare you ask me to go back?
Jack
What did you want to talk to me about, John?
I want you to reconsider leaving the island, Jack. I would like you to stay.
Jack
You'd like me to stay.
Jack
You threw a knife into the back of an unarmed woman, you led half of our people across the island and got most of them killed.
Well Jack, you put a gun to my head and pulled the trigger. I was hoping we could let bygones be bygones.
Jack, you're not supposed to go home.
Jack
And what am I supposed to do?! Oh, I think I remember- what was it that you said on the way out to the hatch? That crashing here was our destiny.
You know, Jack, you know that you're here for a reason! You know it. And if you leave this place, that knowledge is gonna eat you alive from the inside out... until you decide to come back.
Jack
Goodbye John.
You're gonna have to lie.
Jack
Excuse me?
If you have to go, then you have to lie about everything, everything that happened since we got to the island. It's the only way to protect it.
Jack
It's an island, John. No one needs to protect it.
It's not an island. It's a place where miracles happen. And- and if you don't believe that Jack, if you can't believe that, just wait 'til you see what I'm about to do.
Jack
There's no such thing as miracles.
Well... we'll just have to see which one of us is right.
Hello, Jack. [Ben startles Jack from behind him in the funeral home, while looking a "Jeremy Bentham's" body] Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you. Did he tell you that I was off the island?
Jack
Yes, he did.
When did you speak to him?
Jack
About a month ago.
Jack
Yeah. Yeah, he came to see her, too.
And what did he say to you?
Jack
He told me... that after I left the island, some very bad things happened. And he told me that it was my fault for leaving. And he said that I had to come back.
Yes, I heard that you've been flying on passenger planes... hoping that you'd crash. That's dark, Jack, very dark.
Jack
Why are you here?
I'm here to tell you that the island won't let you come alone. All of you have to go back.
Jack
Are you... Sayid--I don't even know where Sayid is. Hurley... is insane. Sun blames me for... and then Kate... she won't even talk to me anymore.
Perhaps I can help you with that. This is the way it has to be, Jack. It's the only way. You have to do it together, all of you.
Jack
How?
I have a few ideas. [Jack turns to leave] Jack... I said, all of you. We're gonna have to bring him, too.
[Both Jack and Ben look back down at the body, who is revealed to be John Locke]
Jack Shephard
We're gonna have to lie.
Jack Shephard
Everything, all of it, every moment since we crashed on the island.
Jack... now I know I'm new to this group and everything, but isn't this the place where everybody starts jumping up and down and hugging each other?
Jack Shephard
Your freighter... those men came to the island to kill us, all of us. You said that our plane was discovered on the bottom of the ocean. Well, someone put it there--someone who wants everyone to think that we're dead. So what do you think's gonna happen to us when we tell them that that wasn't our plane? What do you think's gonna happen to the people that we left behind?
Jack, we can't. We can't pull it off.
Jack Shephard
Just let me do the talking.
Why don't you close that up now Jack? Come on, let's get him in the van, it's out back.
Jack
Where are we taking him?
We'll worry about that once we pick up Hugo.
Jack
Hurley - is locked away in a mental institution.
Which should make recruiting him considerably easier than the rest of your friends.
Jack
They're not my friends anymore.
Well that's the spirit...
Jack
How did we get here...? How did all of this happened?
It happened because you left, Jack... Now let's get started shall we?
(Ben closes Jeremy Bentham's coffin)
Jack
Not if we stick to the story.
I don't know, Jack. It could be a risk.
Jack
It's the only way. We have to do this.
Jack
Look, we're running out of time. We've got to make a decision now. So are we all okay with this?
This is a decision that will affect the rest of our lives. I'm not taking it lightly.
Jack
Kate?
Jack
Sun?
[Sun nods]
Jack
Frank?
Jack
Sorry you got dragged into this, but we need to know that you're with us.
Whatever you guys decide, I'll just roll with.
Jack
Hurley, what about you?
I don't think we should lie dude.
Jack
We need to protect the people that we left behind, Hurley.
How does lying protect them?
Jack
It protects them from Charles Widmore. The guy hired a boatload of people to kill all of us. He faked the plane crash, and you think telling him the truth he's just gonna.. he's gonna leave them alone?
[To Penny] Look he's your dad right? Can't you just like.. call him off?
PPenny
There's no calling my father off.
But, he'll never find 'em. I mean the Island disappeared, we all saw it, it's gone... BLUP!
Jack
You thing anyone's gonna believe that? Believe any of it? They're gonna think you're crazy.
Unless someone backs me up.
[He looks at Sayid]
Sayid, come on. They'll think I'm nuts if I tell the truth but what if we all do? I mean if we can stick together, we can make 'em believe us. I don't wanna spend the rest of my life lying, do you?!
No, but I don't believe we have a better choice... I'm sorry Hurley but we have to lie.
You know what dude? I'm gonna remember this. And some day you're gonna need my help and I'm telling you right now... You're not getting it.
[Ben is driving with Sun and Jack]
Are you going to ask me not to kill Ben if he's lying about my husband?
Jack Shephard
After what just he did to Kate - if you don't do it, Sun, I will.
[Ben slams on the brakes and pulls overs]
Jack Shephard
What are you doing?!
[turning to them] What I'm doing is helping you! And if you had any idea what I've had to do to keep you safe – to keep your friends safe – then you'd never stop thanking me! You wanna shoot me, then shoot me – but let's get on with it! What's it gonna be?
[Jack and Ben, in the 316 Ajira flight]
Jack
[Nervous] How can you read?
[Keeps reading] My mother taught me. [Pretty funny smile] I can read, Jack, because it beats what you are doing.
Jack
What's that?
Waiting for something to happen.
Jack
And what is gonna happen?
You tell me, Jack, you're the one that got to stay after school with Ms. Hawking.
Jack
Did you know that Locke killed himself?
Jack
[Takes out the suicide note Locke left for him] They found this stuffed in his pocket... and I've been trying to get rid of it but it's like it's... following me. I know it sounds crazy but... it feels like John needs me to read it.
Why don't you then? Is it because you're afraid?
Jack
Afraid of what?
Afraid that he blames you, that it's your fault he killed himself.
Jack
Was it my fault?
No, Jack, it wasn't your fault. Let me give you some privacy.
[Ben changes his seat, and Jack reads the note: "Jack, I wish you had believed me. JL"]
[Turbulences and a flash like those from the Island start]
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