Ben Linus quotes from Lost

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.

Locke

[Aims his gun at Jack] Step back, Jack.

Jack

What did you do?

Locke

What I had to. Now step back.

Locke

Stay away from the phone.

Jack

What are you doing, John?

Locke

I don't wanna shoot you.

Ben

Do it, John! Shoot him! Do what you need to do-

Locke

Please. Put the phone down.

Jack

No. You're done keeping me on this island.

Locke

[Thumbs back the hammer] I will kill you if I have to.

Jack

Then do it.

Kate

Jack!

Locke

[Sadly] Jack, you're not supposed to do this.

Bonnie

[over the walkie-talkie] One of them's down here.

Ben Linus

I'm sorry, what?!

Bonnie

We have him tied up but he's here. One of them swam down here.

Ben Linus

Who? Which one?

Bonnie

He won't tell us.

Charlie Pace

[Overhearing] It's Charlie! Tell him I said hi!

Richard Alpert

Now might not be the best time to go tromping off on your own.

Ben Linus

Oh really and why not?

Richard Alpert

Because people are asking questions, Ben. About leaving home, about what happened to Locke, about Jacob. Not to mention the rapidly spreading rumor that everyone that went down to the beach is dead.

Ben Linus

They're not all dead.

Locke

You won't shoot me, Jack. Anymore than I was gonna-[Is cut off when Jack pulls the trigger. But nothing happens.]

Locke

[Amazed] It's not loaded...

Jack

Let go of me![To Sayid] Do you know what he did?!

Sayid

Yes, I know what he did!

Locke

All I did, all I have ever done, has been in the best interests of all of us.

Jack

Are you insane!?

Locke

I know I have a lot of explaining to do. But I never did anything to hurt any of you. I even risked my life to tell you there was a traitor in your midst.[Points at Juliet]

Jack

She helped us, John. All you ever did was blow up every chance we've had of getting off of this Island! You killed Naomi.

Ben

Well, technically, he didn't kill her. Yet.

Kate

[Just arriving] Yes he did. She just died. She didn't give you up, John. She covered for us, and she fixed this.[Hands Jack the phone] They're on their way.

Locke

She didn't cover for anyone. She wants her people to come here. And trust me, when they do we had all better be far away from here. I'm going to the Barracks. The Others abandoned them. It's the only place on the Island with any form of security, so it'll have to do until I can think of something else. Until then, if you wanna live, you need to come with me.

Jack

No one's going anywhere with you, John. Because they're not crazy.

Hurley

[teary eyed] He's not crazy! What about Charlie? Charlie went down to that place so we could all be rescued. And whatever he did down there, it worked. But then something must have happened. He must have heard something before he...[Becomes overwhelemed with emotion] I don't know why, but he changed his mind. Because the last thing he did was warn us that the people on that boat are not who they said they were. So I'm not listening to you! I'm listening to my friend. I'm listening to Charlie.

Danielle Rousseau

The blood trail ends here.

Jack Shephard

What do you mean?

Danielle Rousseau

It ends.

Jack Shephard

You're telling me she stopped bleeding here?

Danielle Rousseau

No. I'm telling you that she fooled us. Doubled back.

Ben Linus

Better call the boat. Tell em she's getting a real big bundle of firewood.

Ben

John, listen. I have information that you need. I have answers.

Locke

What is the monster?

Ben

What?

Locke

The black smoke, the monster! What is it?

Ben

I don't know.

Locke

Goodbye, Benjamin.

Ben

Her name is Charlotte Lewis! [Charlotte looks shocked] Charlotte Staples Lewis. Born July 2, 1979, Essex, England. Parents David and Jeanette. Eldest of three, all girls. She was raised in Bromsgrove. Did her undergraduate studies at Kent. Took her PhD in cultural anthropology at Oxford. She's here with two other team members and a pilot. Their names are Daniel Faraday, Miles Straume, Frank Lapidus. [Charlotte continues to look shocked] Your instinct was right, John. These people are a threat.

Ben Linus

James. Look at yourself. Yes, on this Island you're brave, daring, handsome, you're someone, but if you left with them, back in the real-world a low-life scam artist like you could never compete with a first class surgeon. I think Kate was really upset when you made your choice to come with us. Thank god she has Jack there to comfort-

John Locke

James! Don't!

Don't what!? Anyone wanna tell me why we're keeping this guy alive?

John Locke

We're keeping him alive because he's been on this Island a lot longer than any of us. Because he has information we need. And because apart from his mouth, he's completely harmless.

His mouth put that hole in your gut?

John Locke

Okay, James. Let's execute him, right here, right now, in front of his daughter.

It's only a matter of time before he gets us, Johnny. And I bet he's already figured out how he's gonna do it.

Ben Linus

You've arranged this meeting so you could blackmail me?

Miles Straume

It's extortion if you want to get technical.

Juliet

You knew this would happen. You sent him out here because you knew this would happen. You wanted this! You wanted him to die! Why?

Ben

Why? You're asking me why? After everything I did to get you here, after everything I've done to keep you here - how can you possibly not understand...that you're mine!

Ben Linus

Rabbit today?

John Locke

We're running out of chickens.

Ben Linus

[poking at his food suspiciously] This didn't have a number on it, did it?

Martin Keamy

Mr. Linus, these are my terms. You're gonna step out the front door, put your hands above your head, and you're gonna walk straight to me. Once I have you in my custody, I promise that no one else in that house will be harmed.

Ben

You and I both know that once you have me there's nothing to stop you from killing everybody else on this island.

Martin Keamy

What kind of guy do you think I am?

Ben

Martin Christopher Keamy, former First Sergeant, United States Marine Corps. Served with distinction from 1996 to 2001, but since then you've worked with a number of mercenary organizations, specifically in Uganda. So I know exactly what kind of man you are, Mr. Keamy, and we can dispense with the formalities.

Charles Widmore

Why are you here?

Ben

I'm here, Charles, because you murdered my daughter.

Charles Widmore

Don't stand there looking at me with those horrible eyes of yours, and lay the blame for the death of that poor girl on me, when we both know very well I didn't murder her at all, Benjamin. You did.

Ben

No, that's not true.

Charles Widmore

Yes, Benjamin, it is. You creep into my bedroom in the dead of night, like a rat, and have the audacity to pretend that you're the victim? I know who you are, boy, what you are. I know that everything you have you took from me. [pauses] So. Once again I ask you, why are you here?

Ben

I'm here, Charles, to tell you that I'm going to kill your daughter. Penelope, is it? And once she's gone, once she's dead, then you'll understand how I feel, and you'll wish you hadn't changed the rules.

Charles Widmore

You'll never find her. [Ben turns around and begins to walk away] That island's mine, Benjamin. It always was. It will be again.

Ben

[Turns around] But you'll never find it.

Charles Widmore

Then I suppose the hunt is on for both of us.

Ben

I suppose it is. Sleep tight, Charles.

Locke

It should be about two hundred yards this way.

Ben

You sure it's gonna be there, John?

Locke

I'm sorry?

Ben

The cabin. What if its moved, again?

Locke

It hasn't moved, because I was told this is where it would be.

Ben

I was told a lot of things too. That I was chosen, that I was special. I end up with a tumor on my spine and my daughter's blood all over my hands.

Locke

I'm sorry those things happened to you, Ben.

Ben

Those things had to happen to me. That was my destiny. But you'll understand soon enough that there are consequences to being chosen. Because destiny, John, is a fickle bitch.

Locke

I'm sorry Ben, but maybe I've missed the part where you explain what I'm supposed to do with the armed men inside.

Ben

I'm gonna take care of 'em.

Locke

And how the hell are you gonna do that?

Ben

How many time I have to tell you, John? I always have a plan.