[Having been reunited with Hurley, Kate and Jack at the end of Namaste, Sawyer speaks to the trio for the first time in three years]
[To Sawyer] You're alive! DUDE! I can't believe it!
[Hurley embraces Sawyer, lifting him off the ground in the process]
Ha, ha. Easy on the ribs there Kong.
Kong...I actually missed that.
[Jack moves in to shake Sawyer's hand]
[Kate approaches Sawyer and hugs him]
Hi. Good to see you, Kate.
KateYou too, James.
[Sawyer looks at the group]
I can't believe it! You're really here. Son of a bitch actually did it. [John] Locke said he was gonna bring you back, but...[looks around] where is he?
Doesn't matter, he's gone.
So what's up with you guys in the old Dharma jump suits?
[Sawyer turns to Jin]
[Jin now speaks perfect English]
No. I was waiting for you.
Kate
Tell us what?
We're in the Dharma Initiative.
They came back to the Island?
No, we came back. And so did you. [Pause] It's Nineteen Seventy-seven...
[While waiting in the North Valley for Sawyer to return to tell them what to do, Kate approaches Jack who is tapping his now broken wristwatch]
Kate
So this woman who told you how to come back, did she mention that it would be thirty years ago?
No! Nope, she left that part out.
Kate
So what are we supposed to do now?
[In the North Valley, Sawyer retruns with clothes and instructions for Jack, Kate and Hurley. He gets out of the van]
Alright listen. Y'all gonna be the second batch of recruits coming in off the sub. It should be pulling into port right about now so we ain't got much time. [Looks at Jack] Nice suit, doc. Not exactly Island wear, try this.
[Sawyer throws Jack some 1977 style clothes including a shirt and a pair of trousers]
You want us to say we came in on the sub? How's that going to work?
Everyone gets knocked out before the trip, so no one meets each other until we process ‘em.
Look. We need to find the rest of people from the plane.
If there was a plane then Jin will find it. So we've got about ten minutes to make intake or you'll be camping in the jungle for a long time. There isn't another batch of recruits due in for six months.
[Jack turns to Kate]
Kate
I think we should listen to Sawyer.
I vote for not camping too.
Trust me doc. You'll do what I say then everything will be fine.
[Brief pause. Jack nods in agreement]
[Sawyer followed by the other three get into the Dharma Minivan]
In about four hours, the DHARMA folks at the swan work site--they're gonna--gonna drill into the ground and accidentally tap into a massive pocket of energy. The result of the release of this energy would be catastrophic. So in order to contain it, they're gonna have to cement the entire area in, like Chernobyl. And this containment--the place they built over it--I believe you called it "the Hatch." The Swan hatch? Because of this one accident, these people are gonna spend the next 20 years keeping that energy at bay... by pressing a button... a button that your friend Desmond will one day fail to push, and that will cause your plane--Oceanic 815--to crash on this Island. And because your plane crashed, a freighter will be sent to this Island--a freighter I was on and Charlotte was on and so forth. This entire chain of events--it's gonna start happening this afternoon. But... we can change that. I studied relativistic physics my entire life. One thing emerged over and over--can't change the past. Can't do it. Whatever happened, happened. All right? But then I finally realized... I had been spending so much time focused on the constants, I forgot about the variables. Do you know what the variables in these equations are, Jack?
Us. We're the variables. People. We think. We reason. We make choices. We have free will. We can change our destiny. I think I can negate that energy under the Swan. I think I can destroy it. If I can, then that hatch will never be built, and your plane... your plane will land, just like it's supposed to, in Los Angeles.
Kate Austen
And just how exactly do you plan on destroying this energy?
I'm gonna detonate a hydrogen bomb.
[Having been caught by the 1977 version of The Others. Jack and Kate sit alone in a tent and discuss Faraday's plan]
Kate
Before we got captured you said that we had to put things back the way they were meant to be. What did you mean by that?
If we can do what Faraday said our plane never crashes. Flight 815 lands in Los Angeles and everyone we lost since we got here, they'd all be alive.
Kate
And what about us? We just go on living our lives because we never met.
All the misery that we have been through would just wipe clean, like it never happened.
Kate
It was NOT all misery!
[In 1977; Juliet and Sawyer are on the Dharma Sub, they are joined by Kate and the sub leaves the island heading to the mainland]
Kate
We have to get out of here.
Out of here? We're underwater. What the hell are you doing here? How'd you get caught?
Kate
I came back to get you.
Came back to get me for what?
Kate
Jack is... on his way to blow up a hydrogen bomb.
Why the hell would he do that?
Kate
Does it matter? We have to stop him.
Kate
Did you hear what I just said?
Yeah, I heard you. You just don't get it, Kate - we were happy in Dharmaville 'till you all showed up, and now that's all over...
[Juliet smiles at Sawyer]
So we're going to drink our OJ and take our chances in the real world. [Pause] And if Jack wants to blow up the island... good for Jack.
Oh, that Australian chick's back.
Kate
Wait, what?
You know that blonde, with the baby.
Kate
Claire?
Right, Claire. She just strolled in here couple hours ago, acting all weird... Still hot, though.
Because... my mother was crazy. A long time ago, before I... looked like this... I had a mother, just like everyone. She was a very disturbed woman. And, as a result of that, I had some growing pains. Problems that I'm still trying to work my way through. Problems that could have been avoided had things been different.
Kate
Why are you telling me this?
Because now Aaron has a crazy mother too.
[Claire enters her shelter, collects a knife, and checks on her fake baby. Kate enters the hut]
Kate
Is this where you lived?
[Kate looks at the fake baby in horror.]
Kate
What is that?
[Sadly] It's all I had...
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