Richard Alpert quotes from Lost

Richard Alpert

[to Juliet] Let me ask you something, Juliet. You took a woman, your own sister. Whose reproductive system was ravaged by chemotherapy, who was sterile. And you made her pregnant. You created life where life wasn't supposed to be. That's a gift, Juliet. You have a gift. And don't you think you're meant to do something significant with it? Where we're going, you can do just that.

Richard

Next time we see each other, I'm not gonna recognize you, all right? You give me this.

Richard Alpert

[to Faraday] Whatever your, uh, your superiors told you, I want you to know the truth. A month ago, we found 18 members of an Army battalion right here in our jungle here, setting up this camp. We gave them the opportunity to leave the island peacefully. They weren't willing to do that, so I was forced to kill 'em. All of 'em.

Richard Alpert

[to Jack] I devoted my life - longer than you can possibly imagine - in service of a man who told me that everything was happening for a reason, that he had a plan - a plan that I was a part of - and when the time was right that he'd share it with me. And now that man's gone. So why do I want to die? Because I just found out my entire life had no purpose.

Richard Alpert

Ben knew you weren't gonna kill your own father. He put you in front of everyone in our camp just so they could all watch you fail.

John Locke

Why?

Richard Alpert

Cause when word got back here that there was a man with a broken spine on the plane who could suddenly walk again, well, people here began to get very excited because that, that could only happen to someone who was extremely special. But Ben doesn't want anyone to think you're special, John.

John Locke

And why are you telling me this?

Richard Alpert

Ben has been wasting our time with novelties like fertility problems. We're looking for someone to remind us that we're here for more important reasons.

John Locke

What do you want from me?

Richard Alpert

I want for you to find your purpose. And to do that, your father has to go, John. And since you're not gonna do it, I'm gonna suggest someone else.

Richard Alpert

You should go home now, your people will be looking for you.

Ben Linus

I don't want to go back there! I hate it there! Take me with you.

Richard Alpert

Maybe that can happen, maybe. But if that's what you really want, Ben, if that's what you want, I want you to really think about that. And you're gonna have to be very, very patient.

Ryan Pryce

Well, if I take my ten best, we could set up to hit 'em by nightfall.

Ben Linus

Then you'd better get going.

Richard Alpert

No, no, Ben, wait, moving at this schedule, Juliet may not be ready. What if she hasn't had time to...

Ben Linus

Then we'll take all their women. And we'll sort out the ones we need later.

Ryan Pryce

And the men?

Ben Linus

If any of them are stupid enough to get in your way, kill 'em.

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

What is this?

Richard

It's a compass.

Locke

What does it do?

Richard

It points north, John. Look, I wish I had time to be more sensitive about this because it's a lot to swallow, but you need to know it in order to do what you gotta do. So I'm just gonna say it, okay? The only way to save the island, John, is to get your people back here. The ones who left.

Locke

Jack, Kate? But the chopper was headed for the boat. The boat...

Richard

No, they're fine, John, and they're already home, so you have to convince them to come back.

Locke

How... How am I supposed to do that?

Richard

You're gonna have to die, John.

Richard

How do I know you weren't sent here on some suicide mission? I'll take you out to the bomb, and you'll just detonate it.

Dan

[pause] Because I'm in love with the woman sitting next to me. [Charlotte looks up in shock] And I would never...I would never do anything to hurt her.

Faraday

Nobody move. I only want to speak to Eloise. Where is Eloise? Come on! Where is she?

Richard Alpert

I'm sorry but Elo..

Richard Alpert

She's not here right now. Do we know each other?

Faraday

It doesn't matter. I need you to take me to Eloise.

Richard Alpert

I already told you that she's not here, so why don't we just...

Faraday

Wheres the bomb Richard?

Faraday

The Hydrogen Bomb I told your people to bury. Where is it?

Richard Alpert

Listen to me, lower your gun and we'll talk ok? Nobody has to get hurt here. Just put the gun down.

Faraday

I'm going to give you three seconds...One...

Richard Alpert

Don't do this.

Faraday

Two...Thr...

Richard Alpert

Why did you do that?

Eloise Hawking

He had a gun on you.

Richard Alpert

He wasn't going to shoot me, Eloise.

Faraday

You knew... that's why you sent me back here... You knew!

Eloise Hawking

Who are you?

Faraday

I'm your.. son. [Faraday dies.]

Richard. He's back!

Richard Alpert

Who?

John Locke

I brought dinner!

Richard Alpert

[Confused and shocked] John?

John Locke

Hello Richard. It's been a while.

Richard Alpert

It's...been three years. John what happened? Where were you?

John Locke

I'll explain that on the way.

Richard Alpert

On the way? On the way where?

John Locke

It's going to be night soon and you and I have an errand to run and we don't have a lot of time. [Pause] What's wrong?

Richard Alpert

There's something different about you.

John Locke

I have a purpose now...

Sun

Who's that man that John's talking to?

Ben

He's Richard Alpert. He's a kind of...advisor. And he has had that job for a very, very long time.

Ben

Sun? What are you...

Sun

[To Richard] Where you here in 1977?

Richard Alpert

Excuse me?

Sun

These people. Jack Shepard, Kate Austen and Hugo Reyes, they were here with my husband Jin Kwon. Were you here? Do you remember them? Any of them?

Richard Alpert

Yes, I was here 30 years ago and yes I do remember these people. I remember meeting them very clearly because...I watched them all die.

Ilana

Which one of you is Ricardus?

Richard

It's Richard, actually.

Ilana

What lies in the shadow of the statue?

Richard

Ille qui nos omnes servabit.

Ilana

Richard...I'm Ilana. I have something you need to see. [to her crew] Open it up.

Richard

It--it's okay. It's okay. Let them.

Richard

[stunned] Where did you find him?

Ilana

In the cargo hold of the plane we came here on...in a coffin.

Sun

I don't understand. If this is Locke... who's in there?

Richard Alpert

Over, uh, twenty years ago, a man named John Locke, he walked right into our camp. And he told me that he was going to be our leader. Now I've gone off the Island three times, to visit him. But he never seemed particularly special to me.

Jack Shephard

You said you had a question.

Richard Alpert

You know him? Locke?

Jack Shephard

Yeah. Yeah, I know him. And if I were you, I wouldn't give up on him.