Dan quotes from Lost

Sawyer

It was. Blown up, just like we left it.

Dan

Okay. So when we are now... It's now after you and your people crashed on the island.

Sawyer

You sayin' our camp is back on the beach again?

Dan

It's possible, yeah.

Sawyer

Good. I'm going back.

Dan

Hey. No, no. (stoping him) It's pointless.

Sawyer

More pointless than staring at a hole in the ground?

Dan

We don't know when the next flash is coming. By the time you get back to the beach, the camp could be gone again.

Sawyer

Yeah. But what if it ain't? Hell, what if the helicopter hasn't even taken off yet?

Juliet

We could warn them. Stop them from ever flying to that boat.

Dan

That is not the way it works.

Sawyer

Who says?

Dan

You cannot change anything. You can't. Even if you tried to, it wouldn't work.

Sawyer

Why not?

Dan

Time it's like a street, all right? We can move forward on that street, we can move in reverse, but we cannot ever create a new street. If we try to do anything different, we will fail every time. Whatever happened, happened.

Dan

Don't shoot.

Desmond

Then you'd best explain why you've been bangin' on my door for the last 20 minutes, brother.

Dan

Desmond.

Dan

"Him"? Who?

Desmond

My replacment.

Dan

No, I'm not. (Desmond points the rifle at him again) I'm not. I'm not. I'm...

Desmond

Do I know you?

Dan

Yeah... in a way. But listen, that's not important. What is important, Desmond, is what I'm about to say to you. I need you to listen. You're the only person who can help us because, Desmond... The rules... The rules don't apply to you. You're special. You're uniquely and miraculously special.

Desmond

What are you talking about?

Dan

Okay, listen to me. Listen! If the helicopter somehow made it off the island, if you got home...

Desmond

What helicopter? What are you talking about?!

Dan

Listen, I need you to listen, or people are gonna die. My name is Daniel Faraday, and right now me and everyone else you left behind. We're in serious danger. You're the only person who can help us. I need you to go back to Oxford University. Go back to where we met. I need you to go there and find my mother. Her name is...

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.

Charlotte

You didn't have to say that.

Dan

Say what?

Charlotte

[smiles] That you loved me. And I'm pretty sure that there are other ways you could have convinced him you weren't going to blow up the entire island.

Dan

I said what I said because I meant it, Charlotte.

Charlotte

I've been here before.

Dan

You've been...you've been here before?

Charlotte

I grew up here. On the island. There was this thing, this DHARMA Initiative, and then I moved away with my mum. Just my mum, and I never saw my dad again. Then when I got back to England, I would ask my mum about this place, but she would say that it wasn't real, and that I'd made it up. That's why I became an anthropologist. To find this island again. It's what I've been searching for my whole life.

Dan

Charlotte, why are you telling me this?

Charlotte

Because I remember something now. When I was little, living here, there was this man, this crazy man. He really scared me. And he told me that I had to leave the island and never ever come back. He told me that if I came back to the island, I would die.

Dan

Charlotte, I don't understand.

Charlotte

Daniel! I think that man was you.

Faraday

Hey Jack, how did you get back? How did you do it, how did you get back to the island?

Jack

Dan, wow....where have you been?

Dan

I've been at Dharma Headquarters in Ann Arbor, I was doing some research, but whats more important right now, how did you get back here, to 1977?

Jack

What's going on?

Miles

Hey don't look at me, I just carried his luggage.

Faraday

Jack. How?

Jack

We were on a plane and then...

Faraday

And who told you to get on that plane?

Jack

As a matter of fact Daniel it was your mother.

Faraday

And how did she convince you Jack? Did she tell you it was your destiny?

Jack

Yeah thats exactly what she said.

Faraday

Well I got some bad news for you Jack, you don't belong here at all. She was wrong.