“?” · Season 2, Episode 21
In this episode: Eko (8), John Locke (7), Mr. Eko (2), Sawyer Ford (1), Kate Austen (1), Hurley Reyes (1), Ana-Lucia Cortez (1), Yemi (1)
[Eko is chopping wood]
What are you building?
Well, hello Ana.
Hello yourself. So are you going to tell me? What is it?
I'm building a church.
(folds arms) Now why in the hell would you wanna do that?
Because I was told to.
Told to by who?
I was just told. I think it was in a dream.
A dream like this one? (Ana-Lucia is shown bloody from when Michael shot her)
[Eko looks scared/upset]
You need to help John.
[to Eko] You must help John, he has lost his way. You must make him take you to the question mark.
The question mark, John; where is it?
You know what? You keep chasing after your own shadow.
I know you don't want to show me, but you must.
No, I don't have to show you anything.
Then I'm sorry.
[Eko knocks Locke out.]
You're lost already?
Your map is inexact.
No kidding.
Your map is inexact. These landmarks... is this a river?
No, it's a wavy line. I didn't draw it, I just transcribed it. I told you, I don't even know if it is a map.
Let's assume it is.
What's the axe for?
I don't know yet.
I'm curious about something.
Yeah, what's that?
How did Ana-Lucia get your gun?
I don't know, she must have lifted it off me.
She pick-pocketed your gun? How'd she do that?
Well, if I knew how she did it, she wouldn't be able to do it, now would she?
Boone. Boone made it fall. Then he died. A sacrifice that the island demanded.
What?
Nothing.
[after viewing the orientation film for The Pearl]
Do you want to watch that again?
No... No, I've seen enough.
What are you doing?
I'm taking this back with us.
Why?
Because they may be important.
Important? I'm sorry, weren't you watching the same thing I was?
Yes, and I believe the work you have been doing is more important now than ever.
Work?
Pushing the button.
That's not work! That's a joke. Rats, in a maze, with no cheese.
We are being tested.
Tested?
The reason to do it, pushing the button, is not because we are told so in the film.
Well, then what is the reason, Mr. Eko?
We do it because we believe we are meant to. Isn't that the reason you pushed it, John?
I was never... meant to do anything! Every single second of my pathetic little life is as useless as that button! You think it's important? You think it's necessary? It's nothing, it's meaningless; and who are you to tell me that it's not?
[to an unconscious Libby] I'm sorry I forgot the blanket.
[wakes up after being knocked down by Eko] You hit me... Why would you...?
Because you were being difficult.
Are you insane?
I know why you're here, friend. But you can save yourself the trouble. What happened here was not a miracle.
The doctor that treated your daughter seems to feel differently.
Treated her? He tried to cut her open. He's just trying to cover up his own negligence. He tell you the whole story -- how she supposedly drowned? She fell into a mountain river, her body shut down; she went into hypothermia which made her appear dead.
And why is your wife so convinced otherwise?
Because she's a zealot. All of this -- everything she's doing -- is to spite me.
Why would she spite you?
Because she knows I'm a fraud. Because I make my living as a psychic. You see, that's what I do. I gather intelligence on people and I exploit it. Everyday I meet people looking for a miracle, desperate to find one. But there are none to be had. Not in this world, anyway.
This cross was worn by my brother, Yemi. Yemi was a great man, a priest, a man of God. And because I betrayed him he was shot and died. He was placed on a plane which took off from an airstrip in Nigeria half a world from here. Then, the plane that I was on crashed on this island. And somehow, here, I found my brother again. I found him in the same plane that took off from Nigeria. In the same plane that lies above us now -- that has concealed this place. And I took this cross from around Yemi's neck and put it back on mine, just as it was on the day I first took another man's life. So let me ask you -- how can you say this is meaningless? I believe the work being done in the Hatch is more important than anything. If you will not continue to push the button, John, I will.
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