[Kate and Sayid are inside the Flame station with Mikhail, who claims to be a member of the DHARMA Initiative; Mikhail is sewing Sayid's bullet injury and the cat is scratching the carpet]
“Enter 77” · Season 3, Episode 11
In this episode: Sayid Jarrah (4), Mikhail Bakunin (3), Kate Austen (1)
Будьте вежливы, они - мои гости, Надия.
What did you just say?
I told Nadia to be polite, because you are my guests.
Nadia?
After Nadia Comaneci. The greatest athlete the world has even known. We have the same birth date. [...mumbling] Now, excellent work if I say so myself.
Thank you, Mikhail.
Perhaps, you can give me your forgiveness if I offer you some ice tea. I will also check on your friend.
[...]
What's wrong?
Doesn't make any sense. Why would they let him stay here, with all this stuff, all this equipment?
Actually, it makes perfect sense.
What are you talking about?
The reason they let him stay here is because he is not DHARMA. He is one of them.
He shot you and you just let him-why are we still sitting here?
We are sitting here, Kate, because I am certain he is not alone.
I grew up in Kiev and joined the Soviet Army. I was stationed at a listening post at Vladivostok. After the Cold War, after we lost the Cold War, my unit was decommissioned. I was dismissed from my life in the military. And after years of conducting unpleasant actions against our enemies, I found myself wanting to do something good. So I replied to a newspaper advertisement.
An advertisement?
'Would you like to save the world?' it read. That's how I met them, the Initiative. They're very secretive, very rich, very smart.
So, when did you come to the island?
11 years now. I like computers, communications equipment, being alone like a lighthouse keeper. So they put me in this station. They called it The Flame.
Why are we continuing to play this little game when we all know it has moved to the next stage?
AAmira
After my husband and I first arrived to Paris, I was afraid to ever leave our apartment. So I would stare out in the window into the alley, and I would see this cat looking for scraps. One day some children came into the alley and trapped him in a box. I watched them light firecrackers and drop them in the box. I could hear him howl from three stories above. So finally, I had a reason to leave my apartment. I rescued this cat and I brought him home. He sits with me when I read, sleeps with me, and he purrs. But, every once in a while, he will bite me or scratch me. He does this because sometimes he forgets that he is safe now. So I forgive him when he bites me, because I remember what it is like to never feel safe. And that is because of you. So today, I ask only one thing of you: I ask you now to show me the respect by acknowledging what you did to me. That it was you who questioned me, tortured me and that you remember me.
I remember you. I remember your face. Your face has haunted me ever since I left Iraq. [crying] I am sorry. I am so sorry for what I did to you. I am sorry.
AAmira
I forgive you. When my husband returns, I will tell I made a terrible mistake, that it was not you, and he will release you.
Why? Why are you letting me go?
AAmira
We are all capable of doing what those children did to this cat. But I will not do that. I will not be that.
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