“The Subsitute” · Season 6, Episode 4
In this episode: Sawyer Ford (4), The Man in Black (4), John Locke (1), James Ford (1), Richard Alpert (1)
You seem to be taking this extremely well.
Taking what extremely well?
The fact that I'm here.
I don't give a damn if you're dead. Or time travelin' or... ghost of Christmas past. All I care about is this whiskey. So bottoms up. Get the hell out of my house.
My walkabout. An adventure in the outback. Man against nature. But they wouldn't let me go. And I sat there yelling at them. Shouting at them that they couldn't tell me what I can't do. But they were right. I'm sick of imagining of what my life could be out of this chair, Helen. What it would be like to walk down the aisle with you because its not gonna happen. So if you need me to see more doctors, have more consults, if you need me to get out of this chair, I don't blame you. But I don't want you to spend your life waiting for a miracle because there is no such thing.
Where is he?
Where the hell did you come from?
Where is he?!
He ran off.
Okay, come on, we've gotta go!
Go where?
To the Temple, let's go, now!
Thanks but I've been to the Temple already. I'm sticking with Locke.
No, the man you are with is not John Locke.
I know.
Than why are you with him?
'Cause he's got answers. He knows why I'm on the Island. Unless you wanna tell me why I'm here, Richard!
Don't be naive. He's not gonna tell you anything, he's gonna kill you.
If he wanted to kill me he could've done it a dozen times by now.
You don't understand. He doesn't just want you dead, he wants everyone dead. Everyone you care about, all of them. And he won't stop--[Flees as he hears The Man in Black return]
Do you read?
Doesn't everybody?
You ever read Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck, it's my favorite.
No, a little after my time.
It's about these two guys, George and Lenny. Lenny's kinda slow... causin' George problems... so George walks him into the woods and tells him to look out yonder and picture the pretty little house they're gonna live in some day. Then he shoots Lenny in the back of the head.
That doesn't sound like a very happy ending.
[Sawyer puts a gun to the back of MIB's head] It ain't.
Something on your mind, James?
I'm wondering what would happen if I was to put a bullet in your head?
Let's find out?
[Sawyer hesitates and lowers the gun] What are you?
What I am is trapped. And I've been trapped for so long that I don't even remember what it feels like to be free. Maybe you can understand that. But before I was trapped, I was a man, James. Just like you.
I'm havin' a hard time believin' that...
You can believe whatever you want, that's the truth. I know what it's like to feel joy... to feel pain, anger, fear... to experience betrayal. I know what it's like to lose someone you love. So if you wanna shoot me, shoot me. But you're so close, James. It would be such a shame to turn back now.
You're a candidate.
And what does that mean?
It means you have three choices. You can do nothing and see how it all plays out. [Marks off John Locke's name on the wall] And maybe your name will get marked off. Or you can step up and replace Jacob and be the protector of the Island.
Protect it from what?
From nothing, James. That's the real joke; there is nothing to protect it from. It's just a damn island! And it will be perfectly fine without you or me or anyone else whose lives Jacob wasted.
You said there were three choices.
The third choice is we just go. We just get the hell off this Island. Never look back. So tell me, James. Are you ready to go home.
...Hell yes.
Why would he write my name on this wall? I never even met the guy.
Oh no, I'm sure you did meet Jacob. At some point in your life, James, probably when you were young and miserable and vulnerable. He came to you, he manipulated you, pulled your strings like you were a puppet. And as a result, choices you thought were made, were never really choices at all. He was pushing you, James. Pushing you... to the Island.
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