“Whatever Happened, Happened” · Season 5, Episode 11
In this episode: Miles Straume (2), Hugo Reyes (2), The Man in Black (1), Roger Linus (1)
What the hell are you doing, Tubby?
Checking to see if I'm disappearing.
What?
"Back to the Future", man. We came back in time to the island and changed stuff. So if little Ben dies, he'll never grow up to be big Ben, who's the one who made us come back here in the first place. Which means we can't be here. And therefore, dude? We don't exist.
You're an idiot.
I thought I was gonna be the greatest father ever. You know? I guess it didn't work out that way.
So this conversation we're having right now...we already had it.
Yes!
Then what am I gonna say next?
I don't know.
Ha! Then your theory is wrong!
For the thousandth time, you dingbat, the conversation already happened, but not for you and me. For you and me, it's happening right now.
Okay, answer me this. If all this already happened to me, then...why don't I remember any of it?
Because once Ben turned that wheel, time isn't a straight line for us anymore. Our experiences in the past and the future occurred before these experiences right now.
Say that again.
Shoot me. Please. Please!
Aha! I can't shoot you. Because if you die in 1977, then you'll never come back to the island on the freighter 30 years from now.
I can die because I've already come to the island on the freighter. Any of us can die because this is our present.
But you said Ben couldn't die because he still has to grow up and become the leader of the Others.
Because this is his past.
But when we first captured Ben, and Sayid, like, tortured him, then why wouldn't he remember getting shot by that same guy when he was a kid?
[beat] Huh. I hadn't thought of that.
Huh.
[as John Locke, to Ben] Hello, Ben. Welcome back to the land of the living.
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