[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]
S3 E11Enter 77
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.
S3 E12Par Avion
[Kate, Sayid, and Locke are holding Mikhail prisoner]
Remind me why we're keeping him alive.
What do you suggest? That we shoot him like a dog?
No. I like dogs.
Can I ask you something? I told you that your daughter was living with them, and you haven’t asked me a single question about her, you haven't—
Your friend, Jack. Do you care about him?
Yes.
Imagine 16 years from now, you're told he's still alive, but in your heart, you know that he wouldn't remember you. He wouldn’t know you. He wouldn't even know that you ever cared about him. I haven't asked you questions about my daughter because I do not want to know the answers.
I will try to make this as simple as I can. You are not on the list because you are flawed. Because you are angry, and weak, and frightened.
S3 E13The Man from Tallahassee
The Man from Tallahassee? What is that some kind of code?
No John, unfortunately we don't have a code for "there is a man in my closet holding a gun to my daughter's head". Although we obviously should.
Would you mind helping me get into my chair. No tricks, I promise. I just want some dignity. You of all people should understand what means to want some dignity. Thank you. So tell me John, how do you plan on piloting our submarine. Its a complicated piece of machinery. You just don't press submerge.
I'll figure something out. For all you know I was a commander in the Navy. Put your arm around my neck and I'll lift under your knees.
What's in the pack, John? If you met Mikail that means you were at the communications station, which means you found the explosives. So you're not planning on piloting the submarine anywhere, you're planning to destroy it. I know you, John Locke.
You don't know me at all.
I know you were born in California. I know that you were raised in foster care. I know that you wasted a big part of your life in Tustin, pushing papers at a place that manufactures industrial boxes. I know that you spent the four years prior to arriving on this island in a wheelchair, and I know how you ended up in it.
[To Kate] I will come back here for you.
Where do you get electricity?
We have two big hamsters running around in this giant wheel in our secret underground lair.
Yeah, that's funny.
I know you think you need to do this John, but if you blow up my submarine, I'll have a big problem with my people.
Is that supposed to be an incentive not to blow it up?
I was born on this island; not many of my people can say that. Most of them were recruited and brought here, and as much as they love this place, as much as they would do anything to defend it, they need to know that they can leave if they want to. The sub maintains that illusion.
So you're lying to them?
No... they're here because they want to be here. Some of them are just not ready to make a full commitment yet. But you John, you've already made that commitment. And now you have a choice, because if you stop and think, I can show you things. things I know that you want to see very badly. Let me put it so you'll understand: picture a box. You know something about boxes, don't you John? What if I told you that somewhere on this island there is a very large box and whatever you imagined, whatever you wanted to be in it, when you open that box, there it would be. What would you say about that John?
I'd say that I hope that box is big enough for you to imagine up a new submarine.
Why are you so angry John?
Because you're cheating. You communicate with the outside world whenever you want to, you come and go as you please, you use electricity and running water and guns. You're a hypocrite. You don't deserve to be on this island. If you had any idea what this place was you wouldn't be putting chicken in your refrigerator.
You have been on this island for 80 days, John. I have been here my entire life. So what makes you think you know this island better than I do?
Because you're in the wheelchair, and I'm not.
I'm a con man, not a murderer.
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