I know you're down here, Ben. Crouching in the dark, just waiting to take a shot at me.
[as Dr. Edgar Halliwax, on video] This... is "the vault"...
Well, you better aim for the head, Ben! Not like your boyfriend who shot me in the back like a coward!
...to avoid leaving inorganic materials inside...
This body armor's, um, been known to take a bullet or two in its time. But before you take your shot, Ben, let me tell you about this. [revealing a device strapped to his arm] See that? I took out a bit of a--a life insurance policy, Ben. It's a heart rate monitor, and it's connected to a radio transmitter. W--we call it a "dead man's trigger", Ben. If my heart stops beating...it sends a little signal to the 500 pounds of C-4 that I've got hardwired out there on the freighter that'd kill a lot of innocent people, Ben. If you think I'm bluffing, need I remind you of, uh... how your daughter looked as she bled out? Face-down in the grass?
[Keamy hears a noise and whirls around to face Locke]
My name is John Locke, and I have no... conflict with you. And neither do the people on that boat. So... why don't you put your knife down? We can talk about this.
Well, John Locke... I've never really been one for talk.
[Ben attacks Keamy from behind, knocking him to the ground with a baton and stabbing him multiple times in the neck]
You killed my daughter. You killed my daughter!
Ben! Ben! Ben, stop! No, no! Stop!
[Locke pulls Ben off Keamy]
[Keamy's device starts beeping]
You just killed everybody on that boat.
Everything, all of it, every moment since we crashed on the island.
Jack... now I know I'm new to this group and everything, but isn't this the place where everybody starts jumping up and down and hugging each other?
Your freighter... those men came to the island to kill us, all of us. You said that our plane was discovered on the bottom of the ocean. Well, someone put it there--someone who wants everyone to think that we're dead. So what do you think's gonna happen to us when we tell them that that wasn't our plane? What do you think's gonna happen to the people that we left behind?
Jack, we can't. We can't pull it off.
Just let me do the talking.
DWDharma Worker
There's an open chamber about twenty meters in behind the rock. There's something in there. And the only way to get it is to lay charges here and here, blast through it-
PCPierre Chang (From Orientation videos)
Under no circumstances. This station is being built here because it's proximity to what we believe to be an almost limitless energy and that energy, once we can harness it correctly, it's going to allow us to manipulate time.
WWorker
Right... Okay, so what? We're gonna go back and kill Hitler?
Don't be absurd. There are rules. Rules that can't be broken.
WWorker
So what do you want me to do?
You're gonna do nothing. If you drill even one centimeter further, you risk releasing that energy. If that would've happened... God help us all.
(Jack stares at Locke's body, Ben comes up with a stretcher)
Why don't you close that up now Jack? Come on, let's get him in the van, it's out back.
We'll worry about that once we pick up Hugo.
Hurley - is locked away in a mental institution.
Which should make recruiting him considerably easier than the rest of your friends.
They're not my friends anymore.
Well that's the spirit...
How did we get here...? How did all of this happened?
It happened because you left, Jack... Now let's get started shall we?
(Ben closes Jeremy Bentham's coffin)
First things first. Give me your shirt.
I really think we have far more pressing matters then me giving you a shirt. How about we just keep moving, okay?
How about we call a time out so you can tell us what the hell's going on?
Trust you? I don't even know you!
We really do not have time for me to try to explain. You have no idea how difficult that would be for me to try to explain this-this phenomenon to a quantum physicist. That would be difficult. So for me to try to explain whatevers happened-
[Sawyer slaps Daniel]
Oy! What the bloody hell do you think you're doing?
Shut it, ginger, or you're getting one too. Now talk.
This island... Think of the island like a record spinning on a turntable. Only now, that record is skipping. Whatever Ben Linus did down at the Orchard station... I think it may have... dislodged us.
So when'd you become so paranoid?
If you'd spent the last two years doing the things I was doing, you'd be paranoid, too.
Oh, yeah? Paranoid like what? What kind of things?
I was working for Benjamin Linus.
Wait. He's on our side now?
Listen to me, Hurley. If you ever have the misfortune of running into him, whatever he tells you, just do the opposite.
Dan (staring at the hatch crater): Is this the hatch?
It was. Blown up, just like we left it.
Okay. So when we are now... It's now after you and your people crashed on the island.
You sayin' our camp is back on the beach again?
Hey. No, no. (stoping him) It's pointless.
More pointless than staring at a hole in the ground?
We don't know when the next flash is coming. By the time you get back to the beach, the camp could be gone again.
Yeah. But what if it ain't? Hell, what if the helicopter hasn't even taken off yet?
We could warn them. Stop them from ever flying to that boat.
That is not the way it works.
You cannot change anything. You can't. Even if you tried to, it wouldn't work.
Time it's like a street, all right? We can move forward on that street, we can move in reverse, but we cannot ever create a new street. If we try to do anything different, we will fail every time. Whatever happened, happened.
It points north, John. Look, I wish I had time to be more sensitive about this because it's a lot to swallow, but you need to know it in order to do what you gotta do. So I'm just gonna say it, okay? The only way to save the island, John, is to get your people back here. The ones who left.
Jack, Kate? But the chopper was headed for the boat. The boat...
No, they're fine, John, and they're already home, so you have to convince them to come back.
How... How am I supposed to do that?
You're gonna have to die, John.
(The sky flashes again and Richard disappears)
Dan (knocking at the hatch back door): Please, please, please. Let this work.
(The door opens, Desmond comes out and aims at Dan with a rifle)
Then you'd best explain why you've been bangin' on my door for the last 20 minutes, brother.
Desmond (slowly lowering the rifle): Are you him?
No, I'm not. (Desmond points the rifle at him again) I'm not. I'm not. I'm...
Yeah... in a way. But listen, that's not important. What is important, Desmond, is what I'm about to say to you. I need you to listen. You're the only person who can help us because, Desmond... The rules... The rules don't apply to you. You're special. You're uniquely and miraculously special.
What are you talking about?
(The sky begins to hum)
