[Following the crash of Flight 316, Frank leaves the cockpit and enters the first class seating area which is in pieces with seats and plane parts all over the place. Frank looks around, Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sayid are all gone. Sun gets up and she and Frank notice each other]
[Sun scans the cabin noticing the mess and that the rest of the Oceanic Six have disappeared]
Oh my God! What happened?
[Pause]
Where's everyone else? Jack? Kate? Hurley? Sayid? Where'd they all go?
[Ben Linus suddenly appears behind Frank]
[Having been reunited with Hurley, Kate and Jack at the end of Namaste, Sawyer speaks to the trio for the first time in three years]
[To Sawyer] You're alive! DUDE! I can't believe it!
[Hurley embraces Sawyer, lifting him off the ground in the process]
Ha, ha. Easy on the ribs there Kong.
Kong...I actually missed that.
[Jack moves in to shake Sawyer's hand]
[Kate approaches Sawyer and hugs him]
Hi. Good to see you, Kate.
[Sawyer looks at the group]
I can't believe it! You're really here. Son of a bitch actually did it. [John] Locke said he was gonna bring you back, but...[looks around] where is he?
Doesn't matter, he's gone.
So what's up with you guys in the old Dharma jump suits?
[Sawyer turns to Jin]
[Jin now speaks perfect English]
No. I was waiting for you.
We're in the Dharma Initiative.
They came back to the Island?
No, we came back. And so did you. [Pause] It's Nineteen Seventy-seven...
[While waiting in the North Valley for Sawyer to return to tell them what to do, Kate approaches Jack who is tapping his now broken wristwatch]
So this woman who told you how to come back, did she mention that it would be thirty years ago?
No! Nope, she left that part out.
So what are we supposed to do now?
[In the North Valley, Sawyer retruns with clothes and instructions for Jack, Kate and Hurley. He gets out of the van]
Alright listen. Y'all gonna be the second batch of recruits coming in off the sub. It should be pulling into port right about now so we ain't got much time. [Looks at Jack] Nice suit, doc. Not exactly Island wear, try this.
[Sawyer throws Jack some 1977 style clothes including a shirt and a pair of trousers]
You want us to say we came in on the sub? How's that going to work?
Everyone gets knocked out before the trip, so no one meets each other until we process ‘em.
Look. We need to find the rest of people from the plane.
If there was a plane then Jin will find it. So we've got about ten minutes to make intake or you'll be camping in the jungle for a long time. There isn't another batch of recruits due in for six months.
[Jack turns to Kate]
I think we should listen to Sawyer.
I vote for not camping too.
Trust me doc. You'll do what I say then everything will be fine.
[Brief pause. Jack nods in agreement]
[Sawyer followed by the other three get into the Dharma Minivan]
[In his Dharma Minivan, Sawyer drives Hurley, Jack and Kate to the Barracks]
Ok. So, it's Nineteen Seventy-seven?
And you guys are all members of the Dharma Initiative?
Well, you do realise those dudes get wiped out right? I mean I saw the pit where all the bodies got dumped.
Well; aren't you gonna warn ‘em? Aren't you gonna stop it from happening?
I ain't here to play Nostradamus to these people. Besides, Faraday's got some interesting theories about what we can and can't do here.
[Jack leans into the conversation from the backseat]
Did you say Faraday? He's still here?
[After arriving back on the main island in 2007; Sun and Frank arrive at the Dharma Barracks. The place is derserted and falling apart. suddenly the wind picks up blowing the trees and errie whispers are heard. Sun and Frank turn to and look as the light in the Dharma processing building comes on. They exchange uneasy glances as the door creaks open to reveal Jack's father Christian Shepard]
I'm looking for my husband. His name is Jin Kwon. Do you know where he is?
[Christian re-enters the dilapidated Dharma Processing Centre and Sun follows. A nervous Frank follows after Sun. Inside; Christian shines a torch on several pictures looking for one to show Sun]
Seventy two, Seventy six, Seventy eight...
Ah! Here we go. Seventy seven. [Removes the picture from the wall] He's um, he's with your friends.
What are you talking about? What friends?
[Christian walks over to Sun and Frank as the wind begins to blow strongly outside causing the door to open. He hands Sun the picture and shines the torch on it so that both Sun and Frank can see it]
I'm sorry but you've got a bit of a journey ahead of you.
[Sun looks at the picture. There is a banner labeled “New Recruits” hanging over a group of people including Jack, Kate and Hurley. They are wearing Dharma jump suits. Sun and Frank look at each other shocked and confused]
[Having seen Sayid been arrested and locked up by Sawyer and Jin, Jack heads round to Sawyer's house to speak with him about the situation]
What can I do for you, Jack?
I don't even know where to start. Uh... How about with Sayid?
I had no choice. He was running around in the jungle, got caught by my people. And seein' as how he can't tell the truth about how he got here, I had to improvise.
Aha. And for now, Sayid is safe, which is all that matters.
So where do we go from here?
Really? Because it looked to me like you were reading a book.
[Sawyer smiles]
I heard once Winston Churchill read a book every night, even during the Blitz. He said it made him think better. It's how I like to run things. I think. I'm sure that doesn't mean that much to you, 'cause back when you were calling the shots, you pretty much just reacted. See, you didn't think, Jack, and as I recall, a lot of people ended up dead.
But here you are... Right back where you started. So I'm gonna go back to reading my book, and I'm gonna think 'cause that's how I saved your ass today. And that's how I'm gonna save Sayid's tomorrow. All you gotta do is go home, get a good night's rest. I do what I do
[He leads Jack to the door and opens it]
[Jack leaves]
[In the Dharma security facility security guard Phil is on duty. A teenage boy enters the room and approachs Phil at his desk]
Hey Phil. I am just going to go in there and deliver him a sandwich.
[The boy enters an adjacent room where Sayid is being held in a cell]
Hello. I brought you a sandwich.
[Sayid goes over to the cells railings and takes the paper bag containing the sandwich from young Ben]
I didn't put any mustard on it, but if you want some, I can go and get some.
[Sayid looks in the paper bag and then back to the boy]
This will be fine thank you.
My name is Sayid. What's yours?
[Pause. It suddenly dawns on Sayid who the little boy infront of him is]
It's nice to meet you Ben...
JFJames "Sawyer" Ford
How you doin'?
A twelve-year-old Ben Linus brought me a chicken salad sandwich. How do you think I'm doing?
You know what I can't figure out? Is how the hell you got caught. You hostiles are supposed to be the kings of the jungle. And how dumb are you that you got captured by these idiots?
And yet you're the one who mops up after them.
[to Sayid] Every choice you've made in your life, whether it was to murder or to torture, it hasn't really been a choice at all, has it? It's in your nature. It's what you are. You're a killer, Sayid.
JFJames "Sawyer" Ford
Three years--no burning buses. Y'all are back for one day...
What the hell are you doing, Tubby?
HRHugo "Hurley" Reyes
Checking to see if I'm disappearing.
HRHugo "Hurley" Reyes
"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.
I thought I was gonna be the greatest father ever. You know? I guess it didn't work out that way.
HRHugo "Hurley" Reyes
So this conversation we're having right now...we already had it.
HRHugo "Hurley" Reyes
Then what am I gonna say next?
HRHugo "Hurley" Reyes
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.
HRHugo "Hurley" Reyes
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.
HRHugo "Hurley" Reyes
Say that again.
Shoot me. Please. Please!
HRHugo "Hurley" Reyes
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.
HRHugo "Hurley" Reyes
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.
HRHugo "Hurley" Reyes
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.
HRHugo "Hurley" Reyes
Huh.
