Jack and Locke in “Exodus, Part Three”

What the hell was all that about back there, John?

What was what about?

You asked me to let you go.

That's right.

That thing was taking you down the hole and you asked me to let you go.

It wasn't going to hurt me.

No, John, it was going to kill you.

I seriously doubt that.

Look, I need for you -- I need for you to explain to me what the hell's going on inside your head, John. I need to know why you believe that that thing wasn't going to...

I believe that I was being tested.

Tested?

Yeah, tested.

I think...

That's why you and I don't see eye-to-eye sometimes, Jack -- because you're a man of science.

Yeah, and what does that make you?

Me, well, I'm a man of faith. Do you really think all this is an accident -- that we, a group of strangers survived, many of us with just superficial injuries? Do you think we crashed on this place by coincidence -- especially, this place? We were brought here for a purpose, for a reason, all of us. Each one of us was brought here for a reason.

Brought here? And who brought us here, John?

The island. The island brought us here. This is no ordinary place, you've seen that, I know you have. But the island chose you, too, Jack. It's destiny.

Did you talk with Boone about destiny, John?

Boone was a sacrifice that the island demanded. What happened to him at that plane was a part of a chain of events that led us here -- that led us down a path -- that led you and me to this day, to right now.

And where does that path end, John?

The path ends at the hatch. The hatch, Jack -- all of it -- all of it happened so that we could open the hatch.

No, no, we're opening the hatch so that we can survive.

Survival is all relative, Jack.

I don't believe in destiny.

Yes, you do. You just don't know it yet.