Sawyer, Dan and others in “Because You Left”

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?

It's possible, yeah.

Good. I'm going back.

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.

Who says?

You cannot change anything. You can't. Even if you tried to, it wouldn't work.

Why not?

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.