3x00 – A Tale of Survival

Transcribed by Rosario Garcia, profarosario@hotmail.com

This episode was intended to be both a wrap up of season 2 and a recap before season 3. It is narrated by Michael Emerson’s (fake Gale’s) voice.

[Voice] Once upon a time, there was an island. Some said it was in the South Pacific. But you wouldn’t find it on any map. Many people have been drawn to the island throughout time … lost in their travels, lost in their lives.

[Sequence of images: the beach; its waves washing ashore; the Black Rock wooden ship; the Pale Ferry beach]

[Voice] One such man was ship wrecked; wash up on its shores. His name was Desmond. He was found by a man named Kelvin … and taken to an underground shelter. But Kelvin had been entering a code to a computer every 108 minutes for a very long time. [Images of Desmond desperately steering the sailboat under the storm; Desmond unconscious on the shore; Kelvin bringing him to the Hatch]

DESMOND: What’s all that about, then? [looking at the countdown]

KELVIN: Just saving the world…

[Voice] He soon convinced Desmond to help him. And together, they saved the world with every push of the button for the next 3 years. It seemed they might be there forever, but there was ONE possible way out…

KELVIN: [drunk] Turn this key and this all goes away. Phew!

[Voice] Kelvin led Desmond to believe it was unsafe to go outside. Then one day Desmond risked exposure and discovered… he’d been deceived.

[images of Kelvin putting on the yellow uniform, Desmond following him and discovering the boat]

DESMOND: What’re you doing with my boat?

KELVIN: What do you think? Come with me?

DESMOND: WHY DID YOU LIE TO ME?

KELVIN: I LIED BECAUSE I NEEDED A SUCKER TO SAVE THE WORLD AFTER I LEFT!

DESMOND: You crazy old… (they start fighting) God! [when he sees Kelvin had hit his head hard on the rock, grabs the key and runs back to the hatch] Oh my God…

[Voice] By the time Desmond returned, 108 minutes had passed without entering the code...

Desmond was trapped and alone, or so he thought… but at the moment of his greatest despair, he was amazed to discover… he was not alone on this island after all…

[images of Desmond at the computer, entering the code, hieroglyphs showing on the counter; computer’s voice “system failure”; Desmond drinking from a bottle, clearly considering suicide, hearing Locke’s voice from outside the hatch, turning on the light and laughing/crying of relief, Locke, outside of the hatch, after Boone’s accident;]

[Voice] … So who is *this* man? He was one passenger onboard Oceanic 815. It was a flight like any other… a plane full of strangers, bound from Sydney to Los Angeles. Among them, the doctor who lost his father … and lost his way. The girl next door, turned fugitive; the con man out for revenge, who killed the wrong man. The couple, whose marriage was slipping, the soldier, the rock star, the lottery winner, the single mother-to-be and, of course, the man whose faith was lost, and whose body had failed him…

[images: Locke at the wheelchair; Mr. Eko at the check in; Michael and Walt sitting on the plane; Jack putting his handbag in the compartment; Kate entering and then drinking with her hands cuffed]

[Voice] These were just a few of the many who were brought together high over the ocean, but something they could not understand at the time… [images of inside the plane being torn apart, etc] … something that caused their plane to split apart and fall from the sky… [scene of the tail section falling in the water] … they could not imagine how they survived such a crash… but then again they could never have imagined the power of this island and the tests it would provide. Two groups of passengers survived. They would be separated for a time. And before they united, would experience with the island in very different ways.

[scene of Jack talking to Kate for the first time]

JACK: Excuse me!... Do you ever use a needle?

KATE: I made the drapes in my apartment.

…

KATE: I might throw up on you.

JACK: You’re doing fine.

[Voice] 48 survivors from the fuselage were brought together by the crash.

HURLEY: [to Claire] Hungry?

CLAIRE: Yeah. [Hurley giving her the plane food] Thanks.

[Voice] They came from all walks of life.

JIN: [subtitled] Don’t worry about the others. We need to stay together.

…

JACK: [to Kate] I don’t know your name.

KATE: I’m Kate.

JACK: [smiling] Jack.

[Voice] But they were all soon to discover that this was not an ordinary island. Not by any stretch of imagination.

[scene of their first night on the island, when they see trees at the distance, being uprooted, and the Lostzilla sound]

CHARLIE: Terrific.

[Voice] A new day arrived. The survivors got acquainted.

HURLEY: Hurley, oh just… [putting his has out to shake but taking it out, as Sayid was busy]

SAYID: Sayid. [shaking hands]

HURLEY: Hey, how do you know to do all that?

SAYID: I was a military communications officer.

HURLEY: Oh, were you Air Force? Army?

SAYID: The Republican Guard.

…

CLAIRE: Peanut butter?

CHARLIE: Just like you ordered.

CLAIRE: It’s empty.

CHARLIE: Don’t snug, it’s full, … full to the brim… oh God, makes you want a glass of milk, extra smooth… it’s the best bloody peanut butter I’ve ever tasted!

CLAIRE: [laughing]

[Voice] They were strangers thrown together, each with different priorities.

JACK: What’re you doing in here? What’s in the bag?

SAWYER: Booze, smokes, a couple of Playboys. What’s in yours?

JACK: Medicine.

SAWYER: That about sums it up, don’t it?

JACK: You do this back home, too? Steal from the dead?

SAWYER: You’re just not lookin’ the big picture, doc, you’re still back in the civilization.

JACK: And where are you?

SAWYER: I’m in the wild…

…

SAWYER: So what is it about that guy…? Jack? What is it about him that makes you all… weak in the loins?

KATE: Do you have to be a pig or it just come naturally?

SAWYER: It’s he’s a doctor, right? Yeah, ladies diiig the doctors. Yeah, gimme a couple of band-aids, a bottle of broxide… I can run this island, too

KATE: You’re actually comparing yourself to Jack?

SAWYER: The difference between us ain’t that big, sweetheart…

[Voice] Across the island, the 23 survivors from the tail-section had a much different experience.

ANA: You couldn’t find any matches?

GOODWIN: I asked around but I couldn’t find any.

ANA: What are you? A boy-scout?

GOODWIN: I’m in the Peace Corp.

ANA: I’m Ana Lucia

GOODWIN: Goodwin.

[Voice] And on their first night, something terrible happened… [Scenes of the children being taken and Eko killing two of them] …a deadly confrontation.

ANA: What happened?

NATHAN: Who are these people?

ANA: I don’t know. But they are here in the jungle with no shoes, nothing in their pockets, no labels on their clothes... these people were here before us.

[COMMERCIAL BREAK]

[We see John sitting on the beach, looking at a checkers board, Walt coming to talk to him for the first time]

JACK: How’s your son?

MICHAEL: Walt? Yeah, I think he’ll be aright.

JACK: How old is he?

MICHAEL: Nine, ten! Ten.

…

LOCKE: Do you play checkers with your pop?

WALT: No. I live in Australia with my mom. She died a couple of weeks ago.

LOCKE: You had a bad month.

WALT: I guess.

[Voice] Before the crash John Locke had lost faith in his life, but he rose from the wreckage with the ability to walk, and with renewed faith, he explored the island and found new purpose.

LOCKE: I’m an ordinary man, Jack, I live in the real world, but this place is different, special. We all know it, we all feel it. What if everything that happened here happened for a reason?

[Voice] Yet he still yearned for answers, his search to discover the great mysteries of the island led him to a hatch in the ground.

JACK: Oh, my God. What is this thing?

LOCKE: Exactly.

[Voice] And he believed in his heart that in this hatch… the answers would be found.

LOCKE: The path ends in that hatch. All of that happened so that we open the hatch.

[Voice] Across the island, the tail-section survivors would have another encounter, with the same group, who they would come to call ‘The Others’. And it was clear ‘The Others’ were very determined to preserve their way of life.

ANA: They dragged nine people into the jungle. The kids! And there’s no sign of them?

[Voice] Amid so much uncertainty, Michael wanted desperately to get his son Walt off the island.

SUN: [already in English] Are you alright?

MICHAEL: He can’t grow up in this place.

[Voice] So he built a raft. And after 40 days on the island, they were ready to set sail in search of rescue.

JIN: [subtitled]: Stay with Jack. He’ll keep you safe.

SUN: [subtitled]: Who will keep you safe?

[Voice] But they would find out it was not their time to leave the island… when they were intercepted by a group… of ‘The Others’

MR. FRIENDLY: What's going on? What are you folks doing this far out here?

MICHAEL: We were, we were -- the plane crashed. We were on the island for months, man.

MR. FRIENDLY: Well, it's a good thing we found you. Only, the thing is, we're going to have to take the boy.

MICHAEL: I'm not giving you anybody

MR. FRIENDLY: Well, alright then.

[The floodlight is turned off. Sawyer draws his gun, but is shot first by one of the two men, and falls into the water. Jin dives in after him. The two men jump onto the raft. One grabs Walt and the other fights with Michael.]

WALT: Dad! Dad!

MICHAEL: No!

[Michael gets pushed into the water. Walt is taken onto the boat screaming. A woman throws a Molotov cocktail from the steering compartment and the boat takes off. Michael dives under the water before the raft goes up in flames.]

WALT: Help me!

MICHAEL: Walt!

WALT: Help me! Dad! Please!

MICHAEL: Walt! No!

[Voice] And on the same night the raft was stopped at sea, the survivors would finally open the hatch they discovered.

LOCKE: Kate, you run the fuse, Jack and I will rig the charges.

[Voice] They had no idea what laid beneath. How could they know that inside, was a man desperate for his freedom? But one fact was unmistakable: two very different worlds were about to collide.

[scenes of the hatch door being blown up, and Desmond hearing the noise and getting ready to ‘welcome’ the intruders]

[COMMERCIAL BREAK]

[Voice] Amid so many questions, the hatch was blown open, and the survivors could only hope to find the answers inside.

[image of Locke entering the hatch, and finding Kate lying on the floor]

LOCKE: Kate! Easy, easy, easy…

KATE: Behind you! [We see Desmond]

[Voice] Desmond shared his story of shipwrecking on the island and spending three years of his life at the station, entering the code into the computer. Jack and Locke watched the film that described the importance of the station.

DR. MARVIN CANDLE: …every 108 minutes the button must be pushed. From the moment the alarm sounds you will have 4 minutes to enter the code into the microcomputer processor.

LOCKE: We’re gonna need to watch that again.

…

JACK: You really think this is happening.

DESMOND: Why wouldn't it be?

JACK: Do you ever think that maybe they put you down here to push a button every 100 minutes just to see if you would? That all of this – the computer, the button – it’s just a mind game? An experiment?

DESMOND: Every single day?

[Voice] Help had arrived for Desmond. He could not leave quickly enough.

LOCKE: What are you doing? Are you leaving? Where are you going?

DESMOND: As far as I can run, brother.

[Voice] Desmond was gone. But Locke was ready and eager to take over his duties. And they explored the hatch in greater detail.

[Scene of Sayid hammering the wall]

SAYID: On the other side of this door, there’s more concrete. I’d say it’s at least 8 to 10 feet thick.

JACK: Did you see this? [Showing his key being pulled towards the magnetic field on the wall]

SAYID: Interesting.

[Voice] Across the island, after a long night at sea, the raft survivors washed ashore without Walt…they soon met the survivors from the tail section.

SAWYER: [to Mr. Eko] So, what’s your name, anyway?

MR. EKO: Mr. Eko.

SAWYER: So, what’s that like, Mr. Ed?

[Voice] And together they began a long hike across the island, to unite with the rest of the passengers.

[Scene of Jack opening the bathroom door in the hatch, to find Kate coming out of the shower, wrapped in a towel]

JACK: Hey!

KATE: Hey.

JACK: You, uhm, you took a shower.

KATE: Had to see if it worked. You could use one.

JACK: Maybe a little later.

KATE: I’ll leave the shampoo for you.

[Voice] Sawyer had suffered a gunshot wound on the raft. And as the group neared the fuselage campus, his condition grew worse.

MICHAEL: [to unconscious Sawyer] Sawyer!

…

MR. EKO: Where is the doctor?

…

JACK: I got him.

KATE: Where are we headed?

JACK: Bathroom. He's burning up. We've got to get him in the shower - bring his fever down.

LOCKE: Hello.

EKO: Hello.

[Voice] The two groups were now together…

KATE: Sawyer? Hey, you have to listen to me, okay? The only way that you are going to get better is if you take this pill. Now swallow, swallow. Good! Good.

JACK: Nice job. I never learned the whole whisper-in-the-ear thing in med school.

[Voice] … but there many issues … were just beginning.

KATE: I’m sorry.

JACK: Are you?

KATE: Yeah, I’m sorry. I’m sorry that I’m not as perfect as you!

JACK: What’s going on here?

KATE: Just forget it.

JACK: No, no, don’t walk away from me.

KATE: Just let me go. (crying).

JACK: [holding her] It’s OK. It’s alright, it’s alright.

[Kate kisses him and walks away]

JACK: Kate!!

…

[scene: Charlie playing his guitar while Claire is trying to give him a haircut]

CLAIRE: All right. Can you stop moving or I’ll cut your ear off?

CHARLIE: So, what’s the first thing you’re gonna do when we get rescued?

CLAIRE: You know, I don’t really know…

CHARLIE: You can hang around with me in LA. You and Turniphead.

CLAIRE: Thanks.

CHARLIE: Smashing! Check this out. This is track two. It’s called – sorry – it’s called ‘Monster eats the pilot’

[Voice] The survivors begin taking shifts entering the code into the computer. But one day, when Michael was in the hatch, something very strange happened.

[scene of Michael reading the message on the screen, replying it and finding out it ‘was’ Walt on the other side.]

[Voice] Could it be Walt? Or was it a trap created by ‘The Others’? Regardless, Michael made up his mind. He would wait no longer, and no matter what it took, he would find his son.

JACK [calling out]: Locke!

[We hear a moan in the background and Jack finds Locke knocked out on the floor of the gun vault.]

JACK: John.

[We hear the sound of a gun and see Michael point a rifle at Jack.]

MICHAEL: Stay in there. Stay -

JACK: Michael, what are you-?

MICHAEL: I'm going after my son, and nobody is going to stop me, okay? Okay, that is my right. That is a father's right.

JACK: Listen, we can do this together, okay?

MICHAEL: I have to do it alone.

[Michael closes the door of the vault.]

[COMMERCIAL BREAK]

[Scene of Jin coming out of the tent, Sun after him, and Hurley greeting him]

[Voice] With the two camps united, loved ones were brought together, and relationships evolved.

[Scene of Kate visiting Sawyer, and throwing him a banana]

KATE: Morning!

SAWYER: There’re nicer ways to wake a man up, Freckles.

KATE: Come on, it's time to go get your bandages changed.

SAWYER: [standing up and coming *really* close to Kate’s face] Thanks.

KATE: [laughing] Come on!

…

[at the hatch]

KATE: Jack!

JACK: In here, in the armory. Michael locked us in here.

SAWYER: What'd he say?

KATE [hearing the timer start to beep]: I got it

SAWYER [opening the door]: Howdy, boys.

[Jack hands Locke a gun.]

LOCKE: What are you doing, Jack?

JACK: We’re going after him. [He grabs a rifle and exits the gun vault].

SAWYER: Hey, what -? What happened?

LOCKE: Michael went after Walt.

…

KATE [to Jack]: You got a gun for me?

JACK: You're not coming.

KATE: Excuse me?

JACK: Someone has to be here to take care of the button.

KATE: So why should that person be me? I can track, carry a gun -

JACK: You're not coming! You're staying. Let’s go.

[Voice] Michael was on his own. A father determined to find his son.

[We see Michael running through the jungle. He stops to check his compass and continues running. He comes across a man peeing.]

MICHAEL [shouldering his rifle]: Hey, put your hands up. Don't move.

PICKETT: You're Walt's old man, aren't ya?

MICHAEL: What? [Suddenly Mr. Friendly is right behind Michael and takes the rifle. Michael breaks away and runs firing a pistol behind him.]

[Voice] Michael’s determination would lead to a meeting in the jungle. [JACK: He’s close.] … with ‘The Others’.

MR. FRIENDLY: Hey there, Michael.

MICHAEL: Where is he you son-of-a-bitch?

PICKETT [entering with Kate in a hood]: Hey, look at what I found?

MR. FRIENDLY: [to Michael, in that friendly-threatening way] You make *one* sound… Get ready with the torches. I'm going to talk to her people.

LOCKE: I think we'd better head back.

JACK: You know what happens if we just turn around and go back? We're never going to see him again.

MR. FRIENDLY: You're exactly right, Jack.

[Voice] It was the first real meeting of the two groups. And it was not friendly, but that was understandable, both had something to protect.

SAWYER: He's the son-of-a-bitch that shot me on the raft. [Sawyer moves forward, looking like he's going to shoot.]

MR. FRIENDLY: Why don't you point the gun down?

[Sawyer is suddenly shot, the bullet apparently grazing his ear or neck. We see Michael and Kate reacting to the gunshots.]

MR. FRIENDLY: This is not your island. This is our island. And the only reason you’re living on it, it’s because we let you live on it. [suddenly yelling and raising his arms] Light 'em up! We got a misunderstanding, Jack, so listen carefully. Right here [pointing] there is a line. You cross that line, we go from misunderstanding to something else. Give me your weapons, turn around, go home.

JACK: No.

MR. FRIENDLY: I hoped it wouldn't come to this. [yelling] Bring her out, Alex! [Pickett brings Kate] She was following you [ Sawyer moves to get her] DON’T!

[Voice] ‘The Others’ had issued a warning: a line in the sand, not to be crossed.[SAWYER: You and me ain’t done, Zeke.] Unfortunately, the warning would be ignored.

KATE: Jack?

JACK: You alright?

KATE: Hm, hm

MR. FRIENDLY: His friends are going home. [He drops the guns on the ground] Divvy 'em up. [Mr. Friendly looks at Alex, and she hesitates.]

ALEX [to Michael]: Sorry. [She knocks him out with her gun.]

[at the fuselage camp]

LOCKE: See you, James.

SAWYER: Don't beat yourself up, Freckles. If he'd told me to stay behind, I'd have done the same damn thing.

[Voice] Then one day, not long after their meeting with ‘The Others’, the survivors captured a man in the jungle.

GALE: My name’s Henry Gale, I’m from Minnesota.

[Voice] He claimed to be a stranded traveler, [he’s at the hatch, Sayid and Lock with him] but could his story be believed?

SAYID: How did you get to this island?

GALE: We crashed, my wife and I.

SAYID: Crashed in what?

GALE: A balloon. She died.

JACK: What the hell is going on here?

LOCKE: We should let Jack treat him first, then we'll get our answers.

SAYID: Jack, do not untie him.

[Voice] They remained uncertain that the stranger could be trusted, so they locked him up.

[scene of Michael being brought by the others the Otherville]

MR. FRIENDLY: You got a problem, Michael?

[Voice] Across the island, Michael was escorted to a camp where the others were gathered.

[scene of the group getting to the decoy camp]

MR. FRIENDLY: [to Alex] Tell her we’re here.

[scene of Sun asking Sawyer for a pregnancy test]

SUN: Sawyer?

SAWYER: Well, hey there, Sunshine!

SUN: How’s your book?

SAWYER: Not nearly enough sex.

SUN: I heard that you have all the medical supplies?

SAWYER: You heard correct.

…

KATE: Where did Sawyer find one of these anyway? I mean, who flies with a pregnancy test, right?

SUN: Have you ever… taken one?

KATE: Yeah… [Sun looks at the result] You’re pregnant!

[Voice] No one knew if they could believe the man calling himself Henry Gale, so he drew a map. A map to his balloon and to his wife’s grave, in an effort to prove his story. And in the hatch John Locke heard a voice come over the loudspeaker [3, 2, 1…] just before the doors locked shut… [sequence of the doors coming down] … by the time of counting down Locke was trapped… [GALE: What happened?] and he had no choice but to trust the man no one trusted.

LOCKE: The tool box. Get the tool box! Come on, put it under.

GALE: John, John, wait, don't just...

[The tool box buckles and Locke's legs are trapped under the door. He screams out in pain, and Gale tries lifting the door with his arms.]

GALE: Alright, we'll wait 'til somebody comes down.

LOCKE: Yeah, but we don't have time. I need you to go up through the grate and into the vents. That button has to be pushed. [Buzzing noise when the hieroglyphs show]. HENRY!!

[Voice] As Henry left to push the button, Locke came upon an amazing discovery of a map. It was Kelvin’s effort to map all of the stations on the island.

GALE: I did what you told me to. I punched in the code and pressed the execute button, but nothing happened.

JACK [entering]: Get away from him.

GALE: Wait, you don't...

SAYID [aiming his gun]: Step back, right now.

LOCKE: Sayid, it's okay.

GALE: Couldn't you find my balloon?

SAYID: We did find your balloon, Henry Gale. We also found the grave you described. But still I did not believe it to be true. So I dug up that grave and found that there was not a woman inside. There was a man. [Sayid shows him a driver's license] A man named Henry Gale.

[COMMERCIAL BREAK]

[Voice] John Locke had put his trust in Henry Gale, but now he didn’t know what to believe.

[Ana opens the door of the armory to Locke, who enters to talk to - as we now know – fake Gale.]

LOCKE: Did you get caught on purpose?

GALE: What possible reason could I have, for putting myself through all this?

LOCKE: Maybe your people were looking for this place.

GALE: This place is a joke, John!

LOCKE: What are you talking about?

GALE: I crawled through your vents and I stood at your computer, the timer went all the way down to zero, There was a loud hum like a big magnet. It was really very frightening. And you know what happened next? Nothing happened, John. I never pressed the button.

LOCKE: You're lying.

GALE: No, I'm done lying.

[Voice] And after his conversation with Henry, he began to doubt his mission, and he stopped believing. [JACK: Hey, you’re gonna get that?] He was discouraged, and Jack was impatient.

[Sawyer and Kate, by the shore]

SAWYER: Oh happy day! Here comes Dr. Giggles.

JACK: Hey.

SAWYER: Hey yourself.

JACK: I'm going back out into the jungle to talk to our friend with the beard - see if we can make a trade.

SAWYER: Aaah, the old prisoner exchange. And you're inviting me along because you want a gun, huh?

JACK: I'm not inviting you; I'm inviting Kate

KATE: I'll get my things.

[Voice] Locke grew more and more obsessed with the map he saw, thinking maybe it held the answers… the map led Locke and Mr. Eko to the discovery of another station.

[scenes of Mr. Eko and Locke find and opening the other hatch, turning lights on, pressing the execute button of the printer, finding the images of the hatch]

[Voice] It appeared to them to be a surveillance post, designed to observe the behavior of those entering the numbers. [scene of both of them watching the Orientation video, given now by “Dr. Mark Wickman”] Locke’s faith was shattered, but Eko’s was awakened.

MR. EKO: Would you like to watch that again?

LOCKE: No, I've seen enough.

[scene of Jack and Kate in the jungle]

KATE: I'm flattered.

JACK: Yeah, why is that?

KATE: Because you chose me to go with you instead of Sawyer.

JACK: I only asked you because they don't want you. They grabbed you - had you at gunpoint. They could have kept you but they didn't. Then again, they didn't really want me, either.

KATE: Damaged goods, both of us.

[Scene of Sayid at the beach, breaking coconut shells open]

HURLEY: Hey, man. You gotta put the lime in the coconut to bring them both up.

SAYID: …

HURLEY: Lime in the coconut…? The song?

SAYID: What do you want, Hurley?

HURLEY: This! [showing the radio]

SAYID: That is a short-wave radio. It’s a glorified walkie-talkie.

HURLEY: Yeah, but can’t you switch a blue wire with a red wire and make it stronger?

SAYID: Why would I bother?

HURLEY: Okay, man, sorry. No problem.

[Voice] Jack went out to the line he was never supposed to cross, hoping to trade Henry Gale for Walt.

JACK: We’ve got your man! You want him back you’re gonna have to come out here! I’ll be right here so you can talk to me!

[Voice] And Henry remained in the hatch, growing impatient with his captors.

ANA: If you’re gonna say something, you gonna have to speak—[Henry attacks her and grabs her by the throat]

GALE: You killed two of us. Good people who were leaving you alone. [Locke hits him in his head and he falls]

[Voice] As Jack and Kate waited for an answer, ‘The Others’ had their own ideas on how to get their man back.

MS. KLUGH: There’s been a development since you came here, Michael. One of our people was captured by yours.

MICHAEL: So go get him back.

MS. KLUGH: We can't do that. But you can.

MICHAEL: I want to see my son. [Walt is brought to the tent]. Walt?

WALT: Dad.

MICHAEL: Did they hurt you?

WALT: They make me take tests.

MICHAEL: They make you what?!

MS. KLUGH: We're not going to talk about that.

MICHAEL: No, wait. Hey wait, wait, wait. Come here, Walt. Wait, come here, Walt.

[Walt breaks away from Pickett and runs and hugs Michael.]

WALT: Dad.

MICHAEL: I promise you, I will get you out of here. [Pickett grabs Walt.]

WALT: Dad! Dad!

MICHAEL: Let him go! Walt wait! Let go of him!

WALT: I love you!

MICHAEL: Walt, I love you too, Walt!

WALT: Let me go! Let me go!

MICHAEL: I'm going to get you out of here.

MS. KLUGH: After you release our man, I'm going to need you to do something else.

MICHAEL: Whatever you want.

MS. KLUGH: I'm writing 4 names down. We need you to bring them here. If you don't bring all the people on the list, you'll never see Walt again.

MICHAEL [still crying]: Okay, okay.

MS. KLUGH: Do you understand, Michael?

MICHAEL [still crying]: Yes.

…

KATE: How long are you gonna wait, Jack?

JACK: Until I get my voice back. Then I'm going to yell some more.

KATE: I'm sorry I kissed you.

JACK: I'm not.

[Suddenly they hear movement and see a torch coming through the jungle. Someone is running toward them making frightened gasping sounds. He falls almost at their feet and they turn him over.]

KATE: Michael!

...

SAYID: [to Hurley] I want to show you something.

HURLEY: Cool! You fixed it!

SAYID: We’ll see. The chance of getting a signal is slim at best. [He turns the radio on and Moonlight Serenade plays]

HURLEY: Hold it, stop! You hear that? This gotta be close, right?

SAYID: Radio waves at this frequency bounce off the ionosphere, they can travel thousands of miles, they could be coming from anywhere.

HURLEY: Brain time. [Sayid gives him a dark look] Just kidding, dude.

[At the hatch, with Michael]

KATE: I think he’s waking up.

MICHAEL: I found them. The Others

KATE: How many of them were there?

MICHAEL: I counted 22. And 2 guns is all I saw. They're barely armed. We can take them. As soon as I get my strength back, I will take us back there. And we are going to get my boy back.

...

ANA: We caught one of them – The Others. He tried to kill me today, so I wanted him dead. I couldn't do it.

MICHAEL: Then let me do it. They're animals. They took my son - right out of my hands - they took my son and - I'll do it, gimme the gun, I’ll kill him. [he stands up, looks at the gun] I’m sorry.

ANA: For what? [points the gun at Ana and shoots, opens the armory and shoots his own arm]

[COMMERCIAL BREAK]

[Voice] With Henry now liberated, Michael committed to memory the list of the 4 people he needed to bring across the island. But first, it was time to say ‘goodbye’…

[scene of Ana and Libby’s funeral]

JACK: Rest in peace, Ana

SUN: [seeing the boat] BOAT!

[Voice] … just in time to say ‘hello’ once again … to Desmond!

[scene of Sayid, Jack and Sawyer on the boat, kicking the hatch open]

DESMOND: You?

…

LOCKE: Refresh my memory, Desmond, how long did you say that you were down there in the hatch?

DESMOND: Three years.

LOCKE: What if I told you it was all for nothing?

DESMOND: [in a drunk voice] How the hell would you something like that?

LOCKE: I found another hatch. So tomorrow, we’re gonna find out what happens if that button doesn’t get pushed.

[Voice] The following day, Michael assembled everyone on the list, and they left the beach in search of Walt. Mr. Eko had taken over the duties of pushing the button in the hatch. But when Desmond and Locke began their experiment to see what would happen if the timer went down to zero, Eko was locked out.

DESMOND: Are you sure about this, brother?

LOCKE: I’m more sure about this, than anything in my entire life.

[Voice] Sayid was convinced Michael was leading his friends into a trap. So he set out by boat to find the others’ camp and find them.

[scene of Sayid, getting the rubber boat ready]

SAYID: I’m sorry if what I said was confusing, I asked *Jin* to come.

SUN: You need someone to translate. And you at least two people who know how to sail.

SAYID: Desmond managed by himself.

SUN: And look where he ended up!

…

[scene, Charlie playing his guitar, Mr. Eko comes running, after having escaped from the hatch through the tunnel they once came in]

MR. EKO: Charlie! I need your help. John has locked me out of the hatch. And I believe he’s doing this because he’s going to stop pushing that button. I’m absolutely certain that if he’s successful, in 90 minutes everyone on this island will die!

CHARLIE: All right, I’m in! I’m in.

MR. EKO: Thank you!

[they run back to the hatch]

[scene of Sayid, Jin and Sun on the boat, Sun is throwing up]

JIN: [subtitled] I told you not to come.

SUN: [subtitled]: It’s not seasickness, Jin.

JIN: [subtitled]: I know.

SAYID: [seeing the rock through his binoculars] That’s the rock Michael described. We’re here.

[back inside the hatch, with Desmond and Locke, Desmond is growing impatient]

LOCKE: What?

DESMOND: What if you got it backwards?

LOCKE: Backwards?

DESMOND: What if the experiment wasn't on the two men in here, but on the two men in there? Was there anything else on the station, a computer?

LOCKE: Yeah.

DESMOND: So what did it do?!

LOCKE: Nothing! It didn't do anything. It printed out numbers. Knock yourself out.

... [outside, Charlie and Mr. Eko]

CHARLIE: Listen, what if we hurt them? Or blow the computer? [knocking on the blast door, to Locke] Eko is very upset, John. Just open this door and we can talk about it.

[back on the other side]

DESMOND: When did you come here? How long ago?

LOCKE: 60-65 days.

DESMOND: The date - what was the date?

LOCKE: It was September 22nd.

DESMOND: [he sees the dates match]. I think I crashed your plane.

…

CHARLIE: Eko? [Eko’s making the Catholic cross sign] Wait a second I – don’t – think this is a good idea, Eko. [Eko is rigging the fuse and lighting it]. We’re in a very confined area… Oh bollocks!

[scene of Sayid at the camp, searching it]

[Voice] Sayid arrived at the camp Michael described, only to find it empty. The Others were gone. In fact, they were miles away, waiting in the jungle for Michael’s friends. [scenes of the group being attacked by the Others with darts, falling and being captured]

[back in the hatch, Charlie waking up]

[Voice] Eko’s attempt to blow open the hatch had failed.

CHARLIE: Eko? It’s Charlie! Wake up!

[Voice] And Locke and Desmond and Locke were at odds inside.

DESMOND: We need to push the button.

LOCKE: No, we don't!

DESMOND: I crashed your bloody plane!

LOCKE: How did you manage to do that?

DESMOND: On that day, those numbers turned to hieroglyphics. And that screen? That screen filled up with "system failure," [pointing to the printout] System Failure. And I know what they are. 92204 - September the 22nd, 2004, the day your planed crashed. It's real! It's all bloody real!! Now, push the damn button!!

LOCKE: I know what I saw! It's a lie; it's not real! None of it is real! [Grabs the computer and crashes it on the floor]

DESMOND: You killed us all!

LOCKE: I just saved us all.

[At the Pala Ferry pier]

[Voice] After Michael delivered his friends to the Others, [MR. FRIENDLY: Everybody just calm down!] The time had arrived to meet their leader.

GALE: [now, fake] All right, let’s take care of business, shall we?

[at the hatch, Desmond is pushing one of the units to go underground.]

LOCKE: No, no, no, none of this is real!

DESMOND: I've got to go. And you've got to get as far away from here as possible. I'm sorry for whatever happened that made you stop believing. But it's all real.

[Knives and forks start flying toward the magnet wall, with Charlie and Eko in their path. Everything metal in the place starts flying toward the magnet wall. Charlie helps Eko walk. Desmond makes it to the failsafe mechanism. Eko enters.]

MR. EKO. John!

LOCKE: I was wrong!

[Desmond turns the failsafe key, The screen fades to white.We see Gale and everyone on the pier. The ground shakes, there's a bright light, the sky has a purple color, there’s a strange sound, and everyone covers their ears. We see Sayid, Sun and Jin on the boat, covering their ears. We see the people on the beach reacting the same way. The light and sound fade. We see an object falling from the sky. Bernard moves Claire to safety, right before the hatch door with the quarantine stencil almost falls on them.]

[back at the Pala Ferry pier]

FAKE GALE: [to Michael] You lived up to your word. We live up to our word, too. Take this boat and follow a compass bearing of 325, and if you do that exactly, you and your son will find rescue.

MICHAEL: Who are you people?

FAKE GALE: We’re the good guys, Michael.

MICHAEL:Walt!

WALT: Dad! Dad!

MICHAEL: Come here, come here [they hug]. It's going to be okay now. We're going home, Walt. We are going home.

[scene of Charlie coming back to the beach, looking disorientated]

BERNARD: Charlie, you okay?

CHARLIE: It’s hard to tell exactly, brother, my ears, you know?

BERNARD: Where’s Locke? Eko?

CHARLIE: They’re not back yet?

BERNARD:… No. [Charlie sees Claire and smiles]

[back at the Pala Ferry, Ms. Klugh releases Hurley]

MS. KLUGH: Hugo, you can go back to your camp, tell the rest of your people they can never come here.

HURLEY: But what about my friends?

GALE: Your friends are coming home with us.

[scenes of Michael leaving on the boat, with Walt, of the three being pushed up, looking at teach other]

[Voice] And so it goes. People lost in their journey… lost in their lives. But this island provides opportunity, some may rise, some may fall, and you wonder, who will lose faith, who’ll survive… and who really are… ‘the good guys’ ?