Lost/Season Two Flashbacks

Man of Science, Man of Faith

One of the castaways is chosen to descend into the mysterious hatch, and Shannon stumbles upon a shockingly familiar face in the jungle. The band of friends, family, enemies and strangers must continue to work together against the cruel weather and harsh terrain if they want to stay alive.

See Man of Science, Man of Faith for full details.

Jack

Jack is in the Emergency Room and has to decide on which of two critically injured patients to work on. Jack decides to start on the woman and, as he does, the other patient flat-lines and dies. The woman whispers to Jack that she wants to dance at her wedding — it's Sarah. Later, Jack comes to Sarah's room and explains to her that her back is broken. He warns her that even the most optimistic result puts the likelihood of her retaining any feeling below her waist as extremely unlikely. In the Operating Room, Jack preps Sarah for the surgery. Sarah calls him over to tell him a little secret: She knows she's not going to be dancing anymore, but she can still roll around at her wedding. She tells Jack he's invited. In response, Jack tells her he's going to fix her. After the surgery, Jack takes a run up and down the steps of a stadium. Jack tries to keep pace with another man at the stadium, but stumbles and hurts his ankle. The man takes a look at Jack's ankle and tells Jack he hasn't sprained it, but he doesn't fancy Jack's chances of catching up to him that night. The man asks Jack what his excuse is for being out there, that his own excuse is that he's training for a race around the world. Jack tells the man he made a promise to a patient of his, but he couldn't fix her. The man asks him what if he did fix her. Jack disagrees, telling the man that it would have to be a miracle. The man tells Jack to keep his ankle elevated and it's been nice chatting with him. Jack finally introduces himself, and the man introduces himself as Desmond. Jack returns to the hospital and tells Sarah that the damage to her back was extensive, but he couldn't repair her spinal column and apologizes. Sarah asks him if he's pulling her chain, since she can wiggle her toes.

Adrift

With the abduction of Walt fresh on their minds and their raft destroyed, Michael, Sawyer and Jin fight for their lives and discover a new predator in the roiling ocean. Meanwhile on land, Locke must descend into the hatch when one castaway goes missing inside.

See Adrift for full details.

Michael

At a custody attorney's office, Michael is discussing the paperwork concerning Susan Lloyd and Walt. The attorney, Finney, tells Michael that Susan wants him to relinquish his rights as Walt's father so that Brian Porter can adopt Walt. Michael refuses and asks the attorney how he can stop Susan from going to Rome. They can file an injunction to prevent her from leaving the city, but the attorney warns Michael that the legal proceedings are going to take a lot of money. Michael and Susan later meet with their attorneys. Susan's attorney asks Michael why he didn't have a problem with her taking Walt to Amsterdam for 14 months but, now that she's going to Rome, he's filing an injunction. She reminds Michael that Susan paid for his several surgeries, weeks in a private hospital room and his extensive rehabilitation. Later, Susan speaks with Michael in private. She tells Michael she thinks he's going to win in court and keep her from leaving the country with Walt. Susan tells him that in Rome she'll be a senior partner at the firm and able to give Walt anything he needs. She reminds Michael that he's still on disability and is about to be evicted from his apartment. He needs to take care of himself, get back on his feet financially so he can get back to pursuing his art. Susan asks Michael to let Walt go. At a park, Susan brings Walt, as a toddler, to see Michael. Michael pulls a stuffed polar bear out of his bag and gives it to Walt. He tells Walt he's not going to see him for a while, but knows that Walt's mommy and Brian are going to take good care of him. He tells Walt that he loves him and always will.

Orientation

Jack, Locke and Kate learn more secrets about the hatch. Meanwhile, after being beaten and taken captive, Sawyer, Michael and Jin wonder if their captors are fellow survivors or the dreaded "Others."

See Orientation for full details.

Locke

At a group counseling session, the triviality of other's minor problems in comparison to his lost kidney causes Locke to have an outburst. Outside, a woman from the session approaches him and Locke apologizes to her if he ruined her meeting. The woman tells him he said everything she's always wanted to say in there. She flirts with Locke and tells him her name is Helen. Later the two develop a relationship and sleep together. Locke tries to leave one night, but Helen wakes up and asks him where he's going. He ends up in front of Cooper's house and Cooper gets into his car. Cooper knows that Locke has been been parking outside his house, even after he moved, but he tells Locke it's getting annoying and asks Locke to tell him what he wants. Locke simply asks Cooper "why". Cooper tells him there is no why. Locke needed a father figure and Cooper needed a kidney, and that's what happened. Cooper tells Locke to get over it and to not come back as he's not wanted. At a restaurant, Helen gives Locke a key to her place for their six month anniversary. She tells Locke there's only one condition: when he stays over, he stays over. Needing to know where Locke sneaks off to in the middle of the night, Helen followed him to his father's house. She tells him she wasted 20 years of her life being angry, but needed help to get over it. She offers to help John get over his anger and asks him to promise her he'll never go to that place anymore. Locke agrees. In bed with Helen, Locke breaks his promise and leaves for Cooper's house. Helen follows him and tells Locke that Cooper isn't coming out of his house because he doesn't care, and that Locke is scared of moving forward and that is why he keeps coming to Cooper's house. She tells Locke he has to choose between Cooper and her. Locke tells her it's not that simple and he doesn't know how, but Helen tells him it's because he doesn't know what's going to happen and that's why it's called a leap of faith. Telling him he doesn't have to be alone, Locke accepts Helen's help.

Everybody Hates Hugo

Disturbing memories from Hurley's past cause him to struggle with a task he's assigned inside the hatch. Meanwhile Sawyer, Michael and Jin discover the identities of their captors, and Claire uncovers a shocking piece of information about the fate of the raft.

See Everybody Hates Hugo for full details.

Hurley

Inside his home, Hurley is watching the Mega Lotto Jackpot and realizes he has the winning numbers, but hides them. His mother tells him he has to change his life, but Hurley tells her that maybe he doesn't want to change his life. At Hurley's place of work, Mr. Cluck's, Hurley is engrossed in looking at his winning lottery ticket. His friend, Johnny, asks him if he's okay. Hurley hides the lottery ticket and tells Johnny he's fine. Hurley's boss calls him in to go over some on-the-job problems, but Hurley quits. Johnny finds Hurley in the parking lot, telling Hurley that he also quit and they've got themselves a day off. Hurley and Johnny stop by a record store. The girl working there, Starla, asks him why the two of them aren't at work and they tell her they quit. She tells him he's her rock and he's messing with her world view by quitting. Hurley asks Starla if maybe she'd like to go see a band play on Friday and she tells him she could probably go on Saturday. Leaving the record store, Johnny wonders what has gotten into Hurley to finally ask her out. That night, Hurley makes Johnny promise that, no matter what happens, they'll never change. The two pull into a gas station and see news crews interviewing the gas station clerk. Hurley tries to get Johnny to leave, but he gets out of his van to see what's going on. The clerk points at Hurley in the van and tells everyone that he's the guy who bought the winning lottery ticket.

... and Found

Michael sets off into the jungle by himself determined to find Walt, but discovers that he is not alone. Meanwhile, Sawyer and Jin are ordered by their captors to take them to their camp, and Sun frantically searches for her missing wedding ring.

See ... and Found for full details.

Sun

Sun's mother, Mrs. Paik, is helping dress her daughter ahead of a meeting with a prospective husband. She chastises Sun for not finding a husband in college, thus necessitating the services of a matchmaker, and warns her that she should find a husband before she gets any older. Sun believes she'll find a husband when the time is right, but her mother retorts that her father, Mr. Paik, says the time is now. The matchmaker tells Sun she'll love the man she's meeting as he's handsome, well-educated, and his family owns the hotel and twelve others. The group passes by Jin, who holds the door open for them, as they enter the hotel. At the meeting, Sun and Jae Lee have some time to get to know one another alone. Breaking the ice, Jae Lee asks Sun who is pressuring her more into marrying. Sun tells him it's her father via her mother. Jae Lee replies that it's his father via his mother via his aunt via his grandmother. He tells Sun he usually dreads these matchmaking set-ups, but today is different, and Sun agrees. At a later date, Sun and Jae Lee are having a nice lunch and Jae Lee expresses his desire to keep seeing Sun as their parents would be thrilled, no more matchmakers, no more pressure. Jae Lee decides to tell Sun a secret — he met an American woman at Harvard and, in six months, is going to move there and marry her. Jae Lee realizes Sun is hurt by this knowledge and that she didn't know their meetings were only a ruse to keep their parents happy. Sun tells Jae Lee she's happy for him, thanks him for the lunch, and leaves.

Jin

In an apartment, Jin is putting on a suit for a job interview while his friend, Tai Soo, is trying to tell him that this is the year love will find Jin. Consulting a destiny book, Tai Soo tells Jin that "love will look orange." Amused, Jin tells him that a man needs a goal in life, get promoted, and then he'll become respected — not like the son of a fisherman. Tai Soo points out a tag still on Jin's tie, but Jin tells him if he cuts it off then he wouldn't be able to return it. At the job interview, Jin meets with Mr. Kim, the owner of the Seoul Gateway hotel. Mr. Kim asks Jin which village he's from as he's not from the city. Mr. Kim ridicules him, telling Jin he smells of fish and pulls the price tag off his tie. But he phones an assistant in with a uniform and tells Jin he's hired as the hotel doorman and will work rain or shine, and won't ask for a raise or time off. As a final caveat, Mr. Kim tells Jin that he's not to open the door to people like himself. At a later date, a poor man appears with his son and asks Jin if his son could use the bathroom. Jin tells him that only hotel guests can enter, but the boy needs to go right now. Jin acquiesces and lets the poor man and his son inside the hotel at the same time his boss, Mr. Kim, appears. Mr. Kim tells Jin that the boy can piss in the gutter for all he cares and that Jin's people are used to that. He tells Jin to find the poor man and his son and to remove them from the hotel. Instead, Jin hands Mr. Kim his uniform's gloves and hat, thanks him for the opportunity, and leaves. Jin walks along the sidewalk by a river in the city. A girl in an orange dress passes by him and he turns to look, but accidentally runs into Sun who drops her purse. He helps pick up her purse and the two smile at one another.

Abandoned

Sawyer's wound becomes life-threatening as he, Michael and Jin make their way through the interior of the island with the tail section survivors. Meanwhile, Shannon is once again haunted by visions of Walt, and Charlie becomes jealous of Locke's interest in Claire.

See Abandoned for full details.

Shannon

Shannon is at a ballet studio working as an instructor with a group of children. After the recital is finished, Shannon receives a phone call from her step-mother Sabrina telling her that her father has been in an accident. The two meet at Saint Sebastian's Hospital and discover that Shannon's father, Adam Rutherford, died from his injuries. At the funeral, Boone appears and gives Shannon a hug. He tells her that, after everything that's happened, she'll visit him in New York, but Shannon tells him she'll be living there if she gets the internship she applied for with the Martha Graham Dance Company. Asking if she's been getting along with his mother, Shannon tells Boone that his mother hates her and has always resented her relationship with her dad. At Shannon's apartment, her friend Dominique comes in with a letter from the Martha Graham Dance Company. Opening and reading the letter, Shannon discovers she's gotten the internship. As the two celebrate, Shannon answers the phone and learns her rent check has bounced. Puzzled, Dominique says that's impossible as Shannon is rich. Shannon meets Sabrina at her house to find out why her checks are bouncing. Asking when she'll get the money her father left her from the will, Shannon learns that there was no will and nothing specifically designated for her. Sabrina refuses to help Shannon and tells her she's own her own. At her apartment, Shannon is packing her things when Boone comes in. He tells her that Sabrina said no and knew why he asked her for money. Shannon asks him if she can stay at his apartment in New York until she can get on her feet, but Boone tells her he's leaving New York after accepting a job from his mother. Boone offers a check to Shannon and tells her he can keep her afloat when his trust fund kicks in, but Shannon refuses to accept his money.

The Other 48 Days

The harrowing first 48 days in the lives of the tail section survivors are revealed.

See The Other 48 Days for full details.

Collision

Tempers flare when Ana-Lucia and her group stumble upon Sayid and the other castaways.

See Collision for full details.

Ana Lucia

Ana-Lucia meets with Matthew Reed, her therapist. Matthew explains to Ana-Lucia that she's come a long way since they first met four months ago and the final determination to let her come back to work is up to him. He hands her an L.A.P.D. badge and welcomes her back to the force. Ana-Lucia arrives at her police station in uniform and talks to her captain. She puts Ana-Lucia behind a desk because she was in an officer-involved shooting, but Ana-Lucia balks at this and demands patrol. Ana-Lucia asks her if it's because she's her captain or because she's her mother. She asks her mother to be put back on the street or else transfer her. Captain Teresa Cortez gives her daughter the car. On patrol with Big Mike, a domestic disturbance call comes up on the police radio and Ana-Lucia responds. The two arrive at the scene of the domestic disturbance where a woman holding a crying baby is arguing with a man moving things. Big Mike tries to calm them down, but Ana-Lucia pulls her sidearm, points it at the man and tells him to get down on the ground. Big Mike yells at Ana-Lucia to holster her weapon. The two arrive back at their police station, and Big Mike just wants to go home and not deal anymore with Ana-Lucia overreacting. A detective approaches Ana-Lucia and tells her they got her guy. Teresa Cortez tells Ana-Lucia his name is Jason McCormick and they picked him up on assault. His fingerprints matched a partial from her crime scene, they questioned him and he confessed. The D.A. is ready to file charges once Ana-Lucia identifies him. Ana-Lucia tells her that the man is not him and walks out. A week later at a bar, Ana-Lucia follows Jason outside to the parking lot. She gets his attention and he asks her if he knows her. Ana-Lucia pulls a gun on him and tells him she was pregnant before shooting him three times. She then walks over to his body and shoots him three more times.

What Kate Did

Kate's original crime that started her life on the run is revealed. Meanwhile, the survivors lay one of their own to rest, Kate sleeplessly watches over a feverish Sawyer, and Mr. Eko has a surprise for Locke regarding the hatch.

See What Kate Did for full details.

Kate

Outside of a house at night, Kate is playing with a lighter when a truck pulls up. Her step-father, Wayne Jansen, stumbles out and grabs onto Kate. Annoyed by Wayne's presence, Kate helps him into his house and he asks what that smell is as they pass through the kitchen. Kate puts Wayne in his bed as he tells her she's beautiful, asking her why she isn't taking his pants off after she pulls his boots off and throws a blanket over him. Kate leaves the house and drives off on her motorcycle as Wayne's house explodes. Immediately after the explosion, Kate stops by a diner where her mother, Diane, is working as a waitress. Kate asks her mother how her wrist is and cryptically tells Diane that her problem is gone. She hands Diane and envelope with an insurance policy for her house that she took out secretly in her name. Diane asks Kate what she did, if Wayne knows about it, but Kate tells her that she's taken care of her and leaves. At a bus station, Kate is buying a one-way ticket to Tallahassee and notices that something is off. As she tries to leave, the Marshal grabs her and tells her not to run, but Kate punches him and tries to escape. The Marshal apprehends her as other undercover officers appear, and he tells Kate that she's under arrest for murder as her mother gave her up. On a rainy night, the Marshal is driving Kate to her arraignment. The Marshal goes on about Kate's white trash mom divorcing her dad, then starts up with some guy who's a drinker and knocks her around, but she marries him and defends him because she loves him. He tells Kate that would make a person want to kill somebody. Suddenly a black horse appears in the road ahead and the Marshal swerves the car into a telephone pole. Kate is able to take the keys to the handcuffs from the stunned Marshal and kick him out of the car. She sees the horse looking at her as she drives off. Later, Kate walks into a U.S. Army recruitment center and stops at the desk of Sgt. Sam Austen — her father. Kate tells him that she was making a scrapbook as a surprise for his birthday and, when she got pictures of him in uniform from his commanding officers, the dates on the back of the pictures placed him in Korea up until four months before she was born. She asks Sam why he didn't tell her that Wayne was her real father. In response, Sam tells her it's because he knew she'd kill him and her mother wouldn't let him take Kate with him when he left. Asking why he didn't kill Wayne himself, Sam tells Kate that it's because he doesn't have murder in his heart.

The 23rd Psalm

Mr. Eko interrogates Charlie about the Virgin Mary statue, Claire begins to lose faith in Charlie when she discovers his secret.

See The 23rd Psalm for full details.

Eko

In Nigeria, a truck full of thugs pulls into the courtyard of a church where a group of children are playing soccer. A priest comes running out of the church, yelling at the thugs to not take anymore children, but one of the thugs knocks him down with his rifle. The thugs bring out an old man and grab one of the children, Eko's younger brother, Yemi. The thug captain gives Yemi a gun and tells him to shoot the old man. A young Eko runs up, grabs the gun from his brother, and shoots the old man. The thug captain grabs the gun from Eko and asks him his name. Delighted in the lack of hesitation in "Mr. Eko", the thug captain yanks the cross from Eko's neck and tosses it to the ground, telling Eko he won't need it anymore. As the thugs leave, taking Eko with them, Yemi picks up the cross. Years later, an adult Eko sits down with two Moroccans to discuss transferring their heroin. He tells them that their drugs are of no value in Nigeria and the only way to get them out are through the air via the U.N. aid missions or the Catholic missionaries. The tough Moroccan tells Eko that it is true what they say about him, that he has no soul. Eko laughs briefly and then slices the necks of the two Moroccans with one swipe of his knife. In the village from his youth, Eko approaches the church and meets Yemi, now a priest. Inside the church, Eko tells Yemi he's come to help him, that he has some merchandise he needs to get out of the country and would like to use one of Yemi's church relief flights to transport it. He tells Yemi that he's getting the drugs out of Nigeria so it cannot be used by their people, and Yemi will have all the money he needs to buy his vaccine. But Yemi tells Eko that Eko's own greed brought him here and, although he will always love Eko, he will not help him. Later, Eko tells Yemi to sign several ordination documents to make him and his thugs priests so they can fly the drugs out themselves, and he'll give Yemi the money for the vaccine. Yemi balks at Eko's demands, but Eko tells him that although he would never do anything to hurt his own brother, his friends will burn Yemi's church to the ground. Yemi signs the ordination documents, but tells Eko that he could never be a priest. Later, the Nigerian drug smuggler's plane is idling on a runway. Eko and Goldie, dressed as priests, are loading containers onto the plane while Olu, Eko's other thug, stands guard. A van drives up to the plane and Yemi gets out, telling Eko he's come to save his life. As he pleads with Eko to not go, a truck with soldiers on the back comes speeding down the runway towards the plane. Goldie and Olu begin shooting at the truck and the driver is hit. The truck crashes to a stop and the soldiers jump out and return fire, hitting and killing Olu. Yemi yells at the soldiers to stop, but he's hit. Goldie helps Eko put Yemi in the plane, but Goldie kicks Eko to the ground before he can get in and closes the door. The plane takes off with Eko sitting on the runway. One of the soldiers runs up to him and asks if he's okay, addressing him as a priest.

The Hunting Party

Jack, Locke and Sawyer pursue a determined Michael after he heads into the jungle toward the dreaded "Others" in search of Walt. Meanwhile, Sun has a surprising reaction to Jin's desire to join the search party, and Hurley and Charlie commiserate over the age-old conundrum of "what women want."

See The Hunting Party for full details.

Jack

Jack and his father, Christian Shephard, are in a meeting room examining X-rays of a spine. Christian tells an Italian woman, Gabriela, that her father, Angelo, is not a candidate for surgery due to the way the tumor is situated on his spine, making it impossible to remove. Translating for her father, Gabriela tells Christian that they didn't come all this way to see Christian, but rather to see Jack because he successfully performed an impossible surgery on a woman with a crushed spinal column. Jack tells her that his father is right, but Gabriela persists and Jack finally gives in and tells her he'll admit her father. A month later, Jack realizes he completely lost track of time and excuses himself from Angelo's hospital room at 4:30 in the morning. Jack arrives home and finds Sarah awake. He apologizes, but Sarah tells him that it's the price of being a miracle worker. Getting up to go to work, she tells Jack that her period was late and got a pregnancy test, but it was negative. Jack asks her if she wants to talk about it, but Sarah dismisses it and leaves. Later at Jack's office, Jack is going over some papers with Gabriela. He tells her Angelo's tumor is aggressive, but they don't have to go through the surgery and he could lead a very normal life for at least another year. But Gabriela signs the papers and tells him that, even if he doesn't succeed, he's giving them a chance. The next day, Angelo's operation doesn't go as planned. In the hospital locker room, Jack tells his father that he got it all, that he had it. Christian tries to calm him down and let him know it's not his fault, telling him that Angelo was a sick, old man on an operating table for nearly 8 hours and his heart just gave out. Jack tells him he has to tell Gabriela, but Christian tells he already told her. In the hospital parking lot, Gabriela gets out of her car that is parked near Jack's. She thanks him for tying, and Jack hugs her when she starts crying and apologizes. The two kiss and Gabriela tells him it's okay, but Jack pulls away, telling her he can't, and leaves. Jack arrives at his house and finds Sarah clearing dishes. She asks him how Angelo's daughter took the news of Angelo's death and Jack tells her that Gabriela kissed him and he kissed her back. Jack says he made a mistake, but promises things between them will be different, that he's going to work less and be there for Sarah — he's going to fix things. Sarah cries, telling Jack that she's leaving him and was already leaving him. Sarah reveals to Jack that she's been seeing someone else, and tells Jack that he'll always need something to fix before leaving.

Fire + Water

When Charlie's vividly surreal dreams lead him to believe Claire's baby, Aaron, is in danger, Locke suspects Charlie may be using again. Meanwhile, Sawyer encourages Hurley to act on his attraction to Libby.

See Fire + Water for full details.

Charlie

At a hospital nursery, Charlie is looking at a baby girl. Karen, the baby's mother, appears and the two hug. She tells Charlie that she named her baby Megan, after Charlie and Liam's mother. She asks Charlie where Liam is and, covering for his brother, he tells her that Liam missed his flight from Germany but will be with her soon. Returning to his loft, Charlie finds Liam passed out on a couch with a tourniquet around his arm. He wakes Liam up and tells Liam he needs to clean up and get down to the hospital to see Karen and their daughter. Later, the members of Drive Shaft are on a film set and Liam is in terrible shape. As they start filming, Liam falls out of the set and the director stops the shoot. Charlie tries to salvage the situation, but the director tells him they were only hired as a favor to their lawyer. He tells Charlie to ditch Liam, but Charlie refuses and the director fires them. At Charlie's loft, Liam shows up while Charlie is composing music on his childhood piano. Liam tells Charlie that Karen kicked him out because he dropped Megan. Distraught, Liam tells Charlie that he's got no money, nothing, and doesn't know what to do. Charlie tells him he's writing again and shows him what he's composed so far. Liam is impressed with what Charlie has so far and thinks it could work, but asks Charlie if he's got any drugs. Sometime later Charlie shows up at his loft and discovers his childhood piano is missing. Liam tells Charlie that he sold it for money. Charlie figures he used it for drugs, but Liam tells him he's been clean for two days. He tells Charlie that Karen was going to leave him and take Megan with her. She's got an uncle in Australia who is going to get him a job, and there's a rehab clinic in Sydney. He needed the money from Charlie's childhood piano to buy plane tickets to Australia for him and his family. Charlie tells him that he's Liam's family, but Liam tells him he'll call when things settle down and leaves.

The Long Con

Survivors fear that "The Others" may have returned when Sun is injured during a failed kidnapping attempt. Meanwhile, Sawyer is an amused but highly interested bystander when tension escalates between Jack, Locke, Kate and Ana-Lucia.

See The Long Con for full details.

Sawyer

In bed with a woman named Cassidy, Sawyer notices that he's late for a meeting. Grabbing his suitcase in a hurry, it opens and cash spills out. Cassidy is very skeptical about Sawyer just happening to have a suitcase full of money that just happens to break open. Grabbing a stack of money, Cassidy thumbs through it and discovers it’s not even real. Realizing he’s trying to con her, she tells Sawyer that she didn’t get anything from her ex-husband in the divorce. But she asks Sawyer to show her how to con. Near a gas station, Sawyer writes inflated prices on junk jewelry. He tells her that no one is going to be looking at the necklaces; rather they’re going to be looking at the prices. As two guys are getting gas, Sawyer walks up to them, shows them the necklaces and asks if they want to buy any. As he’s about to leave without them buying any, Cassidy appears and “buys” two of the necklaces and, as Sawyer is about to leave, the two guys stop him and offer to buy the remaining necklaces. Later, Sawyer and Cassidy are in a bathroom talking. Cassidy tells him that she wants to do a big con. Sawyer corrects her, telling Cassidy that it’s called a “long con.” He tells her a long con works by getting someone to ask you to do something like it’s their idea when, in reality, it’s not their idea. The catch is that they need money for a long con but haven’t any. Cassidy then tells Sawyer that she actually did get money from the divorce - $600,000. Sawyer tells her that should just take the money and go, but Cassidy tells him that for the first time in her life she’s actually happy and it’s because she’s doing everything with him. She asks Sawyer to do one long con with her. Six months after meeting Cassidy, Sawyer shows up at a diner to meet with Gordy — Sawyer’s accomplice. Gordy asks Sawyer if he got Cassidy for all 600 grand, and Sawyer tells him he does. He then realizes that Sawyer has fallen in love with her. Gordy reminds him that he found her and waited six months for Sawyer to get the money. He tells Sawyer that a tiger doesn’t change his stripes, that Sawyer is a con man just like him and it’s what he is. Sawyer refuses to go through with the con, but Gordy stops him from leaving and threatens to kill both of them. At Cassidy’s home, Sawyer shows up and points out a black car parked across the street. He tells Cassidy that it’s Gordy, his partner, and explains to her that he knew from the beginning that she had 600 grand and that she was the long con. He tells her that Gordy is going to kill them both because he refused to take her money. Sawyer puts the 600 grand in a duffle bag and hands it to Cassidy, telling her to take a rental car he parked out back and drive to Sioux City. He tells her he’ll meet her at the Sage Flower Hotel there in the morning. Telling her he loves her, Sawyer sends Cassidy out the back door before heading out the front and getting into the passenger seat of Gordy’s car, but there’s no one else there. Counting to five, Sawyer heads back inside Cassidy’s house and takes a duffle bag out from underneath the dining room table. Inside that duffle bag is the 600 grand.

One of Them

When Rousseau leads Sayid to a mysterious captive in the jungle, he becomes determined to find out if he is one of the "Others."

See One of Them for full details.

Sayid

Inside a bunker, Iraqi troops are burning and shredding documents. The commanding officer, Tariq, threatens to kill the soldiers if they stop destroying the files. U.S. Army soldiers burst into the bunker and order everyone to stop and get down. Sayid and Tariq get down, but two of the Iraqi soldiers continue destroying documents. Sgt. Buccelli tells them that someone had better tell the soldiers to stop or he’ll shoot them. Sayid orders them to stop and Sgt. Buccelli asks him if he’s in charge. After Sayid tells Sgt. Buccelli that he is not the one in charge, he covers for Tariq by telling Sgt. Buccelli that their commanding officer left two hours ago. Shortly after being captured, Sgt. Buccelli shows Sayid to Sgt. Austen and he’s pulled from a holding pen. As Sayid is being escorted by the two men, Sgt. Austen tells Sayid that an Apache helicopter went down in the area two days ago and their sources say the pilot was captured. They know he was taken to the local Republican Guard intelligence commander, Tariq. Sayid tells Sgt. Austen that Tariq was his commanding officer, but he fled to Hila when the bombing began. Sgt. Austen shows Sayid into a room with Tariq and welcomes him to Hila. Using Sayid as a translator, Sgt. Austen tries to get information regarding the Apache pilot out of Tariq. He tells Tariq that he’s free to go if they get their pilot back safe and sound. Sayid tells Sgt. Austen that Tariq does not know where the pilot is, but Sgt. Austen tells Sayid that someone else is going to take over the interrogations and has him locked back up. Sayid is later brought to a man named "Joe" Inman. Inman tells Sayid that Tariq used to be the head of the chemical warfare battalion in the north. He plays a video tape for Sayid showing sarin gas being used on a village. Inman tells Sayid that he should know that village since Sayid had relatives there. Sayid asks him to stop and then asks him why he should believe Tariq was responsible. Inman shows him Tariq’s personnel file and tells Sayid that he only wants his pilot back. He hands Sayid a box and tells him he’s going to have to make Tariq talk. Sayid is left with Tariq, alone, in a room with the box from Inman. Tariq laughs at Sayid and the thought that he could actually torture him. He orders Sayid to kill himself, but Sayid picks up a pair of pliers and begins his work on Tariq. After his work is done, Sayid reports to Inman that the Apache pilot was executed two days ago and that he can take him to where the body is buried. He hands Inman, with blood-soaked hands, the box he was given. Later, a U.S. Army truck convoy is driving down a road in the desert. The convoy comes to a stop and Sayid is brought out. Inman takes possession of Sayid and tells him that they’re not going to Baghdad, and it looks like Sayid is going to stay in Saddam’s employ but with a new skill set Sayid can use. Inman cuts Sayid’s bonds and, speaking to him in Arabic, tells Sayid that one day there is going to be something Sayid needs to know and now he’ll know how to get it.

Maternity Leave

A desperate Claire, along with Kate and Rousseau, attempts a return to the scene of her kidnapping where she believes she might find the cure for Baby Aaron's mysterious illness. Meanwhile, Jack and Locke must keep their prisoner a secret from the rest of the survivors.

See Maternity Leave for full details.

Claire

Inside an examination room, Claire is in a hospital gown and on an examination table. A man pulls out a set of keys attached to a DHARMA keychain, opens a refrigerator, and fills a syringe with a liquid from a vial. The man, Ethan Rom, tells Claire that it’s a little medicine for her baby and she’s only going to feel a little pinch. At a later point in Claire’s stay inside The Staff, Claire is again inside the examination room and Ethan administers another injection of medicine for her baby. An obviously drugged and dazed Claire asks Ethan if he has to put it in her tummy as it really, really hurts. Ethan tells her he knows, but the baby needs it. After giving her the injection, Ethan tells Claire that, since she’s been such a good girl, he has a surprise for her. He leads her out of the room, down a corridor, and eventually into a nursery room. Ethan tells her it’s for her baby. Later, Ethan helps a still-drugged Claire outside of The Staff. He apologizes to Claire about this being the first time he could get her outside, but his friends are afraid she’ll run away. Ethan tells Claire that he’s going to miss her and wishes she didn’t have to go, but there’s not enough vaccine for both her and the baby. Once she’s delivered the baby she can go back to her friends and hopefully not get sick. Asking if she wants to see the baby, Ethan tells her that no one is going to take her baby from her unless that’s what she wants. He tells her that they are good people, a good family, but she needs to be sure if she is going to trust them with her child. Later inside the nursery, a young girl wakes Claire up and tells her she has to go out immediately. She shows her to the door and the two peek down the corridor to the examination room which has been turned into an operating room and is full of people in surgical scrubs. The young girl closes the door and tells Claire that they’re going to cut Claire’s baby out of her tonight, that they’re going to kill her. Claire, still dazed from the drugs, tells her that Ethan wouldn’t hurt her and she needs to talk to him. Fighting with Claire, the young girl puts a rag over Claire’s face and Claire passes out. The young girl tells Claire that she will thank her one day. Out in the jungle at night Claire regains consciousness as an alarm can be heard off in the distance. Claire yells out for Ethan, telling him that she wants him to have the baby. Rousseau appears out of the jungle as, off in the distance, Ethan yells for Claire. Rousseau tells Claire to be quiet, but Claire yells for Ethan and tells Rousseau that she needs to give her baby to them so he’ll be safe. Rousseau tries to quiet Claire and drag her away, but the two struggle and Rousseau finally knocks her out with the butt of her rifle.

The Whole Truth

Sun wrestles with the thought of telling Jin a newfound secret that threatens to upset the entire balance of the survivors' community. Meanwhile, Locke enlists Ana-Lucia to interrogate the prisoner in order to extract more information than he, Jack or Sayid could.

See The Whole Truth for full details.

Sun

In Korea, Jin is in bed with Sun. He tells her they’ve been trying for a year and thinks they should see a fertility doctor. Sun asks him why he cares so much about a baby when he’s never there because of work, but Jin tells her that if they had a baby then her father might change his mind and give him a safer job. Later, Sun goes to a hotel room and meets Jae Lee. He asks her if Jin knows she’s there, but Sun tells him that Jin doesn’t know. Jae tells her he thought she was going to tell Jin and thinks Jin would be proud that she can speak English. In response, Sun asks him what she should tell Jin when he asks how she learned English and from whom. Jae asks her if she wants to stop with their arrangement, but Sun disagrees. At a doctor’s office, Jin and Sun are waiting for Dr. Je-Guy Kim to arrive with the results. He enters and tells them that Sun’s ultrasound showed advanced endometriosis. Scar tissue is blocking the fallopian tubes and, even with surgery, the chances of conceiving are impossible. Turning to Sun, Jin asks her if she knew about this before they married as she “must have had some idea.” Startled by his accusations, Sun asks him why she would keep something like that from him and then sarcastically tells him that she was trying to trap the son of a fisherman. Jin loses his temper at Sun and leaves the doctor’s office. Meeting again with Jae Lee, Sun tells him that she and Jin went to a doctor and discovered she cannot have children. Jae tells her he’s sorry, but Sun tells him she was glad at the news. Sun tells him she's learning English because she’s moving to America. Jae realizes she’s going to leave Jin. He tells her that she ran away to America because he thought he was in love with a woman, but one cannot run away from his or her life. Asking Jae if Jin is her life and she should stay because of that, Jae tells her he’s not saying she should stay for Jin. Later, Sun is out walking her dog when Dr. Kim pulls up in a car. He tells Sun that it’s not that she can’t have children but rather it is her husband who cannot. He was worried that Jin would burn his practice to the ground since Jin works for Sun’s father. Asking Dr. Kim why he’s telling her this now, he replies that she deserved to know the truth.

Lockdown

When the hatch suddenly takes on a life of its own, Locke is forced to enlist the help of an unlikely ally. Meanwhile, Ana-Lucia, Sayid and Charlie go off into the jungle to find out the truth about Henry.

See Lockdown for full details.

Locke

Inside Locke and Helen’s home, Locke pulls out an engagement ring he’s hidden inside a sock in his drawers. He heads downstairs and begins to pack a picnic lunch when Helen asks Locke if her father’s name is Anthony Cooper. Locke tells her it is and Helen tells him that Cooper is dead. Locke and Helen drive to the cemetery where Anthony Cooper is being buried. Helen tells Locke that they could just go on to that picnic, but Locke wants to do attend the funeral. At the service, Locke and Helen are the only two in attendance. However, Locke notices two shady men watching the service from a distance and a silver car in another direction. Later, Locke finishes an inspection of a house and notices the same silver car at Cooper’s funeral is parked nearby. He approaches the car and the window rolls down revealing Cooper. Cooper brings Locke to a bar and tells him that he killed himself because there are two men out there who were going to beat him to it because he took them for $700,000 — a retirement con. He put the money in a safe deposit box but, since the two men are probably watching the bank for him, he wants Locke to get the money for him. In payment for Locke’s help, Cooper wants him to take $200,000. He tells Locke that he’ll be at the Flightline Motel by the airport until tomorrow afternoon and then he’s gone, with or without the money. Locke goes to the bank and heads home. When he arrives home, Helen tells him he has visitors — the two men watching Cooper’s funeral. One of them men asks Locke if he’s seen his father since he died as they think he might not be dead. Locke plays dumb, but Helen angrily tells the man that they were at the funeral to get on with their lives. The two men leave. Helen asks Locke if he was lying to the men, but Locke tells her he wasn’t and was only scared. Locke arrives at the Flightline Motel and meets with Cooper in his room. Locke tells him he didn’t help him for the money. As Cooper leaves, he finds Helen standing outside. She slaps Cooper and leaves before Locke can explain himself to her. As she hurriedly walks to her car, Helen tells Locke that he looked her right in the eye and lied to her. She tells him he made his choice and apparently needs Cooper’s love more than hers. As she opens the door to her car, Locke tells Helen that he loves her. He goes down on one knee, pulls the ring out, and asks her to marry him. Helen shakes her head, gets into her car, and leaves. On the other side of the parking lot, Cooper looks at Locke before getting into a taxi and leaving.

Dave

Libby lends Hurley support when he begins to think the island is having a strange effect on him, and Locke's sense of purpose is shaken when the prisoner provides new information about the hatch.

See Dave for full details.

Hurley

Hurley meets with Dr. Brooks at the Santa Rosa hospital. He asks Hurley about his visit with his mom and Hurley tells him that he’s not mad at her since he knows she committed him for a reason – the accident. Dr. Brooks asks him if he wants to talk about it as Hurley has been at the hospital for almost two months, but Hurley doesn’t respond. Changing track, Dr. Brooks asks Hurley if he completed his homework assignment, but Hurley tells him that Dave didn’t do it and said it was a stupid idea. Dr. Brooks tells Hurley that Dave can be a very negative influence on him and doesn’t want Hurley to change. After his visit with the doctor, Hurley heads to a gymnasium where other patients are playing basketball. Dave is there, but no one will give him the ball. He notices that Hurley has arrived and begins talking to him about what kind of Hurley should get to eat. Later, Hurley is playing Connect Four with Leonard Simms. Continually repeating the numbers over and over, Leonard wins their game. Dave tells Leonard that he’s pretty sneaky, using those magic numbers as a psyche-out, but Hurley tells Dave that they’re just numbers. Dave tells Hurley that the celery he’s eating is not a snack and talks Hurley into stealing one of Leonard’s graham crackers. A nurse hands Hurley his meds, but Dave tells him not to take it since Dr. Brooks doesn’t care about Hurley. He tells him that they’ve got to escape. Dr. Brooks shows up and tells Hurley that he’s been taking some pictures for the bulletin board and has everyone except Hurley and Dave. He tells Hurley to scoot closer to Dave and takes a Polaroid picture of them. After Dr. Brooks leaves, Hurley shows Dave that he didn’t take the pills. Back at Dr. Brooks’ office, Hurley is reading the list of things he likes about himself. Dr. Brooks points out that he didn’t say anything about the way Hurley looks and asks him if he’s comfortable with his appearance. Hurley tells him that he can’t really do anything about it, but if he wasn’t so fat then maybe they never would have died. Dr. Brooks tells Hurley that there were 23 people on the deck that was built to hold 8 and would have collapsed whether or not he went out there. Convinced that he killed them and it was his fault, Hurley won’t listen to Dr. Brooks who is trying to tell him it was an accident. Dr. Brooks tells Hurley that he went into a nearly catatonic state. He stopped talking, going out, sleeping, but he never stopped eating because that’s how he punishes himself. Hurley tells him that Dave is right in saying he’s a quack. However, Dr. Brooks pulls out the Polaroid he took earlier and shows it to Hurley — Dave is not there. Later, Hurley is in bed sleeping when Dave wakes Hurley up. Hurley tells him that Dr. Brooks showed the picture from the recreation room and he wasn’t in it. Dave tells Hurley that Dr. Brooks is playing a trick on him by altering the photograph, and now it’s time for them to leave. The two sneak into the recreation room and, after Dave tells Hurley that Hurley stole the keys from Dr. Brooks’ office earlier, Hurley unlocks one of the padlocked windows. Dave jumps out and beckons Hurley to join him, but Hurley tells Dave he can’t do it and that Dave isn’t real. He tells Dave that he only wants Hurley to stay fat and not get better. Hurley says goodbye to Dave and closes the window.

Libby

Back when Dr. Brooks is taking the picture of Hurley and Dave, a woman can be seen looking in Hurley’s direction — a disheveled Libby. A nurse approaches her and gives Libby her medication.

S.O.S.

Rose is surprisingly and vehemently opposed to Bernard's plan to create an S.O.S. signal; romantic sparks are rekindled between Jack and Kate when they trek into the jungle to propose a "trade" with "The Others"; and Locke begins to question his faith in the island.

See S.O.S. for full details.

Rose and Bernard

On a city street in the winter, Rose is in her car trying to free it from a snow drift. On the sidewalk, Bernard tells her to just tap the gas lightly as she’s just digging herself in. Rose rolls down her car window and tells him she knows what she’s doing and he should step back. Rose keeps gunning the engine, getting nowhere, and decides to call AAA. Bernard tells her can get her out and gets behind her car to push it. Talking her through it, he’s able to help her get the car out, but falls down on his face. After thanking Bernard, the two introduce themselves and he leaves to get in his own car. Before he can leave, Rose asks him if she could buy him a cup of coffee and Bernard accepts her invitation. Five months later, Rose and Bernard are at a restaurant overlooking the Niagara Falls. He gets down on one knee and proposes to Rose. Rather than give an answer, Rose tells him that she’s sick and dying. She’s been in remission for a couple of years but now it’s come back and not going away, and her doctor says she has at least a year left. Unfazed, Bernard tells her she hasn’t answered his question. Rose tells him “yes.” For their honeymoon, Bernard and Rose are in Australia. They arrive at a small settlement in the middle of nowhere. Bernard finally reveals to Rose that he brought her to this place so she can meet Isaac of Uluru. He’s a healer who has helped hundreds of people and Bernard has made a 10,000 dollar donation just to get Rose in to see him. Rose is very upset at Bernard for bringing her to see a faith healer as she’s made her peace, but Bernard tells her he hasn’t and asks her to try for him. At the clinic, Rose is led into a room filled with crutches hanging from the ceiling and a wall covered in thank you notes and letters to Isaac. Isaac enters and asks Rose to take a seat. He tells her that there are certain spots on the Earth with great energy, like the one they’re above. He isn’t sure what this energy is, possibly geological or magnetic or something else, but it’s possible for him to harness this energy and give it to others. Isaac attempts to heal her, but stops and tells her he can’t do anything for her. Isaac informs her it’s not that she can’t be healed, but rather they aren’t at the right place for her. He offers to return Bernard’s donation, but Rose tells him not to. She’s going to tell Bernard that she’s been fixed. At the Sydney airport, Rose and Bernard are waiting to board Oceanic flight 815. Bernard gets up to go somewhere and leaves Rose seated at the terminal. Rose goes through her purse to get her medication, but one of the bottles falls out and rolls along the floor. The bottle comes to a stop by Locke’s wheelchair. He picks it up and hands it back to Rose, and she thanks him for his help. Locke tells her she’s welcome and leaves.

Two for the Road

Jack and Kate bring an exhausted Michael back to the camp, and with him, news about "The Others." Meanwhile, Ana Lucia attempts to get the prisoner to confess, and Hurley plans a surprise date for Libby.

See Two for the Road for full details.

Ana-Lucia

At the L.A. Police Department, Ana-Lucia parks her patrol car at the department garage. Ana-Lucia’s mother, Captain Teresa Cortez, approaches Ana-Lucia and asks her where she was that night. She takes her daughter to the morgue and shows her the body of Jason Elder, the man she murdered. Teresa tells Ana-Lucia that a gun was found in a nearby dumpster, but the registration number was filed off and there were no prints. Teresa believes Ana-Lucia is responsible for the shooting. She tells Ana-Lucia that it’s going to be a dead-end investigation, but if she did it then she has to let Teresa help her. Ana-Lucia dismisses Teresa’s offer to help, but Teresa tells her that she’s a police officer and has to respect that. In response, Ana-Lucia hands her badge over and tells her mother she quits. After quitting her job as a police officer, Ana-Lucia takes a position with airport security. Once off duty, Ana-Lucia heads to the airport bar for a tequila and tonic. While there, Christian Shephard strikes up a conversation with Ana-Lucia. She tells him she stopped being a police officer and he tells her he stopped being a doctor because his son ratted him out for drinking on the job. Christian tells her that he’s heading to Sydney, Australia and asks her to come with him as he’ll need a bodyguard down there. Asking for his name, Christian tells her they should pick names for one another: Ana-Lucia chooses “Tom” and Christian chooses “Sarah.” After four days in Sydney of doing nothing but drinking, Christian comes to Ana-Lucia’s hotel room in the middle of the night and tells her it’s time for her protection duty. He has her drive him out to a house in the suburbs. Telling Ana-Lucia to wait in the car, Christian knocks on the door of the house and a woman answers. Getting frustrated, Christian yells at the woman that he has every right to see his daughter and he’s paying the mortgage on the house. He tries to force his way inside, but Ana-Lucia jumps out of the car and pulls him back outside. Christian gets back into the car. Driving back to the hotel, Ana-Lucia stops the car outside a cocktail bar. Asking Christian why he’s there, he tells her it’s because he can’t apologize to his son. He tells her she’s here for the same reason he is — she ran away. Realizing they’re outside a bar, Christian asks Ana-Lucia to come get another drink with him, but she refuses. Christian opens his door to get out and it slams into Sawyer as he’s passing by. Ana-Lucia asks Christian to go back with her, to get out of Sydney, but Christian tells her he can’t ever go back. At the Sydney airport, Ana-Lucia listens to Jack argue with an Oceanic Airlines employee about getting his father’s body onto the flight so he can take him home. She decides to call her mother and tell her that she’s in Sydney. Ana-Lucia tells her that she made a mistake, but now she wants to come home. She tells Teresa she’s on Oceanic flight 815, and Teresa tells Ana-Lucia that she’ll be there when she lands.

?

Mr. Eko enlists Locke to help find a secret location he believes houses answers to the island's mysteries. Meanwhile, Jack and the other survivors struggle to cope with the horrific situation in the hatch.

See ? for full details.

Eko

Inside a confessional at a church in Sydney, Australia, a rather uninterested Eko listens to the confessions of a man. The man eventually tells Eko that he forged papers for a man pretending to be a priest, which piques Eko’s interest. Outside the confessional, Eko gets the forged Australian passport from the man in exchange for money. The man tells Eko that he has some friends in Los Angeles who he could introduce to Eko to do “stuff”, but is interrupted by the church’s Monsignor. The Monsignor tells Eko that he’ll have to postpone his trip to the United States as it appears a miracle has occurred. He takes Eko to see a woman named Joyce Malkin, and she tells him that her daughter drowned and died but came back to life the next day. She’s adamant that they must tell the Vatican and the world what has happened, but the Monsignor informs her that the church must conduct an investigation first and that Eko will lead the investigation. Alone with the Monsignor, Eko tells him that he cannot do what he asked as he does not believe the woman. But the Monsignor tells Eko that is precisely why he chose him. At Dr. Ian McVay’s office, Eko interviews him regarding what happened with the girl. He tells Eko that he was called in at 1am to look at the dead girl who had been in the water for two hours. Asking if he’s experienced with that kind of death, McVay tells Eko that of course he is as he’s an undertaker but qualified as a coroner. He discovered the girl was still alive during the autopsy and plays an audio tape of the autopsy for Eko. On the recording, McVay can be heard describing the girl and proceeds to begin cutting her open when the girl can be heard screaming wildly. McVay stops the tape, ejects it, and asks Eko to take it as he never wants to hear it again. Arriving at the Malkin residence, Eko sees the girl who supposedly came back to life — Charlotte Malkin. Joyce rushes out and tells Eko it’s not a good time, but Richard Malkin appears and orders Joyce and Charlotte back inside the house. Alone with Eko, Malkin tells him that what happened was not a miracle and that McVay was trying to cover up his own negligence when he tried to cut Charlotte open. Malkin claims that his daughter fell into a mountain river, her body shut down and she went into hypothermia, appearing to be dead. Asking why his wife appears to believe it was a miracle; Malkin tells Eko that Joyce is a zealot and is doing everything is to spite him. Malkin claims that Joyce knows he’s a fraud as he makes his living as a psychic, that he gathers intelligence on people and exploits it. Eko tells Malkin that he’ll report back to his Monsignor that no miracle happened. As he gets back into his car, Eko sees Charlotte watching him from a window. At Sydney airport, Eko is confirmed for his flight on Oceanic 815. As he leaves the ticket counter, he’s approached by Charlotte who has been waiting for him. Charlotte tells him that her father doesn’t want her speaking to him and he probably thinks she’s crazy, but she has a message for him and promised to deliver it. The message is from Yemi and he wanted Eko to know that he’s a good priest. Charlotte claims that she saw Yemi when she was “between places” and he said that Eko would come and see her, and that, even though Eko was pretending, he was a good man. Yemi wanted Eko to know that he’ll see him soon and that, even though he doesn’t have faith in himself, he has faith in Eko. Upset and angered, Eko demands to know why Charlotte is doing this to him. But Libby steps in, asking if everything is alright, and Charlotte nods. With Libby gone, Charlotte tells Eko that he’ll believe her one day and leaves.

Three Minutes

A determined Michael convinces Jack and several castaways to help him rescue Walt from "The Others." Meanwhile, Charlie struggles with Eko's decision to discontinue building the church.

See Three Minutes for full details.

Michael

This flashback chronicles Michael's capture by the Others, his brief reunion with Walt and task to bring Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley to the Others.

Live Together, Die Alone

After discovering something odd just offshore, Jack and Sayid come up with a plan to confront "The Others" and hopefully get Walt back. Meanwhile, Eko and Locke come to blows as Locke makes a potentially cataclysmic decision regarding the "button" and the hatch.

See Live Together, Die Alone for full details.

Desmond

Inside a military prison in England, Desmond is returned the items he had on him before his imprisonment. The prison guard returns him Our Mutual Friend and asks Desmond why he didn't bring that book in with him. Desmond tells him it was to avoid temptation. He has read everything Charles Dickens had written, except for that one book, and didn't intend to read until it was the last thing he has read before he dies. With his possessions returned, the guard notifies Lance Corporal Desmond David Hume that his sentence is complete and he is dishonorably discharged from the Royal Scots Regiment of Her Majesty's Armed Forces. Walking outside in the rain, a man sitting in the back of a Bentley tells Desmond to get inside the car. The man — Charles Widmore — has Desmond open a box that is full of unopened letters to Penelope Widmore. Charles tells Desmond that Penelope believes he has forsaken her and that is the way it is going to stay, that she has moved on and is getting married. Inside a second box is a large sum of money and Charles tells Desmond the money is for his new life away from his daughter. He is not to contact Penelope ever again and should just run away. Asking Charles why he would just run away, Desmond is told that he would because he's a coward. At a coffee shop in the United States, Desmond orders something to drink, but realizes all of his money is British. Libby offers to pay his bill. The two sit down and talk, and Desmond shows her a brochure from the International Open Ocean Racing Association for a solo sailing race around the world being sponsored by Charles Widmore. He tells Libby that Charles Widmore tried to buy him off, but, when he didn't take his money, he took away the only thing in the world he ever truly cared about, Penelope. The problem for Desmond is that he doesn't have a boat for the race. However, Libby tells him that she has a boat that belonged to her husband. He wanted to sail to the Mediterranean, but he got sick and passed away a month ago. She decides to give Desmond the sailboat, telling him her husband would have wanted him to take it. The boat is named Elizabeth, after Libby's name. Desmond thanks Libby and promises to win the race for love. At a stadium, Desmond is at his car and preparing for a run. Another car pulls up and Jack gets out. As Jack heads off for his run and Desmond is still getting ready, a third car pulls up — Penelope. Desmond asks her how she found him, and she simply tells him that she has a lot of money and determination. She asks him if he read his book, but he hadn't. She asks him why he didn't write to her, but Desmond doesn't answer and only asks her when she's getting married. Penelope tells him they haven't set a date. Desmond tells her that he's going to win the race and he'll be back in a year. He has to get his honor back. Eight months later, during the solo sailing race, Desmond finds himself in the middle of a terrible storm. A wave knocks Desmond backwards, sending his head into a deck cleat and knocking him out. Severely dazed, Desmond washes ashore on the island and is dragged to The Swan by a man in a HAZMAT suit. The man tells Desmond that he is Kelvin Inman. Kelvin tells Desmond that he found him washed up on the beach, but there was no boat. The Swan's timer alarm sounds and Kelvin goes into the dome and enters the numbers. Asking Kelvin what that was all about, Kelvin tells him, "Just saving the world." Desmond watches the Swan's orientation film and inquires about the missing pieces. Kelvin tells him that Radzinsky, his former partner, made some edits. He tells Desmond he wears the HAZMAT suit to go out so he won't get infected and shows him the pneumatic injector, telling him to inject himself every 9 days. Two years later, Desmond wheels a partially crushed safe under the blast door in the passage connecting the geodesic dome with the main living area, while Kelvin is pouring detergent into some concoction. Flicking some wires together, Desmond manually triggers a lockdown, but one of the blast doors is held up by the safe. Using the detergent concoction, Kelvin carefully continues work on the blast door map, even though it's not viewable. He tells Desmond that the map was Radzinsky's idea, that he had a photographic memory, that he was the one who figured out how to manually trigger the lockdown. But Desmond is fed up with Kelvin not telling him what happened to Radzinsky, so Kelvin tells him that the brown stain on the ceiling is Radzinsky — he put a shotgun in his mouth and killed himself while Kelvin was sleeping. Desmond asks Kelvin to let him go out, but Kelvin rhetorically asks why he'd want to go out in the quarantine and the hostiles. Kelvin tells him that he got kicked out of Her Majesty's Army for not following orders, but Desmond asks why Kelvin got kicked out of his army. Kelvin tells him it was because men followed his orders, but then he joined The DHARMA Initiative. From his tone, it is unclear if Kelvin really joined the DHARMA Initiative, or if he was merely stranded here like Desmond. He refuses to let Desmond go outside. Later, Desmond wakes up to the sound of the timer alarm. Kelvin is nowhere to be seen, so he quickly enters the numbers. With the alarm off, he hears the slurred speech of Kelvin coming from an open hatch leading into the crawlspace below the geodesic dome. He heads down and finds Kelvin dangling a key with the Swan's logo over an access panel in the floor that says, "CAUTION: SYSTEM TERMINATION." Kelvin tells Desmond that he couldn't do it. It's a fail-safe and the only other way out. Desmond asks him what the incident was, and Kelvin tells him it was a leak of geologically unique electromagnetism. So now the charge builds up and, every time the button is pushed, it's discharged before it gets too big. Desmond wonders why they're made to push the button if they could just turn that key for the fail safe, but Kelvin asks him if he has the courage to take the finger out of the dam and blow the whole thing up instead. Later, Kelvin suits up in the HAZMAT suit to head out of The Swan for a few hours, but Desmond notices that there is a tear in the leg of the suit. He follows Kelvin outside and sees him take off the HAZMAT suit and breathing apparatus. Following Kelvin to the shore, Desmond discovers his sailboat in a lagoon. Kelvin appears behind Desmond and tells him he was a "spook" for ten years and knows when he's being followed. He tells Desmond that he's been fixing the boat and it's about a week away from being finished. He asks Desmond if he wants to come with him, but Desmond is very upset. If they leave then they leave the button, but Kelvin doesn't care about the button anymore. He lied to Desmond so he'd have a sucker to push the button after he left. Furious with Kelvin, Desmond attacks him and accidentally knocks his head against the rocks, killing him. He grabs the DHARMA key from Kelvin's neck and rushes back to the Swan. The timer has reached zero, all five hieroglyphics have locked into place, and the loudspeaker is announcing a "system failure" over and over. Desmond tries to enter the numbers into the computer repeatedly, but "system failure" is displayed continuously on the computer screen while metallic objects inside the Swan fly to the blocked doorway. The numbers are finally accepted, the timer flips back to 108 minutes, everything stops shaking inside the Swan, and the computer returns to the command prompt. Later, Desmond sits at the Swan's dining booth with a handgun and a bottle of alcohol. He removes the rubber band from Our Mutual Friend and opens it, but a letter falls out. The letter is from Penelope and says she has written the letter to him as he leaves for prison and she has hidden it in the one place he would turn to in a moment of great desperation. She asks Desmond not to give up, because all we really need to survive is one person who truly loves us. And Desmond has her. She promises to wait for him, always. Upset and frustrated that he's lost everything, Desmond tosses things off the bookshelves. He stops and hears a pounding noise and a man — Locke — screaming at the top of the hatch shaft. He turns on the spotlight at the bottom of the shaft and sees a figure at the top.

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