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Episode DescriptionsSeason 3: Episode 1 - "A Tale of Two Cities"
10/04/2006
We're back...in the middle of a suburban home as a woman puts on a CD and prepares her house for guests. Who is this woman? And why is she upset? She sings along to cheer herself up as she prepares muffins for her book club meeting. During the meeting, just as a debate gets heated, the room starts shaking. Is it an earthquake? The book club members run outside to investigate -- and we see they are a part of a small community of houses. Everybody tracks the noises upwards to see a plane tear apart in mid-air. The fuselage falls in one direction while the tail section falls in another. A familiar face, Henry Gale, gives orders and we realize what we've just witnessed: the crash of Ocean Flight 815.
Don't let suburbia fool you -- this is the Others' home. We've been on the island all this time. Welcome to Season Three, folks. We're still LOST.
Jack awakes on a dark steel table in a room with Plexiglass dividing it and a harness hanging from the ceiling. He tries to get out but the room is secured and locked.
Somewhere outside, Sawyer awakes in a cage with a mysterious food dispenser. In a locker room, Kate awakes to find Mr. Friendly standing over her. He offers her a shower to freshen up and a new dress.
Jack is visited by the woman running the book club.She introduces herself as Juliet. She tries to reason with him but Jack stubbornly refuses, demanding to know where his friends are and what's going on. She offers him food if he cooperates in an attempt to gain his trust. But Jack isn't playing by her rules and lies when she asks him questions about himself.
In the past, Jack has trouble with his divorce. He can't let go of Sarah without knowing for whom she left him. He attempts one last reconciliation, but it fails when he demands the name of Sarah's new love. He even goes as far as cold-calling numbers from an old cell phone bill of hers, trying to identify the new man. Unfortunately, he discovers one of the numbers to be Christian's, his father. Jack immediately assumes the worst -- that the new man in Sarah's life is his father.
Sawyer works out the gizmos in his cage and gets a reward: a fish biscuit, water and grain. Mr. Friendly locks Kate in the nearby cage, mocking Sawyer on his way out. Sawyer throws the biscuit to Kate, and they reconnect over their meal.
Jack is again visited by Juliet. Beginning to get an idea of what kind of situation he's in, he decides to play by her rules. He sits with his back against the far wall so she can enter his "room" and bring him food. When she enters, Jack jumps her, threatening to cut her neck with a shard from a broken plate and demanding to be let go. Henry appears and tells Jack if he tries to leave through the door Jack's trying to open, they will all be killed. Jack throws open the door anyway, unleashing thousands of gallons of water. Henry escapes into a room before Juliet can make it. This forces her and Jack to work together. They fight their way into another room and hit an emergency button that begins to drain the water. Once safe, Juliet immediately punches Jack and knocks him out.
Flashback to the hospital where Jack overhears Christian on his cell phone. Thinking it's Sarah that Christian is talking to, Jack follows Christian. He bursts in on his AA meeting, confronts his father, loses control and physically attacks him. Jack is bailed out of jail by Sarah. Embarrassed about his behavior, Jack follows her outside trying to explain. Then Jack sees a man stands next to her car waiting. Jack asks if that's him. Sarah doesn't answer but tells Jack his father was so drunk when he called her that she barely understood him. Now Jack has something new to fix.
Jack wakes up back in his "room." Juliet is on the other side of the Plexiglass waiting for him. He intuits where they are: underwater in an aquarium. Juliet nods. It's another Dharma Initiative station: the Hydra. Juliet holds a folder thick with information on him. She explains that she knows a lot more about him than she previously let on. Broken by this revelation, Jack follows her orders so she may enter with food and crosses to the opposite side of the room.
As she steps into the hallway, Henry greets her with a congratulatory "Good work." She replies with a simple "Thank you."
Season 3: Episode 2 - "The Glass Ballerina"
10/11/2006
Little seven-year-old Sun breaks a glass ballerina and lies about it to her father.She blames the maid, knowing full well she'll be fired.Her father knows Sun is lying and is disappointed with her but accepts her story.
Flash forward to the sailboat, where Sayid, Jin and Sun still wait for Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley and Michael.Sayid is concerned they can't see their signal fire and wants to sail around the mountains and light another fire.Worried about Sun's health, Jin won't do it.He wants to leave and claims only he can sail the boat.However, Sun reveals that she, too, can sail the boat and decides they will do what Sayid wants.
In the Hydra station, Ben learns from Colleen that "the Iraqi" has a sailboat and might be able find them.Ben tells Colleen to put together a team and go get the sailboat.Colleen tells Pickett about her orders, and he kisses her good-bye on the check.
Sawyer and Kate witness this interesting moment before they are taken out to a jungle clearing and ordered to remove the rocks.
Pickett lays down the rules and warns them if they break them they'll be shocked.Kate tries to stall, but Pickett shows how ruthless he can be by zapping Sawyer for her insolence.
On the boat, Sayid finds the dock where Michael and Walt were let go and where Jack, Kate and Sawyer were taken captive.He tells Jin this would be a good place to light the new signal fire.Sayid then confesses to Sun his real plan: he thinks the Others have their friends captive.He will build the fire to draw them out and then kill all but two, playing them off each other for information.Jin figures out Sayid's murderous intent, and also realizes Sun lied about it, betraying him.
Flashback to reveal Sun in bed with ...Jae Lee! He gives her a pearl necklace, and wants her to leave Jin and go to America with him but she refuses.Then they are interrupted - by Sun's father! Sun is embarrassed at being caught.Disgusted, Mr.Paik orders her to dress and leave. Later, Paik tells Jin that Jae Lee has been stealing from him and has shamed him.
Paik orders Jin to kill Jae Lee.Jin refuses and quits.Paik tells him he can't quit.He is family now, and Paik's shame is Jin's shame.
At the jungle clearing, Sawyer sizes up the situation and makes a decision.He crosses to Kate, sweeps her into his arms and kisses her - a hardcore, swooning kiss! And Kate goes with it, kissing him back.Pickett and two Others pull him away, but Sawyer fights back, breaking Pickett's nose.Juliet ends the fight by holding a gun on Kate, and Sawyer gives up.Pickett's hatred boils over, and he immediately zaps Sawyer unconscious.
Back in Seoul, Jin delivers his message to Jae Lee by savagely beating him.He can't bring himself to kill Jae Lee but warns him to leave the country and never come back.As Jin returns to his car, Jae Lee's body falls onto the hood.He's dead, and in his hand he holds the pearl necklace he bought for Sun.
At Jae Lee's funeral, Paik confronts Sun and tells her to go home to her husband.Sun asks if he'll tell Jin about the affair, but Paik asks her what use that would be?
Then he tells her he knows she broke the ballerina.
On the sailboat, Colleen surprises Sun and won't let her go.Sun shoots Colleen in the gut and desperately tries to escape.Sayid and Jin hear the shot, and a gun fight breaks out.When the Others start the sailboat's engine and take off, Jin fears Sun is captured.He then sees her in the ocean swimming towards him and they are reunited.
Back in their cages, Sawyer reveals to Kate the kiss was a setup to test the Others.Disappointed but impressed, Kate helps Sawyer plot their escape.But unbeknownst to them, surveillance cameras are trained on them.And in a room watching the monitors, Ben hears every word of their plan.
Despondent and broken down, Jack learns that all Ben wants is for Jack to change his perspective.Ben offers to take Jack home if he does what Ben wants - and then he proves to Jack they have contact with the outside world.He shows Jack a video of the Red Sox winning the World Series.Ben stops the video and repeats his offer.
He will take him home ...and amazingly Jack starts to believe him.
Season 3: Episode 3 - "Further Instructions"
10/18/2006
Locke wakes up in the jungle, disoriented, wondering how he got there.Then he hears something in the brush.It sounds like someone running.He looks over and sees Desmond run by, completely naked.Locke tries to shout out to him but can't.Locke finds himself mute.
Back at the camp, Locke builds a sweat lodge. Charlie tries to talk to him, but Locke can't speak. He mimes that he's going to talk to the island, and he asks Charlie to stand guard outside his structure.
Inside, Locke prepares a bowl of paste and then eats it. Sweating, Locke goes into a trance -- and finds Boone sitting next to him. In Locke's vision, Boone puts him in his old wheelchair and takes him through the Sydney airport. Boone tells him someone is in danger and Locke is the only one who can save them. Is it Claire and Charlie with Aaron waiting at check-in? Sun and Jin arguing with Sayid breaking it up? Hurley and Desmond as Oceanic Air employees? Or Jack, Kate and Sawyer in line at a security checkpoint with Henry Gale as the security guard?
No, it's none of them. Locke finds Mr. Eko's Jesus stick covered in blood. Boone, now appearing bloody and mangled, tells Locke he hasn't much time. Locke wakes up in the sweat lodge -- right as a polar bear lunges at him. Locke stumbles outside where Charlie waits. Locke now knows what he must do: he needs to save Mr. Eko from the polar bears.
Flashback to northern California where Locke picks up a hitchhiker, Eddie, and takes him back to his "family." Locke introduces Eddie to Mike and Jan who own the commune-like farm and the twenty or so people who live and work there.They welcome Eddie with open arms to their family. Locke helps Eddie get adjusted to the place. He even shows Eddie their sweat lodge, where you can meditate and find out what to do with your life. You can find out if you're a hunter or a farmer.
On the island, Locke and Charlie trek to the hatch. It seems to have imploded. They continue on and cross paths with a polar bear. They take off running. They stop in a clearing, but the bear is right behind them.
Locke pulls a knife, throws it -- and Hurley yells out in surprise! Locke pulls the brush aside and finds Hurley standing there with the knife sticking out of his canteen.It barely missed him.
Hurley continues to the camp and discovers Desmond naked in the brush.Hurley gives him a shirt to wear and Desmond tells Hurley not to worry about Jack, Kate and Sawyer.That Locke said in his speech he would go after them.But Locke didn't give a speech.What's Desmond talking about?
On the communal farm, Eddie notices a greenhouse and asks Locke why everyone is so secretive about it.With all the fertilizer and guns, he knows they're planning to blow up something and tells Locke he wants in on it.Locke laughs at the suggestion but promises to talk to Mike and Jan.He finds them inside the greenhouse, which is filled with marijuana plants.They are frantically stuffing records into bags.They tell Locke that Eddie is an undercover cop, and he's been gathering evidence to arrest them.
Locke confronts Eddie at gunpoint.
Eddie admits he's a sheriff, and that they chose Locke on purpose.Locke feels betrayed yet again and threatens to shoot Eddie.But Eddie just backs away, telling Locke he's a farmer, not a hunter.Locke wants to shoot him so badly but doesn't.He lets Eddie run away as he tries to convince himself he really is a hunter.
Back to Locke and Charlie on the island as they track the polar bear to its cave.Locke goes in alone, and finds a yellow toy truck, human bones, a torn shirt with the Pearl station logo on it.He also finds a wounded Mr.Eko.The polar bear attacks again, but Locke fights it off and drags the unconscious Eko away.
On the way back, they stop for water.While Charlie fills their bottles, Locke apologizes to Eko.Surprisingly, Eko awakes and tells him that he will find Jack, Kate and Sawyer because Locke is a hunter.But when Charlie returns, Eko is still unconscious.
They return to camp with Eko.Hurley and Locke tell everyone what the Others have done.They look to Locke as they would look to Jack -- like a leader.
Locke steps into the role effortlessly, assures them that they'll go find Jack, Kate and Sawyer and bring them back -- but for now they need to help Eko.His confidence and leadership comforts them.
Hurley realizes Desmond predicted Locke's speech.How'd he know?But Desmond stands apart from the group, simply throwing rocks into the ocean...
Season 3: Episode 4 - "Every Man for Himself"
10/25/2006
Sawyer rigs his cage so he and Kate can escape.Ben approaches, and Sawyer grabs him.However, nothing happens.Ben tells him they turned off the electricity, and beats Sawyer unconscious.When he wakes up, he's strapped down to a table.They shove a stick in his mouth and plunge a huge needle into his heart!
Later, Ben shows Sawyer a caged rabbit.Ben scares the bunny, which falls over and dies.It had a small pacemaker inserted in its heart to give it a kick-start if it gets anxious, frightened, or tries to escape.Ben gives Sawyer a heart rate monitor and warns him that if his heart rate goes over 140 his heart will explode.And if Sawyer tells Kate, they'll put a pacemaker in her, too.
Back at the cages, Kate immediately questions him, but Sawyer ain't talkin'.Kate has an escape plan -- she could squeeze through the bars at the top of her cage and get them out.Sawyer dissuades her.Kate doesn't understand.They could escape and he's telling her not to?
Flashback to Sawyer in jail.
The new guy, Munson, stole $10 million dollars from the government and hid it.Munson denies stealing it, of course.Sawyer guesses Warden Harris is protecting Munson to play him for the money.Sawyer warns Munson that the Warden will turn his wife against him.When questioned why he's freely offering this advice, Sawyer expresses his hatred for the Warden.Whether the money's real or not, he doesn't want the Warden to get it.
WHOOSH to the Others returning with Colleen, bloody and pale from Sun's gunshot.Juliet asks Jack for his help.Jack scrubs in, and notices x-rays on a lightbox.Juliet says those aren't Colleen's.In the O.R., Juliet confesses she's not a surgeon and couldn't stop the bleeding.Jack finds the bleeder but Colleen dies on the table.
Pickett goes ballistic, ranting that they did this, and beelines for Sawyer's cage.He savagely beats him in front of Kate, demanding to know if she loves him.Kate confesses that she does, and Pickett stops.
Back in jail during visitation, Sawyer sees Munson arguing with his wife.
Sawyer's visitation is with Cassidy, who shows him a photo of their baby daughter, Clementine.Cassidy hoped Sawyer would write a letter to her, but Sawyer becomes angry.Denies he has a baby.Cassidy gets the message and backs off.
Munson tells Sawyer he was right about the Warden using his wife against him.Sawyer tells him when you care, that's when they come after you.Munson wants Sawyer's help moving it.His wife hired a private investigator to find it, and he'd rather Sawyer screw him over than his wife.
Back to the present, Kate squeezes out of her cage and tries to break the lock on Sawyer's.She knows he's lying about what happened to him, and that scares her.What did they do to him, and why doesn't he fight back?He tells her if she really loves him to go without him.Kate claims she said that so Pickett would stop hitting him.She squeezes back into her cage and tells Sawyer, "Live together, die alone."
Juliet tells Jack she's a fertility doctor, but Jack wants to know whose x-rays those were.
They're of a man, about 40 years-old, who has a very large tumor on his vertebrate.He wants to know who he's really there to save.
Desmond tells Claire she has a problem with her roof.He suggests she move down the beach while he fixes it.Charlie, feeling territorial, says if there's any problem, he'll fix it.
Desmond borrows a golf club and ties it to a long stick of bamboo.He puts it near Claire's tent and waits.A storm suddenly blows up, and a bolt of lightning strikes the golf club -- Desmond used it as a lightning rod.Charlie realizes Desmond just saved them, but how did he know that was going to happen?
In jail, Sawyer reveals he conned Munson to get the last six years of his sentence commuted.Sawyer gives up the location of Munson's stolen $10 million.He's now a free man.He instructs them to put his commission in an account with Clementine Phillips' name on it.
On the island, Ben takes Sawyer on a hike.Ben tells him his heart isn't going to explode -- that only thing they put inside him was doubt.
At the top of the hill, Ben points to a big island across the way.That's the island Sawyer knows and loves.They're on a smaller island, like Alcatraz.If they escape, there's nowhere to run.Ben reminds him the only way to gain the respect of a con man is to con him.Sawyer's good, but the Others are better.
Season 3: Episode 5 - "The Cost of Living"
11/01/2006
Eko is unconscious and dreams about when he and his brother, Yemi, were kids.They broke into the church pantry to steal food and were caught.He is told hunger is no excuse to sin and forced to confess.He snaps awake -- to find Yemi is standing in his tent.Dressed in his priest's collar, he tells Eko to confess his sins and be judged.
Ben brings Jack to Colleen's funeral.Jack asks about the x-rays and guesses that Ben has the tumor.Ben denies it.He then confronts Juliet about it, but she didn't tell Jack.
Sayid, Jin and Sun return to camp, and Sayid updates Locke.Locke proposes they go to the Pearl station and use its computer to contact the Others.He hopes to start a dialogue with them to get back Jack, Kate and Sawyer.Eko mumbled Yemi's name before he disappeared, so Locke believes Eko is going to the Nigerian plane where Yemi's body rests.The plane also happens to be on top of the entrance to the Pearl station.
Back in Nigeria, after Yemi is killed, Eko is returned to the church.
Eko walks through it, very aware he was responsible for his brother's death.He finds Yemi's Bible and a photo of them as kids tucked between its pages.He is interrupted by Amina, who asks about Father Yemi.Eko tells her he is taking Yemi's place.Amina introduces her son, Daniel, who is an altar boy in the church.
Outside, they hear gun shots.It's Emeka and his gang who demand the vaccine.Amina tells them it'll arrive on Friday.She explains that the clinic gets ten percent of the vaccine, and Emeka and his gang get the rest as payment for protection.Eko isn't afraid of Emeka, so Emeka shoots and kills a random woman.Eko is angry but keeps quiet so he doesn't blow his cover.Emeka promises to return for the vaccine.
On the island, Eko stumbles through the jungle, dehydrated and delirious.He sees Emeka and his men, bloody and butchered.Then he sees Daniel, who tells him to confess.He stumbles to a stream for water.While he's drinking, he hears the smoke monster and sees its reflection looming menacingly behind him.
But then it dissipates, and Locke, Desmond, Sayid, Nikki and Paulo break through the jungle on the opposite side of the stream.Together they continue to the plane and Pearl station.
Ben talks to Jack and tells him they had a wonderful plan to break him.But the plan was ruined when Jack saw Ben's x-rays and figured out he was dying.Ben asks Jack to save his life.Then he asks Jack if he believes in God.Two days after he found out he had a tumor on his spine, a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky.If that isn't proof of God, Ben doesn't know what is.
Flashback to Nigeria, where Eko plans to take the vaccine for himself and sell it.Emeka and his men return after hearing about Eko's plans.Believing Eko really is a priest, Emeka says he'll only cut off Eko's hands.But Eko the war lord emerges, and he slaughters the men inside the church.
Daniel asks if Eko is a bad man.Eko tells him only God knows.Amina confronts Eko about the vaccine, telling him Emeka and his men will simply be replaced by similar men.
Eko notices they are boarding up the church.Amina tells Eko it is no longer sacred.He needs to repent because he owes God for every life he's taken, and he owes Father Yemi one church.
In the Hydra station, Juliet shows Jack a movie.While the movie is playing, she apologizes to Jack for what they've done to him, and tries to convince him to perform the operation on Ben.However, the "movie" is actually Juliet holding cards that read the opposite of what she's saying: Ben is dangerous; people want a change; Jack could make Ben's death look like an accident during surgery; she would protect him.Jack is stunned.
In the Pearl station, Sayid concludes they can't send a message to the Others.They check the monitors for other stations on the island, and most of them are blank.But then a live feed reveals another working station on the island -- when suddenly a face pops into view: a menacing man with a patch over his right eye.He reaches up and turns the camera off.Everyone reacts.
Outside, Yemi appears to Eko asks him if he's ready to confess his sins.Eko refuses to do so.He maintains he has not sinned.He killed to save their lives.He is not sorry -- he is proud.He asks what has God done for him.
Yemi chastises Eko for speaking to him as if they he were brothers.Suddenly the smoke monster coils up before him.It grabs Eko, and slams him violently against the trees.Locke hears the smoke monster's roar and runs out.By the time he gets to Eko, he is dying.Locke tries to comfort him, but Eko whispers one last thing to him before he dies: they're next.
Season 3: Episode 6 - "I Do"
11/08/2006
We open with a flashback -- Kate checks into a hotel room and looks at her wedding veil.A policeman knocks on the door and demands to be let in.Is she going to be arrested?When Kate opens the door, she jumps into his arms -- they're a couple! Kate is marrying a cop.Kate has a moment of doubt, but Kevin assures her it's right and real because he loves her.
On the island, Jack checks Ben's x-rays and medical file.He tells Ben the tumor will be inoperable in about a week and he needs to be in surgery immediately -- but Jack won't do the surgery.He told Ben this so he would know how he's going to die.
Locke tells Nikki, Paulo, Sayid and Desmond that Eko was killed by an animal.Sayid doesn't believe him.When they're alone, Sayid asks Locke what really killed Eko.Locke says people call it the monster but he doesn't believe in monsters.Locke believes it may be what brought them there and that Eko died for a reason -- he just doesn't know what it is yet.
While Kate and Sawyer are working, a warning sounds -- it's a compound breach.
Suddenly Alex runs out of the jungle holding a slingshot and firing rocks, demanding to know where her boyfriend is.She's grabbed from behind and taken off.She shouts to Kate that they'll kill her boyfriend, meaning Sawyer, just like they killed hers.
Juliet tells Kate that Pickett is going to kill Sawyer, but if Kate can convince Jack to do the operation, Kate can save Sawyer's life.When Jack and Kate see each other, emotion overcomes them.Kate hates being used but she tells Jack he has to do the operation.Jack is mad she believes the Others...and mad that she's there asking him to save Sawyer's life.
Flashback to Kate, nervous before her wedding.Kevin's mom, Suzanne, gives her a beautiful gold locket her mom had given her.Kate tells her mother-in-laws aren't supposed to be so nice.During the ceremony, the Minister talks about Kate's honesty and faithfulness, and how what you see is what you get.But Kevin, Suzanne and the Minister think Kate's name is Monica, and Kate is aware of the irony of those words.
After shopping for dinner, Kate calls U.S.Marshal Mars.She doesn't want to run any more, and pleads for him to stop chasing her.He guesses it's about a guy.She tells him she loves the guy.The Marshal agrees that if Kate can really stay put, really settle down, he'll stop chasing her.But he and Kate both know that's not going to happen.
Back on the island, Kate tells Sawyer about seeing Jack and what they want him to do.Sawyer is glad Jack isn't dumb enough to do the surgery.Kate gets angry, climbs out of her cage and breaks open Sawyer's.If he doesn't want Jack to save his life then he's going to save his own.But Sawyer finally tells her they're on another island -- there isn't any place to run.This hits Kate hard.Sawyer didn't tell her this earlier because he wanted her to believe they had a chance.In his own way, he was protecting her.
The situation, the emotion, the chemistry between them is too much -- and Kate kisses him.Sawyer is surprised, but he kisses her back.Maybe they think Pickett really will kill Sawyer, or maybe they really love each other, but all that matters is their moment together.
They fall out of frame as they make love.
Meanwhile, Locke says a few words for Eko and buries him.As he pounds Eko's Jesus stick in the ground for the marker, Locke sees a message on it: Look north, John 3:05.Locke smiles -- he's finally found his further instructions.
In the Hydra station, someone unlocks the door to Jack's room.Jack gets out and finds a weapons cabinet and the surveillance room.On one of the monitors he sees Kate and Sawyer together.It's a sucker punch for Jack.Ben appears behind him and is surprised, too.He thought Kate would've picked Jack.Jack decides to do the surgery.He promises to remove the tumor and keep Ben alive, but he wants Ben to keep his promise.He wants off the island.
We WHOOSH back to Kate with pregnancy test results -- she's not pregnant.Relief floods over her.She brings Kevin iced tea and tells him the truth -- she's a fugitive on the run for killing her father.She can't be tied down to their domestic life, worrying about getting pregnant and planning dinners.
Kevin protests, and she reveals her name isn't Monica.She loves him but can't stay.Kevin tries to get up but falls over.She drugged him to protect him.Since he's a cop they'll ask questions and she doesn't want him to lose his job.He falls unconscious.She put the gold locket his mom gave her in Kevin's hand and leaves.
Back on the island, Jack starts the surgery.Once Ben is under, Pickett goes after Sawyer.He discovers Sawyer and Kate together.He forces Sawyer to his knees with a gun to his head.He's going to kill Sawyer and make Kate watch...
...When Friendly calls over the walkie.Jack sabotaged the operation and will let Ben die if they don't let Kate and Sawyer go.Jack tells Kate to run.When they're safe, he wants her to radio him and tell him the story he told her on the day of the crash when she stitched him up.Kate doesn't want to go without him, but Jack tells her to run...
Season 3: Episode 7 - "Not In Portland"
02/07/2007
With Ben bleeding out on the operation table, Jack stops the surgery to give Kate and Sawyer enough time to escape.Juliet orders Ivan to bring them back - to kill them if necessary.Jack warns her he'll let Ben die.Jack tells Friendly that Juliet asked him to kill Ben.Juliet denies it.Friendly orders Juliet to leave the room.
Kate and Sawyer make it to the shore but realize they need a boat.With Pickett, Jason and Ivan hot on their trail, they run back into the jungle to hide.They meet Alex, who hides them in a camouflaged tiger pit.Alex tells them she has a boat they can use - but only if they help rescue her boyfriend, Karl.
FLASHBACK to Juliet in Miami.She visits her sister, and in the hallway passes Ethan Rom.He says hello but Juliet doesn't know him.Juliet wakes Rachel and gives her an injection.Rachel has lost her hair from chemotherapy, so what's the injection Juliet gives her?A cancer drug?Juliet tells Rachel they can stop if she wants.Rachel asks her if she's worried if Edmund Burke, Juliet's ex-husband who runs the research lab, will find out.
Back on the island, Friendly warns Jack that he dies if Ben dies.Suddenly Ben interrupts them - he's awake and heard everything.He asks to talk to Juliet alone.After their talk, she tells Jack if he continues with the operation, she'll help Kate and Sawyer escape.
Alex leads Kate and Sawyer to the compound where Karl is being held.They disarm the guard and sneak inside, finding Karl in Room 23.He is strapped to a chair with an I.V.drip and being forced to watch a film.Images bombard him while loud music and a cacophony of overlapping sounds blare out of the speakers.They free him and head for Alex's boat.
Back in Miami, Edmund confronts Juliet.He knows that she's been sneaking out serum and experimenting on her sister.If she won't let him in on her research and publishing, Edmund will report her to the authorities.Juliet is trapped.
She has a job interview with Richard Alpert from Mittelos BioScience.He tells Juliet that Mittelos is based in Oregon, just outside Portland, and that they are privately funded.
Juliet is not sure why they contacted her.Alpert reminds her she successfully impregnated a male field mouse, but Juliet brushes off the compliment.Alpert shows her an MRI of a woman whose uterus indicates she'd be in her seventies - but he tells Juliet the woman is 26.Juliet wants to know what happened.Alpert tells her if she comes to work for them, she could have complete freedom and all the money she needed to find out.Juliet refuses the offer.She explains her ex-husband wouldn't let her out of his grant early, that he won't let her do anything.Alpert insists there must be something they can do.Frustrated, Juliet blurts out that Edmund could get hit by a bus.Embarrassed and starting to cry, Juliet tells Alpert she's not a leader - she's a mess.
On the island, Jack continues Ben's operation.Jack asks why, if they can get off the island, they simply didn't take Ben to a hospital.Before Friendly can respond, Jack accidentally nicks an artery, sending Ben into cardiac arrest.
Alex takes Kate, Sawyer and Karl to the boat she had hidden - when Pickett bursts out of the jungle and is about to shoot Sawyer - but BAM! Juliet shoots and kills Pickett.
Juliet tells them they can leave now - but not Alex.Her father, Ben, wouldn't let Karl live if Alex goes, too.Alex says good-bye to Karl.Juliet hands a walkie to Kate and tells her to radio Jack.Kate tells Jack the story of him "counting to five" to prove they're safe.As she retells it, Sawyer begins to understand the depth of their connection and is troubled by it.Jack makes her promise they won't come back for him.Kate, Sawyer and Karl sail away.
Back in Miami, Rachel tells Juliet it was a success - she's pregnant.The serum wasn't a cancer drug but a fertility treatment.Juliet leaves to tell Edmund the news but informs him she's not interested in publishing.Right as Edmund is about to protest - BAM! He is hit by a bus!
Juliet goes to the morgue to identify Edmund's body.Richard Alpert appears with Ethan Rom to express their condolences.Juliet realizes in their interview she said she wanted Edmund to get hit by a bus.Alpert denies that he or his group had anything to do with the accident, but reminds Juliet that the job offer still stands.
It'll only be for six months.She'll be back before Rachel has the baby.But wait.How did they know Rachel was pregnant?Alpert tells her they are very thorough in their recruitment process.Juliet wants to bring her sister along, but Alpert tells her Rachel wouldn't have access to the treatment she'll need.But there are plenty of clinics in Portland, Juliet points out.Sensing her confusion, Alpert admits their location is not quite in Portland&
On the island, with Friendly's help, Jack stops the bleeding and saves Ben.Juliet returns, and Jack asks her what Ben said.Juliet tells Jack that she's been on the island for three years, two months and twenty-eight days.Ben promised Juliet if she let him live, he'll finally let her go home.
Season 3, Episode 8 - "Flashes before your eyes"
(14/02/07)
Flashes Before Your Eyes was the eighth episode in Season 3, and was broadcast on February 14, 2007. A suspicious and determined Charlie enlists Hurley to help him wrangle the truth out of Desmond, who has been acting strangely ever since the implosion of the hatch.
The flashbacks in this episode appear in a different format – not as memories, but as one continuous "lucid flashback" of Desmond's Time Travel after the discharge. Although there is a large portion shown in Desmond’s past, different aspects from the Island such as the Numbers and the countdown timer come back and haunt him, although it's likely these elements were all there before, but he never recognized them the first time around. Desmond is then hit in the head with a cricket bat and launched forward in time back to the Island.
Desmond finds Hurley and Charlie ransacking Sawyer's stash and brings them to the jungle to meet Sayid and Locke. Locke tells Hurley and Charlie that Eko is dead, and that they need to act unafraid to keep panic at the camp at a minimum. During the conversation, Desmond begins to act increasingly nervous, and suddenly runs away from the group toward the shore. Desmond throws off his shirt and dives into the ocean where Claire is drowning. Desmond saves Claire, resuscitating her on the beach, while Charlie stands on the side, trying to help and see if Claire is okay. Afterwards, Charlie wants to know how Desmond knew Claire was drowning, and thinks that by getting Desmond drunk he can get him to talk. Hurley and Charlie start drinking MacCutcheon Scotch whisky with Desmond, sharing stories and drinking songs. Charlie then makes his move, asking him how he knew, but Desmond simply walks away. Charlie calls after him, saying that he is a coward, prompting Desmond to return the insult by slamming Charlie to the ground and trying to strangle him. As Charlie chokes for air, Desmond screams "you don't wanna know what happened to me", recalling what happened after he turned the key.
The countdown timer reaches zero and goes into system failure mode. Desmond tears apart the bookcase and finds the fail-safe key. He goes under the floor, says "I love you Penny", and turns the key. His world turns to white and his life flashes before his eyes.
He wakes up lying on a wood floor with what looks like blood all over him. He looks around and sees a spilled can of red paint and a fallen ladder. Penny runs over to him and asks if he's okay. He realizes that they are in his old flat in the past. Delighted to be back with Penny, he kisses and embraces her.
Desmond later fixes his tie and glances at the clock, which reads 1:08. Penny helps him as he tells her how glad he is that she just moved in. They discuss Desmond's impending meeting with her father, and Penny says that if it doesn't go well it won't be "the end of the world." This phrase disturbs Desmond, especially since he hears the sound of the countdown timer beeping - but it turns out to just be the microwave. Penny asks if he's alright and he says he just has déjà vu.
Desmond checks in with the Widmore Industries receptionist. A delivery man then arrives with a 'parcel for 815". The mention of "4-8-15" brings up a flash of the numbers in Desmond's mind, and momentarily unsettles him again.
In his office, Mr. Widmore discusses Desmond's resume with him. When Desmond compliments Mr. Widmore's ship model, and Widmore says that he is sponsoring a race around the world, Desmond has another flash of him on his own future boat. Widmore offers Desmond a position in the administrative department, but Desmond tells him he isn't there for a job. Instead, he wants to ask his permission to marry Penny.
Widmore calls it a noble gesture and takes out a bottle of MacCutcheon Scotch whisky and two glasses. However, he only pours whisky into one glass, saying that one swallow costs more than Desmond would make in a month, and sharing it with him would be a waste because he will never be a great man. Not being worthy to drink his whisky, how could he ever be worthy to marry his daughter? After exiting the building, Desmond throws his tie on the floor.
On the sidewalk, Desmond comes upon Charlie playing guitar and singing "Wonderwall" to the crowd for change. Desmond claims to recognize him, and flashes to Charlie during the hatch system failure. Desmond has more flashes and begins freaking out, remembering the time he has just experienced and how it started to rain. Just then, it begins to pour.
Desmond goes to a research library and finds his friend Donovan, a physicist, to ask him about the concept of time travel. Desmond questions if it's possible that he's reliving part of his life, but Donovan suggests his mind is just reacting to his failure with Widmore by giving him a role of importance on the island. Donovan says that if he is reliving his life, he should be able to predict what happens next. Desmond says he can't remember everything, but then the song "Make Your Own Kind of Music" comes on the jukebox, and he gets another flash. Looking up at the soccer game, he says that Graybridge comes back from two goals down in the final two minutes of the game to win. Desmond then adds that immediately following, Jimmy Lennon will come in and hit the bartender with a cricket bat. They watch the game, but the team fails to score. Desmond, disappointed, accepts Donovan's advice to get on with his life and marry Penny.
Desmond comes home and tells Penny he didn't get the job. To console him, she suggests they go out and celebrate the occasion. He asks why she loves him, and she replies that it's because he's a 'good man,' and in her experience, those are hard to come by. They kiss.
Some time later, Desmond looks at rings in a shop. Ms. Hawking, the shop keeper, aids him in his browsing, finding him the perfect one for his price range. He says he'll take the ring, but is taken aback when she says "no, you won't." Ms. Hawking tells the astonished Desmond that he isn't supposed to take the ring, because his not buying it led to his original fate of ending up on the island and turning the fail-safe key. She also states that "if you don't do those things, Desmond David Hume, every single one of us is dead."
Ms. Hawking decides that Desmond needs persuasion and brings him outside. She buys some chestnuts and points out a man wearing red shoes. Desmond theorizes that she is really his subconscious but she only smiles. Desmond says he is determined to marry Penny, but Ms. Hawking is confident that that won't happen. Suddenly, scaffolding falls on the man wearing red shoes, and Desmond accuses Ms. Hawking of knowing what would happen, asking why she didn't try to stop it. She says it was his fate to die and that no one can change their fate. If she warned him about the scaffolding, he would have been hit by a taxi, and if she had warned him about the taxi, he would have fallen in the shower and broken his neck. If someone manages to forestall fate, the universe will "course correct" itself and find another way of forcing them back on their prescribed path. Desmond, however, refuses to concede that he is a slave to the universe, and takes the ring anyway.
Desmond goes to meet Penny and is unsettled by a Royal Scots recruitment poster. He meets her near Westminster bridge and is propositioned by a photographer. Penny convinces him to get their photo taken together. They change the pull down background scenes until they find one Penny likes, and he takes off his coat so that they end up matching the photo that Desmond carries with him on the island. Desmond stares at the photo and comes to a realization about his fate. He tells Penny that he isn't the man he needs to be and that they aren't supposed to be together. She runs off crying, but not before calling him a coward, and Desmond throws the ring into the River Thames.
Desmond is back at the pub and spots the MacCutcheon Scotch whisky but goes for the cheap stuff instead. He tells the bartender he thinks he's made the biggest mistake of his life, and that he thinkshe's made it before.
Desmond returning to the Island, after his déjà vu "journey" is completed.
Desmond returning to the Island, after his déjà vu "journey" is completed.
"Make Your Own Kind of Music" starts playing on the jukebox again, and Desmond sees another football game on the television, but this time the team makes the goal. Excited that his vision of the future was correct, he decides that he might have a chance to change his fate after all. The third part of his prediction comes true too, and a cricket-bat brandishing Jimmy Lennon storms into the bar to accost the bartender. Jimmy swings the bat at the bartender and Desmond yells for him to duck, causing the bat to hit Desmond instead.
Desmond's world fades to white, and he wakes up naked in the jungle with injuries all over from the hatch implosion, and also still hurting from where he was hit with the bat. He runs to where the hatch was and is dismayed at seeing the hole in the ground. Among the debris he finds his photo. He cries and pleads to be given another chance to change the past.
After recalling what happened, Desmond is pulled off Charlie by Hurley. Beginning to sob, Charlie takes pity on him and escorts him back to his tent. They apologise to each other and Desmond tells Charlie he is a good man. He says that when he turned the key, his life flashed before his eyes, but when he woke up back in the jungle, the flashes didn't stop.
Charlie asks if Desmond saved Claire after seeing a flash of her drowning, and Desmond chillingly says that Charlie is actually the one that he saved. It was Charlie who he had seen be electrocuted by the lightning bolt, and he whom he had seen drown trying to rescue Claire. He says that although he has saved Charlie twice already, the universe will inevitably "course correct". No matter what he tries to do, Charlie is going to die.
Season 3 Episode 9, "Stranger in a strange Land"
(21/02/07)
Jack exits a hut on the beach in Phuket, Thailand, admires the scenery, and is greeted by a Thai boy whose only English seems to be "Doctor Jack want soda?" Jack buys two sodas and gives him a tip. He sets down a kite kit but struggles to put it together. A Thai woman on the beach is amused by his predicament and helps him put together and fly the kite. She introduces herself as Achara.
Later, Jack and Achara eat together at a restaurant where her brother Chet serves them food, calling Jack "very brave" for trying the local delicacies. She asks Jack why he doesn't know how to fly a kite and he starts to tell her about his childhood and his father but she stops him, saying some things are personal. She asks if he is in Phuket to find himself. They are interrupted by a Thai man who gives Achara a thick envelope which she puts in her purse after exchanging the Thai Wai greeting (similar to the "namaste" salutation), and explains only by saying she has "a gift".
While Jack is sleeping, Achara sneaks into his room, undresses, and slips into his bed as he wakes up. She asks if he has a question for her and he says it might be nice to know something about her after a month of her coming and going. She says "there are things that happened here that he would never understand" possibly leading to her powers. They roll onto the floor kissing and she suggests he stop asking questions and try to have fun.
Jack later decides to follow Achara, and discovers her in what appears to be a private tattoo parlor. She says this is where she works and he shouldn't be there. She says she is not a tattoo artist, that her gift is her ability to see who people are, and the tattoo defines and marks her customers with her vision. Jack demands to know what she sees about him but she protests that she is not allowed to use her gift on an outsider.
He insists and she reveals that he is a leader and a great man, but this makes him lonely, frightened, and angry. Jack makes her tattoo him, even though she claims there will be 'consequences'.
The next day, Jack exits his hut but this time the Thai boy, who gives him soda, runs away from him. Chet and a group of Thai men approach Jack, uncover his tattoo, and beat him to the ground. Chet orders him to leave the beach and the country. He spits on Jack and the group of men walk away with Achara as she is moved to tears.
On the Hydra Island
Tom enters the aquarium in order to move Jack, but Jack accuses him of using it as a euphemism for execution. Tom asks him what kind of people he thinks the Others are and Jack rattles off a list of their crimes. Tom asks if Jack wants some stones for his glass house, and suggests he cooperate. Jack acquiesces and is escorted out by Tom and two Others. As he is led out, he passes Juliet being led into the aquarium with her hands restrained by a group of Others. As they pass, Juliet says to Jack, "hey." Juliet stares at Jack from her cell as Tom confers with a female Other.
Tom brings Jack lunch in the bear cage, and is asked who the mysterious Other woman was; with Tom referring to her as the figurative sheriff. Jack asks why they moved Juliet and Tom tells him she's in trouble. Jack is told not to start any trouble and, Jack says he knows about the cameras. During this scene, a number of animals are heard. First, a very strange bird call that Tom stops and listens to, and then a sound that is distinctly a chicken.
Juliet is escorted to Jack's cage so that she can request that Jack help Ben with an infection around his stitches. He asks if she wants to help Ben to get off the island, and she reveals that she is doing it to get out of trouble for killing someone.
Jack refuses to help Ben or her.
At night, the mysterious female Other approaches Jack and speaks Chinese, explaining that she is reading the characters in Jack's tattoo. She comments that the meaning is ironic and then asks Jack if he knows what it means, since it can be hard to translate. Jack insists that he does. Introducing herself as Isabel, she brings him to a room in the Hydra so she can ask him some questions. They pass Alex, whom Isabel sweetly but firmly suggests should visit her father. Isabel faces Jack as Tom and Juliet watch on. She asks if Juliet asked Jack to kill Ben. Jack denies it, saying he made it up to gain an advantage. Isabel asks him why he is lying, and he requests to be returned to his cage.
Jack wakes in the morning to a group of people watching him. A woman approaches, and he recognizes her as Cindy, the flight attendant from Flight 815. He asks her why she is with them. At first she starts replying "They're not.. uhm", pauses for a moment, and says "it's not that simple" and they are here "to watch". A young girl unknown to Jack, Emma from the tail section, approaches and has Cindy ask Jack how Ana-Lucia is doing, which angers Jack, and he yells at Cindy to go. She and the others leave, including a young boy, Zack, who hands his teddy bear to his sister Emma.
After the crowd disperses, Alex breaks the camera outside Jack's cage so they won't be watched, and asks Jack why he would help Ben after what he did to them. Jack demands to know what is going on with Juliet. Alex explains that they are reading Juliet's verdict. They are strict about killing their own, demanding an 'eye for an eye'. She reveals that Juliet killed Danny to help Kate and Sawyer escape. In return, Jack shares the knowledge that he helped Ben simply because he said that he would. He asks if Ben is still in charge. Alex says he is, and Jack tells her to get him out of the cage.
Jack storms into the operating room and warns the Others in the room that they aren't treating Ben properly. Ben's wounds are seriously infected and it's possible he might not walk again. Jack says he'd be more impressed if they had a proper surgeon, and Ben says they used to have one - Ethan. Jack bargains with Ben, offering him proper treatment in return for him commuting Juliet's death sentence. Ben warns him that whatever Jack thinks Juliet did to help him, she's still "one of us". But Jack presses on, and Ben prepares to write down his orders.
Jack and Alex storm over to the deliberation room where a group of Others are readying to give Juliet's verdict as she watches on. Tom grabs Jack but Isabel stops him and takes Ben's orders from Alex. Ben has commuted Juliet's sentence as 'the rules don't apply', but also ordered her to be "marked".
Juliet brings Jack a grilled sandwich with toothpicks in his bear cage. He asks to see her mark, and she reveals a brand with a small circle and eight radiating lines on her lower back. He requests that she bring him an aloe plant, and he applies the aloe to her back. She asks why Jack helped her.
He says he did it so that Ben would keep his word to let both of them leave the island. She asks how, and Jack says "together." Juliet informs him that they have to go back to where they live because Jack's friends will come to the island to look for him. Jack asks where, and she says that Ben calls it "home".
The Others are gathered around a boat on the beach, and Isabel tells Jack his tattoo says "he walks amongst us, but he is not one of us." Jack says his Chinese tattoo may say that, but "that isn't what it means!". Jack, Ben, and two others row out to a larger boat.
Later, Alex looks up sadly at the same night sky whilst Karl is gazing at from his camp on the Island. Juliet looks at Jack as they and the Others travel through the night on the larger boat.
On the Main Island
Sawyer sings while he and Kate row back to the main island in the canoe with an unconscious Karl. Kate tries to convince Sawyer to turn around so they can rescue Jack but Sawyer says it's too dangerous and a semi lucid Karl agrees that the Others would kill them. Karl mutters a phrase from the room 23 video and falls back asleep.
Sawyer and Kate continue to bicker on the canoe, Sawyer is rowing towards the nearest part of the shoreline but Kate wants to row all the way to the main camp to get help from Locke and Sayid. Sawyer says they'll get lost, run out of food and water, and have trouble navigating once it gets dark.
Over a camp fire while it's still light out, Sawyer offers Kate fruit and she refuses. Karl tells them they shouldn't fight because they are lucky to be alive. Kate asks Karl about the Others. He reveals that they live on the main island and only work on "projects" on the smaller island. As for the children that were kidnapped, they "give them a better life." Kate asks "better than what?" "Better than yours," says Karl. He predicts that there won't be a moon that night, and says that when he and Alex were younger they used to lie out at night in their backyards and make up their own names for constellations.
Kate wakes up and shakes Sawyer awake, warning him that Karl is gone. But they hear Karl nearby crying and Sawyer tell her he will deal with him: "Boys only." Sawyer punches Karl in the shoulder to 'cowboy' him up. Sawyer comforts him and suggests he go back for Alex, though Karl says they would kill him this time. Sawyer suggests that for a girl he would "name dumb stars with," it might be worth it.
Kate argues with Sawyer about him letting Karl go. She complains about him ordering her around. Sawyer says she is just angry because she feels guilty, not about leaving Jack, but for having sex with Sawyer. He attributes that she only did it because she thought he was going to die. A speechless and hurt Kate simply tries to brush off the comment, and the two move on.
Later that night, Sawyer looks sadly at Kate as they make their way back towards the main camp; somewhere else on the island, Karl sits by a fire and looks up at the stars.
Season 3 Episode 10 - Trisha Tanaka is Dead
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Flashback
Around 1987, a young, skinny Hurley carries tools to a Camaro that is up on blocks and opens the hood. His father gives him a Glacier Bar against his mother's wishes, and tells him to start the car even though it needs a new carburetor. Hurley claims it's stupid but his father tells him hope is never stupid and you have to make your own luck. He then informs him that their planned trip to the Grand Canyon will have to wait until he comes back from some work he has to do in Las Vegas, and drives off on his motorcycle.
Seventeen years later, Tricia Tanaka is filming a fluff piece in Diamond Bar on how Hurley bought the Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack where he used to work from his former boss Randy Nations. She tries to interview Hurley but he starts to relate all of the bad luck he has had: his grandfather's heart attack, the burning down of the house he bought his mother, his best friend Johnny running off with his girlfriend Starla, and the suicidal jumper at his accountant's building. Tricia complains about his attitude and goes inside the Shack with her camera man while Hurley asks Randy if everything is safe. Suddenly a meteorite falls from the sky, completely destroying the Shack and killing Tricia and her camera man.
Later that day, Hurley is greeted at his mansion by his mother. He tells her what happened and renews his intentions to go to Australia to investigate the numbers. His mother says he can't be cursed because his father has returned after seventeen years. His father jokes that "your mother wasn't kidding about those candy bars."
At dinner, David remarks on a golden statue of Jesus and Carmen explains that Hurley commissioned artisans in Taxco to make it. She also explains that they hired workers from Bennigans to be their butlers. Hugo gets upset that his mother isn't suspicious of his father suddenly showing up after he won the lottery, but she claims he came because she called him to ask for help with Hugo's obsession with his "curse." Hugo gives the Trons severance and threatens to get rid of the money, all that it has bought, and his father. His mother covers the ears of the Jesus statue and says she has become intimate with Hurley's father again. She tells Hugo to show his father the Camaro which he has saved all these years.
Hurley's dad wakes him after some initial trouble due to Hurley wearing earphones to drown out his parents' lovemaking noises. He asks him to go with him to break the curse. They end up visiting a psychic, Lynn Karnoff, who tells Hurley his fortune using tarot cards. The first card tells her he has won money. The second, the Six of Swords, tells her it has brought him misfortune. She claims to see the numbers and lists them. She says they are cursed and pulls a third card, Death.
She says his curse can be removed and asks him to take off his clothes while she starts preparing ingredients to exorcise his curse. He offers her a thousand dollars to admit that his dad put her up to it. She acts offended but then relents and admits it after being offered ten thousand dollars. Hurley storms out.
Later Hurley is packing to go to Australia. His father admits that he came because of Hurley's money, but says Hurley doesn't need to leave, he just needs a little hope. He should make his own luck, give away all the money except enough to fix the Camaro and take the trip to the Grand Canyon they had planned. Hurley pauses to consider but leaves. His father says he'll be there when Hurley gets back.
On the Main Island
Hurley confesses his fears and troubles at Libby's grave, and lays down a flower. He finds Charlie shaving and gets him to reveal Desmond's flashes of Charlie being fated to die. Hurley says it might be his fault because of his curse. Vincent emerges from the jungle with a skeleton arm holding a key. Hurley chases him through the jungle until the dog drops the arm. Hurley takes the key which has a lucky rabbit's foot keychain attached and follows Vincent to an overturned van.
At the camp, Sun tells Jin that in order to help him learn, she will only speak to him in English from now on. Hurley bursts into the group and tells everyone about the van. He tries to get help in starting it, but only Jin volunteers, not knowing what Hurley was saying.
In the jungle, Kate and Sawyer get closer to camp. Sawyer steps on a dart from the Swan dart board and Kate pulls it out. She offers to reconcile but Sawyer brushes her off. They reach camp and are greeted by the other survivors enthusiastically.
Back at the van, Hurley and Jin find the owner of the arm, the skeletal remains of a man in a work suit which has on it a Swan DHARMA logo patch, the name "Roger," and the designation "Work Man." They open the back door and find a mound of DHARMA beer. They pull out the skeleton, accidentally causing the head to come off and land on a pile of documents.
At the camp, Charlie demands that Desmond tell him when he will die but Desmond informs him it doesn't work like that. Sawyer barges up to them and demands to know where his stash went. Desmond apologizes for drinking the Scotch but reveals that Charlie and Hurley helped. Sawyer finds Hurley and Jin attempting to upright the van. Hurley is overjoyed to see Sawyer and both he and Jin give him a big hug. Hurley says that the car and Sawyer's return are signs that their luck is changing. Sawyer asks for his stuff but Hurley bribes him with beer to get him to help fix the van.
On the beach, Kate tells Sayid about her experiences with the Others. Kate tells Sayid and Locke that she is going to get help and attempt to rescue Jack.
Hurley, Sawyer and Jin push the van upright and look inside. There are a lot of documents, including a DHARMA blueprint for a dirt road winding down the side of an incline and ending at the Swan station. Sawyer freaks out at Roger's head and exits with some beer. Hurley closes his eyes, puts the key in the ignition, and tries to start the van but the engine doesn't turn over. He takes offense at Sawyer calling Roger "Skeletor" and his lack of enthusiasm about fixing the van, saying they need to do it as a symbol of hope.
While knocking back some of the DHARMA beers, Sawyer teaches Jin some English words. He asks Hurley what he's doing and Hurley says he's praying for hope. Sawyer throws a beer can at him, saying "here's your hope." Hurley sees the can rolling down a hill and gets an idea. He finds Charlie on the beach and snaps him out of his funk. He convinces him to help him with the van, saying it will give both of them the hope they need to change their fates.
Hurley returns with Charlie and gets the other three to push the van to where the hill starts. He gets out and they all look down to see a steep incline with some big black rocks at the bottom. Hurley says if they push the van down the hill, Hurley can pop the clutch and get it started.
Charlie calls shotgun. Jin and Sawyer push them over the precipice and the van hurtles down the hill. Just before they are about to crash into the rocks, Hurley has his eyes closed and is telling himself he is making his own luck. He pops the clutch and the van starts. He swerves to avoid the rocks, and drives into a field. The van comes alive with the same song (Shambala by Three Dog Night) Hurley's radio was playing when his Dad left him. Jin and Sawyer join them for a joy ride, shouting as they circle the field. Hurley stays behind to go for another joy ride while the other three go back to camp with renewed hope. Jin gives Sun a flower, and a smiling Charlie joins Claire. Sawyer brings the beer back to his tent and looks at the happy couples with envy as he drinks his beer.
Later that night, while Kate is in the jungle, she sees that Locke and Sayid have followed her. They ask her why she didn't ask for help in looking for Jack. She says they weren't motivated, but they counter that they just didn't know where to look. Sayid claims Locke has gotten a clue from Eko's stick. Gunshots fire, but Kate tells them to lower their weapons, and Danielle comes out. Kate asks for her help, and tells her that she was able to escape from the Others with the help of a girl, about 16 years old, who she thinks is Danielle's daughter, Alex.
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Right, I did as far as Enter 77, but it won't let me post more in this thread. Will start another one shortly.
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