Previously on Lost:
- Damn it! - You all right, brother?
I'm fine. I'm fine.
- I'm training. - You're training for what?
For a race around the world.
- Jack. - I'm Desmond.
See you in another life, yeah?
Type in exactly what I tell you, understand? Nothing else.
Four... eight...
15...
16...
23...
42.
Now press "Execute."
- What's gonna happen? - Just push it!
Kate! Locke!
Who the hell is that?
Move and I kill him.
- Michael! Sawyer! - Jin!
Others! Others! Others!
- What? - Others.
Where's my boy?
Hey!
Hey, what did you do with my boy? You hear me?
Come back here!
Do you want him to die? Put it down.
Is this what you were talking about, Locke? Is this your destiny?
"All roads lead here."
My mother stole again from me this week.
I don't even keep money in my purse anymore, I've been hiding it.
But when she wants a drink...
She stole 30 dollars.
I know it may not seem like a lot of money to some of you,
but it's a lot to me. And I want it back.
Something you want to say?
John, you've been coming here for a month now...
I just don't think 30 dollars is worth getting angry about.
Francine feels 30 dollars...
Francine feels a little too much, if you ask me.
You all do.
I mean, seriously... "So-and-so never called me back."
"My mother stole 30 dollars." I never even knew who my parents were.
Couple years ago, my birth mother found me.
And...
she told me...
I was special.
And through her I met my real father. Great news, right?
Well, he pretended to love me, just long enough to steal my kidney,
because he had to have a transplant.
And then he dropped me back in the world like a piece of trash,
just like he did on the day that I was born.
You want your damn 30 dollars back? I want my kidney back!
Probably a good idea.
You know if you get kidney cancer, you've only got one.
That's funny.
I'm sorry if I ruined your meeting.
Oh, hell. You just said everything I've always wanted to say in there.
Most of the time, I want to stand up and scream "Get over it, freaks!"
- Well, why don't you? - Ah, I have to keep a cork in.
Once I get all hot and bothered, there's no stopping me.
Guess you won't be coming back next week, huh?
No, not likely.
That's too bad. I like bald guys.
- I'm not bald. - I can wait.
I'm Helen, by the way.
Hi, Helen. I'm John.
Where's Kate?
Lower your gun or I'll blow his damned head off.
Where's Kate?
- Put it down. - I'm not putting down anything!
Jack, calm down. It's OK.
- Do not move! - Don't...
- What? - He's unarmed...
He just had a gun pointed at your head!
What did you do?
We're all gonna die.
- I have to fix it. - What the hell's he talking about?
Listen! If you do not let me up, we are going to die.
- Stop moving, or, I swear to God... - Look at the wall! You see that?
That's a timer and it's counting down.
I've got to enter the code, got to push the button.
- Or what? - Jack, let him up.
Don't tell me what to do. Or what?
What's going to happen?
Do I know you?
You got him?
Bastard!
- What? - Nothing, Jack.
Hey.
What are you doing?
- Where are you going? - Nowhere. I...
I... just have trouble sleeping in a strange bed.
It has nothing to do with you, Helen. I promise. I really like you.
I'm sorry, I'll call you later.
Morning.
John, I know you like to drive through my neighborhood.
And I know that every now and then, you like to park outside my house.
Now, I thought it might all stop when I moved, but here you are.
Now, I'll admit, at first I thought it was funny.
Now it's just annoying.
So how about you tell me what the hell it is you want.
- Why? - Excuse me?
Why?
There is no "why."
You think you're the first person that ever got conned?
You needed a father figure and I needed a kidney.
And that's what happened.
Get over it.
And, John, don't come back.
You're not wanted.
I don't think you need that, Kate.
Whatever you're looking for, maybe I can help.
Can you fix a computer?
- Then you can't help me. - Sayid can fix a computer.
- Get him. Go and get Sayid. - Can you get back up that rope?
There's got to be a front door here.
Down the corridor to the left. Be persistent, the wheel sticks.
Got ya!
- Now, you'll tell me what's going on. - We don't have time...
- We're taking a time-out. - Please, just let me...
You wanna get to work? Tell me how you got here.
It was three years ago. I was on a solo race around the world,
and my boat crashed into the reef and Kelvin came.
- Kelvin? - He comes runnin' out the jungle,
"Hurry! Hurry! Come with me!"
He brings me down here.
First thing he does, 'cause it's beeping,
he types in the code, pushes the button and it stops.
"What was all that about?" I say.
"Just saving the world," he says.
- "Saving the world?" - His words, not mine.
So I started pushing the button too.
And we saved the world together for a while, and that was lovely.
Then Kelvin died. And now here I am all alone.
The end!
Don't tell me you believe this. This is crazy.
You think that makes sense? Pushing a button?
- You're going to take his word for it? - His word is all we have, Jack.
You don't have to take my word for it. Watch the film.
- What? - The bookcase. Top shelf.
Behind Turn of The Screw. Projector's in the pantry.
Here...
Dude, I gotta say, I didn't think we were gonna get through the night.
And I wasn't even here for that baby-stealing part.
I can assure you it was very exciting.
Things are finally returning to normalness.
Sayid!
Aw, crap.
Sayid! We need your help.
What do you know? What'd they do to you?
Who the hell are they? Who the hell are they?
Others!
- Did you see Walt? - The Others? How many?
How many?
- They had him blindfolded. Blindfolded. - Yes!
Could be a hundred of them out there!
- Push me up. - What?
Push me up. I wanna try and get us outta here.
C'mon, help us out, Chewie.
They got it weighted down with something. It's tied off somewhere.
Come on, lift me higher.
It's a girl.
Wanna tell me what was going on down here before I showed up, John?
Kate was tied up. Desmond had a gun on me. I think you caught the gist of it.
Desmond.
He wanted to know a lot about us.
How we got here. If we were sick.
- You didn't ask anything about him? - He was the one with the gun.
You seem calm for someone who believes the world's going to end in 45 minutes.
He'll fix it.
You understand that what he's saying, it's insane. It's impossible.
Why is it insane?
The last time I saw the computer that would save the world,
it didn't look like that.
Is the reason you're so upset because he said he recognized you?
Because that would be impossible.
Welcome. I'm Dr. Marvin Candle, and this is the orientation film
for Station Three of the Dharma Initiative.
In a moment, you'll be given a simple set of instructions
for how you and your partner will fulfill the responsibilities
associated with this station. But first, a little history.
The Dharma Initiative was created in 1970
and is the brainchild of Gerald and Karen DeGroot,
two doctoral candidates at the University of Michigan.
Following in the footsteps of visionaries such as BF Skinner...
imagined a large-scale communal research compound
where scientists and free-thinkers from around the globe could pursue research
in meteorology, psychology, parapsychology, zoology,
electromagnetism, and utopian social...
reclusive Danish industrialist and munitions magnate Alvar Hanso,
whose financial backing made their dream
of a multi-purpose social science research facility a reality.
You and your partner are currently located in Station Three, or "The Swan,"
and will be for the next 540 days.
Station Three was originally constructed as a laboratory
where scientists could work to understand
the unique electromagnetic fluctuations
emanating from this sector of the island.
Not long after the experiments began, however, there was... an incident.
Since that time, the following protocol has been observed.
Every 108 minutes, the button must be pushed.
From the moment the alarm sounds,
you will have four minutes to enter the code into the microcomputer processor...
induction into the program.
When the alarm sounds, either you or your partner must input the code.
It is highly recommended that you and your partner take alternating shifts.
In this manner, you will both stay as fresh and alert...
utmost importance that when the alarm sounds,
the code be entered correctly and in a timely fashion.
Do not attempt to use the computer for anything...
Congratulations!
Until your replacements arrive, the future of the project is in your hands.
On behalf of the DeGroots, Alvar Hanso,
and all of us at the Dharma Initiative,
thank you, namaste, and good luck.
We're gonna need to watch that again.
What's that?
It's a present. It's been six months. Sort of an anniversary, right?
- I didn't get you anything. - That's OK.
Only cost me a buck.
It's to my place. Thought you might be tired of knocking.
Well, Helen, I...
I don't know what to say.
There's just one condition though, John.
When you stay over, you stay over.
What do you mean?
I followed you last night.
To that house that you go to.
Is it your father's house?
Why would you follow me, Helen? Why would you do that?
You sneak off in the middle of the night.
I just needed to know where you were going.
I care about you, John...
But what I do is my business. It's personal.
I wasted 20 years of my life being angry.
I told myself I would get over it, but I... I couldn't do it alone.
I needed to find help.
You help me, John.
And I can help you.
You just have to promise me that you're not gonna go to that place anymore.
All right.
All right?
You're going to watch that again?
- Aren't you? - No, John. I'm not.
OK, OK!
You all right, sister?
- Who are you? - We crashed here.
We were on a plane. Sydney to Los Angeles...
- What? - Forty of us made it.
Flight 815?
You were on it, too?
What? You were in the back?
- It broke off mid-air, how did you... - I don't know, I don't know.
The plane came apart,
and somebody's fricking hardside came out of the overhead and knocked me out.
I woke up underwater and...
made my way to the top. Swam to shore.
You been out here by yourself all this time?
Trying to find food. Making my way, hoping to find somebody...
And then, yesterday, they found me.
- Who are they? - You tell me.
Did you see a boy? Ten years old? They took my son.
No. I'm sorry.
- I'm Ana Lucia. - Sawyer.
This is Mike.
The quiet Korean guy's Jin.
We're about to be the best thing that ever happened to you.
How's that?
Next time Shaft opens the cage,
he's gonna get a surprising little "howdy-doody."
Are you in contact with the people who made it?
The film? Are you in contact with anyone?
Do you think I'd be here if I was?
How is it that you didn't know about the crash? About us?
I push this button every 108 minutes.
I don't get out much.
So these replacements...
Kelvin died waiting for his replacements.
So you don't get out, you don't see anyone, where's your food come from?
- You really think this is happening? - Why wouldn't it be?
It says "Quarantine" on the inside of the hatch to keep you down here,
keep you scared. But you know what?
We've been up there for over 40 days and no one's gotten sick.
You think this is the only part of it that's true?
Did you ever think they put you here to push a button every 100 minutes
just to see if you would? That the computer, the button,
it's just a mind game? An experiment?
Every single day.
And for all our sakes, I hope it's not real.
But the film says this is an electromagnetic station.
And I dunno about you, brother,
but every time I walk past that concrete wall out there, my fillings hurt.
Right.
Oh, no!
What happened?
It's over.
What do you mean "It's over"?
What are you doing? Are you leaving?
Desmond. Wait.
We can fix the computer. Sayid is coming. He knows...
Give him my best.
Wait, wait! Where are you... You can't leave!
Where are you going?
As far as I can run, brother.
- What should we do? - Nothing.
We do nothing. It's not real. None of it's real.
No... This isn't what was supposed to happen!
What was supposed to happen?
- Please! Don't leave me here. - Goodbye, John. You're on your own.
Jack.
Damn it!
Why is this happening like this? What do you want?
What am I supposed to do?
Helen, what...
Hey, Helen, wait.
Helen! Don't!
Helen!
Why are you doing this?
He's not coming out of his house, John, because he doesn't care.
I know why you're here, why you keep coming here.
You're scared. You're scared of moving forward, with me, with us.
You're gonna have to choose.
Him or me.
No, no. No, it's not that simple.
Yes, it is.
I...
I can't.
- Yes, you can. - No, I can't!
I don't know how.
Because you don't know what's going to happen.
None of us do.
That's why it's called a "leap of faith," John.
You don't have to be alone.
Jack?
John.
Dude...
What is this place?
- John, where's Jack? - Jack's gone. I need your help.
- What does it look like? - It's a breaker box.
There has to be one. Follow the conduit lines.
Cool, OK. Great. What's a conduit line?
Those tubes. Follow those.
Whoa.
Did you find it?
Uh...
Depends what you mean by "it."
Here's what we do. Jin plays dead. You call for help.
Sick prisoner? You serious?
What, you got a better idea, sweetheart?
- Where'd you get that gun, anyway? - What?
The gun, how'd you get it on the plane?
There was a federal marshal on the plane.
So, what? You just happened to have his gun?
Yeah. I'm lucky. Mike, let's get this thing going.
How come you didn't use it when they grabbed you?
Guess I was too busy getting hit in the face with a club.
How come you're suddenly so interested, cupcake?
- Hey! - What?
Come on, we gotta...
Back up! Back up!
Coming out.
Coming out!
What happened? Who are they?
Damn!
Stop!
Oh, right.
- The code, yeah? - What?
Listen carefully.
If by some miracle you manage to get that computer working, enter the code.
Four, eight, 15, 16, 23, 42. Hit "Execute".
- Again. Four, eight, 15... - Shut up!
- Sorry? - Nothing is going to happen.
Some... man takes you down there,
shows you a movie, and you push a button on faith alone?
Nothing is going to happen!
In about 15 minutes, you're either gonna be very right or very wrong, brother.
You wanna shoot me? Shoot me. I'm not...
Why are you running? You don't even know what you're running from!
I remember you.
Running.
I know you. I met you.
- Stop. - Los Angeles. I was training, yeah?
- You twisted your ankle. - Stop.
You're a doctor, right? There was this girl, you were worried, you said...
You said you failed her.
- That was you. - It doesn't matter.
- Was she OK? The girl? - It doesn't matter.
- What happened? - It doesn't matter.
- How can you say it doesn't... - I married her!
Right.
Then, you're...
You're not married to her anymore, then.
See you in another life, yeah?
Can you fix it?
This man, whoever he was, replaced the motherboard.
- The power transformer is blown. - Don't you need to know why?
All I need to know is that the timer is counting down to something,
and that this computer needs to be repaired.
I'm sure you'll tell me why once I've done so.
Found it!
- What's that? - Sayid...
I'm working on it.
- You have to... - I know what I have to do.
Reconnected the processor. Replaced the transformer.
It's on!
- OK, so what now? - There was a code, he made me enter it.
- What code? - Can you remember what it is?
- Four, eight... - Wait a minute.
- ... 15, 16... - Dude, I'm serious, stop!
- This is not the time or the place... - I think it is!
Twenty-three.
- We don't even know what it does! - Thirty-two.
You know what? Forget it. Go ahead. Do your thing.
It's not 32.
It's 42.
He just told me. Desmond. The last number's 42.
You're sure?
Yeah. I'm sure.
You do it, Jack.
What?
You have to do it.
- You do it yourself, John. - No, you saw the film, Jack.
This is a two-person job. At least.
- This argument is irrelevant. - Sayid. Don't.
- Jack. - Don't. It's not real.
Look, you want to push the button, you do it yourself.
If it's not real, then why are you here? Why did you come back?
- Why do you find it so hard to believe? - Why do you find it so easy?
It's never been easy!
Maybe you should just do it.
No. It's a button.
I can't do this alone, Jack.
I don't want to.
It's a leap of faith, Jack.
I'll take the first shift.