FLASHBACK:

Jack (in a beard) having a drink on a flight. He wants another drink. The stewardess says they'll be landing in twenty minutes and offers him a newspaper. There is turbulence. He sees something in the newspaper and tears out a piece.

Jack is in a truck in a city. He stops and wads up the newspaper. He begins to cry. He makes a call on his cellphone. "Hey. It's me. I just read..." and he chokes on his words. He turns off the phone. A train (or is it a barge) is heard in the background. His truck is near a bridge. He gets out and goes to the ledge. He looks like he's about to jump down onto the barge.

He hears a car crash behind him and voices of a woman and child. Jack goes to save them.

PRESENT:

The castaways are getting prepared on the beach. Jack and Kate share a look. Jack goes to Sayid and they talk about final preparations. Sayid wants Jack and everyone else not to turn around, no matter what happens. They wish one another good luck.

Rose and Bernard say goodbye. She makes him promise that he'll remember he's a dentist and not Rambo.

Jin and Sun say goodbye. Jin wants Sun to stay near Jack. Jin says, "because we have to go home" in fairly good English.

Jack calls everyone to move out. Sayid, Bernard and Jin stay behind with guns.

The castaways walk down a different part of the shore. Naomi asks Jack what he did before the island and if she can ask him a question. Naomi wants to show Jack how to use her communication device, in case she can't (that's a bad sign).

Charlie being punched by a blonde woman. The brunette tells the blonde to take it easy. He's tied to a chair. They want to know how he got down here. He says in his invisible submarine and gets another punch. Charlie tells them Juliet told them where this place was. The blonde wants to get in contact with Ben.

Ben is in camp. It is dark. He wants to know why they broke radio contact. The blonde says it is one of "them". He asks which one it is and Charlie calls out, "It's me! Charlie!" Ben sends Bakunin down to the underwater hatch.

The Others approach the camp. The three shooters take aim. They show the hidden dynamite. Sayid shoots the dynamite. It explodes. Bernard shoots and hit. Jin misses, but shoots an other with a pistol. One of the Others knocks him in the head with a rifle butt. One of the Others takes Bernard captive. Sayid draws on the man and Bernard, but a third Other sneaks up on Sayid. The two explosion screwed up several Others, but Jin's miss allowed the Others to take the three shooters captive.

Some distance away, the castaways hear the two explosions. Rose is worried. Kate says that something went wrong, because there were only two explosions. "It didn't work."

FLASHBACK:

Jack (with beard) in the hospital getting stitches. A good-looking female doctor tells him the media want to talk to him as a hero. His ex-wife shows up, asking him if he's been drinking again, if "he's Jack". The ex wants to know what he was doing on the bridge at two in the morning.

He replies, "Do you think you can give me a lift home?"
She says, "I don't think that would be appropriate."

They part. (Jack's ex-wife has no personality. I hate her.)

PRESENT:

Jack tells Jin and Rose they must continue. They want to stay. "We have a plan. For all we know, it worked." The group continues on. Sun comforts Rose.

The blonde tells Charlie, "I'm going to ask you one more time, why are you here."

He tells the blonde that he's going to turn off their jamming equipment. She asks him what the code is. He looks confused, then tells her he won't need the code, because the hatch will be flooded. When she asks what he will do, he says he will die.

Mr. Friendly tells Ben over the communicator, "Diane, Ivan, they're all dead". Ben wants them to kill Jin, to make the three talk.

Sayid says they will kill us all anyway, and gets him in the face with a rifle. The put the gun to Jin's head and he says, "Sayanora" (I think that's what he said). Bernard begins to spill his guts.

He tells about the group fleeing to the transmitter, and that Carl came in a boat to tell them of the attack. Mr. Friendly asks if they should kill them, and Ben says, "No. Not yet."

It is daytime. Ben is drawing on a map at a table. Richard looks to be messing around with a putter. Ben wants to find Jack and his friends. Richard warns him not to go alone, that the Others are starting to talk, that rumors are starting to say everyone on the beach is dead. Ben's daughter wants to go with him. He says that's a good idea, that she can see Carl again. She gives him a baffled look.

The castaways are stopped at a stream. Sawyer is staring into the water. Kate and he begin to argue. She wants to go back to help the three, because they should have caught up by now. He doesn't want to, saying there is always someone to go back for. She says he's been acting differently since he got Locke's tape. She splashes him with water and says that Juliet went to the medical hatch to check to see if Kate is pregnant, too. "Well, let's hope you're not," says Saywer, and walks off.

Desmond is out in the boat. Suddenly, Bakunin starts to shoot at him with a rifle. Desmond takes a breath and begins to swim towards the hatch. The two women are arguing in the next room. Charlie tells Desmond to hide. They hear him and asks him what he's doing. He says he's singing, "You all, everybody." The blonde hits him and draws blonde. Charlie has them fooled. He looks through a window grate of some sort and sees Desmond hiding behind it.

FLASHBACK:

Woman in a hospital bed, looks to be in bad condition with head wrapped up. Jack (in beard) looking at her chart. The woman's doctor comes in. When he learns he is Jack Sheppard, the doctor wants to shake his hand. Jack wants to perform an operation on the woman. The doctor mentions another fine doctor who will perform the surgery. "With all due respect..." and Jack repeats he wants to perform the surgery. The doctor talks him out of it, but Jack wants him to let him know as soon as it's over. Jack walks outside, sees the woman's 8-year old boy, who is watching a news report of him saving the woman and the boy.

PRESENT:

Sawyer tells Jack he wants to go back for their friends. Kate wants to go. Sawyer says he doesn't want her to go. Jack says he doesn't even have a weapon. Juliet says she knows where there's a secret cache of guns. Jack says she doesn't have to do this. "I kind of do."

Juliet and Sawyer go after the guns.

Charlie is singing. He's driving the blonde to distraction. She wants to find the speargun and kills Charlie slowly. Bakunin shows up. He seems surprised that the blonde and brunette are still on the island. (I thought you were on a -- to Canada.) He mentions that he chased Charlie's friend down to the hatch. Charlie mentions to Bakunin that Ben is jamming transmissions from the island.

Bakunin is talking to Ben on the radio. He wants to know why Ben lied to him about the jamming. Ben says that the island is under assault by forces greater than anything in some time. Bakunin asks why Ben didn't trust him. Ben says he "made a mistake", but Bakunin has to do some things to help him. Ben wants Bakunin to kill Charlie. Then he will have to kill "Greta and Bonnie", so they don't tell the rest of the Others about the jamming. Bakunin asks how he knows that Ben didn't tell them to kill him (Bakunin), and Ben replies, "If that were the case, you would already be dead."

Sawyer is asking Juliet about all the work they had them doing back at camp. "It was a runway for the aliens." (a joke) Sawyer asks her if she's screwing Jack yet. "No. Are you?" Sawyer asks where the guns are. She says she lied, that that was the only way Jack would let them go back.

Suddenly, Hurley shows up, saying he wants to go with them. Sawyer says that Hurley will get them all killed, but lets him come with them.

Ben and his daughter are stopped. She asks why he let her come with him. "Because you betrayed me." She gives the litany of things she did to him that she considers betrayals. She asks why he doesn't let them live. "Because I CAN'T, Alex."

Locke is lying in the pit of bones. He is struggling to move. He picks up a pistol on the ground near him. He makes sure it has bullets. He puts the gun to his forehead. "Don't, John."

Locke looks up and it is Walter. Locke says that he's been shot and he can't move his legs. Walter says that he can move his legs, "so get up."

"Why", asks Locke.
"Because you have work to do," says Walt.

Kate and Jack talking on the side of the trail. Jack asks why she didn't go with Sawyer. She says Sawyer didn't want her to. Jack says Sawyer wanted to protect her, that's why he told her not to come back.

Kate: "Why are you taking up for Saywer? He would never do it for you."
Jack: "Because I love you." Then he walks off.