Hurley's Flashback - The Photo
Hurley reads to Dr. Brooks, "I like that I have a good relationship with my mom. I like making my Grandpa Tito laugh.""Well I noticed you didn't say anything about the way you look," Dr. Brooks says. "Are you comfortable with your appearance?"
"It's not like - I can't really do anything about it, right?" Hurley stops and looks at the ceiling. He has difficulty saying, "If I wasn't so fat, they never would have died."
Dr. Brooks leans forward and says, "There were 23 people on that deck. It was meant to hold eight. And it would have collapsed whether you would have walked out there or not."
"Yeah, but I did walk out there," Hurley says. "And it did collapse. I killed them.""It was an accident."
"But it was my fault."
"After those people died," Dr. Brooks says, "you were in a practically catatonic state. You stopped talking, you stopped going out. But you never stopped eating. That's how you punish yourself."
"Dave's right about you," Hurley says. "You're a quack."
"Dave doesn't want you to lose weight, does he?"
"Dave cares about me. He's my friend."
"I'm going to show you something that may upset you. This is the photo that I took for the bulletin board." He hands it to Hurley.
Hurley stares at it in shock. Dr. Brooks says, "Dave isn't your friend, Hugo, because Dave doesn't exist."
The photo shows Hurley with his arm around nothing.
Later, Hurley sleeps in his bed. "Hey, wake up, Dude," Dave says.
"You're a hallucination," Hurley says. Dave slaps him. "Ow," Hurley says. "Maybe I just imagined you slapped me." Dave slaps him again.
"We can do this all night," Dave says.
"Dr. Brooks showed me the picture from the rec room. My arm was around, like, nothingness."
Dave explains it was Kinkos or Photoshop.
Hurley follows Dave out of the room, down the hall, and into another room. Dave says that Hurley has the keys because he took them off of Brooks' desk earlier. Hurley pulls the keys from his pocket.
Dave laughs and encourages Hurley to unlock the window.
Dave says he tastes freedom. "You know what tastes better than freedom? Cheeseburgers." Dave jumps out.
Hurley says, "I don't think I can do this. I'm sorry. You're not real. You're just trying to get me to run away and get cheeseburgers because I want cheeseburgers. You don't want me to get better, you don't want me to change. You just want me to stay fat."
Dave says, "If you don't come with me right now, you will never get out of here."
"Bye, Dave." Hurley shuts the window.
Dave's Revelation
Dave sits next to Hurley in the jungle and says, "You remember that night you closed the window on me?"Hurley nods.
"Do you remember what you did after that night?"
"Yeah," Hurley says. "I realized you were imaginary and that was a breakthrough and a little while later Brooks let me out and I went home to live with my mom, and I got my job at Mr. Cluck's back, and I got better."
"Okay, great, yeah," Dave says. "Except here's the thing. None of that ever happened. You're still at Santa Rosa, man," Dave says. "You never left the hospital."
"That's not possible," Hurley says.
"All of this, you, me, this island, that peanut butter, none of it's real, man. It's all in your head. The second you closed that window you popped a gasket. You went back into your little coma thing."
"No! I had my mom, my friend Johnny. I won the lottery!"
"Wow," Dave says. "Awesome, Dude! What numbers did you play? Leonard's number, from the hospital, right? What a coincidence. You, uh, see those numbers anywhere else?"
"The hatch."
"Bingo," Dave says, "the hatch. With the button that you've got to push every 108 minutes or the world ends. Oh, oh, oh, and what's the code for the button? Oh yeah, the numbers."
"But I got better. I changed."
"Changed? Take a look at yourself. You've been on a deserted island for over two months and you haven't dropped ten pounds. How is that possible?"
"I just destroyed my stash. And I've been exercising. Libby said it wouldn't happen overnight."
"Ah right, right, Libby, the mega-cute blond chick who just appeared from the other side of the island. Oh, oh, and who just happens to have the hots for you."
