Blown Up
"I think your friends just blew themselves up," Desmond says."They're not my friends," Locke says.
"I can't hear anything. Maybe we should open it."
"No, no," Locke says. "It's a trick."
"A trick? They could be hurt. Is your doctor around?"
Locke says, "Our doctor is God knows where. And he sure as hell doesn't care about anything happening down here."
"Can I ask you a question, brother?"
"Sure"
"Is the reason you're letting that clock there run all the way down to the very last click, is it because you need to look down the barrel of a gun to find out what you really believe, John?"
"I looked down the barrel of the gun, and I believed. I thought it was my destiny to get into this place. Then somebody died, a kid, because he was stupid enough to believe that I knew what I was talking about. And on the night that he died for nothing, I was sitting right up there, all alone, beating my hand bloody against that stupid door, screaming to the heavens, asking what I should do. And then a light went on. I thought it was a sign. But it wasn't a sign. It was probably just you, going to the bathroom."
The North Shore
Sayid sneaks up to the camp of the Others. He sees no one and goes into the camp, checking each yurt with his gun drawn.He sees the Dharma doors and walks to them. He looks around, then yanks one open. There is nothing behind it but rock. The doors make it look like there is another hatch, but in fact there is not.
The Pearl Hatch Tubes
Kate stops Jack and they all turn to see what she is looking at. It's a large pile of tubes. A pipe comes out of the ground next to the tubes. Kate opens one of the tubes and finds a Dharma notebook. She flips through it."It's handwritten, the whole book."
Sawyer picks up Locke's blast door diagram that he had previously sent up from The Pearl, and hands it to Jack.
Kate reads from the journal, "0400SR moves ping pong table again. 0415 takes a shower. What is this?"
Sawyer looks off into the distance. "Hey, doc? What'd you say Sayid's signal was going to be when the coast is clear to hit that beach party?"
They see a pillar of black smoke in the distance.
"That means he found them, right?" Kate says.
Jack says, "That's miles from here." He looks at Michael. "Where were you taking us?"
"What?" Michael says.
"Sayid said he'd light the signal so we could meet him at the shore. Why aren't we going to the beach?"
"We are going to the beach-" Michael says.
"We're nowhere near the beach!" Jack yells.
"I had to!" Michael says.
They hear something and they all turn around. They hear whispers "Elizabeth" and maybe some other names. They look around and Sawyer is hit in the back of the neck with a dart and falls to the ground, shaking.
The whispered "Elizabeth" comes again and then something that sounds like "no" or "nah".
"Run!" Jack yells. "Go, go!"
Michael puts up his hand. "No, wait."
Kate is hit with a dart and starts to convulse. Jack shoots into the jungle, then picks Kate up and begins to run. He is hit with a dart in the leg and falls to the ground. He sees people coming towards him, but it's hard to focus. One of the them is Miss Klugh.
Locke Speaks of The Pearl
"Tell me about this other hatch you found," Desmond says to Locke. "This Pearl.""What do you want to know?"
"Details."
"The Pearl is a psychological station full of TV monitors and two men sat in viewing chairs and filled notebooks on what happens in here. Then they put the notebooks in tubes and sent them back to their headquarters, so they could evaluate us as an experiment."
"What if you've got it backwards?"
"Backwards?" Locke says.
"What if the experiment wasn't on the two men in here, but on the two men in there? I want to see that tape, John."
"No, you can't. There's no way to see it down here."
"So what else was in there? Did it have a computer?"
"Yeah."
"So what'd it do?"
"Nothing, it didn't do anything. It printed out numbers, lots of numbers."
"What printout, where-"
"Here," Locke says and gives Desmond the printout. "Reading material for the next 19 minutes. Knock yourself out.
