Complete Episode Guide: Episode 4x1, The Beginning of the End Guide
Flash Forwards in Italics
There is a pile of fruit with the ocean in the background. Suddenly a car blows through the fruit and we see that the ocean is just a picture on the side of a truck. Police cars chase the car, a red Camaro.
In a building, a man pours alcohol into a glass. When he drinks it, we see that it's Jack, clean shaven and looking respectable. The news is on a small TV and when the reporter mentions the 1970's Camaro, Jack says to himself, "Damn it."
The car is forced off the road and the driver gets out. It's Hurley. The police tell him to get on the ground, but he tries to make a run for it. As the police grab him he says, "Don't you know who I am? No, wait! Don't you know who I am? You don't understand. I'm one of the Ocean Six! I'm one of the Oceanic Six!"
Hurley is in an interrogation room. Big Mike is questioning him. Big Mike says, "So, five minutes before you led 10 cruisers on a chase across the city, you're minding your own business in a convenience store, until, you see something and freak out."
Hurley and Mike are watching video from the store surveillance camera. Hurley is about to pay for his stuff when he looks to his left, gets really scared, backs up, knocking over a display, and runs out.
"Mr. Reyes, why'd you run like that? Who'd you see in there?" Big Mike leans on the table. "Listen, buddy, I know you saw somebody in that store that made you want to run away-"
"I wasn't running away from anybody."
"If you think I care that you're a celebrity, you crashed your Camaro in the wrong neighborhood."
"I'm not a celebrity."
Mike chuckles. "Is that why you kept shouting, 'Hey, I'm one of the Oceanic Six'?"
Hurley looks down.
"You want to know a funny coincidence?" Mike asks. "I knew somebody on your plane. Her name was Ana-Lucia Cortez. She was my partner before I made detective. Dark hair, gorgeous. Maybe you knew her. Maybe you met her on the plane, before it took off?"
"Sorry, never met her," Hurley lies.
"Why don't you watch the tape, maybe it will spark something. I'm going to get a donut. You want one?"
"No thanks," Hurley says.
"When I come back, you're going to tell me who you ran from."
Hurley watches the tape and then glances over at the window. He looks back to the tape and then to the window, which now has the ocean on the other side. Charlie swims over, touches the window and it breaks, spilling water into the room. Hurley starts yelling and runs to the door, yelling for them to help him.
Big Mike comes in and says, "What the hell is wrong with you?"
Hurley turns around. There is no water in the room and the window is normal.
"What are you doing, Reyes?" Mike says. "You trying to get tossed in the nut house? Because if that's what you want I can make that happen right now, my friend!"
"You can?" Hurley says. "Thank you!" He hugs Mike.
Locke is Crazy
Hurley says into the walkie-talkie, "Jack, you there, Dude? Beach to Jack, come in Jack."At the radio tower, Jack picks up the walkie-talkie. "Right here, Hurley. What's up?"
"Hey, did you guys make it to that radio tower thingy yet?"
"Yeah, and I talked to the people on the boat. They're on their way to pick us up right now."
"Seriously? It worked?"
"Seriously. We're all on our way back to the beach right now. So you better pack your bags, buddy." Jack winks at Ben.
Hurley screams and goes to tell everyone.
Jack walks up to Kate and says, "Any luck?"
"No," she says. "No sign of him. It's like he just disappeared." She looks at Naomi lying on the ground with a knife sticking out of her back. "Why would Locke kill her? He hadn't even met her yet."
"Because he's crazy," Jack says.
"So what if he comes back?"
"If he comes back, I'm going to kill him. I'm going to get everybody together. The sooner we get back to the beach, the better."
"Are we really going home?" she asks.
"Yeah, we're really going home."
Claire and Sun tend to Aaron. Sun laughs. "I can't believe I'm actually going to have my baby in a hospital."
Claire playfully pushes her. "Oh rub it in, why don't you."
Sun laughs. Rose walks over and asks if they need a hand, but Claire says no. She says, "You must be very proud of Bernard, I hear he's quite the hero."
"Everybody up here knows that the real hero is your man, Claire," Rose says. "If Charlie hadn't of turned off that gizmo, we'd still be getting a busy signal on that phone. So you better make sure you treat him real good when we get back."
"Rose!" Claire says.
A ways off, Ben, tied to a tree, talks to Rousseau while they watch Alex and Karl talking and eating. Ben says, "I need you to do me a favor. I need you to take Alex and get her as far from here as possible."
"What?" Rousseau can't believe what she's hearing.
"Listen to me," Ben says, "we don't have time for this. Everyone who stays here is going to die. Now get Alex and get away right now! I don't care where you go, just go! I will not have my daughter-"
Rousseau elbows Ben in the face. "She's not your daughter." Rousseau walks away.
