Roger picks up Emily and the baby and carries them to a road just outside of Portland. A man and woman drive up and try to help them, but Emily dies.
A few years later, the man who had tried to help them, Horace, gets Roger a job working on the island as a work man with the Dharma Initiative. During registration, Ben meets Annie, a girl about his age.
Later, while Roger argues with Horace about being shot at and wanting more pay, Ben hears tapping on his window and sees his mother, but she disappears.
Ben goes to school with Annie and on his birthday she gives him wooden dolls that are of him and her. She keeps the Ben doll and tells him that now they will never be apart.
That night, Ben goes home to find his father drunk on Dharma beer. His father sees the package Annie had given Ben and realizes that he forgot Ben's birthday. He says he doesn't want to celebrate the day Ben killed his mother.
Ben runs out into the jungle and comes to the pylons. He sees his mother on the other side and starts to run to her, but she tells him to stop, that it's not time yet.
Later, Ben gets the code to turn off the fence and goes outside it. He meets a hostile, Richard Alpert, who tells him that Ben can come with him, but he has to be patient.
As a young man, Ben asks his father if he really blames Ben for his mother's death. Roger says he doesn't know and Ben puts on a gas mask and gasses his father to death. He returns to the barracks, still wearing the gas mask, and sees that the Dharma Initiative workers have been gassed.
Richard walks up and removes his gas mask. Ben does the same. Richard asks if Ben wants them to get his father's body and Ben says no.
Episode 3x20, The Man Behind the Curtain
- Jon Gries as Roger Linus
- Sterling Beaumon as Benjamin Linus
- Doug Hutchison as Horace Goodspee