Complete Episode Guide: Episode 4x8, Meet Kevin Johnson Guide
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Flashbacks in Italics
In Ben's house, a group of people, Claire holding Aaron, Rousseau, Alex, Karl, Hurley, Ben, and Sawyer, sit around looking at each other nervously.
Miles comes in, his hands tied in front of him, followed by Locke.
Locke says, "Thank you all for your patience. I know it's taken me a few days to figure out our next move, but I didn't want to do anything until I knew more about our situation. You deserve to know everything I do. So, no more secrets. As you all know, Miles here, and three of his people came to the island about a week ago. So I brought him up from the boathouse to share with us exactly why they are here."
"We're here for him," Miles says, pointing to Ben.
"We kind of, like, knew that forever ago," Hurley says.
"Well, alright then," Sawyer says, "problem solved. How soon do we turn him over?"
"We can't turn him over," Locke says.
"And why the hell not?" Sawyer says.
"Because once they have me," Ben says, "their orders are to kill everyone else on the island."
"Wait, so, he's one of us now?" Claire says. "You're going to protect him? He tried to kill you, John."
"Yeah," Hurley says, "he won't tell us who his spy on the boat is."
"It's Michael," Ben says.
"What?" Hurley says.
"My spy on the freighter is Michael."
"I'm sorry," Sawyer says. "You mean the same guy who killed two women in cold blood and set this little bastard free?" He indicates Ben. "And then sold all of us out so that he could get off the island, that Michael?"
"Yes, James," Locke says. "That Michael."
Alarm
Sayid and Desmond are asleep on the freighter. An alarm sounds and they jump up and go on deck.The captain is fighting with someone and knocks him out. "Nobody leaves this ship without my say so," the captain yells. "I'm not beating these men to scare you. I'm beating them to save your lives. Do you remember what happened to the last two men who took off in this boat? Do you remember what happened to Minkowski? As soon as we get the engines fixed, we're back in the hunt. In the meantime, everybody just hold on. Johnson!"
"Yes, sir," Michael says.
"Clean this mess up." The captain leaves.
People start moving from the deck and Sayid goes to Michael. "Hello, Michael."
"Not now, man."
"Yes," Sayid says, "right now. Why are you on this boat?"
"I'm here to die."
Secrets
Locke walks Miles outside Ben's house and Sawyer runs up to them. "Hey," Sawyer says, "that was a nice meeting, John, but I thought there wasn't going to be any more secrets.""What are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about the 3 million bucks your buddy, here, asked for. Well?"
"Yeah, Miles offered his loyalty in exchange for the money, but as I haven't yet seen a bank on the island, I didn't think it worth mentioning."
Miles laughs and Sawyer says, "Something funny?"
Miles says, "Linus will find a way to get it."
"And how will he do that?" Sawyer says.
"He wants to survive. And considering that last weekend you had a gun to his head and now he's eating pound cake, I'd say he's a guy that gets what he wants."
Alex to Safety
Ben watches Alex and Karl. Karl has his arm around her waist. Alex and Karl start to leave and Ben says, "Alex."Rousseau steps up next to him.
"May I have a word with you?" Ben asks Alex.
"I think," Rousseau says, "we've heard enough from you for one night."
"I'm sorry," Ben says, "you're just going to have to listen to a little more."
"It's okay," Alex says. "What do you want?"
Ben stands up and gives her a piece of paper. "This is a map to a temple. It's a sanctuary. It may be the last safe place on this island.
"How come we don't know about this?" Karl asks.
Ben says, "Well, it wouldn't be a sanctuary if I told everyone about it, would it? The rest of our people are already there. If you leave now you can get there in a day and a half."
"If it's safe, why don't we all go?" Karl asks. "Hurley, Claire, the baby."
"Because the temple's not for them, Karl, it's only for us. These people that are coming, they know who I am, Alex. They're here to capture me, they'll kill anybody that gets in their way. If they knew who you were, that you were my daughter, they would use you to get to me. We don't have much time."
"Maybe he's right," Karl says.
"I agree," Rousseau says, "we should go."
"These people," Alex says, "you said they're dangerous. More dangerous than you?"
"Yes," Ben says. "But your mother will protect you. Okay, now go."
Alex, Karl, and Ben walk out of the house.
