Walt and Hurley
In the Santa Rosa Mental Hospital, Hurley unwraps a fruit bar. A nurse bring Michael's mother to Hurley. "Are you Hurley?" she says."Yeah," he says.
"Are you dangerous?"
"I'm sorry, do I know you?"
"No, you don't know me. But you know my grandson." Hurley looks behind her and sees Walt by a door. "Now we've traveled all the way across the country, just so he can see you. I need to know if you're going to do anything crazy."
"I won't do anything crazy."
She waves Walt over and he sits across from Hurley. "Hey, Walt."
"Hey, Hurley."
"You're getting big, dude."
"You know, when you came back, I was waiting for one of you to come see me. But nobody did."
"Sorry."
"Do you know who did come see me? Jeremy Bentham. I don't understand why you're all lying."
Hurley looks around, then leans toward Walt. "We're lying because it's the only way to protect everyone who didn't come back."
"Like my dad," Walt says.
"Like your dad. Yeah."
Crackers
Hurley eats crackers and Sawyer watches Jack and Locke talking by the Orchid. "What the hell they talking about, anyway?" Sawyer says."I don't know, leader stuff."
"Where'd you get that?" Sawyer asks about the crackers.
"It came from a box Ben dug up out of the ground." He offers them to Sawyer. "They're good."
Sawyer bites one.
"Thanks for coming back for me," Hurley says.
"Ah, you got it."
"Claire and the baby okay?"
Sawyer looks down.
Jack Should Stay
"What did you want to talk to me about, John?" Jack asks.
"I want you to reconsider leaving the island, Jack. I would like you to stay."
Jack blinks. "You'd like me to stay?"
"Yeah, that's right."
Jack scoffs. "You threw a knife into the back of an unarmed woman. You led half of our people across the island and got most of them killed!"
"Well, Jack, you put a gun to my head and you pulled the trigger." He shrugs. "I was hoping we could let bygones be bygones."
"I'll tell you what," Jack says, "you stay here in your little greenhouse, but the rest of us are going home,” Jack says.
“You’re not supposed to go home!” Locke says.
“Then what am I supposed to do?” Jack says. "Oh, I think I remember. What was it that you said on the way out to the hatch? That crashing here was our destiny."
"You know, Jack! You know that you're here for a reason! You know it. And if you leave this place, that knowledge is going to eat you alive from the inside out, until you decide to come back.”
Jack shakes his head. "Goodbye, John." Jack walks away.
"You're going to have to lie," Locke says and Jack stops.
"Excuse me?"
"If you have to go, then you have to lie about everything. Everything that happened since we got to the island. It's the only way to protect it."
"It's an island, John, no one needs to protect it!"
"It's not an island, it's a place where miracles happen. And if you don't believe that, Jack, if you can't believe that, just wait until you see what I'm about to do."
"There's no such thing as miracles."
"Well, we'll just have to see which one of us is right."
"Am I interrupting?" Ben says as he walks over.
Jack trains his gun on him and Ben says, "Nice to see you too, Jack." He walks by Locke, "Couldn't find the anthuriums, could you."
"I don't know what they look like," Locke says.
Ben shows him a potted plant and then lifts a door.
"What are you doing?" Jack says.
"Didn't you tell him?" Ben says.
"I tried," Locke says.
Ben tells Jack, "Sayid and Kate are waiting for you at the helicopter. I understand that your people from the beach are being brought to the freighter even as we speak."
"What?"
"I'd love to fill you in on everything you missed, Jack, but you, Hugo, James, you need to get moving. If I were you, I'd want to be on that boat within the hour. Goodbye, Jack." He goes inside and tells Locke, "Let's go."
Locke walks to Jack and says, "Lie to them, Jack. If you do it half as well as you lie to yourself, they'll believe you." He goes into an old elevator with Ben and they begin to descend.
Nitrogen
On the freighter, Michael wheels a tank of liquid nitrogen across the deck and Sun runs over. "Michael, what's going on down there?""Have you told anybody?"
"No, Michael, I didn't. Can you turn it off?"
"It isn't even on yet. But, yeah, if what's in this tank does what it's supposed to do, we're going to be okay. Look, I'll send Jin upstairs. There's no need for him to be down there with me when he could be up here with you."
"I'm pregnant," Sun blurts.
"Congratulations, Sun." He smiles.
Michael takes the tank downstairs.
“You’re going to what?” Desmond says.
“Freeze it,” Michael says. "This is liquid nitrogen. We use it in the refrigeration hold. The bomb needs a charge from the battery to detonate, right? And the battery runs on a chemical reaction. I spray the battery, I can keep it cold, no reaction."
"And what's the catch?" Desmond says.
"The catch is we only have one cannister. We use it up, we're right back where we started."
"Well, shouldn't we save it until the light turns red?" Desmond asks.
"If we see that light turn red and the battery is not already cold, that is the last thing we will ever see. Either way, at least we'll have a warning, buy ourselves some time."
"Alright," Desmond says. "Freeze the battery. Jin, help me trace back these wires and make a list of where each of them goes to."
Michael sprays the battery.
