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Episode 1 - "Because You Left"
Written by: Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse
Directed by: Stephen Williams
[A clock shows the time has just turned to 8:15 and an alarm sounds. The alarm is turned off and we see a woman lying in bed with a man.]
Woman: Ahh, baby's awake. It's your turn.
[She kisses the man. He gets out of bed and puts on an album with the song Shotgun Willie. He gives a bottle of milk to his baby and then gets in the shower. The record soon begins to skip and the man stops it. The picture then cuts to a shot of the Barracks with many people walking around busily. The man, soon to be revealed as Dr. Pierre Chang, walks into a room and is greeted.]
MAN WITH SCRIPT: Morning! Here you go, Doc.
CHANG: I don't need a script. Let's go, I don't have all day.
VOICE FROM OFF-CAMERA: Speed!
MAN WITH SCRIPT: Ok, Dharma Orientation Film Number Two, Take One. And, action.
CHANG: Hello, I'm Dr. Marvin Candle, and this is the Orientation Film for Station Number Two, the Arrow. Given your specific area of expertise, you should find it no surprise that this station's primary purpose is to develop defensive strategies and gather intelligence on the Island's hostile indigenous population...
CONSTRUCTION MAN 1: Dr. Chang! Dr. Chang.
CHANG: Damnit, what the hell?
CONSTRUCTION MAN 1: Sir, we've got a problem down at the Orchid.
[Cut to shot of Dr. Chang in a Dharma Van, heading to the Orchid. An elevator takes him down below the Orchid with Construction Man 1.]
CONSTRUCTION MAN 2: Over here! We were cutting through the rock, right on your specs, that's when the drill melted.
CHANG: The drill melted?
CONSTRUCTION MAN 2: Yeah, yeah. Three meters from the margin-line on the plans. We went through six carbon drill-bits, and the last one just fried. Then my operator starts grabbing his head and freaking out. We sonar imaged the wall. There's an open chamber about twenty meters in, behind the rock. There's something in there. And the only way to get to it is to lay charges here, and here, and blast through...
CHANG: Under no circumstances! This station is being built here because of its proximity to what we believe to be an almost limitess energy. And that energy, once we can harness it correctly, it's going to allow us to manipulate time.
CONSTRUCTION MAN 2: Ok, so, what, we're gonna go back and kill Hitler?
CHANG: Don't be absurd. There are rules--rules that can't be broken!
CONSTRUCTION MAN 2: So what do you want me to do?
CHANG: You're gonna do nothing. If you drill even one centimeter further, you risk releasing the energy. If that were to happen...
[Cut to Operator on the ground with severe nosebleed]
CHANG: God help us all.
CONSTRUCTION MAN 2: Come on, let's go.
CHANG: [After bumping into someone carrying a gas tank] Watch yourself!
MAN WITH TANK: Sorry sir, won't happen again.
[The man carrying the tank is shown to be Daniel Faraday.]
CONSTRUCTION MAN 2 [to Faraday]: Did you hear that? Time travel. How stupid does that guy think we are?
[Daniel looks warily at the cave wall.]
[The scene changes to the outside of Hoffs/Drawlar Funeral Parlor. Jack is staring at John Locke in his casket. Ben comes in the room.]
BEN: Why don't you close that up now, Jack? Come on, let's get him in the van; it's out back.
JACK: Where are we taking him?
BEN: We'll worry about that once we pick up Hugo.
JACK: Hurley is locked away in a mental institution.
BEN: Which should make recruiting him considerably easier than the rest of your friends.
JACK: They're not my friends anymore.
BEN: Well that's the spirit.
JACK: How did we get here? How did all of this happen?
BEN: It happened because you left, Jack. Now let's get started, shall we?
[Cut to Jack shaving his beard after a shower inside a motel room. Ben comes in.]
JACK: So once we get Hurley, then what?
BEN: Then we get Sun, Sayid, and Kate of course.
JACK: I don't see that happening. When was the last time you saw him? I mean Locke.
BEN: On the Island. In the Orchid station, below the greenhouse. I told him I was sorry for making his life so miserable, and then he left. So obviously John's visit to you made an impression. What did he say to you to make you such a believer?
JACK: Sawyer, Juliet, everyone from the boat, everyone we left behind--John said that they'd die too if I didn't come back.
BEN: Did he tell you what happened to them after the Island moved?
JACK: No, no he didn't.
BEN: Then I guess we'll never know.
[Screen shows "THREE YEARS EARLIER" and then shows Ben pushing the Frozen Donkey Wheel to move the Island. Once again we see the people on the Island, helicopter, and Zodiac witnessing the event. We see John Locke in the middle of a rainstorm, alone.]
LOCKE: What the... Richard? Richard?! Anyone? ANYONE?!
[Cut to Daniel Faraday and the people he was taking to the Kahana before the event.]
FROGURT: What happened? What was that light?
DAN: We must have been inside the radius.
[Cut to Juliet and Sawyer on the beach.]
SAWYER: What the hell was that?
JULIET: I don't know.
SAWYER: Where's the freighter?
JULIET: Maybe it went down.
SAWYER: Uh-uh, no way. Minute ago that boat was coughing black smoke, now there's just nothin'?!
JULIET: What about the helicopter?
SAWYER: It was headin' for that boat.
[Bernard runs onto the beach.]
BERNARD: ROSE! ROSE!
JULIET: Bernard!
BERNARD: ROSE! Have you seen Rose?
JULIET: No.
[Rose runs onto the beach.]
ROSE: Oh my god, Bernard!
BERNARD: Rose! Where were you?
ROSE: Back at church. What was that sound? What was that light?
SAWYER: Just calm down, there's no need to panic. We'll just go back to camp.
BERNARD: Calm down?! No need to panic?! We can't go back to the camp!
SAWYER: What the hell are you talkin' about?
BERNARD: There is no camp.
[Cut to the beach where the camp used to be. People are milling about, confused.]
BERNARD: The sky lit up, and then this! The kitchen, gone. And all the tents. All the food and water, gone. Well everything but us. All of it, it's gone.
DAN: It's not gone!
CHARLOTTE [Running to Dan]: Daniel!
DAN: Hey.
CHARLOTTE: I thought you were on the freighter.
DAN: No, we never made it. We were on our way out there when it happened.
SAWYER: What do you mean 'the camp's not gone'? Who the hell are you anyway?
MILES: That's Dan. He's our physicist.
DAN: Listen, we have no time. I need you to take me to something man-made, something that was built, any kind of a landmark.
JULIET: There's a Dharma station about fifteen minutes from here.
SAWYER: You mean the hatch? The one we blew up?
DAN: That's perfect. We should get moving before it happens again, ok?
SAWYER: Before what happens again? And why is our camp gone?
DAN: Your camp isn't gone. It hasn't been built yet.
MAIN CREDITS
[Scene cuts to Kate's house where Aaron is watching cartoons while eating breakfast.]
AARON: Choo-Choo, tunnel!
KATE: Oh, I think Choo-Choo knows better than that. He goes in that tunnel and he's never coming back out.
[The doorbell rings.]
KATE: Watch your cartoons, Goober. I'm gonna be right back.
[Kate answers the door.]
MAN IN SUIT: Ms. Austen?
KATE: Yes.
MAN IN SUIT: Hi, I'm Dan Norton of the lawfirm Agostini and Norton. May we have a moment of your time?
KATE [looking at the man behind Norton]: And who are you?
NORTON: He's my associate. If I could just come in, I'd be glad to explain...
KATE: No, you can explain right here.
NORTON: Ok, you've got it. Ms. Austen, we're here to get a blood sample from you, and one from your son.
KATE: Excuse me?
NORTON: Now, I have a court-order signed by a judge for you to relinquish your blood upon being served these papers.
KATE: Why?
NORTON: To determine your relationship to the child.
KATE: I'm sorry, I don't understand. Um, who...
NORTON: I'm not at liberty to divulge the identity of my client.
KATE: Your client?
NORTON: Please, may we come in?
KATE: Get off my property.
NORTON: If you won't comply, then I'm going to have to come back with the sheriff.
KATE [shutting the door]: Then come back with the sheriff.
[Kate begins to gather clothes and money in a suitcase hurriedly.]
AARON: Where you going, Mommy?
KATE: We're goin' on vacation, baby.
[She picks Aaron up in one hand, suitcase in the other.]
KATE [leaving the house]: Say 'bye-bye', baby.
[Cut to the Island. The group is walking to where the Hatch once was.]
JULIET: Why did you jump off that helicopter?
SAWYER: I told you, we were running out of gas. I wanted to make sure she--I wanted to make sure they made it to the boat. Don't matter now anyway, does it?
DAN: 'Scuse me, I'm gonna need the two of you to pick up the pace.
SAWYER: First things first. Gimme your shirt.
DAN: My shirt?
SAWYER: Yeah.
DAN: I really think we have far more pressing matters than me givin' you a shirt. Why don't we just keep movin', ok?
SAWYER: How about we call a timeout so you can tell us what the hell is goin' on.
DAN: How about you trust me?
SAWYER: Trust you? I don't know you!
DAN: We really do not have time for me to try to explain. You have no idea how difficult that would be for me to try to explain this... this phenomenon to a quantum physicist, THAT would be difficult. So for me to try to explain whatever's happening...
[Sawyer slaps Dan across the face.]
CHARLOTTE: Oi! What the bloody hell do you think you're doing?
SAWYER: Shut it, Ginger, or you're gettin' one too!
SAYWER [to Dan]: Now talk.
DAN: The Island is... Think of the Island like a record, spinning on a turntable. Only now, that record is skipping. Whatever Ben Linus did down at the Orchid station... I think it may have dislodged us.
MILES: Dislodged us from what?
DAN: Time.
JULIET: So that's why our camp is gone, because the Island is moving through time?
DAN: Either the Island is, or we are.
SAWYER: What?
DAN: It's just as likely that we're moving: your people and us. And everyone in your group... you're all accounted for, right?
SAWYER: Not everyone. Locke.
[Cut to Locke in the jungle. He climbs to a grassy area and witnesses the Nigerian Beechcraft crash-landing on the Island. He finds a Virgin Mary statue in its wake. He follows after it. He sees it hanging where he first found it.]
LOCKE: Is anyone there? Hello? Hello?
[He looks around, attempts to climb up to the plane, but is shot in the leg on his way up.]
LOCKE [before falling to the ground]: Hey!
[Ethan comes out of the jungle pointing a gun at Locke.]
ETHAN: Who are you?
LOCKE: Listen, listen.
ETHAN: How many others on board?
LOCKE: You don't understand, I didn't come on that plane!
ETHAN: Wrong answer.
LOCKE: No wait, stop, stop! I know you. I know who you are. Your name, your name is Ethan. Your name is Ethan.
ETHAN: Who are you?
LOCKE: My name is John Locke. I know this is gonna be hard to understand, but Ben Linus appointed me as your leader.
ETHAN: That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Goodbye, John Locke.
[Ethan points his gun, ready to fire, but the sky begins to glow and the event takes place again. Locke opens his eyes, and sees that is now night-time, and Ethan is nowhere in sight. Cut to the group, seeing the same event.]
SAWYER: Great. So when are we now, Wiz-Kid?
DAN: We're either in the past, or we're in the future.
[Cut to Sun in an airport, making a call on her cell-phone. She hangs up before anyone picks up the other end. She walks up to a ticket counter.]
AIRLINE EMPLOYEE: Evening, ma'am. Where are you flying to tonight?
SUN: Los Angeles.
AIRLINE EMPLOYEE: Of course. May I see your passport, please?
[The employee scans the passport and looks at the screen.]
AIRLINE EMPLOYEE: Excuse me, could you wait here for just one moment, Ms. Kwon?
[Sun is escorted by a security official into a room when Charles Widmore is waiting for her. The official closes the door and locks her inside.
SUN: Hey! Where are you going? Open this door! Open this door!
WIDMORE: Save your breath. They only do what I tell them to do.
SUN: You? You had me brought in here? Why?
WIDMORE: You had the audacity to approach me in broad daylight, in front of my business associates. In public! Why did I have you brought here? Because you showed me no respect. I will be respected, Sun.
SUN: Fair enough.
WIDMORE: Since you seem to be worried about your plane, I'll get right down to business. You mentioned that you and I had common interests. Why don't you tell me exactly what they might be.
SUN: To kill Benjamin Linus.
[Cut to Ben and Jack watching TV in the motel room.]
NEWS REPORTER: The victim was found shot in his car on the grounds of the Santa Rosa Hospital, a private mental health care facility outside of Los Angeles.
JACK: Ok, let's go get 'em.
NEWS REPORTER: Police have now identified the suspect in this shooting as a patient at the hospital who escaped earlier this evening, Hugo Reyes. Now if that name sounds familiar to you, that's because Reyes was a member of the infamous Oceanic Six. As to why he may have murdered a visitor to the facility where Reyes lived for two years, that remains a complete mystery.
[Jack turns off the TV.]
BEN: Well, looks like we have a change of plan.
[Cut to a Rainbow Drive-In restaurant. Hurley and Sayid are waiting for their food to be brought to their car.]
HURLEY: Here she comes, right now.
WAITRESS [handing Sayid the food: Here's your order, sir.
SAYID [handing her money]: Keep the change.
WAITRESS: Thank you.
HURLEY: Awesome. You want a fry?
SAYID: No thank you.
HURLEY: You know maybe if you ate more comfort food you wouldn't have to go around shooting people.
[They drive away and pull up at a motel.]
HURLEY: So that dude you shot outside Santa Rosa, who was he?
SAYID: I don't care. He was armed and he was watching you. That made him an enemy.
HURLEY: You think he was gonna kill me?
SAYID: I'm not taking any risks after Bentham died.
HURLEY: You mean Locke.
SAYID: Yes, I mean Locke.
HURLEY: I need a cool code-name. So when did you become so paranoid?
SAYID: If you had spent the last two years doing the things I was doing, you'd be paranoid too.
HURLEY: Oh yeah? Paranoid like what, what kind of things?
SAYID: I was working for Benjamin Linus.
HURLEY: Wait, he's on our side now?
SAYID: Listen to me Hurley. If you ever have the misfortune of running into him, whatever he tells you, just do the opposite.
[Sayid notices a piece of tape over the door frame has been broken.
SAYID [pushing Hurley back]: Wait here.
[A man tries to shoot Sayid, and Sayid throws him over the balcony. Sayid gets in a fight with several other men. He kills them, but is shot in the neck with a dart. Hurley picks up a gun and is seen holding it on the balcony above the man who was thrown over.]
BYSTANDER [while taking a photo with his cameraphone]: That guy's got a gun! Run, get out of here, call the cops!
HURLEY: Sayid! Whoa. You ok?
SAYID: Get me to the car.
HURLEY: Dude. Dude. Oh man. I thought this was supposed to be a safe-house. We never shoulda left that island.
[Cut to the group on the Island walking through the jungle in the dark.]
CHARLOTTE: Do you think he's looking for us?
MILES: Who?
CHARLOTTE: Widmore.
MILES: It took him like twenty years to find this place the first time. I'll start holding my breath now.
JULIET: Over here!
DAN: Is this the Hatch?
SAWYER: It was. Blown up, just like we left it.
DAN: Ok, so when we are now is now after you and your people crashed on the Island.
SAWYER: You sayin' our camp is back on the beach again?
DAN: It's possible, yeah.
SAWYER: Good, I'm goin' back.
DAN: Hey, no no, it's pointless.
SAWYER: More pointless than starin' at a hole in the ground?
DAN: We don't know when the next flash is coming. By the time you get back to the beach your camp could be gone again.
SAWYER: Yeah, well what if it ain't? Hell, what if the helicopter hasn't even taken off yet?
JULIET: We could warn them, stop them from ever flying to that boat.
DAN: That's not the way it works.
SAWYER: Who says?
DAN: You can not change anything. You can't. Even if you tried to, it wouldn't work.
SAWYER: Why not?
DAN: Time is like a street. Alright, we can move forward on that street, we can move in reverse, but we can not ever create a new street. If we try to do anything different, we will fail every time. Whatever happened, happened.
SAWYER: How do you know so much about this, Danny-Boy?
DAN [digging his journal out of his pack]: I know about this because I spent my entire adult life studying space-time. I know all this because this journal contains everything I've ever learned about the Dharma Initiative. I know what's happening.
SAWYER: So how can we stop it?
DAN: We can't stop it.
SAWYER: Then who can?
[Cut to Locke in the jungle. He struggles to get up on his wounded leg and then limps through the jungle. He finds a place to hide under where there are Virgin Mary statues hidden. A torch appears behind him. The person holding it is Richard Alpert.]
LOCKE: Richard.
RICHARD: Hey, John.
LOCKE: Richard, what is happening?
RICHARD: What's happening is you're bleeding to death. We need to get the bullet out.
LOCKE: How did you know there was a bullet in my leg, Richard?
RICHARD: Because you told me there was, John.
LOCKE: No, no, no I didn't.
RICHARD: Well, you will.
LOCKE: It was Ethan who shot me.
RICHARD: Well, what comes around goes around.
LOCKE: When am I?
RICHARD: Well John, that's all relative.
LOCKE: The noise, when the sky lit up. Where did you go?
RICHARD: I didn't go anywhere, John, you went. This is gonna hurt, it'll be a lot worse if you move. Hold still.
[Richard extracts the bullet from Locke's leg.]
RICHARD: All done!
LOCKE: I don't understand. How did you know that I was here? How did you know where to find me?
RICHARD: I wish I had time to explain it John, but you're gonna be moving on soon and we need to go over a couple things before.
LOCKE: Moving on? Ahhh...
RICHARD: Sorry. First thing, ok: you're gonna need to clean out the wound every couple of hours. Keep as much weight off your leg as you can. The Island will do the rest, John, ok? You need to pay attention. Next time we see each other, I'm not gonna recognize you, alright? You give me this.
LOCKE [taking it]: What is it?
RICHARD: It's a compass.
LOCKE: What does it do?
RICHARD: It points north, John. Look, I wish I had time to be more sensitive about this because it's a lot to swallow, but you need to know it in order to do what you gotta do so I'm just gonna say. The only way to save the Island is to get your people back here, the ones who left.
LOCKE: Jack, and Kate... They were on the chopper, the chopper was headed for the boat.
RICHARD: No, they're fine, John, and they're already home! So you have to convince them to come back.
LOCKE: How am I supposed to do that?
RICHARD: You're gonna have to die, John.
[The sky begins to glow and the event occurs again. Locke opens his eyes to see it is daytime and Richard is no longer there. He holds the compass up to look closely at it.]
[Cut to the group in the jungle before that event occurred.]
MILES: So what was this thing before you guys blew it up?
ULIET: A Dharma station.
MILES: For what?
JULIET: There was a man named Desmond living down in it. He was pushing a button every 108 minutes to save the world.
MILES: Really?
JULIET: Yeah, really.
SAWYER [as the event begins to occur]: Son of a...
SAWYER [after it has occurred]: Bitch.
JULIET: The Hatch, it's back. I guess you haven't found it yet.
[Sawyer begins to walk away.]
MILES: Hey! Where you goin?
SAWYER: Back door. To get us some supplies.
DAN: James, wait, not a good idea.
SAWYER: Sky can flash all it wants but I ain't startin' over, Dilbert. I ain't rubbin' two sticks together to start a fire and I ain't huntin' damn boar. There's Dharma food, beer, and clothing in there, and I'm gettin' Desmond to let me in one way or another.
DAN: That's not gonna work, my friend.
SAWYER: Why not?
DAN: Because Desmond didn't know you when he first came out of there. That means you've never met, which means you can't meet.
SAWYER: This would all be fascinating if I was listenin' to ya.
DAN: How do you knwo Desmond is even in there? think about it, it could be anybody.
SAWYER: I don't care who's in there.
DAN: Wait, wait.
SAWYER [beating on the door to the Hatch]: Open the damn door!
DAN: It won't work.
SAWYER: Sure it will. You open up, it's the Ghost of Christmas Future!
DAN: No one, no one is going to answer.
SAWYER: Open the damn door! Open the door!
DAN: You're wasting your time.
SAWYER: Open up, I know you can hear me!
DAN: If it didn't happen, it can't happen.
SAWYER: Open the door!
DAN: You can't change the past, James!
SAWYER: Everybody I care about just blew up on your damn boat. I know what I can't change.
JULIET: We should get back to the beach. It's been a long day.
MILES: Why are we going back to the beach if there's nothing to go back to?
JULIET: So stay here.
MILES: That chick likes me.
[Most of the group walks back to the beach. Dan looks at Charlotte.]
CHARLOTTE: What? What's the matter?
[Dan walks over to her, and she brushes blood away from below her nose.]
CHARLOTTE: Eck. I haven't had a nosebleed since I was little. Dan I'm fine.
DAN: Yeah. No no no, you're, of course you're fine. I'm uh... the sight of blood is uh...
CHARLOTTE: Well it's good you're a physicist then, isn't it? Shall we?
DAN: Yeah. Um. My pack, of course I left my pack back at the Hatch crater. I better get it. Why don't you head back with everyone else and I'll be right behind ya.
CHARLOTTE: Don't dilly-dally.
DAN: I wouldn't think of it.
[Charlotte giggles and then walks away. Dan runs to get his pack, opens it, and flips through his journal. He stops on one page, and then beats on the Hatch door. Desmond, wearing a haz-mat outfit and holding a rifle, comes out.]
DAN: Whoa, whoa, don't shoot.
DESMOND: Then you'd best explain why you've been bangin' on my door for the last twenty minutes, brother.
DAN: Desmond.
DESMOND: Are you him?
DAN: Him? Who?
DESMOND: My replacement.
DAN: No, I'm not. I'm not. I'm not, I'm...
DESMOND: Do I know you?
DAN: Yeah, in a way. But listen, that's not important. What is important, Desmond, is what I'm about to say to you. I need you to listen. You're the only person who can help us because, Desmond, the rules, the rules don't apply to you. You're special. You're uniquely and miraculously special.
DESMOND: What are you talkin' about?
DAN: Ok, listen to me, listen! If the helicopter somehow made it off the Island, if you got home...
DESMOND: What helicopter, what are you talking about?!
DAN: Listen, I need you to listen or people are gonna die. My name is Daniel Faraday. Right now, me and everyone else you left behind, we're in serious danger, and you're the only person who can help us. I need you to go back to Oxford University, go back to where we met. I need you to go there and find my mother. Her name...
[The sky begins to glow and the event occurs again. Cut to Desmond sleeping next to Penny, awakened abruptly. Penny switches on the light.]
PENNY: You alright?
DESMOND: Listen... I was on the Island.
PENNY: You've been off the island for three years now. You're safe now. it was just a dream.
It wasn't a dream. It was a memory.
[Desmond climbs to the deck of the ship.]
PENNY: Desmond where are you going? Des? Desmond?
[Desmond pulls up the anchor.]
DESMOND: We're leaving.
PENNY: Leaving to go where?
DESMOND: Oxford.