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Episode 17 - "The End" Written by: Damon Lindelof, & Carlton Cuse
Directed by: Jack Bender
Act 1
[Sideways timeline - at LAX, airline cargo marked with “Christian Shephard” and “human remains” is being unloaded from an Oceanic plane - Jack is at the hospital, at his office desk - he examines a head x-ray]
[Original island timeline - Jack is washing his face at a stream - he stares at his trembling hands]
[Sideways timeline - another view of the Oceanic cargo - Ben, in an arm sling, is getting a cup of a coffee]
[Island timeline - Ben is loading bullets into a magazine while Locke is winding rope]
[Sideways timeline - Locke glances at a wheelchair, as he is being wheeled into surgery - Christian‘s coffin is loaded into an Oceanic delivery truck - Sawyer glances in a mirror at his station as he prepares for work]
[Island timeline - Kate, Sawyer, Hurley are together at camp; Sawyer examines Kate’s wound]
[Sideways - Oceanic truck leaves with Christian’s coffin]
[Island - Sawyer continues to examine Kate’s wound]
[Sideways - Kate sits in the passenger seat of Hurley’s Camaro, waiting outside a Eloise's church as the Oceanic delivery truck arrives - Desmond assists the driver with removing the casket]
DESMOND: Do you need someone to sign for that?
DELIVERY TRUCK DRIVER: You work here?
DESMOND: I do indeed , brother.
DRIVER: You a priest or something?
DESMOND: Or something. . . Do you mind taking it around the back there?
DRIVER: Yeah, sure. You got it.
[Driver wheels Christian’s casket towards the church]
DESMOND [pointing]: Just around there, thank you.
[Desmond gets behind the wheel of the Camaro]
KATE: Who died?
DESMOND: A man named Christian Shephard.
KATE [chuckling]: Christian Shephard? Seriously?
DESMOND: Seriously.
KATE: Friend of yours?
DESMOND: Not exactly.
[Kate grabs onto his hand as he tries to start the engine]
KATE: H-hang on a second. You bust me out of jail, and make me put on this dress so that we can go to some concert. And you won’t even tell me why were here.
DESMOND: No one can tell you why you’re here, Kate. . . Certainly not me.
KATE: You’re the one who brought me here.
DESMOND: I’m not talking about the church. I’m talking about here.
KATE: Who are you? . . . What do you want?
DESMOND: My name is Desmond Hume. And even though you don’t realize it, I’m your friend. And, as for what I want--I want to leave.
KATE: Leave and go where?
DESMOND: Let me show you.
[Original timeline - from a distance, Kate looks at Jack standing in water - Sawyer approaches Jack]
SAWYER: You okay?
JACK: Yeah. You?
SAWYER: Well, to be honest, Doc, I’m kinda wondering what the hell just happened up here.
JACK: That makes two of us.
SAWYER: So, you’re the new Jacob, huh? [Jack nods] Feel any different?
JACK: Not really.
SAWYER: Well, Doc, how about you come down off the mountaintop and tell us what the hell the burning bush had to say for itself.
JACK: Jacob told me that we have to go to the bamboo forest out past our old camp. Just past it, well, said I’d find the place we need to protect.
KATE: This place, what is it?
JACK: He called it the heart of the island. All he said was that it’s . . . it’s a light.
HURLEY: And that Locke Smoke Thing wants to put it out?
JACK: Something like that, yeah.
HURLEY: So, what if he does?
JACK: Then that’s it for all of us.
KATE: But, if Locke wants to put it out, then why hasn’t he?
SAWYER: ‘Cause he ain’t got what he needs. I’m guessing that’d be Desmond. . . That’s where we were headed before your inauguration. Sayid said Locke tossed him in a well.
JACK: Jacob didn’t say anything to me about Desmond.
SAWYER: Doesn’t sound like he said anything about anything.
HURLEY: That’s kinda of true, dude. He’s worst than Yoda.
SAWYER: All right. Y’all head to your heart of the island and I’ll go get the magic leprechaun out of that well.
JACK: If I leave a trail, can you catch up with us?
SAWYER: Hell, yeah I can.
JACK: Then be safe.
SAWYER: I’d ask you along, but that’d take all of the fun out me telling you, you can’t come.
KATE: Uh, I guess I’ll just have to resist the urge to follow you anyway.
HURLEY: I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
[Sideways timeline - Hurley and Sayid arrive at the Flightline motel]
SAYID: I don’t know why you got me out of prison, what you want or who you are. But, you understand, I can’t be held responsible for--
HURLEY: Yeah, yeah. Whatever, dude.
[Hurley shows Sayid a tranquilizer gun)
HURLEY: None of t his is ringing a bell, is it? . . You me, tranquilizer gun?
SAYID: You are insane.
HURLEY: Okay, fine. I’m insane. Just wait here.
SAYID: What if I don’t?
HURLEY: Then, that’s your choice. But, if you stick with me . . .you’ll be happy you did.
[Hurley knocks on door]
MAN: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[Charlie opens the door with a bottle of alcohol, holding up sign]
CHARLIE: “Do not disturb” sign. . . . Who are you? Why you grinning’ like a sodding idiot?
HURLEY: Uh, you have a concert to perform tonight, and I’m here to pick you up.
CHARLIE: Didn’t I make it clear to Widmore’s other monkey? I don’t care about a sodding concert.
HURLEY: Charlie? Charlie, what if I told you that . . . playing this show is the most important thing you’ll ever do? Would you come then?
CHARLIE: Sod off.
HURLEY: Okay, dude. Sorry about this.
[Hurley shoots Charlie with the tranquilizer gun and carries him to his Hummer]
SAYID: What was that?
HURLEY: That was Charlie.
Act 2
[Original timeline - Jack, Kate and Hurley are walking through the jungle]
KATE: Why did you take the job, Jack?
JACK: Because I was suppose to.
KATE: Why? Because some stranger wrote our names on a wall?
JACK: I took it because the island’s all I’ve got left. It’s the only thing in my life I haven’t managed to ruin.
KATE: You haven’t ruined anything. Nothing is irreversible.
HURLEY: This would be so sweet if we weren’t all about to die.
[Sawyer spies on Locke, who is winding a rope - Ben points a rifle at Sawyer and forces him into the open]
BEN: As long as you’re watching, why don’t you join us?
LOCKE: What are you doing here, James?
SAWYER: I heard Desmond fell in the well, so I came to help him get out. [looks into the well] Looks like somebody beat us both to the punch. . . . Oh, well.
LOCKE: Do you know why I’m here?
SAWYER: I’m guessing you need Desmond to destroy the island.
LOCKE: That’s absolutely right.
SAWYER: Then what, Smokey? You going down with the ship? Suicide doesn’t seem like your style.
LOCKE: I’m not going down with anything. But you and the rest of Jacob’s little “candidates”, absolutely are.
SAWYER: We’re not candidates anymore.
[Sawyer elbows Ben in the face and takes his rifle]
BEN: Ahh! Ohh! . . . Aah.
SAWYER: I’ll be seein’ ya.
BEN: You’re not gonna go after him?
LOCKE: I don’t need to.
BEN: When you said you were gonna destroy the island, I thought you were speaking figuratively.
LOCKE: Because I said I’d leave you in charge once I was gone? I’m sorry if I left out the part about the island being on the bottom of the ocean. That being said, you’re welcome to join me on my boat. Because once we get Desmond to do, what we need him to do, I’m going to sail away from this godforsaken place and watch it sink. [notices animal prints in the dirt] I think there was a dog here.
[Desmond is at the camp of Rose, Bernard - Vincent awakens him by licking his face]
ROSE: Morning.
BERNARD: Morning. Sleep okay?
DESMOND: Aye. Your camp’s a lot nicer than the bottom of a well.
BERNARD: I think I’m gonna go ahead and take that as a compliment.
ROSE: Are you gonna talk his ear off or get the man some breakfast?
BERNARD: Guess I’ll go check the traps for fish. . . . Come on. Vincent. Let’s go.
DESMOND: So, Rose, tell me . . . how long have the two of you been living here?
ROSE: Well, we built this place in ‘75 and lived here a couple of years and then the sky lit up again. So God only know when the hell we are now. So . . . Desmond . . . I don’t mean to be rude, but after you eat, I’m gonna ask you to move on. We broke our rule with you.
DESMOND: What rule is that?
ROSE: We don’t get involved. Whatever got you tossed inside the well . . . that’s the kind of drama Bernard and I don’t want to have anything to do with.
DESMOND: Fair enough.
[Vincent barks, Bernard returns]
ROSE: Looks like you caught something.
BERNARD: I’m sorry.
[Locke and Ben walk into camp]
LOCKE: Hello, Rose. . . . [to Desmond] I’ll make this simple. Come with me now or I’ll kill them both right in front of you.
ROSE: You don’t have to go anywhere with him.
LOCKE: I’ll make it hurt.
DESMOND: I want your word. You won’t touch them--ever.
LOCKE: Done.
DESMOND: Then I’ll do what you want.
LOCKE: Yes, Desmond you will.
[Original timeline - Locke, Desmond, Ben walking through the jungle - it is thundering]
LOCKE: You have any idea where I’m taking you, Desmond?
DESMOND: No. But, I assume it’s a place where there’s a very bright light.
LOCKE: What makes you say that?
DESMOND: Oh. Just a hunch.
[Locke looks at Ben when he hears radio static]
LOCKE: What was that?
BEN: What was what?
[Ben turns off his walkie-talkie - scene changes to Miles and unconscious Richard]
MILES: Linus, can you hear me? Come in. . . . I found Alpert. [Richard stirs] Linus. . . . Damn it! . . . You okay?
RICHARD: What--what--what happened?
MILES: You thought it’d be a good idea to talk to the black smoke. It responded by throwing you into the damn jungle.
RICHARD: Locke--L . . . is he still here?
MILES: No. . . I’ve been trying to get Linus on the walkie, he won’t pick up. . . Come on, let’s get you some help.
RICHARD: Help? Help? Help from where? . . . You still have the explosives, the--the C-4?
MILES: Yeah. Why?
RICHARD: Because we need to go the other island to finish what we started. We need to blow up that plane.
Act 3
[Sideways - museum concert venue - Miles arrives and sees Sayid in Hurley‘s Hummer - uses his cell phone]
SAWYER: Detective Ford.
MILES: Jim, it’s me. . . I think I just saw that Jarrah guy.
SAWYER: You at county lockup?
MILES: No, I’m at my dad’s museum concert benefit thing.
SAWYER: Well, it can’t be Jarrah. I just put him in a van to county an hour ago.
MILES: Really? Because I just called, and they said it never showed up.
SAWYER: What?
MILES: Help me out here, Jim. Jarrah popped four people in cold blood. Only one witness left the scene alive, right? Some Korean woman. Can you make sure she’s okay?
SAWYER: Yeah, yeah. Sun Paik. Gunshot wound. She’s still over at the hospital. Enjoy your concert, Enos. I’ll keep her safe.
[Jin at Sun's hospital bedside - speaking Korean]
JIN: How’re you feeling?
SUN: I’m a little sore.
JIN: That happens when you get shot. [kisses her forehead] There’s a doctor coming to look at the baby. If everything’s all right, they say we can leave soon.
SUN: Leave? And just keep running from my father? [door opens]
WOMAN: Am I interrupting? [Juliet, in a doctor’s coat enters] . . . Hi. . . Miss Paik. I’m Juliet Carlson. I’m here to make sure your baby’s okay. You must be the daddy. [looks at clipboard] I’m sorry. You don’t speak English. I’m . . . I’ll try not to talk too much.
[Juliet sets up an ultrasound machine]
JULIET: Okay, you lift up your gown a little bit. [applying gel to Sun’s abdomen] It’s a little cold. . . . Okay. Let’s take a look.
[low magnetic zaps - Sun has visual memories of Juliet performing an ultrasound on her in the medical station on the island - Sun gasps]
JULIET: You okay?
JIN: Are you all right?
SUN: I . . . remember.
JIN: Remember what?
JULIET [pointing to image on screen]: There it is. There’s your baby.
[Jin and Sun see themselves in several scenes of island memories when they look at their baby’s image on the ultrasound screen]
SUN: Did you see?
[Jin nods and makes a sound in the affirmative]
JULIET: Do you see that little flutter? Right there? That’s the baby’s heartbeat. Perfectly perfect in every way. I have your amnio results. Everything checked out. Would you like to know if it’s a boy or girl?
SUN [in English]: It’s a girl.
JULIET: Yeah.
JIN [in English]: Her name is Ji Yeon.
JULIET: That’s a lovely name. . . . And for the record, y-you two speak English just fine. Congratulations.
[Sawyer runs and meets up with Jack, Hurley, Kate]
HURLEY: Whoa!
SAWYER: Easy, Bigfoot. It’s just me. . . I found Locke. The son of a bitch said he’s gonna destroy the island. You had it right, Doc. Good news is, Desmond got out of that well. So, if we can find him before Smokey can--
JACK: It doesn’t matter if we find Desmond or he does, James. We’re all going to the same place anyway.
SAWYER: Then what?
JACK: Then it ends.
[Sideways - Jack speaks with Locke who is about to be wheeled into the operating room]
JACK: Hello, Mr. Locke.
LOCKE: Dr. Shephard. Hey, since you’re about to open up my back, you can probably start calling me John.
JACK: Okay, John. I thought I’d stop by and say hi before we started the anesthesia. You nervous?
LOCKE: Are you sure this is going to work?
JACK: Yes. I’m very confident that it will.
LOCKE: Really?
JACK: Well, there’s always the chance that I could kill you . . .but, I’m trying to make you feel better.
LOCKE: Okay. Okay, let’s do it.
JACK: All right. I’ll see you on the other side.
LOCKE: Hey, Doctor, back at L.A.X. when we met at baggage claim, you mentioned that they had lost your father. Did he ever turn up?
JACK: As a matter of fact, I got a phone call this morning. They, uh, they found the coffin.
LOCKE: Oh, good.
JACK: Actually, it might be here already.
LOCKE: Well, I hope that brings you some peace.
JACK: If I can fix you, Mr. Locke, that’s all the peace I’ll need.
[Richard and Miles put their things in an outrigger and get ready to leave.]
RICHARD: It's gonna be a hell of a storm.
MILES: Welcome to the club. [points at Richard's hair]
RICHARD: What?
MILES: Do you mind?
[Miles picks a hair from Richard's head.]
MILES: Looks like you got your first grey hair.
[Richard takes the hair, looks at it, and smiles.]
MILES: What are you smiling about?
RICHARD: I think I just realized that I wanna live.
MILES: Well, it's good timing.
[Richard and Miles row the outrigger in the ocean. Something hits their boat.]
RICHARD: What was that?
[They discover that it's the body of someone from Widmore's submarine].
FRANK: Help!
RICHARD: Hey! Miles, up ahead!
[Miles and Richard see Frank in the ocean.]
FRANK: Hey! Wha...
[Miles and Richard rescue Frank.]
MILES: Get him some water.
[Richard gives Frank water.]
FRANK: What are you guys doing out here?
RICHARD: We're going to Hydra island to blow up a plane.
FRANK: What do you want to do that for?
RICHARD: Because the black smoke wants to get off the island. We have to stop that thing from leaving.
FRANK: Well, if we leave, that thing won't have a plane anymore.
RICHARD: And how are we going to do that?
FRANK: In case you haven't noticed, I'm a pilot.
[Locke, Ben, and Desmond are walking up a hill. Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley meet them on the way.]
LOCKE: Well, this is gonna be interesting.
[Kate takes Sawyer's rifle, cocks it, and starts shooting at Locke.]
SAWYER: Kate! Kate!
KATE: You killed them!
SAWYER: Kate! [tries to stop her]
LOCKE: You might wanna save your bullets.
[Locke approaches Jack.]
LOCKE: So it's you.
JACK: Yeah. It's me.
LOCKE: Jacob being who is, I expected to be a little more surprised. You're sort of the obvious choice.
JACK: He didn't choose me. I volunteered.
LOCKE: I assume you're here to stop me.
JACK: I can't stop you. In fact, I uh, wanna go with you.
LOCKE: I'm sorry, Jack. I think you're a little confused about what I came here to do.
JACK: No I'm not. No, you're going to the far side of the bamboo forest. To the place that I've sworn that I'll protect. And then you think you're gonna destroy the island.
LOCKE: [surprised] I think?
JACK: [smiles] That's right. Because that's not what's gonna happen.
LOCKE: Then what's gonna happen, Jack?
JACK: I'm gonna kill you.
LOCKE: How do you plan do that?
JACK: That's a surprise.
LOCKE: Okay. Then let's get on with it.
Act 4
[Jack is working at the hospital. He goes to drop off some papers at a desk. Juliet, also working at the hospital, shows up to do the same.]
JULIET: Doctor.
JACK: [smiles] Doctor.
JACK: I didn't know you were working today.
JULIET: I just finished. Did you get the tickets for the concert?
JACK: Yep. Right here. [hands her the tickets]
[David walks towards them]
DAVID: Hey dad, did you remember the tickets?
JACK: I just gave 'em to your mom.
[Juliet gives the tickets to David]
DAVID: [looks at the tickets, then looks at Jack] Uh, who's gonna take yours?
JACK: Well, if you don't have anybody else, maybe you could take aunt Claire. I'm sure she'd love to get out of the house.
[David looks at Juliet]
JULIET: Oh yeah, it's fine with me. In fact I'm very curious to meet this mysterious sister you never mentioned the entire time we were married.
JACK: Well, I'm sure you're gonna love her. She's extremely pregnant.
[Juliet and Jack share a laugh]
JULIET: Good luck on your surgery, doctor.
[Juliet and David head towards the elevator]
JACK: Thank you.
JULIET: Did you pick out a tie?
DAVID: I did.
[Elevator door opens. Sawyer walks out of the elevator and towards the reception desk]
SAWYER: Hi. I'm detective Ford, LAPD.
RECEPTIONIST: M-hm.
SAWYER: I'm looking for a patient's room. Sun Paik.
[Island timeline, Jack's and Locke's groups are trekking through the jungle]
SAWYER: Something you wanna share with the rest of us, Doc?
JACK: What's that?
SAWYER: You said you were gonna kill Locke. What's your surprise?
JACK: Desmond.
SAWYER: How's that gonna work?
JACK: I'm not sure yet. I can't believe Jacob would have brought him all the way back to this island just so Locke could make him destroy it.
SAWYER: So, what, Desmond is bait?
JACK: No. I think he's a weapon.
SAWYER: That's a hell of a long con, Doc.
[They reach the bamboo forest. Locke stops and draws his knife]
LOCKE: Jack, Desmond. It should just be the three of us from here on.
[Jack nods]
[Locke holsters his knife. Jack and Desmond start to follow Locke]
[Hurley approaches Jack]
HURLEY: Jack. I believe in you, dude.
[Jack nods]
[Thunder and rain can be heard]
LOCKE: [looks up] Gonna be a bad one.
[They reach the stream in front of the light cave]
LOCKE: We're here.
[Locke ties some rope to a tree, Jack ties it to Desmond]
DESMOND: This doesn't matter, you know.
JACK: Excuse me?
DESMOND: Him destroying the island, you destroying him. It doesn't matter. You know, you're gonna lower me into that light, and I'm gonna go somewhere else. A place where we can be with the ones we love, and not have to ever think about this damn island again. And you know the best part, Jack?
JACK: What?
DESMOND: You're in this place. You know, we sat next to each other on Oceanic 815. It never crashed. We spoke to each other. You seemed happy. You know, maybe I can find a way to bring you there too.
JACK: Desmond, I tried that once. There are no shortcuts, no do-overs. What happened, happened. Trust me, I know. All of this matters.
LOCKE: Shall we?
[They go inside the cave. They reach a waterfall which leads to the light]
Act 5
[Hurley and Sayid are sitting in a car on the street at night]
SAYID: What are we doing here?
HURLEY: I'm not allowed to tell you.
SAYID: What do you mean you're not allowed?
HURLEY: There are rules, dude?
SAYID: Whose rules?
HURLEY: Don't worry about it. Just trust me, okay? I trust you.
SAYID: And what, may I ask, have I done to deserve your trust?
HURLEY: I think you're a good guy, Sayid. You know, a lot of people have told you that you're not. Maybe you've heard it so many times you started believing it. You can't let other people tell you what you are, dude. You have to decide that for yourself.
SAYID: I'm sorry. You clearly don't know anything about me.
HURLEY: I know a lot about you, dude.
[They see a man get beat up in an alley behind a bar]
HURLEY: Looks like a gnarly fight.
[Hurley watches Sayid's reaction]
SHANNON: Hey, leave my brother alone.
[The attacker pushes Shannon, causing Sayid to get out of the car. He subdues the attacker and helps Shannon up]
SAYID: Hey, it's alright.
[They both have visions of the time they shared on the island]
SHANNON: Sayid.
SAYID: Shannon.
[Boone shows up at Hurley's car]
BOONE: I just got pounded, man. Thanks for taking your sweet time.
HURLEY: It takes as long as it takes.
BOONE: It was a pain in the ass getting her here from Australia.
HURLEY: Yeah, but dude, it was worth it.
BOONE: Should I go get 'em?
HURLEY: Nah, let's give 'em a minute.
[Shannon and Sayid kiss]
[Hurley, Ben, Kate, and Sawyer are waiting at the bamboo forest.]
[Sawyer offers Kate some water. Kate declines]
[Ben's radio starts making noises]
MILES: Linus, are you there?
SAWYER: What the hell is that?
BEN: Miles, where are you?
[Miles is on the beach of Hydra island. Richard is helping Frank out of the outrigger]
MILES: We just got to Hydra island. We're on our way to the plane.
BEN: Miles, listen to me. Whatever you do, don't blow up that plane.
MILES: We're not gonna blow it up, we're gonna fly it the hell off the island. Just get over here now.
FRANK: [looks toward the trees] What in the hell?
[Claire emerges out of the trees]
MILES: Claire.
KATE: [takes the radio from Ben] Miles, it's Kate. Did you say Claire? Is she okay?
[Claire cocks her rifle and points it at Miles' group]
MILES: Put the gun down.
[Claire fires two warning shots in their direction]
CLAIRE: Don't come any closer!
KATE: Miles? Miles, what happened? Miles, are you there?
CLAIRE: He sent you here to kill me, didn't he?
RICHARD: No, listen. We're not with Locke.
CLAIRE: [unconvinced] Why should I believe you?
RICHARD: Because we have a real chance to get far far away from him. We can be free from everything he ever did to us, and never look back. We can go home.
[Claire puts down her gun]
RICHARD: Will you come with us, Claire?
CLAIRE: [looks sad] No. [walks away]
[Jack, Locke, and Desmond are at the waterfall inside the cave]
LOCKE: All right we...we lower him down nice and easy.
JACK: You know what to do once you get down there?
DESMOND: Aye. I go where the light's brightest.
JACK: Don't get yourself killed.
[They lower Desmond with a rope]
LOCKE: This remind you of anything, Jack?
JACK: What?
LOCKE: Desmond . . . going down into a hole in the ground. If there was a button down there to push, we could fight about whether or not to push it. It'd be just like old times.
JACK: You're not John Locke. You disrespect his memory by wearing his face, but you're nothing like him. Turns out he was right about most everything. I just wish I could've told him that while he was still alive.
LOCKE: He wasn't right about anything, Jack. And when this island drops into the ocean, and you drop with it, you're finally gonna realize that.
JACK: Well, we'll just have to see which one of us is right, then.
Act 6
[Sideways timeline - Claire, David and Juliet are in line for the benefit concert - Juliet answers a page]
JULIET: Oh . . . It’s the hospital
DAVID: Go ahead. I’m sure it’s important.
JULIET: I’m so sorry. I’ll be back as soon as I can. [kisses David on forehead]
DAVID: I know. It’s cool. Go.
JULIET [to Claire]: We’ll get to know each other better, I hope?
CLAIRE: Yeah, yeah., sure. . . .Well, I, uh, I guess it’s just you and me, kid.
[Charlie is asleep on a couch, a woman attempts to awaken him]
CHARLOTTE: Oy. . . Wake up. Wake up. Come on. Wake up.
CHARLIE: Hey, What you doin’?
CHARLOTTE: I’m just following the instructions. . . You’re in the band, aren’t you?
CHARLIE: How do you know that?
[Charlotte shows Charlie a note “BASS PLAYER WAKE ME UP FOR SHOW”]
CHARLIE: Oh. . . I was shot by a fat man. [stumbles getting up] It’s all right.
CHARLOTTE [to a man who entered the room]: Excuse me. . . Hey, excuse me. Do you know where the band is?
DANIEL [stares]: I’m sorry. Uh, pardon me?
CHARLOTTE [pointing to Charlie]: I-I think he’s in the band.
DANIEL: Yes, yes. Of course. He’s the bass player from Drive Shaft. They’re accompanying me tonight. I play piano. . . I’m Daniel. Daniel Widmore.
[they shake hands]
CHARLOTTE: I’m Charlotte.
DANIEL: It’s a great pleasure to meet you, Charlotte.
CHARLOTTE: You, too.
CLAIRE: Well, lead the way.
DAVID: Excuse me. Is this table 23?
DESMOND: Aye, indeed it is. [Claire is shocked to see who’s sitting there]
KATE: Claire.
DESMOND: You two know each other?
MAN ON MICROPHONE: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. May I have your attention, please? Welcome to this very special benefit concert for the Golden State Natural History Museum. I’m Dr. Pierre Chang. [applause] Thank you. I think we have quite a special evening ahead of us. [camera pans to Eloise in audience] So, let’s get to it, shall we? It is my pleasure to introduce you to Mr. Daniel Widmore accompanied by Drive Shaft.
[cheering and applause as musicians take the stage - Charlotte is seated with Miles - Charlie is mesmerized when he sees Claire - she grabs her belly in response to discomfort]
CLAIRE: Mm.
DAVID: You okay?
CLAIRE: Yeah, yeah. I’m just - - I’m just gonna use the bathroom. I‘ll-I’ll be right back..
[Kate follows Claire - Desmond stares knowingly]
[Original timeline - at the bottom of the waterfall, Desmond finds a chamber after passing skeletons - he comes to a bright pool of water into which flows water - there is a large, engraved stone in the center of the pool - he steps into the pond and hears rattling, loud buzzing and magnetic humming - he screams from the pain of electromagnetic shock - Jack and Locke look down at the glow]
DESMOND: Aah! . . . Aah! . . . Aah! [his nose begins to bleed - he removes the elongated stone, which functions as a plug, with difficulty - loud buzzing and humming continues and then gradually fades]
DESMOND: Uhh!
[the water drains from the pool into the center hole - the light goes dark - it is momentarily quiet - a loud rumbling comes from beneath the now-empty pool - a red hot glow filters in through the hole]
DESMOND: No!
LOCKE: It looks like . . . You were wrong. . . Goodbye, Jack. [the ground briefly shakes violently - Locke leaves the cave - Jack follows and tackles Locke to the ground]
JACK: Damn it!
LOCKE: Uhh!
[Jack punches Locke - Locke is shocked to realize his mouth is bleeding]
JACK [smiling]: Looks like you were wrong, too.
[Jack chokes Locke, who defends himself by hitting Jack in the head with a stone - Locke runs off with his backpack in hand]
Act 7
[Sideways timeline - Claire is backstage and comes upon a man - Kate catches up to her]
CLAIRE: Oh, hello. Hello? [to man] Hi, uh, do you know where the bathroom is? [Claire is bent over with pain] Umm. Oh.
KATE [to man]: Uh, can you please get a doctor? [to Claire] Small world, huh?
CLAIRE: Yeah, well, what are you doing --mm! Oh!
KATE [grabs Claire]: Oh! Okay. Okay. It’s okay. Come on. Sit down.
CLAIRE: Um, I-I think he’s coming.
[While the band and Daniel play, Eloise joins Desmond at his table]
ELOISE: I thought I made it clear that you were to stop this.
DESMOND: Perfectly clear. I chose to ignore you.
ELOISE: And once they know . . . what then?
DESMOND: We’re leaving.
ELOISE: Are you going to take my son?
DESMOND: Not with me. . . No.
[Claire is in labor]
CLAIRE: Uhh!
KATE: Just breathe, okay? Just breathe, breathe, breathe. Help is on the way.
CLAIRE: Mnh-mnh! It’s hap--it’s happening. Like--like, right now.
[Charlie joins them]
KATE: Right now . . . Um. Okay. I’m . . . I’m gonna get you comfortable. I want you to relax and breathe, all right? Just relax and breathe.
CLAIRE: Who are you?
CHARLIE: I’m with the band.
CLAIRE: Uhh!
KATE: Listen, can you get us some water and blankets, please?
CHARLIE: Water and blankets?
KATE: Yeah. All right. Uh . . .This is about the time when you’re supposed to start pushing
CLAIRE: I’m not ready. I’m really scared.
KATE: I’m scared too, all right? Really scared. But I’m gonna need you to push because I can’t do it without you. Okay? Okay? One, two, three. Push! [Claire grunts as she pushes] Good, that’s good. Okay, we’re gonna try again. You’re doin’ good. One, two, three. Push!
[low magnetic zap - Kate has island memory flashes of assisting Claire with Aaron’s birth]
KATE: Push, push again.
[low magnetic zap - Kate delivers the baby - Claire has the same memory flashes when Kate hands her the baby]
CLAIRE: Oh!
[low magnetic zap - island timeline birth scenes are interspersed with sideways timeline birth scenes - baby cries]
CLAIRE: Shh. . . It’s Aaron. It’s . . .
[Kate and Claire area sobbing and laughing when Charlie rejoins them with blankets]
CHARLIES: I brought a blanket.
[Kate and Claire realize who Charlie is]
KATE: Thank you.
CHARLIE: It’s just a blanket.
KATE: Then go ahead and bring it to her.
CHARLIE: Couldn’t find any water.
[low magnetic zapping - Claire grasps Charlie’s hand causing island memory flashes]
CLAIRE: Charlie.
CHARLIE: Claire. . . Claire.
[they kiss - Aaron cries]
CHARLIE: Hi, Aaron. Hey. Shh. It’s okay. . . Hey, Aaron.
[Desmond stands near Kate]
DESMOND: Do you understand?
KATE: So now what?
Act 8
[Original timeline - in a thunder storm and a continuous series of earthquakes, a tree splinters and crashes toward Hurley]
BEN: Hugo, get out the way!
[Ben is pinned after pushing Hurley out of the way]
BEN: Ohh!
[Jack regains consciousness and reenters the cave]
JACK: Desmond! [he pulls on the untethered rope] Desmond!
[After looking around outside the cave, Jack purposefully trots off]
KATE [to Ben]: We’re gonna get you out of here, all right?
[Hurley, Kate and Sawyer attempt to free Ben]
SAWYER: It’s too damn heavy. There’s no way we’re getting’ it off him.
HURLEY: We have to try.
KATE: One . . . two . . . three!
[Another earthquake]
KATE: What is happening?
SAWYER: Tell you what’s happening. Locke was right! This island’s goin’ down!
[walkie-talkie sounds]
MILES: Linus, come in! Linus, come in! Linus, come in! Come in!
KATE: Miles. Is that you?
MILES: Yeah. What the hell is happening?
KATE: Are you with Claire?
MILES: She’s here, but she doesn’t want to come with us.
KATE: Come with you where?
MILES: Lapidus is working on the plane right now. Then we’re taking off. . . Hey, how much longer ‘til we get this thing in the air?
LAPIDUS: I still have to check the electrical and the hydraulics. Five hours, maybe six.
RICHARD: You’ve got maybe one.
MILES: Get your asses over here! We’re leaving in an hour!
SAWYER: Son of a bitch! How the hell we’re suppose to get over there?
BEN: I know how we can get there! Locke has a boat.
[Locke has arrived at the cliff side where the Elizabeth is anchored just off shore]
JACK: Locke!
[Jack has reached the cliff side. Locke draws his knife, and the two run at each other, with Jack raising his fist to strike him.]
Act 9
[Jack and Locke trade blows, with Locke ultimately stabbing Jack in his side, he then holds the knife over Jack's throat, trying to kill him.]
LOCKE: I want you to know Jack, you died for nothing!
[A gunshot rings out, striking Locke in the back. The shooter is revealed to be Kate, who has arrived at the cliff side.]
KATE: I saved you a bullet!
[Another tremor shakes the island]
LOCKE: You're too late.
[Jack kicks Locke off the cliff side, killing him as he hits the rocks below.]
[Sideways timeline - Jack is walking down a hallway of the hospital alongside a post operation Locke, who is being rolled down the hallway by a nurse.]
NURSE: Nice work, Dr. Shephard. What happened to your neck?
[Jack checks his neck to discover it is once again bleeding.]
JACK:(To himself) Damn it.
[Jack enters Lock's hospital room (218) wiping his neck]
JACK: OK, he's stable. I'm gonna hop in the shower and see if I can catch up with David before the concert's over. Just give me a call if you need me.
NURSE: Dr. Shephard? He's waking up. I watched the anesthesiologist... he got the full dosage.
JACK: OK. I'll take it from here. Mr. Locke. Can you hear me? John, are you awake?
[Locke opens eyes slowly looking at Jack]
[Jack smiles]
JACK: You just had major surgery so I need you to try not to move and just relax, OK?
LOCKE: It worked.
JACK: Uh... it went well... but we wont know how you responded to the surgery...
LOCKE: No, Dr. Shephard, it worked. I can feel my legs.
JACK: John, it's highly unlikely that you would regain sensation that quickly so lets just take it slo...
[Jack looks at Locke's feet moving under the sheet]
LOCKE: [looking at feet] Oh.
[Jack moves to the foot of the bed and uncovers Locke's foot. Foot wiggles. Locke has island memory flashes: Seeing his stocking feet wiggle right after the crash, orange peel in his mouth for teeth, Walt throwing a knife at the target, in the rain with Boone, reacting to the smoke monster that did not attack him]
LOCKE: Oh. Did you see that?
JACK: See what?
[Locke smiles at Jack]
LOCKE: You don't remember?
[Jack momentarily has a flash of looking down the hatch with Locke but shakes his head as id to clear it]
JACK: Um... Mr. Locke [shaking head, covers Locke's feet] Please just, ah, just relax. What we need to do...
LOCKE: What we need to do is go...
JACK: No, no, no... hey. John...
LOCKE: Will you come with me?
JACK: We're not going anywhere. You just had extensive spinal surgery and I... I need to see my son.
LOCKE: You don't have a son.
JACK: [walking to the door looking back] What?
LOCKE: You don't have a son, Jack.
NURSE: [entering] Doctor?
JACK: Jeane, um, would you give Mr. Locke something to help him rest? I need to go.
LOCKE: Jack... I hope that somebody does for you what you just did for me.
[Looks are exchanged between smiling Locke and confused Jack. Jack exits the room]