Three Minutes

"Three Minutes"
Season	2
Episode	22
Airdate	May 17, 2006
Flashback	Michael
Days	51-64
Writer	Edward Kitsis Adam Horowitz
Director	Stephen Williams
Guests	Malcolm David Kelley - Walt M.C. Gainey - Mr. Friendly Tania Raymonde - Alex April Grace - Ms. Klugh Michael Bowen - Pickett
Transcript	S2E22 - Three Minutes Transcript

"Three Minutes" is the twenty-second episode of Season 2 of Lost. With the exception of "Maternity Leave", this is the only episode where all flashback sequences take place on the Island. As the survivors mourn the loss of Ana-Lucia and Libby, Michael continues to mount pressure on his peers to join him in a mission to rescue Walt from the Others.

Synopsis

Flashbacks

Michael and Walt's conversation

Thirteen days prior to realtime events, Michael approaches Locke in the gun vault, asking to borrow some guns for target practice. When he asks for some bullets, he knocks a case of them off the shelf. Locke stoops to pick them up, and Michael hits him with the butt of a rifle, leaving him unconscious. Michael heads to the computer, and types on the keyboard to "Walt". He writes that he's leaving "NOW". Jack wakes up in the next room, calls for Locke, and finds him unconscious in the vault. Michael corners him threateningly, telling Jack he's leaving to find Walt, as is "his right", and locks both of them in.

Running across the Island, Michael encounters a male Other, back toward Michael, apparently urinating. Michael draws the rifle on him. He distracts Michael by asking if he's "Walt's old man", while Mr. Friendly sneaks up from behind and disarms Michael of his rifle. Running away, Michael draws his pistol. Shots are fired back and forth, but Mr. Friendly stops the Others from shooting because they "need him". Michael is caught by Mr. Friendly's bolo, and he's bagged quickly because "his friends are right behind" them.

Alex, one of the Others

Michael is dragged into a campsite where Alex is waiting for them. Mr. Friendly takes off Michael's bag, prompting him to spit in the Other's face. The unnamed Other brings out a bagged Kate, who was caught by the Others when she tried to catch up with Jack's group. Michael is warned that if he speaks up he'll never see Walt again. Mr. Friendly leaves to talk with "her people".

As previously seen in "The Hunting Party", Mr. Friendly appears to Jack, Locke and Sawyer, and uses Kate as leverage to make them surrender and leave. Michael is gagged nearby, following Mr. Friendly's order to stay quiet. When the Other shouts for Alex to bring Kate out, she pleads for the male Other to take her instead. He obliges, and in the moment of privacy Alex quickly asks Michael how Claire is doing. Michael simply stands, stunned.

With the main survivors unarmed, they retreat with Kate, as Mr. Friendly steals their weapons. Returning to Michael, he glances at Alex, who apologizes before knocking Michael unconscious.

Michael sees two Others guarding an apparent hatch

Two days later,the Others' team are hiking across a hillside. Michael is struggling because he's been marching without rest. Mr. Friendly announces that they're at their destination. Michael notes a stone formation on the top of the hill. The group approach a set of huts and tents, and they walk past a DHARMA door with the Door logo, guarded by two men with rifles, and a group of three people making a fish net.

Mr. Friendly orders Alex to "tell her we're here", and the male Other approaches Michael, taking a blood sample. A woman approaches, and Michael demands information about Walt from her. She introduces herself as Ms. Klugh, and asks Michael questions about Walt which he can't answer, such as has he ever appeared in a place he wasn't supposed to be. She adds that "you say he was half-way around the world, but... did you see him?", and states that for someone who wants to see Walt so badly, Michael doesn't seem to know much about him (notably the same words said by lawyers during Michael's custody battle).

Michael's List

Three days prior to realtime events, Michael is kept tied up in a hut. Ms. Klugh brings him dinner. He asks her when she's going to kill him, as he has been kept for a week now without anything happening. He even comments that Walt probably isn't even alive, but Ms. Klugh tells him that Walt is standing right outside. She explains that one of their people has been captured, and that if he brings them back to the Others, Walt will be returned to him. Michael insists on seeing Walt, and Ms. Klugh calls for "Pickett" to bring him in, who is revealed as the male Other Michael encountered on his journey across the Island.

Walt in the Others' camp

He brings Walt in, and the father and son are finally reunited. Walt tells Michael that they have been forcing him to take tests, and that the Others are "not who they say they are... they're pretending". Ms. Klugh threatens for Walt to stop talking about that, otherwise she will put him in "the room" again, causing Walt to freeze. Cutting the reunion short, Walt is removed, but not before he manages to break free and hug his father.

Michael sobs as he is teared from Walt again, an Ms. Klugh takes advantage of this by requesting something else. She gives Michael a list with four names on, telling him that he must also bring them all these four people, otherwise he'll never see Walt again. Michael agrees, looking at the list, which has the names of Jack, Kate, Hurley and "James Ford" (whom Ms. Klugh tells him is Sawyer). However, Michael has his own demand, saying that if he does all this for them, he also wants their boat.

Realtime events

Hurley demands they bury the dead before contemplating revenge

Michael is seen burning a small piece of paper outside the Swan. Jack calls Michael into the Hatch to talk. Michael, Kate, Hurley, Jack, and Sawyer discuss their armaments and what to do next. Jack wants to attack the Others with many people. Michael wants to leave immediately to the Others' site with just the five people present. "We're not taking a damn army across the Island!" Hurley wants to bury the dead. A decision is made to bury the dead and leave for the Others' site the following morning. Hurley will dig Libby's grave, and Kate will dig the grave for Ana-Lucia.

Later, Michael is in the Hatch, cleaning blood. Mr. Eko enters, having returned from his excursion with Locke, and helps to clean. Michael asks Mr. Eko about his belief in Hell. Mr. Eko avoids answering Michael's question about his personal belief in Hell and instead relays a story about a boy who has beaten his dog to death. The moral of the story was that even though the boy felt justified in killing the dog to protect his sister, his biggest concern was whether he would again meet that vengeful dog in Hell.

Michael leaves the Hatch because "he had to get out of there". Jack finds Michael vomiting and reassures him that they will insists that Jack, he, Kate, Sawyer, and Hurley must be the only ones to go, and that it's his call to make. Jack concedes.

Charlie presents the case with the vaccine to Claire

Claire is tending to Aaron as Charlie approaches. Claire is still cold toward Charlie, and Charlie gives Claire a small case full of vaccine and a pneumatic injector which he found in the palette and saved for them. A shot of the vaccine is supposed to be administered every 9 days (216 hours. 216 is two times 108) Claire is thankful and seems to be warming to Charlie, when she sees Michael walking with Jack toward the beach, interrupting the conversation.

Sun sees Michael and Jack walking. Excitedly, Jin approaches and hugs Michael, as does Sun. Sun then notices that there are two covered bodies in the graveyard, where a new grave is being dug by Kate. She inquires "Who?". Michael tells about Ana-Lucia and Libby, and says that "They were murdered."

Later, Michael is petting Vincent on the beach. Meanwhile, Sawyer and Jack are in Sawyer's tent, grabbing the weapons. Sawyers asks Jack about his relationship with Kate during the previous evening. Jack says "We got caught in a net." Sawyer responds, "That what they're callin' it these days?" They head out of the tent just as Sayid approaches. Sayid asks if it's true that Henry is gone, and who is going after him. Jack responds that Locke and Eko left to do this, and Sawyer notes that they haven't seen either of them since. Sayid notices the guns and asks "When do we leave?" Jack tells Sayid he's not coming. Sawyer gives Sayid a pistol and welcomes him to join in the morning.

Eko enters the Numbers

Mr. Eko is in the Hatch, and notes the magnetic property near the wall just as the timer hits the four-minute mark. Mr. Eko sits at the computer and enters the Numbers, which return to 108 minutes. Charlie enters the dome and asks what Mr. Eko has been doing. Mr. Eko asks Charlie to bring his things from the beach to the Hatch, because he's moving in. Charlie is concerned about the church, and Mr. Eko tells him that "I am supposed to do something different, now." Charlie declines Mr. Eko's request to get his things from the beach.

Michael is sitting by the beach as Sawyer approaches and tells Michael that Sayid is joining. Michael is upset that Sayid was told, but says it's not a problem.

However, Michael's mind soon changes, and he approaches Sayid on the beach, telling him he is no longer welcome on the mission. Michael says that it's because he's planning a rescue, while Sayid is planning a revenge. Sayid shakes Michael's hand and concedes, wishing him luck.

Vincent bringing Charlie a statue

Charlie is struggling to continue putting the roof on the church, alone. Vincent approaches with a virgin Mary statue in its mouth, dropping it at Charlie's feet. Charlie responds, "Are you kidding me? Did someone put you up to this?" Charlie takes the statue and follows Vincent to Sawyers tent, where Charlie discovers the other virgin Mary statues. Charlie takes them all.

Charlie is standing at the edge of the ocean, throwing a statue into the surf. He throws five more in, and contemplates the last one. He throws it into the ocean as well (you know the surf is just going to bring them back, right?), and then looks over his shoulder to notice that he was being watched by Locke.

Sawyer and Jack are in the Hatch. Jack asks Mr. Eko what happened in the jungle. Mr. Eko says that they were unable to find Henry's trail. Jack tells Mr. Eko that they're burying Ana-Lucia and Libby at sunset. Mr. Eko says that he will mourn them in his own way.

Sawyer tells Jack about his relationship with Ana-Lucia

Jack and Sawyer are preparing firearms and discussing who is going to talk at the funeral. Sawyer learns Ana-Lucia's last name is Cortez and says, "That figures," and reveals to Jack that "I screwed her." Jack looks puzzled, so Sawyer says "We got caught in a net." Sawyer tells Jack that he told him because he's about the closest thing Sawyer has to a friend, because she's gone.

Kate and Hurley are digging the graves as Michael approaches. Michael helps Kate with the digging and discusses the plan to attack the Others. Hurley reveals that he isn't coming. Michael calls Hurley "Hugo" somewhere along the lines here. Kate keeps Michael from arguing with him.

Most of the survivors approach the freshly-dug graves as dusk approaches. Locke sits alone on the beach. He takes out a knife, cuts off his splint, and walks off toward the jungle with a full backpack, leaving his crutches behind.

Sayid tells Jack about his suspicions of Michael

Sayid and Jack are walking together toward the graves, and away from everyone else. Sayid tells Jack that he believes that Michael has been compromised; his actions are not those of a man who is telling the truth, because a father will do anything for his son.

The funeral

He believes Michael freed Henry, that Michael intends to lead Jack into a trap, and that Henry was an Other. Instead of talking to Michael, Sayid wants Michael to think he's in control so Jack and Sayid can create an advantage.

Jack speaks about Ana-Lucia, saying few words. Hurley speaks about Libby, becoming emotional. He then turns to Michael and says, "I'm going with you." As Hurley says goodbye to Libby, Sun observes a sailboat not too far offshore.

Trivia

Recurring themes

• Libby and Ana Lucia are buried. (Life and Death)
• Ms. Klugh orders Michael to bring four of his friends to the Others' camp, so he could get his son back. (Deceptions and Cons)
• Ms. Klugh wrote down 4 names of his friends. (Numbers)
• Michael reunites with Walt, and tells Jack he has to get his son back. (Parent issues)