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3x13: The Man From Tallahassee

Original Airdate: 3/21/2007

Written by: Drew Goddard & Jeff Pinkner

Directed by: Jack Bender

Transcript by Marik7772003


[FLASHBACK]

[Shot of a stack of paperwork being reviewed by a government worker. The stack of papers is an application for disability insurance. Worker is talking to John Locke.]

GOVERNMENT WORKER: Name?

LOCKE: John Locke.

GOVERNMENT WORKER: Marital status, Mr. Locke?

LOCKE: Single.

GOVERNMENT WORKER: Girlfriend?

LOCKE: No.

GOVERNMENT WORKER: Are your parents living?

LOCKE: I... I was raised in foster care. I never really knew my parents.

GOVERNMENT WORKER: Have you ever considered seeking out your biological parents?

LOCKE: I don't see how that is relevant.

GOVERNMENT WORKER: It's relevant, Mr. Locke, because if the government's going to continue paying your disability insurance I have to figure out whether or not your condition has improved. So, how's your appetite?

LOCKE: Fine.

GOVERNMENT WORKER: I see you've stopped submitting your therapy bills for reimbursement.

LOCKE: It's because I stopped going. Waste of time.

[Worker thinks it over but stamps John's form with "BENEFITS SUSPENDED"]

GOVERNMENT WORKER: It's just a temporary suspension Mr. Locke. As soon as you resume your sessions you can reapply.

LOCKE: Do you think I'm temporarily disabled?

GOVERNMENT WORKER: Depression can be temporary, yes. And since you seem fit to stop going to therapy I guess you are all better.

LOCKE: Guess I am.

[Locke stands up and walks away from the worker's desk]

GOVERNMENT WORKER: [in background] Next!

[End flashback.]

[Cut to shot of Otherville. Locke, Sayid, Kate and Danielle are watching the Others. In a continuation from the end scene of "Par Avion", Jack and Tom are throwing a football to each other.]

TOM: [to Jack] Over here!

[Jack throws the football to Tom]

KATE: [whispering] Why's he doing...?

LOCKE: Shhh!

[Tom throws the football back to Jack]

TOM: [to Jack] Good hands!

[Danielle walks away. Juliet then walks toward Jack and Tom]

JULIET: Jack!

[Jack throws the football to Juliet. She catches it and throws it back to Tom]

KATE: [whispering] She's the one who helped me and Sawyer escape.

[Tom throws the football back to Jack. Juliet walks up to Jack and wraps her arm around him]

JACK: [to Juliet] What's up?

JULIET: I think it's going to be a while.

[Juliet keeps talking to Jack. Sayid sees that Danielle has gone missing. He starts to leave.]

KATE: Hey. What?

SAYID: Danielle.

KATE: John, Rousseau's gone.

[Locke walks around the edge of their hiding spot, all while trying to get a better view of Jack and Juliet. They have walked towards a house. Kate and Sayid follow. Locke gets out binoculars from his pack and watches Jack shake hands with Ben, who is in a wheelchair.]

LOCKE: This is going to be more complicated than we thought.

[Kate loads ammo into her rifle. Kate, Locke, and Sayid have gone away from Otherville.]

SAYID: So what exactly are you saying? We simply start shooting people and hope for the best?

KATE: We came here to rescue Jack and that's what we're going to do.

SAYID: Obviously the circumstances have changed. He may not want to be rescued.

KATE: That is not him. That is not Jack. They must have done something to him. When they captured us, they drugged us.

SAYID: He did not appear to be drugged, Kate.

KATE: They kidnapped him! Held him prisoner! He wouldn't just forget that!

SAYID: I agree. But until we know why, we're putting our lives at risk.

KATE: I'm not leaving him, Sayid.

SAYID: You may not have a choice.

LOCKE: It's Jack. The first time I saw him he was risking his life pulling people out of burning airplane wreckage. If he's shaking hands with the Others I'm sure he has a good reason. We just have to go down there and find out what it is.

SAYID: What do you suggest?

LOCKE: We wait until it's dark. We approach Jack when he's alone. And if he wants out, we get him out.

[FLASHBACK]

[Locke is in his apartment, watching the television while eating a television dinner.]

PETER: Hello. John Locke?

LOCKE: I'm sorry. No solicitors. [Points to a sign that says NO SOLICITING] I have a sign.

PETER: Ah...I'm not...I'm not trying to sell you any...listen, my name's Peter Talbot. I, uh, just need a couple of minutes to talk to you.

LOCKE: Talk to me about what?

PETER: My mother, actually. I think she might be in some trouble.

LOCKE: You've got the wrong John Locke. [He begins to close the door]

PETER: How many kidneys do you have?

[Shot of Locke making pot of coffee in the kitchen]

PETER: She met him 2 months ago. Love at first sight, is what she said. Guy was charming, sweet, funny. His name's Adam Seward. He's a retired computer entrepreneur from Ontario. Anyway, Adam had something...special. My mom just went ga-ga for him right out of the gate. After 2 months of knowing him, she agrees to marry the guy. And something about him it...something in my gut told me he was after something so I...I had to check him out.

LOCKE: Well, I'm not sure what any of this has to do with me.

PETER: Well, what this has to do with you, Mr. Locke, is that you donated one of your kidneys to Adam Seward. Only his name was different back then. He used to be Anthony Cooper.

[He gives Locke a picture of Cooper and his own mother.]

PETER: All I could find were his medical records. And I saw that he was the recipient of a kidney transplant from...you...so I figured, hey, someone gave the guy his kidney. How bad could he be, right?

LOCKE: Well, it...it was an anonymous donation. I never met him.

PETER: Are you sure?

LOCKE: Yeah. I'm sorry. I can't help you.

[End flashback.]

[Cut to Otherville. Locke is spying through binoculars. Kate and Sayid hide alongside him. They watch as Juliet walks Jack to his new house and says goodnight. Jack goes inside. Juliet leaves]

LOCKE: [whispering] Sayid, you guard the front. I'll go around and cover the back. [To Kate] You head in through the side door.

KATE: I'm going in alone?

LOCKE: It's better if you're the first one he sees.

[Locke, Kate, and Sayid move towards the house. Kate moves in through the door. Jack is playing a piano. Kate approaches him from the back. He turns and sees her.]

KATE: [cautiously] Hi.

JACK: What are you doing here?

KATE: I came to get you.

JACK: Get out of here! Right now! Go!

KATE: Jack!

JACK: Kate! They're watching me!

[Kate sees a camera on the ceiling]

JACK: Get out of here!

KATE: I'm not leaving you!

JACK: Yes you are!

[The door slams open as two men enter with guns drawn]

OTHER: Get down! Get down!

PRYCE: Get down! Get her down!

[One of the Others throws Kate to the ground.]

JACK: Don't hurt her! Don't hurt her!

PRYCE: Step back, Doc. Step back.

[Two more Others come into the room with Sayid and takes him to the ground.]

PRYCE: Hold him still!

KATE: Jack! Jack??? JACK!

[Jack steps back as the Others restrain Kate and Sayid]

PRYCE: [to Kate] Who else is with you?

KATE: Jack?

JACK: Just answer the question, Kate.

PRYCE: Ok, one more time. [Cocks gun] Who else is with you?

KATE: Nobody. Nobody else. It was just us.

[Shot of Ben in his bedroom. Something rouses him but he can't find anything. He elevates the bed he is in]

BEN: Alex? [He leans over and turns on his bedside lamp. Locke walks up to Ben and points his gun at him.]

BEN: John!

LOCKE: Shhh. [Whispering] Keep your voice down.

BEN: All right. It's all right, John. You don't have to point the gun at me. I can tell you where Jack is.

LOCKE: I'm not looking for Jack. I'm looking for the submarine. The submarine. Where is it?

BEN: I'm not sure what you mean, John. What submarine?

LOCKE: The one you use to travel to and from the island. The one your man Mikhail told me about. Right before I killed him.

ALEX: [outside room] Dad? Who are you talking to?

BEN: Alex, don't come in here!

[Locke goes to the door and opens it. Alex is there. There is a knock on the front door. Locke looks, then captures Alex and forces her into the bedroom]

ALEX: What? What? Dad?!

[LOCKE grabs her and covers her mouth]

LOCKE: [to Ben] Tell her to be quiet!

BEN: Alex! Please!

TOM: [from outside house] Ben? You awake?

[Locke drags Alex into a closet]

TOM: [from outside house] I'm coming in!

[Tom and another Other walk in the room.]

BEN: What is it?

TOM: It's Austen and Jarrah. They're here. Somehow they found us.

BEN: Where are they now?

TOM: We captured them. We're holding them over at my place. Want me to help you get out there?

BEN: No. Separate them. I want to know how they found us.

TOM: What about Juliet and Shephard? Tomorrow, in the morning...

BEN: Let me worry about that. Just go.

TOM: Got it.

BEN: Richard? Wait a minute.

TOM: I'll wait outside.

[Tom leaves. Richard walks closer to Ben.]

BEN: I want you to bring me the man from Tallahassee.

ALPERT: What do you need him for?

BEN: Just do it. Now.

ALPERT: Ok. [Richard leaves. Locke and Alex come out]

LOCKE: The man from Tallahassee? What is that, some kind of code?

BEN: No, John, unfortunately we don't have a code for "There's a man in my closet with a gun to my daughter's head." Although we obviously should.

LOCKE: Sayid...he had a pack with him. [looking and pointing at Alex] I want her to retrieve it.

BEN: Okay. But you should know that my daughter currently hates me. So I'm not sure holding me hostage is your best option.

ALEX: Dad! [to Locke] I'll get your bag.

[She walks out the door.]

[FLASHBACK]

[Cut to flower shop where Anthony Cooper and Mrs. Talbot (Peter's mother) are finding flowers for their upcoming wedding. Locke walks in the doors.]

MRS. TALBOT: I'm looking for something really stunning, something that will grab everyone's attention on the table. Honey? What do you think of this one?

[Mrs. Talbot finds a bouquet of flowers and shows Anthony.]

COOPER: That looks good. What do you think?

MRS. TALBOT: I like it. Maybe just a little larger.

COOPER: Yeah.

[Cooper sees Locke behind the counter]

COOPER: Larger would be good. Uh, I'll go over there and take a look.

[Cooper walks over to Locke.]

COOPER: Hello, John.

LOCKE: Going to be a big to-do, or just the 2 of you and a preacher? I guess you couldn't invite me, huh? That would make for awkward introductions.

COOPER: How did you even know that I was going to...?

LOCKE: I know...because her son came to me and asked why I gave you a kidney. He's on to you. But he doesn't have any proof, so he came to me, hoping I would vouch for you.

COOPER: What did you say to him?

LOCKE: You're conning her, aren't you? You're going to marry her for her money, right?

COOPER: What is it you want, John?

LOCKE: I want you to end it. I want you to call off the wedding.

COOPER: Why are you doing this?

LOCKE: Because. Because it's not fair! You make people think that you're their family. And then you leave their life in ruins. And I'm not going to let you do it again! You're going to call off your engagement and go...or I'm going to tell her the truth. I want to hear you say it! You say you're going to leave!

COOPER: Ok, John. You got it.

[End flashback.]

[Cut to Ben's bedroom. Locke is sitting down watching Ben.]

BEN: Would you mind helping me get into my chair? No tricks, I promise. I just want some dignity. You of all people should understand what it means to want some dignity.

[Locke goes and finds the wheelchair]

BEN: Thank you. So tell me John. How do you expect to pilot our submarine? I mean, it's a complicated piece of machinery. You don't just press "submerge".

[Locke brings the wheelchair near the bed]

LOCKE: I'll figure something out. For all you know I was a commander in the navy. Put your arm around my neck. I'll lift under your knees.

BEN: What is in the pack, John? If you met Mikhail that means you were in the communications station. Which means you found the explosives. So you're not planning to pilot the submarine anywhere, are you? You're planning to destroy it. I know you, John Locke.

LOCKE: You don't know me at all.

BEN: I know you were born in California. I know you were raised in foster care. I know you wasted a big part of your life in Tustin, pushing papers at a company that manufactured industrial boxes. I know you spent the 4 years prior to your arrival on this island in a wheelchair. And I know how you ended up in it. Tell me, John, did it hurt?

LOCKE: I felt my back break. What do you think?

[Shot of Kate locked up in a game room. She is sitting on a pool table and works her handcuffs so they are in front of her. Tom walks in]

TOM: I didn't think I'd see you again so soon, Kate.

TOM: [Turns to unknown person, points to his head] Be careful in here.

[Jack walks through the door into the room where Kate is being held]

JACK: [to Tom] Thanks.

[Tom leaves and shuts the door. Jack sits down on a chair]

JACK: Did they hurt you?

KATE: No. They hurt you?

JACK: [laughing] No.

KATE: What is all this?

JACK: This is where they live.

KATE: And the people they took? The kids?

JACK: They're all safe.

KATE: Safe? So you're with them now.

JACK: I'm not with anyone, Kate.

[She hops off the pool table and goes to Jack]

KATE: What did they do to you???

JACK: Nothing.

KATE: Then why are you acting like this?

JACK: There's no way. You...there's no way that I could...

KATE: I came here to help you! So why don't you just tell me why you're...

JACK: I told you not to come back here for me!

KATE: [sadly] I didn't think you meant it.

[They look at each other. Kate kneels and places her hand on his arm]

KATE: What did they do to you Jack?

JACK: I made a deal with them. They're going to let me go.

KATE: Where?

JACK: Home.

KATE: When?

JACK: First thing in the morning. [whispering] I can bring back help, it's our best chance.

KATE: You trust these people? They are liars! Why would you believe a word that...

JACK: I trust them because you told me to, Kate. When you asked me to save Sawyer's life.

KATE: Jack. What did they tell you?

[The door unbolts. Juliet looks on]

JULIET: Jack, we need to go.

JACK: I'll be right there.

[She leaves and closes the door]

JACK: I asked that you not come back here for me and I wish...I wish that you hadn't.

[Jack stands to leave. He stoops and whispers to Kate.]

JACK: But I will come back here for you.

[Jack turns and walks out the door.]

[FLASHBACK] [Cut to Locke pulling into a parking lot in a Volkswagen. He gets out of the car. Two people stop him.]

DETECTIVE MASON: John Locke?

LOCKE: Yeah.

DETECTIVE MASON: Detective Mason. That's Detective Reed. Do you mind if we ask you a few questions?

LOCKE: No, of course not.

DETECTIVE MASON: Do you know a man named Peter Talbot?

LOCKE: [slowly] No, I don't think so.

DETECTIVE MASON: Thin, brown hair, 20's?

DETECTIVE MASON: If it will be helpful we believe he was here in your apartment 2 days ago.

LOCKE: Oh, yeah. Yeah, he was a solicitor. I, I, uh, sent him away.

DETECTIVE MASON: Mr. Talbot's family is worth somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 million dollars. So I'm curious, what exactly was he selling you door-to-door?

LOCKE: Well, I...look I told you I don't know him so...

DETECTIVE MASON: Then why was your name and address on a piece of paper in his pocket, Mr. Locke?

LOCKE: Why were...would you be looking through his pockets?

DETECTIVE MASON: Because Peter Talbot's dead.

[End flashback.]

[Cut to Ben's house. Locke is looking out a window pensively.]

BEN: It wasn't easy you know. Being in that hatch with you all the time. Knowing you had no business walking around. Knowing I couldn't even ask you about it without telling you who I really was.

LOCKE: So ask me now. Now that I know who you really are.

BEN: Was it immediate? It started the moment you got here?

LOCKE: Yeah.

BEN: And you were just walking? The feeling returned right after the crash? That day?

LOCKE: That's what immediate means Ben. You're wondering why it hasn't happened for you. You're not recovering as fast as you'd like. How long has it been since Jack fixed you? A week? Now that I think about it, how'd you get sick in the first place?

BEN: Are you afraid it will go away, John? Is that why you want to destroy the submarine? Because you know if you ever leave this island you'll be back in the chair? LOCKE: You got anything to eat?

[Cut to a scene of Sayid cuffed to a play set. Pryce looks over him. Alex approaches.]

PRYCE: Hey. Go on home kid. You know you're not supposed to be here.

ALEX: My father sent me to get his pack.

PRYCE: Why?

ALEX: I don't know Ryan, but he told me to get it.

PRYCE: All right, here you go.

[Pryce gives Alex Sayid's backpack. She turns on her heel and walks away.]

SAYID: You're Alex aren't you?

PRYCE: Hey, can it.

ALEX: How do you know my name?

SAYID: Because you look like your mother.

ALEX: My mother is dead.

SAYID: I'm sure that's what they told you.

[PRYCE stands up and hits Sayid with his gun. He falls.]

PRYCE: Get going, Alex. [to Sayid] Keep your mouth shut.

[Alex walks away. Scene cuts to Locke driving Ben's wheelchair into the living room. Ben turns on a light]

LOCKE: Where do you get electricity?

BEN: We have 2 giant hamsters running on a massive wheel at our secret underground cave.

LOCKE: Yeah, that's funny.

BEN: There are leftovers in the refrigerator. Help yourself.

[Locke goes to the kitchen. He walks and opens the refrigerator, and takes out one of the plates.]

BEN: I ate most of the dark meat. Sorry.

[Locke tears in to the food.]

LOCKE: I never really appreciated chicken until right now.

BEN: I know you think you need to do this, John, but if you blow up my submarine, I have a big problem with my people.

LOCKE: Is that supposed to be an incentive not to blow it up?

BEN: I was born on this island. Not many of my people can say that. Most of them were recruited and brought here and as much as they love this place, as much as they would do anything to defend it, they need to know they can leave if they want to. The sub maintains that illusion.

LOCKE: So you're lying to them?

BEN: No. There here because they want to be here. Some of them are just not ready to make a full...commitment yet. But you John...you've already made that commitment. And now you have a choice...because if you stop and think, I can show you things. Things I know you want to see very badly. Let me put it so you'll understand. Picture a box. You know something about boxes, don't you John? What if I told you that somewhere on this island there's a very large box...and whatever you imagined...whatever you wanted to be in it...when you opened that box, there it would be. What would you say about that, John?

LOCKE: I'd say I hope that box is big enough to imagine yourself up a new submarine.

BEN: Why are you so angry, John?

LOCKE: Because you're cheating. You and your people. Communicate with the outside world whenever you want to you...you come and go as you please...you use electricity and running water and guns...you're a hypocrite...a pharisee. You don't deserve to be on this island. If you had any idea what this place really was...you wouldn't be putting chicken in your refrigerator.

BEN: You've been here 80 days, John. I've been here my entire life. So how is it you think you know this island better than I do?

LOCKE: Because you're in the wheelchair and I'm not.

[Alex comes back. She steps in the door.]

BEN: Did you have any problems?

[She signals no.]

LOCKE: Okay. Here's how this is going to work. She's going to take me to the sub. Once we are there, I let her go.

BEN: John, she's done enough. Let me take you.

LOCKE: I don't want you to slow me down. [to Alex] Come on. Let's go.

BEN: John, before you go you should know. Jack and I made a deal. In less than an hour he's leaving the island on that submarine and it's a one-way ticket. The anomaly wiped out our communications. We have no way of contacting the outside world. Which means when that sub leaves, it can never come back. So whether you destroy the submarine or whether you let it go, the end result is the same. No one will find this island.

LOCKE: [to Alex] Let's go. Come on.

[They leave.]

ALEX: You know he's manipulating you, right?

LOCKE: How's that?

ALEX: That's what my father does. He manipulates people. He makes you think it's your idea, but it's his.

LOCKE: I'll have to keep that in mind.

[They come to the end of the path. The sub is visible in the background.]

ALEX: The submarine is down there. At the end of the dock.

LOCKE: I'm sorry I had to involve you in this.

[He goes towards the sub.]

[Secretly, Danielle had been there watching the scene. She sees Alex walk away; yet, Alex does not see her mother.]

[Locke goes to the end of the pier. He finds the submarine and opens it. He looks inside it and walks around, fiddling with the controls.]

JACK: Look I know you don't owe me anything, but I need to ask you for one last favor.

BEN: You don't knock?

JACK: I need you to let my friends go after I'm gone.

BEN: And if I said no would that stop you from leaving?

JACK: Of course it would.

BEN: Your friends are only here to rescue you, but you seem to be doing a good job of rescuing yourself so I suppose there's no reason to keep them here.

JACK: Do I have your word on that?

BEN: You have my word.

[He moves his wheelchair towards Jack and shakes his hand]

BEN: I'll let them go, just as soon as you've left the island.

[Jack walks away]

BEN: [to Juliet] Well, I guess this is it.

JULIET: Thank you, Ben, for keeping your promise.

[Juliet and Jack leave.]

[The scene goes to Locke walking back from the pier. He is wet. Jack, Juliet, and a couple Others walk towards him]

PRYCE: Hey! Hold it right there. Get your hands up. Get down! I said get down!

[LOCKE holds his hands up.]

JACK: What are you doing here, John?

LOCKE: I'm sorry, Jack.

JACK: Sorry for what?

[The submarine blows up in the background.]

[FLASHBACK]

[Scene goes to Anthony Cooper's house. He goes up to a door and bangs on it. Cooper answers, and Locke walks in.]

LOCKE: What did you do?

COOPER: John?

LOCKE: Tell me. Tell me you didn't do it.

COOPER: What are you talking about?

[Cooper shuts the door.]

LOCKE: Tell me that you didn't kill that kid.

COOPER: What? You think I had something to do with Peter's death?

LOCKE: I tell you to end things with his mother and the next thing you know he's dead!

COOPER: John now calm down, please. Think about what you're saying. Why would I kill Peter?

LOCKE: He was on to you!

COOPER: John, I've been doing this for a long time. I'm not sweating some rich kid.

LOCKE: Then why are you still here?

COOPER: What do you mean?

LOCKE: I tell you to leave. You tell me you're going to leave town. Why are you still here?

COOPER: Now listen, John. I'll be honest with you. I didn't end it. I was looking for an angle. I wanted to make some money before I skipped out. But then all this happened.

[Cooper pours two glasses of MacCutcheon whiskey]

COOPER: Peter died and everything just went straight into the tank. She's devastated. She's called off the wedding. There's no profit in it, John. I'm a con man, not a murderer.

LOCKE: She called off the wedding?

COOPER: She said she couldn't deal with it. She needs to be alone.

LOCKE: So if I were to call her, right now, that is what she would tell me?

COOPER: Phone's right over there, John.

[LOCKE picks the phone off the cradle.]

LOCKE: What's her number...?

[Cooper tackles Locke sending him through the window behind him. The window shatters as Locke falls eight stories to the ground below.]

[Scene cuts to a hospital room. Locke is badly bruised. The detectives from earlier are in his room.]

DETECTIVE MASON: Mr. Locke, we know this isn't what you want to here, but your father's gone. We know he fled to Mexico shortly after your encounter, then he disappeared. I'm sorry, but he could be anywhere in the world right now.

[Locke doesn't answer. A therapist enters the room]

KINCAID: All right detectives, that's enough. Mr. Locke has work to do today.

[Kincaid opens the blinds]

DETECTIVE MASON: We'll let you know if anything develops.

[They leave]

KINCAID: John, John, John. We have got ourselves quite a day ahead of us my friend. It's a fine time to get you up out of that bad.

LOCKE: No. I don't want to.

KINCAID: John, I don't remember asking.

[Kincaid lowers the rail on the bed, pulls the covers off Locke, then leaves the room and comes back with a wheelchair]

KINCAID: Now. Most people struggle with this at first, but don't worry, you'll get used to it.

LOCKE: Uh, no, please, I, I can't do this.

KINCAID: John, you fell 8 stories and survived, okay. I don't want to hear about what you can't do. Now let's go. It's going to be all right.

LOCKE: No I don't, no I don't think...

KINCAID: It's going to be fine, John.

[Kincaid picks up Locke.]

LOCKE: I don't think I...think I can...

[Kincaid takes Locke to the wheelchair. He places Locke in the wheelchair.]

KINCAID: You're fine. There you go. There you go, buddy. Wasn't that bad, was it? I'll be right back, buddy.

[Kincaid leaves. Locke starts to cry.]

[End flashback.]

[Cut to Locke, handcuffed to an overhead pipe in a dark room. Ben and Alpert come into the room to talk to John.]

BEN: Well, John, you've really gone and done it now.

LOCKE: You don't have to pretend to be disappointed anymore. We both know you wanted it to happen. That's why you left the C-4 in Sayid's bag because you wanted me to make it happen.

BEN: Uncuff him please, Richard.

[Alpert goes to release Locke.]

ALPERT: You going to do anything stupid?

LOCKE: No, sir.

[Alpert releases Locke.]

BEN: Do you remember earlier, John, when you called me a cheater...when you said I didn't deserve to live on this island? Well get this, there I was shaking hands with Jack and thinking I'd give almost anything to come up with a way to stop him from leaving...because to let him go would be a sign of weakness, of failure, of defeat. People would see that. They would know it. And that, John, would be the end of me. But to kill him, that would be cheating, because my people also heard me make a promise and to break my word, and that would be the end of me too. And then you came striding out of the jungle, John, to make my dream come true.

LOCKE: You're not going to start talking about the magic box again are you?

BEN: No, John. I'm going to show you what came out of it.

[Alpert pulls Locke up. They leave, as Alpert pushes Ben through the hall.]

BEN: When I asked you earlier if it hurt when you suffered your injury, I think you misunderstood me. Seems fairly obvious that when a person's back smashes into a hard surface after being thrown from a building, that that's going to sting a little. But I really wasn't asking about the physical pain.

LOCKE: What, do you want to know if it hurt my feelings?

BEN: No John. I wanted to know what it felt like when your own father tried to kill you. He's the reason you destroyed the submarine, isn't he? You're afraid. You're afraid of him and this is the one place he can never find you. This is the one place he can never get to.

LOCKE: What do you want from me?

BEN: I don't know how it happened, but you seem to have some communion with this island, John, and that makes you very, very important. You have no idea what you're talking about of course, but in time you'll have a better understanding of things. So what do I want? I want to help you, John.

LOCKE: Why?

BEN: Because I'm in a wheelchair and you're not. Are you ready to see?

[Alpert opens the door to the cell. Locke cautiously looks inside of the room. Inside he sees Cooper, tied to a chair, with bruises covering him. He looks frightened.]

LOCKE: Dad?