vonnegut
06-12-07, 06:52 PM
Episode 11 - Enter 77
Written by: Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse
Directed by: Stephen Williams
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[On the beach. Redshirts carry things around.]
SAWYER: Ping pong table? Where the hell'd that come from?
HURLEY: Jin found it when he was out looking for firewood. We made legs for it, paddles... now all we need is a ball.
SAWYER: Found it?
HURLEY: Musta landed in the jungle when the hatch exploded.
SAWYER: I thought the hatch collapsed.
HURLEY: Look, dude, all I know is the sky turned purple. After that I don't ask questions. Just make myself a salad and move on.
[Hurley walks towards the ping pong table being set up.]
SAWYER: [muttering] Yeah, I can see that's working for you. [Following Hurley] Hey! You seen Kate around?
HURLEY: Wow, she's not back yet? Hmmm. [To redshirts at ping pong table] Guys, you find anything we can use for a ball?
[Sawyer turns away as Paulo walks towards him down the beach.]
SAWYER: Hey, That's my guns and ammo! Where the hell'd you get it?
PAULO: It was in the magazine stack. We share things now
SAWYER: Listen Zorro. It was in my stuff. Stuff you all decided to have yourselves a little party with while you thought I was dead.
PAULO: Listen hillbilly, if you want it that bad... take it.
[Paulo holds the magazine out to him, roll of toilet paper in the other hand.]
SAWYER: [disgusted] Just keep it. [walks off to his tent]
[Cut to Sayid, Danielle, Kate, and Locke walking through the jungle.]
SAYID: We need to eat.
[They stop, taking off their packs.]
LOCKE: Are we still on course?
[Sayid checks compass]
SAYID: We're still heading north on a bearing of 305, yes.
LOCKE: I'm sensing a lack of confidence.
SAYID: We've been walking for two days, following a compass bearing provided by the carvings on a stick.
LOCKE: And?
SAYID: You really think we're just going to chance upon where the Others are?
LOCKE: I don't know what we're going to chance on, Sayid, but my bearing is the only bearing we got.
SAYID: [standing up] I'm going to find some fruit. And then, John, we're going to have a rational conversation regarding our next move.
[Cut to Sayid, picking fruit alone. He hears a clanking sound, bends down to get his gun, and walks towards it carefully. He comes suddenly upon a cow (the clanking sound being its bell). As it walks away, and he follows, he sees a building- the Flame station- with a satellite dish on top, and several animals in a fenced area. A man, Mikhail, puts the cow inside the fence, looks around, and walks towards the building.]
["LOST" symbol/music]
[Sawyer walks over to Hurley and others at the ping pong table]
SAWYER: Ya'll looking for something like... [shows them a ping pong ball] This?
HURLEY: Cool, a ball.
[Hurley reaches for the ball, but Sawyer pulls it back.]
SAWYER: We need to do a little quid-pro-quo first. I know I've been gone a while, and ya'll thought the general store was having a going out of business sale. But now I'm back. And I want what's mine.
NIKKI: Yeah, but it wasn't really yours to begin with.
SAWYER: "A," it was mine when I took it, "B"... who the hell are you?
[Paulo looks up at Sawyer with a stupid expression on his face.]
SAWYER: And "C", because I'm fair, I'm gonna let you play me for it.
HURLEY: Play ping pong?
SAWYER: That's right, Avalanche. You bastards put up your best player. One game. And when I crush them, ya'll gotta bring me every piece of my stash back.
HURLEY: If you lose?
SAWYER: I ain't gonna lose, but... if I do, tell you what. Name it.
JIN: [speaks Korean to Sun]
SUN: [speaks Korean]
SAWYER: Ooh. Looks like Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon got something good. Lay it on me.
SUN: No nicknames. If you lose, no nicknames for anyone. For a week.
CHARLIE: Nice.
SAWYER: You're on. Pick your player. I'll be back in an hour, then let the slaughter begin.
[Cut to Sayid looking through binoculars at the Flame Station.]
LOCKE: Are you sure it's completely isolated?
SAYID: I've circled the house. There's nothing but jungle surrounding it. Here. [He hands Locke the binoculars.]
LOCKE: That dish still work?
SAYID: A satellite dish of that size would have broadcasting capabilities of thousands of miles. Danielle... you once mentioned a radio tower. Is this it?
DANIELLE: I have never been here before.
KATE: [To Sayid] The man in the house. You said you've seen him before?
SAYID: On a video feed from the pearl station.
KATE: So who is he?
SAYID: Only one way to find out. [stands up, handing Kate his gun] We ask him.
KATE: What's this for?
SAYID: If I'm unarmed, he won't feel threatened. In case he is threatened, cover me from here.
[Danielle turns and starts to walk away]
KATE: Hey, where are you going?
DANIELLE: I have no interest in that man inside the house. I have survived on the island precisely by avoiding these types of encounters. I'll wait for you by the stream. For those of you who survive.
[FLASHBACK]
[Sayid chops vegetables in the kitchen of a restaurant]
WAITER: Najeev... Najeev.
[Sayid looks up]
WAITER: [subtitled] A man out front wants to see you.
[Sayid goes out to where a man is sitting on the patio of the restaurant]
SAMI: Did you cook this?
SAYID: Yes, I did.
SAMI: Wow. It's delicious. [holds out hand] My name is Sammi.
SAYID: [shaking his hand] Najeev. Thank you.
SAMI: Please sit. Sit. [Sayid sits down] So where you from, Najeev?
SAYID: I'm Syrian.
SAMI: Please. [subtitled Iraqi] You are as much of an Iraqi as I am, young man.
SAYID: What do you want from me?
SAMI: You're an excellent cook. And I... I have a restaurant. Much nicer than this place. Come take a look. If you like it, I will hire you at twice your pay here.
SAYID: You're offering a stranger a job because of a single meal?
SAMI: I'm offering you a job because we're outsiders here. And because, uh, my chef just quit.
[Back to the Flame station. Sayid is walking forward with his hands up. He slows down as he notices a scruffy cat sitting outside the house, staring at him. Suddenly there is a gunshot and Sayid falls to the ground. Kate tries to rush out, but Locke keeps her back.]
KATE: No, no, no! He's been hit! He's been hit!
LOCKE: Not yet! You want to get shot too?
MIKHAIL: [Shouting from the window] I didn't cross the line! We had a truce! This is my land! You said I could stay here!
SAYID: [Still on ground, holding his arm, which is bleeding] I'm not...I'm not who you th...who you think I am! My name is Sayid Jarrah! I was on a plane that crashed here months ago!
MIKHAIL: A plane?
SAYID: I'm unarmed, I swear!
MIKHAIL: Stay right there!
[Mikhail shuts the window, and Kate and Locke run forward. As Mikhail comes out of the door, Kate and Locke shoot at him.]
LOCKE: Drop the rifle! Drop it right now! Back up. Back up!
[Mikhail drops his gun, putting his hands up.]
KATE: [To Sayid, who has stood up] Are you all right?
MIKHAIL: You really did crash here?
SAYID: Over 40 of us, yes!
LOCKE: I'll go in first, make sure it's ok.
KATE: [Helping Sayid toward the building] Who are you?
MIKHAIL: My name is Mikhail Bakunin. And I am the last living member of the DHARMA Initiative.
[COMMERCIAL]
KATE: [Helping Sayid into the building] Watch your step.
[Mikhail takes Sayid and guides/supports him towards a sofa]
MIKHAIL: Please...sit. Here...let me.
[Mikhail examines Sayid's arm.]
SAYID: You've had experience...treating...gunshot wounds?
MIKHAIL: I spent some time in Afghanistan. I had experience with field medicine...in the Soviet Army. [To Kate] In the kitchen, on the top shelf, is a medical kit. Will you bring it please?
SAYID: It's all right, Kate. [Kate, looking suspicious, goes to the kitchen] How did you get here?
MIKHAIL: I almost don't know where to begin.
SAYID: Why don't you begin with the DHARMA Initiative.
[Mikhail speaks as he treats Sayid's wound, Kate looks through the
kitchen, and Locke wanders around the rest of the building.]
MIKHAIL: I grew up in Kiev and joined the Soviet Army. I was stationed in a listening post in Vladivostok. After the cold war, after we lost the cold war, my unit was decommissioned. I was dismissed from my life in the military. And, after years of conducting...unpleasant actions against our enemies, I found myself wanting to do something good. So I replied to a newspaper advertisement.
SAYID: An advertisement?
MIKHAIL: Would you like to save the world? it read. That's how I met them...The Initiative. They're very secretive, very rich and very smart.
SAYID: So when did you come to the island?
MIKHAIL: 11 years now. I liked computers, communications equipment...and being alone like a lighthouse keeper. So they put me in this station. They called it "The Flame".
SAYID: What's the purpose of The Flame?
MIKHAIL: To communicate with the outside world, of course.
[Locke walks through the room of computers that they saw in the Pearl station. One of the computers makes a beeping sound and a mechanical voice says: "Ready to Play?" which is also displayed on the monitor (along with "Y/N"). Locke glances up and sees a camera focused on him, then reaches to the keyboard and hits "Y", starting a chess game. "Your Move" is spoken by the computer and displayed on the monitor.]
SAYID: What happened to the DHARMA Initiative?
MIKHAIL: [Continuing to treat Sayid's arm] They're all dead, of course. They foolishly initiated a war against the Hostiles. A "Purge" they called it.
SAYID: And how did you survive this purge?
MIKHAIL: By not participating in it. I told you...I like being alone.
SAYID: And the Hostiles allowed you to stay here?
MIKHAIL: After it was over, 4 men appeared in the yard. They offered a truce. They said to imagine a line that extended all the way around the valley. As long as I did not cross it...I would be left alone. Then, they took 2 cows and I never saw them again.
KATE: They weren't interested in the satellite dish in the yard?
MIKHAIL: Why would they be? It hasn't functioned for years.
SAYID: Who are they? These Hostiles?
MIKHAIL:I do not know. But they were here for a long time before we were. A very long time.
[Mikhail removes the bullet from the wound and Sayid cries out.]
[FLASHBACK]
[Sayid walks down a street in Paris, and enters Sami's restaurant. He approaches a table of men.]
SAYID: I am looking for Sami.
MAN: [Yelling] Sami!
SAMI: Najeev! I'm so glad you came. [Indicating the restaurant] What do you think? Eh, it's a simple place, as you can see, but we have good customers. [A woman enters the dining room] Ah, here's my wife. She's in charge of the kitchen. Amira, come meet Najeev.
[Sayid reaches out to shake her hand. Her arms are covered in scars.]
SAYID: Pleasure to meet you.
[Sayid is suddenly grabbed by one of the men from the table. He shakes the man off.]
SAMI: [To Amira] Are you sure this is him?
AMIRA: Yes.
SAYID: I don't know who you think I am...
[Another man grabs at Sayid, who turns and punches him. Eventually, all of the men from the table bring him down, and Sami kicks him in the face.]
[Back to the Flame Station. Mikhail begins to stitch up Sayid's arm. Sayid sees the cat from outside, who is scratching at a rug, and Mikhail follows his gaze.]
MIKHAIL: [In Russian]...Nadia!
SAYID: What did you just say?
MIKHAIL: I told Nadia to be polite because you are my guests.
SAYID: Nadia?
MIKHAIL: Mmm. After Nadia Comaneci, the greatest athlete the world has ever known. We have the same birthday. [Says a couple of words in Russian, as he finishes stitching Sayid] Now, excellent work if I say myself.
SAYID: Thank you, Mikhail.
MIKHAIL: Perhaps...[he stands] I can begin to earn your forgiveness by offering some iced tea. I will also check on your friend.
[Locke is playing the chess game. The words "Checkmate You Lose" appear on the screen. Mikhail opens the door to the room and leans in.]
MIKHAIL: Heh, don't waste your time. For 10 years I have tried to defeat that game. But it was programmed by 3 grand masters. And...it cheats.
LOCKE: Hmmm. Well...I've played a lot of computers and I'm...pretty sure they don't know how to cheat. That's what makes being human so...distinctly...wonderful.
[He begins to play the chess game again. Mikhail smiles slightly and closes the door. As Kate bandages Sayid's arm, Mikhail goes into the kitchen and begins to prepare the tea.]
SAYID: [Speaking softly] What's wrong.
KATE: [Speaking softly] It just...it doesn't make any sense. Why would they let him stay here...with all this stuff, all this equipment.
SAYID: Actually, it makes perfect sense.
KATE: What are you talking about?
SAYID: The reason they let him stay here is because he is not DHARMA. He is one of them.
KATE: He shot you and you just let...why are we still sitting here?
SAYID: We are sitting here, Kate, because I am certain he is not alone.
[Cut to the beach. Sayid and Hurley are standing across from each other over the ping pong table, as others gathered look on.]
SAWYER: So! You really the number 1 draft pick, Grimace?
HURLEY: Yep. Are we playing with the Mercy Rule?
SAWYER: Mercy Rule?
HURLEY: Yeah, like, if I'm up 11 - 0 then I, you know, automatically win?
SAWYER: You're going to go up 11 - 0?
HURLEY: No I mean...either one of us.
SAWYER: Sure. We can have a Mercy Rule.
HURLEY: You want to volley for serve?
SAWYER: I'll tell you what. Be my guest.
[Sawyer tosses the ball to Hurley, as the people watching begin to clap and cheer, rooting on Hurley]
CHARLIE: Take him down, Hurley.
NIKKI: Come on Hurley.
HURLEY: 0 serving 0.
[Hurley serves the ping pong ball to Sawyer, they volley once, and then Sawyer misses it. Everyone cheers.]
CHARLIE: Yes!
HURLEY: 1 - nothing.
[Back at the Flame Station, Mikhail carries a tray with glasses and a pitcher of iced tea over to Kate and Sayid, and sits down.]
MIKHAIL: I grow the tea myself...so pardon its bitterness.
SAYID: Any tea is good tea.
KATE: You know how long its been since we've seen ice?
[Mikhail pours out tea, and hands glasses to Kate and Sayid.]
SAYID: I noticed a series of thick wires as I walked around the station.
MIKHAIL: This is the hub. But they go underground to various stations all over the island.
SAYID: And these cables...do any of them run into the ocean?
MIKHAIL: Yes. There is an underwater beacon that emits sonar pings to...help guide in the vessels.
SAYID: By "vessels" you mean submarines?
MIKHAIL: Yes. The Initiative used one to bring us here. But I can imagine only that the Hostiles have either destroyed or commandeered it by now.
SAYID: That explains how they were able to get around my position and capture our sailboat.
MIKHAIL: You have a sailboat?
SAYID: Until we lost it to your Hostiles.
MIKHAIL: That's very unfortunate.
SAYID: Well, at least we were able to kill one of them.
[A moment of silence and tension and Sayid looks at Mikhail.]
MIKHAIL: Why are we continuing to play this little game? When we all know it has moved to the next stage.
[Mikhail stands up, throwing the pitcher, and fights with Sayid and Kate. Sayid gets him down, and Kate points a gun at him and kicks him in the face, knocking him out. Locke comes out of the door, pointing a gun.]
SAYID: Get some rope!
[FLASHBACK]
[Sayid is chained to a grate on the floor of a dim concrete room. A door open and he looks up quickly. Sami enters the room carrying a bag, which he sets down with a clank, and metal bowl of water. He puts the water in front of Sayid.]
SAMI: Drink.
[Sayid drinks all of the water from the bowl, then sets it down, looking at Sami]
SAMI: You were a torturer were you not? In the Republican Guard? Do you not recognize one of your victims? Do you not recognize the woman that you tortured? Do you not recognize my wife?!
SAYID: No I've never seen...you've confused me with someone else.
SAMI: Amira was arrested for harboring an enemy of the state. She was held for 3 months while she was questioned. Her arms bear the scars of those questions. So I assure you Najeev, I am not confused!
SAYID: My name is not Najeev.
SAMI: Hmm.
SAYID: I'm Sayid Jarrah. I was in the Republican Guard. And yes I was an interrogator, but I have never seen your wife. Maybe she saw me at the same facility, but I do not know her! I can remember every face of every person I've interrogated...
SAMI: She remembers your face. She remembers it so well that she recognized it from a mere glimpse...when we walked by the restaurant where you worked!
SAYID: What do you want from me?
SAMI: I want you to admit to what you did. And if you don't, you will leave this room in that bag.
[Back at the Flame Station, Sayid and Kate tie up an unconscious Mikhail.]
KATE: How do you know he isn't alone?
SAYID: The horse outside is still saddled and the stirrups are set up for someone much shorter than this man.
LOCKE: You think the others sent someone to keep him company?
SAYID: They sent someone out here because they lost communications.
LOCKE: Maybe when the sky turned purple.
SAYID: That would be my guess.
LOCKE: Well, if there's someone else here they're hiding pretty good. I checked every nook and cranny of...this...place...
[Sayid flips up a rug to reveal a trap door.]
SAYID: Not every nook and cranny, John.
[FLASHBACK]
[Sayid is still chained on the floor, as Sami and Amira enter. Sami sets up a metal chair, and Amira sits, staring at Sayid.]
SAMI: Are you ready to tell me the truth?
SAYID: I have told you the truth. [to Amira] I do not know you.
[Sami punches Sayid in the face.]
SAMI: You tortured her.
SAYID: No. I would never touch a woman!
[Sami punches him in the face again.]
SAYID: You think this will do any good...that this will make me confess to something I didn't do?
SAMI: My wife confessed to something that she didn't do. She confessed when you poured a pot of boiling oil over her arms...
SAYID: No I did not. You have the wrong...
[Sami punches him in the face again.]
SAMI: Admit it! Admit it!
SAYID: I can not admit to something I didn't do.
[Sami walks over and reaches for a metal rod, but Amira stops him.]
AMIRA: That is enough for today.
SAMI: [to Sayid] Then I will see you tomorrow.
[Sami walks out of the room, and after a long look at Sayid, Amira follows.]
[Back at the flame hatch, Kate and Sayid descend into a basement, looking around with flashlights.]
[Above, the computer beeps and says "Your move" several times. Locke looks in at the computer, and then down at the unconscious Mikhail.]
[Kate and Sayid continue to explore basement. There are wires running around the walls of the basement.]
KATE: What is it?
SAYID: C4. Explosive. The whole place is wired.
KATE: Why?
SAYID: I don't know.
[Above, Locke walks away from Mikhail, sits back down in front of the computer, and continues to play the chess game.]
[As Kate and Sayid look around, Sayid comes across a room filled with white binders labelled "DHARMA." He begins to look at them.]
[Locke continues to play the chess game. After moving, the words "Checkmate" appear on the screen, followed by "You Win" and accompanied by electronic music. Locke grins. Suddenly, the picture on the monitor changes to Marvin Candle, who is sitting at a desk.]
MARVIN CANDLE: Manual override achieved. For pallet drop enter 2-4. For station uplink enter 3-2. For mainland communication enter 3-8.
[Locke presses 3-8.]
MARVIN CANDLE: The satellite dish is inoperable. Communications are down. For sonar access enter 5-6.
[Locke enters 5-6.]
MARVIN CANDLE: Sonar is inoperable. Has there been an incursion on this station by the Hostiles? If so, enter 7-7.
[As Locke's finger hovers over the 7 key, Mikhail comes up behind him and holds a knife to his throat.]
MIKHAIL: Keep your voice low and your hands in front of you.
[Back in the basement, Kate is continuing to look around when she is attacked by Bea Klugh. They fight, until Sayid comes up behind Klugh and points his gun at the back of her neck.]
SAYID: Stop right there. Put the gun on the ground. Now.
[Kate, getting up from the ground, walks over and punches Klugh in the face.
SAYID: What are you doing?
[He restrains Kate.]
KATE: It's her! She was there! She was at the dock! She was there when we were kidnapped. She knows where Jack is.
SAYID: Are there any more of you here?
[He points his gun at Klugh, who says nothing.]
SAYID: Lets take her upstairs. [He pushes her towards the trapdoor, and yells up.] John! We're coming up!
[Sayid, Kate, and Klugh find the living room empty.]
SAYID: John!
LOCKE: [From outside] Out here!
SAYID: [Pushing Klugh in front of him] Move.
[They walk outside, where Mikhail is holding a gun to Locke's head.]
MIKHAIL: This is simple. Send her over to me and I will release him and we all go our separate ways.
LOCKE: Don't listen to him...
MIKHAIL: Shut your mouth.
LOCKE: If he was going to kill me I'd be dead already.
MIKHAIL: Shut your mouth!
SAYID: Listen to me.
LOCKE: Sayid, do not let her go.
MIKHAIL: I will execute you right here.
LOCKE: He's not gonna do it!
SAYID: Be quiet John!
LOCKE: I'm the only thing keeping him alive.
MIKHAIL: I swear to you...
KLUGH: Mikhail.
SAYID: Calm down everyone!
KLUGH: Mikhail! [Speaking in Russian]
MIKHAIL: [Speaking in Russian]
LOCKE: Sayid.
SAYID: I'll handle this John.
KATE: John.
KLUGH: [Speaking in Russian]
MIKHAIL: [Speaking in Russian]
KLUGH: [Speaking in Russian]
MIKHAIL: [Speaking in Russian]
KLUGH: [Speaking in Russian]
LOCKE: Don't let her talk to him!
KLUGH: [Speaking in Russian]
SAYID: Mikhail!
KLUGH: [Speaking in Russian]
MIKHAIL: [Speaking in Russian]
SAYID: Stop!
KLUGH: Just do it, Mikhail!
[Mikhail throws Locke aside.]
MIKHAIL: [Speaking in Russian]
[Mikhail shoots Klugh, who falls dead to the ground.]
SAYID: John!
[Locke struggles with Mikhail, then Sayid runs over, hitting Mikhail with his gun, then pointing the gun at him.]
MIKHAIL: Finish it! Kill me.
[Sayid stops pointing the gun at him.]
[Back on the beach, Sawyer sits in front of his tent, repairing his reading glasses, and Hurley walks by.]
HURLEY: Sorry I beat you so bad, dude.
SAWYER: Sorry you hustled me, you mean.
HURLEY: My mom had a table in her basement and I played a lot at the insti...ti...place I...hung out for a while. I got kinda good.
SAWYER: Well hurray for you.
HURLEY: Doesn't look like that last slam caused any long term damage to your forehead. And you got 3 points which is better than 0...
SAWYER: Something you want?
HURLEY: I came to give you back some of your stuff. [He tosses some porn magazines to Sawyer.] Cause uh...you know, you're the kinda guy that needs stuff.
SAWYER: You a shrink now?
HURLEY: She'll be ok dude. Kate? I know you're worried about her. She's with Locke and Sayid. She's gonna be fine.
SAWYER: Yeah, well, thanks for the pep talk Lu...
HURLEY: Uh uh dude. It's Hurley. Hugo if you want.
SAWYER: [standing up and walking away] Get bent, Hugo.
[Back at the Flame Station, Locke is still in front of the chess computer and Kate quickly gathers supplies in the basement.]
KATE: [Calling up to him] You ready to go Locke?!
LOCKE: [Calling down] I'll be there in a minute.
[The computer screen once again is showing Marvin Candle.]
MARVIN CANDLE: Sonar is inoperable. Has there been an incursion on this station by the Hostiles? If so, enter 7-7.
[Sayid leads Mikhail around the building]
SAYID: [Yelling] Danielle?! Danielle?! [To Mikhail] Tell me something? Were you ever a member of the DHARMA Initiative? Or was everything you said a lie? Of course I'm wasting my breath.
MIKHAIL: I was never a member, but everything else I told you was true. I moved into this station after the purge.
SAYID: The purge in which a group of scientists attacked your people?
MIKHAIL: Believe what you want, but that is what happened.
[Danielle walks over and points her gun at Mikhail.]
DANIELLE: Your friends...did he kill them?
SAYID: No. They're collecting whatever may be useful from the farmhouse. And now we have our ticket to where the others live...where we'll find your daughter...and Jack. And finally perhaps, a way home.
MIKHAIL: There is nothing you could do to me that would make me lead you there.
SAYID: I didn't say you were our ticket...did I? [Sayid pulls out a piece of paper.] This is a map showing electrical and data cabling...running from the flame here [Taps the map] to a place called the barracks here [Points to the map]. It's comprised of houses and dormitories, with water and power...large enough to accommodate an entire community. Sounds like a place well worth visiting, don't you think?
MIKHAIL: There will come a time when your guard is down...and when it is, I will not hesitate a moment before killing you. You should know this before you...
DANIELLE: [Interrupting] He's making an excellent point. You have a map. Why keep him alive?
[FLASHBACK]
[Sayid is lying beaten on the floor, as Amira enters the room holding a cat in her arms. She sits down in the chair.]
AMIRA: After my husband and I first arrived to Paris, I was afraid to ever leave our apartment. So I would stare out the window into the alley and I would see this cat looking for scraps. One day, some children came into the alley and trapped it in a box. I watched them light firecrackers...and drop them in the box. I could hear him howl from 3 stories above. So finally, I had a reason to leave my apartment. I rescued this cat and I brought him home. Sits with me when I read. Sleeps with me. And he purrs. But, every once in a while, he will bite me or scratch me. He does this because sometimes he forgets that he is safe now. So I forgive him when he bites me because I know what it is like to never feel safe. And that is because of you. So today...I ask only one thing of you. I ask you now that you show me the respect of acknowledging what you did to me. That it was you who questioned me. That tortured me. And that you remember me.
SAYID: I remember you. I remember your face. Your face has haunted me ever since I left Iraq. [They both begin to cry.] I am sorry. I am so sorry for what I did to you. I'm... so...sorry...
AMIRA: I forgive you. When my husband returns, I will tell him, "I made terrible mistake", that it was not you...and he will release you.
SAYID: Why? Why are you letting me go?
AMIRA: We are all capable of doing what those children did to this cat...but I will not do that. I will not be that.
[She walks out.]
[Back in the jungle outside the Flame Station]
DANIELLE: We should kill him Sayid. He already told us that he would kill us.
SAYID: No. He's my prisoner. I will decide his fate.
[Kate and Locke join them]
SAYID: [To Locke] I can see you didn't find anything worth taking.
LOCKE: Actually, I just played that silly chess game again. [To Mikhail] And now, I realize why you didn't want me to beat it.
SAYID: Meaning what?
[The Flame Station explodes.]
SAYID: What have you done John?! That place was our one hope of communication with the outside world!
LOCKE: The computer said that if there was an incursion by the Hostiles, I should enter 7-7. So, I entered 7-7.
SAYID: [Glaring] We should go. If anyone's around, this explosion is going to attract their attention.
[They get to their feet and begin to leave. Sayid, lingering behind, sees Nadia the cat staring at him. After a moment, he turns and walks away.]
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Written by: Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse
Directed by: Stephen Williams
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[On the beach. Redshirts carry things around.]
SAWYER: Ping pong table? Where the hell'd that come from?
HURLEY: Jin found it when he was out looking for firewood. We made legs for it, paddles... now all we need is a ball.
SAWYER: Found it?
HURLEY: Musta landed in the jungle when the hatch exploded.
SAWYER: I thought the hatch collapsed.
HURLEY: Look, dude, all I know is the sky turned purple. After that I don't ask questions. Just make myself a salad and move on.
[Hurley walks towards the ping pong table being set up.]
SAWYER: [muttering] Yeah, I can see that's working for you. [Following Hurley] Hey! You seen Kate around?
HURLEY: Wow, she's not back yet? Hmmm. [To redshirts at ping pong table] Guys, you find anything we can use for a ball?
[Sawyer turns away as Paulo walks towards him down the beach.]
SAWYER: Hey, That's my guns and ammo! Where the hell'd you get it?
PAULO: It was in the magazine stack. We share things now
SAWYER: Listen Zorro. It was in my stuff. Stuff you all decided to have yourselves a little party with while you thought I was dead.
PAULO: Listen hillbilly, if you want it that bad... take it.
[Paulo holds the magazine out to him, roll of toilet paper in the other hand.]
SAWYER: [disgusted] Just keep it. [walks off to his tent]
[Cut to Sayid, Danielle, Kate, and Locke walking through the jungle.]
SAYID: We need to eat.
[They stop, taking off their packs.]
LOCKE: Are we still on course?
[Sayid checks compass]
SAYID: We're still heading north on a bearing of 305, yes.
LOCKE: I'm sensing a lack of confidence.
SAYID: We've been walking for two days, following a compass bearing provided by the carvings on a stick.
LOCKE: And?
SAYID: You really think we're just going to chance upon where the Others are?
LOCKE: I don't know what we're going to chance on, Sayid, but my bearing is the only bearing we got.
SAYID: [standing up] I'm going to find some fruit. And then, John, we're going to have a rational conversation regarding our next move.
[Cut to Sayid, picking fruit alone. He hears a clanking sound, bends down to get his gun, and walks towards it carefully. He comes suddenly upon a cow (the clanking sound being its bell). As it walks away, and he follows, he sees a building- the Flame station- with a satellite dish on top, and several animals in a fenced area. A man, Mikhail, puts the cow inside the fence, looks around, and walks towards the building.]
["LOST" symbol/music]
[Sawyer walks over to Hurley and others at the ping pong table]
SAWYER: Ya'll looking for something like... [shows them a ping pong ball] This?
HURLEY: Cool, a ball.
[Hurley reaches for the ball, but Sawyer pulls it back.]
SAWYER: We need to do a little quid-pro-quo first. I know I've been gone a while, and ya'll thought the general store was having a going out of business sale. But now I'm back. And I want what's mine.
NIKKI: Yeah, but it wasn't really yours to begin with.
SAWYER: "A," it was mine when I took it, "B"... who the hell are you?
[Paulo looks up at Sawyer with a stupid expression on his face.]
SAWYER: And "C", because I'm fair, I'm gonna let you play me for it.
HURLEY: Play ping pong?
SAWYER: That's right, Avalanche. You bastards put up your best player. One game. And when I crush them, ya'll gotta bring me every piece of my stash back.
HURLEY: If you lose?
SAWYER: I ain't gonna lose, but... if I do, tell you what. Name it.
JIN: [speaks Korean to Sun]
SUN: [speaks Korean]
SAWYER: Ooh. Looks like Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon got something good. Lay it on me.
SUN: No nicknames. If you lose, no nicknames for anyone. For a week.
CHARLIE: Nice.
SAWYER: You're on. Pick your player. I'll be back in an hour, then let the slaughter begin.
[Cut to Sayid looking through binoculars at the Flame Station.]
LOCKE: Are you sure it's completely isolated?
SAYID: I've circled the house. There's nothing but jungle surrounding it. Here. [He hands Locke the binoculars.]
LOCKE: That dish still work?
SAYID: A satellite dish of that size would have broadcasting capabilities of thousands of miles. Danielle... you once mentioned a radio tower. Is this it?
DANIELLE: I have never been here before.
KATE: [To Sayid] The man in the house. You said you've seen him before?
SAYID: On a video feed from the pearl station.
KATE: So who is he?
SAYID: Only one way to find out. [stands up, handing Kate his gun] We ask him.
KATE: What's this for?
SAYID: If I'm unarmed, he won't feel threatened. In case he is threatened, cover me from here.
[Danielle turns and starts to walk away]
KATE: Hey, where are you going?
DANIELLE: I have no interest in that man inside the house. I have survived on the island precisely by avoiding these types of encounters. I'll wait for you by the stream. For those of you who survive.
[FLASHBACK]
[Sayid chops vegetables in the kitchen of a restaurant]
WAITER: Najeev... Najeev.
[Sayid looks up]
WAITER: [subtitled] A man out front wants to see you.
[Sayid goes out to where a man is sitting on the patio of the restaurant]
SAMI: Did you cook this?
SAYID: Yes, I did.
SAMI: Wow. It's delicious. [holds out hand] My name is Sammi.
SAYID: [shaking his hand] Najeev. Thank you.
SAMI: Please sit. Sit. [Sayid sits down] So where you from, Najeev?
SAYID: I'm Syrian.
SAMI: Please. [subtitled Iraqi] You are as much of an Iraqi as I am, young man.
SAYID: What do you want from me?
SAMI: You're an excellent cook. And I... I have a restaurant. Much nicer than this place. Come take a look. If you like it, I will hire you at twice your pay here.
SAYID: You're offering a stranger a job because of a single meal?
SAMI: I'm offering you a job because we're outsiders here. And because, uh, my chef just quit.
[Back to the Flame station. Sayid is walking forward with his hands up. He slows down as he notices a scruffy cat sitting outside the house, staring at him. Suddenly there is a gunshot and Sayid falls to the ground. Kate tries to rush out, but Locke keeps her back.]
KATE: No, no, no! He's been hit! He's been hit!
LOCKE: Not yet! You want to get shot too?
MIKHAIL: [Shouting from the window] I didn't cross the line! We had a truce! This is my land! You said I could stay here!
SAYID: [Still on ground, holding his arm, which is bleeding] I'm not...I'm not who you th...who you think I am! My name is Sayid Jarrah! I was on a plane that crashed here months ago!
MIKHAIL: A plane?
SAYID: I'm unarmed, I swear!
MIKHAIL: Stay right there!
[Mikhail shuts the window, and Kate and Locke run forward. As Mikhail comes out of the door, Kate and Locke shoot at him.]
LOCKE: Drop the rifle! Drop it right now! Back up. Back up!
[Mikhail drops his gun, putting his hands up.]
KATE: [To Sayid, who has stood up] Are you all right?
MIKHAIL: You really did crash here?
SAYID: Over 40 of us, yes!
LOCKE: I'll go in first, make sure it's ok.
KATE: [Helping Sayid toward the building] Who are you?
MIKHAIL: My name is Mikhail Bakunin. And I am the last living member of the DHARMA Initiative.
[COMMERCIAL]
KATE: [Helping Sayid into the building] Watch your step.
[Mikhail takes Sayid and guides/supports him towards a sofa]
MIKHAIL: Please...sit. Here...let me.
[Mikhail examines Sayid's arm.]
SAYID: You've had experience...treating...gunshot wounds?
MIKHAIL: I spent some time in Afghanistan. I had experience with field medicine...in the Soviet Army. [To Kate] In the kitchen, on the top shelf, is a medical kit. Will you bring it please?
SAYID: It's all right, Kate. [Kate, looking suspicious, goes to the kitchen] How did you get here?
MIKHAIL: I almost don't know where to begin.
SAYID: Why don't you begin with the DHARMA Initiative.
[Mikhail speaks as he treats Sayid's wound, Kate looks through the
kitchen, and Locke wanders around the rest of the building.]
MIKHAIL: I grew up in Kiev and joined the Soviet Army. I was stationed in a listening post in Vladivostok. After the cold war, after we lost the cold war, my unit was decommissioned. I was dismissed from my life in the military. And, after years of conducting...unpleasant actions against our enemies, I found myself wanting to do something good. So I replied to a newspaper advertisement.
SAYID: An advertisement?
MIKHAIL: Would you like to save the world? it read. That's how I met them...The Initiative. They're very secretive, very rich and very smart.
SAYID: So when did you come to the island?
MIKHAIL: 11 years now. I liked computers, communications equipment...and being alone like a lighthouse keeper. So they put me in this station. They called it "The Flame".
SAYID: What's the purpose of The Flame?
MIKHAIL: To communicate with the outside world, of course.
[Locke walks through the room of computers that they saw in the Pearl station. One of the computers makes a beeping sound and a mechanical voice says: "Ready to Play?" which is also displayed on the monitor (along with "Y/N"). Locke glances up and sees a camera focused on him, then reaches to the keyboard and hits "Y", starting a chess game. "Your Move" is spoken by the computer and displayed on the monitor.]
SAYID: What happened to the DHARMA Initiative?
MIKHAIL: [Continuing to treat Sayid's arm] They're all dead, of course. They foolishly initiated a war against the Hostiles. A "Purge" they called it.
SAYID: And how did you survive this purge?
MIKHAIL: By not participating in it. I told you...I like being alone.
SAYID: And the Hostiles allowed you to stay here?
MIKHAIL: After it was over, 4 men appeared in the yard. They offered a truce. They said to imagine a line that extended all the way around the valley. As long as I did not cross it...I would be left alone. Then, they took 2 cows and I never saw them again.
KATE: They weren't interested in the satellite dish in the yard?
MIKHAIL: Why would they be? It hasn't functioned for years.
SAYID: Who are they? These Hostiles?
MIKHAIL:I do not know. But they were here for a long time before we were. A very long time.
[Mikhail removes the bullet from the wound and Sayid cries out.]
[FLASHBACK]
[Sayid walks down a street in Paris, and enters Sami's restaurant. He approaches a table of men.]
SAYID: I am looking for Sami.
MAN: [Yelling] Sami!
SAMI: Najeev! I'm so glad you came. [Indicating the restaurant] What do you think? Eh, it's a simple place, as you can see, but we have good customers. [A woman enters the dining room] Ah, here's my wife. She's in charge of the kitchen. Amira, come meet Najeev.
[Sayid reaches out to shake her hand. Her arms are covered in scars.]
SAYID: Pleasure to meet you.
[Sayid is suddenly grabbed by one of the men from the table. He shakes the man off.]
SAMI: [To Amira] Are you sure this is him?
AMIRA: Yes.
SAYID: I don't know who you think I am...
[Another man grabs at Sayid, who turns and punches him. Eventually, all of the men from the table bring him down, and Sami kicks him in the face.]
[Back to the Flame Station. Mikhail begins to stitch up Sayid's arm. Sayid sees the cat from outside, who is scratching at a rug, and Mikhail follows his gaze.]
MIKHAIL: [In Russian]...Nadia!
SAYID: What did you just say?
MIKHAIL: I told Nadia to be polite because you are my guests.
SAYID: Nadia?
MIKHAIL: Mmm. After Nadia Comaneci, the greatest athlete the world has ever known. We have the same birthday. [Says a couple of words in Russian, as he finishes stitching Sayid] Now, excellent work if I say myself.
SAYID: Thank you, Mikhail.
MIKHAIL: Perhaps...[he stands] I can begin to earn your forgiveness by offering some iced tea. I will also check on your friend.
[Locke is playing the chess game. The words "Checkmate You Lose" appear on the screen. Mikhail opens the door to the room and leans in.]
MIKHAIL: Heh, don't waste your time. For 10 years I have tried to defeat that game. But it was programmed by 3 grand masters. And...it cheats.
LOCKE: Hmmm. Well...I've played a lot of computers and I'm...pretty sure they don't know how to cheat. That's what makes being human so...distinctly...wonderful.
[He begins to play the chess game again. Mikhail smiles slightly and closes the door. As Kate bandages Sayid's arm, Mikhail goes into the kitchen and begins to prepare the tea.]
SAYID: [Speaking softly] What's wrong.
KATE: [Speaking softly] It just...it doesn't make any sense. Why would they let him stay here...with all this stuff, all this equipment.
SAYID: Actually, it makes perfect sense.
KATE: What are you talking about?
SAYID: The reason they let him stay here is because he is not DHARMA. He is one of them.
KATE: He shot you and you just let...why are we still sitting here?
SAYID: We are sitting here, Kate, because I am certain he is not alone.
[Cut to the beach. Sayid and Hurley are standing across from each other over the ping pong table, as others gathered look on.]
SAWYER: So! You really the number 1 draft pick, Grimace?
HURLEY: Yep. Are we playing with the Mercy Rule?
SAWYER: Mercy Rule?
HURLEY: Yeah, like, if I'm up 11 - 0 then I, you know, automatically win?
SAWYER: You're going to go up 11 - 0?
HURLEY: No I mean...either one of us.
SAWYER: Sure. We can have a Mercy Rule.
HURLEY: You want to volley for serve?
SAWYER: I'll tell you what. Be my guest.
[Sawyer tosses the ball to Hurley, as the people watching begin to clap and cheer, rooting on Hurley]
CHARLIE: Take him down, Hurley.
NIKKI: Come on Hurley.
HURLEY: 0 serving 0.
[Hurley serves the ping pong ball to Sawyer, they volley once, and then Sawyer misses it. Everyone cheers.]
CHARLIE: Yes!
HURLEY: 1 - nothing.
[Back at the Flame Station, Mikhail carries a tray with glasses and a pitcher of iced tea over to Kate and Sayid, and sits down.]
MIKHAIL: I grow the tea myself...so pardon its bitterness.
SAYID: Any tea is good tea.
KATE: You know how long its been since we've seen ice?
[Mikhail pours out tea, and hands glasses to Kate and Sayid.]
SAYID: I noticed a series of thick wires as I walked around the station.
MIKHAIL: This is the hub. But they go underground to various stations all over the island.
SAYID: And these cables...do any of them run into the ocean?
MIKHAIL: Yes. There is an underwater beacon that emits sonar pings to...help guide in the vessels.
SAYID: By "vessels" you mean submarines?
MIKHAIL: Yes. The Initiative used one to bring us here. But I can imagine only that the Hostiles have either destroyed or commandeered it by now.
SAYID: That explains how they were able to get around my position and capture our sailboat.
MIKHAIL: You have a sailboat?
SAYID: Until we lost it to your Hostiles.
MIKHAIL: That's very unfortunate.
SAYID: Well, at least we were able to kill one of them.
[A moment of silence and tension and Sayid looks at Mikhail.]
MIKHAIL: Why are we continuing to play this little game? When we all know it has moved to the next stage.
[Mikhail stands up, throwing the pitcher, and fights with Sayid and Kate. Sayid gets him down, and Kate points a gun at him and kicks him in the face, knocking him out. Locke comes out of the door, pointing a gun.]
SAYID: Get some rope!
[FLASHBACK]
[Sayid is chained to a grate on the floor of a dim concrete room. A door open and he looks up quickly. Sami enters the room carrying a bag, which he sets down with a clank, and metal bowl of water. He puts the water in front of Sayid.]
SAMI: Drink.
[Sayid drinks all of the water from the bowl, then sets it down, looking at Sami]
SAMI: You were a torturer were you not? In the Republican Guard? Do you not recognize one of your victims? Do you not recognize the woman that you tortured? Do you not recognize my wife?!
SAYID: No I've never seen...you've confused me with someone else.
SAMI: Amira was arrested for harboring an enemy of the state. She was held for 3 months while she was questioned. Her arms bear the scars of those questions. So I assure you Najeev, I am not confused!
SAYID: My name is not Najeev.
SAMI: Hmm.
SAYID: I'm Sayid Jarrah. I was in the Republican Guard. And yes I was an interrogator, but I have never seen your wife. Maybe she saw me at the same facility, but I do not know her! I can remember every face of every person I've interrogated...
SAMI: She remembers your face. She remembers it so well that she recognized it from a mere glimpse...when we walked by the restaurant where you worked!
SAYID: What do you want from me?
SAMI: I want you to admit to what you did. And if you don't, you will leave this room in that bag.
[Back at the Flame Station, Sayid and Kate tie up an unconscious Mikhail.]
KATE: How do you know he isn't alone?
SAYID: The horse outside is still saddled and the stirrups are set up for someone much shorter than this man.
LOCKE: You think the others sent someone to keep him company?
SAYID: They sent someone out here because they lost communications.
LOCKE: Maybe when the sky turned purple.
SAYID: That would be my guess.
LOCKE: Well, if there's someone else here they're hiding pretty good. I checked every nook and cranny of...this...place...
[Sayid flips up a rug to reveal a trap door.]
SAYID: Not every nook and cranny, John.
[FLASHBACK]
[Sayid is still chained on the floor, as Sami and Amira enter. Sami sets up a metal chair, and Amira sits, staring at Sayid.]
SAMI: Are you ready to tell me the truth?
SAYID: I have told you the truth. [to Amira] I do not know you.
[Sami punches Sayid in the face.]
SAMI: You tortured her.
SAYID: No. I would never touch a woman!
[Sami punches him in the face again.]
SAYID: You think this will do any good...that this will make me confess to something I didn't do?
SAMI: My wife confessed to something that she didn't do. She confessed when you poured a pot of boiling oil over her arms...
SAYID: No I did not. You have the wrong...
[Sami punches him in the face again.]
SAMI: Admit it! Admit it!
SAYID: I can not admit to something I didn't do.
[Sami walks over and reaches for a metal rod, but Amira stops him.]
AMIRA: That is enough for today.
SAMI: [to Sayid] Then I will see you tomorrow.
[Sami walks out of the room, and after a long look at Sayid, Amira follows.]
[Back at the flame hatch, Kate and Sayid descend into a basement, looking around with flashlights.]
[Above, the computer beeps and says "Your move" several times. Locke looks in at the computer, and then down at the unconscious Mikhail.]
[Kate and Sayid continue to explore basement. There are wires running around the walls of the basement.]
KATE: What is it?
SAYID: C4. Explosive. The whole place is wired.
KATE: Why?
SAYID: I don't know.
[Above, Locke walks away from Mikhail, sits back down in front of the computer, and continues to play the chess game.]
[As Kate and Sayid look around, Sayid comes across a room filled with white binders labelled "DHARMA." He begins to look at them.]
[Locke continues to play the chess game. After moving, the words "Checkmate" appear on the screen, followed by "You Win" and accompanied by electronic music. Locke grins. Suddenly, the picture on the monitor changes to Marvin Candle, who is sitting at a desk.]
MARVIN CANDLE: Manual override achieved. For pallet drop enter 2-4. For station uplink enter 3-2. For mainland communication enter 3-8.
[Locke presses 3-8.]
MARVIN CANDLE: The satellite dish is inoperable. Communications are down. For sonar access enter 5-6.
[Locke enters 5-6.]
MARVIN CANDLE: Sonar is inoperable. Has there been an incursion on this station by the Hostiles? If so, enter 7-7.
[As Locke's finger hovers over the 7 key, Mikhail comes up behind him and holds a knife to his throat.]
MIKHAIL: Keep your voice low and your hands in front of you.
[Back in the basement, Kate is continuing to look around when she is attacked by Bea Klugh. They fight, until Sayid comes up behind Klugh and points his gun at the back of her neck.]
SAYID: Stop right there. Put the gun on the ground. Now.
[Kate, getting up from the ground, walks over and punches Klugh in the face.
SAYID: What are you doing?
[He restrains Kate.]
KATE: It's her! She was there! She was at the dock! She was there when we were kidnapped. She knows where Jack is.
SAYID: Are there any more of you here?
[He points his gun at Klugh, who says nothing.]
SAYID: Lets take her upstairs. [He pushes her towards the trapdoor, and yells up.] John! We're coming up!
[Sayid, Kate, and Klugh find the living room empty.]
SAYID: John!
LOCKE: [From outside] Out here!
SAYID: [Pushing Klugh in front of him] Move.
[They walk outside, where Mikhail is holding a gun to Locke's head.]
MIKHAIL: This is simple. Send her over to me and I will release him and we all go our separate ways.
LOCKE: Don't listen to him...
MIKHAIL: Shut your mouth.
LOCKE: If he was going to kill me I'd be dead already.
MIKHAIL: Shut your mouth!
SAYID: Listen to me.
LOCKE: Sayid, do not let her go.
MIKHAIL: I will execute you right here.
LOCKE: He's not gonna do it!
SAYID: Be quiet John!
LOCKE: I'm the only thing keeping him alive.
MIKHAIL: I swear to you...
KLUGH: Mikhail.
SAYID: Calm down everyone!
KLUGH: Mikhail! [Speaking in Russian]
MIKHAIL: [Speaking in Russian]
LOCKE: Sayid.
SAYID: I'll handle this John.
KATE: John.
KLUGH: [Speaking in Russian]
MIKHAIL: [Speaking in Russian]
KLUGH: [Speaking in Russian]
MIKHAIL: [Speaking in Russian]
KLUGH: [Speaking in Russian]
LOCKE: Don't let her talk to him!
KLUGH: [Speaking in Russian]
SAYID: Mikhail!
KLUGH: [Speaking in Russian]
MIKHAIL: [Speaking in Russian]
SAYID: Stop!
KLUGH: Just do it, Mikhail!
[Mikhail throws Locke aside.]
MIKHAIL: [Speaking in Russian]
[Mikhail shoots Klugh, who falls dead to the ground.]
SAYID: John!
[Locke struggles with Mikhail, then Sayid runs over, hitting Mikhail with his gun, then pointing the gun at him.]
MIKHAIL: Finish it! Kill me.
[Sayid stops pointing the gun at him.]
[Back on the beach, Sawyer sits in front of his tent, repairing his reading glasses, and Hurley walks by.]
HURLEY: Sorry I beat you so bad, dude.
SAWYER: Sorry you hustled me, you mean.
HURLEY: My mom had a table in her basement and I played a lot at the insti...ti...place I...hung out for a while. I got kinda good.
SAWYER: Well hurray for you.
HURLEY: Doesn't look like that last slam caused any long term damage to your forehead. And you got 3 points which is better than 0...
SAWYER: Something you want?
HURLEY: I came to give you back some of your stuff. [He tosses some porn magazines to Sawyer.] Cause uh...you know, you're the kinda guy that needs stuff.
SAWYER: You a shrink now?
HURLEY: She'll be ok dude. Kate? I know you're worried about her. She's with Locke and Sayid. She's gonna be fine.
SAWYER: Yeah, well, thanks for the pep talk Lu...
HURLEY: Uh uh dude. It's Hurley. Hugo if you want.
SAWYER: [standing up and walking away] Get bent, Hugo.
[Back at the Flame Station, Locke is still in front of the chess computer and Kate quickly gathers supplies in the basement.]
KATE: [Calling up to him] You ready to go Locke?!
LOCKE: [Calling down] I'll be there in a minute.
[The computer screen once again is showing Marvin Candle.]
MARVIN CANDLE: Sonar is inoperable. Has there been an incursion on this station by the Hostiles? If so, enter 7-7.
[Sayid leads Mikhail around the building]
SAYID: [Yelling] Danielle?! Danielle?! [To Mikhail] Tell me something? Were you ever a member of the DHARMA Initiative? Or was everything you said a lie? Of course I'm wasting my breath.
MIKHAIL: I was never a member, but everything else I told you was true. I moved into this station after the purge.
SAYID: The purge in which a group of scientists attacked your people?
MIKHAIL: Believe what you want, but that is what happened.
[Danielle walks over and points her gun at Mikhail.]
DANIELLE: Your friends...did he kill them?
SAYID: No. They're collecting whatever may be useful from the farmhouse. And now we have our ticket to where the others live...where we'll find your daughter...and Jack. And finally perhaps, a way home.
MIKHAIL: There is nothing you could do to me that would make me lead you there.
SAYID: I didn't say you were our ticket...did I? [Sayid pulls out a piece of paper.] This is a map showing electrical and data cabling...running from the flame here [Taps the map] to a place called the barracks here [Points to the map]. It's comprised of houses and dormitories, with water and power...large enough to accommodate an entire community. Sounds like a place well worth visiting, don't you think?
MIKHAIL: There will come a time when your guard is down...and when it is, I will not hesitate a moment before killing you. You should know this before you...
DANIELLE: [Interrupting] He's making an excellent point. You have a map. Why keep him alive?
[FLASHBACK]
[Sayid is lying beaten on the floor, as Amira enters the room holding a cat in her arms. She sits down in the chair.]
AMIRA: After my husband and I first arrived to Paris, I was afraid to ever leave our apartment. So I would stare out the window into the alley and I would see this cat looking for scraps. One day, some children came into the alley and trapped it in a box. I watched them light firecrackers...and drop them in the box. I could hear him howl from 3 stories above. So finally, I had a reason to leave my apartment. I rescued this cat and I brought him home. Sits with me when I read. Sleeps with me. And he purrs. But, every once in a while, he will bite me or scratch me. He does this because sometimes he forgets that he is safe now. So I forgive him when he bites me because I know what it is like to never feel safe. And that is because of you. So today...I ask only one thing of you. I ask you now that you show me the respect of acknowledging what you did to me. That it was you who questioned me. That tortured me. And that you remember me.
SAYID: I remember you. I remember your face. Your face has haunted me ever since I left Iraq. [They both begin to cry.] I am sorry. I am so sorry for what I did to you. I'm... so...sorry...
AMIRA: I forgive you. When my husband returns, I will tell him, "I made terrible mistake", that it was not you...and he will release you.
SAYID: Why? Why are you letting me go?
AMIRA: We are all capable of doing what those children did to this cat...but I will not do that. I will not be that.
[She walks out.]
[Back in the jungle outside the Flame Station]
DANIELLE: We should kill him Sayid. He already told us that he would kill us.
SAYID: No. He's my prisoner. I will decide his fate.
[Kate and Locke join them]
SAYID: [To Locke] I can see you didn't find anything worth taking.
LOCKE: Actually, I just played that silly chess game again. [To Mikhail] And now, I realize why you didn't want me to beat it.
SAYID: Meaning what?
[The Flame Station explodes.]
SAYID: What have you done John?! That place was our one hope of communication with the outside world!
LOCKE: The computer said that if there was an incursion by the Hostiles, I should enter 7-7. So, I entered 7-7.
SAYID: [Glaring] We should go. If anyone's around, this explosion is going to attract their attention.
[They get to their feet and begin to leave. Sayid, lingering behind, sees Nadia the cat staring at him. After a moment, he turns and walks away.]
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