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• Written By: David Fury
• Directed By: Greg Yaitanes
• Backstory: Michael/Walt
• Featured Storylines: Locke, Boone, Charlie

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The eyeball of the day is…Michael. He’s on the jungle path, looking for Walt. He runs into Charlie, who’s looking for Claire’s bags. They banter about looking for things. Jack follows along behind Charlie, and Michael asks Jack if he’s seen Walt. Hurley comes along and asks if they’re up for golf, they all say they’re busy.

Michael walks off, calling for Walt. Hurley comments to Jack that Michael seems to hate being a dad.

--Flashback--

Michael and Walt’s mom are shopping for baby furniture. He tells her he’s going to do some construction work while she finishes law school. She asks what about his art, he says he’ll go back to it eventually. He says Walt’s name, after his father. She calls him by her own last name.

Jungle clearing: Locke hands Walt a knife. Boone and vincent are looking on. Walt throws the knife at a tree and misses. Locke tells him to focus on a knot to aim on it. “See it before you do it, visualize it.” Walt throws and hits dead on, to the amazement of Locke and Boone.

Michael approaches, tells Walt to go back, and takes the knife away from him. He yells at Locke to stay away from his kid and not let him touch knives, waving the knife rather menacingly. Boone tackles Michael to get the knife away from him. Locke tells Michael that Walt is different, and should be allowed to realize his potential. Michael is confused for a moment, and then tells Locke to stay away from his son, and himself.

--Commercial break--

--Flashback--

Michael is on the floor in his apartment playing with baby Walt. Walt’s mother  is talking about taking the baby and going to Amsterdam for a job. Michael protests. She mentions that they’ve talked about taking time apart anyway. He says he didn’t think they were serious. She says she still loves him, but… he suggests counseling. She’s quiet. He realizes she’s already taken the job, and she confirms that. She says he hasn’t worked, and that she can provide for Walt. She reminds Michael that they’re not married, and she knows the courts will side with her. She says it’s not goodbye forever, that she just needs some time.

Caves. Michael is watching Walt sleep. Sun approaches, and asks if he’s okay. He says he’s okay, that he doesn’t know how to talk to Walt.  He tells her Locke says he should stop treating Walt like a child, but that he missed his whole childhood. He laments their current circumstances, and delcares that Walt simply can’t grow up there.

Clearing. Sayid and Shannon have Danielle’s maps, and they’re showing Jack how the maps come together to show how it’s not the location of the island but a location on the island. Michael approaches, complains that they’re too busy establishing a community on the island, and suggests building a raft to get off. Sayid reminds him that the chances of surviving the journey are small. Michael says he’s going to do it with or without them.

Walt is quietly reading his Spanish comic out loud. Michael approaches, says he needs help. Walt says he’s busy with the comic, that he likes the pictures even though he doesn’t read Spanish. Michael notes he likes the art, and talks a bit about how reading comics helped him learn drawing. He gets no real response from Walt, so he takes the comic, and tells him to go help him.

--flashback--

Michael is on a pay phone on a city street, asking Walt’s mother, still in Amsterdam, if he can talk to his son. Mom says she’s busy. Michael hears another voice, and asks who it is. She says she’s been seeing someone—the guy who hired her. He says he’s coming to Amsterdam for the kid. He slams the phone down, then crosses the street and promptly gets hit by a car.

--Commerical break--

Beach. Charlie is going through Claire’s bag. Kate approaches, and he asks her if she brought Claire’s bags because he can’t find her diary. He decides the diary has been taken.

Michael and Walt sorting through debris looking for stuff to make a frame for a raft. He tells Walt what to do. Walt asks if he’s being punished. Michael says no, that they’re building a raft to control their destiny. Walt says it feels like punishment anyway.

Beach. Charlie and Kate find Sawyer. They ask him for the diary. He has it. He plays keepaway with the diary, taunting Charlie that he’s read it. Charlie whacks his sore arm. Sawyer clocks him. Charlie, unfazed, tells him he hits like a ponce. Kate splits them up. She confirms with Sawyer that he hasn’t read the diary.

Walt sees Locke and Boone walk past and tells Michael he’s going to get some water. Michael is too busy working on the raft, and doesn’t notice. Walt follows Locke and Boone.

Shannon asks Boone whether they’re going to come back with food and why they’re acting weird. She asks why doesn’t he help her and Michael build the raft, and teases him a bit.

Locke sitting by a fire, Walt approaches. Locke reminds Walt that Michael said they shouldn’t talk anymore. Michael approaches, yelling at Locke. Locke talks his way out of it, handing over a pencil as a peace offering. Locke walks off. Walt calls Michael a jerk, yells that he never cared about him, you’re not my father. Michael yells, and throws the comic in the fire. He orders Walt to stay put.

--flashback--

Michael is in the hospital with a broken leg, drawing a picture of himself, bandaged up. His nurse comments on the drawing. Michael says the drawing is for his son’s 2^nd birthday, explaining Walt’s living situation. He says he never knows what to write. The nurse suggests a joke—a stupid joke.

Walt’s mother comes in, to Michael’s surprise. They head out to the hall to talk. She tells him she’s covering his medical costs, but in return, she has paperwork for him to sign, relinquishing his parental rights, since she and Brian are getting married. She convinces Michael that it’s time to let go.

Hurley approaches Michael, tells him Walt has grabbed the dog and taken off. Michael says he knows where Walt has gone and storms off.

--Commercial break--

Clearing. Locke is sharpening a knife. Michael approaches and demands to know where Walt is. Locke says he’s not there, which Boone confirms. Locke says he told Walt he can’t be around him anymore, that he’s trying to repects Michael’s wishes. They both realize that if Walt is not there or at the caves, he may be in danger, and set out to look for him.

Caves. Charlie thanks Kate for her help with Sawyer, but assures her that he’s had his share of “manly encounters.” She asks him if he’s okay, with Claire gone. He shrugs, and says how it’s weird that he barely knows her, and she’s only been missing a week, but every day she’s gone, he feels like bits of him are crumbling off. Kate says she thinks its right that Charlie keeps Claire’s stuff safe til she gets back. She pats his leg and walks off. Charlie then has a protracted fight with himself to keep from reading the diary, finally putting it back in the bag and walking away.

Jungle: Walt is tugging Vincent. They hear growling. Vincent barks. Walt looks around. Vincent breaks away and runs off. Walt follows him.

--flashback—

A nice house. Walt, now at his current age, is staring at Vincent while his mother and Brian are chattering away about Australian law. Mom reminds Walt to do his homework. He complains that he has to study birds of Australia. Aside, Mom tells Brian she hasn’t been feeling well. Walt chatters on, they’re not looking at him, he becomes annoyed. Suddenly a crash. A bird has slammed into the glass door. It’s dead. Brian stares at Walt, and notices Walt’s book is open to the page with the bird in question.

Jungle. Walt calling for Vincent, who’s nowhere to be found. More subtle growling.

--Commercial break.--

--flashback--

Michael, in his apartment, answers a knock on the door. Brian is standing there, looking a mess. He introduces himself and comes in, explaining that Walt’s mother has died of a blood disorder, and she was gone within a week. In response to Michael’s concern, Brian says Walt is fine and back home with his nanny. Michael complains that Brian left him home alone. Brian explains that Walt’s mother said she wanted Michael to have custody of Walt. Brian says he loved her, but she wouldn’t hear that he didn’t want to have custody of Walt to begin with. Brian hands Michael tickets and money to Sydney. They argue a bit about this, and then Brian says there’s something about Walt, sometimes things happen, he’s different somehow.

Jungle. Michael and Locke find Vincent’s leash, they hear Walt cry out.

--flashback--

Sydney, Walt’s home. Michael is speaking to the nanny, who hands him a box, saying it’s something she thinks Walt should have. She excuses herself and walks off. Michael opens the box. In it are papers he thumbs through. He walks down the hall, hearing Walt.

Jungle. Walt is screaming, Michael and Locke run for him. He’s in a clutch of trees, a polar bear is pawing at him. Locke gets Michael to climb up the tree.

--flashback--

Michael approaches Walt, who’s sitting on the floor playing with the dog. He says hello. Walt asks who he is. Michael explains that he’s Walt’s father, and says that he should know that he and Walt’s mother loved each other very much when they had him. Walt asks where Brian is. Michael explains that Brian isn’t there, and he’s come for Walt instead. Michael tries to explain, then fibs about it not being Brian’s choice to be with him. He says Brian will still call, and that Walt will still have his dog. Walt explains that the dog is Brian’s. Michael tells him that Brian said he could have him.

Jungle: Locke and Michael are up in the trees, trying to come into the stand from above. Locke tosses Michael a knife, who tosses it down to Walt to protect himself. The bear backs off briefly. A vine rope is lowered to pull Walt back up, and Locke pulls him up. The bear returns to confront Michael.

--Commerical break--

Bear pawing at the trees, Michael reaches through, and stabs the bear, who toddles off, wounded. Michael gets out, embraces Walt. Walt apologizes. Michael tells him he’s just glad they’re safe. Vincent has run off. Locke tells Walt that Vicent found his way back to him once, and he will again.

Caves, night, by the fire. Michael tells Walt he has a present. He gives Walt the box. In it are all the cards and letters he had sent Walt over the last 8 years. Walt never saw any of them, never knew Michael had written to him. He wonders why his mom hadn’t given them to him. All of the cards are hand drawn. Michael shows him the drawing he did for his second birthday, with the dumb joke. They laugh.

Caves. Charlie’s reading Claire’s diary. He smiles at a passage that says Charlie makes her feel safe. He turns the page, and frowns suddenly, and then gets up. He approaches Jack and Sayid, who are talking by a fire, and reads from the diary: “I had that weird dream again about the black rock I can’t get away from.” Charlie says Sayid mentioned Danielle talking about a team returning from the black rock, and suggests that maybe the triangle on the map is the black rock. Jack reminds them that there’s no sense in going out in the middle of the night.

Jungle. Locke and Boone are using a whistle to try to find Cincent. They hear rustling in the brush. They call out Vincent’s name. Locke draws his knife. The brushes part. Claire stumbles toward them, disheveled and confused.

--end epsiode 14--