Locke jumps up and starts runnng. He’s chased. Jack follows. Hurley runs off. Kate follows Jack. Locke is seized by the ankle and dragged. Jack gives chase and grabs him just before he’s dragged down a hole. He holds onto Locke. Kate comes up. Jack tells her to grab the dynamite (which he’s snuck into his pack) Locke tells Jack to let him go. Jack tells Kate to throw the dynamite down the hole. She does. Boom! And another cloud of black smoke. They pull Locke to safety.

On the raft, as they’re repairing the rudder, Michael talks to Jin about Sun’s English primer. Jin says the words he knows. They finish the repair. Michael gives Jin back his watch, which he’s taken off to do the repair. Jin comes back up to him and gives him the watch back.

Caves. Sun brings Claire some tea. She asks what Turniphead—uh--- Aaron’s name means. Claire says she doesn’t know. Sun says they’ll bring him back. Claire stops her, telling her not to say that, she doesn’t know that. Sun says yes, Charlie said he would bring the child back, and he will.

Rushing through the jungle, Charlie spies Turniphead’s nappy. He runs to it. Sayid tries to stop him, but it’s too late, a trap! A bunch of rocks drop on Charlie’s head. He’s got a huge cut. Sayid says he should go back. Charlie refuses, saying he’s not going back without the baby, and that there must be some sort of on-field repair they can do, as in a time of war. Sayid pauses for a moment, then opens up a bullet. He pours the gunpowder into the gaping wound, and then lights it on fire, cauterizing the wound. Charlie screams.

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--flashback—

Morning, hotel. Hurley wakes up to find that everything in his room isn’t working, including the alarm clock, because he blew the outlet charging his cd player. He realizes he’s terribly late for his flight back home for his mother’s birthday. He quickly gathers his things, but it’s all downhill from there. His car is late, he can’t get an elevator, the car breaks down, he has to buy a second seat, he’s in the wrong terminal, he has to wait in a huge security line. He pays a guy a huge amount of money to use his scooter. He finally arrives just as the jetway door is closing. The gate agent takes pity on him and finally lets him on, saying it’s his lucky day. He grabs her in a big bear hug, and goes through the door.

Back on the island, it’s late. Hurley is whispering his numbers. Kate hears him, and notes that he said 23, and tells him that the guy who turned her in got a $23k reward. Further ahead, Jack confronts Locke about what happened. Locke says he believes he was being tested. He explains that he’s a man of faith, and Jack’s a man of science. He asks Jack if he really thinks it was a coincidence that they crashed and survived. He says he believes the island brought them there for a reason. Jack asks him if that was Boone’s destiny. Locke says Boone was a sacrifice the Island needed. Locke says it all happened so they could open the hatch. Jack says he doesn’t believe in destiny.

Night on the water. Walt is sleeping. Sawyer is running the radar. Michael tells him he just ran it recently and doesn’t want to run the battery out. Sawyer reminds him that Sayid said they could run it every hour. He notes that Michael is patient, very patient with Walt, especially, given how Walt just runs around doing what he wants. He says he’d have shown Walt the back of his hand a long time ago. Michael asks if that’s what Sawyer’s dad did to him. Sawyer tells him his dad died when he was 8. Michael surmises that that’s why Sawyer’s on the raft. There are only two reasons someone would be there. He’s a hero, or he wants to die. Sawyer says he’s no hero. Suddenly, beeping from the radar. They look out.

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--flashback—

Locke, in his wheelchair. The gate agent tells him that they don’t have the special chairs they use for flights. She says he’ll have to wait for the next flight. He says he can’t wait. The porter says he can help him get on the flight, if they carry him. They do so. They get him to his seat and leave him. He sits there, humilated. He gets something from the seatback to read, but it falls out of his reach.

At the hatch, Locke and Jack start to set up the charges. Hurley backs off, going on flashlight duty.

Charlie and Sayid finally reach the source of the black smoke—a big fire on the beach on the other side of the island. There’s no one around, and no tracks. Suddenly, they hear the baby crying. They try to coax Danielle out. She finally does so, crying. She says they weren’t there. She says she just wanted her Alex back, and thought that if she gave them the baby.. Sayid talks to her calmly. He takes the baby, and hands him to Charlie. Charlie angrily tells her there were no others, and that she set the fire herself. He says she’s a nut. She says she heard them whispering, that she heard them saying they were coming for the boy. He tells her she’s pathetic.

Locke and Jack carefully finish setting up the charges. Kate stretches out the fuse. Locke says he’ll light it. Kate and Jack draw back. She grills him about why he changed packs on her. He says he made a judgement call, and that he needs to know she’ll be there in the future if they have a Locke problem. Hurley walks past the hatch, getting ready to go hide. He drops the flashlight on the hatch top. He picks it up, and sees the numbers on the hatch. He freaks out, telling them they have to stop, that the numbers are bad. Locke lights the fuse. Jack grabs Hurley, dragging him back. The hatch blows.

On the raft, Sawyer asks for the flare gun. Michael says the blip’s not close enough, and he doesn’t want to waste the flare. The blip on the radar starts to move away. Michael finally decides, and fires off the gun. The blip starts to move back toward them. They cheer. Jin shushes them. They look out. They hear a boat motor off in the distance. Then a blast of a spotlight. They grab each other in excitement. A boat approaches them. The grizzled captain asks them what they’re doing so far out. Michael starts explaining about the crash. The captain says they’re going to have to take the boy. They’re bewildered. Michael asks who they are. The captain demands the boy again. The captain’s henchmen start to charge. Sawyer draws his gun and fires, they fire back, Saywer falls into the water, Jin jumps after him, the goons seize Walt, and beat up Michael, who falls in the water. A woman in the cabin chucks a molotov cocktail onto the raft, blowing up. Michael tries to swim after Walt, who’s screaming, but the boat is soon gone.

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Caves. Charlie and Sayid are back. Charlie brings the baby to an ecstatic Claire. They embrace. Shannon rushes to Sayid, and into his arms. Charlie and Claire tend to his wound, and we see that his pack has a statue in it.

--flashback—

A montage of all of our castaways, boarding the plane. Claire trying to get her big belly past people, Charlie stuffing his guitar into a closet, a man looking warily at Sayid, Jin looking at his watch, and at Sun. Michael fastening Walt’s seatbelt, Boone handing Shannon her inhaler, and finally, Hurley getting on. Walt meets his eye, Hurley gives him a thumbsup. Hurley sits down, turns on his cd player, and opens up his comic… in Spanish. Arzt helps Claire put her bag away. Jack smiles at Locke, who looks away, still embarassed by his situation.

Back at the hatch, the door is finally blasted open. Locke shines and Jack crouch down, pulling the door aside and shining a torch down. They see… a ladder, broken off at the bottom, and an endless expanse of tunnel beneath it.

--End Season One--