For Sawyer it's a sick thrill that rolls through him when the game's over and he's won: Their money in his hands, another pretty sucker who gets that he isn't who she thought.
To Kate it's unseen eyes on her everywhere; being tracked, hunted. Intoxicating stuff for a girl who's never meant much to anyone.
Jack feels it like an out of body experience when he gives bad news. He prays the family will think his hurt is for their loved one. They can't know it's him facing down Failure.
Sometimes Hurley's dizzy with it, walking into the walls of his McMansion, hearing his mom and dad laughing together. This is not my beautiful house….
For Charlie, rehearsals send him there: Watching roadies set up their gear like precious relics. I did this. Lee and I. They play some Beatles first, to loosen the fingers and aim for something bigger than them all.
Oceans away a quiet, patient soul who is not quite man and not really a god stands in a lighthouse and spins a wheel. He wishes he could explain it's not in their heads; that though they feel as if they're in a play…. they are anyway.