LOST


Chapter I: Exodus (Part I) aka Season 1 Alternative Finale Episode

/"Previously on Lost" scene ends/

[FLASHBACK
Kate is following a short woman, passing by several hallways and doors. The woman finally stops and points at one door.

KATE[TO WOMAN Thank you.

WOMAN: Good luck. You really need it.

Kate starts opening the door.
CUT TO:
Inside a therapist's office. KATE is sitting on a long brown leather couch, yet somehow uncomfortable while DR. BROWN takes notes.

DR. BROWN:How long has it been since your last try? Kate?

KATE: I—I can't tell you that.

DR. BROWN: Hey, nothing leaves this office. Nothing crosses these walls. Shrink rule; trust me.

KATE: What if you call the police on me?

DR. BROWN: Now, why would I do that? Come on, Kate, I've known you for years. Spill out the beans.

LONG SILENCE

DR. BROWN [CONTINUES: I won't tell. Double-cross promise.

KATE: Fine. Umm…six days, thirteen hours and twenty-two minutes ago.

DR. BROWN [NODS: Uh-huh. And the victim?

LONG SILENCE

KATE: Cliff Costner.

CUT TO:
The jungle. KATE and JACK are pacing through.

KATE [TO JACK: What—so you're saying that all that time Boone had spent with John Locke, they were trying to open a window?

JACK: Hatch.

KATE: What?

JACK [STOPS: They were trying to open a hatch. [continues walking

KATE: Any luck?

JACK: Oh, yeah, sure. After a six hour-long research plan, we've realized it's physically impossible to open the god-damn thing.

KATE: What do you think there's in there?

JACK [STOPS AND GLARES AT HER: Shelter.

Gunshots heard. Three times. KATE ducks.

JACK [LOOKS AROUND: What the hell was that?

DANIELLE [OFF SCREEN AT FIRST: Consider this my last warning.

KATE: Danielle!

DANIELLE: They're coming after you. They're coming after all of you. You have less time than you think to immediately get off their island or else…you're all dead.

JACK and KATE trade horrifying looks.

CUT TO BLACK
MAIN TITLE [LOGO: "LOST"
OPENING CREDITS

CLAIRE is sitting at the beach with her baby son. CHARLIE walks over.

CHARLIE: Any name yet?

CLAIRE: What do you think of Jason?

CHARLIE: Hmm. Jason. You know, he would make a great songs performer. Perhaps one like me.

CLAIRE: Okay, then. Veto.

CHARLIE laughs.

CHARLIE: How about…Aaron?

Freeze frame on CLAIRE.

CLAIRE: Oohh…

CHARLIE: What, Claire, are you alright?

CLAIRE: Aargh!

CHARLIE: Claire! Claire! What is it? Claire, what is it?

CLAIRE [IN PAIN: My stomach.

CHARLIE: Your stomach--?

SUN [o.s. at first: What's goin on?

CHARLIE: Claire's sick.

CHARLIE and SUN share a dreaded look upon their faces.

SUN: I'll go look for him. [exits

CUT TO:
JACK infecting CLAIRE's belly. SUN, HURLEY and JIN are watching.

HURLEY: She gonna be all right?

JACK: I'm not sure yet, Hugo. Not sure.

JIN [TO SUN: (in translated Korean) What is happening?

SUN: (subtitled) Claire is sick.

JIN: (subtitled) Do you think she is pregnant…again?

SUN gives JIN a look.

SUN: (subtitled) No. [starts to leave Ugh.

JIN [PUTS A HAND ON SUN'S ARM: (subtitled) Where are you going?

SUN: (subtitled) I will be right back.

JACK: Okay, Claire, I need you to inhale and exhale briefly now, alright? Again. Again.

CUT TO:
CHARLIE sitting at the beach. SUN approaches him.

SUN: You did the right thing, you know.

CHARLIE: You mean causing her to faint in front of our eyes and stop breathing?

SUN: Yes.

They chuckle.

CHARLIE: This wasn't supposed to happen. I want to be the one saves her, you know, not hurt her.

SUN: You didn't hurt her, Charlie.

CHARLIE [LOOKS AT SUN: Wasn't exactly heroic either.

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The hatch. LOCKE is standing on top of it, window in between his legs.

KATE [o.s: Praying, are you, John?

LOCKE [SURPRISED: You know.

KATE: Yes, and I also believe everyone else should.

LOCKE: I disagree, Kate.

KATE: At least one more of them should find out about this, John. What if something happens to us down here, huh? They have the right to know, to save us if something happens. We don't know what's in there. You don't know what's in there.

LOCKE: Fine. One more. [LOOKS AT HER Who did you decide on telling?

KATE: His sister.

Long silence.

LOCKE: I don't think that's such a good idea.

KATE: Why not?

LOCKE: Shannon already hates me. Last week, she attacked me. three days ago, she pointed a gun at me, Kate. And pulled the trigger. If she knows I've been keeping one more thing as a secret, god knows what she'll do this time.

KATE: And you blame her?

LOCKE: Meaning what?

KATE: Meaning that you were alone with him out in the jungle. No one but you two. Boone returns dead and you're alive and fresh as new. You don't think we have the right to accuse you?

LOCKE: I told you, there was a plane.

KATE: I don't believe you. Even though Jack probably regained his senses, I still think you did it, John. I think you killed Boone.

LOCKE: You have no idea what it means to kill somebody, something I didn't do.

Camera zooms onto KATE's face.

[FLASHBACK
KATE is packing clothes and stuff into a suitcase in a tight comfy apartment-bedroom and LISA is helping her out.

LISA: Wait. So just, let me get this straight.

KATE groans.

LISA: You're leaving Sydney because your all-time favorite therapist knows your bloody secret?

KATE: Lisa, I just don't trust him anymore.

LISA: You trust me.

KATE [CHUCKLES: Believe me; it comes for a price.

PAUSE

LISA: So, where're you thinkin' of going?

KATE: L.A. My flight's at eight tonight.

LONG SILENCE

LISA: I don't think you should go, Anna.

KATE: I must leave before they find me.

LISA: I, uh, I sort of have some…sort of news.

KATE: Well, I can tell by your freaky cold tone and the look on your face just how great that news ought to be.

LISA: They found your biological father. He lives just a couple of miles from here.

KATE: Oh, my god. [sighs

LISA: So, are you going to meet him, Anna? Or should I say Kate?

KATE stares at LISA who stares back in disgust and disbelief.

CUT TO:
KATE driving in her car on a filthy road.

CUT TO:
KATE stopping as she stares out her window at a beautiful duplex home.

KATE [WHISPERS: Daddy.

CUT TO:
Inside a living room. MR. AUSTIN is greeting KATE, his daughter.

MR. AUSTIN: Oh, my god. I can't believe you're actually here, Katherine. I've missed you so much.

KATE: I know. I've missed you too, dad.

MR. AUSTIN: So, tell me honey. How've you been?

KATE: Well…pretty busy lately, frankly.

MR. AUSTIN: You married?

KATE [CHUCKLES: No.

MR. AUSTIN: Boyfriend?

KATE: Not really.

MR. AUSTIN: Work, huh?

Long silence.

KATE: I—I don't know if you saw the news, dad, or read the paper or heard from anyone or something…

MR. AUSTIN: What?

KATE: I, umm… I don't know how to say this.

MR. AUSTIN [EYES ON NEWSPAPER: Oh, my god.

KATE: What is it, dad?

MR. AUSTIN: My, umm, my best friend—some guy I work with—he, uh, he got murdered a few days ago.

KATE: He…he did?

MR. AUSTIN: I can't believe this.

KATE: What was his name?

Long pause.

MR. AUSTIN: Cliff Costner.

(KATE has a horrifying look on her face.)

COMMERCIAL BREAK

KATE and SHANNON are walking at the beach.

SHANNON: So the whole time they said they spent 'hunting', they were actually trying to open—that thing?

KATE: Hatch.

SHANNON [SOFTLY: Hatch.

KATE: Jack's quote. And yes. Also, Locke says that your brother was the one who actually first found the hatch. So if you think about it[STOPS MOVING Boone died trying to help us get off this island.

Long silence.

SHANNON: But we're still here, now aren't we?

They trade looks and Shannon walks away.

JACK is still running tests on CLAIRE. SAYID comes running.

SAYID: Where's Michael?

JACK: I don't know—

SAYID: Where is Michael?

JACK: I haven't seen him! Sayid, what's going on?

SAYID: We have to go.

JACK: What?

SAYID: We must get off this island and we have to do that immediately!

JACK: What—what are you talking about?

SAYID: --off this island.

JACK: Sayid! Sayid[LONG SILENCE What happened?

SAYID: Them—the Others. I heard them. They were in the jungle and they were talking. They were whispering.

JACK: What did they say? Sayid[SILENCE What…did you…hear?

SAYID: I'm not sure. But whatever it was…the—the people who were talking; it wasn't human. [LONG SILENCE We should find Michael and we must finish building the raft.

JACK: But Sayid—

SAYID [PETRIFIED: Now. [RUNS OFF

CHARLIE [O.S. AT FIRST: What's going on?

JACK: Charlie, I'll be right back. Look out for her. [GETS UP TO LEAVE Everything's fine. [RUNS OFF

CHARLIE: I wouldn't say 'fine'. [TO CLAIRE Claire, how're you doing?

CLAIRE: Where…is…he?

CHARLIE: Who? Oh, don't you worry about Aaron. He's right over there with—

CLAIRE: No.

CHARLIE: What?

CLAIRE: No. His name is not Aaron.

CHARLIE: Oh, I thought—Guess I was just trying it out.

CLAIRE: It can't be Aaron. I don't want him to be Aaron.

CHARLIE: All right, all right. Just calm down. We'll name him something else later. All right.

CLAIRE sighs, seeming concerned.

KATE is standing at the beach. In her hands a closed envelope in which she is glaring at.

[FLASHBACK

KATE and MR. AUSTEN, her father, are at a chimney…indoors.

Long silence.

KATE: I won't be staying long, dad. I'm leaving tonight at eight.

MR. AUSTEN: What? Tonight?!

KATE: Yes.

MR. AUSTEN: No! Just at least stay in for tomorrow!

KATE: I—I—dad, I can't.

MR. AUSTEN: Come on, Katherine.

KATE: Dad—

MR. AUSTEN: Please.

KATE: I have an eight o'clock flight to L.A.

MR. AUSTEN: L.A.?

KATE: Yes.

MR. AUSTEN: But what for?

KATE: Business. [CHUCKLES

MR. AUSTEN: Well, then, just cancel it. Postpone your trip for tomorrow. God knows when I'll be able to see you again. Plus, I wanna spend some time with my daughter.

KATE: Dad, I can't—

MR. AUSTEN: One night, Katherine. That's all I'm asking.

Camera zooms on KATE's face.

KATE is on the phone in her room, door open and we can see MR. AUSTEN preparing dinner in the dining-room in the background as soft music rolls on.

KATE: Yes, umm, I would like to cancel my flight to L.A. tonight. [PAUSE Yes, I would like another flight tomorrow.

WOMAN FROM AIRPORT [VO: All right, Miss Austen. You will be on tomorrow's flight to Los Angeles from Sydney. You have a paper and a pen?

KATE: Hold on. [GRABS A PEN AND STARTS WRITING ON HER LEFT PALM Yes, shoot.

WOMAN FROM AIRPORT [VO: You will be on Oceanic Flight 8-1-5. I repeat. That's Oceanic Flight 8… [VOICE STARTS TO FADE

KATE writes it down. She turns back as MR. AUSTEN smiles at her. KATE smiles back.

CUT BACK TO:
The beach. As soft music plays, KATE still glares at the closed envelope in her hands. Then she puts the envelope in her back jeans pocket and notices the faded words "Ocean—Fli—815" on her left palm.


END OF CHAPTER I
Hope you liked it, sorry ppl I only write in dialogue-format so really sorry :( This is my first LOST fanfic. Please RnR!