Jack is standing by the glass door, looking out into the mall. Watching them roam around feeding on the dead bodies.
Less of them tried to claw at the glass. Like they know they can't get in or something. He wasn't sure, it was just a wild guess.
"You ready?"
Jack turned around and saw Kate staring at him. He looks at her and shakes his head.
"Kate, it's right down the strip...I can go by myself" He told her.
"I'm coming" She told him sternly.
Knowing he wasn't going to win he gives her a quick smile. "Fine...But your gonna need some better shoes.."
She looks down at her shoe's. Knowing he's right she smiles back and runs off..
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There is a group sitting around the customer service desk talking.
"I'm telling you...It's gotta be something with those bites" Michael said with his theory.
Everybody else just listens in. Not knowing what to say or even to think what the hell it's coming from. Then Hurley comes in joining the group.
"So, I was just looking inside the mall … It's pretty grim out there. You think we should do something about the view of the , uh … " He stops and looks at Walt "B-o-d-y-s?"
"What are you spelling, man? "Bodies"? Michael asked.
"B-o-d-i-e-s" Walt corrected.
"That's a good idea" Sayid said agreeing with him.
"What do you suggest we do?" Boone asked.
"I don't know, like put a blanket over the glass or something..So we don't gotta stare at the bodies and the weird, people eating monsters can stop looking at us" He said with a slight look of disgust on his face.
"We could gather up some wood and nail it to reinforce it...just incase" Sayid said.
"Where do we get wood? Boone said.
"We could take down the dressing room doors" Sayid thought.
Jack comes walking up to the group hanging around the desk.
"Were going out to get there to get to the radio shack. See if we can find a cb radio or something, try to flag down some help"
Jack looks at Boone "You're going to need to keep an eye on the wounded guy. If the wakes up, try to keep him calm, but don't let him touch his wound you understand?"
"Yeah, got it. What about the guy with the leg? The one thats like those outside?" Boone asked.
"Keep him locked in the bathroom and everybody is clear on staying away from that door. I don't know what to do with him just yet, in case there is some cure or something I wanna be sure he's not a casualty" He told the group.
"Yeah. Cool. Good job" Boone said.
"I'll come with you. I want to help" Charlie said.
"I don't need any more help" Said Jack.
"No, it's cool, I don't really feel like standing still, so..." Jack gives him a nod "Excellent"
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Jack, Charlie, Kate and Sayid are standing by the the glass door. Trying to figure out the best possible solution to get by them.
"And how do you suggest we get past through them?" Charlie asked.
"They're pretty slow, i'm sure we can outrun them" Jack responded.
"And if you can't?" Sayid asked.
Jack looks back out into the mall and starts to rethink his plan.
"Last night when charlie and I were double checking all doors I saw one the led to a hallway..It was for deliveries. It was quiet and it stretched all the way down the mall...If the store you call radioshack is on the same side there should be a door that leads to it" Sayid told them.
"Yeah...Yeah it's on the same side" Said Jack.
"That would be your best bet" Again said Sayid.
"Then lets do that...Charlie, Kate grab some flashlights and anything that can be used as a weapon" Jack told the two.
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Kate, charlie and Jack are walking down a hallway that is still it up by emergency lights, So it is lightly lit up but they still gotta depend on the flashlights.
The hall is pretty cleared out so they walk with ease...But are still very careful. Moan's can be heard coming from inside the mall, as they passed doors that led to other stores, moans can also be heard.
Kate looks ovr at Charlie and started to whisper.. "Can I ask you something?"
"Me? I'd be thrilled. I've been waiting"
"Have we ever met, anywhere?"
"No, that would be unlikely"
"Hmm"
"I look familiar, though, right?"
"Yeah"
"Can't quite place it?"
"No, I can't"
"Yeah. I think I know"
"You do?"
"You all everybody … You all everybody! You've never heard that song?"
"I've heard it. I just don't know what the hell it is—"
"That's us. Drive Shaft. Look, the ring—second tour of Finland. You've never heard of Drive Shaft?"
"The band?"
"Yeah, the band"
"You were in Drive Shaft"
"I am in Drive Shaft. I play bass"
"Seriously?"
"Yeah, Charlie. Track 3, you know, I do backing vocals"
"My friend Beth would freak. She loved you guys"
"Give me Beth's number, I'll call her, I'd, I'd love to... Does she live nearby?"
"Yeah.. but who knows she might be one of those things.."
She looks at Jack. "Have you ever heard of Drive Shaft?"
"You all everybody... You all everybody" he started singing out.
"We gotta be quiet and gotta keep moving...Quickly" He told the two.
"They were good" Kate told Charlie.
"They are good. We're still together. In the middle of a comeback" He told her as they continued walking.
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Back inside the department store Sayid and Michael are both standing on ladders on each end of the glass doors and are nailing dressing room doors to the wall to cover up the glass.
Hurley and Boone are helping them by handing them the doors and nails as they call for it.
The dead on the other side are clawling and scraping and biting, trying their best to get at them. They hear a loud growl coming from inside the store.
Everybody looks back at the bathroom door where they locked the man with the bite on his leg. He was pounding on the door trying to get through.
"There it is again.." Claire said to Rose as she was standing next to her.
Everybody stood quietly watching the door as it shook every time he pounded it.
Jack shines his flashlight on an oncoming door. He reads the name of the business.
"We're here" He says back to the two quietly.
"Well...lets to it then" charlie said after a brief silence.
Jack grabs onto the door handle...Starts to turn it, Thankful that it is unlocked. Jack slowly walks into the dark room with a flashlight in one hand and a bat in another.
Kate follows him in and then Charlie, who shuts the door behind him. They scan the room and come to realize it is empty of all those things.
They loosen up a bit knowing they are safer. Charlie looks around the stockroom.
"Lets get this.." Charlie started but never finished.
"CB" Jack told him.
"CB thing and get outta here" Charlie said.
Jack searches the shelves looking for anything.
"It's not here" He told them. "Has to be in the showroom"
Jack walks over to the door that leads to the showroom and puts his hand on the doorknob.
"I wouldn't go out there if I were you"
All turned around quickly, Jack flashed his light on the man that was standing in the doorway of the bathroom.
He was wearing a Radioshack uniform.
"The store is crawling with those things" He told them.
You work here?" Jack looked at his name..."Seth?"
"Yeah...I'm the manager"
"Are you the only one?" Kate asked.
"Now I am. There was me and one of my employees, we tried to lock the doors as quickly as we could but they got in. So we ran back here and locked these doors"
"What happened to him mate? Charlie asked.
"He turned into one of those things" He said. Seth opens the bathroom door just a little bit wider and moves out the way.
Jack shines the light down on the ground and see's another man on the ground with his head bashed in.
"What the hell did you do to him?!" Jack asked.
"He got bit...And I did what the news told me to do-Destroy the brain" He said.
"What do you mean destroy the brain?" Kate piped in.
"Do you guys have any idea what's going on?" Seth asked the three.
"We were hoping to get a radio to find out" Said Jack.
"Came to the right place" Seth said as he walked back into the bathroom and grabbed the radio from the sink's counter.
He goes to turn it on but it doesn't seem to be working. "It's not working" He said as he fiddled with it.
At that moment the door to the showroom started to get banged on, the things on the other side are aware of the group inside. They are clawing and scratching at the door as they moan louder and louder.
"We gotta get back!" Charlie exclaimed.
"Get back...Back where?" Seth asked.
"Theres more of us, over 40...Keep the radio on you, we gotta get outta here before they bust down that door and by my guess its any minute now" Jack yelled out.
They quickly run out of the back door and back into the hallway. Seth was the last one to enter but just as he does one of the creatures tht was staggering in the hall grabbed onto him.
He screams out in pain as the thing bites down into his neck, causing blood to gush out. He yells out. Jack and the rest look back.
Jack knows he's done for when he see's his body is lifeless. He see's the radio on the floor laying in a pool of blood. He runs towards it to grab it.
The creature that was biting down on Seth nows has it's attention on Jack.
"Jack come on!" Kate yelled out.
He grabs the radio and starts running for knowing where he's running cause it's dark he runs into Charlie and Kate.
They all figured out where they're at and start running for it...Except Charlie...he's been pulled down by the leg by the thing that attacked Seth.
"HELP!" Charlie yelled out.
Jack turns back around and shines his light down the hall and see's Charlie on the ground struggling with the creature. He runs back and tackles the man.. Leaving Charlie to get up and run...Kate has already been running off.
After a while of running Kate looks back and see's nobody is behind her.
"Jack..." No answers..
"Ja-Jaaaack?"
She hears footsteps and immediately becomes quiet. Thinking it might be one of those things. She slowly walks back down the hall and turns a corner.
Bumping right into Charlie as they both fall to the ground.
"Kate!" Charlie is glad to see her.
"Where's Jack?" She said getting to the point.
"I don't know!"
"Did you see him?"
"Yeah, he pulled me up!"
"Where is he?"
"I don't know!"
"How can you not know?"
"We got separated! Look, I … I was attacked and fell down, and he, he came back for me, that thing was just…it was right there. We were dead! I was. An-And then Jack came back, and he, he pulled me up. I don't know where he is" He explained.
Kate looks down the hall "We have to go back for him"
"Go back? There? Kate..."
"Then don't come"
Kate walks off and Charlie gets up to follow.
"Kate!" He says trying to catch up to her.
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"I heard you shout. I heard you shout "Jack". I'm Charlie, by the way" Charlie said.
He stops in his tracks when he see's kate shining her light down on the ground at a pool of blood.
"What is that?" Asked Charlie.
Kate picks it up and it is Seth's name tag.
"What is..." Asked Charlie again...
"It's seths.." The two shine their light up and see Jack standing there with his shirt drenched in blood.
Kate is happy to see him.
"How did that get here. I thought he didn't make it?" Kate asked.
"It was holding onto it" He said.
"It?" Charlie asked.
Jack then shines his light on the dead body laying in a pool of blood just next to where they found the name tag.
His head is smashed open and it's brains out poured out onto the floor.
"How does something like this happen?" Charlie asked Jack, referring to the brains being out of it's skull.
"I did what Seth was told to do...I destroyed the brain..."