Chapter Two: "Come on in…"

Scene opens. Flashback. Daytime. Playground. Diane is watching the children play. Kate and Maddie are playing in the sandbox.

Kate: My castle's going to be better then yours.
Maddie: Is not.
Kate: Just you watch.

Kate's castle suddenly collapses.

Maddie: That's okay, you can play with mine.
Kate: Okay.

Kate gets up to move and sees her mother.

Kate: Uh-oh. That man is here again.

Maddie looks and sees Diane talking to another man.

Maddie: Wayne.
Kate: I wish he'd stop coming over. I think we should tell Daddy.
Maddie: Mama said not to.

The girls watch as Wayne grabs Diane's wrist.

Kate: Hey! Don't hurt our mummy!

Both girls run over to their mother.

Diane: Girls, it's alright. Wayne was just playing.
Wayne: Hey girls. You've grown since the last time I saw you.
Sam (o.s.): Diane!
Maddie: Daddy!
Diane: Sam, it's not what you think!
Sam: He's the reason you missed our session?
Wayne: Hey army-man, take it easy.
Sam: Hey man, shut your mouth! I told you to stay away from my family!

Sam and Wayne start brawling.

Kate (to Maddie): Let's go! (the two girls run off)
Diane: Girls! Maddie! Katherine! Katie!

Back at the beach.

Kate (to the girl): You were on the plane?
Jack (entering): Kate? What's going on?
Sayid: We had the manifest. We accounted for everybody. You were not on the plane.
Girl: I didn't have a ticket. My friend Cindy was a flight attendant and offered me a free trip. She took care of the details.
Ana (entering): You knew Cindy?
Girl: How do you know her?
Ana: She was with us. They took her.
Girl: Where? When?
Ana: Like you don't know?! You're one of them!
Girl: No I'm not!
Jack: Hey, hey! Cut it out.

Ana exits in a huff.

Jack (to girl): What's your name?
Girl: Andrea. Andie.
Jack: Hi, Andie. I'm Jack. I'm a doctor. Can I check out your cuts?
Andie: I'm fine.
Jack: Please. It'd make me feel better.
Andie: Alright.

Scene. Sun and Claire sitting at Claire's shelter with Aaron. Claire is watching Jack and Kate with Andie as they treat her injuries.

Sun: Do you believe her?
Claire: Andie?
Sun: Yes. When she said she was on the plane?
Claire: Ah, yeah.
Sun: You do? Why?
Claire: I remember her.
Sun: From the plane?
Claire: No, before then. She was ahead of me in the line and I dropped my boarding pass. She picked it up for me.

Shot of Jack bandaging a cut on Andie's arm.

Jack: So you've been out there on your own for six weeks?
Andie: Yeah. I woke up somewhere in the jungle after the crash.
Kate: How did you survive?
Andie: Found food where I could. There was this, ah, waterfall near the middle of the island. It was fresh. That was sort of like my base camp. Everyday I ventured a little further out. Seeing if I could find anyone else from the crash. I figured I must've been the only one to survive.
Kate: When I found you, you said they were coming back.

Andie pauses and then begins her story.

Andie: After about a month of being alone I decided to trek across the island, see if I could find the beach, maybe catch some fish or something. I came to this place with a lot of cliffs and there was this big rock with a hole in it. That's where they found me. These people, they were like animals. They looked like they'd been on the island forever.
Jack: What did they do to you?
Andie: They kept me in a room. Alone. They kept asking me questions and testing my blood.
Jack: Questions about what?
Andie: Everything. My life. Why I was on the plane? Where all the other survivors were. I told them I didn't know but they didn't seem to want to believe me.
Kate: How did you get away from them?
Andie: There was this girl, a teenager. She came to my room in the middle of the night, let me out and told me to run.
Kate: But you said they were coming back.
Andie: I got away two nights ago. Since then, I keep hearing them. Whispering. They don't want people to get away. They are coming back.
Jack: I have some aspirin at the hatch. I'll be right back, okay?
Andie: Yeah.

Jack exits.

Andie: Hatch?
Kate: Long story.
Andie: Ah…listen, sorry I slapped you before.
Kate: Don't worry about it.
Andie: People keep staring at me; I don't think they believe me.
Kate: Well, we've had some trouble with the Others in the past. Including one guy who posed as one of us, then he kidnapped Claire. The girl with the baby.
Andie: I'm not one of them.
Kate: I know.
Andie: So you've all been together? Since the crash?
Kate: Pretty much. We just gained a few more people. They were in the tail section of the plane. It crashed on the other side of the island.

Andie nods slowly.

Kate: Sorry, this is a lot to take in.
Andie: No, its okay. I'm actually glad to have someone to talk to who doesn't want to kill me.

Kate smiles. Leads into another Flashback.

Night. Raining. Wayne is driving a truck with Diane and the girls in the car.

Maddie: Where are we going, mama?
Diane: I told you to stop asking me, darlin'. You'll know when we get there.
Kate: What about Daddy?
Wayne: I'm your Daddy now, girls.
Diane (warningly): Wayne. Girls, we can call Daddy when we stop, okay?
Girls: Okay.
Wayne: It's really coming down.
Diane: Maybe we should pull over. You shouldn't have drunk so much at dinner.
Wayne: I'm fine, Diane. We only got about ten minutes to go.
Diane (looking out the windscreen): What is that?
Wayne: What?
Diane: Ahead of us.

Maddie leans in and looks.

Maddie: It looks like a horsy.

Sure enough, its a black horse. It canters into the middle of the road and stops.

Diane: Wayne, stop!

Wayne slams the breaks. The car goes skidding in the rain. The girls scream. The car goes off the road and flips onto its side. Diane emerges from the wreck first.

Diane: Girls! Wayne!
Wayne: Yeah, I'm here.

Diane looks in the back of the car.

Diane: Where are my girls?!
Wayne: They must've got thrown from the car.
Diane: Madeline! Katherine! Where are you?!
Kate: Mommy!

Diane sees Kate and Maddie a little way away from the car.

Diane: Katherine!
Kate: Mommy, Maddie won't wake up.
Diane: What? Madeline? MADDIE!

Flash to black.

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