Chapter Four: "The anger swells in my gut…"

[Ana-Lucia sitting alone on the beach, sharpening her knife on a rock. Andie comes over to her.

Andie: Hey.

[Ana looks up at her, doesn't reply, and goes back to sharpening her knife.

Andie (shrugs it off): Okay.

[Andie goes and stands directly in front of Ana.

Andie: I get that you don't like me and honestly I could not care less, so-
Ana (not looking up): Then why are you here?
Andie: I want to know what happened to Cindy.
Ana (annoyed): Like you don't know.
Andie (calmly): Look, I'm not one of the Others and I'm kinda getting tired of saying it.
Ana (standing): Oh yeah? Well, I don't believe you. I've seen what they can do (Stands nose to nose with Andie) and I'm not gonna let you do it to us.
Andie (calm but with attitude): Are you threatening me, Annie?

[Ana doesn't answer. Instead she gives Andie a dirty look and stalks off.

[Focus on Ana's face that jumps into a Flashback.

[Scene. Ana with a group of friends at a bar. Four men and one other woman. The men are all cops, one is her partner Mike. The woman is Asian-American.

Mike: So, Donna, you knew Ana way back when?
Donna: Indeed I did, but back then I believe she wanted to be an actress, not a cop.
Ana (laughing): Shut up. High school was forever ago.
Cop 1: So, how long you in town?
Donna: Just a few weeks then I'm heading back to Alabama. I'm out this way for work so I thought I'd stop in and see if the rumours were true. That Ana-Lucia Cortez actually became a cop.
Cop 2: And a damn scary one, I'll tell ya!
Mike: So what is it you do, Donna?
Donna: I am the traveling secretary to the CEO of Brighton and Mauve Construction. I'm here doing research for some buildings my boss is hoping to build. By day. By night, I'm hanging with you fine people.
Ana: I will drink to that!

[They all raise their glasses and beer bottles to a toast, hollering and cheering drunken nonsense.

[Close up on Ana Lucia's happy face before flashing back to reality on the island to her angered expression. She's in the jungle with her knife. After a few seconds she hurtles the weapon into a tree.

[Scene opens. The Hatch. Locke is closing the bunker door as Jack comes into frame.

Jack: Henry saying anything?
Locke: Nothing new. I just gave him something to eat.
Jack: Okay. I'll go in later and talk to him again.
Locke: I don't think he's gonna change his story, Jack.
Jack: Sayid said that he's gonna keep lying until we break him.
Locke: Or until we kill him.
Jack: You standing up for the prisoner there, Locke?
Locke: Maybe I just don't wanna judge him yet. What if we're punishing an innocent man, Jack?
Jack: Then he has nothing to worry about.
Locke: You're not gonna stop pushing him until he tells you what you want to hear.
Jack: We're on the same side here, John.
Locke: I'm not sure we are, Jack. I want to keep our people safe and I believe you do, too. But I don't wish to crucify a man who may be just like us.
Jack: And I don't wish to protect someone who might be stalling us until the rest of his crew get here to kill us all.
Locke: You protect Andie.
Jack: What is that supposed to mean?
Locke: Come on, Jack, we're both thinking the same thing here. First Kate and Sawyer find Andie hurt in the jungle claiming not to be one of them and then we find Henry saying the exact same thing. Yet you choose to treat them in completely different ways.
Jack: Andie is not one of them, John.
Locke: How can you be so sure? What is it about her that makes you believe her story and not Henry's?

[Jack doesn't reply. The timer starts to beep.

Locke (leaving): I'll get it.

[Shot of Ana now rhythmically aiming and throwing her knife at the tree. Kate enters.

Kate: Hey.
Ana: Hi.
Kate: What are you doing?
Ana: Target practice. (makes a point by throwing the knife swiftly into the tree.)
Kate: Right. Look, I saw you talking to Andie before.
Ana: So?
Kate: Why do you give her such a hard time?
Ana: What are you, her mother?
Kate: Just asking.
Ana: Look, she might have the lot of you fooled, but I see what she really is. And she is gonna turn on you one of these days.
Kate: How can you be so sure?
Ana: I'm sure. (Throws the knife again)

[Into Flashback.

[Shot of Ana and Donna in an apartment looking at a yearbook, laughing.

Ana: Wow, we were so not cool.
Donna: Oh, but we thought we were.

[Donna's cell phone rings.

Donna: Oh, that'll be my boss. (Getting up) He's not no idea what "day off" means. I'll be right back.
Ana: Okay.

[Donna exits. Ana keeps flipping through the yearbook. After a few seconds, she hears:

Donna (harsh whisper): No!

[Ana gets up slowly and quietly and moves so she can overhear the conversation. Donna is talking in whispers.

Donna: I know…I know what we agreed. Look, if she suspects me in the slightest she's gonna figure it out…you can't be sure of that…I understand…I will…

[Donna turns and sees Ana listening to the conversation.

Donna (into phone but looking directly at Ana): I have to go.

[Ana enters the room.

Ana: What's going on?
Donna: I'm sorry, Ana.
Ana: For what?

[Donna suddenly punches Ana hard in the face, knocking her out.

Donna: That.

[Donna steps over an unconscious Ana and leaves.

[Back to the island.

[Ana is leaning against a tree on the edge of the jungle watching the people on the beach, twirling her knife between her fingers.

[Shot of Andie walking up to Sawyer's tent with a shirt in her hands. She stands out the front of it.

Andie: Hey Sawyer?

[Sawyer comes out of his tent wearing nothing but a pair of jeans.

Sawyer: There's my favourite shirt.

[Andie chucks it at him.

Andie: Yeah, it somehow made its way into my load of laundry.
Sawyer: Funny how that happens.
Andie (rolling eyes): Yeah, hilarious. (As Sawyer pulls his shirt on, Andie notices a scar on his left shoulder.) How'd you get shot?
Sawyer: What's that, Angel?
Andie: Your shoulder. That's a bullet wound, right?
Sawyer: Yeah. How'd you know that?
Andie: I just do. It looks new. How'd it happen?
Sawyer: Got shot off a raft.
Andie: A raft?
Sawyer: Yeah, Michael wanted to get his boy, Walt, of the island so he built a raft. Me and the Korean guy went with him. They found us and shot me.
Andie (blankly): I have no idea what you just said.
Sawyer: Got time? (Indicates for her to sit)
Andie: What?
Sawyer: You wanna know how I got shot or dontcha?

[Andie sighs and sits.

[Shot pans back to Ana looking on with a sour look on her face.

[Shot to the hatch. Jack opens the armory door and goes in. Gale is sitting there looking weird as always. Jack starts to clear away his food.

Gale: When are you gonna let me out of here?

[Jack doesn't reply.

Gale: Oh, we're not friends anymore?

[Jack glances at him, then turns away and heads out the door. But before he leaves, he turns around again.

Jack: We found Andie.
Gale: Pardon me?
Jack: Andie. She came running out of the jungle after escaping from your people.
Gale (annoyed and frantic): They're not my people; I don't know what you're talking-!
Jack (cutting him off): She told us what you did to her!

[Walks up to Gale and gets in his face.

Jack: And if you think I'm gonna let you out of here to do the same thing to the rest of us…you better think again.

[Jack stares eye to eye with Gale for a few seconds before turning and leaving the armory door. As he locks it again, he turns. Locke is watching him, having heard the whole thing. Locke doesn't say anything, just leaves the room.

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