Chapter Fifty-three:
"What am I doing here?"
[Shot to the other islanders walking to the tower. Sawyer is walking with Claire who is rocking a fussy Aaron.]
Claire: It's okay. You're okay.
Sawyer: What's with him?
Claire: I think he's just a bit scared. Last time he was this far from the beach he was taken by Rousseau.
[Sawyer doesn't answer. Claire looks over at him and sees he looks distracted.]
Claire: She'll be fine, Sawyer. (He looks at her) Andie? She'll be okay.
Sawyer: How can you be so sure?
[Claire shrugs.]
Claire: Cos she's Andie.
[She smiles at him and keeps walking. Sawyer stops. Jack, Kate and Juliet, who are at the end of the group, come up behind him.]
Jack: What's up?
Sawyer: I'm going back.
Jack: What?
Sawyer: I'm going back to the beach.
Jack: No way. We keep moving.
Sawyer: I ain't asking permission.
[Juliet and Kate both stop also.]
Sawyer (To Jack): Look you got a job to do here. I ain't gonna stand in your way of doing it. And you sure as hell don't need me.
Jack: What do you think you're gonna get done? Alone and unarmed.
Juliet: He won't be alone, I'll go with him.
Jack: It's a suicide mission without weapons.
Juliet: I know where there are some guns. There's a hidden cash, a couple of miles from here. I can take us back to the beach on a route past it.
Jack: You don't have to do that.
Juliet: Yeah, Jack, I kinda do.
Sawyer: Let's do this.
[Sawyer and Juliet leave. Kate watches them go with Jack.]
Jack: We're supposed to stay together.
Kate: Since when does he listen to you?
Jack: True.
Kate: He just wants to make sure Andie's alright.
Jack: I know.
Kate: And hey; at least Juliet's gone.
[Jack turns to Kate.]
Jack (smiles): And why's that good?
Kate: Now it's just you and me. Like before.
[She kisses Jack lightly on the lips.]
Kate: Come on. We have a hike to lead.
[She takes off smiling. Jack watches her leave and then follows. When he catches up to her he sees her, and all the rest of the group plus Rousseau, staring at something in the distance. Jack looks and sees Ben and Alex coming towards them. Jack stands protectively in front of his people.]
Ben: Hello Jack. We need to talk.
[Shot back to the beach. Jin, Bernard and Sayid are kneeling in execution positions. Tom has leant Andie against a tree and has her hands tied together.]
Andie: What are we waiting for?
Tom: Orders.
Andie: From Ben? The guy's a whacko.
Tom: We're all a little whacko sometimes, Andie.
[The walkie in Tom's hands crackles.]
Ben: Tom, are you there?
Tom: Yes, I'm here.
[Tom moves over to Ryan who is watching over Jin, Bernard and Sayid. Ben can be heard talking to Jack over the radio.]
Ben (To Jack): Your plan killed seven of my people, but the one's that you failed to kill are now holding your friends. Jin, Sayid, Bernard and Andie. At gunpoint.
Sayid: Jack, don't give him anything!!!
[Ryan smacks Sayid over the head repeatedly.]
Andie: Stop it!!
Bernard: Leave him alone!!
Andie: Stop!
Ryan: I said shut up!!
[Through the walkie, Jack can he heard.]
Jack: And what's to stop me from snapping your neck?
Ben: Tom, put Andie on the walkie.
[Tom goes back to Andie and hands her the walkie. She takes it in her bound hands. Ryan is watching and aims his handgun at Sayid's head.]
Andie: Jack?
Jack: Andie?
Andie: Jack you have to give it to him. He's gonna kill Sayid. He's gonna kill all of us. Give him the phone.
Jack: Andie; I can't.
Ben (quickly): Tom, unless you hear my voice in one minute; shoot all four of them.
Tom: Got it.
[Ben looks at his watch.]
Andie: Jack! He's gonna kill them! Give him the phone!
Jack: No!
Ben: Bring me the phone, Jack.
Andie: Jack, please!
Jack: I can't!
Sayid: Don't negotiate with him-
Andie (cuts him off): Shut up! (Into walkie) Jack, please!
Jin: No!
Andie: Jack!
Ben: Forty seconds.
Jack: No. I'm getting them all off the Island. All of them!!
Ben: Let me ask you something, Jack. Why do you wanna leave the Island? What is it that you so desperately want to get back to? You have no-one. Your father's dead, your wife left you, moved on with another man.
Andie: Jack, give him the phone!
Ben: Can you just not wait to get back to the hospital? Get back to fixing things? Its twenty seconds now. Just give me the phone, Jack.
Jack: No.
Ben: Ten seconds. Bring me the phone.
Jack: No.
Andie: Jack!
Ben: I'm not bluffing!
Jack: I WON'T DO IT!!!
Andie: GIVE HIM THE GODDAMN PHONE!!!
Ben: Five. Four. Three...
Andie: No! NO!!!!
[Pause]
[Shot to Jack and Ben sitting alone and across from each other.]
[Four shots sound over the mike.]
Ben: I'm so sorry, Jack.
[Jack, in tears, attacks Ben, hitting him numerous times and causing his own knuckles to bleed. When Ben is incapacitated, Jack grabs the walkie.]
Jack: Tom. Are you there?
Tom: Yeah, Jack, I hear you.
Jack: I'm going to lead my people up to the radio tower. And I'm gonna make a call. And I'm gonna get em all rescued, every one of them. And then I'm gonna come find you, and I'm gonna kill ya.
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