"You've been here before" Sydney's been in Room 47 and at the scene of Lazarey's murder.

Sark is dressed in grey Shows that he is between black and white. You don't know what side he's on.

"We're all alive in here." It's a possibility that anyone is alive i.e. Lazarey.

The CIA scene Shows Sydney's guilt and shows a sense of irony and vengeance by having Sark as the CIA agent that interrogates her.

The beach scene Vaughn is worried about her, but Sydney is stubborn and says everything is fine. Shows how she feels about the present situation, whether it is his marriage or her missing two years. I was going to mention the scar, but changed my mind.

"I went while you were sleeping." Vaughn moved on in life while she was gone.

"You go on without me." Sydney has to move on alone.

"Don't go out too far!" A warning from Jack. Kind of obvious. Be careful is what he's saying.

"You have to stay with me." Sark wants to her stay where she feels "happy and carefree."

"They need me up there." Sydney's commitments.

"They didn't wait for you. They gave up." Sark points out one of her fears: abandonment. It also indicates Sydney's fear that they had given up searching for her when she was missing for two years.

"Everyone always ends up leaving." Her mother, Danny, Will, and Francie.

"Back where?" Back to Jack and Vaughn or back to the ocean.

"From where you brought me." I left it ambiguous. Just because. I'll leave that for JJ to finish for me.

Sark I tried to write him as a truthful voice. If Lauren was supposed to represent something in the show, then the Sark in my story was to represent Sydney's most inner thoughts: her fears, her doubts, her emotions. Sydney probably conjured up Sark as this voice because he's always been the one to tell it how it is. He's not compassionate and he'll tell you anything without any regard to your feelings. Knowing this, Sydney is most likely going to believe Sark and know he isn't trying to shelter her or protect her, or hold back any information. One of the main reasons I decided to show him as cold and rough, but at the same time, honest and straightforward.