DAMON: Okay, so we've got the casting down. What next?
JJ: Let's get a plane.
DAMON: And how are we going to do that?
JJ: From an elephant graveyard. I dunno. What do they do with massive oceanic flights when they're done?
DAMON: You mean international.
JJ: I mean Oceanic. That's our flight. What do you think?
DAMON: Okay, fine, sounds good. You take care of getting that plane, and I'll take care of pitching it to the execs.
The pitching roomABC MAN: So you're telling me that you're doing a modern day Gilligan's island?
DAMON: No. Absolutely not.
JJ: Kind of. With monsters. And undercover passengers. And a psychic kid.
ABC MAN: Uh-huh. Who's going to play Mary Ann?
JJ: Girl by the name of Evangeline Lily. Cute girl. Sexy as hell.
DAMON: It's nothing like Gilligan's Island.
ABC MAN: Got a skipper? Millionaires? A professor? A Gilligan?
JJ: Yup. We've got a doctor, a pair of spoiled rich kids, a creepy box man, and. . .huh. How 'bout that. We don't really have a Gilligan?
ABC MAN: That's okay. Nobody like him anyway.
DAMON: So you like our show?
ABC MAN: Kind of. But our slot's full for the fall. Can you make it a miniseries?
JJ: Sure, no problem.
DAMON: What?
ABC MAN: Even better. Make it a two hour movie.
JJ: Consider it done
JJ and Damon walk out of the pitching room.
DAMON: Are you serious? We're going to make a movie? We can't fit all our ideas into a movie!
JJ: Relax, bro. We tell them we make a movie, we film the pilot, and they're so hooked they're dying to know what happens next and they sign the show. Piece of cake.
DAMON: I am going to be the biggest joke at my parents' holiday party.
Meanwhile, in Canada. . .
EVIE: Yes, I'm going to be in this show.
CUSTOMS: Who's JJ Abrams?
EVIE: No idea. But I get to be on tv!
CUSTOMS: Why the hell do they need you?
EVIE: They said I'm perfect for the part, eh!
CUSTOMS: Why can't they use an American actress?
EVIE: Because the character is from Iowa.
CUSTOMS: That's in America, sweetheart.
EVIE: Huh. I figured it was somewhere in the Yukon.
CUSTOMS: So in conclusion. . .we're not going to give you a visa.
EVIE: What? Why not?
CUSTOMS: No need. They can get an American to play the role.
EVIE: But I'm perfect! I'm one sit-up away from the perfect body!
CUSTOMS: And we're talking America. Every third woman is an actress.
EVIE: How do you know?
CUSTOMS: Trying watching 19 year olds sneak booze across the border. Trust me. They can act.
In HawaiiJJ: All right, people, let's make this work!
DAMON: How are we going to make it work? We don't have our lead actress.
JJ: We don't? Hey. He's right over there. Points at Foxy.
DAMON: Actress! Actress! Female! Kate! She's the lead! The doctor dies, remember?
JJ: Oh, yeah, about that. What about. . .if the doctor lived?
DAMON: Are you kidding me? That was going to be the amazing twist. The main character dies in the first episode. It was going to make history!
JJ: Yeah. . .here's the problem. I handed out the script to some people to read, and. . .
DAMON: Your mom didn't like it.
JJ: Here, listen to the voicemail. Hands Damon a phone.
JJs MOM: On the phone. You can't kill the doctor! I just spent an hour falling in love with the doctor! I've imagined him and me in a dozen scandalous sex positions! He convinced me to get out the Kama Sutra again! You can't kill him! I'll never have another orgasm!
DAMON: winces and hands the phone back. I'm sorry, man.
JJ: Tell me about it. So now the doctor lives.
DAMON: So we don't really need Kate?
JJ: Nope. Not really.
DAMON: Well. Then I guess we can start shooting whenever.
Terry comes stomping over, a copy of the script in his hand.
TERRY: You kicked me off Alias for this?
JJ: Terry, my man, how good to see you again!
TERRY: I don't have a single line!
JJ: What are you talking about? Yes you do! Shuffles through the script and finds the line reading: John Locke smiles with an orange in his mouth. See?
TERRY: That's not a line! That's a direction! People are going to think I'm creepy!
JJ: Of course not. They're going to think you have a beautiful smile.
DAMON: Fresh as oranges.
TERRY: This is weird, JJ.
JJ: I know.
TERRY: You're sure my character's going to be big.
DAMON: Definitely.
JJ: Bigger than Claire's belly.
DAMON: Bigger than Hurley.
JJ: Bigger than the love triangle between Michael, Jin, and Sun.
DAMON: That's not the love triangle.
JJ: Yes it is.
DAMON: No. It's between Jack, Sawyer, and Kate.
JJ: We don't have a
Kate anymore.
DAMON: Yes we do, she's just not here yet.
JJ: We can't have a love triangle between Jack and Sawyer.
DAMON: What?
JJ: Though it does have possibilities. . .
TERRY: I'll do it!
DAMON: This is going to be a disaster. . .
Meanwhile, on a plane. . .
EVIE: Thank goodness I finally got a flight. I just hope they don't start filming without me.
Back on Hawaii.
JJ: And. . .action!
