Chapter Fourteen: "Into the rush…"

Night

Shot of Kate, Ana, Sayid and Jack walking through the jungle after the fight with Juliet and the others.

Jack: Which way did that shot come from?
Ana: Over here, I think.
Kate: Sawyer had a gun, why would he be screaming for help?
Sayid: Let's get to him and find out.
Jack (calling out): Sawyer!
Kate (calling out): Andie!

The continue through the jungle.

Shot of Sawyer still cradling Andie's limp body. Close up on his face leads into Flashback.

Sawyer sitting with Gordy some years back at a café. Outside its pouring rain. Gordy is sitting opposite Sawyer at a table. He raises his glass to Sawyer.

Gordy: Compliments of Frank and Estelle Howard!
Sawyer: Soon-to-be-divorced.
Gordy: And now six hundred grand poorer thanks to you, my man.

They toast each other.

Gordy: I think you're getting too good at this, Sawyer.
Sawyer: Between you and me, so do I. I've done three women in six months. Gotta be a record.
Gordy: I think we need to look bigger.
Sawyer: Lay it on me.
Gordy: I got this…call him a 'contact'. His entire social calendar consists of taken out rich old sweethearts who are bored of their hubbies. He offered me some candidates awhile ago. Real easy, swept of the feet kinda ladies. Beginners stuff for you.
Sawyer: What's your point?
Gordy: He's got some hard-asses, too. Hard-asses with money.
Sawyer: Gordy, man, this last job pushed as past one mil.
Gordy: Exactly, we don't need the cash. This is all about challenging your skills. If you can con one of these crazies, you can con anyone.

Sawyer leans back, thinking for a few moments. Then he raises his glass.

Sawyer: Challenge accepted.

Flash back to the island.

Sawyer stands up, carrying Andie in his arms. He starts to walk through the jungle towards the far-away sounds of his friends calling his name.

Shot of Kate and Jack jogging through the jungle. Jack suddenly stops. Kate runs up the back of him.

Kate: Hey! Jack. What's wrong?

She looks forward and sees what he sees – Sawyer carrying Andie's blood covered body. Sayid and Ana appear behind Jack and Kate. Jack runs straight for Sawyer.

Kate: What happened?!
Sawyer: They shot her.
Ana: Who? Where?
Sawyer: I don't know.

Jack takes Andie from Sawyer's arms and lays her on the ground. Kate goes over to Sawyer. His clothes have Andie's blood all over them. And there is a smear of blood on his cheek from where she touched him before.

Sayid (sadly): They killed another one of us.
Ana: I am done with this!

She turns away. Jack brushes Andie's hair out of her face and checks her pulse.

Jack: She's not dead.
Kate: What?
Jack: She's not dead.
Sayid: What?
Jack: She has a pulse, she's alive.

Jack hurriedly picks her up.

Jack: We have to get her back to camp.
Ana: It took us a day to trek over here.
Jack: So we run.

He takes off with Andie. Kate, Ana and Sayid follow.

Shot of Sawyer as he watches after them. He looks at his hands. They are stained with Andie's blood. He looks to his left where Ben was standing before. He takes a few steps in that direction. Then he looks back to where his friends ran. He thinks again and follows Andie.

Flash to black.

Shot of Jack running as fast as he can with Andie in his arms. Sayid, Kate and Ana are right behind him. Jack stops, breathing heavily. Sayid comes over to him.

Sayid: Give her to me.

Jack hands Andie over to him and takes a drink of water. Kate looks around, also grabbing a drink.

Kate: Where's Sawyer?

They all look around.

Kate: What if they got to him?
Sawyer (o.s.): Calm down there, Freckles, I'm right here.

Sawyer comes jogging to meet them.

Sawyer: Why are we stopping? We gotta move.
Kate: Jack's exhausted; we need to take a break.
Sawyer: Andie's dying and you stop for a drink of water? Come on!
Jack: Alright, let's go.

He reaches for Andie.

Sayid: No, I'll carry her. You lead the way back.

Jack pauses for a moment. Then nods. He starts back into the jungle. Then he stops suddenly. Everyone else does to. Camera pans to reveal a teenage girl standing before them, staring at Andie with a look of shock on her face. It's Alex.

Alex: Is she alive?

Flash to black.

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