Chapter Seventeen: "Drink up me hearties…"
Shot of Sawyer and Andie in The Rider bar on that same night. Andie is highly drunk. Sawyer is getting there. There are a number of empty bottles on their table. They're laughing.
Andie: You know what, Sawyer? I like you.
Sawyer: I like you, too.
Andie: Good. (Pause) So what's the deal with you?
Sawyer: What's that?
Andie: You sit yourself down here and ask me about my boyfriend and my job and my life. What are you after?
Sawyer: Hey, we're having fun, ain't we?
Andie: Yes we are. Doesn't answer my question, though.
Sawyer: I'm just after a good conversation with a pretty lady.
Andie: Yeah, well I'm the only one who seems to be talking.
Sawyer holds his arms out.
Sawyer: What do you wanna know?
Andie: What do you do for a living?
Sawyer: I'm a businessman.
Andie: What kinda business?
Sawyer: Money.
Andie: Like an accountant? Cos that's boring.
Sawyer (chuckles): No, not an accountant. I just hang onto the money.
Andie: Oh, like a bank.
Sawyer: Close enough.
Andie: You married?
Sawyer: No, angel, I'm not married.
Andie: Alright, I'll ask. What's with this angel thing? Are you hitting on me? Cos I'll tell you right now I'm not drunk enough for that.
Sawyer laughs lightly.
Sawyer: Honestly?
Andie: Honestly.
Sawyer: It's your eyes.
Andie: What?
Sawyer: Your eyes. When I saw you they were the first thing I noticed. They were so bright. You looked so happy.
Andie: But you said I looked sad when you came over here tonight?
Sawyer (pauses): I lied. I've seen you before tonight.
Andie: Oh yeah? When?
Sawyer looks up at her. This isn't part of the plan. He's not meant to reveal true personal feelings on a job. But something about her…
Sawyer: At that little place a few streets away. I saw you through the window sitting with some guy eating lunch. You were laughing. You're eyes lit up. And I thought, man; this girl is just...glowing.
Andie stares at him for a few moments.
Andie: Huh...that is some line.
Sawyer: I know; it's lame.
Andie: Yes, very. (Beat) But you know what?
She pours them both another drink and raises her glass.
Andie: I think I like lame.
Sawyer smiles. They toast again.
Shot back to island.
Jack is trying to rouse Andie again. Sayid, Ana, Kate and Sawyer are nearby.
Kate: What do you mean she doesn't remember us?
Jack: Just that; she had no clue who we were.
Sawyer: She thought we were them; The Others.
Jack: She hit her head. Bad. If memory loss is the only side effect then she'll be lucky.
Sayid: Is it permanent.
Jack: I don't know.
Kate: Claire lost her memory when They took her.
Jack: That was different. That was from trauma alone. Add that to a head injury and being shot in the chest...?
Ana: So what the hell are we supposed to do?
Jack: Get her back to camp. (Beat) Now.
Flash to black.
Shot of the sun setting over the ocean.
Shot of the camp.
Shot of Claire and Sun cooking over a fire.
Claire: They've been gone almost three days.
Sun: I know.
Claire: What if something's happened to them?
Sun: I'm sure they can take care of themselves.
Claire: But we don't know how many of Them there are. What if there's hundreds?
Sun: Claire; stop worrying.
Claire: Okay, I can't. I've tried and I can't. I worry.
Sun (pauses): So do I.
Jin suddenly runs over to them, pointing to the beach line.
Jin: Jack! Jack!
More of the islanders look and see Jack carrying Andie come into camp with Ana, Sayid, Kate and Sawyer behind him. Locke hurries over to them.
Locke: What happened?
Jack: Long story.
Jack carries Andie over to the infirmary tent and lays her on the bed with the rest of the search party behind him. Claire, Charlie, Hurley, Sun and Jin enter.
Claire: Oh my god, is she alright?
Sun: What happened?
Jack: Hey, give her some room, alright?
Kate: Come on, guys.
Kate and Sayid usher them out of the tent.
Hurley: Guys, what happened?
Charlie: Did you see their camp? What was it like?
Claire: Are they coming back?
Sun: What happened to Andie?
Sayid: We will explain to you what happened when we're all together so everyone gets the same information.
Sawyer exits the tent and pushes past them all. He knocks Charlie as he leaves.
Charlie: Hey, watch it! (To Kate and Sayid) What's his problem?
Kate: It's been a long couple of days for him. For all of us.
Shot of Sawyer entering his tent. He roughly pushes through the tarp door. He goes over to his bed and lifts it up revealing his stash. He pulls out a pack of cigarettes and a box of matches. He takes one out and goes to put it in his mouth but doesn't.
Into Flashback.
Shot of Sawyer and Andie in the bar on the same night. Sawyer removes a pack of cigarettes from his pocket as well as a lighter. Andie is signaling to the bartender for more drinks. She turns back and sees Sawyer with the cigarette in his mouth.
Andie: Ah, there's your flaw!
Sawyer: Scuse me?
Andie: You're flaw. I've been trying for, what is it now, (checks her watch) the past six hours to pinpoint your flaw and here it is. Chain smoker.
Sawyer: I take it you don't want one?
Andie: Never smoked in my life, not starting now. And I gotta tell you, if you light up? I may just have to stumble my way outta here.
Sawyer chuckles and nods. He makes a show of taking the unlit cigarette out of his mouth and stubbing it out in one of the empty glasses on the table.
Andie: Good man.
Sawyer: I aim to please.
Andie: I'm sure you do.
Sawyer: So Andie. Tell me more about this boss of yours. The one who's got you here drinking your sorrows away.
Andie: Danny. Royal pain in my ass.
Sawyer: Danny, huh? He sounds like an ass.
Andie: He is.
Sawyer: He the one he gave you that shiner?
Sawyer indicates his own wrist. Shot of Andie's wrist revealing a purple bruise. She covers it up.
Sawyer: Or is that from the boyfriend? I gotta tell ya you don't seem like the kinda girl to take a hit lying down.
Andie: Nick doesn't hit me. Neither does Danny. It's sort of a war wound, I guess.
Sawyer: War wound? (Beat) You never really told me what you do, you know.
Andie: Well...I sort of...find people. And Danny tells me who to find.
Sawyer: You do everything this Danny tells you?
Andie (shrugs): He writes my paychecks.
Sawyer leans in.
Sawyer: What if I told you I had a way out of this?
Andie: I'd say you were dreaming. I can't get out. It's like a lifetime thing.
Sawyer: There's always a way out.
Andie: Not when it's your choice to get into it.
She smiles blankly. Sawyer watches her, understanding her. Feeling sorry for her. Caring for her?
Back to the island – Sawyer's tent.
Sawyer is twisting the cigarette between his fingers, staring at it. Something glints in the corner of his eye. Sawyer looks; Andie's ring. Sawyer picks it up and looks at it sadly.
Shot of Sayid, Kate and Ana standing ahead of the other islanders.
Sayid: We approached their camp. They had Andie in chains. Sawyer took one of them hostage and made a trade. Their man for Andie.
Shot of Sawyer exiting his tent. He walks past the group and goes to the infirmary. Kate watches him.
Shot of Andie, still out of it, on the bed. Locke is standing with his arms crossed near her. Sawyer enters.
Sawyer: She still out?
Jack: Yeah. Stitches are holding so the wound is good. But she needs antibiotics and I can't get her to swallow when she's unconscious.
Locke: You said she woke up earlier? What did you do?
Jack: Nothing. I was stitching her up. Maybe it was the pain. Or pressure on her wound. Or it could have just been nothing.
Sawyer: What about that stuff that kid gave us? The vaccine?
Jack (shakes his head): No, I'm not injecting her with that again.
Sawyer: Why not? It helped last time.
Jack: But I have no idea what the hell is in that stuff.
Sawyer: She said it'd help.
Jack looks from Sawyer to Andie.
Jack: Fine. I'll get it from Ana.
Jack exits.
Locke: She was shot; so I'm guessing we hit some of them, too. Retaliation?
Sawyer: Did what I had to do.
Locke nods.
Locke (exiting): I'll get her some water.
Sawyer goes over to Andie and sits down next to her. He can see Locke filling up water bottles and Jack talking to Ana through the door of the tent. He turns to Andie.
Sawyer: Hey. I don't know if you can hear me, Andie, but I'm gonna talk anyway. (Pauses) You don't remember me. You were drinking so much in the bar that night I don't blame you. I didn't recognize you either. Not at first. (Beat) And then I saw you laugh. And I remembered. Those eyes... those perfect eyes.
Flash to black.
Shot to The Rider bar. The same night with Sawyer and Andie. Andie has her head on the table and is fiddling with a straw in her drink. Sawyer is leaning back against his chair with his eyes closed.
Andie: Sawyer?
Sawyer (snaps his head up): Yeah?
Andie: Have you ever done something you regretted?
Sawyer: You ain't talk about tonight, are ya?
Andie: No. (She raises her head) I mean before now.
Sawyer: Like what?
Andie: Anything. The stuff you wish you could go back and change. That you think about after the fact and think...jeez...I messed up.
Sawyer: Couple of times.
Andie: Name one.
Sawyer (pauses): Sometimes, I regret not using my real name.
Andie: Your name's not Sawyer?
Sawyer: James.
Andie: Huh...pretty. Why don't you use it?
Sawyer: Sawyer fits better. (Beat) What do you regret?
Andie: Nah, I don't wanna say.
Sawyer: Aw, come on. Why? Is it worse than mine?
Andie nods slowly. Sawyer rests his hands on the table.
Sawyer: Come on. Tell me.
Andie lifts her head and rests it in her hands. She looks at him.
Andie: I killed a man.
Sawyer leans forwards. He doesn't really know what to say. Eventually, he says:
Sawyer: Why?
Andie: Does it matter?
Sawyer (Pauses): I guess not.
Andie: I see his face. In my mind when I sleep. And I can't get rid of it. I don't know how.
Sawyer: Andie, why are you telling me this?
Andie: Honestly?
Sawyer: Honestly.
Andie (tears sparkle in her eyes): I want you to make it go away.
Sawyer (honestly): I don't know if I can.
Andie offers him a tired smile.
Andie: I know.
A waitress comes over to them.
Waitress: Hey guys. You staying for breakfast?
Sawyer: Breakfast?
Andie: What's the time?
Waitress: Almost seven am. You guys have been here for ten hours. Almost a house record.
Andie: Seven? God, I have to go.
Sawyer: No, don't go.
Andie slings her bag over her shoulder.
Andie: No, I have to. I have things to do tomorr-today.
She stops packing up and looks at him.
Andie: I just realized...you never asked for my number.
Sawyer: Are you sad 'bout that?
Andie: No, I mean. I told you in the first minute I met you that I was involved with a guy and you sat down anyway. You never tried to hit on me. (Beat) Why?
Sawyer: I guess...I like talking to you.
Andie: I like talking to you, too. (smiles) Hey, if you're ever in Sydney...
Sawyer (smiles back): Yeah.
They look at each other for a moment. Then Sawyer offers her his hand.
Sawyer: Andie.
Andie shakes his hand.
Andie: Sawyer. (Beat) Nice meeting you.
Sawyer: Same here.
They stop shaking hands but don't let go of each other. Andie leans in and kisses him on the forehead. As she pulls away he looks up at her.
Sawyer: That all I'm gonna get?
Andie: Uh-huh. And you're lucky to be getting that.
She messes up his hair a little.
Andie: I'll see you.
Sawyer turns and watches her leave the café and walk out into the early morning light. She turns around before she goes and smiles at him. Her eyes light up.
Sawyer: See you, Angel.
Back to island.
Shot of Jack and Ana returning to the tent with the suitcase Alex gave them earlier. He sits it on the ground and kneels beside Andie, opening the case.
Ana: How do you know it won't kill her?
Jack: It didn't before. If it really is a vaccine then it'll be full of antibiotics.
Jack loads the injector. He holds out Andie's arm. Her sleeve is pushed up revealing her inner elbow. When Jack doesn't inject her, Sawyer notices.
Sawyer: What?
Jack: She's been injected with something.
Ana: You injected her before.
Jack: No I didn't, not here where this mark is. And this isn't a pneumatic injector wound. It's from a needle. Looks like they took her blood. God knows why.
Jack pushes up Andie's sleeve further and injects her with the vaccine. She twitches. Jack moves closer to her.
Jack: Come on. Come on. Andie? Wake up now, come on.
Andie's eyes flutter open. She looks from Jack to Ana to Sawyer and gets tears in her eyes.
Jack: Andie, you hit your head, okay? You lost your memory. Do you know who I am?
Andie shakes her head.
Jack: Okay, Andie, don't be scared, okay? Please. We aren't who you think we are. We're helping you. We're your friends, alright? (Beat) Do you believe me?
Andie: I…I don't know.
Jack: Alright, that's ok. My name is Jack. I'm a doctor. I'm taking care of you, ok?
Andie nods slowly.
Andie: My head hurts.
Jack: I know. (Turns to Ana) Can you get a washcloth for me? And see if Sun has any Aloe Vera left in her garden.
Ana (exiting): Sure.
Jack (to Andie): Andie you were unconscious so I want to try and keep you awake for as long as I can, alright?
Andie (unsure): Alright.
Jack: What's the last thing you remember?
Andie: Ah…I…I don't know. (Gets upset) I was on…on a plane. It crashed. I woke up alone…in the jungle. They found me. They found me and took me.
Jack: Okay. (Beat) Andie, listen to me. You got away. About a month ago you got away from them and you found us. (Looks at Sawyer) Sawyer found you in the jungle, do you remember that?
Andie shakes her head, trying to remember.
Jack: He brought you back here to us.
Andie: I don't remember...(pauses) I'm sorry.
Jack: That's okay, Andie. That's fine. I'm gonna get you something to eat, okay?
Andie nods as Jack gets up and leaves.
Sawyer: You don't remember anything about us?
Andie: No. (Pauses) Are we friends? You and me?
Sawyer: Yeah. (Pauses) We go way back.
Andie smiles. Sawyer smiles back.
Flash to black.
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