"Sayid!" I call, running into his arms. He holds me for a moment, then turns to greet Hurley.

"Good to see you, Dude," Hurley says as they hug.

"Where's the baby?" Jack asks Kate.

"He's with Sun, and they should be at the freighter by now."

Sawyer moves to help Frank out of his handcuffs. "Are you okay?" I ask Sayid.

"I am fine, but we need to get off this Island and back to the freighter."

"Way ahead of you," I wink. "How are those cuffs coming?" I call to Sawyer.

"Hold you damn horses, Brown Eyes. I'm sawing with precision here." And indeed, Sawyer is using a hacksaw on Frank's cuffs.

"Sayid, how'd you get back?" Jack asks.

"I took the Zodiac from the freighter."

"Is it safe? A body from the boat washed up on the beach."

"It's safe now," Sayid assures us.

"All right!" Lapidus exclaims, finally free from the cuff. "Let's get the hell outta here!"

"After we drop everyone off at the boat, we can come back and look for Claire, right?" Hurley asks, getting settled in.

"Absolutely," Jack assures him.

"Hands and feet inside the vehicle!" Frank calls as the propellers start spinning. "Let's go for a ride!"

And soon we're high above the Island. I never thought I'd be happy to be inside a helicopter again.

Up in the air, we fly away from the Island, but I see no boat in the distance as Frank sets his course. "What's the matter?" Sayid asks him from the front seat.

"We're losing fuel," Frank yells.

"What?" Jack asks, leaning forward to hear him over the choppers noise.

"We're losing fuel! Look outside, tell me if you can see anything!"

I lean out my side of the chopper but I see nothing. I hear Sayid's voice yell "We have a fuel leak! A bullet must have pierced the tank!" so it must be on his side.

"We gotta find a place to set her down!" Frank says.

"No, don't land!" Jack tells him.

"What?"

"There's no fuel on the island! We've gotta get to the boat, or this chopper's useless!"

"I'm telling ya, I don't see the boat!"

"Well, then keep looking!"

Frank looks nervously out into the ocean, then around the interior of the chopper. "We gotta get every ounce of extra weight off this chopper now! Anything that's not bolted down, toss it out!"

I start grabbing everything I can find and send it out the door, but there's not a whole lot of stuff that hits the ocean. "Now what? Is that enough? Can we make it?" Jack asks.

Lapidus looks at his fuel gage. "I'd feel a hell of a lot better if we were a few hundred pounds lighter! Well, if we don't make it, we're still close enough to ditch it on the beach."

"Hey! Do not go back to the island!"

"We might not have a choice, Doc."

"Hey!" Sawyer shouts and he grabs Kate's ear and whispers something into it.

"Why are you telling me this?" Kate asks.

Sawyer doesn't answer. He just plants a kiss on her lips. "Just do it, Freckles," he says, letting her go.

Sawyer stands up and jumps out the chopper window and hits the water, hard. "Sawyer!" Kate calls, but I see his head resurface as he starts to swim back to the Island.

After a few minutes Sayid breaks the silence. "Where's the freighter?"

"I don't know. I stayed on course," Frank says. "They must have it on the move again."

"How much fuel?"

"Four, five minutes worth, unless somebody else wants to jump."

"As soon as we get to the boat, we'll go back for him," Jack says.

"Hey!" Hurley exclaims. "There it is! The boat! I see it! Behind us!"

Frank turns the chopper around and sends us toward it. As we get closer I see Desmond come out from the quarters, yelling and waving his arms. I can't understand him.

"Did he say 'bomb'?" Jack asks. But Frank keeps descending the chopper. "What are you doing?" Jack yells.

"I don't care what the hell he's screaming!" Frank retorts. "I'm flying on fumes! I gotta put this bird down!"

"No! Don't land!" I hear Desmond yell, but it's too late. We've hit the boat. He runs up to us in a panic. "No! No! Look, you don't understand! Jin and Michael are doing everything they can, but there's no time! You've gotta get off the boat now!"

"Wait, did you say 'Michael?'" I ask, confused. Does he mean the same Michael from our crash?

"How long till we can fly again?" Jack asks, ignoring the question.

"Somebody patch the other hole where the bullet came out!" Lapidus instructs.

"Give it to me. I'll do it," Des says, grabbing some duct tape.

"Here! Somebody pump some gas!"

"I'll handle the fuel," Jack says.

"Get that life raft right there!" Frank yells at me, and I grab the life raft from the edge of the boat.

I hear the baby crying and know that Sun must be here. I hear Kate tell her to get on the chopper. "Jin's below with Michael," Sun protests. "I can't—,"

"No, no, there's no time! There's no time. We have to go."

"I won't leave him!"

"Okay, I'll go get Jin," Kate says, running towards the quarter's door.

There's the biggest amount of hustle as Frank informs us we're ready to take off. And we need to go now, because the bomb will go off at any moment. Jack stops Kate from going to get Jin. The baby cries. The chopper starts up. Desmond is pulling me inside and buckling me down. Jack and Kate make it on the chopper. We take off. There's no Jin.

Sun starts to scream frantically for her husband. I see him come out to the deck, waving his hands, calling for us to come back. But Jack tells Frank no, and we keep heading toward the Island.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The biggest explosion I've ever witnessed sends the freighter up in flames. There's no way Jin could have survived. There's no way anyone could have survived.

Sun screams for us to go back, but Jack and Sayid hold her down, trying to calm her. Lapidus heads towards the Island.

They manage to get Sun calm but just as soon as that happens, a loud noise pulsates through the air, just like when the hatch exploded.

And right before my eyes, the Island…disappears. "Where's the island?" Frank calls. "Where the hell's the island?!"

"It's gone," Hurley says.

"Where the hell am I gonna land this thing?"

"There's another smaller island close by they took us to!" Jack calls.

Lapidus scoffs. "I got news for you, Doc. There's nothing but water in every direction!"

The engine of the chopper starts to sputter. "Doesn't matter now," Frank says, letting go of the controls. "That's it, people! We're out of fuel! Get your life vests on! We're going in! Brace yourselves!"

The wind starts blowing as we descend through the skies and into the water. I manage to shimmy my way into a life vest. "Desmond! The life raft!" Sayid calls and Des inflates it, pushing it into the water.

"Hold on!" Lapidus calls as we hit the surface, the chopper sinking quickly.

When we hit the water, I kick off from the chopper, sending myself forward. I resurface and look for the life raft, spotting it quickly and swimming over to it. Frank is already inside and pulls me up as everyone starts to panic, noticing that Jack's not here. But we spot him quickly in the water and he swims over, Kate pulling him up. But he's got another body with him.

"Desmond!" I cry, helping hoist him into the raft. He's unconscious. Jack regains his breath and everyone starts to panic, but I bend my head, placing my mouth on top of his, starting CPR. I pump his chest a few times, puff a few more breaths of air, and pump the chest again and…

Desmond regains consciousness, coughing up the water he swallowed. Jack pats me on the back with a "Well done."

Soon, darkness falls, encasing us in night on the surface of the ocean. "I can't believe he did it," Hurley says to me.

"Who did what?"

"Locke. He moved the island."

"No, he didn't," Jack says from the other side of the raft.

"Oh, really? 'Cause one minute it was there, and the next it was gone, so unless we, like, overlooked it, Dude, that's exactly what he did. But if you've got another explanation, man, I'd love to hear it."

Jack starts to respond but Lapidus cuts him off. "God almighty. There's a boat. There's a boat out there!" We all start shouting and its light turn to us. "Does it see us?" Frank asks.

"I think it does!" Desmond says, excitedly.

"It is! It's turning!" I yell in triumph.

"What?" Kate asks, cutting off our yelling and alerting us to something Jack said.

"We're gonna have to lie."

"Lie about what?" I ask.

"Everything, all of it, every moment since we crashed on the island."

"Jack," Lapidus says hesitantly. "Now I know I'm new to this group and everything, but isn't this the place where everybody starts jumping up and down and hugging each other?"

"Your freighter," Jack continues. "Those men came to the island to kill us, all of us. You said that our plane was discovered on the bottom of the ocean. Well, someone put it there. Someone who wants everyone to think that we're dead. So what do you think's gonna happen to us when we tell them that that wasn't our plane? What do you think's gonna happen to the people that we left behind?"

I notice the boat getting closer. "Jack, we can't," Kate says. "We can't pull it off."

"Just let me do the talking," he says as the boat gets extremely close.

I hear foreign words exchanged on top of the boat. I can't understand a word. I don't even recognize the language. All I can make out is "Ms. Widmore."

"Throw them a rope!" A British female voice calls down to us. "Take them 'round to the stern!"

"Penny?" Desmond asks, then starts to yell. "Penny! Penny!"

Desmond catches the rope that the boat sends down then crawls up and kisses the woman. I recognize her from Des's photo. Yup, that's Penelope. "Are you okay?" she asks him.

"I'm fine," he says, and I can't hear the rest as I'm hoisted up to the stern. "Uh... this is-this is Penny. This is, um, Kate and then Aaron," he says, introducing us all as we get to the top. "This is Tia," he says and Penny hold out her hand, but I grab her in a big hug, and, surprisingly, she hugs back. I move so everyone else can get on the boat.

Soon, he reaches Jack. "It's nice to meet you, Penny."

"Hi," she says, shaking his hand.

"But we need to talk."