Sun and Jin are pouring bowls of cereal. Nikki and Paulo argue about DHARMA Nutri-bars at the kitchen. I don't really care about Nutri-bars or cereal, I'm just watching over Charlie, who's sitting at the dining table with Claire, moping around again.
Hurley runs up to the table, gasping for breath, holding something in his hand. "Hey! Hey! Hey everyone! Hey!" he calls.
"Hurley, what is it?" Claire asks.
"Is it the Others?" asks Paulo.
I pipe up. "Hurley, are you okay?"
"What's going on man?" Paulo asks again.
"Car!" Hurley wheezes out, holing up his hand. He's holding a key with a rabbit's foot dangling off. "I found a car tipped over in the jungle."
"You found a car?" Nikki asks, skeptically.
"And we could totally fix it and get it going again. It's not far, come on."
"Why do we need to start a car?" Paulo asks.
"Because it'll be fun. Everyone at the table starts exchanging looks. "We could all use some fun. I mean, after everything's that happened we need it." He turns to Charlie. "Especially you, dude. So who's with me?"
"Well, I've got to cut some bananas. Sorry," Paulo apologizes, grabbing Nikki by the belt loop and pulling her away.
"I don't think so, Hurley," Charlie passes.
"Come on. Anyone?" Hurley pleads. "We're going to drive it! Who's coming?" Everyone starts walking away. "Tia?" he asks me.
"It sounds like fun, Hurley, but I need to work out some stuff with Sayid today." I get up and walk away.
I'm inside my tent, cleaning my glock when I hear voices outside, shouting Kate and Sawyer's names. I get out and my gaze follows the running survivors to the edge of camp, where Kate and Sawyer are walking towards us.
I stick the glock in my pants and bolt over to them, running into Sawyer's arms. We've never been that close. Actually I kind of detest Sawyer, but seeing him and Kate return to camp has lifted my spirits immensely.
"Jesus, Brown Eyes," Sawyer says, catching me. "I didn't think you be that happy to see me."
I hug his around the neck. "I can't believe you're back." I say into his ear. "I didn't know what happened."
"Yeah, well a few scrapes and scratches, but we're not too bad."
I let go and see Kate keeping her distance. I look around and notice something's wrong. I look up at Sawyer. "Where's Jack?"
He bows his head. "The doc didn't make it," he says somberly.
I jog over to Kate. She smiles as she gives me a hug. "Where's Sayid?" she asks me.
I pull back. "Probably with Locke. What happened to Jack?"
"Come with me."
I follow her to her tent. She's wearing a nasty, but once pretty flowered shirt and a pair of dirt covered jeans. She steps inside and starts changing her clothes.
"What happened out there, Kate?" I ask.
"Well, that guy, Henry. His name's not Henry."
"Yeah I gathered that."
"His name is Ben and he's their leader."
"That's what Hurley said."
"You and I were right. They're not hillbillies. They took us to a smaller Island, about a mile away from this one. They put Sawyer and me in cages made for animals, kind of like a zoo. They made us work."
"Work on what?"
"I don't know. We hauled rocks."
"So what was on this other island?"
"A DHARMA station. I don't know what it's for."
"What happened to Jack?"
"They made him stay behind to perform some kind of surgery on Ben. But he stopped the surgery so we could escape. He made me and Sawyer leave without him. A woman helped us escape."
"So Jack is still there, on this other island?"
"No, I don't think so. I think they promised they'd take him home if he did the surgery, so they would have brought him back to their home, here on this Island."
"Home? How can they do that?"
She comes out of the tent. "I don't know. It's not like they told me all of their secrets. Let's find Sayid."
He's with Locke at the tree line. Kate explains everything she's told me.
"Why did you leave?" Sayid asks accusingly. "Why would you even consider leaving Jack behind?"
"He told us to leave him. Then he said not to come back."
"Why did he say don't come back?" Sayid asks.
"He sacrificed himself so we could escape. He probably didn't want it to be for nothing," she says. "We need to go after him. Get him back." She heads over to the water hole and fills a bottle.
"Hurley told us they released Michael and Walt," Sayid say.
"Yep. They gave Michael a boat. He took off and never looked back."
"Did you see any other boats?"
"No, but something tells me they didn't give away their only one."
"So they can leave the island?" Locke asks.
"I don't know, John."
"This zoo where they held you, is that where they live?" Sayid asks.
Kate shakes her head. "We escaped with one of them. A kid named Karl. He says that they live on this island. He could have taken us there but Sawyer let him go."
"Why?" I ask.
"You're going to have to ask Sawyer." She caps her bottle and starts walking away.
"Kate, where are you going?" Sayid asks.
"I don't care what Jack said. They've got him and we've got to get him back. I owe him that. I'm going to get help."
"Help from who?" Locke asks.
She ignores him and heads back to her tent.
Kate didn't come out until after dark. I nudge Sayid and he looks up. He grabs his rifle and we get up to follow her. We pass Locke, who rises and comes with us.
We follow Kate into the jungle. "Kate, if you were looking for help to find Jack why didn't you ask us?" Sayid says, startling her and making her turn around.
"Two reasons: you don't know where to look and you're not motivated. And I don't blame you. Why would you want to go on another trek across the island, risk more lives just to get Jack back?"
"You're wrong," Locke says.
"Oh, really? Then why didn't you come after—,'
"Not about the motivation, just about knowing where to look. We got a compass bearing, and I'm pretty sure if we follow it it'll lead us right to him."
"How?"
"Because of the way the sunlight hit Mr. Eko's stick when John was burying him," I say, drawing out the sarcasm.
"So now you know our secret, how about you tell us yours?" Locke says to Kate.
Instantly there are several gunshots from deeper in the jungle. "No, no, no, don't shoot. Don't shoot," Kate says, raising her arms in surrender. "It's alright! It's safe! We're just here to talk! You can come out!"
Danielle Rousseau comes out of the jungle. "What are you doing here?" she asks, looking at the four of us.
"I came to ask for your help," Kate says.
"To do what?"
"I'm heading to the Other's camp, and if I'm going to find it, I need someone who knows the island."
"What makes you think I have an interest in helping you?"
"Because they had me, and they would have never let me go. Probably would have killed me if I hadn't escaped. And the girl who helped me escape, she was about sixteen years old and her name was Alex. I'm pretty sure that she's your daughter."
Rousseau's face shows a look of pure shock. She lowers her gun. "When do we leave?"
