He just needed to see her. He knew it wouldn't be to come back to her. It was too late for that and he couldn't be fixed that easily, nor could he take back all the things he'd done. Not this time. He just needed to say he was sorry and he needed to tell her what he was about to do so she wouldn't look for him. She deserved that closure.

She drove over to the marine just as he asked her to. His heart was already pounding in his chest because he knew he was going to see her again. Maybe it would be the last time, some nasty voice in his head whispered, but he disregarded it, trying to enjoy this little moment with her he was about to have.

She was beautiful when she stepped out of the car and he felt as though they were terribly mismatched. Was he really her husband? She was wearing a long coat, had her make up on, a skirt and high heels. He had old pair of jeans on him, a white undershirt and an old jacket carelessly put over it. He didn't even feel cold. He was just broken.

Once she came closer and stood right in front of him, he could see the sadness marring her beauty, or maybe not. She was and would always be beautiful to him, but he'd rather see her smile. He'd caused her to smile so many times and now he hated himself for doing just the opposite.

"You're not speaking to me for weeks, then I get a call that you were in an accident and you don't speak to me again. And now you want to meet? Why, Jack?" she asked, her voice sounding tired.

She was exhausted because of him, because she didn't know where they stood or if they were even together. She felt stuck, having no idea where to go, how to plan her future that he'd so carelessly ruined. And he didn't know what to tell her. He wasn't ready to let her go, but maybe that was the right thing to do and God knew he had trouble with that part, holding on obsessively until he didn't even know anymore why he was doing so. Then again, that was why he'd called her and asked to meet him, wasn't it? "Why here? Why didn't you just come home?" she kept on asking, throwing one question after the other and he truly didn't know what to say.

He couldn't tell her the truth. The truth was that he was weak and destroyed everything that was supposed to mean anything to him. The truth was that once he told her what he'd done, he would only hurt her more.

"I just needed to see you," he finally settled on saying.

"So you said already. Over the phone. Jack," she spoke his name and stopped, then closed her eyes for a moment and sighed heavily. "What are you doing to yourself? You need to pull yourself together. You called me and you're speaking to me, so that's progress, but you need to meet me half-way here. I want to help you."

"I didn't want to meet to ask for help," he told her. "I wanted to meet to say goodbye."

For a moment there, Alice seemed shocked, but then she recovered and asked, "Why? Do you really want to end this marriage like this? Tell me you don't love me anymore and maybe then I'll believe you," her voice grew bitter, bordering on resentfulness. At least this was better than crying, Alice thought, but still, she couldn't stop her eyes from getting a little bit wet, marveling at the fact that things could've gone down the hill so fast. She thought that what they'd had was stronger than this.

"It's not about that," Jack said then and she frowned, not understanding anything anymore. "I'm going back, Alice. I'm going back to the island."

And here she thought him saying they were over would be a surprise.

"What?!" she nearly screamed. "Are you crazy?! Well, wait, let me take that question back, because you obviously are!"

"Calm down, Alice. I just…"

"Don't tell me to calm down! Locke got to you, didn't he? He visited you just like he visited me!"

"I'm not asking you to go with me. I would never want that for you, but…" Jack just shook his head. "I don't care if we all need to come back. I won't ask you this."

"How dare you?" her voice came back to normal as she took a deep breath, lost in troubling thoughts. Apparently, the secret of how to get back to the island hadn't died with Locke and there was still a chance to do the right thing. Only Jack would never take her with him. He was only set on self-destruction as it seemed. He'd used to want to fix things and now he was doing just the opposite. Or maybe in his opinion, he was trying to fix things. "Jack, you're not well enough to help anyone else. You are the one needing help right now and I mean professional," she tried to reason with him.

"No," he denied, shaking his head. "This is how I can help myself. I can save them. I feel like it's my…"

She actually raised a hand and slapped him across the face when hearing this.

"You used to say there was no such thing as destiny, Jack! That you made your own luck! What happened to that? What made you change so much?!" When he still didn't answer, she just asked, "Who's going to save you in the end, Jack? What will be left in your life once you get the others back?" her voice wavered and when he still refused to talk, she just shook her head, brushing the tears from her face. "You know, I thought Locke was crazy, but I think I got it all backwards. Then again, he was always looking for something greater in life as well, looking for a purpose. And where did it get him? Where is he now?" the rhetorical question just hung in the air between them. "I really hope you realize your mistakes before you'll change into him. Goodbye."

She turned around and left, getting into her car and driving away. And she was even more shaken now than she'd been before seeing him. More hurt. More… everything. Was it so hard for Jack to just clean himself up from any drugs or alcohol and start fighting for her? Didn't he want them back together and happy? Why did he choose the more difficult alternative? Why was he coming back? Did finding out about Claire had gotten to him so much? If so, why wasn't he spending any time with Aaron? It was his nephew, after all.

Tears were flowing from Alice's eyes and suddenly, she saw a flash of light and heard a car horn. She panicked and screamed when that other vehicle barely managed to pass her by. She drove off the road and killed the engine, feeling her whole body shaking. Next thing she knew, her head was on the steering wheel and she cried even harder, having difficulties to even catch her breath.

She forced herself to sit straight, close her eyes and to just focus on breathing. Only breathing as they taught in yoga class. A deep breath in through the nose, a deep breath out through the mouth. She repeated that a few more times until she calmed herself down and was finally able to come back home. Only once she got there, she started crying all over again.

Alice was spread across the couch with a bottle of wine in her hands, yet she was reluctant to open it, torn between doing the right thing and just forgetting about the whole world and alleviating her pain by drinking.

She officially lost Jack. They were just over. She couldn't dissuade him from coming back and getting the help he needed instead. She was afraid what would become of him after the trip, after everyone else was safe. Still, she couldn't think about him right now as she herself had probably just a small window to go back as well. She couldn't risk asking Jack about the way back to the island since he would surely do everything in his power to stop her, including giving her the wrong info. If she couldn't trust him, that meant they really were over, weren't they? She didn't even know what she felt for him anymore. She was just hurt and confused and lost and… she needed to get out, to leave, she needed to leave his apartment since it didn't feel like her home anymore. It'd always been his home. Her plan was to start a family and move to some cute little house in the suburbs. So what that it was a cliché? So what that she dreamt of a typical picket fence and a family? It didn't make her a weak person, just one who knew what she wanted. Only Jack said no and with that one word he hit the delete button on the whole future they could've had. Maybe it wasn't enough for him. Maybe starting a family and just working in the hospital wasn't enough anymore. Maybe he needed to become greater, to fix something else, a much bigger problem. Only eventually there would be nothing better to fix, no greater calling and all that would be left would be bitterness and an empty bottle and misery. Still, it wasn't as though she could make him realize that if he refused to listen.

No, that was a done deal. What she had to do now was to figure out how to come back to the island. She couldn't save her marriage, but there were still other people she could help and on the contrary to Jack, she was the right person for the job as she wasn't doing it for herself. She was doing it because it was the right thing to do.

She put the bottle of wine, still uncorked, aside. Instead, she reached for her phone, deciding to call every single one of the Oceanic Seven, excluding Jack. Someone had to know something. Luckily for her, she hit a jackpot on the first try.

"Alice," Kate answered fast, but she seemed in a hurry somehow. "I was just about to call you!"

"Why? Did something happen?" Alice automatically asked.

"I…" Kate said and stopped. "I don't really know how to say this…"

"You're going back to the island," Alice realized right then and there.

"Yeah… How did you know? Wait, Jack talked to you, didn't he?"

"It wasn't pleasant," Alice admitted.

"What… what exactly did he say?" Kate wanted to know, her voice sounding nervous or even scared and it caused Alice to frown.

"He basically just said goodbye. Why?"

"Nothing," Kate dismissed her question quickly. "I'm just… sorry and I really need to…"

"How are you going to get back?" Alice asked, tired of this strange conversation, but really not interested in asking about the reason behind Kate's weird behavior.

"There's this woman, she's actually Faraday's mother, she knows which plane to take to land back on the island," Kate informed quickly. "Alice, I'm so sorry I need to say goodbye over the phone and I'm sorry I don't have time to explain it better to you, but…"

"Which plane?" Alice just asked, interrupting again and for a moment there was silence and then Kate finally gave her the needed information.

While Alice was packing her bag, a conversation she once had with her mother came to her mind.

"You'd be an amazing mother one day, Alice," Katherine Stevens said during one of their movie nights. Her sister was usually there, too, but this time she couldn't make it. "When it comes to Annie… you know how she is," Mrs. Stevens continued, "she's an amazing person, but she's all about fun. You, on the other hand, I see you with a husband. I see you in a solid relationship. I see you being the best mother you could be, even better than me," that last one came out as an obvious joke.

"Oh, someone's cocky," Alice said and they both laughed.

"Well, I'm doing the best I can," her mom said when they got serious again.

"I know and I love you for it," Alice assured her.

"I love you, too, baby. You just keep on working hard. Remember that, all right? Keep on believing and keep on loving. Remember never to give up. Relationships, having a family, it's hard. I'm not going to lie to you. It's a lot of work. It's like having a job outside of your job, but I promise you, honey, it'll all be worth it in the end."

Alice started crying when she remembered all of that. She couldn't stand this situation she found herself in any longer. She'd tried. She'd tried so hard, but then she'd given up. Only Jack had given up, too and even before her. He was the one who didn't want to try. He was the one to kill her dream. Maybe she should listen to what her mother advised, she should try and fight harder for her husband, but she wasn't sure what good that would do now. She couldn't force him to become a father when he didn't want to and he couldn't force her to stay in a relationship that wasn't working for her anymore as well. And they both did just that. What would her mother say if she could see her now? Alice sat down right next to her packed bag and she wished for her mother to be there so badly that it hurt her. It felt like she was ripped apart from the inside, so desperately trying to figure out what to do. Was she meant to fight for Jack and their happiness together? Or maybe the differences between them were truly irreconcilable and she should just give up?

In the end, she forced herself to pick up her bag and grab her jacket and then the keys on her way out of the apartment. She wasn't sure she would even get back there. Maybe she wouldn't. Maybe she'd die trying to get back to the island or then getting out of it. She didn't care anymore. She knew she needed to do this. She knew she should've done something all those months ago when Jack had asked them all to lie. Now she was going to rectify her mistake and come back for those left behind. She promised her mother to try and fix things between her and Jack, but she knew it was a long shot.

As the door closed behind her and she got into the taxi she'd called for a few minutes before, she finally admitted to herself that she was going back for James, that she was doing it for him. She wasn't sure she would for Claire alone, but then again, maybe that was Kate's job, maybe that was the reason she was taking that plane as well. For Alice the reason was her best friend that had forfeited his chance of getting out of the island by jumping out of the chopper just to save her, just so she had the chance at a life she wanted. She owed it to him. She owed it to Locke, too, as he died trying to get them all back, the details of his death still a little shady to her. She'd read all there was to read about it, but something just didn't sit right with her. If she wasn't considering suicide anymore, it was highly unlikely someone like Locke had ever done. He'd gotten back up after his own father had thrown him out the window and killing himself out of hopelessness just because no one of the Oceanic Seven was ready to come back with him just yet, seemed completely out of his character.

Even if love was gone, Alice thought while boarding the plane, she still had a debt to pay. Maybe even two as Jack had once saved her life and she owed him just like she owed James. Maybe it was high time for her to return the favor. She didn't count on reconciling easily and having everything she'd lost back. She didn't believe anymore that once you found love, everything would just go smoothly. In real life it rarely did. Maybe there were just moments. Moments of happiness and that was just it. There was more misery, doubt and being lost than actually knowing one's place and being happy in love. Sometimes there was even more death than life surrounding you.

She boarded the plane in the last minute. Jack and everyone else beside Kate – whom Alice had sworn to secrecy – had no idea she was coming. She'd gotten too close to not coming at all, actually and it wasn't by choice. At the airport they told her that all the tickets had been sold out and then she bumped into Hurley. Hurley who'd actually bought all the free seats because he didn't want to risk anyone else's life in case the plane would crash again. Good, old Hugo. He always had such a good heart, Alice thought. He gave her a ticket without asking any questions. It was a good thing that he respected her right to choose.

As she made the first step into the plane, she felt scared out of her mind. She was scared of seeing Jack again, of having to talk to him, of hearing what he had to say to her and above all, she was scared of the plane going down again. Yet, what was bravery without fear? She asked herself and took a deep breath. There was no coming back. If she ran, she would never forgive herself.

She spotted him just sitting in the back and looking through the window but not really seeing anything. She had a pretty good idea of what he might be thinking about. She ignored Sayid's surprised look and then Sun's and finally, she reached Jack. She could've chosen any other seat, but she needed to be strong and brave.

Jack raised his head to see who was towering over him and he opened his eyes widely. She was actually pleasantly surprised. He shaved and looked like his old self and not the shaky, drunk version she had burnt into her mind. And he wore a suit. She could also smell his usual cologne. It wasn't like his appearance fooled her, though. For all she knew, he might've already taken something to appear this calm during the flight only to become a shaking drug addict on the island. Like Charlie the first way around, Alice suddenly came up with a parallel.

She didn't speak first. She just took the free seat right next to him.

"What the hell are you doing here?" he finally asked, shock slowly wearing off. He was angry with her and tried hard not to explode. It only made her angry as well.

"I'm here because I have quite a few debts to pay, Jack," she simply said when looking him in the eye.

He was just about to say something, already opening his mouth when they heard the pilot through the speakers. It was Frank Lapidus.

Jack and Alice exchanged surprised looks. If they still weren't sure they were really going back, now there was no doubt. Alice felt surreal as though she was dreaming instead of being awake. Never in her wildest dreams had she thought this would happen and yet it did.

Jack was actually quite relieved he could leave to talk to Frank. She watched them and saw the look on Lapidus's face when he spotted everyone he knew.

"Oh, damn, we're not going to Guam, are we?" she could read from the movements of the man's lips.

"Excuse me, is Mr. Shephard sitting here?" a flight attendant just interrupted Alice.

"Yes," Alice confirmed with a nod.

"This was found in his cargo. It's addressed to him." The woman handed Alice an envelope with Jack's name written on it.

"Thank you," she said as she took it and the flight attendant smiled to her before walking away.

Alice gave Jack the letter when he came back. She noticed how pale he got.

"What is it?" she asked in curiosity.

"It's… It's John's suicide note," Jack explained. "I didn't want to open it, so I left it with… with the body. Now I just think I have to read it. It seems to keep coming back to me as though Locke really wants me to read it." He played with the letter in his hands, still not ready.

"Maybe we could read it together?" Alice suggested, not sure whether it was a good idea and whether they were even close enough now to share such secrets. They'd used to and it was just another painful memory.

Jack didn't answer, he just ripped the envelope open and spread the thin sheet of paper, holding it in such a way that Alice could read it, too.

I wish you had believed me, was all the note said and Jack put it away immediately after seeing it, then he wiped his eyes.

Alice didn't know what to say, so she just reached out and took his hand. Still, the gesture felt foreign somehow and she let go, swallowing over the gulp forming in her throat.

"Jack…" she started and stopped immediately after, not knowing how to put what she wanted to say into words. "Listen, I know we're having problems. I know we might… we might not recover and just…" she cleared her throat when he looked at her with those eyes that had used to convey love and now they just seemed to be empty as though he didn't care anymore. "If you meet me half-way here, maybe we could work on those issues, maybe we could still salvage this marriage," she finally said.

Jack didn't say anything to that, instead he looked over Alice's eyes and met Kate's eyes. The woman was watching them.

"Alice, listen, there's something…" he started then when looking back at his wife. Yet, he wasn't able to confess his greatest sin to her since the plane hit turbulence and soon enough everything went to hell and they were all enveloped in a white blinding light.

When Alice finally came to, she had a terrible headache, making it nearly impossible for her to think. For now, she knew that she was lying down on something hard and uncomfortable and she started panicking. Then she forced herself to take a few deep breaths and as the wet humid air made its way into her lungs, her head cleared enough for her to finally open her eyes. Wet humid air, she immediately realized and split her eyes open, looking at what she saw above her. Trees. Green, enormous trees in the company of the characteristic air meant that they'd made it – they were back on the island.

"Jack," she whispered, remembering that he'd been sitting right next to her on the plane and she slowly sat up, looking around.

As it turned out, he was lying next to her, but she didn't spot anyone else. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that they were sitting together, crossed her mind, but she refused to stop long enough to actually figure out how she and Jack found themselves in the middle of the jungle with no scratch on them and without a plane they'd previously been on.

"Jack!" she said, shaking him awake and he finally opened his eyes, for a moment just looking at her in disorientation. "Are you all right?! Jack!" she repeated, truly starting to panic. What the hell had he taken before boarding the plane?!

"Yeah…" he finally spoke when putting his hand to his head. "Yeah, I'm fine. Where are we?"

"It looks like the island," she answered when getting up to her feet and looking around, trying to pinpoint the exact place they were in.

In that moment she was hit with a wave of nausea and pain starting in her middle, which caused her to actually bend in a half.

"What's wrong?!" Jack was immediately by her side, placing his hands on her shoulders, worried about her. "Alice, please, tell me what's wrong."

All she told him was, "Something is wrong," and once she grabbed a hold on herself and tried to get used to her ability that clearly came back once she found herself on the island again, she took up running. Jack ran after her, not having another choice.

He realized that his wife's ability came back once they stopped at the edge of the waterfall and saw Hurley deep below, drowning and screaming for help. They simply looked at each other and just jumped.

Once they were in the water and swam to the surface, Jack made his way to Hugo to help him out and Alice looked around and finally noticed Kate lying on a pile of rocks. She really hoped her friend was all right while swimming over to her.

"Kate?" she asked when turning her on her back. The woman didn't seem to have any injuries either and Alice's head was spinning from all the questions she had. How was there no plane? Had they fallen from the sky and landed here? But again, how?! They should've been dead. Yes, it was definitely easier to live in the normal world, Alice decided, at least there she didn't have to bother with such crazy questions and even crazier answers.

Kate woke up, just as equally confused as all of them and Jack managed to help Hurley to the shore. They started looking for the rest, but they couldn't locate Sayid or Sun.

"Maybe we should just go to our beach," Kate suggested and they were all about to listen to her when they stilled, hearing music and an engine running. Soon enough, one of the Dharma cars stopped right in front of them and… the man who got out of it was Jin.

"Dude!" Hurley said. "Jin?"

The Korean was just as surprised as they all were. Or maybe they were more, judging by the Dharma suit he wore and the car he drove. And his perfect English, that was.

Jin quickly got them all into his car and drove somewhere, making a call to someone called LaFleur on the way and refusing to answer any questions. He just told them they would find out about everything soon enough and then the only thing he asked about was his wife.

Once the car stopped and they all got out of it, kind of recognizing the area they were in but in the same time surprised by how different it seemed; another car drove by and… it was Sawyer who jumped out of it.

Alice was the first person who actually showed some enthusiasm and joy, but before that she just stood still, not truly believing her own eyes that she finally saw him. Then she simply called out his name and ran towards him and he caught her when laughing and spreading his arms to greet her. She hugged him tightly, making sure that he was really there alive and breathing.

"Hey, there, sweetheart," he softly whispered into her ear, feeling a little overwhelmed.

Once they let go of each other, Alice noticed the awkward tension between everyone else and she couldn't really understand it. James was reserved when it came to Kate and Kate with Jack just acted so weird that she had to stop trying to figure it out or otherwise she would twist her mind.

Eventually, Hurley ran to Sawyer, calling him dude and hugging him and then Kate finally came around. Still, Alice frowned on seeing how weird James was with it all and how bizarre the brunette acted.

"So, what's with the Dharma suit, dude?" Hurley asked Sawyer when they were done with saying hi, Jack last in line.

"You didn't tell them?" James turned to Jin.

"No, I waited for you to do it."

James sighed and then he informed, "So, we're in the Dharma Initiative."

"They came back to the island?" Jack asked in a surprise.

"No," James denied, "we came back. It's 1977."

"Um, what?" Hugo was the first one to react and the rest of them truly had nothing better to say.

"We've been working in Dharma ever since we… well, stopped traveling in time," James followed.

"I got to run," Jin told him in that moment, clearly feeling very impatient, the rest of them just standing there, stunned and thinking it must've been all some kind of a joke.

"What? No! We need to figure out what we're gonna do with them, man!" Sawyer protested.

"If Sun's here, I need to get her! I'm going to Radzinsky! He'd know if a plane came down!" And just like that, Jin was gone, taking his car and leaving them all to fend for themselves.

"James, slow down…" Alice just said when reaching her hands out. She felt all too much at once when seeing him again alive and healthy. She just now realized how much she'd missed him and his voice and his eyes and… just everything about him. It felt as though she hadn't even been able to breathe before when not sure if he was all right. It was also as though she never left, as those last few months never happened and everything was right with the universe again. "I don't understand. How can we just travel in time?"

"All I know, sweetheart, is that it started happening when you all got out and Ben moved the island. It stopped when Locke left. He must've done something that saved us and we got stuck here," James explained, spreading his arms. "Where is he anyway?" he then asked.

"Locke?" Jack made sure. "Sawyer… Locke is… Locke is dead."

James's expression faltered. "What the hell happened?"

Only no one seemed to be able to tell him the details just yet.

"All right, we ain't got no time for this now." James shook his head. "Just sit tight and I'll figure something out! I'll be right back! And don't call me Sawyer!" He turned around one last time. "Here everyone knows me by LaFleur!"

"Wait! Who's in Dharma beside you and Jin?" Alice called after him, but even though he stopped for moment, he decided not to answer for some reason.

"I'll be back!" he just repeated and was gone.

Even though Alice wasn't looking at him at the moment, she could feel Jack watching her. She didn't really want to resume their talk from the plane just yet, so she chose to go over to Kate instead. She had some questions she needed the answers to and Jack wasn't exactly eager to ask them himself. And he should, Alice thought bitterly. He should because it concerned his nephew. She still couldn't understand why he hated kids so much. Maybe not hated, but he was somehow scared of them.

"Kate?" Alice asked gently and the woman nearly jumped when she realized who came over. "Kate, may I ask what happened? Why did you come back? Where's Aaron?"

Kate was sitting on a rock and looking into the distance, not seeing anything in particular. In fact, she even refused to look Alice in the eye. And Alice could only imagine what was going on in Kate's head. She was wondering what was wrong with James, too, if she were to be honest. She could still feel Jack's eyes set on her, but she refused to look back at him.

"Are you all right?" she asked Kate, worried about her friend and the state she seemed to be in. Maybe it was shock. Maybe something else.

"I left him where he belonged," Kate finally answered the question about Aaron in a strange tone. "With his grandmother. And I came back here to get Claire. She should raise him, not me."

"Well, for what it's worth, I think you did the right thing. We just need to stick together and survive it this time on the island," Alice assured Kate, but got no more from her.

Eventually, she sighed and sat down on the ground, waiting.

When James got out of his car in the village, he ran straight to his place, ignoring Juliet calling him from the other side of the road.

"Jim!" she tried again when following him into the house. "Hey, I'm talking to you! … What's wrong?" she finally asked when noticing he didn't seem to be himself, just going through his wardrobe and picking up various pieces of clothing from it. She stopped just outside the threshold, not even having been in this room before. They hadn't gotten so far in their relationship, if she could call it that way, so she didn't want to invade his privacy.

"Juliet, I'm sorry, but I'm gonna need some clothes from your place, too," he just told her when measuring her with his eyes.

"James, I don't understand," she admitted, taken aback. "What's wrong?"

"They're back," he finally informed and she blinked a few times before asking, "I'm sorry, who's back?"

"Jack, Hurley, Kate… Alice."

Juliet's face hardened as she heard that and then she said, "So, whatever this was gonna turn out to be," she pointed herself and then him, "it's over before it even stated for real, isn't it?"

"What do you mean?" James stilled with a frown.

"Well, I'm talking about her." Juliet folded her arms over her chest.

"Who? Kate? Come on, there's no time." He walked right past her.

"It's not Kate I'm worried about and we both know it," Juliet said and he stilled, sucking in a breath.

"Juliet…" he started again, turning to face her and then stopped with a sigh. He didn't know what to say.

"It's ok," she was the one to speak and then pass by him on her way out. "You wanted clothes, right? For Kate and Alice? Let's go get them, then."

It'd been quite some time before the familiar sound of the Dharma car's engine reached their ears and then they saw Sawyer – or maybe rather LaFleur – coming back.

"All right, there's a new sub coming soon, so we need to hurry. Juliet and I got your names on the list in the last moment," he informed when opening the door of the car for them all to hop in.

"Juliet?" Jack asked in surprise. "She's here, too?"

"Yeah, she is," James cut his answer short and they were ready to go.

Jack sat right next to Alice on the back sit as there wasn't much to choose from. Kate sat on Alice's other side because naturally, Hurley needed to take the front seat.

James couldn't hide his curiosity and was peaking at both Alice and Jack in the front mirror, noticing the awkwardness and the never before seen distance between those two. He wondered what could've possibly caused this trouble in paradise. Alice finally caught his eyes in the mirror, noticing him staring and he came back to watching the road.

Jack, on the other hand, was wondering what he should do about the whole situation. He'd never considered Alice coming back as well and he knew that if he wasn't going to come clean about everything soon, he would find himself in some serious trouble.

The car finally arrived at Dharma and Sawyer – LaFleur – quickly told them all where to go and how to act in order to be taken as the new recruits. There was one thing James hadn't foreseen, though – that Sayid would be caught as a hostile by one of the original Dharma members.