Hurley, Jack, and Kate thought about what Claire had said and how everybody here was really waiting for them to return and held off their lives because of them. Sawyer went back to Sayid and tried again but after Sayid again refused, they took him Oldham who forced Sayid to eat something to compel him to tell him the truth. Sayid was honest about how he came here on Ajira 316, how he was here before with Sawyer on Oceanic 815, and the operating system of the Flame, the Pearl, and Swan station. They thought they had used to much when he told them that he was from the future. Kate and Juliet talked about Juliet's relationship with Sawyer when Sawyer returned with Sayid. Sawyer, Radzinsky, and Horace talked about what to do with Sayid and Sawyer insisted that he talk to him again, but Amy insists on a vote to see if they kill Sayid. When Amy states that she can't feel safe Sayid who they believe is a Hostile around and that they need to think about Ethan and all the other children. Claire has to turn to stifle a laugh because she knows that Ethan will grow up to become an Other and that he will abduct her before her rescue by Rousseau and will meet his end from her husband who shoots him 4 times. Horace calls for a vote and all but Sawyer and Claire vote to kill Sayid. Radzinsky says "Lafluer, Claire I would like to say it's unanimous".

Claire looks to Sawyer who regretfully raises his hand, and she follows in suit. Sawyer goes to Sayid to let Sayid out and fake his escape, but he rejects Sawyer because he has a purpose. Sawyer goes to Kate to talk about why Sayid returned but she tells him "Sayid didn't seem to want to come back willingly and was being held by a woman on the plane". They are interrupted by a burning van coming through the Barracks. Sawyer orders everyone and all security to put the fire out, Juliet, Claire, and Jack help put out the fire while Kate gets people out of the house. Young Ben frees Sayid, and they go out into the jungle together. They hide when a van comes past and see Jin and Charlie get out to look for them.

Sayid sees them and calls to them "Jin, Charlie. What are you two doing here".

Jin asks "Sayid how did you get out".

Sayid answers "Sawyer let me go, they were going to kill me".

Charlie and Jin exclaim simultaneously "what".

When they receive a radio call from Phil about Sayid. Sayid pleads "they don't know he released me. Please Jin and Charlie, I need to keep moving".

Jin says "okay, let me talk to him first".

Jin calls to Sawyer on the radio "Lafleur, it's Jin and Charlie here, come in".

Sayid kicks Charlie in the stomach before grabbing and tossing Jin to the ground, he then knocks Jin out".

Charlie on the ground pleads "Sayid what in god's name are you doing".

Sayid tells him "sorry Charlie" before knocking him out. Ben is surprised to see this and insists that they keep moving when he grabs Jin's pistol and shoots Ben before fleeing. Phil called out to them because of Sayid and Jin answered informing them that Sayid was heading North. Charlie went to check on Ben and carried him to the van as Jin drove them back to the Barracks. Horace talked to them about the escaped Hostile and when Jack questioned about how the Hostile could have escaped, Horace informs everyone that he obviously had help from someone inside the Barracks. Kate helps Roger move the van out of the way when Jin and Charlie returned, and everyone watched as Charlie carried an injured Ben into the Barracks. Kate went to Sawyer who was in the security area. Horace entered with Jin, Miles, Phil, and Charlie to get Sawyer to go with them to check the Hostile's cell. Sawyer ordered Miles to keep Jack, Kate, and Hurley in a single house, so they don't talk to anyone. Sawyer went to check on Ben's progress, but he needs a real surgeon, so Sawyer went to get Jack. Miles was holding Jack, Kate, and Hurley, where Charlie and Claire joined them and they all discussing time travel with Ben being shot. After being mocked by Miles, Hurley then questions "well Charlie's literally here and came to the island on a helicopter because he was in two places at once due to altering time".

Miles responds "Charlie was a paradox who split because he didn't go to the island when he was supposed to".

Hurley responded "see, we can change the future".

Miles told him "no, Charlie was just a paradox, not changing the future; that's why the universe put it back in place because he did need to be there. It was allowed because Charlie was always going back to the island. Or Charlie becoming a paradox was always meant to happen and we had no idea like how Sayid always shot Ben, it's just that like that we had no idea".

Hurley said "so you don't know".

Miles answered "I'm not a physicist but those two are the only reasonable answers because we can't change the future, that is clear". Sawyer came in and asked Jack to help with Ben, but he refuses.

Sawyer goes back to the clinic and Kate tries to get Jack to go fix Ben, but he still refuses. Kate tells him that she doesn't like the new him but liked the old one, Jack rejected this statement telling her that she didn't like the old him. Claire turns around and says "I want to know why are you so determined on saving Ben, Kate".

Kate tells her "because he's just a boy and hasn't done anything".

Claire responds "a boy who will mass murder everyone here; including his own father, take Alex from Rousseau when she was a baby, take many of the tail section survivors including children, order Ethan to take me, order his group to take Walt of the raft, fake himself captured to get Micheal to free him and kill anyone there in the process which happened to be Libby and Ana Lucia, take you, Hurley, Sawyer, and Jack so Jack has to save him, then sending Juliet into our camp to take pregnant woman. That's a lot of good arguments to leave him to his fate".

Kate says "so your okay with letting him die".

Claire answers "not really but I really want to know why you are so keen".

Kate answers "because he's a child".

Claire responds "doing the right thing hey, well you didn't seem to want to do the right thing by me when you took my son. So, what's changed now or is it only me who doesn't deserve the right thing to be done by or is it that you want him alive, so you don't feel alone in this world because both of you took babies and pretended to be their parent".

Everyone was shocked by Claire's remark and Kate responded "I need to do the right thing because I didn't by you. Okay I took Aaron because I was scared to be alone and wanted something to never be able to leave me. I thought of myself and lied to him because I was thinking of what was best for me and not what was best for him. When we found out about your mother six months after we returned, I still kept it a secret and wouldn't even let her at least get to know him; even after finding out about her coma and how she would never see you again because I was a coward. I already made up the lie about Aaron and was too scared to tell her in case she wanted him, or the world found out about my lie and any chance of freedom who vanish. I put myself and my interest above you, above Carole, and above Aaron because I was scared. Then when I found out she might be behind the one who wanted to test Aaron's blood, I ran because I was scared to lose him, not for him but for me. Then at the grocery store I actually lost him, and I wasn't upset, I was relieved and thought that it was about time that I didn't have him. I realised then that everything I did was for me and not for him. I became what I hated and that was lying to a child for them which is exactly what my mother did my entire childhood. I needed to fix it, and I thought that when I find Aaron, I will take him to Carole who will raise him because that's the right thing, that what we should have done on the boat when we made the lie. Then I found him with a couple that looked exactly like you and Charlie. When I saw them, I remembered how you to would look at him, how Charlie would look at him, how Charlie was with him even after coming to the island from the helicopter and knew nothing about anything. Like it was always meant to be. I knew then that I had to come back for you, both of you because you two never used him. Claire your only reason for considering giving him up was that you wanted him to have a best life. Then when you realised that was with you, you became his mother. Charlie, you fought against drugs and Ethan so they would be safe and so she could have someone to love and who would love her, and offered to give Aaron a father figure because he didn't have one. You even sacrificed yourself because you were thinking about Claire and Aaron".

Charlie corrected her "technically that was other me, but I still would have done the same, so your point still stands".

Kate said "So I need to do this, like I needed to come back. I need to do the right thing because I did what I wanted for so long".

Claire said "alright, if you have a plan me and Charlie will help you save Ben".

Charlie agreed "yes we will".

Kate said "thank you for helping me".

Claire said "I'm doing it because your right it is the right thing to do and you came here to do the right thing by Aaron, by giving him to my mother until me and Charlie got home. I will never forgive you for what you did but I'm not upset or mad about it anymore. You will always be my friend and have my respect for doing the right thing about this and Aaron".

Charlie said "same, let's go save the future dictator of the island".

Kate said "I'll go talk to Juliet about giving him my blood because I'm a universal donor".

Claire told her "Come back and get us if you need us".

Kate nodded as she went to leave but Miles tried to stop her. Charlie told him "Sit down Miles". Miles couldn't do anything, so Kate left to give Ben her blood. Juliet accepted and started the blood transfer. Miles and Hurley discuss time travel and Hurley eventually managed to stun Miles, Charlie, and Claire when he brought up the fact that Ben didn't recognise Sayid in the future. Charlie then said "that also begs the question, why doesn't he remember any one of us because Ben knows all of us from here, so why doesn't he recognise us in the future when our plane crashes here or in Miles case and technically mine, the helicopter arrives".

Hurley was happy that he made everyone think and was proud of himself. Juliet sends Roger to the medical station but as he leaves, Juliet confesses that he can't be saved unless the Others help. They agree to take him to them and Juliet helps Kate load Ben into a van before heading to the sonar fence. There she is met by Sawyer who agree to help her. Juliet went to go see Jack and got everyone to leave them alone. She talks to him about Sawyer and Kate saving Ben because he's not Ben yet, and about why they came back because she knows that he did it for himself and told him that she was happy here. Sawyer and Kate were soon found by the Others and after demanding to see Richard, Richard came and offered to save Ben, but it came at the cost of him not remembering this and that he would lose his innocence, he would be one of them. Kate and Sawyer agree, and Ben is taken by Richard to be saved. Ben was talk to by Charles and told that even though he was living with Dharma initiative he was one of them. Kate and Sawyer returned to the Barracks and got Miles to erase the tapes that showed them taking Ben to the Hostiles. Horace came in wanting Sawyer but since he was gone, he entrusted Miles to deliver a package to Radzinsky as part of their circle of trust which Miles is now a part of. Miles delivers the package to Radzinsky, they put a body into a body bag and loaded it into the van. Miles was told to take the body to Pierre at the Orchid. Hurley was loaded the van with sandwiches for the crew and Miles tried to stop him but eventually relented and they went to the Orchid together. Kate went to inform Juliet about Ben when Rodger came in and started to freak out when his son wasn't there, and no one knew where he was. Kate went to check on Rodger but accidently let on that she knew something which she rejected and left. On the way Hurley insisted that they stop because he smelt something funny and when he checked the back, he saw the body. Hurley guessed that Miles could speak to the dead and that he also had the same power as well. Miles and Hurley discuss talking to the dead and how their powers are separate. They made it to the Orchid and delivered what the body to Pierre and Pierre get mad about Hurley being there. Hurley calls Pierre a douche and Miles informs Hurley that Pierre is his dad. Hurley and Miles talk about Pierre when Pierre wants to be taken to the worksite. Jack and Rodger are cleaning when Rodger mentions that he believes Kate has something to Ben's disappearance, but Jack talks him out of it. Miles drives Pierre and Hurley to the Swan station worksite and tries to get them to hang out together. When they arrive, Hurley realises that they are building the Hatch. Miles drives Hurley back and Hurley tries to talk to him about his dad but Miles refuses stating that he doesn't want to get to know his father. Miles then grabs Hurley notebook and reads what he's writing, Miles reads about the planet Hoth and wants to know what he's writing about. Hurley informs him that he is writing the script of Empire strikes back with a few improvements to send to George Lucas. Sawyer comes home and finds out about what Kate said and how Jack stopped Rodger from talking. Sawyer then runs into Phil who knows that he took Ben and when Phil wants and explanation, Sawyer invites him in before knocking him up and tying him up. Miles and Hurley arrive at the Barracks and Hurley tells him about his own father, and how Luke and Vader could have avoided The Return of the Jedi if they communicated. Miles then goes to Pierres house and see Pierre reading to a little Miles. Pierre walks out of the house and get Miles to go with him to meet the scientists from Ann Arbor. Miles goes to the dock and helps a scientist with his equipment before he comes out and Miles realises that it's Daniel.