go away. Let me drink.
Are you still pushing it?
Yeah, we're still pushing it.
[sergeant] Set of keys.
One pocket watch, gold-plated.
One photograph.
One book: Our Mutual Friend.
Why didn't you bring that inside?
To avoid temptation, brother.
I've read everything Charles Dickens
has ever written.
Every wonderful word.
Every book, except this one.
I'm saving it. So it will be
the last thing I ever read before I die.
Nice idea. As long as you
know when you're gonna die.
Lance Corporal Desmond David Hume,
your sentence is hereby complete,
and you are now and forever
dishonorably discharged
from the Royal Scots Regiment
of Her Majesty's Armed Forces.
Long live the queen.
Enjoy your sodding book.
You want a ride?
Not with you.
Get in the car.
Did you bring me a present?
Actually, two presents.
One of these boxes
contains your past, Hume.
The other, your future.
Go ahead. Open it.
You're a bastard, you know that?
The fact that she never received your...
Your sentiments is good for her.
Good because, as far as she's concerned,
you've forsaken her.
- And that's the way it's going to stay.
- Is it now?
Penelope's moved on, Hume.
She's getting married.
This is for your new life,
away from my daughter.
The conditions are simple.
No contact. No calls. No post.
You just... run away, Desmond.
And what makes you think
I would just run away?
Because you're a coward.
[Sayid] On the way to the funeral,
I told you that Michael
had been compromised by the Others.
And then you asked me how
we might take advantage of that.
I believe fate
has given us our answer: the boat.
The boat.
This camp Michael
is leading you to across the island,
that is where they will set their trap.
While Michael leads you by land,
I can approach far more quickly by sea,
and I can go ashore undetected.
- Go ashore and do what?
- Scout them.
Their numbers and positions.
Their weapons.
Then I'll go to the nearest beach
and start a signal fire with these.
They burn with a dark black smoke.
You and your team
will come to meet me at the signal,
and we will go in together.
We're not even sure
if Michael's been turned by them.
He has been turned.
I'll have to tell Kate and Hurley
and Sawyer what we're doing...
No. Michael cannot sense
we know he is lying.
All we have
is the element of surprise, Jack.
Right now, it's only
your responsibility to keep it secret.
Black smoke, huh?
This time,
they will know that we are coming.
Hello, John.
Where have you been?
I've been thinking.
About what?
That in a minute,
that computer's gonna start beeping.
And when it does,
you're gonna let it go.
You're gonna let it
run down to zero, past zero,
and you're not gonna push the button.
But I am going to push the button.
Why wouldn't l?
Because you don't want to be a slave.
- I am a slave to nothing.
- You're a slave to that.
- [beeping]
- Just like I was.
So I'm gonna tell you again...
...don't push it.
Do not tell me what I can do.
You cannot push that button!
[grunts]
No, it's not real! We're only puppets!
Puppets on strings!
As long as we push it,
we'll never be free.
Well, you're free now, John.
- Do not come back.
- No.
No way. If I take that,
I'm gonna kill someone.
Ain't that the point?
I thought the point
was to get Walt back.
What's the matter?
All that stuff
we found in the medical station.
Costumes, makeup, fake beards.
They want us to think
they're hillbillies.
Listen. Listen, I was there.
I saw them.
They are hillbillies. They live in huts.
They eat fish. They're probably
more scared than we are,
and they have no idea we're on our way.
All right. Enough jibber-jabber.
Let's roll.
I need your boat.
I wouldn't waste your time.
There's nothing out there, pal.
I'm not going out there. I need to
get to the north shore, and quickly.
- Off to see the hostiles, are you?
- The what?
You know what? Ignorance is bliss.
The boat's all yours, brother.