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LOCKE
I'm an ordinary man Jack, meat and potatoes, I live in the real world. I'm not a big believer in magic. But this place is different. It's special. The others don't want to talk about it because it scares them. But we all know it. We all feel it. Is your white rabbit a hallucination? Probably. But what if everything that happened here, happened for a reason? What if this person that you're chasing is really here?

JACK
That's impossible.

LOCKE
Even if it is; let's say it's not.

JACK
Then what happens when I catch him?

LOCKE
I don't know. But I've looked into the eye of this island. And what I saw was beautiful.

*****

LOCKE
That's why you and I don't see eye-to-eye sometimes, Jack -because you're a man of science.

JACK
Yeah, and what does that make you?

LOCKE
Me, well, I'm a man of faith. Do you really think all this is an accident - that we, a group of strangers survived, many of us with just superficial injuries? Do you think we crashed on this place by coincidence - especially, this place? We were brought here for a purpose, for a reason, all of us. Each one of us was brought here for a reason.

JACK
Brought here? And who brought us here, John?

LOCKE
The island. The island brought us here. This is no ordinary place, you've seen that, I know you have. But the island chose you, too, Jack. It's destiny.

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BEN
I crawled through your vents and I stood at your computer as the alarm beeped. And you know what happened? The timer went all the way down to zero, and then some funny red pictures flipped up in its place. They looked like hieroglyphics, but I'm no expert. And then things got real interesting. There was a loud clunking and a hum like a magnet - a big magnet. It was really very frightening. And you know what happened next? Nothing happened, John. Nothing happened at all. Your timer just flipped back to 108. I never entered the numbers. I never pressed the button.

LOCKE
You're lying.

BEN
No, I'm done lying.

*****

EKO
The reason to do it - push the button - is not because we are told to do so in a film.

LOCKE
Oh - well, then what is the reason, Mr. Eko?

EKO
We do it because we believe we are meant to. Isn't that the reason you pushed it, John?

LOCKE
I was never meant to do anything. Every single second of my pathetic little life is as useless as that button! You think it's important? You think it's necessary? It's nothing. It's nothing. It's meaningless. And who are you to tell me that it's not?

*****

DESMOND
Can I ask you a question, brother?

LOCKE
Absolutely.

DESMOND
Is the reason you're letting that clock there run all the way down to the very last tick - is it because you need to look down the barrel of a gun to find out what you really believe, John?

LOCKE
I looked down the barrel of the gun and I believed. I thought it was my destiny to get into this place. And someone died - a kid. Because he was stupid enough to believe that I knew what I was talking about. And the night that he died for nothing, I was sitting right up there, all alone, beating my hand bloody against that stupid door - screaming to the heavens asking what I should do. And then a light went on. I thought it was a sign. But it wasn't a sign. Probably just you going to the bathroom.

DESMOND
3 days before you came down here, before we met, I heard a banging on the hatch door, shouting. But it was you, John, wasn't it? You said there isn't any purpose - there's no such thing as fate. But you saved my life, brother, so that I could save yours.

LOCKE
No, no, no, none of this is real! Nothing is going to happen. We're going to be okay.

DESMOND
I've got to go. And you've got to get as far away from here as possible.

LOCKE
Go where? Stop!

DESMOND
I'm going to blow the dam, John. I'm sorry for whatever happened that made you stop believing. But it's all real. Now I've got to go and make it all go away.

LOCKE
Wait, Desmond.

DESMOND
I'll see you in another life, brother.

*****

LOCKE
I'm sorry. Sorry I ever doubted you. Sorry I gave up on my faith in the island. I messed up. Now our people are captured - if I'd just listened to you - if I'd just let you keep pushing the button. I could have gone with them, protected them. I could have saved them.

EKO
You can still protect them. You can still save them.

LOCKE
I don't even know where they are.

EKO
You will find them. After all, you are a hunter, John.

*****

BEN
Why are you so angry, John?

LOCKE
Because you're cheating! You and your people. Communicate with the outside world whenever you want to, you...you come and go as you please...you use electricity and running water and guns...You're a hypocrite! A pharisee. You don't deserve to be on this island. If you had any idea what this place really was...you wouldn't be putting chicken in your refrigerator!

BEN
You've been here 80 days, John; I've been here my entire life! So how is it that you think you know this island better than I do?

LOCKE
Because you're in the wheelchair, and I'm not.

*****

LOCKE
What do you want from me?

BEN
I don't know how it happened, but you seem to have some communion with this island, John, and that makes you very, very important. You have no idea what you're talking about, of course, but in time you'll have a better understanding of things. So what do I want? I want to help you, John.

LOCKE
Why?

BEN
Because I'm in a wheelchair and you're not.

*****

BEN
I was told a lot of things, too - that I was chosen, that I was special. Ended up with a tumor on my spine and my daughter's blood all over my hands.

LOCKE
I'm sorry those things happened to you, Ben.

BEN
Those things had to happen to me. That was my destiny. But you'll understand soon enough that there are consequences to being chosen...because, destiny, John, is a fickle bitch.

******

BEN
I'd like you to get on the elevator, John, and go back up. Richard and my people will be waiting 2 miles east of the Orchid.

LOCKE
Waiting for me.

BEN
Ready, willing and able to share what they know. And then they will follow your every word. Good-bye, John. I'm sorry I made your life so miserable.

LOCKE
What do I tell 'em to do?

BEN
You'll find your way, John. You always do.