Watching Lost

HORACE: How’s your head?
SAWYER: It hurts. Where are my people?
HORACE: They’re fine. Amy told me what happened in the jungle, and I really appreciate what you did.
SAWYER: Well, y’all got a funny way of showing your appreciation.
HORACE: Look, we have certain defense protocols. There are hostile indigenous people on this island, and we don’t get along with them. So… why don’t you tell me who the hell you are?
SAWYER: My name’s James LaFleur. You can call me Jim.
HORACE: How’d you get to the island, Jim?
SAWYER: If my friends are safe, why are you asking me all the questions?
HORACE: They told me I need to talk to you, that you’re the boat captain.
SAWYER: We got caught in a storm. Our ship wrecked. Must’ve hit the reef. Thankfully, we washed up on shore.
HORACE: What kind of ship?
SAWYER: A salvage vessel. Searching for a famous lost wreck. It’s an old slaver out of Portsmouth, England, called the Black Rock. You heard of her?
HORACE: Can’t say that I have.
HORACE: So… once you got washed ashore, why were you then wandering around in the jungle?
SAWYER: Some of our crew were missin’. We were looking for ‘em. That’s when we came upon your girl instead.
HORACE: Hmm. Well… I tell you what, Jim. If your crew shows up, we’ll send ‘em along with ya.
SAWYER: Send ‘em where?
HORACE: There’s a submarine that leaves this island first thing in the morning. You and your friends, you’re gonna get on it. It’s gonna drop you off in Tahiti. You can find your way home from there.
SAWYER: Hold on a minute, chief. We just saved that woman’s life. Doesn’t that earn us a week or two to find the rest of our people?
HORACE: Nope. Only people that are allowed to stay on this compound are members of the DHARMA Initiative. And look, I don’t want you to take this the wrong way, please, Jim, but you are not DHARMA material.

MILES: We’re screwed. He’s probably trying to explain time travel by now.
JULIET: Sawyer’s gonna be fine.
MILES: What are you lookin’ at?
JULIET: I lived here for over three years. That was my house over there.
MILES: You were in the DHARMA Initiative?
JULIET: No. The Others took over these Barracks and wiped out most of the people living in them. They brought me here on a sub a long time after that.
MILES: Well… welcome home.
JIN: Daniel… no more flash?
FARADAY: No. No more flash. The record is spinning again. We’re just not on the song we wanna be on.

HORACE: Hello. Somebody will be along shortly to show you to your rooms. In the meantime, Mr. LaFleur here can fill you in on the situation. MILES: “Mr. LaFleur”?
SAWYER: It’s Creole. Improvised.
JULIET: What happened in there?
SAWYER: Well, he believed my story. But we’re gettin’ punted. The bastard’s puttin’ us on their sub tomorrow and shipping us off to Tahiti.

SAWYER: Let me talk to him.
HORACE: Excuse me?
SAWYER: Your buddy out there with the eyeliner–let me talk to him.
HORACE: We had a truce with these people. You don’t understand.
SAWYER: I understand I’m the one that killed his men, and I’m the one that’s gonna go out there and tell him why I did it.
HORACE: I can’t let you do that.
SAWYER: Well, it’s a good thing I ain’t asking your permission.
JULIET: James, are you sure you know what you’re doing?
SAWYER: Not yet. But I’ll figure somethin’ out.

SAWYER: Hello, Richard.
RICHARD: I’m sorry. Do we know each other?
SAWYER: I’m the guy that killed your men. Heard some gunshots, saw two men throwing a bag over a woman’s head. Gave ‘em a chance to throw the weapons down and walk away, but one of them took a shot at me, and I defended myself.
RICHARD: Is that so?
SAWYER: That’s so.
RICHARD: Your people know that you’re telling me this?
SAWYER: They ain’t my people, Hoss. So if you got some kind of a truce with them, it ain’t been broken.
RICHARD: If you’re not a member of the DHARMA Initiative, then what are you?
SAWYER: Did you bury the bomb?
RICHARD: Excuse me?
SAWYER: The hydrogen bomb with “Jughead” written on the side. Did you bury it?
RICHARD: How…
SAWYER: Yeah, I know about it. I also know that 20 years ago, some bald fella limped into your camp and fed you some mumbo jumbo about being your leader. And then poof… he went and disappeared right in front of ya. Any of this ringin’ a bell? That man’s name is John Locke, and I’m waitin’ for him to come back. So… you still think I’m a member of the damn DHARMA Initiative?
RICHARD: No. I guess I don’t. But no matter who you are, two of my men are dead. And my people need some kind of justice. Now what are we gonna do about that?

SAWYER: I bought us two weeks. Horace said we can wait for the next sub. Any luck, Locke’ll be back by then.
JULIET: And then what?
SAWYER: What do you mean, “Then what”?
JULIET:  Locke said he was leaving to save us. The flashes have stopped. They’re over. No more bloody noses. We’re already saved. That sub behind you brought me here. I’ve been trying to get off of this island for more than three years, and now I’ve got my chance.
JULIET: I’m going to leave.
SAWYER: You do realize it’s 1974, that whatever it is you think you’re going back to… it don’t exist yet.
JULIET: It’s not a reason not to go.
SAWYER: Well, what about me? You really gonna leave me here with the mad scientist and Mr. “I Speak to Dead People”? And Jin, who’s a hell of a nice guy but not exactly the greatest conversationalist.
JULIET: You’ll be fine.
SAWYER: Maybe… but who’s gonna get my back?
SAWYER: Come on. Just give me two weeks, that’s all I’m asking. Two weeks.
JULIET: All right. Two weeks.