Watching Lost

MAN: Hello, Benjamin.
YOUNG BEN: What happened?
MAN: You were injured.
YOUNG BEN: How?
MAN: You don’t remember?
YOUNG BEN: Where am I?
MAN: You’re among friends. We’re going to take care of you.
YOUNG BEN: My dad–is he here?
MAN: You’ll be back to him soon enough.
YOUNG BEN: No. No, I don’t want to go back.
MAN: Okay, easy. Easy.
YOUNG BEN: Oh! I don’t want to go back. I wanna stay. I wanna be one of you.
MAN: Just because you’re living with them doesn’t mean you can’t be one of us. You should be dead, Benjamin. But this Island… it saved your life.
YOUNG BEN: Who are you?
MAN: I’m Charles. Charles Widmore.

BEN: Was there something that you needed, John?
LOCKE: Well, Ben, I was hoping that you and I could talk about the elephant in the room.
BEN: I assume you’re referring to the fact that I killed you.
LOCKE: Yeah.
BEN: It was the only way to get you back to the Island, along with as many of those who left as possible. You do remember, John–that’s why you left in the first place, to convince ‘em to come back? But you failed. And the only way to bring them together was by your death, and you understood that. It’s why you were about to kill yourself when I stopped you.
LOCKE: If all I had to do was die, Ben, they why did you stop me?
BEN: You had critical information that would’ve died with you. And once you’d given it to me… well, I just didn’t have time to talk you back into hanging yourself. So I took a shortcut. And look at you, John. I was right. You’re here. You’re back. So are the rest of them. I don’t know where yet exactly, but they came. It worked. And that’s why I did it, because it was in the best interests of the Island.
LOCKE: I was just hoping for an apology.

WIDMORE: Are you quite certain you want to do this, Benjamin?
BEN: You left the Island regularly. You had a daughter with an outsider. You broke the rules, Charles.
WIDMORE: And what makes you think you deserve to take what’s mine?
BEN: Because I won’t be selfish. Because I’ll sacrifice anything to protect this Island.
WIDMORE: You wouldn’t sacrifice Alex.
BEN: You’re the one who wanted her dead, Charles, not the Island.
WIDMORE: I hope you’re right, Benjamin, because if you aren’t, and it is the Island that wants her dead, she’ll be dead. And one day, you’ll be standing where I’m standing now. You’ll be the one being banished, and then you’ll finally realize that you cannot fight the inevitable. I’ll be seeing you, boy.

WIDMORE: Hello?
BEN: Charles? It’s Benjamin.
WIDMORE: How did you get this number?
BEN: Doesn’t matter. What matters is I’m going back to the Island today.
WIDMORE: The Island won’t let you come back, trust me. I’ve spent almost 20 years trying to return.
BEN: Well, Charles, where you failed, I’m going to succeed… just as soon as I do one thing.
WIDMORE: And what’s that, Benjamin?
BEN: Kill your daughter. In fact, I’m looking at Our Mutual Friend right now.
WIDMORE: I don’t know what you’re talking about.
BEN: It’s the name of the boat that Penny’s on.
WIDMORE: Don’t you dare.
BEN: Good-bye, Charles.