Jack: I can't.
Locke: Why can't you?
Jack: Because I'm not a leader.
Locke: Yet they all treat you like one.
Jack: I don't know how to help them. I'll fail. I don't have what it takes.

Jack: I'm not going anywhere, Hurley.
Hurley: Yeah, I told him you'd say that. That's why he told me to tell you...You have what it takes, Jack.
Jack: [Jack stands, shocked] What did you say?
Hurley: I said "you have what it takes." He said you'd know what it means.
Jack: And Jacob he's at this Lighthouse?
Hurley: Yeah, I think?
Jack: Ok. Well, let's go see Jacob.

Jack: If we survive this, if we survive tonight, we're gonna have a Locke problem. And I need to know that you got my back.
Kate: I got your back.

Jack: It's been six days, and we're all still waiting. Waiting for someone to come. But what if they don't? We have to stop waiting. We need to start figuring things out. A woman died this morning just going for a swim. He tried to save her and now you're about to crucify him. We can't do this. Every man for himself is not going to work. It's time to start organizing. We need to figure out how we're going to survive here. Now I found water. Freshwater, up in the valley. I'll take a group up there at first daylight. If you don't want to come then find another way to contribute! Last week most of us were strangers. But we're all here now. And God knows how long we're going to be here. But if we can't live together--we're gonna die alone.

Jack: It's pretty crazy, huh?
Kate: Which part?
Jack: Hurley, Sayid and Ben on the same plane. How did they end up here?
Kate: They bought a ticket.
Jack: You don't think that it means something? That somehow we're all back together?
Kate: We're on the same plane, Jack. Doesn't make us together.

Jack: Jacob didn't say anything to me about Desmond.
Sawyer: Doesn't sound like he said anything about anything.
Hurley: That's kind of true, dude. He's worse than Yoda.
Sawyer: All right, ya'll head to your heart of the island and I'll go back and get the magic leprechaun out of that well.
Jack: If we leave a trail can you catch up with us?
Sawyer: [nods] Hell, yeah, I can.
Jack: Then be safe.
Sawyer: [to Kate] I'd ask you along, but that'd take all of the fun out of me telling you you can't come.
Kate: [smiles] I guess I'll just have to resist the urge to follow you anyway.

Jack: Kate? Kate? Wake up, Kate.
Kate: What time is it?
Jack: It's late. I just got home.
Kate: Were you working?
Jack: No. I... I just...had to stop and get something. It just took a while.
Kate: What's going on? What's wrong?
Jack: The other night, when I was reading to Aaron, you said... that I was a natural. [Sighs] do you really... do you really think that I'm good at this?
Kate: Yeah! You're good at this.
Jack: [pauses] Will you marry me?
Kate: [crying] Yes.
[Jack pulls out a small box and shows the ring]
Kate: Of course I will, Yes!
[He wears it on her finger]
[They hug]

Jack: Sawyer, it's a suicide mission without guns.
Juliet: I know where there are some guns. Ethan left a stash near the beach.
Jack: Juliet, you don't have to do that.
Juliet: Yeah, Jack, I kinda do.
Sawyer: Let's do this.
Jack: Don't do anything stupid.
Juliet: I won't if you won't.
[They kiss]

Jack: So, what's done is done.

Jack: Tell me
Kate: Tell you?
Jack: The first day on the beach, the day of the crash, the story that I told you. If you're safe, tell me.
Tom: Do you think this is the best time?
Jack: Shut up!
Kate: You were doing surgery on a girl, and you messed up. You made a mistake. You tore something on her back, and all the nerves came loose. And you said the fear was so... real. And you didn't know what to do. So you counted to five.. [Kate starts to cry] And then you weren't afraid anymore. And then it was just gone. And you fixed her, you saved her.
Jack: (after a pause) I need you to make me a promise, Kate.
Kate: Jack-
Jack: Promise me that you'll never come back here for me. Don't come back, Kate.
[Ben wakes up mid-surgery]

Jack: This is bad.
Michael: Yeah. I mean, I know what I would do, but... this has gotta be your call.
Jack: All right... give me the 7 iron.

Jack: Three days ago we all died. We should all be able to start over.

Jack: Wait. [stops Sayid from pulling the wires out of the C4]
Sawyer: What the hell are you doing Doc?
Jack: Nothing is going to happen.
Sawyer: What?
Jack: Don't pull those wires out. We're going to be OK. Nothing is going to happen.
Sawyer: If I don't pull these wires, Locke is going to blow us to kingdom come.
Jack: No he's not! Locke can't kill us.
Hurley: Uhh, what?
Jack: This is what he wanted. This has been what he has been waiting for. Everything that he has done has been to get us here. He wanted to get us all at the same place at the same time in a nice enclosed space where we had no hopes of getting out.
Jin: I don't understand.
Jack: Locke said that he couldn't leave the Island without us. I think that he can't leave the Island unless we're all dead. He told me that he could kill any one of us whenever he wanted, so what if he hasn't because he's not allowed to? What if he's trying to get us to kill each other?
Sawyer: Stay out of my way Doc.
Jack: If he wanted that thing to blow up, why did he put a timer on it? Why not just throw it inside?
Sawyer: I don't care.
Jack: Nothing is going to happen.
Sawyer: It's not your decision to make.
Jack: He can't kill us!
Sawyer: I'm not going to stand here and do nothing!
Jack: James... We are going to be OK. You just have to trust me.
Sawyer: Sorry Doc, I don't. [pulls the wires from the C4 and the clock then speeds up]

Jack: We don't have time to sort out everybody's God.
Charlie: Really? Last I heard we were positively made of time.

Jack: We have to go back! WE HAVE TO GO BACK!
Kate: "We have to go back"? "We have to go back"?
Jack: Now hold on--
Kate: Who do you think you are?! You call me over and over again for two days straight, stoned on your pills! And then you show up here with an obituary for Jeremy Bentham. [Sighs] When he came to me and I heard what he had to say, I knew he was crazy. But you... you believed him.
Jack: Yes.
Kate: Him, of all people.
Jack: Yes, Kate, I did, because he said that that was the only way that I could keep you safe--you and Aaron. [Kate slaps Jack]
Kate: Don't you say his name. I still have to explain to him why you are not there to read to him, so don't you say his name!
Jack: I'm sorry.
Kate: I've spent the last three years trying to forget all the horrible things that happened on the day that we left. How dare you ask me to go back?