Kate: It's just that you... and the tattoos... don't add up. Were you one of those hardcore spinal surgeons or something?
Jack: That's me. Hardcore.
Charlie: If you two are done verbally copulating, we should get a move on.

Kate: Kinda sucks, huh?
Jack: What's that?
Kate: Being told not to come along. (Jack chuckles) Now you know what it feels like to be me.
Jack: Does that mean I should wait twenty minutes and go anyway? (Both laugh.)
Kate: (smiling) Touché.

Kate: Not everyone is like you, Sawyer.
Sawyer: I guess that's why old Jacko and Ana-loo-loo didn't ask me to join their revolution. What, you didn't hear about their little army?

Kate: So he just attacked you, huh?
Sawyer: Try to contain yourself, Freckles
Kate: What? I'm worried. You look like you got your ass kicked.
Sawyer: Don't you got an adventure to get to? I think Timmy fell down a well over that way.

Kate: So you're the one who wrote our names on the wall?
Jacob: I am.
Kate: Sun and Jin Kwon and Sayid Jarrah. You wrote their names on the wall?
Jacob: Yes,
Kate: Is that why they're dead?
Jacob: I'm very sorry.
Kate: You're sorry?
Hurley: Kate...
Kate: No, I wanna know why. I wanna know that Sun and Jin and Sayid didn't die for nothing.
Jacob:...Come and sit down and I will tell you what they died for. I'll tell you why I chose them. And why I chose you. And I'll tell you everything you need to know about protecting this Island, because by the time that fire burns out, one of you is gonna have to start doing it. [The group gathers around] I don't really know where to start.
Hurley: How about why you brought us to the Island.
Jacob: I brought all of you here because I made a mistake. A mistake I made a very long time ago, and now, because of that there's a very good chance every single one of you and everyone you've ever cared about is going to die.
Sawyer: What mistake?
Jacob: You call him "The Monster." But I'm responsible for what happened to him. I made him that way. And ever since then he's been trying to kill me. It was only a matter of time before he figured out how, and when he did, someone would have to replace me. And that's why I brought you all here.
Sawyer: Tell me something, Jacob. Why do I gotta be punished for your mistake? What made you think you could mess with my life? I was doing just fine until you dragged my ass to this rock.
Jacob: No you weren't. None of you were. I didn't pluck any of you out of some happy existence. You were all flawed. I chose you because you were all like me. You were all alone. You were all looking for something you couldn't find out there. I chose you because you needed this place as much as it needed you.
Kate: Why did you cross my name off of your wall?
Jacob: Because you became a mother. It's just a line of chalk in a cave. The job is yours if you want it, Kate.
Jack: What is the job?
Jacob: There's a light at the center of this Island. You have to make sure it never goes out. That's how you protect it.
Sawyer: Your monster friend said there's nothing to protect it from.
Jacob: You have to protect it from him. You must do what I couldn't. What I wasn't able to do.
Jack: You want us to kill him. Is that even possible?
Jacob: I hope so, because he is certainly going to try to kill you.
Hurley: So...how are you gonna pick?
Jacob: I'm not going to pick, Hugo. I'm going to give you the one thing I was never given. A choice.
Kate: And if none of us chooses?
Jacob: Then this ends very badly.
[There is a pause as everyone looks at one another]
Jack: I'll do it. This is why I'm here. This is...this is what I'm supposed to do.
Jacob: Is that a question, Jack?
Jack:...No,
Jacob: Good, then it's time.

Kate: Thank you for helping him [Sawyer] I know it was probably the last thing you wanted to do.
Jack: I didn't do it for him.

Kate: The tent's all set. Everything's ready.
Juliet: Good. Thanks. Listen, I could use an extra pair of hands in there. You wanna help me out?
Kate: Um, I don't...I don't think that's a good idea.
Juliet: It's just holding a mirror. Jack wants to watch the surgery, "talk me through it."
[Kate smiles]
Juliet: What?
Kate: I'm just surprised he's not taking it out of himself by now.
[They see Jack walking]
Juliet: Jack? What are you doin'?
[Jack tries to walk without help]
Jack: I don't need a stretcher. I can walk 50 feet.
[Kate arrives]
Kate: I'll help you.
Juliet: They're gonna be back with the instruments soon. We need to be ready to go as soon as they get back. See you in there.
[Kate helps Jack and they walk together]
Kate: So it looks like I'm gonna be your nurse.
Jack: Wouldn't be the first time.
[Brief pause]
[Sighs]
Jack: Listen, um... if something happens to me...
Kate: Shut up, Jack.
[Jack smiles]
Jack: Fair enough.

Kate: What are you doing?
Sawyer: Same thing I've always done Kate: surviving.

Kate: What happened? What'd he say?
Jack: It's not important right now. Just, get everything together...
Kate: Jack, your knuckles. Here
[Kate begins cleaning his bruised knuckles]
Kate: What happened?
Jack: He killed them. Bernard, Jin, Sayid, all three of them. He radioed the beach. And I let it happen. We can't tell Rose. Or Sun, not yet. We gotta keep moving, I promised Sayid that we would keep moving.
Kate: So why did you bring him back? Why didn't you just kill him?
Jack: Because I want him to see it. I want him to experience the moment that we get off this island, and I want him to know he failed. Then I'll kill him.

Kate: Why are you sticking up for Saywer? He'd never do it for you.
Jack: Because I love you.

Kate: Why did she call you James?
Sawyer: [sighs] 'Cus that's my name. Noticed somethin' else, too.
[pauses, grins]
Sawyer: You taste like strawberries.
Kate: You taste like fish biscuits.

Kate: Why did you take the job, Jack?
Jack: Because I was supposed to.
Kate: Why? Because some stranger wrote our names on a wall?
Jack: I took it because the island's all I've got left. It's the only thing in my life I haven't managed to ruin.
Kate: You haven't ruined anything. Nothing is irreversible.
Hurley: This would be so sweet if we weren't all about to die.

Kate: You're a natural.
Jack: Yeah?
Kate: Yeah.
Jack: My old man used to read me that story.
Kate: Really?
Jack: What?
Kate: It's just... it's just sweet hearing you say nice things about your dad.
Jack: I don't say nice things about my dad? Well, he was a good storyteller. I'll give him that.
[He comes closer]
Jack: You okay?
Kate: Just,I...I love seeing you with him. I'm so glad you changed your mind. I'm so glad that you're here.
Jack: Me too.
[They kiss and Jack carries Kate to the bedroom]

Kate: [finding an article]: Alright, 10 Ways To Tell If He's A Sensitive Man.
Sawyer: This ought to be good.
Locke: [passes by] Morning.
Kate: Morning, John.
Sawyer: Now there's a sensitive man.

Kate:Jack, how well do you know Ana-Lucia? It's just... the Others. I was out there with you. I heard that man say that if we stayed away they would leave us alone. And we've left them alone. So why would they attack us a few days later?
Jack: Well if it wasn't them, who was it?
Kate:Like I said. How well do you know Ana-Lucia?