[Mother has brought Jacob to the cave of light]
Mother: Do you recognize this place?
Jacob: Yes,
Mother: Do you remember what I showed you here?
Jacob: The light.
Mother: You're going to protect it now.
Jacob: What's down there?
Mother: Life. Death. Rebirth. It's the source. The Heart of the Island. Just promise me that no matter what you do, you won't ever go down there.
Jacob: Would I die?
Mother: It would be worse than dying, Jacob. Much worse. [She pulls out a jug of wine and pours some into a cup. She whispers a Latin incantation over it] Here, drink this.
Jacob: What happens if I do?
Mother: You will accept the responsibility that you will protect this place for as long as you can. And then you'll have to find your replacement.
Jacob: I don't want to protect this place.
Mother: Someone has to.
Jacob: I don't care.
Mother: My time is over.
Jacob: Why, why is your time over?
Mother: It has to be you, Jacob!
Jacob: No it doesn't, you wanted it to be him [The Man in Black]! But now I'm all you have.
Mother: It was always supposed to be you, Jacob. I see that now. And one day you'll see it too. But until then, you don't really have a choice. Now please, take the cup and drink.
[Jacob drinks from the cup]
Mother: Now you and I are the same.

[Nikki's character Corvette in the TV show Exposé has been shot]
Howard Zukerman: Brilliant, Nikki. As always. You know you don't need to die, we can bring you back next season.
Nikki: How?
Zukerman: She didn't necessarily die. We could say she was wearing a bullet-proof vest.
[Nikki briefly opens her gown, revealing her character's skimpy costume]
Zukerman: Or bullet-proof breast...
Nikki: I'm just a guest star, and we all know what happens to guest stars.

[Richard Alpert sits in his tent fixing a model ship in what appears to be a large glass bottle. An Other enters his tent to inform him of John Locke's return]
Other: Richard. He's back!
Richard Alpert: Who?
[They exit Richard's tent, coming up the beach is John Locke carrying a boar over his shoulders]
John Locke: I brought dinner!
Richard Alpert: [Confused and shocked] John?
[Locke chucks the dead boar in the sand]
John Locke: Hello Richard. It's been a while.
Richard Alpert: It's...been three years. John what happened? Where were you?
John Locke: I'll explain that on the way.
Richard Alpert: On the way? On the way where?
John Locke: It's going to be night soon and you and I have an errand to run and we don't have a lot of time. [Pause] What's wrong?
Richard Alpert: There's something different about you.
John Locke: I have a purpose now...

[Sawyer has just realized that Hurley has tricked him into being nice by telling him the survivors were voting to banish him]
Sawyer: You son of a bitch. There wasn't ever going to be no vote.
Hurley: Wasn't it nice, being nice?
Sawyer: You tricked me into being decent? That's gotta be the lamest con in the history of cons!
Hurley: Wasn't a con, dude. If you're going to be our temporary leader you need to do some damage control.
Sawyer: Leader? What the hell are you smoking?
Hurley: Jack's gone, Locke's gone, Kate and Sayid...you're all we got. Paulo and Nikki died. We all look to you. Then again, you tried to steal their diamonds, but we wanted to look to you. Look around. You made everyone happy. Just for today, they can eat boar, laugh, and forget that they're totally screwed. And you did that for 'em, dude. You.
Sawyer: What if I don't want to be the leader?
Hurley: Yeah, well, I don't think Jack wanted it either. Sucks for you, dude.

[Sawyer has just shot a charging polar bear.]
Kate: Where did that come from?
Sawyer: Probably Bear Village. How the hell do I know?
Kate: Not the bear--the gun.
Sawyer: I got it off one of the bodies.
Sayid: One of the bodies.
Sawyer: Yeah, one of the bodies.
Shannon: People don't carry guns on planes.
Sawyer: They do if they're a U.S. Marshal, sweet cheeks. There was one on the plane.
Kate: How do you know that?
Sawyer: I saw a guy lying there with an ankle holster, so I took the gun. Thought it might come in handy. Guess what. I just shot a bear!
Kate: So why do you think he's a Marshal?
Sawyer: Because he had a clip-on badge. I took that, too. Thought it was cool.

[Sawyer holds a meeting to discuss what the survivors should do next before their true identities are discovered by Dharma. Suddenly there's a knock at the front door]
Sawyer: Hold your horses, I'll be right there.
[Sawyer picks up and cocks a handgun, placing it behind his back as he opens the door which he opens to reveal Dan and Miles]
Faraday: Hey James.
Sawyer: Welcome to the meeting Twitchy. Good to see you again. Come in, pound cake's in the kitchen, help yourself to the punch.
[Dan enters the house. Miles starts to follow. Saywer pulls him to one side]
Sawyer: Is he still crazy?
Miles: It's on a whole new level man.
Sawyer: [Sarcastically] Great!

[Sawyer is digging Nikki and Paulo's grave when Sun is walking towards him]
Sun: Charlie told me it was your idea to kidnap me.
Sawyer: You're gonna tell Jin?
Sun: No.
Sawyer: Why not?
Sun: Because then we have to dig another grave.
[Sun puts the diamonds in Sawyer's hands]
Sawyer: Why are you giving me these?
Sun: Because they are worthless here.
Sawyer: See. And I thought I was gonna get out of this....
[He stops when Sun punches him in the face and walks away]

[Sawyer is helping Jin practice speaking English]
Sawyer: I'm sorry.
Jin: I'm sorry.
Sawyer: Okay, nice. Keep it coming.
Jin: Uh, you were right.
Sawyer: Okay. That's two. Hit me.
Jin: Those pants don't make you look fat.
Sawyer: Now you got it. Only three things a woman needs to hear.

[Sawyer returns to The Man In Black's camp and sits by Kate who is cooking something on a camp fire]
Sawyer: What's for dinner?
[Kate looks up at Sawyer]
Kate: Rabbit. [Pause] I think.
Sawyer: Good 'coz I'm starving.
Kate: What are you doing running errands for Locke?
Sawyer: I ain't running errands for nobody.
Kate: He said he sent you over to the other island. Did you find the plane?
Sawyer: Yeah I found it and that ain't the only thing over there. Guy named Widmore set up camp over on the beach. He's got a whole team with him, guys with guns, they're here for Locke.
Kate: So what are you gonna do?
Sawyer: I'm gonna let them fight it out. And while they got their hands full with each other [He pauses and quickly checks no one is listening] You and me are getting the hell off this Island.
Kate: Even if we could get on that plane, who's gonna fly it?
Saywer: We ain't taking the plane Freckles. We're taking the sub.

[Sawyer reveals to the survivors that he now has possesion of the guns.]
Sawyer: So how about you listen up...'cause I'm only gonna say this once. You took my stuff. While I was trying to get us help...get us rescued...you found my stash and you took it. Divied it all up. My shaving cream...my batteries...even my beer! And then something else happens, y'all have decided that these two boys here [to Jack and Locke] are going to tell you what to do and when to do it. Well I'm done taking orders. And I don't want my stuff back. Shaving cream don't matter. Batteries don't matter. Only thing that matters now... are guns. And if you want one, you gonna have to come to me to get it. Oh! you wanna torture me don't ya?? [to Sayid]. Show everybody else how civilized you are? Go ahead...but I'll die before I give them back. And then you'll really be screwed, won't ya?

[Sawyer sees Hurley and Jin outside of a tent]
Sawyer: What the hell are y'all doing?
Hurley: What the hell are you doing?
Sawyer: Goin' to take a leak.
Hurley:...Yeah well, so were we.
Sawyer:...Well, alrighty then.

[Sawyer thinks they've finally been rescued, Kate helps him outside into the jungle]
Sawyer: Son of a bitch!

[Sawyer, Kate, and Hurley watch as Jacob initiates Jack as the new Island guardian]
Sawyer: Just when I thought that guy had a god complex before...
Kate: James...
Sawyer: Yeah. I know,
Hurley: I'm just glad it's not me.

[Sayid has just arrived back at the beach in the Zodiac]
Juliet: Sayid, where's Desmond?
Sayid: He's fine, he's on the freighter. Listen, I'm going to start taking people back, six at a time. We have to go right now, before the helicopter gets back to the boat.
Juliet: Why do we have to go to the boat before the chopper gets back?
Sayid: Because the men on that helicopter have every intention of killing us all. [Juliet looks scared] What?
Juliet: Jack and Kate just went running after it.