Cooper: Guess I didn't raise no dummies.
Sawyer: The hell's that mean?
Cooper: It means that bald headed bastard outside the door is my son.
Sawyer: Come again?
Cooper: My son. As in I'm his father. You do speak English?
Sawyer: How did you get here, to the Island?
Cooper: Island? OK. I'm driving down I10 through Tallahassee when bam, somebody slams into the back of my car. I go right into the divider at seventy miles an hour, the next thing I know, the paramedics are strapping me to a gurney, stuffing me into the back of an ambulance and one of them actually smiles at me as he pops the IV in my arm. And then, nothing. Just, black. And the next thing I know I wake up in a dark room tied up, gag in my mouth, and when the door opens, I'm looking up at the same man I threw out a window, John Locke. My dead son.
Sawyer: And he's dead cause you threw him out a window?
Cooper: No he survived that. But it paralysed him, permanently. He's dead because the plane he was flying on crashed in the Pacific.
Sawyer: Well I got bad news for ya pops, cause I was on that plane with your son. He sure as hell wasn't crippled. And we didn't crash in the Pacific, we crashed here on this Island.
Cooper: You sure its an Island?
Sawyer: Well what else is it?
Cooper: Little hot for heaven isn't it?
Sawyer: [Sarcastically] Oh OK, so we're dead?
Cooper: They found your plane on the bottom of the ocean. One minute I'm in a car wreck and the next minute I'm in a pirate ship in the middle of the jungle. If this isn't hell friend, then where are we?
Sawyer: Why did you throw Locke out a window?
Cooper: He was becoming a nuisance. I conned him into giving me one of his kidneys. He never got over it.
Sawyer: [Pauses] Conned?
Cooper: Yes sir, conned.
Sawyer: What's your name?
Cooper: Hmm?
Sawyer: Your name.
Cooper: A conman goes by many names friend. I've been Alan Seward, Anthony Cooper, Ted MacLaren, Tom Sawyer, Louis Jackson, and Paul...
Sawyer: Tom Sawyer.
Cooper: I was young and Huck Finn was taken. And the ladies loved that one. Made me charming.
Sawyer: Well how about that.
Cooper: How about what?
Sawyer: Sawyer's my name too
Cooper: What's the matter with you?
Sawyer: You ever been to Jasper, Alabama?
Cooper: Why?
Sawyer: Have you or haven't you?
Cooper: Yeah I been to Jasper. Don't tell me I'm your daddy?
Sawyer: No. You killed my daddy.
[Sawyer gets his letter out of his pocket � the one to Mr. Sawyer]

Dan (knocking at the hatch back door): Please, please, please. Let this work.
(The door opens, Desmond comes out and aims at Dan with a rifle)

Dan (staring at the hatch crater): Is this the hatch?
Sawyer: It was. Blown up, just like we left it.
Dan: Okay. So when we are now... It's now after you and your people crashed on the island.
Sawyer: You sayin' our camp is back on the beach again?
Dan: It's possible, yeah.
Sawyer: Good. I'm going back.
Dan: Hey. No, no. (stoping him) It's pointless.
Sawyer: More pointless than staring at a hole in the ground?
Dan: We don't know when the next flash is coming. By the time you get back to the beach, the camp could be gone again.
Sawyer: Yeah. But what if it ain't? Hell, what if the helicopter hasn't even taken off yet?
Juliet: We could warn them. Stop them from ever flying to that boat.
Dan: That is not the way it works.
Sawyer: Who says?
Dan: You cannot change anything. You can't. Even if you tried to, it wouldn't work.
Sawyer: Why not?
Dan: Time it's like a street, all right? We can move forward on that street, we can move in reverse, but we cannot ever create a new street. If we try to do anything different, we will fail every time. Whatever happened, happened.

Dan: Don't shoot.
Desmond: Then you'd best explain why you've been bangin' on my door for the last 20 minutes, brother.
Dan: Desmond.
Desmond (slowly lowering the rifle): Are you him?
Dan: "Him"? Who?
Desmond: My replacment.
Dan: No, I'm not. (Desmond points the rifle at him again) I'm not. I'm not. I'm...
Desmond: Do I know you?
Dan: Yeah... in a way. But listen, that's not important. What is important, Desmond, is what I'm about to say to you. I need you to listen. You're the only person who can help us because, Desmond... The rules... The rules don't apply to you. You're special. You're uniquely and miraculously special.
Desmond: What are you talking about?
(The sky begins to hum)

Dan: Okay, listen to me. Listen! If the helicopter somehow made it off the island, if you got home...
Desmond: What helicopter? What are you talking about?!
Dan: Listen, I need you to listen, or people are gonna die. My name is Daniel Faraday, and right now me and everyone else you left behind. We're in serious danger. You're the only person who can help us. I need you to go back to Oxford University. Go back to where we met. I need you to go there and find my mother. Her name is...
(The sky flashes and Desmond wakes up in his bed)

Daniel Faraday: Are you Jack?

Daniel Faraday: I think Eloise's brain short-circuited. The jumps between the present and the future eventually, she eventually, she couldn't tell which was which. She had no anchor.
Desmond: What do you mean, "anchor"?
Daniel Faraday: Something familiar in both times. All this, see all this is all variables. It's random; it's chaotic. Every equation needs stability, something known. It's called a "constant." Desmond, you have no constant. When you go to the future nothing there is familiar. So if you want to stop this, then you need to find something there, something that you really, really care about, something that also exists back here in 1996.
Desmond: This constant, can it be a person?
Daniel Faraday: Yeah, maybe. But you have to make contact. Didn't you say you were out on a boat in the middle of nowhere? [Desmond picks up a phone and begins dialing] Uh, who are you calling?
Desmond: Calling my bloody constant.
[on the phone]

Daniel: Do you believe in love at first sight; Mr. Hume?
Desmond: Excuse me?
Daniel: The first time I saw her, I was walking through this museum a few weeks ago. She... she works here. She was on the lunch break. She was eating a chocolate bar. She has these incredible blue, blue eyes, red hair. And as soon as I saw her, right... right in that moment, it was like... it was like I already loved her. And that's when things got weird.
[Daniel search out in his bag and takes a book off]
Daniel: That same night after I saw that woman... I woke up and I wrote this.
Desmond: So what is it?
Daniel: I'm a musician. I have no idea. So I took it to a friend of mine at Caltech. He's a math whiz. He said this is Quantum mechanics. He said these equations are so advanced that only someone who'd been studying physics their entire life could've come up with them.
Desmond: So... so what do they mean?
Daniel: Okay, imagine... imagine something terrible is about to happen, something catastrophic. And the only way to stop it from happening was by... releasing a huge amount of energy. Like setting off a nuclear bomb.
Desmond: You wanna set off a nuclear bomb?
Daniel: Just listen. What if this... all this... what if this wasn't supposed to be our life? What if we... we had some other life and for some reason, we changed things? I don't want to set off a nuclear bomb, Mr. Hume. I think I already did.
Desmond: Listen, mate, um... I don't know what any of this has to do with me. So...
Daniel: Why did you ask my mother about a woman named, Penny? It happened to you too, didn't it? You felt it.
Desmond: I don't know... I don't know what I felt.
Daniel: Yes, you do. You felt love.
Desmond: That's impossible because I don't know anything about this woman. I don't know... I don't know where she is. I don't even know if she exist. She's... She's an idea.
Daniel: No, Mr. Hume. She's my half-sister. And I can tell you exactly where and when you can find her.

Dave: When you do wake up, come find me. I'm sure I miss you.

Dave: You know what tastes even better than freedom? Cheeseburgers.

Desmond: See ya in another life brotha.

Desmond: So I started pushing the button too. And we saved the world together for a while, and that was lovely. Then Kelvin died, and now here I am all alone. The end.

Desmond: You've got a problem with your roof.
Claire: What?
Desmond: Look, maybe you should move down the beach for the night so we can fix it.

Desmond: [after Locke destroys the computer] You killed us. You killed us all.
Locke: No. I just saved us all.

Desmond: [showing Locke an Apple II computer] Can you use this?
Locke: I haven't seen one of these in twenty years!