Locke: [to Desmond] The Pearl is a psychological station, full of TV monitors. And uh, two men sat in viewing chairs and filled notebooks, with observations on what happens in here. And then they put the notebooks in pneumatic tubes, sent 'em back to their headquarters, so they could evaluate us, as an experiment.
[Desmond sighs and walks around the room]
Locke: What?
Desmond: What if you've got it backwards?
Locke: "Backwards"?
Desmond: What if the experiment wasn't on the two men in [The Swan] but on the two men in [The Pearl]?
[Desmond sighs and walks around the room]
Locke: What?
Desmond: What if you've got it backwards?
Locke: "Backwards"?
Desmond: What if the experiment wasn't on the two men in [The Swan] but on the two men in [The Pearl]?
Locke : [to Desmond] The Pearl is a psychological station, full of TV monitors. And uh, two men sat in viewing chairs and filled notebooks, with observations on what happens in here. And then they put the notebooks in pneumatic tubes, sent 'em back to their headquarters, so they could evaluate us , as an experiment.
[Desmond sighs and walks around the room]
Locke : What?
Desmond : What if you've got it backwards?
Locke : "Backwards"?
Desmond : What if the experiment wasn't on the two men in [The Swan] but on the two men in [The Pearl]?
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