Jack: Hey, Hurley.
Hurley: Hey, Jack.
Jack: Why aren't you taking your meds?
Hurley: 'Cause we're dead... all of us. All the oceanic six. We're all dead. We never got off that island.
Jack: Hurley... that is not true.
Hurley: What'd you do today?
Jack: What did I do today? I,uh... [Sighs] I woke up, took a shower. Uh, Kate and I fed the baby.
Hurley: I thought you didn't want anything to do with Aaron.
Jack: I changed my mind after the trial.
Hurley: Living with Kate... taking care of Aaron... it all seems so perfect... just like heaven.
Jack: Just because I'm happy doesn't mean that this isn't real, Hurley.
Hurley: I was happy, too, Jack... for a while, anyway. Then I saw Charlie. He likes to sit with me on the bench out on the front lawn. It's pretty cool, actually.
Jack: Okay. [Sighs] so what do the two of you talk about?
Hurley: Well, yesterday, he told me you were gonna be coming by. He wanted me to give you a message.
Jack: A message?
Hurley: [Opens the drawer] He made me write it down so I wouldn't mess it up. "You're not supposed to raise him, Jack" Does that make any sense?
Jack: No, that...doesn't make any sense.
Hurley: Do you think he means Aaron?
Jack: Take your meds, Hurley. Just take them.
Hurley: Hey, Jack? Charlie said someone's gonna be visiting you, too. Soon.

Jack: Hey. Are you all right? [He touches Juliets face]
Juliet: He wanted me to kill them. Ben. He sent Harper to tell me to kill them.
Jack: How could he possibly tell you that?
Juliet: I don't know! But he knew how to get to me. Don't you see? These people came here to wage war against Ben. And Ben's going to win. And when he does you don't want to be anywere near me.
Jack: [Quietly]: Why not?
Juliet: [Pause]: Because he thinks that I'm his. And he knows how I feel about you.
[Jack walks up to Juliet, and kisses her]
Jack: He knows where to find me.

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: 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?

Jack: What did you want to talk to me about, John?
Locke: I want you to reconsider leaving the island, Jack. I would like you to stay.
Jack: You'd like me to stay.
Locke: Yeah. That's right.
Jack: You threw a knife into the back of an unarmed woman, you led half of our people across the island and got most of them killed.
Locke: Well Jack, you put a gun to my head and pulled the trigger. I was hoping we could let bygones be bygones.

Jack: You need to put the guns down.
Miles: What?
Jack: Put the guns down.
Miles: Now why would I do that?
Jack: Because our friends are out in the jungle right holding a gun at your head and his head, so I'm gonna forget about the misunderstanding, just put the guns down!
Miles: Come on, how stupid do you think I-
[Several shots ring out, and Juliet and Sayid come out the bushes with guns aimed at Miles and Daniel. Kate grabs Daniel's gun and aims it at him, but Miles continues to hold his]
Jack: I don't know, Miles. How stupid are you?

Jack: You people had therapists?
Juliet: It's very stressful being an Other, Jack.

Jin: Charlotte.
Charlotte: Yeah?
Jin: I know you understand me.
Charlotte: Pardon?
Jin: I know you speak Korean. You smiled when sun and I talked about you and you were listening to us at the station.
Charlotte: I'm sorry. Perhaps I can get your wife to translate...
Jin: You know, if you continue to lie, I'm going to hurt your friend Daniel, I'm going to break his fingers one at a time, do you understand that?
Charlotte: What do you want?
Jin: When you helicopter comes for you, you're goning to take my wife off this island.
Charlotte: What about you and the rest of your friends?
Jin: Just get her on the helicopter.

Juliet: You knew this would happen. You sent him out here because you knew this would happen. You wanted this! You wanted him to die! Why?
Ben: Why? You're asking me why? After everything I did to get you here, after everything I've done to keep you here - how can you possibly not understand...that you're mine!

Kate: [On the phone]: Yeah, I'll just have the nanny stay for an extra couple hours. Jack's never home before 8:00. I could stay for at least an hour.
[Kate sees Jack watching her]
Kate: I-I gotta go. Jack's home. Yeah, okay. I'll call you later. Bye.
[Kate hangs up]
Kate: You scared me.
Jack: [Smiles] Sorry. I thought you'd be in bed. [Brief pause] Who was that?
Kate: That was Noreen.
Jack: Noreen..
Kate: She's one of the moms from the park.
Kate: [Smiles] What?
Jack: [Smiles] Nothing. I just...never heard you mention her before.
Kate: Well, now you have.
[She kisses him]
Kate: I'll see you upstairs.

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: 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: 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]

Locke: Jack, you're not supposed to go home.
Jack: And what am I supposed to do?! Oh, I think I remember- what was it that you said on the way out to the hatch? That crashing here was our destiny.
Locke: You know, Jack, you know that you're here for a reason! You know it. And if you leave this place, that knowledge is gonna eat you alive from the inside out... until you decide to come back.
Jack: Goodbye John.
Locke: You're gonna have to lie.
Jack: Excuse me?
Locke: If you have to go, then you have to lie about everything, everything that happened since we got to the island. It's the only way to protect it.
Jack: It's an island, John. No one needs to protect it.
Locke: It's not an island. It's a place where miracles happen. And- and if you don't believe that Jack, if you can't believe that, just wait 'til you see what I'm about to do.
Jack: There's no such thing as miracles.
Locke: Well... we'll just have to see which one of us is right.