Jack  : What happened?
Kate  : We're at the hatch.
Jack  : Wait, they built it.
Kate  : Yeah...They built it.
[Sawyer wakes up and kicks down into the crater of the destroyed hatch]
Sawyer: You were wrong!
Kate  : Sawyer!
[Sawyer climbs down into the crater to continue to fight Jack]
Sawyer: That's the damn hatch, just like when we left it when we started jumping through time!

Jack: Desmond, you've done enough. You want to do something, go home and be with your wife and son.
Desmond: What about you, Jack?
Jack: I'll see you in another life, brother.

Jack: I'm not going anywhere, Hurley.
Hurley: Yeah, I told him you'd say that. That's why he told me to tell you...You have what it takes, Jack.
Jack: [Jack stands, shocked] What did you say?
Hurley: I said "you have what it takes." He said you'd know what it means.
Jack: And Jacob he's at this Lighthouse?
Hurley: Yeah, I think?
Jack: Ok. Well, let's go see Jacob.

Jack: Jacob didn't say anything to me about Desmond.
Sawyer: Doesn't sound like he said anything about anything.
Hurley: That's kind of true, dude. He's worse than Yoda.
Sawyer: All right, ya'll head to your heart of the island and I'll go back and get the magic leprechaun out of that well.
Jack: If we leave a trail can you catch up with us?
Sawyer: [nods] Hell, yeah, I can.
Jack: Then be safe.
Sawyer: [to Kate] I'd ask you along, but that'd take all of the fun out of me telling you you can't come.
Kate: [smiles] I guess I'll just have to resist the urge to follow you anyway.

Jack: Wait. [stops Sayid from pulling the wires out of the C4]
Sawyer: What the hell are you doing Doc?
Jack: Nothing is going to happen.
Sawyer: What?
Jack: Don't pull those wires out. We're going to be OK. Nothing is going to happen.
Sawyer: If I don't pull these wires, Locke is going to blow us to kingdom come.
Jack: No he's not! Locke can't kill us.
Hurley: Uhh, what?
Jack: This is what he wanted. This has been what he has been waiting for. Everything that he has done has been to get us here. He wanted to get us all at the same place at the same time in a nice enclosed space where we had no hopes of getting out.
Jin: I don't understand.
Jack: Locke said that he couldn't leave the Island without us. I think that he can't leave the Island unless we're all dead. He told me that he could kill any one of us whenever he wanted, so what if he hasn't because he's not allowed to? What if he's trying to get us to kill each other?
Sawyer: Stay out of my way Doc.
Jack: If he wanted that thing to blow up, why did he put a timer on it? Why not just throw it inside?
Sawyer: I don't care.
Jack: Nothing is going to happen.
Sawyer: It's not your decision to make.
Jack: He can't kill us!
Sawyer: I'm not going to stand here and do nothing!
Jack: James... We are going to be OK. You just have to trust me.
Sawyer: Sorry Doc, I don't. [pulls the wires from the C4 and the clock then speeds up]

Jacob: Jack is here because he has to do something. He can't be told what that is, he's got to find it himself. Sometimes you can just hop in the back of someone's cab and tell them what they are supposed to do. Other times you have to let them look at the ocean for a while.

Jacob: That man who told you to kill me believes it is in every person's nature to sin. I bring people here to prove him wrong.
Richard: So you were the one who brought my ship here?
Jacob: Yes,
Richard: And there were other people here before me?
Jacob: Yes, many.
Richard: What happened to them?
Jacob: They're all dead.
Richard: If you brought them here, why didn't you help them?
Jacob: Because I wanted them to help themselves. To know the difference between right and wrong without me having to tell them. It's all meaningless if I have to force them do anything. Why should I have to step in?
Richard: But if you don't he [The Man in Black] will.
Jacob:[Pauses, taken aback] Do you want a job?
Richard: A job? Doing what?
Jacob: Well if I don't want to step in, maybe you could do it for me. You could be my, my representative, an intermediary to me and the people I bring to the Island.
Richard: What would I get in return?
Jacob: You tell me...
Richard: I want my wife back.
Jacob: I can't do that.
Richard: Can you absolve me of my sins?
Jacob: I can't do that either.
Richard: Then I never want to die...I want to live forever.
Jacob:[Smiles, lays a hand on his shoulder] Now that, that I can do.

Jacob: What is it?
Boy in Black: It's a game. You play it.
Jacob: How do you know how?
Boy in Black: I just know.

Jacob:[To Richard] Imagine that this wine is what you keep calling hell. There are other names for it. Malevolence. Evil. Darkness. And it's all down here swirling at the bottom. Unable to get out, because if it did it would spread. Now, the cork is this Island. [Puts a cork in the jug, trapping the wine] And it's the only thing keeping the darkness where it belongs.

James: [is caught trying to get candy from a vending machine] It's okay. I'm a cop.
Juliet: Maybe you should read the machine its rights.
James: [laughs] That's funny.
Juliet: Can I tell you a secret?
James: Please.
Juliet: If you unplug it, and then you plug it back in again, the candy just drops right down.
James: Is that right?
Juliet: Yes, and its technically legal.
James: I'll give it a shot. [unplugs and cuts off power to the room] Oops.
Juliet: It worked. [hands the candy bar to him and remembers their life on the island]
James: Whoa. Did you feel that?
Juliet: We should get coffee sometime.
James: I'd love to, but that machine ate my dollar. I only got one left.
Juliet: [smiles] We could go dutch.

Kate: Couple days ago, you asked me why I came back to the island... I need to find Claire. I thought, maybe if I could catch up to you, you could help me - and then, maybe if we could find her and bring her back to Aaron then maybe all of this wouldn't have been for nothing.

Kate: I'm so sorry. [she and Sawyer look over at Jack] You know, what you said back at the hatch. He's just trying to help us.
Sawyer: I ain't gonna kill Jack. He deserves to suffer on this rock just like the rest of us.

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: 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.

Libby: It's okay, it's okay. I'm crazy.
Hurley: Yeah, probably, but we all got something, right? I mean it takes a lot of guts to go up to a total stranger and tell them that you know them from some bizarro alternate universe ... I'm scared just, saying hi to a girl.
Libby: You're doin' fine.