(Locke is sitting in a FACTORY, making a cardboard BOX. There are boxes all around him. BUT IS THIS A FLASHBACK...OR AN IRONIC FLASHFORWARD?)
Locke: Hello? How much longer do I have to keep doing this?
(No one answers.)
Locke: I did everything you asked of me so WHY am I doing this?
(No answer.)
Locke: I'm going to get up and WALK out of here!
(WHISPERING VOICES. And then a single one.)
Voice: We both know you can't do that, John.
Locke: DON'T TELL ME WHAT I CAN'T DO.
Voice: There are still boxes that need making, John. And if you don't make them, who will?
Locke: This isn't what I'm supposed to be doing! This isn't my fate!
Voice: Don't mistake coincidence for fate.
Locke: Who are you? Why are you holding me here?
Voice: Holding you here? I thought you could get up and walk out anytime you wanted...
(Locke angril WHEELS backwards. He's back in his wheelchair!)
Locke: It's been two and a half years since the explosion! Why haven't you fixed me yet?
Voice: You are exactly as we want you to be and exactly where we want you to be, John.
Locke: GOD DAMN IT.
(Pullback to show more and more boxes...and more and more...and more and more...a seemingly endless pile of boxes in a seemingly infinite room. SUDDEN ZOOM BACK IN ON LOCKE FOR DRAMATIC EFFECT. One of the boxes opens. A man steps out.)
Locke: You! You're behind all this!
(It's CHRISTIAN SHEPHERD! Not Ben!)
Christian: You should have been nicer to my son, John.
WHOOOOOSH
(Kate is jumping from tree to tree to get to Aaron.)
Kate: Mommy's coming, Aaron!
Claire: His name is ERIN...BITCH!
(Claire kicks Kate, sending her crashing back against a tree.)
Claire: And he's MY bay-bee!
(Claire starts to walk off when Kate runs up behind her and PUSHES HER OFF THE TREE. Claire plummets towards the fire and freighter people below.)
Kate: Oops.
(Harper steps out of treehouse holding Aaron.)
Harper: You killed her!
Kate: I, uhh, didn't mean to...that English bitch made me do it. Or Juliet. Probably Juliet.
Harper: I saw what happened, Kate. And I...LIKED IT. Let's make a deal.
Kate: What kind of deal?
(Harper licks her lips.)
Harper: Come in and I'll tell you...
(MEANWHILE, the battle rages on!)
Captain: It's over, Jack! I have the low ground!
Jack: IT'S NOT OVER UNTIL EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US IS DEAD.
Sawyer: Real smart thing to say, Doc!
Captain: I've already killed Jin and shot Hurley in the knee...
Hurley: And it reall hurts, dude!
Captain: What next? Killing some random extra to prove I'm serious?
(He shoots some random extra in the face to prove he's serious.)
Desmond: Oh no, not Bruce!
Juliet: I think his name was Keith.
Captain: It doesn't matter, he's dead! And so will you all be soon! UNLESS!
Sayid: Wait a minute, there's an unless?
Captain: Sure there is!
Sayid: Why didn't you tell us that BEFORE you started killing us and shooting our knees?
Captain: MORE FUN THIS WAY.
Sayid: Fair enough.
Jack: WHAT'S THE UNLESS?
Captain: I'll let you live...if you turn over Benjamin Linus.
Hurley: ...that's it.
Captain: I know, it's a lot to ask, you are all loyal to Benjamin...
Jack: No we're not!
Sayid: Yeah, fuck Ben!
Hurley: Fuck him right in the ear!
Locke: Wait a minute guys...let me ask the island what it thinks.
Jack: Oh Jesus...
Locke: Well, I asked the island...and it said "FUCK BEN!"
(They all laugh.)
Daniel: Uhh, aren't we, umm, being, uhh, paid muh-mony to kuh-keep Ben ah-live...guys?
(Charlotte and Miles are still making out and ignore him.)
Daniel: Oh. Well, fuck Ben!
Sunn: So you mean to say that Jin died for nothing?
Captain: Come on, you're glad he's dead!
Sunn: Well, okay, maybe a little...
(She looks at Juliet, awkwardly. Juliet's nipples harden.)
Desmond: Are you cold, Juliet?
Juliet: Uhh, yeah, sure...
Desmond: You know, I think I might just dump Penny and start a new life with you.
Juliet: WHAT!?
Desmond: What? You love me, right?
(Juliet looks deep into Sunn's eyes.)
Juliet: Umm...sure...
Desmond: Great! Penny isn't really English anyway, she fake the accent!
(Charlotte looks up from Miles.)
Charlotte: What a bitch!
Desmond: Aye, tell me about it!
Miles: So, wait, we're not all about to die?
Jack: NOT IF WE HAND OVER BEN.
Miles: So why the fuck am I kissing you!
(He steps off her and walks away, coldly. A single tear rolls down Charlotte's face.)
Captain: LOOK, are you idiots going to hand over Ben or not?
Jack: SURE. WHERE IS HE.
Jin: He's in the clubhouse!
Everyone: JIN!?
Jin: That's right!
Sunn: But you're dead!
Jin: Nah! The bullet became lodged in my back and didn't hit any vital organs!
Sunn: Oh...how...lucky.
(Sunn looks at Juliet in shock.)
Juliet: Don't worry, we'll kill him later...and Desmond.
Desmond: What'd you say?
Juliet: I said...BEN!?
Ben: Hello!
(Ben has come out of the clubhouse...wearing a suit of ROBOTIC ARMOUR.)
Captain: What the fuck are you wearing?
Ben: Just a little something DHARMA designed...bitch.
(Ben shoots FLAMES out of his robot hands, killing the captain.)
Keamey: Run! He's got flames too!
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