(Original Air Date: 10/27/2004)
Written by: Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Directed by: Michael Zinberg
Guest Cast:
Sora Jung ... Decorator
EXT. ISLAND - BEACH - DAY
Sun opens her eyes. She is working with some flowers and watches Jin catch a fish. She hears Kate and Jack.
JACK
It is a personal question
KATE
You don't have to get all quiet on me. I just
want to know.
JACK
Well, you're not gonna know.
KATE
What's the big deal?
She is packing a backpack that Jack has on.
KATE
It's just that you and your tattoos don't add up. Are
you one of those hardcore spinal surgeons?
JACK
(laughs)
That's me. Hardcore.
CHARLIE
If you guys are finished verbally copulating, we should
get a move on. There's a whole beach of people waiting
for us to get some drinking water for them.
Charlie looks over to Locke, who's shaving with a hunting knife.
JACK
Okay. Let's do this.
KATE
Hey, Charlie. Ask Jack about his tattoos.
Jack and Kate walk towards the forest.
Charlie follows the group. Sun looks back to Jin, who's smacking the fish on a piece of metal to kill it.
EXT. GARDEN PARTY - NIGHT
Sun is giggling with two other girls, all of them dolled up for the party. Jin, wearing a waiter's uniform, comes up and offers them champagne.
Sun takes and glass and Jin offers to someone else.
EXT. GAZEBO - NIGHT - LATER
Sun is sitting and Jin approaches.
SUN
(in Korean)
[Really? What?]
Jin goes up to her and kisses her, but she pulls away.
JIN
[He's busy being a host.]
SUN
[We need to get away. Now.]
JIN
[Where?]
SUN
[America.]
JIN
[Sun, look at me. I love you but I don't want
to elope with you.]
SUN
[It's the only chance we have.]
JIN
[Your father would never allow it.]
SUN
[It's not his place to allow. It's our decision.]
JIN
[I will talk to your father. I'll make him understand.]
SUN
[You're saying that now because you don't know my father.]
JIN
[I know me.]
Jin hands Sun a flower.
JIN
[I wish it were a diamond. Someday it will be.]
EXT. ISLAND - BEACH - PRESENT DAY
Jin throws something down and marches quickly to where Michael is.
Jin tackles Michael and starts punching him.
WALT
Stop! Hey stop!
Jin pushes Walt away and continues punching Michael. He drags him to the water and tries to drown him.
SUN
(in Korean)
[Husband!]
EXT. ISLAND - BEACH - DAY
Right where we left off:
Sayid and Sawyer run from the fuselage to the water. Sayid tackles Jin, and Sawyer helps Michael up.
Sawyer whips them out of his pocket and throws them to Sayid. Sayid cuffs Jin to a piece of the wreckage.
EXT. ISLAND - FOREST - DAY
Jack and company are trekking through the woods.
KATE
How'd you find this place?
JACK
Luck.
INT. ISLAND CAVES - DAY
LOCKE
It's amazing.
CHARLIE
Absolutely.
(points to Locke)
It's totally you.
(re: the wreckage)
Hey guys. Shouldn't someone look through this stuff?
Could be something useful in here.
LOCKE
He's got a point.
CHARLIE
I do?
JACK
Yeah. Bring me your bottles. Keep an eye out for any
medical supplies, drugs in particular.
CHARLIE
Drugs. Right.
Charlie leaves the caves.
EXT. ISLAND - FOREST - DAY
Charlie is by himself and starts to pull out his heroin, but Locke sneaks up on him.
CHARLIE
Look. I was just gonna take –
LOCKE
Do...not...move.
JACK
What's going on?
LOCKE
Shh. He's standing on a beehive.
We see bees flying around. Charlie looks down.
JACK
What now?
LOCKE
If he moves, he'll split the hive.
CHARLIE
I don't like bees, okay? I have an irrational fear of bees.
I think I'm allergic to bees.
LOCKE
Please be quiet. We need to get something to seal the hive.
KATE
To cover it?
LOCKE
Yeah. Hurry.
EXT. ISLAND - BEACH - DAY
JIN
(in Korean)
[Shut up!]
SAYID
Surely there must be something you're not telling us.
MICHAEL
Surely? Where you from, man?
SAYID
Tikrit.
(pause)
Iraq.
MICHAEL
Okay. I don't know how it is in Iraq, but in the United
States of America where I'm from Korean people don't like
black people. You know that?
JIN
(in Korean)
[Stop lying.]
MICHAEL
So maybe you ought to talk to him!
SUN
(points to her wrist,
in Korean)
[It's because of the watch. The watch.]
SAYID
The cuffs stay on.
SAWYER
A little louder, Omar. Maybe then she'll understand you.
HURLEY
Guys. That Chinese due's gonna get pretty crispy out
here. How long you gonna keep him tied down like that?
SAYID
He tried to kill Michael. We all saw it. The cuffs
stay on until we know why.
MICHAEL
(to Walt)
Come on, man. Let's go.
EXT. LAWN - BRIDGE - DAY
Jin walks up to Sun as she's standing on the bridge.
JIN
(in Korean)
[Well...your father...your father gave permission.]
Sun hugs him and smiles.
JIN
[I reasoned with him. After a year of management
training and a year of work at the factory we'll
have all the money we need.]
SUN
[You are going to work for my father?]
JIN
[It's the right thing to do.]
SUN
[But darling, that is...]
JIN
[No, I have to. It's temporary.]
Jin pulls out a diamond engagement ring.
JIN
[I can now.]
Jin places the ring on Sun's finger.
EXT. ISLAND - FOREST - BEEHIVE - PRESENT DAY
Jack has a suitcase in his hands.
CHARLIE
This is the most crap idea ever. It's never
gonna work.
LOCKE
Pull yourself together, son.
CHARLIE
It wouldn't be an irrational fear of bees if I
could just pull myself together, would it?
Bees cover his face. He tries to smack one and the hive cracks.
The bees start swarming out and Charlie, Jack, Kate and Locke run for the caves. Kate and Jack pull off their shirts.
INT. ISLAND CAVES - DAY - CONTINUOUS
Kate takes a breath as the bees leave. She turns around and sees a skeleton, and she gasps.
INT. ISLAND CAVES - DAY
Right where we left off. Jack comes up to the skeleton.
JACK
Can't exactly perform an autopsy, but doesn't seem to
be any major trauma to the bones. There's another on
over here. Someone laid them to rest here.
KATE
Who?
JACK
I don't know.
KATE
Where'd they come from?
JACK
Didn't you guys shoot a polar bear last week?
KATE
Yeah.
JACK
Where'd that come from?
KATE
Any idea how long they've been here?
JACK
Long. It takes 40 or 50 years for clothing to degrade like this.
Jack pulls out a little satchel from the body.
Jack drops two stones out into his hand – one white, one black. Locke and Charlie approach.
Jack puts the stones away and out of sight. Charlie and Locke enter the caves.
JACK
A few stings aside.
CHARLIE
You two run away fantastically. Glad my diversion spared
you. I was only stung several hundred times. Oh, and uh,
someone left this.
Charlie hands Kate the shirt she dropped.
Kate grabs the shirt and puts it on.
LOCKE
What are you talking about?
CHARLIE
Oh, uh, just, you know, there could have been
people here before us, right?
LOCKE
Clearly. But who were these men?
JACK
Actually, one of them's female.
LOCKE
Our very own Adam and Eve.
EXT. ISLAND - BEACH - DAY - LATER
Sun is putting aloe on Jin's wrist.
SUN
(in Korean)
[Your skin is very raw.]
JIN
(in Korean)
[Be careful.]
INT. JIN & SUN'S APARTMENT - LIVING ROOM - DAY
Sun walks in and hears whimpering. She goes up to a box that doesn't have a lid and lifts out a puppy.
Sun smiles and pets the puppy.
SUN
[Remember when all you had to give me was a flower?]
Jin's cell phone rings and he answers it.
He goes to another room to take the call.
INT. ISLAND CAVES - PRESENT DAY
Kate is packing water bottles.
KATE
You offering?
LOCKE
Sure. Give me a chance to get to know him
a little better.
KATE
(to Jack)
We should move out. People are probably getting
thirsty. What?
JACK
46 people need to drink a half gallon a day each.
Carrying all this water back and forth is gonna
be a real pain in the ass.
KATE
You're starting to make me regret volunteering.
JACK
These caves make too good a shelter just to be used
for burial. Adam and Eve, they must have lived here.
Their plane crashed, or maybe they were shipwrecked.
They probably found this place and knew they could
survive here. Unlimited supply of fresh water. Tree
canopy keeps the temperature down, shields out the sun.
The openings are narrow, easier for protection against
predators. We don't need to bring the water to the people,
we need to bring the people to the water. I think we
could live here.
EXT. ISLAND - BEACH - DAY - LATER
Walt and Jin are looking at each other. Michael walks up to Walt.
JIN
(in Korean)
[Piss off!]
MICHAEL
Yeah, nice talking to you, too. Let's move it, Walt.
WALT
How come he doesn't like us?
MICHAEL
What?
WALT
You said people like him don't like people like us.
MICHAEL
Oh, man. No, uh, that's – that's not true. And you
know what? I don't think like that anyway. I was –
I was angry.
WALT
What'd you do to him?
MICHAEL
What did I do to him? You tell me. I've been with you
since we crashed. Have you seen me doing anything to
anyone? What kind of man do you think I am anyway? What
did your mother say about me?
WALT
She never talked about you.
MICHAEL
You don't know anything about me, then, do you?
WALT
You don't know anything about me.
MICHAEL
I know a lot about you.
WALT
Yeah?
MICHAEL
Yeah.
WALT
When's my birthday?
MICHAEL
August 24. When's mine?
(Walt doesn't answer)
Forget it. Come on, man.
Sun is at Jin's side, pleading with him.
JIN
[How will you explain? Your place is by my side. And we
will not explain ourselves to a thief.]
INT. JIN & SUN'S APARTMENT - NIGHT
Sun is resting on the couch with a grown dog with her. Jin comes in. His hands are bloody. He goes into the bathroom and starts to wash his hands. Sun follows him to the bathroom.
Sun sees the blood on his hands.
JIN
[I was working.]
SUN
[Doing what? What do you do for my father? Look
at me. Answer me. Look at me.]
Jin tries to push her away and she slaps him across the face.
EXT. ISLAND - FOREST - DAY
Kate and Jack are walking to the beach. Kate bends down to tie her shoelace.
JACK
What?
KATE
There's no harm in it, I just –
JACK
Trust me. If I was checking you out, you'd know it.
KATE
Yeah, so then what were you thinking? Right now.
JACK
Well, I sure as hell wasn't thinking about that.
KATE
Don't stop to think. Just...tell me.
JACK
I was thinking that if we were living at the caves we
could build a dam around that spring so that everybody
could have fresh water and we could get the infirmary
off the beach. You think it's a bad idea?
KATE
No, no. It makes sense
JACK
But?
KATE
No but.
JACK
Good, because a lot of people are still hoping a rescue
boat's gonna show up. They're not thinking about their
own safety. We're gonna have a lot of convincing to do.
KATE
We? You still haven't convinced me yet.
INT. ISLAND CAVES - DAY
Charlie and Locke are going through the luggage/wreckage. Charlie makes his way to the forest to take a hit and Locke follows.
LOCKE
Yes.
CHARLIE
There's no need. I'm just going to the loo.
LOCKE
Is there something you want to tell me Charlie?
CHARLIE
I'm going to the loo.
LOCKE
It's dangerous out there. Until we get back to the
beach I'm not breaking line of sight with you.
CHARLIE
Bugger off!
Charlie turns to walk away.
Charlie turns back towards Locke, guiltily.
CHARLIE
(smiles)
And guitar.
Locke walks back to the caves and Charlie follows.
LOCKE
Hey, just because I'm over 40 doesn't mean I'm deaf.
I have both your albums. Although I thought that your
self-titled debut was a much stronger effort than "Oil
Change". It's a shame what happened to the band. How
long since you played?
CHARLIE
My guitar? Uh, 8 days, 11 hours. Give or take
LOCKE
You miss it?
(Charlie nods)
Well, a lot of wreckage. It might still turn up.
CHARLIE
Undamaged? Still playable? I don't think so. I mean, I
wish, but there was this bloke at the counter made me check
it in. Yeah, wasn't enough room in the cabin. Fascist.
LOCKE
You will see it again.
CHARLIE
Oh, yeah? What makes you say that?
LOCKE
Because I have faith, Charlie.
EXT. ISLAND - HILL - DAY
Jack and Kate come out from the trees to see Sayid, who is chopping wood. They give Sayid water.
Sayid drinks, and then motions to Jin, who is still handcuffed to wreckage.
JACK
You sure you don't want me to talk to her?
(Sayid nods)
Okay. If you've got that under control, I'm gonna start
talking to people about the caves. Might be able to get a
few to go with me before nightfall. Start setting up camp.
SAYID
You serious?
(Jack nods)
Is there a reason you didn't consult us when you decided
to form your own civilization?
JACK
I'm only talking about moving into the valley.
SAYID
Well, what happened to "Live together, die alone"?
JACK
Digging in together is the only way we're gonna survive.
SAYID
Our best hope of survival is in being spotted by a plane
or a ship. And for that we need to organize everyone to
keep that signal fire burning while others scout the
island for supplies. Digging in anywhere else is suicide.
KATE
It is the only source of fresh water we've found, Sayid.
JACK
And staying on the beach, in the sun, without water,
that's not suicide?
Sayid grabs the chopped logs and axe and walks off.
EXT. ISLAND - BEACH - LATER
Michael watches Walt play with Vincent. He sees Jack start talking to people. Sayid comes up to Michael.
SAYID
I came to apologize. I shouldn't have been suspicious.
You were the victim in the attack this morning.
MICHAEL
I appreciate that, but I can tell you didn't come all
the way over here to say you're sorry.
SAYID
People are seriously considering following Jack to the
caves. I'd like to know where you stand.
MICHAEL
Right here. I got one priority right now and that's getting
my kid off this island. A boat passes, I'm not gonna be on
the hook for missing it.
SAYID
Good.
Later – Jack gives Jin a bottle of water.
JIN
(in Korean)
[Thank you.]
JACK
(to Hurley)
Glad you're coming.
HURLEY
Hey man. I go where the boar's at. So, what up with you and
Kate? You guys gonna move into a cave together, or what?
JACK
Sorry, am I in high school?
HURLEY
Well, that wasn't a denial.
JACK
Just get your stuff together. We gotta get out of here soon.
Another part of the beach – Sawyer walks up to Kate, who's sitting alone.
KATE
Are you going?
SAWYER
Well that's the real trick, isn't it? We all pack up
stakes for the caves, next day a plane passes by, they're
gonna go on their merry way and be none the wiser. On the
other hand – stay here, get eaten by boars, fall off a rock –
not gonna be anyone around to answer that 911 call.
KATE
You still haven't answered my question.
SAWYER
You didn't answer mine. And I asked first.
On another part of the beach Sun is sitting alone. She sees Michael walk by her into the forest.
EXT. ISLAND - FOREST - DAY
Michael is chopping wood. Sun approaches.
INT. JIN & SUN'S APARTMENT - DAY
Sun is there with an Interior Decorator.
SUN
[Yes.]
Jin is on the couch and the dog is leaning up against him.
INT. JIN & SUN'S APARTMENT - BEDROOM - DAY
SUN
[Yes.]
DECORATOR
[You've taken your lessons?]
SUN
[Yes.]
DECORATOR
[Do you realize that your husband and your father will
do everything they can to find you?]
(Sun nods)
[Are you sure you and your husband can't reconcile?]
SUN
(shakes her head)
[When I'm gone, will you care for my dog?]
The Decorator nods, grabs an envelope, takes out items and starts handing them to Sun.
SUN
[The airport, 11:15.]
DECORATOR
[Again.]
SUN
[11:15, 11:15, 11:15, 11:15...]
EXT. ISLAND - FOREST - PRESENT DAY
Sun walks up to Michael.
SUN
(in English)
I need to talk to you.
Michael just stares at her in surprise.
EXT. ISLAND - FOREST - DAY
Right where we left off.
SUN
Yes.
MICHAEL
What – you speak English? Why didn't you say anything?
SUN
My husband doesn't know.
MICHAEL
Why would you learn English and not tell your husband?
SUN
He has a bad temper. What my husband did to you today –
it was a misunderstanding.
MICHAEL
No. I got it. Loud and clear.
SUN
It was the watch.
MICHAEL
Your husband tried to murder me for a watch? I found
this watch two days ago.
SUN
It belongs to my father. Protecting that watch is a
question of honor.
MICHAEL
You call trying to kill me in front of my kid "honor"?
SUN
You don't know my father. I need your help.
EXT. ISLAND - CAVES - DAY
Charlie is again trying to get some time alone to take a hit. He starts to dig it out of his pocket when Locke comes up to him.
LOCKE
Just hand it to me.
(holds out his hand)
You're going to run out. My guess is sooner rather than
later. Painful detox is inevitable. Give it up now.
At least it'll be your choice.
CHARLIE
Don't talk to me like you know something about me.
LOCKE
I know a lot more about pain than you think. I don't
envy what you're facing, but I want to help.
Charlie starts to walk away.
Charlie walks back and nods.
CHARLIE
More than you know.
LOCKE
What I know is that this island just might give you what you're
looking for, but you have to give the island something.
Charlie thinks for a minute and then hands Locke the heroin.
LOCKE
Look up, Charlie.
CHARLIE
You're not going to ask me to pray or something.
LOCKE
I want you to look up.
Locke points up, and Charlie looks to where his finger is pointing. There on the side of a cliff face, suspended by tree roots, is a guitar case. They both laugh and Charlie almost starts to cry.
EXT. ISLAND - BEACH - DAY - LATER
Kate is sitting in the sand alone. Jack walks up.
KATE
I don't want to be Eve.
JACK
No one's asking you to.
KATE
I just can't...dig in.
JACK
Why not? Someone else can stay here, keep a lookout,
wait for rescue. Why does it have to be you?
KATE
That's not it.
JACK
Then what is it?
(Kate doesn't answer)
Kate, how did you get to be this way? Just what is
it that you did?
KATE
You had your chance to know.
JACK
If you need me, you know where to find me.
Jack walks away.
On another part of the beach, Michael walks up to Jin with the axe in his hand, and gets in his face.
Michael tosses the watch on Jin's chest and then chokes back on the axe.
Michael swings the axe towards Jin. Jin flinches, but Michael only cuts handcuff chain from the wreckage it's attached to.
INT. SYDNEY AIRPORT - DAY
We hear Jack at the counter, but the visual focus is on Jin in line a couple of people behind.
Jack fades out as the camera pans around Jin to see Sun standing 20 feet away. She looks up at the clock. It's 11:15 and outside there is a car waiting. She looks at Jin and starts to walk towards the door to outside. She looks back again and Jin is holding a flower. She smiles and joins Jin in line. Jin gives her the flower.
SUN
(in Korean)
[It's too beautiful.]
Sun smells the flower and Jin kisses her forehead.
EXT. ISLAND - BEACH - PRESENT DAY
Sun is trying not to cry at the memory.
INT. ISLAND CAVES - NIGHT
Charlie is playing his guitar. Jack enters the caves, with a group of survivors following him inside.
LOCKE
What's this?
JACK
New tenants.
JIN
(pointing, to Sun
in Korean)
[Let's go that way.]
HURLEY
Short walk. They lied.
Hurley puts on his discman, and we see and hear a musical montage (Willie Nelson, "Are You Sure"):
View of Hurley sitting.
Jack is filling a water bottle.
At the beach, Sawyer walks to the fire and stokes it with wood.
View of group at the beach.
Pan to Michael and Walt.
MICHAEL
Anything you want, man.
WALT
When's your birthday?
Song continues:
Michael pulls Walt close.
Pan over Sawyer's face.
Pan over Sayid's face.
Pan over Kate's face.
Pan over Hurley, Locke and Jack at the caves near the fire.
Sun shakes out a dress near Jin.
Charlie plays with guitar.
Pan up on Jack.
Fade to Kate.
[END TRANSCRIPT]
Transcribed and typed by: beathen
Korean translations for those not provided: Vonnie K
Edited by: shrift
Notes on Writer, Director and Guest Cast above.