Lost - Season 3 - Disc 2

5. The Cost of Living
Flashbacks: A young Eko is forced to confession after stealing to feed Yemi. After his shot brother is put on the plane, Eko goes to his church. Amina brings her son Daniel to see Yemi- Eko says he's gone to a refugee camp, and that he's taking his place. She asks if he's going to take his place in London at the end of the week too. Eko replies that he will. Emeki and his gun-toting crew arrive, demanding their 80% vaccine protection payment. When Eko refuses, Emeki shoots a woman. Eko then tries to sell the vaccines to someone else, and when Emeki's gang arrive, he slaughters them. The town see him exit, covered in blood. When he leaves for London, Daniel asks Eko if he's a bad man, as his mother says he is. Eko replies that only God knows. Amina tells Eko that he owes Yemi a church as theirs is no longer sacred, as it is being boarded up.

Ben visits Jack, who asks him about his tumour. Ben denies it and, wearing dress robes, they go to Colleen's funeral on the beach. She is cremated on a raft. Ben asks Juliet why she showed Jack his X-rays. She said she didn't tell him whose they were. Juliet brings Jack food but Ben arrives and gets her to leave. He tells Jack that they had a plan to get him to trust them, as Juliet resembles Sarah. He says he wants Jack to want to save him, calling his arrival proof of God. Juliet begs Jack to do the surgery, but while she's talking shows him a silent video of herself holding up cards reading the message that Ben must die in surgery so that it looks like an accident.
Eko dreams that Yemi tells him it's time to confess and be judged. His tent catches fire, Hurley, Charlie and Sayid rescue him, but he disappears as Locke arrives. Desmond tells John and Sayid that the computer could be used to communicate with other stations, Sayid asks John if he wants to find the other stations. He says yes. When Charlie mentions Eko mentioned his brother, Locke realises where he's gone. Eko is attacked by mutilated men who turn into Daniel, who tells Eko to confess before vanishing. Eko is alone. At the beach, John asks announces that they're heading for the Pearl station, asking anyone if they want to come. Nikki says she'll come, Paolo reluctantly goes too. Hurley points out that's nit what Jack would've done. Desmond asks if they're going to rescue their friends or Eko. He says two birds one stone, repeating Eko's line about coincidence and fate. As the black smoke monster approaches Eko, it disappears- John etc arrive. Eko is angry at John when he mentions Yemi's name. John asks him what he's afraid of, mentioning that he'd seen the smoke monster, which had shown him a beautiful white light. Eko says that's not what he saw. They get inside the plane. Eko is distressed to find Yemi gone, saying he'll wait while they enter the Pearl. John gives him his brother's cross. Inside The Pearl, Nikki watches the video, pointing out that there are six stations. Sayid patches in some of the other TVs. One of them shows a man with an eye patch switch the feed back off. Yemi appears to Eko, who chases him. Yemi asks him if he's ready. He says he is and asks for no forgiveness, as he has not sinned. He has only done what was needed to survive, and is proud of saving his brother's life. Yemi says "you speak to me as if you are my brother". Eko asks him who he is as he follows him when walks away. The smoke monster appears and throws Eko from tree to tree to ground. The people in the Pearl hear and run to him. He whispers to Locke as he dies. Sayid asks, John says "we're next".

6. I Do.
Flashbacks: "Monica" (Kate), is engaged to a cop called Kevin (Nathan Fillion). On the wedding day, Suzanne, Kevin's mother, gives Monica a necklace her mother had given her on her wedding day. They marry. One day, she rings Edward Mars, the marshal, and asks to be left alone. He agrees, as long as she can settle, but they both know she can't. Kevin gives her honeymoon tickets for a flight to Costa Rica. When she has a pregnancy scare, she drugs him, confesses her name's not Monica, and that she's a fugitive. She does a bunk, leaving Suzanne's necklace.

Jack tells Ben he has a week before his tumour becomes inoperable, but won't do the surgery.
Sawyer throws rocks at the food dispenser. Kate asks for a biscuit. Pickett tells her to go to work, saying Sawyer's got the day off. She refuses so they make Sawyer go too. Alex appears with a slingshot, demanding to know what they've done with her boyfriend. As Kate overhears a mention of the doctor getting out, Alex warns her they'll kill her boyfriend, as they did hers. Juliet asks Kate to put on a hood and come with her, or they'll kill Sawyer. She takes her to Jack and gives them some privacy. She tells him about the cages and work. He asks if they've hurt her, she begs him to do what they want or Sawyer will die. He tells her to leave. Ben is watching. When returned to their cages, Juliet observes that Kate really cares for Sawyer. Danny Pickett tells Sawyer if he has something to tell Kate, it had better be tonight. She tells him about Jack, Ben, and the surgery but Sawyer insists his life doesn't need saving. She climbs out of her cage and breaks his lock. He says there's nowhere to go, telling her they're on another island, and that he wanted her to have hope. They kiss. Then shag. He tells her he loves her.
Jack and Sayid head for the beach to get shovels so that they can bury Eko. Sayid asks John what killed Eko, John says he thinks something that decided that Eko was meant to die, but doesn't know what the reason is. Locke gets his prayer staff to bury with his body. At the burial, he reads the inscription "Lift up your eyes and look north".
Jack hears a female voice on the intercom telling him to try the door. He escapes, finding an armoury and Ben's monitors, including a post-coital Skate. Ben appears- Jack agrees to do the surgery tomorrow on condition he's let off the island. Ben agrees. As Juliet assists Jack in theatre, Pickett mentions that Jack wasn't even on Jacob's list and gets Sawyer. Kate tries to stop them. Jack cuts Ben's kidney sac, announcing he has one hour to stitch it back up, or Ben will die. He stops Danny from shooting Sawyer just in time, telling Kate to run an call him when she's safe.

7. Not In Portland.
Flashbacks: Juliet Burke's sister Rachel is dying of cancer in Miami. Juliet has an appointment with Dr. Alpert from Mittelos BioScience at 2.00. Whilst stealing medicine, her ex-husband Edmund Burke walks in with a dolly bird, Sherry, who is the new research assistant. He calls to see her, saying he knows what she's up to and wants in. Dr. Alpert shows her a presentation of their facility near Portland, and the scan of a 26-year-old woman's prematurely aged womb. He knows of her research and wants her to find out why. She says she's not a leader and her husband wouldn't let her anyway, joking he'd have to be hit by a bus. Rachel tells Juliet that she's pregnant, thanks to Juliet's research. When she tells Ed, he steps out in front of a bus, Final Destination- stylee. She cries as she signs papers at the morgue. Ethan offers her a tissue and Alpert appears, introducing Ethan as a colleague. If she accepts the job, she'll be back in 6 months, in time for her sister's baby's birth. "They're very thorough in their recruitment process."

Juliet orders ex-bearded man Tom to go after Kate and Sawyer, calling Jack's bluff. He asks her to stitch Ben up, but Jack says she can't, she's not a surgeon. She agrees. Jack then tells Tom about Juliet's request to kill Ben. Tom asks her to leave, and asks Jack if it's true. Ben wakes up, asking for Juliet. He says he's been listening and wants to be alone with her. Tom and Jack watch them through soundproof glass. Tom tells him they have history. She comes out and tells Jack to finish the surgery while she helps his friends escape. In surgery, Jack asks Tom why they didn't take Ben off-island for this, he begins "ever since the sky turned purple..." when Jack, accidentally this time, cuts Ben's artery.
Alex helps Kate and Sawyer hide in a covered pit as Pickett catches up. She'll help them escape on a boat if they help rescue her boyfriend. Sawyer asks if she means Karl. She refers to Ben as her father when she takes them to Hydra entrance, guarded by Aldo. They pretend to be prisoners ("the Wookiee Prisoner Gag") then overpower him as he radios for help. He's in room 23, Clockwork Orange- style loud music, words and images. Pickett arrives at the Hydra but doesn't believe Juliet when she says Ben wants them to go. As they load a dazed Karl onto a raft on the shore, Danny appears- but is shot by Juliet. She lets them go, but Alex must stay. Juliet gives Kate a walkie talkie to radio Jack. To prove she's okay, she tells him the story he told her when she sewed him up in the pilot. He tells her not to come back for him and switches it off, saying Ben's okay as Kate, Sawyer and Karl sail off.
Jack asks Juliet what Ben said to convince her. She's been there for over three years. Ben told her she could finally go home.

8. Flashes Before Your Eyes.
Flashbacks: Desmond Hume turns the fail-safe key and awakes in his flat with Penny. As he's about to go for an interview with her father, he hears a familiar beep- but it's the microwave. He hears the number 815 and sees a painting in Whismore's office labelled Namaste, featuring a polar bear, and a model of his boat. Charles offers Desmond an administrative job, but he's come for his daughter's hand in marriage. Charles offers himself some McCutcheon's whiskey, saying Desmond will never be great enough to deserve it, let alone his daughter. As he leaves, Desmond sees Charlie busking, asking him how he knows him. He gets flashes of the island then remembers it rains... as it rains. He visits his best friend, physicist Donovan, at a museum, asking him about time travel, asking if his story is possible. After a prediction in a pub goes wrong, Donovan sends him home to propose. He tells Penny he didn't get the job as wasn't qualified, and ask why she loves him. She replies he's a good man, and that's hard to come by. When he buys an engagement ring, the woman in the shop says he's got it wrong when he says he'll take it, recounting the details of his life from now until... now, saying if he doesn't do it all again, everyone will die. When they witness a man's accidental death, she tells him that the universe has a way of course correcting, that if she'd warned him, he'd die a different way tomorrow. Again, like Final Destination. She says Desmond's path is to get to the island and not marry Penny. When they have their photo taken by the Thames, he sees is and realises he can't go through with it. She calls him a coward. He throws the ring in the Thames. As he drowns his sorrows in a pub, his prediction comes true- except that he gets knocked out, and wakes up naked in the jungle. He sees the destroyed hatch, finds his photo and asks to be taken back again to do it right.

Desmond goes to see Hurley and Charlie, who are ransacking Sawyer's stash. They go to John and Sayid, who tell them the island killed Eko. Hurley notices Desmond is distracted then he runs off to the beach, dives in the water and saves Claire from drowning. Charlie asks him how he knew. He doesn't answer. Hurley tells Charlie that Desmond sees the future. They decide to get him drunk on McCutcheon's whiskey, but he still dodges the question, attacking Charlie when he calls him a coward. He tells Charlie he can't change it, no matter what he does. He says after he turned the key, his life flashed before his eyes. But the flashes didn't stop. He wasn't saving Claire, he was saving Charlie. He drowned saving Claire, he was struck by lightning... No matter what Desmond does, he can't stop it forever... Charlie's going to die.