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It's Valentimes Day, and Locke has a crush on Charlotte; he choo-choo-chooses her...to be his hostage. Frank (the chopper pilot) will only agree to fly back to the boat if they can get Charlotte back. Sayid decides that Jack's "kill Locke and ask questions later" policy might not be the best approach to this, and offers to head up a mission to rescue her. He agrees to bring Miles (and his obsessive hatred of Ben) along with him, and doesn't say no when Jack tells Kate to join the group.
Meanwhile, Locke gets to where Jacob's cabin should be, and it's not there. Hurley seems poised to lead a rebellion against his apparent insanity, and Locke seems to threaten him with some actual or potential violence.
Sayid, Kate, and Miles arrive at the Barracks, and it doesn't look like anybody's home. They find Hurley locked in a closet, and he tells them that Locke said something about going to Ben's house before heading out with the group. Sayid, et al., start looking around Ben's house, only to be ambushed and caught by Locke and Rousseau. It turns out Hurley was in on the plan all along. Sawyer and Kate have a heart-to-heart, and he kind of pleads for her to stay on the island with him. Meanwhile, Sayid makes a pitch to Locke to let him take Charlotte back so he can convince Frank to take him to the boat. Sayid knows the Boaties are lying, and he thinks the best way to find out the truth is to get on the boat.
Meanwhile, Daniel calls Regina on the boat and conducts an experiment, which seems to involved her shooting a missile in his general direction. Except that the missile arrives 31 minutes after her radar shows it arriving, and a pair of clocks (one that Daniel had and one on the missile) give an indication that time on the island is moving at a different rate than it does in other places.
Sayid arrives back at the chopper with Charlotte in tow. He convinced Locke to let her go by giving Miles to Locke. Frank thinks that's a fair trade, and he agrees to fly back to the boat, taking Sayid and Desmond (and Naomi's corpse) with him. Oh, and Sayid tells Jack that Kate agreed to stay with Locke's group.
Last but not least, the flash-forwards are back. This time we learn that Sayid is one of the Oceanic Six. And he's an assassin. Who spends a long time getting close to a woman so he can apparently assassinate her boss. He ends up killing her after she takes a shot at him (because she's also some kind of spy). And then we learn that he's killing people for Ben. Who's in Berlin. Is your mind blown? Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Previously, three Boaties (squirrelly physicist Dan, intense ghost whisperer Miles, and Nolte-esque pilot Frank) were found by Jack's group, while the remaining Boatie (Indiana Jones-y anthropologist Charlotte) was captured by Locke.
Sayid kneels near the helicopter and...prays? Or meditates? Anyway, he looks very serene and beautiful. He opens his eyes, and we see that he's looking at Naomi's corpse. Jack and Juliet walk by -- Jack is grilling her about whether Ben ever mentioned knowing anyone off the island, or gave a clue as to why a shadowy cabal would be hunting for him. Miles follows behind them and demands to know where Ben is. The entire conversation between Jack and Miles is merely filler, as we see Sayid stand up and slowly walk over to Naomi's body. He kneels over Naomi's body, tenderly closes her eyes, and covers her face with the blanket. And then engages in a little grave-robbing, as he removes a bracelet from her wrist. The inside of the bracelet is engraved with a message: "N. I'll always be with you. R.G." The forums go crazy with speculation over the identity of R.G. My theory? Rachel Griffiths.
The conversation between Jack and Miles becomes relevant again, as Miles points out that he and Jack both have a problem with Locke -- although it doesn't seem as if Jack told Miles that Locke has Ben, as Kate's follow-up comment is about the difficulty of removing Charlotte from Locke's increasingly crazy embrace. Kate notes that Locke is armed, but Miles thinks that's not a problem since they're armed as well. Sayid tells him to shut up and asks Frank if the chopper will fly. Frank says that it will; Sayid wants Frank to fly him to the freighter. Frank says that he can only take three people. Miles reminds Frank that Charlotte is being held prisoner, but Sayid interrupts him and offers to get her back. He asks Frank to agree that if Sayid recovers Charlotte, Frank will take him to the boat. Frank thinks that sounds like a swell idea.
Flash...something. It's Sayid, playing golf. On a beautiful beach. But this beach is presumably not on Craphole Island, since he's on a real golf course. (Unless maybe there's a Tiger Woods Station somewhere on the island). He's looking pretty nice, notwithstanding the fact that he's wearing the really boring golf clothes that rich dudes wear. His hair is also straightened out and pulled back. As he walks over to his ball, a golf cart pulls up. The sole occupant is another dude, who starts speaking to Sayid in a vaguely Spanish or Italian accent. He offers Sayid a "ride" to the "hole." Bam-chicka-bam-bam. Notwithstanding the spin my filthy mind puts on the scene, the invitation comes off as slightly threatening. Sayid points out that they're paying a big premium for privacy on this course, which is a polite way of telling the guy to bug off. The guy can't take a hint -- he gets out of the cart and starts pestering Sayid, making a wager with him over which club he should use. They agree to see who can get closer to the "pin" with his "club." Okay, I'll stop doing that now. The guy asks Sayid what he does for a living, and Sayid tells him that he does nothing. He can afford to be a bum because he "was the recipient of a large settlement." The guy asks him what kind of settlement, and Sayid tells him it was from a plane crash -- Oceanic 815, to be precise. Euro-dude gets kind of nervous when he hears that Sayid is one of the Oceanic Six, and Sayid tells him to go ahead and take his shot. He does, and lands his ball a little closer to the pin than Sayid did. But the guy doesn't seem to care -- he nervously starts to walk back to his cart without collecting his winnings. Sayid insists upon paying the guy, and then makes the mistake of calling him by his name (which the guy never told him). The mistake doesn't really matter, as Sayid pulls a gun out of his golf bag and blows the guy away. Eat lead, Eurotrash! Sayid picks up his bag and walks away. The sprinklers all go off, in a vain attempt to quench Sayid's smoking hotness. Credits.
After commercials, it's still flash-forward time. Sayid walks off a city street and enters a bustling café. There's frost on the windows. He walks through the crowded room until he comes to a table where a pretty blonde woman is sitting alone. He asks her (in German) whether the other seat is free, and then sits at the table and looks at a map. She asks (also in German) where he's trying to go, and he tells her (in English), "'Is it free' is the full extent of my German." She laughs, and asks him her question again in English. He tells her where he's trying to go, and she tells him he's only a block away. He doesn't get up to leave instantly, so she introduces herself (her name is Elsa). A waiter takes Sayid's order, and Elsa asks him what he's doing in Berlin. He tells her, "I'm a headhunter." And then clarifies that he's a corporate recruiter. Sayid, I'm sure you deal with a lot of ignorance and stupidity as you move around the world, but I'm pretty certain the pretty German woman didn't think you were an actual headhunter. Sayid asks Elsa what she does -- she works for an economist, although her only real duties are to shop for him and to get to him as fast as possible whenever her giant 1982-style beeper goes off. Which only happens once or twice a year. Sweet gig. They smile and flirt across the table, and Elsa asks Sayid if she knows him from somewhere. He tells her that he'll tell her where she knows him from...but only if she comes to dinner with him. She grabs his map, circles an address, and tells him to meet her there at 8:00. And then she leaves.
Sayid walks down the snowy street and dials his cell phone. He tells the man who answers that he's made contact, and then throws the phone in a trash can. There are big piles of slush in the street. I guess the snow plow hasn't been invented in Germany yet. Sayid crumbles some snow in his hand and walks away.
Back on the island, Sayid shows Jack and Juliet the picture that Naomi had of Desmond and Penny. He thinks that Desmond might know something about the Boaties. Jack, looking in Kate's general direction, asks how long it would take to get to the beach and bring Desmond back. Before Kate can answer, Juliet says it would be a couple of hours, and Jack asks her to go get him. Sayid and Jack walk away, and Jack asks him how they are going to get Charlotte back. Sayid tells Jack that he and his Locke-shooting self are going to have to stay behind because he wants to get Charlotte back with a minimum of violence. Does Sayid think he's on a different show? Miles aggressively interrupts and asks Sayid, "You think you're going after Charlotte without me? Sayid: "Of course not."
Locke's crew walks through the jungle. I kind of love the fact that in the time Jack's team was able to find three different Boaties at locations scattered around the island, Locke and his crew still haven't made it to the cabin. Sawyer prods Ben (calling him "Gizmo") and asks for the name of his spy on the boat. Locke points out that Ben's not going to give up that info, since it's the only bargaining chip he has keeping him alive. You know, if the island is going to heal Ben, it had better start pretty soon -- he's looking mighty beat up after all the, um, beatings. Sawyer proposes sending Ben's big toe off to market, and then moving on to roast beef if he still won't talk. What about the piggy who stayed home? He just gets a pass? Does Sawyer have a soft spot for piggies with social anxiety disorder? Locke doesn't want to shoot off Ben's toes, because they'd just end up having to carry him. And then Locke looks around with some concern. He finds a line of grey dust on the trail ahead of him, and when Claire asks how much further it is to the cabin, he points out that the cabin should be right where they're standing. Again, Hurley knows from his recent experience that the cabin is currently somewhere else on the island, but Locke just gets panicked when Hurley gives a subtle hint that he might have been mistaken about the cabin's location. Sawyer asks why they're looking for the cabin, and Ben tells him, "John's looking for someone to tell him what to do ." I must point out that the Lostaway standing behind Ben appears to have turned a pant leg into a hat. Either that, or there was a 16th-century Flemish peasant on the plane. Locke realizes that everyone is looking at him like the crazypants he is, and he regains his composure and tells them that the cabin doesn't matter and that they should keep moving on to the Barracks. Rousseau wisely notes that Charlotte's pals must have learned from Jack that they are going to the Barracks. Sawyer jumps on the "let's all criticize Locke" bandwagon, and then Hurley suggests letting Charlotte go so her posse won't come after them. Locke and Charlotte tell him that Charlotte is their hostage, and Hurley balks at the idea of being a kidnapper. Locke essentially tells him to shut up: "Right now, Hugo, I'm making the decisions. Is that going to be a problem for you?"
At the chopper, Jack stares pensively off into the distance when Kate walks up to him. Kate: "Kinda sucks, huh?" Jack: "What's that?" Kate: "Being told not to come along. Now you know what it feels like to be me." Jack: "Does that mean I should wait twenty minutes and go anyway?" Kate: "Touché." They laugh. I chuckle. And then Jack turns things around by telling Kate that she should go with Sayid. She asks him if he doesn't trust Sayid, but he tells her that it's Locke he doesn't trust. Kate wonders what will keep Locke from killing her like he did Naomi. Jack tells her that Sawyer would never let Locke kill her. Kate tells Sayid and Miles that she's coming along, all the while brandishing her gun. Miles is pissed that she gets a gun but he doesn't. Sayid tells her that the gun is a last resort. Kate: "You give Locke that same speech?" Clearly -- that's why he killed Naomi with a knife. Do I have to spell out everything for you? As they walk away, Frank asks Jack where Sayid is from. When he learns that the answer is Iraq, he asks if Sayid was a diplomat. Jack: "No. No, he was a torturer." Commercials.
As they walk through the jungle, Sayid inspects Naomi's bracelet again. He asks Miles if he was close with Naomi. He wasn't except in the sense that he wanted to get with her. Sayid notes that Miles doesn't really seem to care about Charlotte, either. Sayid pronounces Charlotte's name as though she were a pastry. I'm getting kind of hungry listening to him. Sayid: "So much for camaraderie." Miles notes that he's not the one going after his fellow crash survivor armed with guns. He asks how Locke was able to split the Lostaways up. Sayid looks at Kate, and then tells him, "There was a fundamental debate as to whether your people were coming to rescue us, or kill us." Miles: "And which side did you land on?" Sayid: "I'll let you know when I decide."
Flash-forward. A formally-dressed Elsa opens her door to find a formally-dressed Sayid standing there. I know some of you need a swooning break, so I'll just wait here. ...You all set now? Off your fainting couches, smelling salts put away? Okay, let's continue. They embrace and Elsa tells us that they're going to the opera. Sayid tells her, "If a man can't wear his tuxedo by the fifth date, why bother?" I believe George Bush used that line when he was courting Laura. As Elsa finishes getting ready for the opera, she picks up her clutch and her giant beeper and then tells Sayid that she's going to leave the beeper behind. "If tonight's the night he calls, so be it." Sayid picks it up and tells her that he'll carry it for her, since he doesn't want to lose his target... I mean, he doesn't want her to lose his job over him. They make some small talk about how old-fashioned the beeper is and how stupid bosses can be. This is all a prelude for Elsa to fish for information about Sayid's job -- in particular, she's curious that he was originally in town only for a short while but has stuck around long enough to have five dates with her. He tells her that the job he's there for is taking longer than expected. With a little disappointment in her eyes, she tells him she was hoping he had stuck around because of her.
Craphole Island. Squirrelly Daniel acts squirrelly and takes a squirrelly case from the helicopter. He also grabs a long metal pole that is probably also squirrelly. The pole turns into a tripod, and he takes some gear out of the case and sets it on top of the tripod. Jack and Frank are watching all of this, and Jack asks Frank what's up with squirrelly Daniel. Frank has no idea what's up with him, since he can barely understand anything he says. Daniel asks for the phone so he can call Regina and run an experiment. Frank, talking to Dan as though he were five years old, gives him the phone but tells him to hang up right away if Minkowski gets on the call. Which is odd, since Miles was so insistent on speaking with Minkowski last episode. Dan dials the phone and gets Regina on the speaker. Jack is suddenly interested, and walks over to observe. After a bit of preliminary business with signals and stuff, Daniel tells Regina to fire the payload. She does, and Jack starts to look worried. Frank tells him not to freak out -- Daniel "fires" "payloads" all the time. Whoops, sorry, I did it again. Sometimes I just can't resist. Regina starts counting down the distance to the beacon, starting at forty kilometers and going down by five. As the count gets lower, Daniel looks around nervously. At zero, he tells her that the payload never arrived. She thinks that's weird; Daniel thinks it's super weird.
Kate, Sayid, and Miles lurk in the trees near the Barracks. Miles seems not at all surprised to find a bunch of suburban bungalows on this deserted island. He is surprised to see a swing set, however, asking if the Others had kids. They stealthily move into the Barracks to see whether Locke and the others (but not the Others) have arrived yet. Sneak, sneak, sneak. Creep, creep, creep. They hear a banging sound, and some kind of cry. Kate can tell which bungalow the sound is coming from, and they run in. And find Hurley, tied and gagged in a closet. Kate takes off his gag and asks him what happened. Hurley: "They left me." And here I was thinking it was some kind of sex-play gone wrong. Commercials.
Hurley, now untied, is babbling to Sayid and the others about how crazy Locke has gone. Not only does he tell them about Locke taking Charlotte hostage, he also spills the beans about Locke believing he received instructions from Walt. Sayid tries to ask about that last one, but Hurley keeps babbling. Until, that is, Miles is really rude and asks him to shut up and tell them where Locke went. Hurley asks him exactly who he is. Miles: "Where the hell did they go, Tubby?" Aw, I miss Little Lulu. Hurley: "Oh, awesome. The ship sent us another Sawyer." Heee. Hurley keeps babbling, tell them that Locke thought the people on the ship were there to kill everyone. He stops himself to ask Miles, "Are you?" Miles: "Not yet." Sayid asks if Locke gave any clues about where they might go, and Hurley tells him that that he mentioned something about going to Ben's house before they left. He raises the possibility that they locked Ben up in the closet of his house, and Miles becomes very eager to learn which house is Ben's.
At the chopper, Jack asks Frank if the Red Sox really won the World Series. But which one, Jack? Which one? Frank, a true blue Yankees fan, tells him he doesn't want to talk about it. For some reason known only to the writers, or for no reason at all, Jack laments that he can't believe it's been 100 days since he's seen a baseball game. Daniel, still squirrelly, hears something in the sky and looks up. He sees the payload moving in their general direction. The payload turns out to be a missile, and it lands just a few feet away from them. So science involves shooting missiles at people? I picked the wrong profession. It would have been awesome if the missile had hit the helicopter and destroyed it. But it doesn't even blow up. Daniel picks the smoking shell up in his asbestos hands and unscrews the top, removing a small digital timer. He compares it to his watch, and then runs over to where the equipment is still sitting on the tripod. He compares the timer on the tripod (which reads 02:45:03) to the one from the payload (which reads 3:16:22). He is very concerned by the thirty-one minute discrepancy between the timers. So it took 31 minutes for the missile to get there? Doesn't that mean he gets it for free? The forums are full of intricate and imaginative theories involving time dilation, special relativity, and time travel, all keyed to those thirty-one minutes. Since I can barely do enough math to figure out a generous tip, I'll leave you to form your own theories. Frank tells Jack that his friends are back. It's not Kate and Sayid -- it's Juliet and Desmond. Juliet looks positively giddy at being able to show the helicopter to Desmond. I'm positively giddy at the vast expanse of chest Desmond is showing off.
Sayid, gun drawn, enters Ben's house. How did he know which one was Ben's? I don't recall him being invited to the book club. There are some pictures of Alex as a little girl on the wall, by the way. Nice detail, set dressers. Everyone spreads out through the house, looking for some info about where Locke and the others might have gone. Kate heads right for Ben's bedroom, busting open the door and waving her gun around. The room is empty, but she nervously approaches the closet and slowly opens the door. It's anticlimactically empty, of course. Also, Ben didn't make his bed before leaving the house. Tsk tsk.
In another room, Sayid inspect a book case. He notices some scratches in the wood floor, and pulls the case out from the wall. There's a hole behind the case. Don't go in without Fred and Velma, Sayid! I guess he thinks his gun is protection enough, because he marches straight into the scary tunnel. At the end of a passageway, he finds a small room with a lot of suits and shirts hanging on a rack, a couple of suitcases, and some shelving from Ikea. I knew they were behind everything! Swedish bastards! There's also a desk. In one drawer, Sayid finds bundles of currency of many nations. In another, he finds a bunch of passports. He opens one; it's Swiss. The photo is of Ben, but the name given is Dean Moriarty. (As always, props to the Eagle-Eyed Forum Posters).
Back in Ben's bedroom, Kate is looking under the bed for clues. While she's down there, she sees a pair of rugged, manly feet enter the room. She jumps up and points her gun at Sawyer, the owner of those feet. He puts his finger to his lips and closes the door. But she calls out Sayid's name anyway. He comes running, only to find Locke and a gun waiting for him in the living room. Rousseau has already got the drop on Miles. Hurley walks up to them, and Locke praises him for his masterful deception. D'oh! Never trust a fat man. Commercials.
Sayid, at the end of Rousseau's rifle, walks out of Ben's house. Hurley is following about ten feet behind. Sayid asks where Locke is; Hurley tells him that he's talking to "that angry Chinese guy." Sayid notices how far away Hurley is staying, and tells him he's not going to hurt him. Hurley: "Yeah, I saw you snap that guy's neck with that break-dancing thing you do with your legs. I think I'll hang back here." Rousseau pushes Sayid into a room with wire over the windows and locks the door behind him. Ben is in the room, tied to a chair. Sayid tests the windows while Ben tells him he lost a dollar, because he bet Locke that Sayid wouldn't be stupid enough to fall for the Hurley trap. Sayid shows more self-restraint than anybody else on the show when he refrains from smacking Ben around some more.
Back in Ben's bedroom, Kate stews about being Sawyer's prisoner. Although she still has her gun, so it might be argued that he's her prisoner. Her prisoner of love, that is. She asks him why he's with Locke, and he asks her why she's with Jack. She tells him that she went with Jack because she believes he can get them off the island. Sawyer tells her that he's not looking to leave the island, because there's absolutely nothing in the real world for him to go back to. (Note that when he tried to leave the island before, he had not yet achieved his life's goal of killing the real Sawyer, who turned out to be Locke's dad. Having accomplished that, it makes sense that his priorities might have changed.) Kate asks him what he's got on the island that's so much better than what's in the real world. He fails to answer, "you," instead asking her why she wants to go back since a prison term is surely awaiting her. He points out that they could have a pretty comfortable life on the island, what with all the electricity and stuff. (I like that he leaves out the Others and the monster, each of whom might kill them at any moment.) Kate asks how long he really thinks they could play house. Sawyer: "Why don't we find out?"
Back in the Sayid/Ben jail, Locke enters bearing a pitcher and two glasses. He tells Sayid that he brought some iced tea, thinking that Sayid might be thirsty. Ben: "I'm thirsty." No iced tea for Ben. Locke pours a glass for himself and leaves the rest for Sayid. He apologizes for all the ambushing and kidnapping, noting that he had no idea how many people Sayid would have with him. Sayid asks where Kate and Miles are. Locke tells him that Kate is with Sawyer (but not necessarily "with" Sawyer), and that Miles is somewhere else. He asked Miles questions, but of course he didn't answer. And Charlotte hasn't provided any additional information. Sayid suggests that Locke give Charlotte to him. He agrees that the Boaties are lying, but he thinks the best way to get at the truth is for Sayid to get on the boat. He'll only be able to do that if he brings Charlotte back with him, and then he can find out what the Boaties really want. Locke tells him that Ben thinks he knows what they want, since he has a spy on the boat. Ben refuses to give up the name, and Sayid tells Locke, "Excuse me, but the day I start trusting him is the day I would have sold my soul." Locke asks why he should give up Charlotte for nothing. Sayid: "Oh, I think you misunderstood me. I never expected you to give her to me for nothing."
Flash-forward! Sayid and Elsa snuggle in post-coital bliss. She suggests getting dressed, because sooner or later they'll have to get out of bed. When he asks why they would ever do that, she starts fishing for more info about his mysterious job. She probes some more, revealing that she does know he's one of the Oceanic Six (because she mentions the crash as a subject he doesn't want to discuss), and tells him that she wants to know more about his life because she's in love with him. The potentially awkward moment turns steamy as they start making out. He promises to tell her everything. And then her beeper goes off. She gets out of bed and looks at the beeper and mentions the name of a hotel she has to get to. She starts looking for her clothes, and Sayid tells her not to go to the hotel. He wants her to leave Berlin so she can avoid questions about what is going to happen. As he tells her this, he hops out of bed and puts on his pants. And a shirt. Oh, cruel world. Elsa realizes that he's going to do something to her boss, and that he was using her to get close to him. She's crying and runs to the bathroom. Sayid tells her he has to kill her boss because his name is on a list, a list he got from his boss. She asks who his boss is, but he won't tell her. And then she pulls a gun and shoots him. Fierce! Sayid falls back onto the bed with blood coming out of his shoulder. She dials her phone and speaks in German, telling the person on the other line that he paged her late and that Sayid is never going to give up the name now that she's shot him. Sayid sees his own gun just kind of hanging in the pocket of his coat, draped over a chair. Not very well hidden there, Secret Agent Man. Elsa's tears were completely fake by the way; she's now dispassionately talking about killing Sayid. She hangs up the phone, and Sayid throws something at the mirror in the bathroom. She reenters the bedroom, but he has already grabbed the gun, and he shoots her twice. She falls down, breathing hard. He crawls over to her, arriving just as she dies. Tears in his eyes, he tenderly closes her eyes, and then touches the bracelet she's wearing. It's similar, but not identical, to the one he took from Naomi at the beginning of the episode. Commercials.
Back at the chopper, Desmond is pestering Frank for info about why Naomi had the picture of him and Penny. Frank says the he didn't hang out with Naomi and had no idea what she was up to. Desmond tells Frank that Naomi claimed that Penny was their boss. Desmond demands that Frank look him in the eye and say that he's never seen or heard of Penelope Widmore. Frank looks over at Daniel, who looks pained. Frank gives Desmond a small shake of his head, but doesn't actually deny knowing who Penny is. Desmond tells him to keep up the act as long as he wants, since Desmond is going to be going back to the boat on the chopper with him, and he's sure to find straight answers there.
Sayid comes walking over a hill. Charlotte is just a few steps behind him. And then there's nobody else. Jack asks where Kate is; Sayid says that she decided to stay behind. Frank asks where Miles is, and Sayid tells him that he traded Charlotte for Miles. Sayid: "I promised you Charlotte; here she is." Frank thinks that Sayid cheated on their deal. But since he didn't really like Miles, he's going to live up to his end of the bargain and give Sayid the ride to the boat that he promised. With Sayid and Desmond both booking passage on the chopper, Frank notes that there's room for one more person. Charlotte and Daniel both claim they have too much work to do on the island to leave just yet. Daniel does follow Frank and tell him it's extremely important that he go back to the boat using the exact same heading he used to get to the island. Sayid and Jack chat; Jack has decided not to head to the boat on this trip. Since there's room for one more, Sayid suggests taking Naomi's body back to the boat.
With everyone safely aboard, the helicopter takes off. The sight of it flying away from the mountainous island over the deep blue ocean is stunning.
The camera pans past a bunch of dogs in cages. Sayid, still nursing the gunshot wound that Elsa inflicted, staggers past them. A voice that sounds suspiciously familiar tells him to take his shirt off. He's in a veterinarian's treatment/procedure room. Sayid removes his shirt and sits down. We see the rubber-gloved hands of another person as he moves around the room and adjusts the lights. The voice asks Sayid if "she" is dead. She is, as we know. The voice asks why Elsa didn't kill Sayid; Sayid thinks it was because she was trying to get information from him. Namely, the name that belongs with the voice. The hands that belong to the voice are treating the gunshot wound as they speak. The camera shows us the voice's face -- it's Ben! Which is not so shocking, because his voice is kind of distinctive. Some EEFPs are convinced that Ben's eyes in this scene are brown, whereas they're normally blue. I'm not so convinced it's not just a trick of the lighting in the scene. Ben asks if Sayid is crying because the wound hurts or because he was falling for Elsa. Ben doesn't think "these people" deserve any sympathy. I'm not sure Ben thinks anybody deserves any sympathy. Ben: "Need I remind you what they did the last time you thought with your heart instead of your gun?" Sayid clearly hates Ben, but Ben points out that he has to do what Ben wants in order to protect his friends. Ben has another name for him. Sayid thinks it's stupid to go on, because the people on the list clearly know he's coming for them. Ben: "Good."