JACK: What did you wanna talk to me about, John?
[Bird squawks in distance]
LOCKE: I want you to reconsider leaving the island, Jack. I would like you to stay.
JACK: You'd like me to stay?
LOCKE: Yeah, that's right.
JACK: (Chuckles) You threw a knife into the back of an unarmed woman. You led half of our people across the island and got most of them killed.
LOCKE: Well, Jack, you put a gun to my head and you pulled the trigger. I was hoping we could let bygones be bygones.
JACK: Well, I'll tell you what. You stay here in your little greenhouse, but the rest of us are going home.
LOCKE: But you're not supposed to go home.
JACK: And what am I supposed to do? Oh, I think I remember. What was it that you said on the way out to the hatch--that crashing here was our destiny?
LOCKE: You know, Jack. You know that you're here for a reason. You know it. And if you leave this place, that knowledge is gonna eat you alive from the inside out...until you decide to come back.
JACK: Good-bye, John.
LOCKE: You're gonna have to lie.
JACK: Excuse me?
LOCKE: If you have to go, then you have to lie about everything...everything that happened since we got to the island it's the only way to protect it.
JACK: (Sighs) It's an island, John. No one needs to protect it.
LOCKE: It's not an island. It's a place where miracles happen. And--and--if you--if you don't believe that, Jack, if you can't believe that, just wait till you see what I'm about to do.
JACK: There's no such thing as miracles.
LOCKE: Well...we'll just have to see which one of us is right.
BEN: Am I interrupting?
[Jack whirls around to see Ben entering the greenhouse. He points his gun at Ben, cocking it.]
BEN: Nice to see you, too, Jack.
[Ben ignores the threat from Jack and moves right past Jack and Locke into the interior of the greenhouse.]
BEN: Couldn't find the Anthuriums, could you?
LOCKE: I don't know what they look like.
[Ben shakes a small potted flower, then reaches underneath a shelf and activates a switch. Metal clacks, and a door creaks as a secret elevator is exposed.]
JACK: What are you doing?
BEN: Didn't you tell him?
LOCKE: I tried.
BEN: Sayid and Kate are waiting for you at the helicopter. I understand that your people from the beach are being brought to the freighter even as we speak.
JACK: What?
BEN: I'd love to fill you in on everything you missed, Jack, but you, Hugo, James, you need to get moving. If I were you, I'd want to be on that boat within the hour. Good-bye, Jack. (To Locke) Let's go.
LOCKE: Lie to them, Jack. If you do it half as well as you lie to yourself, they'll believe you.