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Jack arrives at his home and begins to clean up. As he does, he notices his appendix scar and seems confused by it.

His mother calls, asking if the airline has found his father's body yet (apparently the coffin is in Berlin) and if he will come over and help her look for his father's will. Jack says he will then asks about the scar. She reminds him that his appendix was removed when he was young. Jack doesn't seem to remember this but accepts it. He then notices the time and says he has to go.

Jack drives to a school and picks up what is apparently his son, David. Jack apologizes for being late but David seems sullen and angry. Back at home Jack attempts to talk to David (asking him about reading Alice in Wonderland but David doesn't want to seem to talk. He tells Jack that they only see each other one weekend a month and he just wants to get through it. More conversation is cut off when Jack's mother calls again, asking where he is.

Jack goes to his mother's and they start searching Christian's office. Jack mentions the problems he is having with David and his mother says that Jack was always afraid of his father. Jack says that Christian was always telling him that he "didn't have what it takes" to amount to anything. Jack's mother offers him a drink. He turns it down and she congratulates him on it. They then find Christian's will and his mother asks if he knows who Claire Littleton is.

Jack returns home with a pizza but David is not there. He calls him, apologizing and telling him that he is going to David's mother's house and for David to stay there.

Jack goes to the house (letting himself in with a key hidden under a rabbit in the garden). He doesn't find David but he listens to the messages on the answering machine. One is a call from him to David from Australia. The other is from a music conservatory telling David that his performance is scheduled for that afternoon.

Jack arrives at the conservatory and sees a boy talking to his father. The father turns out to be Dogen. Jack seems to recognize Dogen somehow. Dogen says that they should not be placing such young children under so much pressure to succeed and asks Jack how long David has been playing. Jack admits that he does not know.

David plays a piano piece and does extremely well. Jack talks to him and David says he and his mother kept the fact that he was practicing from Jack because they didn't want Jack to be disappointed in him if he failed. Jack tells him that David will never fail him and that he loves him.

Island - The Temple and the Lighthouse

Dogen finds Jack standing in the Temple courtyard and comments that Jack has not left. Jack says that he didn't know he could leave and Dogen says he always has that option. He then asks Jack if his friends are coming back and Jack says they probably aren't. Dogen thanks him for his honesty.

Dogen leaves and Sayid approaches. Sayid asks what Jack is keeping from him and Jack says that the Others wanted him to kill Sayid with the poison pill. He also says that what happened to Sayid has happened to someone else as well. Sayid asks who it was but we do not see Jack's response.

Meanwhile, Hurley and Miles have been playing tic-tac-toe but the game keeps ending in a tie. Hurley goes into the Temple looking for food. He asks for directions from someone stirring something into the pool and the person turns out to be Jacob. Jacob tells Hurley he needs him to do something to help someone find the Island and that he needs to get a pen to write it down.

Somewhat later, Hurley is wandering through the temple. Dogen comes across him and wants to know what he is doing, ordering him to return to the courtyard. Hurley at first says he is just interested in "Indiana Jones" things like the Temple then Jacob appears to him and tells him to tell Dogen that he is a "Candidate" and that he can go where ever he wants. Dogen accepts this but seems unhappy.

Jacob tells Hurley that Jack has to come with him. Hurley isn't sure how he is going to convince Jack.

Hurley returns to the courtyard and tells Jack about what they need to do. Jack isn't interested until Hurley tells him that Jacob said that Jack "has what it takes". Jack is startled by this and demands to see Jacob for himself but Hurley says that Jacob is dead but will be waiting for them at their destination. Jack agrees to come with Hurley.

Hurley and Jack head out. They find a backpack near a stream and when Jack investigates he finds Kate, who initially pulls a gun before she realizes who he is. Kate tells them that she is not going back to the Temple; instead she is looking for Claire. Jack warns her that the Others at the Temple warned him that something has happened to Claire but Kate insists on continuing to look for her. After she leaves, Hurley asks Jack what happened between him and Kate. Jack says that he just isn't cut out for marriage and children.

Hurley asks why Jack came back to the Island and Jack says it is because he is "broken" and hoped the Island would "fix" him. Hurley says he came back because Jacob asked him to.

Hurley then comments that the two of them being out in the jungle heading someplace strange is just like what they used to do. They find Shannon's old asthma inhaler and realize that they are near the caves. They also find the remains of Jack's father's coffin. Jack admits that he had seen his father and followed him to the caves. He also says that he smashed the coffin because his father wasn't in it. Hurley speculates that the bodies of "Adam" and "Eve" in the cave are two of the original 815 survivors who got thrown backwards in time.

Continuing on, Hurley and Jack finally reach the Lighthouse; a brick structure several stories high. They break in and climb to the top where they find a large wheel and several mirrors surrounding a firepit. Hurley says they need to turn the wheel to heading 108 and for Jack to tell him when it reaches that point.

As the wheel turns various images appear and disappear in the mirrors. Jack sees something and tells Hurley to stop but it vanishes. Jack turns the wheel back to position 23 which he notices is labeled with his name. He looks at the mirror and sees that it shows his childhood home. Jack gets angry, demands to know why Jacob has been watching him and smashes the mirrors.

Later, Jack is sitting outside the Lighthouse staring out to sea. Jacob appears to Hurley who apologizes for not guiding the other people to the Island. Jacob says it is all right and that they will find another way.

Hurley asks Jacob if he meant for Jack to see what he did in the Lighthouse. Jacob says yes, that some people will just do what they were asked by a stranger in a cab but that others need to "look at the ocean for a while". He says that Jack needed to understand how important he was.

He then adds that he needed to get Hurley and Jack away from the Temple because something bad was about to happen there. Hurley wants to rush back to the Temple and warn the others but Jacob says it is already too late.

Island - The Jungle

Jin is struggling in the leg trap when Claire comes down and, after checking the two Others, releases him. She says that she has been living in the jungle since the other 815 survivors left three years ago. She starts to say more but Jin passes out.

Jin comes to in Claire's camp and finds a doll she has made from animal skins and bones. Before he can look further Claire returns, dragging one of the two Others, apparently still alive. She ties him to a tree, saying that she will torture him to find out where Aaron is.

She leaves briefly and the Other tells Jin to let him go because otherwise Claire will kill both of them. Before he can do anything Claire returns.

Claire treats Jin's wound and tells him that she hasn't been alone in the jungle; she has had a "friend" with her. She insists on knowing if Jin is still her friend. She also says that she knows that the Others have Aaron at the Temple because her father and her "friend" told her they did. She tried to get Aaron back but the Others captured and tortured her. The Other says that was because she had been killing them.

Jin tells Claire that the Others do not have Aaron because Kate took Aaron off the Island. Claire seems to accept this at first then kills the Other with an axe. Jin then says that he lied about Kate having Aaron to try and save the Other's life. He now lies and says he saw Aaron and the Temple and that she will need him to get in. Claire says this is good because if Kate had taken Aaron then she would have had to kill Kate.

About this time "Locke" appears. Jin thinks it is Locke but Claire corrects him, saying it isn't Locke, it is her "friend".

LOST

Addendum

To respond to some comments; yes, I caught the scar on Claire's shoulder but forgot to mention it. She mentions being "branded" and being stuck with needles; the same "tests" that Dogen ran on Sayid.

Also, a few people have asked about Kate's name on the Lighthouse wheel. Here's a screenie:

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