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Season 1: Episode 5 - 'White
Rabbit'
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As the eye opens, we see
a trickle of blood beginning to flow from a cut just above it. We pull
back to see a boy laying flat on his back. Beside him another boy is
being ruthlessly beaten against a school yard fence. "Walk away
now and you won't get your ass kicked," says the bully. And the
truth of it is, walking away would definitely be the smart thing for
him to do - the bully is much bigger than he is. But the boy against
the fence is in real trouble and, mixed in with the pain and the
terror there is something else written on his face — written so
clearly you'd have to be blind not to see it. Please, help me! The
first boy is up in a flash and goes to help his friend, but he's
grabbed from behind by the bully and spun around, the bully's fist
already cocked and ready to fire. "Should've stayed down
Jack." WHAP! Lights out…
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That was a Young Jack. Back in
real time, Charlie races down the beach towards him, rousing Adult Jack from
his FLASHBACK. "Jack! JACK! There's someone out there!" Charlie
points out to the ocean — And oh my God, there IS someone out there yelling
for help and struggling to stay afloat. Before Charlie can explain that he
doesn't know how to swim, Jack is in the water, pounding through the surf
towards the target. When he gets there, he scans the surface and finds nothing
but open water. He dives under. Nothing. He dives again and he's down there a
long time until…he's up and he's got someone with him. It's Boone! And just
as we're about to breathe a sigh of relief, Boone asks a terrible question:
"Did you get her?" Did he get who? "That woman, did you get
her?" Jack turns around and, sure enough, there is someone else further
out, calling for help and about to go under. Kate and Charlie take an
exhausted Boone from Jack at the breakwater and Jack turns around and dives
right back in. But we widen out we see the awful truth laid out before us.
Jack can swim as hard as he wants… but there is no one left to save.
Back on the beach, while Kate is trying to prevent Jack from beating himself
up for the life he didn't save, Jack sees the man in the suit standing in the
water. When he asks Kate if she saw him too, Kate recognizes that Jack's
exhausted and asks how long it's been since he slept.
Meanwhile, Sawyer has begun his own business, providing luxuries to the
survivors from the stash of goodies he collected from the wreckage and as the
prices reflect, he's got the market cornered in that department. "But
don't worry", he tells Shannon…he'll take a check.
Hurley and Charlie tell Jack that they are dangerously low on water. It hasn't
rained in a few days and there are 47 people to take care of. Jack has to
point out the mathematical error. Better make that 46. They want Jack to
decide what should be done, but he wants no part of it.
In FLASHBACK we see young Jack in his father's study receiving a very
important lesson on what it takes to be a leader. He tells Jack he doesn't
have it. And while that might not be the easiest lesson to learn, Jack needs
to know there are consequences for getting involved in other people's
business. Consequences like that shiner on his eye.
Back in real time, Jack is speaking with Boone when he sees the man in the
suit again. This time, he's not going to let him get away. He races off into
the woods and sees the man standing there with his back turned. When he turns
around, the shock knocks Jack right off his feet because the man in the suit
looks an awful lot like his FATHER!
On the beach, the heat and the lack of water are taking their toll. When
Claire faints, the others rally to her side, but when they go to give her some
of the precious water, they make a frightening discovery — it's all gone —
stolen! Locke offers to go into the jungle to find more — just enough to
keep Claire going.
IN FLASHBACK, we see Jack back in the same study, but he's older now - the
Jack we know on the island. His mother tells him that his father is missing
and that it's Jack's fault. She tells him to go and bring his father back
home. Jack asks his mother where he is. She answers, Australia.
In the jungle, Jack races after the man in the suit. Just as he is getting
close, he trips and falls down an incline, barely catching himself on a vine
before falling off a cliff. He hangs there, slowly losing his grip on the
vine. But just before he falls to the rocks below, a hand comes over and pulls
him up. It's Locke! He tells Jack that the others are all looking to him to
tell them what to do. Jack doesn't want the job and tells Locke about his
hallucinations. Locke tells Jack that he should consider the possibility he is
not hallucinating. But that's impossible. Locke tells him that possible is a
relative term… especially on this island.
Back at the beach, Sayid and Kate catch Sun with a bottle of water. When they
learn she got it from Sawyer, they confront him about stealing their supply.
Turns out he didn't do it and he can prove it — he made a trade with Jin,
"cave-man style". As Charlie does his best to comfort Claire, we
wonder how long she can hang on.
In FLASHBACK, Jack finally catches up with his father in Australia…in the
morgue. Back in reality, Jack wipes away his tears as he sits alone in the
jungle struggling with the loss all over again. Suddenly, the man in the suit
crosses by again. Jack follows him through the dark and into an undiscovered
part of the island where Jack discovers fresh water and a COFFIN.
In the final FLASHBACK, we learn that Jack put his father's coffin on the
plane to fly back to California for the funeral. In real time, Jack finds that
the coffin is EMPTY. In a fit of frustration at not being able to bury his
father and the pure exhaustion that may be causing him to hallucinate, he
destroys the coffin.
Back at the beach the water thief is caught. It was Boone! And just as the mob
is about to have at him, Jack returns to the scene. He tells them they can't
go on like this. It's been six days and rescue hasn't come, they have to start
accepting the idea that it may never come. He tells them about the water he
found in the jungle and explains to them all that things have to change or
more people are going to die. "If we can't live together, we're going to
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