Lost (TV Series)

Orientation (2005)

Matthew Fox: Dr. Jack Shephard

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• Locke : [trying to convince Jack to push the button in the hatch]  You saw the film, Jack. This is a... this is a two-person job, at least.

  Sayid : This argument is irrelevant.

  [goes to push the button] 

  Jack : Sayid, don't.

  Sayid : Jack.

  Jack : Don't. It's not real. Look, you want to push the button, you do it yourself.

  Locke : If it's not real, then what are you doing here, Jack? Why did you come back? Why do you find it so hard to believe?

  Jack : Why do you find it so easy?

  Locke : It's never been easy!

  Kate : Maybe you should just do it.

  Jack : No...

  [less convinced] 

  Jack : It's a button.

  Locke : [pleading]  I can't do this alone, Jack... I don't want to.

  [echoing the word of his former girlfriend] 

  Locke : It's a leap of faith, Jack.

• Jack : Are you in contact with the people that made it... the film? Are you in contact with anyone?

  Desmond : [trying to fix his computer]  Do you think I'd be here if I was?

  Jack : How is it that you didn't know about the crash? About us?

  Desmond : I push this button every 108 minutes. I don't get out much.

  Jack : So, these replacements?

  Desmond : Kelvin died waiting for his replacements.

  Jack : So you don't get out, you don't see anyone. Where does your food come from? You really think this is happening.

  Desmond : Why wouldn't it be?

  Jack : It says quarantine on the inside of the hatch to keep you down here. To keep you scared. But you know what? We've been up there for over 40 days and no one's gotten sick. You think that this is the only part of it that's true? Do you ever think that maybe they put you down here to push a button every 100 minutes just to see if you would? That all of this, the computer, the button, it's just a mind game? An experiment?

  Desmond : Every... single... day. And for all our sakes, I hope it's not real. But the film says this is an electromagnetic station. And I don't know about you, brother, but every time I walk past that concrete wall out there, my fillings hurt.

• Desmond : Listen! If you do not let me up, we are going to die.

  Jack : Stop moving, or, I swear to God...

  Desmond : Look at the wall! You see that? That's a timer and it's counting down. I've got to enter the code, got to push the button.

  Jack : Or what?

  John Locke : Jack, let him up.

  Jack : Don't tell me what to do. Or what? What's going to happen?

  Desmond : Do I know you?