Kate’s original crime that started her life on the run is revealed. Meanwhile, the survivors lay one of their own to rest, Kate sleeplessly watches over a feverish Sawyer, and Mr. Eko has a surprise for Locke regarding the hatch.
Sawyer, Kate and Carl reaches their island at night, and the reluctant Kate wishes to return for Jack. Meanwhile, Jack is interrogated by Isabel about the incident with Juliet and when she mentions the meaning of his tattoo, he recalls his vacation in the paradisiacal island of Phuket, in Thailand, where he dated the sexy, mystic and mysterious local Achara (Bai Ling). Ben has an infection in his spinal column, and Jack negotiates the freedom of Juliet, who was going to be sentenced to death for Pickett’s murder in the policy of “an eye for an eye” of “The Others”. Later Jack recalls what happened to him when he forced Achara to disclose her innermost secret.
The team from the ship attacks Locke’s camp looking for Ben, with Alex as a hostage. Meanwhile, the doctor from the ship washes up on shore at Jack’s camp, and Daniel Faraday provides some distressing news to Jack.
Michael’s journey from escaping the island to working as Ben’s spy on Widmore’s ship is revealed, as well as his mission. Ben tells Danielle and Alex to leave Locke’s camp and go to the island temple, but they are ambushed on the way.
Jack, Kate and Hurley wind up on the island in 1977, where they meet up with Sawyer and also join the Dharma Initiative. Meanwhile, Sun is stuck on the island in the present with Ben and the other passengers after the plane crash.
The survivors left on the island, now led by Sawyer after Locke’s departure, find themselves back in the 1970s, where they are now forced to become members of the Dharma Initiative.