The Nature of Being Wrong in an Indeterminate System

Case: Failsafe Keyhole vs. Appropriate Key

Narrator: Previously on LOST.: Evangeline: I’m sorry. Guess I should’ve gotten the warranty. Naveen Andrews: I suppose I’ll just try again. Of course, I have no welding iron - scorched wiring - and it seems I must lie to anyone who asks what I’m actually doing! Evangeline: Sayid…? We’ll try again. Sayid: We’ll try it again.

(Matthew approaches) (Naveen Andrews departs) Matthew: Evangeline! Hey, you okay? Evangeline: Locke… Locke’s gone. That Thing… it’s moving in this direction. There wasn’t time. What’s going on? Matthew: I guess there’s gonna be some words said. (Matthew. A tall hedge next to a hill and a tree. A man in a suit and tie. A man departs into the hedge.) (Matthew runs) Evangeline: Matt? (Eyes darting around the Jungle) Evangeline: Matt. (Terry, bloodied, pulls a boar out of the Jungle) Matthew: O’Quinn! (A dead boar) (LOST. Sound) (Commercial Break)

(The Others are leading Harold, Matthew, Evangeline, Jorge and Josh onto a pier) (Unveiled: Josh) (Unveiled: Jorge) (Unveiled: Evangeline) (Unveiled: Matthew) (Josh is kicked in the stomach)

(Cast: M.C. Gainey as Tom Friendly) Tom Friendly: Hey! Everybody just calm down. Evangeline: (Muffled) (Tom Friendly struggles to decipher her) Evangeline: (Muffled)

(Cast: April Grace as Beatrice Klugh) April Grace: She says: she knows your beard is fake, M.C. M.C. Gainey: Well, thanks for pointing that out, Evangeline! I can’t tell you how much this thing itches! And thanks for telling them my name, Ape!

(Uneasy violin music) (Everyone regards as - ) (A red tugboat approaches) (A man inside a red tugboat approaches)

(Cast: Michael Emerson as Harold Finch) Harold: Hello again. Where’s your beard? M.C. Gainey: I think they know. (Harold looks at Harold) Harold: Okay, let’s take care of business, shall we? (Harold looks at Harold) (La Jetee)

(Jump Cut) (Dominic waking up) (Dominic with a bloody arm) (Dominic, with a watch on his bloody arm, looking around a rocky corner) (Stumbling and breathing and sparks) (Rubble and - )

Dominic: Adewale?! (Lifting the rubble and - ) Dominic: Adewale. (Lifting the rubble and - ) Dominic: It’s Dominic! Adewale?

(Time: 003.55) (Henry is looking at the reading material, and - ) Henry: We need to push the button! Terry: No, we don’t! Henry: Did you not hear me, Brother. I crashed your bloody plane! Terry: How did you manage to do that?

Henry: On that day, those numbers turned to hieroglyphics! And when that last one came down, the whole place started to shake! And that screen! That screen filled up with SYSTEM FAILURE! And that number there: 1211244:16. December the 11th, Two Thousand and Twenty Four! The day your plane crashed! It’s real! It’s all bloody real! Now, push the damned button! Terry: I know what I saw! It’s a lie! It’s not real! None of it is real! Henry: You don’t want to push the button, then I will! Terry: No. (And Terry slams the microcomputer processor monitor to the floor and it cracks) (Time: 003.11)

Henry: You’ve killed us. You’ve killed us all. Terry: No, I just saved us all. (Henry strikes the wires and - ) (Computer Door Sound - Down) (Door raises up) (Henry is looking in the bookshelf) Dominic: Hey! Can I get some help? (Henry is looking in the bookshelf) Dominic: Can you help me? Henry: I’m trying, Brother!

(Book: Something Happened by Joseph Heller) (Henry is looking at the book) (Flashback sound) (Henry is considering a gun) (Book: Something Happened by Joseph Heller) (Version: 978-0-684-84121-2. Page: 561. Beginning with: “I want my little boy back too.”) (A letter falls out addressed to: Henry) (Henry is considering a letter) Sonya: (V.O.) Dearest Hen, I am writing this letter to you as you leave for prison. And I’ve hidden it in the one place you will turn to in a moment of great desperation. I know: you go away with the weight of what happened on your shoulders. And I know: the only person who can take it off is you. Please: don’t give up, Hen. (... dramatic, (redacted) these… times… are they not?) Because all we really need to survive is one person who truly loves us. And you have her. I will wait for you. Always. I love you, Son. Henry: It’s all gone! (Henry throws Something Happened at the wall) (Henry drags the ping-pong table away from - ) (Henry throws books off of the bookshelf) Henry: It’s all gone! (Henry throws books off of the bookshelf) (Henry throws records off of the bookshelf) (Henry looks up as - )

(THUD. THUD. THUD.) Terry: (Yelling - “redacted”) (Henry in the dark) Terry: (Yelling - “redacted”) (Henry gazing up the darkened Hatch neck as - ) (Paranoid violin music) Terry: (Yelling - “redacted”) (Henry reaches for a button and - ) Terry: WHY?!

(Let there be light.) (Terry gazes down, as - ) (Henry gazes up, and - ) (Flashforward sound) (ALARM.)

(Book: Something Happened. Version: 978-0-684-84121-2.) (Henry is wide-eyed, and - ) (Takes a key) (Time: 000.30 ~ 000.29) (Terry watches the time) (Henry pushes away an old computer processor and unveils a Secret Hatch) Henry: Three days (before) you came down here: before! We met! I heard a banging on the Hatch Doors! But it was you, Terry? Wasn’t it? You see there aren’t any puppets! There’s no such thing as fate! But you saved my life, Brother! So that I could save yours! Terry: No! Nothing is gonna happen! We’re gonna be okay! (ALARM escalates) (Time: 000.05 ~ 000.04) Henry: I’ve gotta go, and you’ve gotta get as far away from here as possible! Terry: Go? Where! Stop! Henry: I’m gonna blow the dam, Terry!

(Time: “Hieroglyphics”) Henry: I’m sorry for whatever happened that made you stop believing. (Time: Hieroglyphics.) Henry: But it’s all real. (Time: H13R0G|YPH1C$) Henry: But now: I’ve gotta go and make it all go away. (Powering Up) Terry: Wait! Henry? Henry: I’ll see ya in another life, Brother! (Time: (H(1+3)R^0(“G”)|(Y+P^H)1(‘C’)$))

Computer: System Failure! (Dominic is tending to Adewale) (Metal items careen into the wall, and - ) (SPARKS) Computer: (muffled over powering up) System failure! (Lights go out, and - ) (SPARKS) (Steam, and - ) (SPARKS) (Metal items careen into the wall, and - ) (SPARKS, and - ) Computer: (muffled over the - ) SYSTEM FAILURE! (and - ) (Henry prepares to place the key in the Button Hatch) (Metal items careen into the wall, and - ) Dominic: No, Adewale! (Metal items careen into the wall, and - ) (Adewale - STEAM - SPARKS - wandering, and - ) (Powering up) Adewale: Terry! (Sparks, as Terry…, and - ) (Time contracts)

Terry: I was wrong!

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(Adewale - STEAM, SPARKS - looking at contraction, and - ) (Henry opens the button hatch labeled Caution! SYSTEM TERMINATION!) (The keyhole) (A key in a keyhole) Sonya: All we ever need to survive is one person who truly loves us. And you have her. I will wait for you, always. I love you. Henry: I love you, Sonya. (Henry turns the key in the hole and it breaks in two)

(Jump Cut) (Harold and Harold and Matthew and Evangeline and Jorge and Josh and M.C. Gainey and April Grace, and - ) (Nothing happens)

(Harold considers the nothingness) (Jump cut) (Naveen and Yunjin and Daniel consider the nothingness) (Jump Cut) (Harold considers the nothingness) (Jump Cut) (Naveen and Yunjin and Daniel consider the nothingness) (Jump Cut) (Harold considers the nothingness, as - )

(Cast: Sam Anderson as Bernard Nadler) (Sam walks over to spot something should have just landed, as - ) (LOST. Sound) (Commercial Break)