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Hurley is having a meeting with his financial advisor who tells Hurley that every one of his stocks is up, his interest in orange futures skyrocketed after the tropical storms hit Florida, and that he is now the majority shareholder in a box company in Tustin. While he’s there, someone falls out of a window in a room above them. Hurley tells his financial advisor that he thinks the money is cursed, but when he asks Hurley how he came up with the numbers, Hurley begins to realise that it isn’t the money that’s cursed, it is the numbers.

Hurley goes to see a guy called Leonard who is in a mental hospital. Leonard seems to be mumbling something but it isn’t quite clear what until Hurley asks him where he got the numbers from: Leonard is mumbling the numbers over and over again. When Hurley tells Leonard he used the numbers to play the lottery, Leonard seems panicked. He tells Hurley he shouldn’t have done that and now he’s “opened the box”. Leonard needs to be taken away because he’s so worked up, but manages to tell Hurley to find a guy called Sam Toomey who lives in Australia.

Hurley goes all the way to Australia and finds where Sam Toomey lives. Unfortunately, after arriving at the house, he learns that Sam is no longer alive. Instead, he speaks with Sam’s wife, Martha. He asks her about the numbers and she tells Hurley how Sam and Leonard had heard the numbers at a listening station in the South Pacific 16 years earlier, and had used the numbers in a competition to guess how many beans there were in a jar. Turns out that the number was exact, right to the last bean, and he won a lot of money.

Unfortunately, afterwards, they were on the way home and they were in a car accident. Martha lost a leg, but Sam was completely fine. Ever since a lot of bad things happened to them, and Sam would always blame it on the numbers. Hurley explains that he thinks he’s under the same curse, only to be told by Martha that there was no curse and that “you make your own luck”.

Sun is at home showing a “decorator” around the apartment, and when they’re in the bedroom she gives Sun some documents and tells her when she’s at Sydney Airport, at 11.15am, a car will be waiting for her outside. She must disappear until her family think she is dead. It’s soon become clear she is going to leave Jin.

Susan, Brian and Walt are now in Australia. Walt is talking about his school project on Australian birds but Susan and Brian seem distracted when Susan begins to feel ill. Walt seems to be annoyed that they’re not paying attention and tells them repeatedly “you’re not looking”… when an Australian bird hits the floor of the balcony and dies. It just so happens that the bird is the same one Walt has been looking at in his book.

A week later Brian visits Michael in New York and tells him Susan has died and that she wanted him to look after Walt now. Michael gets angry as he knows this is a lie and Brian explains that he never really wanted to adopt Walt. He tells Michael that when Walt is around things happen, and that he’s different somehow. Michael is angry and upset that he never got to be Walts father, and is obviously distraught that Brian now wants nothing to do with Walt.

Michael makes his way to Australia to see Walt. Walts nanny gives Michael a box of letters that he’d sent over the years to Walt, but Susan had never given to him. When Michael meets Walt, Walt seems a bit cold towards him. He asks where Brian is. To protect Walts feelings Micheal lies and tells him that because he is his real father he has to be his legal guardian now.

Ana-Lucia is hired by Christian to be his bodyguard.

Locke is working at a Box Company and has boss called Randy who makes fun of Locke because Locke is going to Australia on a “Walkabout” and believes it is his destiny.

Later, Locke is in his bedroom having a phone conversation with a woman called Helen. Locke tells her he’s bought two tickets to Australia, hinting that one of them was for her. This seemed to agitate Helen and tells Locke she’s enjoyed speaking with him but isn’t allowed to meet customers. Locke is upset that she only thinks of him as a customer and it’s obvious he has feelings for this woman, although it’s pretty clear they’ve never met.

When Locke is in Australia he is talking to the guy who arranges the Walkabout and tells Locke he can’t come along because of his “condition”. Locke is outraged and tells the guy that it’s his destiny and as the guy walks out of the room we’re shown that Locke, is infact, paralysed and in a wheel chair!

Jack visits his mother who tells him his father is in Australia and she wants him to go there to bring him back. Jack tells her he can’t after what he did but she pursuades him to go.

Sawyer bumps into Christian and Ana-Lucia’s car outside a Cocktail Bar. Ana-Lucia and Christian part ways.

Sawyer is going into a hotel room with a young lady. They’re kissing, and it’s dark, but out of nowhere someone turns a light on and a guy is sat in the corner of the room. Sawyer knows who it is and tells the lady to wait at the bar for him.

When she’s gone he appears angry with this guy, who’s called Hibbs, and asks him what he’s doing there. Hibbs tells him he has information on the real Sawyer (the guy who conned his parents) and he knows where he is and what his real name is: his real name is Frank.

Sawyer lands in Australia, where the “real Sawyer” supposodly lives, and goes to see a man about a gun.

Sawyer goes to a Shrimp van to speak to the guy that works there: the guy that he believes is the real Sawyer. Frank is friendly and seems happy to speak with another American. While Frank is making some Shrimp for Sawyer, Sawyer looks like he is contemplating getting the gun and pulling the trigger, but changes his mind and walks away.

He goes to a bar where he gets to talking to… Christian Shepherd. They share a bottle of whiskey and their sorrows. Christian tells Sawyer of his bad relationship with his son, and although Sawyer is a bit more vague about his reasons for being in Australia, Christian convinces him that if he’s here to do something, then he has to do it.

That night Sawyer goes back to the shrimp place and finds Frank. Frank has his back turned to him and when Sawyer says “Sawyer” to him, he turns around and gets shot. Sawyer begins reading the letter to him, but Frank doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Frank explains he was going to pay Hibbs, and it dawns on Sawyer that Hibbs set him up to kill a man who owes him money. Sawyer seems distraught.

Following a bar fight, Sawyer is arrested by the Sydney police.

Nikki and Paulo kill Howard L. Zukerman by poisoning his food. They then steal his $8,000,000 diamonds and flee from the scene.

Ben finds out that he has a large tumor on his spine.

Jack visits a morgue to identify the body of his father.

When taking Kate to the train station, Ray Mullen keeps looking in his rear view mirror and Kate grows suspicious and looks behind her to find they’re being followed by the Marshall. She asks Ray why he would betray her like that, and he says there’s a $23k reward. Kate grabs hold of the steering wheel and forces the car off the road. Before attempting to make a run for it, she made sure Ray was pulled to safety - unfortunately the Marshall had already caught up with her and points his gun at her, where assumably she is now arrested.

Richard Malkin harrasses Claire via phone calls telling her that her baby needs to be brought up by her, until one night he tells her he has another plan. She puts the phone down on him though before hearing what he has to say.

When Claire goes to sign the adoption papers she asks the couple who will be adopting her baby if they can sing “Catch a Falling Star” to the baby as her dad used to sing it to her when she was little. The couple happily agree and are anxious for Claire to sign the papers. When she attempts to write her signature the pen doesn’t work, and when a second pen didn’t work Claire decides not to go through with it.

She went to see Richard Malkin to hear what his plan was. He told her there was a couple in L.A. who want to adopt the baby and that the baby would be safe in their care. Claire was obviously confused as to why he’s been telling her that only she should raise the baby and now he’s changed his mind. He gives her a ticket for Flight 815 and he tells her it must be that flight.

Just as Essam prepares to follow through with his suicide bombing, where he would be subsequently apprehended by the CIA, Sayid confesses that he is setting him up. Overcome with despair, Essam holds a gun to Sayid’s head, but then shoots himself instead. Sayid then changes flights for the next day to buy time to bury his friend.

Charlies goes to visit Liam in Australia. Liam seems to have a nice quiet life away from the band now, and Charlie tells Liam of an oppurtunity to do a reunion tour. The only problem is, they can’t do the reunion tour without Liam. Liam refuses as he is now a family man, leaving Charlie angry as he walks away from his brother.

Juliet receives Ben’s x-rays and discovers he has a tumor on his back. She confronts Ben about Jacob curing her sister of cancer.

Boone is at a posh country club and has just finished playing a game of tennis. He receives a phone call on his mobile from Shannon who asks him for help. In the middle of the conversation Boone can hear Shannon shouting at someone to stay away from her. Boone says he’ll come help and asks her where she is. She tells him she’s in Australia.

When Boone arrives in Australia he goes to Shannon’s place and everything seems fines with her. She is just about to go out with her boyfriend and tells Boone to come and see her tommorrow. Boone is annoyed that he’s flown out all the way to Australia when it seems she doesn’t need any help at all - until Shannon discreetly shows Boone a bruise on her head.

Boone goes to a police station to try and get someone to have a word with Shannon’s boyfriend, but the police man isn’t very helpful. Whilst in the police station a guy starts shouting off at one of the police man who turns out to be Sawyer.

After leaving the police station Boone goes to see Shannon’s boyfriend and writes him a cheque to stay away from her. Her boyfriend doesn’t seem interested at first until he asks for more money.

Later, Boone goes to see Shannon but finds her boyfriend is still there. It takes a few seconds for Boone to realise that this was all just a setup to get money from him. Apparantly when Shannon’s father died Boone’s mother took all the money and didn’t give any to Shannon, so this is Shannon’s way of getting back what she’s owed. A fight breaks out with Boone and Shannon’s boyfriend and when Shannon manages to stop them, Boone leaves.

Later that night Shannon arrives at Boone’s hotel room and tells him that her boyfriend has left her and has taken all the money. Shannon is slightly drunk but tells Boone that she knows that he’s always been in love with her and she tries it on with him. It doesn’t take much for Boone to give in and they end up sleeping together. When they’ve finished Shannon tells Boone that when they go back things should go back to how they were.

Charlie meets Lily at a bar. She claims to be a Driveshaft fan and they spend the night together. Sometime during the night, they use a good amount of his heroin stash.

Waking up in his hotel room at 5:23 in the morning, Walt wants to watch his favorite show on TV. Because of this, he and Michael have a lengthy argument.

As Charlie prepares to leave for his flight, he gets in a fight with Lily over the last of the heroin.

Sawyer is released from the Sydney police cell and deported.

After discovering that he had slept in, Hurley makes a mad dash for the airport.

At the airport on his way back to LA, Jack has a confrontation with a woman at the help desk after she tells him they won’t be able to put his fathers body on the plane just yet, but Jack is distraught and needs to bury his father as soon as possible because he “just want(s) it to be done”.

Sun looks at the clock and has a tear in her eye. She then looks over at Jin who shows her a flower he has in his hand. This gesture seems to have made Sun realise she really loves Jin, and instead of going outside to the car that’s waiting for her, she walks over to Jin.

Ana Lucia is waiting in line behind Jack. When she hears Jack arguing with Chrissy, she decides to call her mother.

While in the airport, Charlotte Malkin finds Mr. Eko and delivers a message to him from Yemi that was given to her while she was “between places”. Greatly disturbed and offended by Charlotte’s words, Eko nearly loses it until Libby intervenes.

Jack and Ana Lucia have an encounter at the airport bar.

Boone fails to get him and Shannon seats in first class. When Shannon learns about this, she reports Sayid, who had asked her to watch his bag, to airport security.

Michael makes a phone call to his mom. Because of this, he misses John Locke who is passing by in his wheelchair behind him.

Rose has a brief encounter with John Locke at the airport.

Nikki and Paulo toast the success of their crime at the airport restaurant and are interrupted by Boone and Shannon arguing. They promise each other to never end up like them.

Jin and Sun have a meal at the airport restaurant when Sun accidentally spills coffee on her husband’s shirt.

On his way to the bathroom, Jin walks past Sayid who is escorted by airport security after they have verified that he is not a terrorist. In the airport bathroom, Jin encounters a man who is working for Jin’s father-in-law, Mr. Paik, and who threatens Jin that he should not try to run away with his wife.

Hurley rushes through the airport, overcoming various obstacles on his way, such as having to purchase a second ticket due to his size. At the luggage check point, he encounters Leslie Arzt.

John Locke is one of the first passengers to board Oceanic Flight 815. Because the special wheelchair used to carry handicapped passengers on board is missing, JD and Michelle have to carry him on board.

All the passengers board Oceanic Flight 815. Hurley is the last one to make it.

In the barracks, Juliet almost shows Ben’s X-Rays to Amelia until someone arrives at her home for a book club meeting.

After leaving the Swan, Desmond secretly follows Kelvin all the way to the cove. He finds his boat docked there, still in one piece. A fight ensues between the two men and Desmond accidentally kills (assumed, status unknown) Kelvin. Desmond rips the fail-safe key off of Kelvin’s neck and rushes back to the Swan but before he can make it back, the timer reaches zero, resulting in a brief system failure.

Eight hours after takeoff, Flight 815 nears the Island and encounters turbulence induced from the electromagnetic energy underneath the Swan overflowing due to the system failure. This eventually causes the plane to break up over the Island.

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