Steam shoots out of the hatch and I can't decide if there's an alarm sounding or if the musical director is getting even more creative. The Radzinsky Beast yells for the crew to keep the drill going. Chang seems to argue. Back above, Jack says, "It's about to happen." He looks Kate dead in the eye. "Are you with me on this." His smile starts at his eyes, before she can even say, "Yes," which she does. These people are all in dire need of medication. Commercial.

Lock-Up; L.A.; 2007: As the officer at the desk discharges Hurley, Hurley tries to convince him that he's a stone cold killer in need of locking up. The officer doesn't buy it any more than we do and tells Hurley to take his belongings and leave. Hurley starts raving about men with tranquilizer darts "hunting me down like an animal. They want to bring me somewhere against my will." The officer deadpans, "There's a cab stand right out front." Hee. Hurley opens the back door of the waiting cab to find it's occupied by JACOB! They decide to share a ride but Jacob declines Hurley's offer to split his cherry Fruit Roll-Up. Hurley wants to know what Jacob was "in" for and shares that he was in jail for killing three people. "Well I didn't really. I guess they figured it out. What about you?" Jacob says he wasn't in jail. Hurley asks what he was doing sitting outside one then, in a cab. Jacob says, "I was waiting for you, Hugo," so Hurley immediately assumes Jacob is dead. Ha! Jacob says, "I'm definitely not dead. [...] I want to know why you won't go back to the island." Hurley says, "Because I'm cursed," and cites the crash, deaths, and ghostly visitors as his evidence. Jacob suggests that Hurley is, instead, blessed. "You get to talk to the people you've lost. That seems like a pretty wonderful thing to me." Hurley's all sure, except that means I'm crazy. Jacob asks Hurley to take his word that he's not crazy. When Hurley asks Jacob who he is, Jacob instructs the cabbie to pull over at the next corner. Raise your hand if you wish you'd gotten to see the driver's face reacting to this entire discussion as it took place. Before Jacob leaves the taxi, he leans over the guitar case between him and Hurley and gives him the Ajira flight 316 information and tells him all he has to do is be on that plane. He touches Hurley on the shoulder as he says, "It's your choice, Hugo. You don't have to do anything you don't want to." As Jacob gets out of the cab, Hurley tells him he forgot his guitar. Jacob leans back in and says, "It's not my guitar." We jump to...