At the end of the last episode, a shot Sayid gets brought to the temple, drowned to death, and then wakes up alive again. This disturbs the Temple People and they demand to see Sayid alone. Jack tries to come along but is rebuked. Sawyer has a gun, says he’s out for himself and stomps off into the jungle.

The Temple People are disturbed by Sawyer’s leaving. They seem to need everyone to stay there. Kate promises to track Sawyer and bring him back. Jin and two Temple People go along with her.

Inside, The Temple Dude and the Hippie Dude secure Sayid to a table, electrocute him, sear him with a red-hot poker and then tell him he passed the test. But as soon as Sayid went back out to the courtyard, Temple Dude and Hippie Dude were like, He so did NOT pass the test. Sayid tells Jack they tortured him.

Jack goes inside and demands to know what they did to Sayid. Oh, nothing. Just, uh, diagnosing. You know. Because he’s, uh, infected. You know. In the mystical way. Temple Dude gives Jack a capsule containing some green medicine and asks Jack to give it to Sayid. Jack says he won’t do it unless he knows what’s in the pill. He won’t tell, but says it will only work if Sayid takes it willingly. Temple Dude indicates that if Jack convinces Sayid to take the medicine, he could be redeemed from his demons. Jack goes outside and shows the pill to Sayid, who says he trusts Jack and if Jack says so, he will take it.

Jack himself isn’t convinced, so he goes back in to speak with the Temple Dude. He gives Jack no answers, so Jack takes the pill! Dude heimlichs the pill out of Jack and tells him it is poison.

In the new alternate universe, Kate escapes from the Marshall and hijacks a taxi that happens to contain Claire on her way to meet the couple that will adopt her baby. The cab driver escapes at a traffic light, Kate takes control of the car and then forces Claire to get out. Kate goes to a mechanic to get her cuffs off. She approaches him with her gun, but he makes it clear that he’d be happy to help her, and removes her handcuffs. She pays him and then goes to the back and looks through Claire’s luggage. She sees it’s full of baby stuff and she feels bad.

Kate goes back and finds Claire. She offers to drive Claire to her destination, and parents, tell your kids not to get into cars with gun-wielding women. Is taking the bus THAT bad?

By the time they arrive, Kate and Claire form a sort of friendship, and Kate accompanies her to the door. They learn that the adoptive parents have just split up so they don’t want the baby, you know how it is. Claire is outraged and then she is in labour. Kate takes her to the hospital, where in this timeline Ethan is happy, warm Dr. Goodspeed. The doctor stops her labour, the cops come and Claire lies about Kate’s whereabouts, and they talk about Claire naming the kid Aaron.

Back on the island, Kate runs away from Jin and the Temple Others and catches up to Sawyer. He’s in his house, taking something from a box. Kate regrets interrupting him but he sees her and it’s too late. They go out to the dock and talk. Kate apologizes for her role in Juliet’s death and says she came back to find Claire, for Aaron. Sawyer says he was going to ask Juliet to marry him and throws a ring in the ocean.

Back at the Temple, the two men are still trying to convince Jack to give Sayid the poison. They say that when the darkness reaches his heart, the Sayid they know will be gone. They tell Jack that they know because that’s what happened to his sister. Dun dun dun!

Jin is trying to make his way back to the Temple but encounters his former captor, who is about to kill him when he is killed. Jin turns around to see who shot his enemy, and it’s Claire! Dun dun dun!