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Partial script for LOST season 7, episode 1 (“We Have to Go Back.”)

[On-Island - Bamboo grove. JACK SHEPHERD is lying on the ground, VINCENT at his side. BENJAMIN LINUS enters. VINCENT stands when BENJAMIN LINUS appears, then stiffly walks away.]

JACK: Where’s Hurley?
BENJAMIN: Hurley is just where you left him.
JACK: What are you doing here?
BENJAMIN: I’ve come to say congratulations, Jack.
JACK: What for?
BENJAMIN: For putting the round peg in the round hole.
JACK: What happened?
BENJAMIN: What happened was you did as you were told to do.
JACK: That’s it?
BENJAMIN: Well, water filled up a pool and a light came on.
JACK: You set this up.
BENJAMIN: And you just couldn’t wait to do it, could you?
JACK: This was just another test from the Dharma Initiative? My father told me -
BENJAMIN: Your father? Your dead father? And when did your father ever tell you the truth?
JACK: About as often as you have.
BENJAMIN: Oh, don’t play out your daddy issues on me. My god, I got enough of that from John. You remember John, don’t you? You killed him.
JACK: That wasn’t John.
BENJAMIN: Sure it wasn’t.
JACK: What are you doing to us? What does all this mean?
BENJAMIN: I don’t know, Jack. I really don’t. If you want to keep asking just like you always do I’ll make something up and you’ll believe it, just like you always do. Now, what would it mean if I did know. What if I did know what it all meant? That would mean it’s all been decided, and we’re just puppets in some play. Ever felt like a puppet, Jack?
JACK: That’s wrong. You’re wrong.
BENJAMIN: I wish I was, Jack. But it seems to me that everything I’ve ever done in my life, and everything you’ve ever done in your life, was just a spasm from somebody else pulling the strings. Look at all the times you’ve jumped for me, Jack. And I’m just a company man.
JACK: A company man.
BENJAMIN: That’s right, Jack. I work for a company. I get meaningless orders from hidden superiors and I carry them out, and I get paid or I get beat, and the man upstairs certainly doesn’t feel compelled to come down and tell me what it’s all about. Men like you and I aren’t special.
JACK: Special.
BENJAMIN: Special like John was special. Special like Walt. It’s not that some men are more smart, or wealthy, or powerful. Charles Whidmore is all of those things and he’s not special. Hurley… well. The thing is, Jack, unlike you and I some men have free will. They have it and we don’t. They have souls and we don’t. It’s not fair but there it is. That’s the nature of this world. Maybe in some other world all the loose strings tie up nicely in the end, and everybody’s smiling. What a god awful world that must be.
JACK: I’m dying.
BENJAMIN: Maybe, Jack. Unless someone special decides you have more work to do.

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