Contains spoilers for this episode and earlier episodes.
Kate leaves the Temple to find Sawyer after he walks out with a stolen gun. She tells the Others that she can bring him back, and Jin joins the search with Aldo and Justin as escorts. Kate overpowers the guards and separates from Jin, who wants to find Sun. At the Barracks, Sawyer retrieves an engagement ring from the home he shared with Juliet. He tells Kate that he had planned to propose and blames himself for persuading Juliet to stay on the island. Elsewhere, Jin steps into a trap while fleeing the Others. Claire appears with a rifle and shoots his pursuers.
In the flash-sideways, Kate escapes the airport in a hijacked taxi carrying Claire. After forcing Claire out, she discovers baby supplies in her luggage and returns to help her. The intended adoptive mother has changed her mind, and Claire needs a hospital when contractions begin. Ethan treats her, and Claire later protects Kate from the police. On the island, Dogen subjects Sayid to painful tests and asks Jack to give him a pill. Jack tries to swallow it himself, prompting Dogen to stop him and admit it contains poison. Dogen claims that a darkness is consuming Sayid and says that the same thing happened to Claire.