Claire launches a plan to use migratory birds to send a message, but she doesn’t understand why Desmond keeps sabotaging it. Elsewhere on the island, Sayid, Locke and Kate scale The Others’ protective perimeter and discover their camp.
Sayid, John and Kate find another Dharma station on their way to rescue Jack. In the meantime Sawyer tries to get his stuff back in the camp.
Having returned to camp, Sawyer’s help is enlisted by Hugo, who has an obsession with retrieving an old VW van found on the island. More events in Hugo’s life are also revealed, showing what brought him to be on the doomed flight.
Sawyer, Kate and Carl reaches their island at night, and the reluctant Kate wishes to return for Jack. Meanwhile, Jack is interrogated by “Others” constable Isabel about the incident with Juliet and when she mentions the meaning of his tattoo, he recalls his vacation in the paradisaical island of Phuket, in Thailand, where he dated the sexy, mystic and mysterious local Achara (Bai Ling). Ben has an infection in his spinal column, and Jack negotiates the freedom of Juliet, who was going to be sentenced to death for Pickett’s murder in the policy of “an eye for an eye” of “The Others”. Later Jack recalls what happened to him when he forced Achara to disclose her innermost secret.
After Desmond saves Claire from drowning, Charlie and Hurley suspect that he can see the future. So they try to get him drunk to get some answers out of him.