Flashbacks in this episode show Desmond ending his test period of silence after joining a monastery.
Desmond decides to visit an old flame, whom he was supposed to marry after six years of dating, but jilted her a week before the wedding to become a monk.
Derek, the man who assaulted him, answers the door, but is quickly interrupted by Ruth, Desmond's old love.
We then see a string of short flashbacks - Hurley lifting a cable out of the sand, a red light dropping from the sky, Jin and Charlie holding a parachute in the jungle, and a person stuck in a tree.
Meanwhile, Kate is approached by Sawyer in her tent while she is changing, and he asks her if Jack knows about their fling while in captivity.
Kate tries communicating with Jack and tries to get things back to normal between the two, but he asks to use her spoon and heads off to Juliet's tent where he eats dinner with her.
"Camping trip" company is enjoying a ghost story told by Jin (in Korean), while gathered around a campfire.
Thinking that they are being rescued, they suddenly notice the helicopter doesn't sound right, and they hear it crash into the ocean.
When Sawyer says how strange it is to be back, Jack reveals that he spoke with Kate the night before, but ate supper with Juliet.
Inside, they find a satellite phone, which has stopped working, and a book titled Ardil-22 (the Portuguese translation of Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22).
Sawyer confronts Kate and gives her a cassette tape (the Best of Phil Collins), which he stole from Bernard.
Hurley and Charlie discuss who is faster, Superman or The Flash, as seen in Desmond's vision at the start of the episode.
Jin suddenly calls for them, as he and Hurley have discovered the beacon and the parachutist hanging motionless from the trees.
Convinced that he will be finally reunited with Penny, Desmond quickly removes the helmet, only to discover that she is a different woman (Naomi).
[4] IGN's Chris Carabott wrote that "the thought of the normally good-hearted and endearing Desmond leading Charlie to his death is an intriguing premise", but was critical of the love-triangle subplot, calling it a "step back".