The episode was written by an editor Brian K. Vaughan and co-executive producer Elizabeth Sarnoff and directed by Stephen Williams.
In 1988, Ben kidnaps Alex as a baby from her mother Danielle Rousseau (Melissa Farman), whose life he spares.
Following Alex's death,[N 3] and his leaving the island[N 4] Ben, just before boarding Ajira 316, confronts Penny Widmore (Sonya Walger), Charles's daughter, and shoots her husband.
Upon arriving on the main island, Ben and Locke travel to the Dharma Initiative's barracks, where they find Sun and Flight 316 pilot Frank Lapidus (Jeff Fahey).
Sun shows him the photograph of Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox), Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) and Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia), who has traveled back in time to 1977 and joined the Dharma Initiative.
Sun also tells Ben that Christian Shephard (John Terry) instructed her to wait for Locke because together they will be able to rescue the others from the past.
Frank decides to return to the smaller island where he is taken hostage by Ilana (Zuleikha Robinson) and several of the other 316 survivors, who ask him if he knows "what lies in the shadow of the statue."