In 1977, Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) and Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) fight over whether to carry out the plan of the recently killed Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies).

Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia), Miles Straume (Ken Leung) and Jin-Soo Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim) finally reveal the truth to Pierre Chang (François Chau).

In 1977, following the events of the previous episode "The Variable", Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) and Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) witness a young Eloise Hawking (Alice Evans) kill her son Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies).

As Jack and Kate argue over if they should carry out Faraday's plan to detonate a hydrogen bomb in order to change the future, they are attacked and captured by the younger version of Charles Widmore (David S. Lee).

At the DHARMA barracks, James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway) and Juliet Burke (Elizabeth Mitchell) are being held captive by Horace Goodspeed (Doug Hutchison), Stuart Radzinsky (Eric Lange) and Phil (Patrick Fischler).

Meanwhile, Dr. Pierre Chang (François Chau) confronts Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia), Miles Straume (Ken Leung), and Jin-Soo Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim) as they ready their escape to the beach.

Chang informs Horace and Radzinsky of this, and Sawyer makes a deal to leave the island on the submarine in exchange for telling them what they want to hear.