 On the day of his birthday, Ben recalls important parts of his life. When he was born, his mother Emily, pregnant of seven months, was hiking with his father Roger, dying after the delivery in the woods nearby Portland. Years later, when he was a boy, his unemployed father moved to the island with him accepting a job offer, but becoming a frustrated man with a simple position of worker in the project Dharma. His drunkard father blamed him for the death of his mother; the young Ben has visions of Olivia and decides to leave the compound, meeting the hostiles. Years later, the grown-up Ben kills his dysfunctional father with gas while the hostiles kill the staff of Dharma Initiative, and Ben becomes their leader. Locke brings the body of his father and meets Ben and The Others in their camp. Ben brings Locke to meet Jacob his superior and leader that knows the secrets of the island and after the weird reunion, he show the ditch where the remains of Dharma people is dumped. Meanwhile, Sawyer shows the tape to Sayid and the other survivors exposing the betrayal of Juliet. When Jack and Juliet arrives, the situation becomes tense.