- Dr. Pierre Chang: Your friend Faraday said that you were from the future. I need to know if he was telling the truth.
- Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes: Dude, that's ridiculous.
- Dr. Pierre Chang: What year were you born? What year?
- Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes: Uh, 1931?
- Dr. Pierre Chang: You're 46?
- Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes: Yeah. Yes, I am.
- Dr. Pierre Chang: So you fought in the Korean War?
- Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes: There's no such thing.
- Dr. Pierre Chang: Who's the president of the United States?
- Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes: All right, dude. We're from the future. Sorry.
- Dr. Jack Shephard: If we can do what Faraday said... our plane never crashes... Flight 815 lands in Los Angeles. And everyone we lost since we got here... they'd all be alive.
- Kate Austen: And what about us? We just... go on living our life because we've never met?
- Dr. Jack Shephard: All the misery that we've been through... we'd just wipe it clean. Never happened.
- Kate Austen: It was not all misery.
- Dr. Jack Shephard: Enough of it was.