Sayid takes Jin's gun, shoots Ben

Ben unlocks Sayid's cell and they both flee the security building. We see them running through the jungle and make their way to a road/path where a Dharma van approaches. Sayid tells Ben to hide. The vans stops and Jin gets out and approahces Sayid. Sayid lies and tells Jin that Sawyer let him go because they were going to kill him. At that point, Phil's voice comes over the walkie saying that the prisoner escaped. Jin tells Sayid to let him talk to Sawyer before he lets him go. Sayid throws Jin on the ground and knocks him out with a blow to the face. Ben is impressed by Sayid's moves and doesn't see him take Jin's gun. Sayid says "You were right about me. I am a killer" referring to their converstation in Santo Domingo. Sayid then shoots Ben once in the chest. Ben falls to the ground and Sayid quietly weeps and then runs off down the path.

This scene leaves Ben's future in question, but we'll learn in the next episode "Whatever Happened, Happened" that Sayid can't choose to change the course of the future because whatever happened, happened.

Sayid sees his friends as Ilana takes him to Ajira 316

As Ilana is taking Sayid to board Ajira Airways flight 316, he stops when he sees Hurley at the gate. He asks Ilana "Are you sure we're going to Guam?" She snidely respsons "Where else would we be going?" Sayid sees Jack and then Kate and asks Ilana if they can take the next plane because he is superstitious when it comes to flying. She tells him that she'll buy him a rabbit's foot at the gift shop because this is the plane they're taking. After they're on the plane, Sayid looks back at Sun and then sees the one person he really didn't wan to see. He sees Ben board the plane which promts him to ask Ilana if she is working for Ben Linus. She says she doesn't know who Ben Linus is and Sayid proceeds to describe him as a liar, manipulator and a monster responsible for genecide. Ilana says "Why would I work for somebody like that?" Sayid replies "I did."

The question here is does Ilana know more about what's instore for them on 316 that she lets Sayid believe? Her responses to his questions are very coy and sarcastic leading me to think she at least knows a little bit more than she admits.

Ben sets Sayid free with the promise of taking him to the hostiles

After Sawyer calls all the security to help with the fire, Phil leaves the security building. As he leaves, Ben sneaks in and goes to Sayid's cell. Sayid is standing at the bars like he's waiting for someone. He asks Ben what happened to his glasses because one of the lenses is missing and there is tape on them. Ben confirms that his dad did it because he brought Sayid the sandwich. Sayid tells him "My father was a hard man as well." With a tear rolling down his face, Ben asks Sayid to take him back to the hostiles. Sayid says that he will and that's why he is there.

Sayid's ability to con this young kid into believing that he will take him to the hostiles is pretty creepy. It's Ben, but he's still a kid. Sayid has entered a dark place.

Sawyer and Kate interrupted by a flaming Dharma van

After talking to Sayid, Sawyer goes to Kate's house and asks her why she came back to the island. She tells him I don't know why the others came back, but I know why I came back. At that moment Sawyer hears a Dharma van and is shocked to see a flaming van barreling through the barracks. It runs into one of the houses and everyone rushes to put it out including Sawyer, Kate, Jack and Juliet. The people in the house escape through the window. Sawyer tells Jack that there were no burning buses in three years and then they are back for one day and this happens. Sawyer puts out an alert to all of the security team that there is a fire. More in the next post.

We can assumed from what happens next that Ben set the van on fire and let it loose in the barracks. He's quite industrious for such a young kid. His actions are similar to when Walt burned the raft in season 1.

Sawyer offers to let Sayid go, Sayid refuses

After the vote, Sawyer goes to the cell where Sayid is being kept. Sawyer tells Sayid to hit him in the face, take his keys and let himself out. He continues saying that Phil is the guard outside and he's a dimwit. He says that he can take his gun but to promise that he won't shoot Phil. Sayid says thanks but no thanks. Sawyer tells him about the vote but that doesn't change Sayid's mind. Sayid tells Sawyer that we he first returned to the island, he though there was no purpose for him to be there, but now he knows what his purpose is. Sayid is content and even smiling a bit about what he plans to do. Sawyer leaves after telling Sayid he's crazy.

Here we see start to see what's going through Sayid's mind. He thinks his purpose for returning to the island is to kill Ben.

Sayid gets a boot in the face from Ilana

Sayid and Ilana have gone up to a room in a hotel where they are passionately kissing. She lays on the bed and asks him to remove her boot. When he starts to remove it, she kicks him in the face twice and then elbows him in the head before pulling a gun on him. She tells Sayid that she was hired to bring him to Guam by the family of Peter Avellino, the man Sayid killed on the golf course in the season 4 episode "The Economist." She tells Sayid that "You are going to answer for what you have done."

So it's interesting that Sayid ended up on Ajira 316 because of the murders he committed for Ben during his time off the island. Ilana ended up in 2007 and Sayid ended up in 1977. She didn't get to bring him to justice after all, if that was really her plan.

Horace, Radzinsky, Sawyer, Annie and the others vote to kill Sayid

Horace has called a meeting in his house in the Dharma barracks to discuss what they should do with Sayid. Radzinksy immediately suggests that they kill him. Sawyer jumps in and disagrees with killing him saying that they are civilized and are not like the hostiles. Radzinksy goes on his schpeel again about how Sayid has seen things referring to the Swan Station model. Radzinksky is getting really annoying, really fast because he has a one track mind. Sawyer defends Sayid saying that Sayid must have problems with his people. Horace says he wants more time to think about the situation. Radzinsky wants Horace to put it to a vote or he's going to call Ann Arbor so they can make the decision for them. Annine chimes in and says she agrees with Radzinsky. She uses their baby Ethan and all of the children to justify killing Sayid. She says they're not safe with Sayid there. That convinces Horace to call for a vote and everyone but Sawyer raises their hand. Horace turns to Sawyer and says "I'd really like to say it's unanimous." Sawyer then hesitantly raises his hand.

This process of law in this scene resembles the way the others were going to put Juliet to death in season 3 for killing Pickett. It also seems that there are people in Ann Arbor, Michigan that can make decisions for the Dharma Initiative members on the island. Ann Arbor is supposed to be where the Degroots started Dharma. Pierre Chang is a professor of Theoretical Astrophysics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

It's also a bit creepy how quickly this entire group all decided to kill someone. Also, why is this particular group of people making the decision. Who are they and why do they have the power to make this decision?

Another interesting thing to note in this scene is that the woman on the couch next to Radzinsky and Rosie who is sitting on the floor both have The Looking Glass logos on their uniforms. Rosie's uniform lists her as a nurse.