Young Sayid kills a chicken for his brother

"He's Our You" opens with our first traditional flashback in a while. We see a young boy (Sayid's older brother) in Tikrit, Iraq being dragged to a chicken cage by his father wants him to kill a chicken to prove that he is a man. The father tells the boy that he cannot come inside until he kills a chicken. Sayid comes over with some grain and breaks a chicken's neck and hands it to his brother. When his father returns, he thinks that the older brother killed the chicken but he confesses that it was Sayid who killed it. Their father says that at least one of them will be a man and congratulates Sayid.

This scene sets up the idea that killing is a part of who Sayid is which Ben tells him later in Santo Domingo.

Nadia's funeral procession, Ishmael Bakir, Ben's press vehicle, Bakir traffic photo

Ben shows up in Tikrit, Iraq where Sayid is taking part in Nadia's funeral procession. We see a man carrying a picture of her as well as a casket with Arabic writing, presumably her name.

Ben arrives in a SUV with "PRESS" on it's windows. How exactly does he procure a press vehicle in a country with a war going on? He immediately goes to the roof of a building to shoot photos of Ishmael Bakir, an associate of Charles Widmore who may have been responsible for Nadia's death. Ben shows Sayid a picture of Bakir taken with a traffic camera in Los Angeles. Ben says he was speeding away from the scene of Nadia's death.