002. Lost - 4x05 The Constant
SOLDIER: (to Desmond) I hope your dream was worth this, mate.
DESMOND: Sorry brother. It's just that, I've never had a dream so vivid. It was like I was actually there.
SGT: Have you got something to say, Hume?
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SAYID: What are you doing? Desmond! Are you alright?
DESMOND: Who are you? How do you know my name?!
SAYID: On the helicopter, something happened to Desmond. He doesn't appear to recognize me or know where he is.
JACK: (to Dan) Side-effects?
DANIEL: Wait, your friend, Desmond? Has he recently been exposed to high levels of radiation or electromagnetism?
[Jack and Juliet have no idea.]
DANIEL: Okay, look. Uh, we don't know why, but going to and coming from the island, some people can get a little...confused.
JULIET: So, what, is this amnesia?
DANIEL: No, this is not amnesia.
SAYID: Give him the phone now!
DESMOND: Hello?
DANIEL: Desmond! Desmond, my name is Daniel Faraday. We met yesterday before you took off? But I'm guessing you don't remember that. Am I right?
DESMOND: Took off? What?
DANIEL: Desmond, we don't have long to talk so I need you to tell me what year you think it is.
DESMOND: What do you mean, what year do I think it -- it's 1996!
DANIEL: Alright, Desmond, Desmond look, you gotta tell me...where are you?
DESMOND: Um...um...I'm in some kind of sick bay...
DANIEL: No, no, no, no. Not right now, Desmond. Where are you supposed to be. Where are you in 1996?
DESMOND: Uh, Camp Millar, it's a ...Royal Scots Regiment, it's just north of Glasgow.
JACK: Dan. You might wanna-
DANIEL: No, no, no. I'm thinking, I'm thinking. Desmond, listen. When it happens again, Desmond, I need you to get on a train. Get on a train and go to Oxford, Oxford University, Queens College Physics Department. Alright?
DESMOND: What, why?
DANIEL: Because I need you to find me.
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DESMOND: (to Daniel) Yes! What've you got?
DANIEL: Okay, Desmond, listen. When you find me at Queens College, I need you to tell me to set the device to 2.342.
DESMOND: What?
DANIEL: Alright, you got it? 2.342! And it must be oscillating at eleven hertz. You got it Desmond?
DESMOND: 2.342 and oscillating at eleven...
DANIEL: Just remember that. 2.342 and eleven hertz, alright? And one more thing, Desmond. If the numbers don't convince me, I need you to tell me that you know about Eloise.
DESMOND: Um, sorry. Are you Daniel Faraday?
DANIEL: And you are?
DESMOND: Um...sorry, I'm Desmond Hume, and um...I was told I could find you here. I think I've...just been to the future.
DANIEL: ...the future?
DESMOND: Yes. Uh, I spoke to you there, you told me to come here, to Oxford, to find you, you said you'd help me.
DANIEL: Why didn't I just help you there, in the future?
DESMOND: Sorry?
DANIEL: Why would I put you through the headache of time travel, you know? You know what I mean, it just seems a little...unnecessary. And don't you think that my esteemed colleagues could have come up with something just a little more believable, huh? Wha--what kind of a prank is that? Huh, paradox. So uninspired.
DESMOND: Set your device to um...2.342 and make sure it oscillates at eleven.
DANIEL: Okay, now you, you're going to tell me who told you those numbers.
DESMOND: You did.
DANIEL: This is ridiculous.
DESMOND: I know about Eloise.
DANIEL: Come on, come on, that's it, come on, that's it, yes, yes, yes, haha! Yes! Oh, it worked! This is incredible.
DESMOND: I'm sorry, how is a rat running through a bloody maze so incredible?
DANIEL: What is incredible, is I just finished the maze this morning. I'm not going to teach her to run it until an hour from now.
DESMOND: So you, you sent her to the future!
DANIEL: No, no, no. Her consciousness. Her mind.
DESMOND: So, so how does that help me?
DANIEL: You, what? I don't understand, am I supposed to help you? Didn't I send you back here to help me?
DESMOND: I don't know why you sent me here. All I know about you is that you end up on some bloody island.
DANIEL: An island. What island, where...why would I go to an island?
DESMOND: If these keeps happening, am I going to die?
DANIEL: I don't know. I think Eloise's brain short-circuited. The jumps between the present and the future...she couldn't tell which was which, she had no anchor.
DESMOND: Wh...what do you mean, anchor?
DANIEL: Something familiar in both times. All this, see this is variables, it's random, it's chaotic. Every equation needs stability, something known. It's called a constant. Desmond, you have no constant. When you go to the future, nothing there is familiar. So if you want to stop this, then you need to find something there...something that you really, really care about....that also exists back here, in 1996.
DESMOND: This constant...can it be a person?
DANIEL: Yeah, maybe. But you have to make some kind of contact. Didn't you say you were off on a boat, in the middle of nowhere?
DANIEL: Uh...who're you calling?
DESMOND: I'm calling my bloody constant.
OPERATOR: The number you have dialed has been disconnected.
PENNY: Hello?
DESMOND: Penny?
PENNY: Desmond?
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DESMOND: I love you, Penny. I've always loved you. I'm so sorry. I love you!
PENNY: I love you too.
DESMOND: I don't know where I am, but--
PENNY: I'll find you, Des--
DESMOND: --I promise--
PENNY: --no matter what--
DESMOND: --I'll come back to you--
PENNY: --I won't give up--
BOTH: I promise. I love you.
[Static cuts them off.]
SAYID: I'm sorry. The power source went dead, it's all we have.
DESMOND: Thank you, Sayid. It was enough.
SAYID: Are you alright now?
DESMOND: Aye. I'm perfect.
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