"Yeah. As far as I know," Kelvin replied. "They don't know all the little details but they know there is a threat we have to prepare to defend ourselves against."

Jack nodded. "You know, what I can't understand is what do Ben and his people want. I just don't get it. We're not going to take their island, we don't want it, the only thing we want is to get out of this damn island. They seem to have some kind of transportation to get out of here, fuck, I saw a submarine in there, I saw it with my eyes... they're not isolated in here as we are, and if they don't want us to be here, why they don't just help us get out?"

"We have some," Kelvin answered. He lowered his voice. "We also found some guns and other supplies in the wreckage of the helicopter Naomi and her team came on." "I've also been training a few people to use weapons so we should be ready if anything happens."


"Really?", Jack frowned, wondering why they carried weapons with them. Some people had a gun in case extra protection was needed and the doctor knew that, but it was one thing to carry just one, and a completelly different thing to carry several of them and other supplies. Unless you were planning some kind of confrontation.

"Where are those weapons? Does Naomi know you found them? Or questioned her about them?"

Kate had been fixing herself up a measley breakfast of what was left of the dry Dharma cereal when she had spotted Jack walking near the caves to the tent she and Sawyer had put up the night before for the new mystery woman, Naomi. She nearly dropped the cereal onto the ground, but managed to blindly find the wood table to set it down before following in the direction Jack had gone. Had he just gotten back this morning? And why hadn't anyone told her? She'd been so worried about him and to see him back safe and sound was a huge relief.

She had a million questions for him but she stopped quite a few feet away from the tent, figuring he was in there on 'important business' that she shouldn't interrupt. And so she paced along the treeline until she saw Sayid emerge from the tent, looking a little annoyed. She approached him anyway though. "Sayid." She called to him to get his attention. He returned her greeting as she walked up to him. "How's the new girl?" She paused for a moment until asking the question she was truly interested in, "And Jack? When did he get back?" She hoped her voice didn't sound too eager.

Ben walked quickly across the compound, lost in thought. He still couldn't get the events of the previous nigh tout of his mind.
It seemed their plan was not going to work and Jacob wasn't going to forgive them. He wanted to talk to Tom and see what he thought. Hopefully the two of them could figure something out.
As he made his way towards his friend's house he thought about his conversation with Cindy. He sensed an independent and rebellious streak in her and he didn't like it. She would definitely have to be watched closely from now on. His final problem was even more vexing. Locke. Whose side was he on? What had Jacob really told him? Ben found it hard to believe that he was still persona non grata with their leader after all he had tried to do. "What more do you want, Jacob?" His hands involuntarily curled into fists. "I've done everything you asked."
He reached Tom's house and walked up to the door. He really hoped the other man was home. They had a lot to discuss. Ben took a deep breath and knocked.