Sawyer and Kate trek through the jungle and are almost home. Kate tells him he could say he's sorry and they'd start over, giving each other a clean slate. Sawyer refuses to apologize. He ain't got nothing to be sorry about. They continue to the beach camp. Everyone's excited to see them. Separated by the happy throng, Sawyer looks for Kate. She's looking away. He turns his attention to the crowd and misses Kate looking over for him. It's a bittersweet moment.
Hurley and Jin find the rest of the skeleton in the van's driver's seat. His name is sewn on his jumpsuit: Roger. They open the back of the van, and cans of beer spill out. Hurley realizes Roger was on a beer run. They take Roger out of the van and try to push the van over. However, they can't leverage it.
Flashback to the grand re-opening of Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack. Television reporter Tricia Tanaka interviews Hurley for a news story, but Hurley is not a good interviewee. Frustrated, she goes inside to shoot some background footage. Suddenly, a meteor plummets through the sky and slams into the Chicken Shack, killing Tricia Tanaka and crew. Hurley is convinced it's because of him the curse is inescapable!
"Mr. Cluck's. It got hit by a meteor. Or an asteroid. I don't know the difference but it's gone."
He returns home and tells his mom what happened. The only way to stop the curse is for him to go to Australia to find the origin of the numbers. She slaps him. He's not cursed, and to prove it she says his father, David, is back. Sure enough, David comes around a corner and says hello. Hurley is shocked, and even more convinced he's cursed.