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1:16 Outlaws

Sawyer has a nightmare about the night when (as a child) he was told by his mother to hide under his bed while she went to the door to tell his father to leave. His father forced his way into the house, kills his mother, sits on the bed the child Sawyer (actually named James) was hiding under, and kills himself, the dream ends. Sawyer then wakes up to find a giant boar in front of him, and it attacks his tent and runs away into the trees. Sawyer chases after it, and while he is in the jungle he hears whispering noises. Sawyer talks to Sayid about the voices Sayid heard while he was in the jungle some time before, and when Sayid asks why he wants to know Sawyer replies: "No reason." Later, Sawyer has a flashback wherein he is told, by a former associate, where the Sawyer who ruined his life as a child is: Australia. He buys a gun and goes to the shrimp shop where the older Sawyer works and sees him there. He chats briefly with him, but doesn't kill him. Meanwhile, Sawyer is obsessed with finding the boar who attacked him and goes into the jungle to find it, accompanied by Kate. The next morning the two of them wake up to find that Sawyer's belongings have been ruined while Kate's remain untouched. Locke then comes out of the jungle and tells them a story from his childhood. He says that his sister died very young and their foster mother blamed herself, suffering a severe depression. But a few months later a dog came into the house and his foster mother suddenly felt much better. The dog even slept in his sister's room. When asked if the dog was supposed to have been his sister, Locke replies "That's just silly. But my mother seemed to think so." And when his foster mother died years later the dog vanished completely. Sawyer then has another flashback where he goes to an Australian bar and meets a man there. They have a talk, and the man tells Sawyer that if something is making him miserable he should take care of it before it destroys him. So Sawyer goes back to the shrimp shop and shoots the older Sawyer. However, it is revealed through their subsequent conversation that the man he shot isn't the real Sawyer, and that he has he has been duped into assassinating an innocent man. Meanwhile, Sawyer catches up to the boar and decides to leave it rather than kill it. He returns to camp and gives Jack back the gun he was given for their previous encounter with Ethan. Now all the guns are with Jack, who returns them to the marshal's case. They start to talk, and something Jack says ("that's why the Red Sox will never win the Series," apparently without knowledge of the 2004 World Series) makes Sawyer realize the man in the Australian bar he was talking to was actually Jack's father.