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3:08 Flashes Before Your Eyes ( FBYE)

At the beach, Charlie and Hurley go through Sawyer's stash on the pretense of how the rest of the survivors need it. Desmond asks the two to follow him into the woods where they meet Locke and Sayid. The two reveal that Eko was killed the previous day and they buried him. Seeing as how the other survivors will look to Hurley and Charlie on how to react, Locke asks them to help keep everyone calm when Eko's death is revealed. Hurley notices Desmond acting a bit strange, but then Desmond bolts towards the beach and dives into the water after someone drowning — Claire. Desmond manages to get her back to the beach and resuscitate her. As Desmond carries Claire away to one of the shelters, Charlie yells at him, demanding to know how he knew she was drowning. That night, Charlie and Hurley attempt to get Desmond really drunk and find out how he knew Claire was drowning. Desmond says he heard her calling for help, but Hurley believes he was too far away to hear anything. Charlie then brings up the coincidence of Desmond's lightning rod and the lightning strike. Tired of their questions, Desmond tries to leave but Charlie needles him on and calls him a coward. Desmond tackles Charlie, choking him, and yelling at him that he doesn't want to know what happened to him. Hurley manages to get Desmond off of Charlie and Charlie helps Desmond to his tent. Once there, Desmond tells Charlie that, when he turned the fail-safe key, his whole life flashed before his eyes and he woke up in the jungle. But the flashes didn't stop. He reveals to Charlie that Charlie dove in to save Claire, but drowned in the process. He saw lightning hit the roof of Claire's shelter, but it electrocuted Charlie. He's been trying to save Charlie, but Charlie is going to eventually die.