HURLEY: Let me get this straight.
HURLEY: All this already happened.
MILES: Yes.
HURLEY: So this conversation we’re having right now…we already had it.
MILES: Yes!
HURLEY: Then what am I gonna say next?
MILES: I don’t know.
HURLEY: Ha’! Then your theory is wrong!
MILES: For the thousandth time, you dingbat, the conversation already happened, but not for you and me. For you and me, it’s happening right now.
HURLEY: Okay, answer me this. If all this already happened to me, then…why don’t I remember any of it?
MILES: Because once Ben turned that wheel, time isn’t a straight line for us anymore. Our experiences in the past and the future occurred before these experiences right now.
HURLEY: Say that again.
MILES: Shoot me. Please. Please!
HURLEY: Aha! I can’t shoot you. Because if you die in 1977, then you’ll never come back to the island on the freighter 30 years from now.
MILES: I can die because I’ve already come to the island on the freighter. Any of us can die because this is our present.
Miles sounds exactly like I do every time I try to explain Lost to anyone else. “No, see the smoke is also Locke but Locke is DEAD and yeah, she set off the nuclear bomb but she didn’t die from the bomb, she died after they jumped forward in time and… never mind.”
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