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.