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<\/p>\nIn flashbacks, we see Sayid being walked through Heathrow Airport in handcuffs. The CIA wants Sayid to infiltrate a terrorist cell in Sydney, in exchange for being told where Nadia is. We later see him in a mosque engaged in prayer, where he is reunited with someone he knew, Essam. He says he is working as a treecutter \u2013 and adds \u201cso much for my\u00a0philosophy degree.\u201d When Sayid spots a bug in a smoke detector at Assam\u2019s house, and then the leader of the group, Hadad, suggests that perhaps it wasn\u2019t happenstance that brought him there, but fate. So once again we have talk of \u201cfate\u201d where the powerful are in fact arranging things behind the scenes. Then we learn that Essam is going to be the \u201cmartyr\u201d in an operation. Sayid wants to help him, but the CIA operatives want the operation to proceed so that they can recover the explosives. Essam is concerned about the innocent lives, saying that the Imam preaches peace. When Sayid helps to persuade him to go through with it, Essam also talks of fate, and asks Sayid to help him by doing this with him. When the day comes, they get in the truck, and Essam prays. Sayid tries to let him leave, telling him that he has been working for the CIA, but Essam accuses Sayid of having used him (having told him that what they were doing was for \u201cthe greater good\u201d) and them kills himself. Sayid gets the chance to go to Los Angeles to look for Nadia, but learning that Essam will be cremated if no one claims the body, and insisting that a Muslim man must be buried, he has them change his flight. This storyline explores both the manipulation of people by terrorist organizations, using their pain and loss to get them to engage in terrorism, and\u00a0also by counter-terrorism forces. But it also ties in to the broader story arc of other, even more powerful forces being at work and manipulating people. Is it ever justified? The episode asks that question explicitly, in its very title: does the \u201cgreater good\u201d ever justify acts that, considered on their own, would be considered evil?<\/p>\n
On the island in the present day, Jack is angry because Locke lied, and Jack had based his medical treatment of Boone on that lie. Kate brings Jack\u00a0back to the camp, and they hold a little memorial for Boone. Locke comes back during it and says it was his fault. Jack tackles him, shouting \u201cWhere were you?\u201d Boone had mentioned about the hatch to Jack, and so Jack\u00a0is sure that Locke is hiding something. Sayid goes with Locke to see if he can salvage the radio from the plane. While they are at the plane, Locke tells Sayid that it was him that hit him from behind and took the transceiver when they had tried to triangulate the source of Danielle\u2019s distress signal. Shannon steals a gun and wants to kill John Locke. Sayid tackles her, but she fires and the bullet grazes his head. At the end of the episode, Sayid tells Locke to take him to the hatch.<\/p>\n
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