On the island, Walt continues trying to hang around Locke which Michael does not like. While working on a raft to get off the island, Michael forces Walt to help him. When Walt once again turns up missing Michael blames Locke. In the jungle Michael runs into Hurley and asks him if he saw Walt and he says no. Hurley says to Jack who is there as well that Michael hates being a dad.
Flashbacks in this episode center on Michael and Walt where we pick up when Michael and his girlfriend Susan Lloyd is pregnant with Walt. A few months after Walt is born, Susan tells Michael she is moving to Amsterdam for work and will be taking Walt with her. A short time after she moves away, Susan tells Michael she is now in a relationship with her boss Brian.
Michael finds Locke and asks him where Walt is. Locke tells Michael he doesn’t know and the two go off looking for him. We then see Walt is in the jungle with Vincent who soon becomes agitated and runs off past a porta-potty. Don’t pay any mind to that last part, it sort of breaks the illusion. They find Walt and Michael saves him from an attacking polar bear. This helps to solidify their father and son relationship. A relationship that is made even stronger when Michael shows Walt a wooden box containing all the letters he wrote to Walt that Susan never gave him.
During a phone call, Michael tells Susan he will be coming to Amsterdam to get his son. After he hangs up, he walks away from the payphone and is hit by a car in the street. A few weeks after, while Michael is still recovering in the hospital, Susan comes to tell him that she is getting married to Brian and that Brian will be adopting Walt. Michael says he won’t allow it. Susan comments that he isn’t doing it for his love for Walt but due to his own stubbornness.
Elsewhere on the island, Charlie goes to Sawyer for Claire’s diary and after a few punches are thrown Sawyer gives it to him. While looking through it hoping to find something about himself in the diary, he sees a description of a dream she had. In the dream she mentions the “black rock” something Sayid says is on the charts and maps he took from Danielle’s bunker as well.
Later in the flashback world, Walt, now nearly as old as he is on the island is shown to have some sort of supernatural powers. While looking at a book about birds he looks at a page with one that is native to Australia and when he gets upset the sound of something crashing into a window is heard. When Brian looks out the window, he sees the same bird lying dead on the balcony. He gives Walt an odd look.
A few weeks before the crash Susan dies rather quickly from a blood disorder. Brian goes to New York and tells Michael that Susan wanted Michael to have custody after she died. Michael realizes Brian never wanted to adopt Walt and only did so to appease Susan. Brian gives Michael round trip tickets from New York to Sydney so he can go and get Walt and bring him back. Brian also tells Michael that Walt is “different” because things seem to happen when Walt is around. When Michael goes to Australia to get Walt, his son doesn’t know who Michael is. He tells Walt he is his dad, and they are going to New York together. They also bring Brian’s dog Vincent with them.
Back on the island, after the polar bear tried to attack Walt, Vincent went missing. While looking for him in the jungle, Locke and Boone are stunned to see Claire come staggering out of the jungle right in front of them.
