- Locke: Backgammon is the oldest game in the world. Archaeologists found sets when they excavated the ruins of ancient Mesopotamia. Five thousand years old. That's older than Jesus Christ... Their dice were made of bones. Two players, two sides. One is light, one is dark.
- Hurley: [watches Sayid trying to repair the transceiver] How do you know how to do all that?
- Sayid Jarrah: I was a military communications officer.
- Hurley: Oh yeah? You ever see battle?
- Sayid Jarrah: I fought in the Gulf War.
- Hurley: No way! I got a buddy who fought over there. He was in the 104th Airborne. What were you, Air Force... Army...?
- Sayid Jarrah: The Republican Guard.
- Sawyer: I saw a guy lying there with an ankle holster. So I took the gun. Thought it might come in handy. Guess what? I just shot a bear!
- Sayid Jarrah: Does anyone speak French?
- Boone Carlyle: She does.
- Shannon Rutherford: No, I don't! What?
- Boone Carlyle: What the hell are you talking about? You spent a year in Paris!
- Shannon Rutherford: Drinking! Not studying!
- [first lines]
- Charlie: [as Jack fiddles with the transceiver] Anything?
- Jack: You keep asking if there's anything.
- Charlie: Pardon me for appearing desperate, but before the pilot was *ripped* from the cockpit, he did say that no one's going to find us unless we get that transceiver working. So... is there anything?
- Jack: No.
- Charlie: Okay.
- [of Jin's first culinary attempt on the island, he approaches Hurley and offers him food speaking Korean]
- Hurley: What, that?
- [Jin responds in Korean]
- Hurley: What, eat that?
- [Jin responds in Korean]
- Hurley: [chuckling] Dude. Dude, I'm starving... but I'm nowhere near that hungry. No. No thank you.
- [Jin walks away, Hurley continues to chuckle]