In 2007, Ben and Locke travel to the main island so that Ben can be judged by the smoke monster for letting Alex die. Locke and Ben descend beneath the Other’s temple and Ben encounters the monster.

It forces Ben to reevaluate his decision to let Alex die at the hands of Widmore’s mercenary, Keamy. Alex appears to Ben. She shoves him against a pillar and says that she knows Ben plans to kill Locke. She tells Ben that if he hurts Locke or doesn’t do as Locke tells him, she will hunt Ben down and destroy him. Meanwhile, Frank returns to Hydra Island and the survivors of Flight 316 take him hostage, as flashbacks show Ben’s abduction of Alex in the late 1980s and his confrontation with Desmond and Penny prior to boarding Flight 316.