bright light city

It's not so bad here. I have some new friends and dad has a great car that I am going to get to drive. Yes, that's right, it's a convertible. I'm taking that to school. I still have a whole summer until that starts again.

Mom, are we getting together sometime soon.

Anyone up for a video game night - AGAIN!

Don't you hate it when you get a song stuck in your head?

Yeah, Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper." Why?

FILTERED TO JACK SHEPHARD:

I have a favor to ask you.

I'm really confused.

How am I in Vegas? I thought I was dead

Huh. Been here a few days, trying to make sense of things.

We've been kidnapped by the Zenner Corporation to Las Vegas where they do experiments on us. The tattoo is a means of tracking us and causing us massive amounts of pain if we try to leave. They can take people from all over time, space, fiction, and worlds. We can't leave, but sometimes people disappear. Sometimes they come back with memories of the place. Sometimes they come back without the memories of this place.

I have no memories of Vegas - at least not like this.