Hurley confesses to Libby that he has an eating problem, and shows her the stash of Dharma food. Hurley wants to get rid of it, and she encourages him to do so. Just after Hurley destroys his supplies, other survivors go into the jungle and Hurley and Libby see that an enormous package of food parachuted from the sky. After Hurley panics at the suggestion of again being in charge of the supplies, he sees Dave, and tries to follow him as he goes into the jungle.
After Hurley loses Dave's trail twice he decides to leave the beach and go to the caves. On the way, Dave reappears, and tells Hurley that everything that has happened since the night of the escape attempt has been a fantasy — that after Dave escaped, Hurley went into a dreamlike state and has imagined everything since then. As proof, Dave points out the appearances of the numbers said by another patient, in both Hurley's winning lottery ticket and the hatch computer.
Dave takes Hurley to a cliff, and tells him to jump and get out of his dream, before jumping off himself. Before Hurley can decide whether or not to follow, Libby finds him and Hurley tells her that all that is happening is not real, and is only a dream, but Libby convinces him otherwise, partly by kissing him.
In the hatch, Sayid and Ana-Lucia interrogate "Henry Gale". After Henry's new story is proved false, Henry finally admits that he is an Other, but says he would be killed if he talks. Later, Locke confronts the prisoner, demanding to know if he let himself be caught, thinking it might have been to find the Swan. "Henry", however, calls the hatch a "joke", saying that during the lockdown, he never entered the numbers into the computer or pushed the button; he simply stood there, and watched the timer's numbers turn to red hieroglyphs before they reset back on their own. Locke believes that Henry is lying.
Flackbacks:
Hurley is in a mental institution, where he is friends with Dave. Dave tells Hurley to ignore the doctors, avoid his medication, and try to escape. One day, Hurley's doctor, Dr. Brooks, proves to Hurley that Dave is not real, by taking a photo of the two, and then showing Hurley that Dave is not in the picture. Later that night, Dave wakes Hurley up to escape with him from the institute. Dave hops out of a window, but Hurley confronts him and declares that Dave is not real, and shuts the window on him before going back to bed.
A later flashback reveals that during the moment Dr. Brooks took the picture of Hurley and Dave, another patient was staring at Hurley from across the room. It was Libby, which explains why Hurley has had this faint recognition of Libby while on the island.
Do you think Hurley will make another stash?
OK: I hope he doesn't, but I feel like Hurley doesn't have enough self-control to not do it again. Hopefully Libby will be a good influence on him though.
SH: I don't think he will because now he has Libby to use as motivation for not falling back into his bad habits.
Does Dave make any sense to you at all?
OK: NO! Like I get the fact that he is a figment of Hurley's imagination (I think)... but the whole story line with Dave just confuses me.
SH: The existence of made me really upset because I couldn't tell what was real and what wasn't. I was a little paranoid that the whole show would be in Hurley's head and that none of it really happened, but thank goodness I don't think it turns out that way.
Do you think Hurley and Libby are a cute couple or not?
OK: I don't think I like them yet. Libby kind of bothers me; she seems nice but there is something about her that throws me off.
SH: Seeing Hurley care so much about her is very heartwarming and adorable, but like Olivia said, there is something weird about her. Although, if she makes him happy, then I'm happy.
Do you actually think "Henry" let the timer run out?
OK: I don't because I feel like something with the magnetic field would've happened. Plus, Henry is just a big liar. He is just trying to manipulate Locke and get inside his head.
SH: I think he did because I believe the timer doesn't actually do anything.
Reaction to Dave not actually existing?
OK: Makes sense. Although it does make me question all of Hurley's past and his story lines.
SH: I hate everything. This episode made me so angry. It's a giant mind bender.
Reaction to Libby being from the same mental institution Hurley was at?
OK: What the heck! She had black hair and was crazy! That explains where Hurley knew her from, but now I feel like she is a figment of his imagination.
SH: So this whole time she was pretending to be a therapist, she was crazy. This episode makes me so angry.
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