The survivors of a plane crash are stranded in a mysterious, remote tropical island in the South Pacific. Among the survivors there is Jack, a doctor, Kate, a former prisoner, Charlie, a rock star, Sayid, an Iraqi military man and Locke, a mysterious man who used to be paralyzed before the crash but is miraculously cured after the crash.

This monologue is at the end of the 5th episode, "White Rabbit". Everybody is expecting to be rescued soon but has been 6 days and nobody has come...The stash of water bottles has been mysteriously stolen and Charlie finds out that Boone took it to give it to a woman who is pregnant and feeling ill. Everybody is angry at Boone and Charlie attacks him. Jack stops him and scolds the group. He tells them the only way they can survive is by collaborating. Nobody might show up to rescue them and they have to organize in order to survive on the island.