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Originally Posted by Lostpedia.com
It is some time after Michael and Walt left the Island. Late at night, Michael sits in his dingy apartment in Manhattan, writing something. When he is finished, he exits his residence, enters his car, and pins the message he just wrote to his lapel, driving out into the night. He careens down by a pier before intentionally crashing his car into a shipping crate.
Michael wakes up in a hospital, sharing a room with another, older man. This "older man" appears similar in appearance to Locke's father, Anthony Cooper. The attending nurse enters and Michael recognizes her as Libby, whom he shot while on the island. Michael starts screaming and quickly realizes he was dreaming when "Libby" disappears. The real nurse enters and explains that he was found badly hurt with no identification, only a letter pinned on himself, addressed to a Walt. She asks if she should call Walt, and Michael shakes his head "no".
Michael later goes to his mother's home, full of Christmas decorations, asking to see Walt, but she refuses. She says that Michael gave his right as a father when he began keeping secrets from his mother, including where they have been for the past two months and why they have false names and identities. She then adds that Walt has nightmares every night and doesn't want to see his father because the latter said something to him previously. Michael then leaves, and sees Walt (not much older than when he left the Island) at his window, who turns away.
Michael then goes to a pawn shop and exchanges the Rolex watch Jin gave him for a gun and a box of ammunition, then proceeds to a back alley to commit suicide. Just moments before he pulls the trigger, he is stopped by an "old friend": Tom. Michael shoots but Tom avoids the shot. After a fight between the two, Tom informs Michael that the Island won't let him kill himself, whatever the way, and that Michael still has "work to do". Tom tells Michael to try again killing himself with the gun if he doesn't believe him. In any case, Tom will be at a penthouse suite of a New York hotel. A short while later, Michael attempts suicide with the gun in his apartment, but the revolver does not fire. He checks to make sure it's loaded, and, though the cylinder has 6 bullets in it, none even have an indentation from a firing pin. About to try again, he is interrupted by the news on television of the discovery of the Oceanic 815 wreck. The 324 passengers have been confirmed dead.
Confused by this, he meets Tom at the hotel, who is enjoying the company of Arturo. After asking Arturo to leave, Tom explains to Michael that the wreckage a fake, staged by "a man named Widmore" to keep others from looking in the right place where the real plane crashed: the Island. Widmore wants to keep the Island for himself and will kill everyone on it if he isn't stopped. With Michael's help, Widmore's freighter, the Kahana, can be stopped and all occupants of the Island can be saved. Tom then tells Michael that he has a job on the freighter and that his alias on the boat will be Kevin Johnson, and hands him a fake U.S. Passport. Michael questions why he would go back to work for "you people", and protests that he won't go back to the Island, but Tom sells it as his only opportunity to redeem himself for what he did; and that he won't be going back to the island: His mission will be to get on the boat, and "kill everyone on board".
While boarding the freighter at the Port of Suva, Fiji, Michael meets Minkowski and Naomi who informs him that he received a package that will be delivered to his room. Michael/Kevin then meets Miles, who "knows" that Kevin is not his real name. Miles then adds to not to worry as 80 percent of the people on the boat have a secret of some kind. Michael begins to have second thoughts about killing off everyone on board as he has now "put faces with names", but a phone call from Tom reminds him to follow through if he wants to save the remaining 815 survivors living on the island. While the ship is underway, Frank wants to be the first on the Island as he is the trained pilot here, but Naomi refuses, stating that the scientific team has priority over everyone else. Frank wants to know why but Naomi doesn't answer. Michael then meets Frank, who confides that he knows that the Oceanic 815 wreckage is a fake. Frank muses the idea to meet survivors from the crash.
Days later, at full sea, Michael hears guns being fired. He goes to the deck and sees Omar and Keamy, amongst other, firing guns. Shocked to discover this, Michael underlines the fact that it is supposed to be a rescue mission, but Keamy only brushes off the remark. Moments later, Michael is in his room, looking at the package. He opens it and finds a case. With the case, he goes to the engine room and finds inside the case a bomb. Michael inputs the combination for the bomb but hesitates to push the EXECUTE button to set off the bomb. Suddenly, he hears the same music he was listening to on the car when he tried to commit suicide. He then quickly sees Libby that tells him to "not do it", but it seems to only be hallucinations. Michael then proceeds and pushes the EXECUTE button. 20 seconds pass but the bomb doesn't explode. Instead, a note appears that says "NOT YET".
Later on, Michael plays with a ball in his quarters when Minkowski tells him that the he has a phone call from a person named Walt. After Minkowski gives Michael some privacy with the man on the phone, it turns out that "Walt" is actually Ben, phoning from the Island. Ben informs Michael that there are innocent people on the freighter, and that the plan was never to kill them all, because Ben isn't that kind of person. He gave the fake bomb to Michael to show him the difference between a man without a conscience, Widmore, and himself. Even in a war, he doesn't want to kill innocents. Michael tells Ben that Libby and Ana-Lucia were innocent, but Ben replies that Michael himself killed them, the Others didn't ask for their death. Ben then orders Michael to get him a list of everyone on board, report the list back to him, and then disable both the radio and engine so that they cannot go on the Island, therefore saving the people on it. Michael is obviously shook up, but Ben tells him that he can consider himself now "one of the good guys".
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