abstract | - At the top of this episode, Jacob and the Man in Black (MIB) discuss their predicament: MiB: "I don't have to ask. You brought them here. Still trying to prove me wrong, aren't you?" Jacob: "You are wrong." MiB: "Am I? They come. They fight. They destroy. They corrupt. It always ends the same." Jacob: "It only ends once. Anything that happens before that is just progress" [1] When MIB says, "its always the same", he's speaking of the Eternal Recurrence loop; there's no way out of it. Jacob disagrees by saying it "ends once", but "progress" against fighting, destruction, and corruption has to be made for that to occur.
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