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, Charlie, a rock star, Sayid, an Iraqi military man, Locke, a mysterious man who used to be paralyzed before the crash but is miraculously cured after the crash and Claire, a pregnant Australian girl who later gives birth to her baby on the island.

The show alternates from the present story to flashbacks of the lives of the various characters on the island. This scene is a flashback on the background story of Desmond, a mysterious Scottish man who has been living on the island for years before the crash. The other character is Mr. Widmore, his girlfriend's father.

In this scene Desmond is in Mr Widmore's office and asks for his permission to marry his daughter. Mr. Widmore, after coldly examining his resumé, takes a sip of his expansive MacCutcheon whiskey and tells him that a swallow of his whiskey would cost more than what he would make in a month and that he will never be a great man. Very subtle scene, good dialogue.