want the news published to maintain Rachel's privacy, he is hit and killed by a bus, leaving Juliet shell-shocked. Richard and Ethan Rom (William Mapother) show up at the morgue to offer her another chance to accept the job to which she agrees, believing it would only last six months somewhere "not quite in Portland." Soon after, Rachel's cancer goes into remission. As Juliet prepares for departure, Richard asks her to drink orange juice mixed with tranquilizer, stating it would be best if she is asleep for the journey. She expresses her reservations but Richard assures her that her miraculous impregnation of Rachel against all odds is just the start of what she can accomplish and promises she will see things beyond her comprehension. Tempted by her curiosity, Juliet drinks the juice and promptly falls unconscious. Arrival on the Island Juliet awakens aboard "the Others'" Galaga submarine. Ethan helps her up and she disembarks onto a pier where she is greeted by Benjamin "Ben" Linus (Michael Emerson), who welcomes her to the Island. Juliet is presented with her own newly furnished house at the Others' Barracks, and also begins having therapy sessions with Dr. Harper Stanhope (Andrea Roth). In September 2001, after the six months on the Island that she agreed to passes, Juliet tells Ben the fertility problem causing pregnant women to die occurs during conception. Juliet reasons there is nothing more she can do and asks to go home, but Ben informs her that Rachel's cancer has returned and promises to cure it if she stays on the Island to continue her work. For the next three years, Juliet's test subjects experience uniformly fatal results. At some point, Juliet begins having an affair with Harper's estranged husband, Goodwin Stanhope (Brett Cullen). Harper discovers this and warns Juliet that should her relationship with Goodwin not come to an end immediately, there will be dire consequences from Ben, alluding to the latter's jealous romantic affections for Juliet. Juliet becomes suspicious of Ben when she notices a spinal tumor on his x-rays; since Ben is diagnosed with cancer, she becomes convinced that he lied about being able to cure Rachel. Enraged, Juliet confronts him over his apparent deception and tearfully asks to leave the Island but Ben refuses, generating hostility. The next day, a distraught Juliet prepares to host a book club at her house when she is visited by Amelia