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During the episode “The Whole Truth” (2×16), there is a point where Jin and Bernard are fishing with nets on the beach. Sawyer walks up and begins talking. Jin becomes confused and the audio is unintelligble as we hear it from his perspective. Reversing the audio reveals a clear exchange of words between Sawyer and Bernard.

Here’s how it played out on the show:

[Sawyer walks up; voices being spoken normally]
Saywer: “Yo, Daddy-o!”
Jin: “Sawyer.”
Saywer: “Way to go, papa-san. You didn’t waste much time. I’d give you a cigar, Bernie, but I’m fresh out.”
Bernard: “Sun’s pregnant?”
Sawyer: “Keep it down, there, Susie. I don’t think Jin senior here knows yet.”

[audio reverses and becomes indistinguishable as Jin looks confused]
Sawyer: “Let sunshine tell ‘em.”
Sawyer: “Hell, no.”
Bernard: “You should tell him”
Bernard: “Well…”
Sawyer: “Not my place”
Bernard: “Well aren’t ya gonna tell him?”
Sawyer: “Well I got my sources.”
Bernard: “Well, well how do you know?”

What really happened is that the dialog for the “confused” part was recorded in order, then the order of the lines were reversed, then the audio track was played backwards.

Clip of the reversed dialog, unreversed (i.e. listenable) [MP3]