The Swan Station was filled with many things from books to exercise equipment, that were intended to help make the occupants' lives more comfortable. One such item was a ping-pong table, complete with a ball and paddles. By the time Locke, Kate, and Jack entered the station, the ping-pong table was pushed up against a bookshelf. Eventually, Desmond and Locke decided to let the stations counter run down to zero to see if anything would happen. However, Desmond realized that to do so would kill everyone on the island. He began a frantic search for the Failsafe Key hidden in his copy of Our Mutual Friend, he did not find it until he moved the ping-pong table.