“What Kate Does” is Run! Except when it comes to helping Claire deliver Aaron. That’s just about the one thing that keeps her from moving.
This episode was somewhat short on plot so I think I will just focus on the characters:
Sayid
He is brought back to life by his immersion in the dirty stream, which could have allusions to the fountain of youth but in my mind its more like Pet Sematary where the dead return but somehow have become infected with evil intentions. In the end, they regret being reborn in this way and end up killing (or trying to kill) the ones who refused to let them die. The temple folks do a
test on Sayid by applying a covering of ash to his body and then electrocuting him. Poor Sayid he is always getting tortured by someone, first it was Rosseau then that Iraqi woman’s husband and now this. The temple folk determine he is infected with a darkness that will slowly make its way to his heart, so they tell Jack to give him a pill.
Jack
He refuses to give Sayid the pill unless he knows what is in it. Well, I guess the “man of faith” is back on hold for a while. So in typical Jack fashion he “reacts” as Sawyer would say and takes the pill himself. The temple guy Dogen has to apply the Heimlich maneuver on him, but I guess he swallowed the pill anyway, which by the way was poison. They need to get rid of Sayid but he has to take the pill voluntarily (why, I have no idea!). Maybe this ties into the scene where Richard refused to shoot the MIB-Locke-Monster. If you shoot the “infected” ones, they replicate or something, maybe? Anyway Jack admits that he did not fix Sayid, and so Sayid owes his life to Temple folk meaning I supposed that he will follow them (like he followed Ben after he saved his life from Nadia’s assassin). Jack tells Kate to be careful, but Kate is more interested in following Sawyer.
Sawyer
He refuses to be held by the Temple folk and makes his escape. Even though they told him he should not leave (because the Smoke monster is out there). He is followed by Kate, who tells Jack and Jin that she is just going to bring him back (which is untrue). He makes his way to Dharmaville leaving behind a fake trail so no one follows him. But Kate is a tracker and has seen fake trails before (in Season 3 Naomi left a fake trail). He finds his old house and buried in the floor boards is a box with his keepsakes. Kate finds him and is embarrassed to see him in there crying. He tells her its his fault Juliet died because he would
not let her leave on the sub to go home, because he did not want to be left alone on the island. But he is really putting himself down needlessly, because Juliet could have left anytime on her own and obviously wanted to stay with Sawyer. He tells Kate he was going to ask Juliet to marry him and he had an engagement ring hidden in that box of keepsakes. But with Kate sitting down next to him he throws the ring away and says some people were just meant to be alone.
Kate
She is the focus of the story so we see her on and off the island. On the island she pretends to follow Saywer to bring him back to the Temple because “she can be very convincing when she has to be”. Instead her and JIn are escorted by two of the Temple guards including a certain Aldo guy. Kate does not recognize him (or pretends to not) and when he tells her the story of how she rifle butted him, she knocks Aldo down again and uses a trap set not by Rousseau to knock down the other guard. She finds Sawyer in Dharamaville and tells him she is after Claire. She (like Jack) wants to set things straight and she is hoping Sawyer will help her find Claire so she can be reunited with Aaron (Kate took Aaron off the island and Claire was left behind). Sawyer is not interested in any of this. Read more »
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