LOST- Episode 33: What Kate Did

  It's morning on Crazy Island and Jin and Sun emerge from their tent where they have obviously gotten back together.  Probably more than once.  Hurley sees them and gives Jin a thumbs up.  Sun watches sadly as lonely Sayid digs a lonely grave for Shannon.

  In the hatch, Jack is tending to Sawyer when the injured man starts stirring.  In a half-conscious state, he mutters that he "loves her" which Jack takes to mean Kate.

  Kate herself is out in the jungle picking fruit out of a tree top.  She drops some and almost falls.  As she is picking them up, the camera stays close so anyone who has seen a horror movie knows that someone will be there when she stands back up.  And there is.  But it's not a person- it's a black horse.  Kate then flashes back to sitting on her front porch playing with a lighter when a drunken somebody comes home.  She helps him into bed, resists his come-ons and heads outside.  As she rides off on her motorcycle, the camera lingers on the house just a little too long so that anyone who has ever seen an action movie knows that it is going to blow up.  And it does.  This cues the creepy LOST title screen.

  Later, Kate goes to the diner where her mother works and shows her the insurance policy she took out in her name.  This only makes mom wonder what Kate did.  Hey, that's the name of this episode!  Kate leaves without answering the question and tells her mom that she was never there.

  In the present, Kate returns to the hatch where Jack tells her to go to Shannon's funeral.  Kate insists that Jack go instead.  Jack wonders if she is okay and she insists that she is.

  In the outskirts of the society that Jack built, Mr. Eko finds Ana-Lucia to tell her that he is going to the funeral.  She says she is not for obvious reasons.  Eko tells her that most people realize it was an accident.

  At the funeral, Sayid says a few words about how he loved Shannon, then Jack, Locke and others come forward to drop handfuls of dirt into Shannon's grave.  My mom gets the quip of the night when she says, "That is going to take a long time."  Now you know where I get it from.

  In the hatch, Kate turns on some music and feeds Sawyer some mashed up fruit.  Sawyer starts muttering so she leans in closer.  Then he grabs her by the neck and screams, "Why did you kill me?"

  When Jack and Locke return to the hatch, they find the alarm sounding, Sawyer laying on the floor in a heap and Kate nowhere to be found.  Locke scrambles to get the numbers entered and pulls it off without a second to spare.

  In the jungle, Charlie finds Kate and starts going on and on about the funeral and the new people, but Kate is not really listening and he notices.  She asks if he thinks there are horses on the island and he says no, just polar bears and monsters.  Kate walks off to have a flashback in private.

  In this one, Kate is buying a one-way ticket to Tallahassee when the man behind her strikes up a conversation about how much Tallahassee sucks.  We know this man to be the marshal and he confirms this by grabbing her and cuffing her after a minor scuffle.  She says she is innocent, but the marshal tells her that her mother gave her up.

  At the beach, Jack asks Charlie if he has seen Kate and he points him toward the cave path.

  In the hatch, Locke uses bolt cutters to finally set Jin free from his broken handcuff.  Yay!  Michael asks Locke what the blast doors are for but he doesn't know.  Desmond never mentioned them.  Locke mentions the movie and Eko says that he would like to see it too.

  Jack finds Kate sitting alone in the jungle and is ready to read her the riot act over what happened in the hatch.  He lets up a little when he sees that she is freaking out.  He hugs her as she cries and anyone who has seen a romantic movie knows that they are going to kiss.  And they do.  Kate seems even more freaked out by this and takes off into the jungle.

  At the conclusion of the hatch matinee, Michael has many questions about the button and the computer and the missing pieces of the film.  Locke says the missing pieces probably aren't important.  He asks Eko what he thought.  Eko's wheels are turning but he walks away without answering.

  At Shannon's grave, Kate apologizes to Sayid for not attending the funeral.  She also mentions how she might be crazy.  Sayid says he saw Walt in the jungle, so maybe he is crazy too.  When Sayid walks off, Kate flashes back tothe ride in the marshal's car.  He asks her why she would kill her stepfather now, but she continues to proclaim her innocence.  The marshal laughs this off and makes some speculations of his own.  Kate swears that Wayne (the stepfather) never touched her.  The marshal goes to light a cigarette just as a black horse crosses the road.  The car swerves and hits a pole.  Kate unlocks her cuffs, wins a struggle with a not-quite-unconscious marshal and takes off in his car without even thanking the horse.

  Back in the hatch, Locke is still trying to explain the computer shenanigans to a skeptical Michael.  He shows him that nothing can even be entered until the four minute warning.  Michael asks to look at the hardware and Locke agrees as long as he doesn't break anything.  Locke then has a sit down with Mr. Eko, who has something to show him.  He tells a story about a king who lived before Jesus- a round-about analogy that leads him to reveal that the bible he found in the other hatch is hollowed out and has a piece of film inside.  Locke is shocked to discover that it is a spliced portion of the orientation film. 

  After Kate returns to the hatch to relieve Sun from watching Sawyer, she flashes back to a visit to an Army recruitment center where she talks to her father.  Dad can't believe the phone calls he's been getting about her and really can't believe that she has actually done what they say she has.  Kate asks why she wasn't told that her stepfather was really her father.  "Dad" says it was because he knew that she would kill him.  Kate asks why he wasn't the one to do it and "Dad" looks shocked and says he doesn't have murder in his heart.  He says he has to call the authorities but agrees to her request for an hour head start.

  When the trip down memory lane ends, Kate approaches Sawyer and addresses him as Wayne.  She confesses that she killed him not because he beat her mother or drove off her dad but because she couldn't stand that he was a part of her.  At that point, Sawyer wakes up and asks who Wayne is.

  Meanwhile, while Locke and Eko put the missing film piece back in, Locke asks what the odds are of the events that have led them to this point.  Eko says not to confuse coincidence with fate.

  Kate helps Sawyer out of the hatch and shows him the proof that they haven't been rescued.  Sawyer swears and can't believe that she wasn't ribbing him.  Waking up in a bed, he would have sworn they had been saved.  They flirt a bit until Sawyer sees a big black horse.  Kate turns and sees it too, thankfully confirming that she is not as crazy as she thought.  She approaches and pets the horse before it walks off.  Sawyer asks her if she knows it and she says yes.

  At the beach, Jack brings Ana-Lucia a drink to recreate their meeting.  She asks if he is going to try to convince her that everyone doesn't hate her.  He replies, "Only if you're going to try to convince me that every woman is not crazy."

  In the hatch, Locke and Eko watch the Orientation Film: Special Edition, complete with extended bonus features and deleted scenes.  The missing piece warns against using the computer for anything but entering the code.  Using it to communicate with the outside world compromises the integrity of the project and could lead to another "incident".  Anyone who has ever seen a disaster movie knows that as soon as this crucial information is learned, someone is going to violate it.  And Michael does.  The computer beeps at him with a message "Hello?"  He answers back and says that he is Michael.  The shocking reply to that is "Dad?"

Next time on LOST: Eko prays and the security monster returns.