Watching Lost

For the first time in three seasons, I loved the Kate-centric episode so much, it truly has moved me to tears. It hit close to me and was so well-executed.

Kate’s story opens with a scene from the barracks. Locke is serving breakfast for Ben, whom he has locked away in the basement. Although Ben seems to be the weaker person here, he is so good at getting to Locke and starts by telling him that Locke has no idea what to do anymore and that he’s “more lost than he’s ever been”. Upset by what Ben just said, Locke leaves him and throws away his breakfast at the wall.

Upstairs, Sawyer tells Kate he is welcome to bunk with him and mentions something about Kate’s possible pregnancy bugging her. But Kate would hear none of it and tells Sawyer to go back to his house.

While at the beach, as Sun and Jin make plans for their future once they leave the island, Jack and Juliet arrive with Daniel and Charlotte and told everyone Desmond and Sayid are on the chopper back to the freighter. Sun notices Kate is gone and asks Jack. He only told her Kate has decided to stay with Locke.

Kate is seeking Locke’s permission to see Miles but Locked refuses, prompting Kate to say it’s as if there’s a dictatorship over at Team Locke. When she couldn’t get his permission, Kate tries to trick Hurley into telling her where Miles is locked up, but promises he won’t let him go. All Kate wanted to ask Miles was if he knows who she is and what she has done off the island. Miles promised her he would tell what he knows provided she gives him one minute with Ben.

Kate tells Sawyer this and hatches the plan to bring Miles at the basement to Ben. While there, Miles tells Ben he is willing to lie to his boss if Ben is willing to pay him $3.2 Million. When his minute was up, Kate leads him outside and now demands to tell her what he knows about her. So, Miles tells her that she is still wanted by the FBI for the crimes she has committed.

All the while Sawyer was with Locke and was playing backgammon with him. Eventually, he confesses to Kate’s plans and they reach them just in time and Locke is clearly mad at Kate for this. Later on, he tells her he wants her gone by the morning, but not before asking her what the whole Ben and Miles businesses was about.

Kate goes to Sawyer’s house and lets him know Locke is asking her to leave. Sawyer lets her stay the night in bed with him. But apparently nothing has happened. Sawyer again insisted this was probably because of the pregnancy, but Kate is sure she is not with child. An argument takes place between them and Sawyer tells Kate that she will surely come around after a week, when she finds something to be pissed at Jack.

Meanwhile, Locke has Miles tied and locked up again. And worse, he’s got a live grenade in between his mouth, which Locke shoved in him. The only thing that’s stopping the grenade from explosing is if Miles grits his teeth tightly at it.

Back at the beach, Jack has been trying to reach the freighter through the satellite phone and Charlotte helps him by dialling the emergency number. Regina answers this but was surprised to learn the chopper was not in the island. Now, no one knows what happened to Desmond, Sayid and Frank.

KATE’S FLASH FORWARD

After getting off the island, Kate becomes the “most recognizable face in America” and is now on trial for the crimes she has committed. Her own mother is the prosecution’s primary witness. Kate’s lawyer tells her they did not do very well during the opening statement so he calls Jack to stand as character witness. The lawyer wanted to save her case by showing the jury the person she is, not the crimes she has committed. Initially he wanted Kate’s son to be present in court to establish this, but Kate didn’t agree with it.

Jack’s testimony was almost accurate, except that he lied and said there were only eight who survived, whom Kate tried to save in the island. Kate interrupts his testimony saying she would like to hear none of it, as it had nothing to do with her trial. The prosecution only wanted to ask one thing — if Jack loved Kate and he replies that he doesn’t love her anymore.

Later, Kate’s mother seeks her in private and tells her that she is refusing to testify against her. She also tells her she wants to see her grandson, to which Kate so sternly did not agree with.
Because the prosecution lost their witness and it was established to the jury that Kate committed murder only to save her mother from her abusive father, they offer Kate ten years in probation, which means she cannot leave California during that time. Kate takes the deal saying she has no plans of leaving because she’s raising her son there.

Now free from the trial, Kate leaves the court house and encounters Jack outside, who told her that he didn’t mean it when he said he doesn’t love her anymore. She invites him to see her son but Jack says he would instead like to have coffee with her. Kate tells him that until he doesn’t see the little boy, they won’t be having any coffee.

Once Kate is back in her beautiful house, she immediately goes to her son’s room. As soon as he wakes up, Kate cries and greets him with “Hi, Aaron.”

Thought bubbles…

• Why the need to lie about the eight survivors?
• Obviously, Jack is ridden with guilt so he refuses to see a baby as harmless as Aaron.
• Why is Aaron a lot bigger? Like 2 years bigger? Did the trial happen years after? How long has it been since they last left the island then?
• It looks like Hurley has gained a few pounds while in the bunkers. Must be great to live there.
• I don’t know how to identify with take-control Locke yet. It seems he is in control, but he lost it with that grenade. When he starts losing it, he gets pretty violent.
• Intrigued by Miles and his greed. He’s almost as conniving as Ben. Well not nearly, no one is as conniving as Ben but he could sure team up with Ben. And rule the island. Or the world.
• Loving Kate’s house.
• What does EggTown mean? Lostpedia cites the connection: Egg-town is a pejorative term that refers to the days of bartering, during the Great Depression. A traveling salesman would have to barter his candy or tobacco or shoelaces for different commodities. A poor exchange would be for eggs, a relatively common item that is also highly perishable. Nobody wants to trade for eggs from a traveling salesman because they have their own, so the salesman who accepted an egg in exchange was forced to accept a bad deal. Salesmen would use the term like “If I were you I would stay away from Bogart. That’s an egg-town.” Of course, the lack of trust among salesman was also high, and it was likely that one salesman would lie to another about the quality of a town’s customers to keep them for himself. Invariably, the second salesman ventures into to Bogart only to find it is truly an egg-town. He is either persuaded to not visit a town that has good customers or is tricked into visiting a town that can only offer eggs. The term “egg-town” represents a deal with undesirable outcomes in either case

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