Summary
We open with Kate still being held in the
Other's rec room. She sees Juliet approaching the door
and attacks her with a pool cue. Juliet quickly disarms
Kate who ends up on the floor with the wind knocked out
of her. Juliet tells her she was just bringing her something
to eat, then leaves. Kate's sandwich rests on the floor
among broken bits of plate.
Flash back. Kate's car is getting towed.
The mechanic tells her that it'll take two to three days
to fix her fan belt ("Welcome to Iowa"). Kate
introduces herself as Lucy. At the repair shop, she overhears
Cassidy (whom we met in "The Long Con") trying
to sell fake necklaces. She isn't nearly as good at it
as Sawyer was, and her target threatens to call the police.
Kate doesn't want any part of the police showing up. She
asks to see the necklaces, tells the irate customer that
her father is a jeweler and she thinks she can spot a fake,
then agrees to pay $60 for one of Cassidy's fakes. The
mark loses interest and disgustedly walks off. When everyone
else is out of ear shot, Kate quickly asks for her money
back. Cassidy correctly guesses that Kate didn't help her
out of the goodness of her heart, and offers to drive Kate
into town if Kate will buy her a drink.
Locke visits Kate in the rec room. He tells
her that he's leaving with the Others. He says he made
a strong case for her to come with them, and that he told
them that she was a good, strong, reliable, honest person.
They told him about who she was and what she'd done and
that was pretty much that. Kate tells him that he can't
trust them if they've told him they'll take him home. He
admits that he doesn't want to go home. He tells her that
Jack and Sayid are also being left behind, then leaves.
On the beach, Hurley tells Sawyer that after
what happened with Nikki and Paolo, there's been talk of
banishing Sawyer from camp. There's a vote on it scheduled
for the next day. He tells Sawyer that there may still
be time for him to make amends and sway the vote. Sawyer
isn't interested.
Outside the rec room, Kate sees the Others
quickly packing up their gear and donning gas masks. Someone
tosses a gas canister into the rec room and locks the doors
behind him. Kate fights to get out, but is soon overcome
by the gas.
Flash back to a bar. Kate and Cassidy chat.
Kate again introduces herself as Lucy. Cassidy asks, "what's
your real name," then catches Kate when she hesitates.
Kate isn't interested in giving up her real name, but Cassidy
only has to ask once before Kate spills the beans about
killing her step-father (that's the step-father that's
really her father, but not her father. With me?) because
"he was a bad man." Kate is in town because she
wants to talk to her mother. Cassidy
points out how difficult that's going to be, since the
cops will have her under surveillance 24/7, but she agrees
to help Kate accomplish her goal. Why? Because Cassidy
fell in love with and got conned out of her life savings
by "a bad man," and one of them deserves for
something good to happen.
Kate awakens from the gas to find herself
in the jungle. She also finds that she's handcuffed to
Juliet, who has yet to regain consciousness.
Sawyer tries his hand at fishing, since
he'll have to feed himself if he's banished. He sees Sun
and Jin working a fishing net and smiling. Sun's smile
vanishes when she sees Sawyer. No surprise since Sun learned
that Sawyer was behind her "kidnapping." Obviously he can't
count on their vote. After finally catching a fish, he
grosses himself out trying to gut it.
Sawyer runs into Hurley. His experience
with the fish has made him more receptive to the idea
of making amends. He's ready to "spread the love."
Juliet wakes and seems just as surprised
as Kate to find herself in their situation. Kate tries
to pick the lock on the handcuffs with Juliet's pocket
knife, but no luck. She tells Juliet that they're going
back. Juliet asks why they would go back when "they did
this to us." Kate reminds Juliet that until moments ago
she was one of them. Kate wants to go back because Jack
and Sayid were probably gassed, too, and the Others have
left.
Cassidy dress like Kate, including wearing
a wig, and knocks on Kate's mother's door. Diane answers
and immediately cops swarm the area. The marshal orders
Cassidy to the ground, still thinking it's Kate. Cassidy
uses the cover story of selling bibles door to door and
is eventually released. She's proven her point, though,
this isn't going to be easy. And if Cassidy is going to
lie to federal agents so that Kate can talk to her mom,
she wants to know why.
Kate gives Cassidy the Reader's Digest version
of what happened. Wayne used to beat her mother, so Kate
took out an insurance policy on Wayne's house in her mother's
name, then she blew up Wayne's house with him inside, making
it look like an accident. Kate's mother gave her up to
the police, choosing Wayne over her. She wants to talk
to her mother so that she can find out why she was betrayed.
Kate and Juliet walk through the jungle
at night. Kate wonders out loud why they'd handcuff the
two of them together and leave them out in the jungle.
Juliet tells her that Ben has a thing for mind games.
It starts to rain. Juliet tells Kate that she hopes Kate
isn't going back for Jack, because she was standing there
when Jack told Kate not to come back for her. She starts
to say that Kate ruined his chance to go home, and Kate
punches her in the face. The two wrestle in the mud until
Kate dislocates Juliet's shoulder. Then they hear the resident
island monster approaching, and they run.
Kate and Juliet find a stand of trees to
hide in. Juliet starts to ask what it is they're running
from and Kate covers Juliet's mouth to silence her. Old
Smokey seems to zero in on Juliet. We see a blinding flash
of light focus on Juliet three times, then the monster
retreats. Juliet asks, "are we safe?" Kate responds, "you
tell me."
Sawyer has started his sway-the-vote tour.
Hurley has him start by giving Claire a blanket for Aaron.
Kate helps Juliet get her shoulder back
into place after Juliet fills her in on why Jack told her
not to come back for him. Kate thought Jack did it to protect
her. She tells Kate about the cameras on the cages, and
that Jack saw her and Sawyer together. Jack told her not
to come back because she broke his heart.
The next phase of Sawyer's atonement finds
him hunting for boar with Desmond. Desmond wonders why
Sawyer suddenly wants to be his hunting partner after not
saying more than three words to him the rest of the time
he's been with the group. Sawyer says he has hearts and
minds to change, and since money's worthless on the island,
he's going to give them something they actually want, like
meat.
Cassidy poses as a customer in the diner
where Diane is a waitress. She spills soup on Diane so
that she'll have to go in back to clean up. As Diane starts
to get the soup out of her shirt, Kate lets herself in
the back entrance. Kate finally gets to ask her question.
She wants to know why Diane told the police what she did
to Wayne. Diane had hoped Kate was there to apologize.
Kate, of course, isn't sorry at all. She explains that
Wayne hit her and treated her like dirt. Diane says you
can't help who you love, and despite everything else, she
loved Wayne, and Kate murdered him in cold blood.
Kate says that she did it for Diane. Diane
tells Kate that she did it for herself. Because Kate is
her daughter, she won't tell the two agents at the counter
that Kate is there, but if she ever sees Kate again, the
first thing she'll do is yell for help.
Back in the jungle, Kate asks if Jack said
in as many words that she'd broken his heart. Juliet tells
her that Jack didn't have to. Kate tries to tell Juliet
that she doesn't know anything about Jack. As a matter
of fact, she knows quite a bit, like his parents' names,
what they did for a living, that Jack was married, who
he was married to, why he got a divorce, how Jack's father
died, Jack's height, weight, and blood type. Juliet throws
it back on Kate, asking what she knows about Jack. Kate
doesn't have a reply for that.
They take a few steps in silence, then they
hear Old Smokey again. They run until they reach the electronic
fence around the Others' compound. Kate wants to run around
the fence. Juliet tries to tell Kate that the fence is
turned off. Kate won't go through. Juliet pulls out a key
and unlocks the handcuffs, freeing herself from Kate. Juliet
opens a control box on the side of one of the fence pylons,
revealing an on/off switch for the fence. She convinces
Kate to come on her side of the fence, then turns the fence
on. Smokey runs into the electronic barrier, but can't
get through and retreats.
Kate is furious. Juliet explains that they
don't know what Smokey is, but they know that it doesn't
like their fence. Kate is more upset that Juliet had a
key to the handcuffs. Juliet explains that she got gassed,
too, and then got left behind by people she's spent the
last three years of her life with. She hoped that if she
could make Kate think that they were in this situation
together, she wouldn't be left behind again.
On the beach, the boar that Desmond shot
is roasting and people seem to be in a partying mood. Charlie
is certainly enjoying the meal. Sawyer tells Charlie that
he hopes he remembers this later at the meeting. Charlie
doesn't know anything about a meeting, much less a vote.
Sawyer confronts Hurley, who admits that
there never was going to be a vote. Sawyer thinks it was
one of the lamest cons in the history of cons. Hurley explains
that if Sawyer is going to be their temporary leader (and
with Jack, Locke, Kate and Sayid missing, who else could?),
he's got to do some fence mending first. With Sawyer's
efforts, he's made everyone happy, at least for a day.
Well, almost everyone. Sun's still giving him the evil
eye.
Juliet and Kate finally make it back to
Kamp Krazy. Juliet goes off to find Sayid while Kate finds
Jack. She wakes him and apologizes for screwing everything
up. Once again, she's tried to help someone that didn't
need her help. She tells him that the Others have all left.
Jack asks, "Juliet, too?" Kate tells him they left her
behind. What next? "Now we go back."
Flash back. Kate's car is finally ready.
She thanks Cassidy and tells her she wants to help her
with the guy that stole her money. Cassidy's pregnant.
The baby belongs to the guy (Sawyer, but Cassidy never
names him). She won't call the police on him because she
loves him, and he'd never forgive her for calling the cops,
just as Kate will never forgive Diane for turning her in.
As she gets out of the car, Kate gives Cassidy her real
name.
Sayid tells Jack that he's checked all the
houses, and there's no trace of the Others. It's like they
vanished into thin air. Jack suggests taking whatever they
can find and heading back while they've still got light.
Sayid doesn't think Juliet should come with them. Jack
insists that she does. Why? Because they left her behind,
too.
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