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OBS RECAPS & REVIEWS: LOST S6 - EPISODE 3: 'WHAT KATE DOES'
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Recap
Last week left off with Sayid seemingly rising from the dead as everyone looked on in shock. After his reawakening, the American with glasses quickly tells Dogen that Sayid is alive. Sayid asks what happen to him and Jack tells him that he died. Kate and Sawyer huddle by the doorway to the entrance to the Spring, Kate is in disbelief, while Sawyer’s only thought is to plan his escape.
Back to the alternate reality, Kate rushes out of the airport and is in the taxicab, holding the driver at gunpoint, with Claire in the back seat. After they exit the airport, at the next available stop light, the cabbie jumps out forcing Kate to take the wheel. Kate demands Claire’s wallet and tells her to get out of the cab without the option of taking her things in the trunk.
Jin, Jack and Hurley bring Sayid outside the temple and Sayid asks who are all the other people. Hurley informs him it’s the Others and they caught them, again. Jack points out his gunshot wound is almost completely healed. Dogen emerges and requests Sayid’s presence in private but Jack is against it and wants to come with them. He wants to know who they are and why they are being held there. They assure him all his questions will be answered after they speak with Sayid. Again, Jack puts up a fight, and this time Sawyer comes to his rescue, with his own intentions in mind. Holding a gun at Dogen from a far, he tells everyone he blowing the popsicle stand and escapes by himself.
Two of the Others come over and try to calm the situation, with a loud mouth one holding a gun to Jack’s head. The American asks where Sawyer went to, but Jack has no idea. He tells the Losties that Sawyer’s presence with them is crucial, so Kate and Sun volunteer to track him and bring him back, along with the two of the Others as ‘guards’.
Kate drives to an auto repair shop and threatens the mechanic to help her with the removal of her handcuffs. The mechanic feels a soft spot for Kate for some reason and assists her willingly and allows her to use the bathroom to change. While Kate opens Claire’s bag to look for clothes, she sees a picture of a pregnant Claire and all these baby items in the bag. Kate reflects on what she has done.
Kate, Jin, and the two Others gear up for their trek to find Sawyer. The loud mouth one quips to Kate that she better not slow them down. Before they leave, Kate and Jack share a tender moment and he tells her to be careful.
Sayid is flat on a table with his head strapped down. Dogen blows a black power dust over Sayid’s body while Sayid is begging to know what is going on. Dogen then takes an electric shocking device hooks it up to Sayid’s body and proceeds to shock him. As if that weren’t enough, Dogen then pick up a branding iron and brands his skin close to the location of his gunshot wound. After finishing, he is released and the American tells him they did this to him as a test and that he has passed. Sayid is escorted out of the room, as the American says matter of fact to Dogen that he just lied to Sayid.
Kate arrives back to the location she threw Claire out of the taxi and Claire is waiting for a bus. Kate returns Claire’s bags to her then asks where she is headed. Claire explains she was supposed to be picked up at the airport by the adoptive parents of her baby and that is where she is headed. Kate offers to drive her there.
As the two Others, Kate and Jin, trek through the jungle, loud mouth keeps cutting off his fellow Other when he tries answering any questions that Jin poses. The helpful Other notices a trap and stops Kate from springing it. Jin comments it looks like one of Rousseau’s traps and the quiet Other says she has been dead for years; it could not have been hers. Loud mouth tells him to shut up. Kate has had enough of loud mouth at this point, especially when he admits they know each other from three years prior when she knocked him out with a rifle. At this juncture Kate uses this opportunity to use the trap against the Others, rendering them unconscious.
At the temple, Sayid is brought back to the Spring and Hurley calls Jack over. Sayid explains what they have done to him. Jack goes to have a little chat with Dogen.
Dogen is concocting a mixture with a mortar and pestle as Jack walks in. The American explains Sayid is sick and is infected and they need Jack to give Sayid a pill to help him so it does not spread. It will only work if Sayid takes it willingly and this is why Jack needs to give it to him. Dogen starts speaking English to Jack and questions how Sayid got shot. As it turns out, Jack is responsible for a lot of deaths due to people helping him, and Dogen tells him giving Sayid the pill is a way of redeeming himself.
Jack returns to Sayid after his discussions with Dogen and the American. He requests a private moment with Sayid, so Hurley and Miles leave them to it. Jack explains the pill and Sayid tells Jack he will only take the pill if Jack tells him to.
After walking in the jungle for some time, Jin realizes Kate has no intention of going back to the temple. Jin is more focused on finding Sun and Kate on finding Sawyer so they part ways.
Claire and Kate are in the taxi driving to Brentwood to the adoptive parents home. Once they arrive, a woman answers the door and explains to Claire that her husband left her and she can no longer adopt Claire’s baby, she cannot do it on her own. Claire suddenly feels contractions.
Kate is walking past the playground at the Dharma Initiative housing area and finds Sawyer in his old house ripping up floorboards to find a shoe box. She watches him silently as he opens it and finds something of Juliet’s. She steps backward and the floor creaks. He rushes out the room to see who it is and asks her why she came. She tells him she was worried about him and he just walks away.
Kate and Claire arrive at the hospital and Claire is admitted. A nurse is checking Claire and Kate steps out into the hall to grab a doctor. The doctor she grabs is none other than Ethan, who introduces himself as Dr. Goodspeed. After checking Claire, he tells her she is at 36 weeks and 3 centimeters dilated. He asks if she is ready to have the baby now. She is not. Suddenly there is a complication that shows on the monitor with the baby and she yells out to please save her baby, save her Aaron. After a few moments the crisis passes, the baby is fine.
Sitting on the dock by the Dharma Initiative, Sawyer tells Kate it is his fault that Juliet is dead. He made her stay on the island with him so he wouldn’t be alone. In his hand is a ring he was going to give to her when he asked her to marry him. He throws the ring in the water and walks off, leaving Kate on the dock. Feeling Sawyer’s pain, she begins to cry.
Jack comes to talk with Dogen again. This time they are alone, without the American as an interpreter. Dogen is turning a baseball in rotations on his desk. Jack tells him he did not give the pill to Sayid for he wants to know what is in it. Dogen plays coy and tells him there is no time he just needs to trust him. Jack tests him and swallows the pill. Dogen immediately rushes over to Jack to make him heave up the pill as he explains that the pill is poison.
Claire is looking at an ultrasound picture of Aaron when detectives walk in. They question the whereabouts of a Joan Hart. Claire tells them that yes, the taxi driver was there, she brought her in, but she left. Kate is hiding behind a closed door within the room and overhears the conversation. Kate comes out and thanks Claire. Claire thanks her for her help as well and gives Kate her credit card.
By the Dharma homes, Kate is crouched getting some water from a pipe as Sawyer passes behind her and heads inside his old home. She looks up sees him and then gets up herself and walks away.
Inside Dogen’s room, the American is shocked that Jack swallowed the pill. Dogen gives Jack some tea. Dogen explains that sooner or later a dark force will take over Sayid body till Sayid is no longer Sayid. Jack questions how he can be so sure. Dogen explains that he has seen it happen once already…with his sister.
Jin is about to take a drink of water from a stream when the two Others that Kate attacked before, jump him from behind. They question where Kate is. The loud one named Aldo threatens to kill Jin. The quiet one tells him he can’t, he’s one of ‘them’. Aldo says he may be one of them. Jin turns to run, but then gets his leg caught in a trap. Aldo lifts his gun to shoot Jin, when Aldo is suddenly shot, as is the quiet one. A fuzz of blonde hair is seen looking at Jin. Jin looks up and sees…an extremely disheveled Claire. When he calls her name she looks at him in wonderment.
Review
I will be writing the Lost reviews as a flowing thought process and question format, because it’s Lost and there’s no other way, at least in my book.
While episodes one and two were full speed ahead, episode three brought in the reigns and slowed things down immensely. Sayid and what he really is and Kate and what she does, were the main character storylines, with no hint of Locke, Ben, Jacob or any monsters. Or were there monsters? How about Sayid? It was made obvious Sayid is no longer Sayid, or won’t be for much longer.
It is interesting how Kate and Claire’s lives intertwine in the alternate reality, both helping one another. Do you think their path together in this reality has ended? Was Claire was meant to keep the baby all along? Or did the island change that?
Dogen tells Jack that the pill will only work if Sayid takes it out of trust for the person who gives it to him. When Jack tells Sayid about the pill, it is strange how Sayid was on the same exact page and was willing to take the pill from Jack because he trusted him. This means something in the grand scope of things but I can’t quite place my finger on it. Does anyone else have any ideas?
Trust was a main theme in this episode. Claire’s trust of Kate to get back in the taxi cab with her, Sayid and Jack with the pill, and even Dogen and Jack in relation to the pill. Will Jack trust Sayid after learning he will be changing?
Since Jack swallowed the pill, what exactly will happen to Jack now?
Who are Dogen and the Others? When will we find out their purpose? If they are the good guys why the heck are they so mean to the Losties?
What will Sawyer do? He can't stay in the empty Dharma house? What path do you forsee for Sawyer?
Finally Claire is back. But is it really Claire? It seems that something more than Jacob and the Man in Black is inhabiting bodies on this island.
Items shown:
When Kate when into the back room of the auto repair shop, there was a ragged note attached to a wall on the right side that read, “Don’t forget to finish”. As we all know, things are always placed in Lost for a reason. Could this mean don’t forget to finish what was started? Or could this be me just grasping at things that really don’t matter? What do you think?
The more Lost treks forward the more new questions arise. Time is running out, next week is episode four. They better stop it with the twenty questions or we’ll end up with a finale like X Files where nothing was really answered. And if that happens people across America will have to run to Best Buy to purchase new TV’s the next day, because we’ll have all thrown them across the room.
What are your thoughts about this episode? What questions do you have? Did you see anything worth mentioning that struck you as something that could be considered a clue?
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