Previously, on Lost: Well, there’s no previously this time, but check it out anyway.
“What Kate Did”
Jin is back, with Sun wrapped around his shoulders, and Hurley gives a nod of approval for his return as Sun notices Sayid digging a grave for Shannon out of the corner of her eye.
Jack is treating Sawyer, as Sawyer is mumbling to himself, managing to get “I love her” out, as Jack takes as a reference to Kate, who is off finding food for Sawyer.
Kate almost falls off a tree trying to get this food, but once she does reach solid ground, that she raises her head to notice a huge black horse in the distance. The horse then scampers away before Kate can do anything but rubberneck.
Flashback: A drunk redneck returns to Kate’s home and Kate takes him to bed. “What’s that smell?” The redneck keeps trying to get in her pants, but that doesn’t work as Kate leaves on a motorbike…as the house explodes into flames. Turns out that smell is natural gas. Kate arrives at a diner later, asking her mother for a beer before handing over an insurance policy on the house that she just took out before blowing it up. Kate’s mom is shocked as Kate makes a run for it, saying her final goodbyes.
In the hatch, Kate arrives with the food and offers to watch over Sawyer while everyone else is at Shannon’s funeral. Jack makes sure to remind Kate before leaving that she needs to press the button to reset the timer.
Ana-Lucia is trying to make a fire as Eko announces that he’s going to the funeral, but Ana-Lucia isn’t going, despite Eko trying to make her feel better by claiming that everyone there has to believe it was an accident.
At Shannon’s funeral, the survivors gather as Sayid says some last words and Jack begins the dumping of handfuls of dirt onto Shannon’s grave, as others follow suit.
A little bit of Patsy Cline plays as Kate goes back to Sawyer’s bedside, mashing some fruit for dinnertime, but Sawyer’s restlessness gets him possessed with the spirit of her dead stepfather Wayne, demanding to know why Kate killed him.
Locke and Jack arrive back at the hatch just in time for Locke to input the numbers and restart the timer, and for Jack to notice Sawyer face-down on the ground and Kate gone.
Kate’s out in the jungle as Charlie walks up to talk about what she missed at the funeral, but Kate isn’t listening and instead asks Charlie if he’s seen horses on the island. Charlie’s seen and heard a lot of things, but horses are not one of them. Kate just walks off to nowhere.
Flashback: Kate tries to get a bus ticket to Tallahassee, but the U.S. Marshal arrives and arrests Kate right there in the bus station, informing Kate that her mother turned her in.
Jack is looking for Kate, getting some clues from Charlie…
…as Michael takes a look at the blast doors in the hatch that come down in the case of an explosion. Locke doesn’t know anything about that, but does know about the film, and Michael and Eko both volunteer to watch it.
Jack finds Kate in the jungle and she flips out, crying into Jack’s arms, as he calms her and then Kate gets a little kissy with Jack, but that weirds her out even more as she runs off.
The Dharma movie plays, and when it’s done, Michael notes the splices in the movie, but Locke doesn’t see it as a big difference. Eko seems to be in silent mode, however.
Sayid arrives to find Kate at Shannon’s grave, apologizing for missing the funeral at Sawyer’s bedside, but then admitting that she’s kinda crazy as a reason for abandoning Sawyer now. Sayid confides in her that he saw Walt in the jungle before Shannon was murdered. Maybe she’s not so crazy after all.
Flashback: The marshall’s being a dick, and then he wants to know why he picked now as a time to kill Wayne. Kate makes it clear that Wayne never touched her, but that comment is followed up by the marshall swerving out of the way of a crossing horse, hitting a telephone pole as Kate fights the Marshal out of the car, as Kate backs up and has her headlights pointed at the horse. Kate drives off, bewildered.
Michael checks out the hardware for the computer, and then Eko wants to show Locke something. First he explains the story of Josiah, king of Judah. Story goes that Josiah’s secretary found the Old Testament in the place of gold to be used towards rebuilding a temple. Turns out that in the other hatch, they found another book with another film in it.
Jack’s chopping wood as Hurley arrives to ask why Jack would be the one chopping wood when Sawyer usually does it, and he’s usually angry. Is it transference? Jack denies being unhappy about anything, just chopping away.
Kate takes over for Sun watching Sawyer…
Flashback: As Kate arrives to talk with her dad at the U.S. Army Recruiting Station. Turns out that her father isn’t really her father, but it was actually poor Wayne. Kate’s “father” hated the fact that things turned out that way, but Kate’s mother loved him and he didn’t have murder in his heart. Kate gives her “father” a final hug before leaving to get a one-hour head start on her fake daddy calling the cops.
Kate watches Sawyer and then talks to Sawyer as Wayne, as Kate explains that she killed Wayne because he was a part of her, and everytime she thinks of Sawyer, or feels something for Sawyer, it makes her sick. But Sawyer is the one who appears to respond to this, waking up from his eternal slumber, wondering who the hell Wayne is.
Eko and Locke edit the film to add the splices, as Locke discusses how strange it is that both sides of the island had films, and it just happened to be nearby from where both sides of the plane crashed. Eko warns to not confuse coincidence for fate.
Sawyer thinks Kate’s ribbing her about them not being rescued until he sees the jungle outside. Then Sawyer sees the horse, too. Kate pets it and it then turns away again as Sawyer is stunned that Kate is acting normally around this horse.
Jack brings Ana-Lucia some tequilia, and they converse for a moment…
…as Locke and Eko watch the new film in the hatch. The splice adds a comment about not using the computer for anything other than inputting the code, as trying to use it as a means for outside communication may lead to another incident. But Michael is in the hatch, looking at that hardware but walking away from it to find a message on the monitor.
“Hello?”
“Hello?”
“Who is this?”
“This is Michael, who is this?”
“Dad?”
Uh-oh.
End episode.
