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209 - What Kate Did (A Kate Episode)

Mini Recap: Coming soon.


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A shirtless Jin comes out of his tent. Sun follows suit and snuggles against his back. Hurley exits his own tent and sees the two of them. He gives Jin the thumbs-up and Sun smiles. She turns her head and her smile fades as she watches Sayid dig out Shannon’s grave.

Jack’s in the hatch, changing Sawyer’s bandages. He apologizes to him, saying he knows it hurts. Michael told him he pulled the bullet out with his bare hands. He’ll have to show him how to do that sometime. Sawyer stirs and asks where she is in a whisper. What? Where is she? He means Kate, Jack realizes. She’s been watching over him for the past 24 hours straight. The only way he could get her to leave his side was to tell her to get him some fruit. Sawyer starts whispering again, this time saying he loves her. He loves her. Jack reseats himself in his chair with a disappointed look on his face. He loves her. He loves Kate.

Kate is gathering some fruit in the jungle. She drops some fruit and nearly falls out of the tree she’s in. She climbs down to safety and picks up the fallen food. When she stands up again, she sees a black horse standing in front of her, triggering a FLASHBACK to her sitting outside of a house, playing with a lighter. A truck pulls up, the country music blaring loudly from the radio, and a drunken man, Wayne, gets out. With slurred words, he greets Kate before falling into her on the porch steps. She helps him inside, clearly annoyed. They finally make it to the bed and she pushes him onto it. Wayne asks what a smell is. Probably his breath, she tells him. Yeah, right. She takes off his shoes and he tells her she’s beautiful. She says nothing. Hey! He just gave her a compliment. Yeah, she heard him. She puts a blanket on him. Isn’t she going to take his pants off first? He grabs her arm. She is beautiful. She jerks away and tells him goodnight. A few minutes later, Kate exits the house and gets on a motorcycle. She hesitates briefly before riding off, leaving the house to explode behind her.

Kate enters a coffee shop. Diane, the waitress, asks her if she wants coffee, pie, or both. How about a beer? She’d like to see some I.D. She’s 24, Ma. If she wants to ride around on that deathtrap of hers without a helmet, she’s not going to help her cause by getting her drunk. How’s that wrist? Diane hides her wrist. The shelf in the kitchen sticks out sometimes, she says. She still doesn’t remember it’s there. She banged it. Don’t. She made her bed, Katherine. Well, her bed’s gone. What? Kate hands her mother an envelope. What’s this? An insurance policy for the house. What? She never—Kate took it out in Diane’s name. What did she do? Does Wayne know about this? Kate stands up. Just remember that she was here and she never saw her. Katherine. What did she do? She took care of her. She’s got to go and Diane’s not going to see her for a while. Kate hugs her mom and walks out of the coffee house with tears in her eyes.

Kate returns from her fruit gathering to find Jack sitting in the hatch. He asks her if she’s okay. Yeah, yeah, she’s just—she’s just a bit tired. How is Sawyer? His fever’s still up there. He can’t tell if the antibiotics are working. It’ll help to get some food in him. She should get down to the beach, for—for Shannon. She was actually thinking that she could stay and watch Sawyer. He’ll stay with him. Jack should be there. He finally nods. Keep him hydrated—maybe mash up some of his fruit and see if he’ll eat it. And everybody will be at the beach, so don’t forget about the button. She’s got it. He’ll be back in a couple of hours. She sure she’s okay? Yeah. She’s fine.

Ana bangs a stake into the ground as Eko approaches her. She greets him and he tells her he’s going to the funeral. She doesn’t think she can make it. He looks at her. Most of them realize it was an accident, Ana. She bangs the stake again.

The castaways—Libby, Bernard, and Eko included—stand before the grave dug out for Shannon. Sayid stands next to the hole, attempting to speak to the group. He and Shannon were strangers, he says. They would never have met if—they wouldn’t even have spoken if—but they did meet and they did speak. He tries to hold back the tears. At least—he loved her. Finally, he runs off without another word. Breaking the awkward silence, Jack steps forward and grabs a clump of dirt to pour on Shannon’s grave. Locke, Sun, and Claire and Aaron follow suit. May she rest in peace.

In the hatch, Kate puts a Pasty Cline record on. She starts talking to Sawyer despite him being unconscious. She mashes up him fruit and says he’s going to get a kick out of her feeding him like a baby when he wakes up. She saw a horse. Yeah, that’s what happens when she doesn’t sleep. Sawyer starts to stir and whisper. She goes to him and asks him if he’s awake. He whispers again, but she doesn’t know what he’s saying. She leans in close to figure it out. What? Suddenly, his eyes flash open and he grabs her by the throat. Why did she kill him? Why did she kill him?

The record needle lifts up as the Patsy Cline record comes to an end. The alarm is going off when Jack and Locke come in. Immediately, Locke runs to the computer while Jack calls out for Kate. He finds Sawyer on the floor by the bunk bed. Meanwhile, Locke hurriedly types in the numbers. 4 8 15 16 22—gah. 23 42. The timer resets as it hits five seconds. Jack lifts Sawyer back onto the bed when Locke comes in, asking him what happened. He doesn’t know. Well, he said—he doesn’t know. Where’s Kate?

Charlie finds Kate in the jungle. He greets her and awkwardly states that she missed the funeral. Yeah, she was with Sawyer. Oh. A few of them came—the new people. Not the one that killed Shannon—that would have been a bit awkward. They seem to have had a rough time of it. It looks like they went bloody ‘Lord of the Flies’ out there. Kate stops walking and stares into the distance. She hasn’t been listening to a word he’s said, has she? Does he think there are horses there? What? She thinks she saw a horse in the jungle. He’s seen polar bears. He’s seen monsters—well, heard monsters. But horses? No. Kate determinedly walks off.

FLASHBACK. Kate is in a bus station buying a ticket. Tallahassee, one-way, please. Tallahassee? A guy in line behind her starts talking. He spent a week in Tallahassee once. It’s nothing but strip malls and waffle houses. What’s a girl like her doing in Tallahassee? She’s sure she’ll find something. He bets she’s got family down there, huh? Actually, she’s just visiting. She turns to look at the man. It’s the marshal. Hey, doesn’t he know her? She looks around and spots several men—agents—throughout the bus station. No, she doesn’t think so. She starts to leave. He tells her not to run. She punches him a couple of times and he slams her down into the ticket stand, cuffing her. Kate Austen, you’re under arrest for murder. She didn’t do anything. Uh-huh. Yeah she did. Her mama gave her up.

Charlie plays his guitar on the beach as Jack enters. He asks him if he’s seen Kate. Yeah, a little while ago in the jungle. She was acting odd, asking him about horses on the island. Does he know where she is now? She’s on the path heading back to the caves. Everything okay? Yeah, Charlie. Everything’s fine.

Using some bolt cutters, Locke cuts the handcuff off of Jin’s wrist. He shakes his hand and thanks him. Free at last, huh? Jin leaves and shows Michael his wrist on the way out. Looks good, he tells him. He starts examining a metal strip at the top of the doors. He asks Locke what the blast doors are for. Blast doors? Yeah, like in case of an explosion, they come down from the ceiling. That guy down there—Desmond? Yeah, Desmond. He didn’t tell him about those—what they’re for? No, he didn’t. But he did leave a movie. A movie? Yeah. He want to see it? Suddenly, Eko appears out of nowhere. He would like to see it to, he says, if Locke doesn’t mind. He smiles. The more the merrier.

Kate sits in the jungle biting her nails and staring into space. Jack comes across her and asks her what she’s doing out there. What happened in the hatch? Why’d she leave? He comes back—he finds Sawyer on the ground. She just took off—is he okay? Yeah, he’s fine. She’s sorry. Is she? Yeah. She’s sorry. She’s sorry she’s not as perfect as Jack. She’s sorry that she’s not as good. What’s going on with her? Just forget it. She starts to walk off but he grabs her arm, telling her not to walk away from him. She starts struggling and he grabs her. Don’t! She’s got... She breaks down in his arms and starts to cry. It’s okay, he tells her. It’s okay. Please, she says. This place is crazy. It’s just—she can’t—it’s driving her nuts. He knows. It’s okay. It’s alright. It’s alright. Suddenly, she kisses him. A few moments later, she jerks away, looks at him with a confused face, and runs off into the jungle.

Locke, Michael, and Eko finish watching the film. So, they’ve been pushing a button every two hours since they got down there? That’s right. How does that even work? He set up two person shifts every six hours. Everyone’s on the roster. Don’t they want to know why? He thinks the film is pretty self-explanatory. Really? All he heard was something about some electromagnets and an incident. What about all the missing pieces? Oh, the splices? Just a frame here and there, he thinks—nothing important. He turns to Eko. What does he think about the film? He says nothing but instead stands and exits.

Kate sits teary at Shannon’s grave. Sayid finds her and she apologizes for missing it—the funeral. She had to be with Sawyer, so... Why isn’t she with him now? Because she’s going crazy. She asks him if he believes in ghosts. He saw Walt in the jungle just before Shannon was shot, he tells her. Does that make him crazy?

FLASHBACK. A handcuffed Kate rides shotgun with the marshal on a rainy night. It’s a long ride back to the arraignment, he tells her. She comfy? He laughs. Why now? What? Nice, corn fed farm girl like her—no history of violence, straight A's, no record, couple of speeding tickets. He’s just got to wonder, why'd she kill him now? She says nothing. Oh, right, yeah, don't tell him. She wouldn't want to incriminate herself, not after she were so smart planning it. That jury back in Iowa sure ain't going to get hung up on pre-meditation. And a gas leak! Come on, it's amateur hour from top to bottom. Sounds like he’s got it all figured out, she says. He does have it all figured out. He doesn’t know anything about her. White trash mom divorces dad, starts up with some guy who's a drinker. He knocks her around a little bit, she marries him, because, you know, that's what happens. And then this drunk, this Wayne, he moves into her house, and she gets to lie there every night and listen to him doing her mom right there in daddy's old bedroom. And even that wouldn't be so bad if he didn't beat her up all the time. But she loves him. She defends him. If that don't make a person want to kill somebody he don't know what does. But the question is now, why now? Why after all these years did she just decide to blow poor Wayne up? He come knocking on her door late at night? He never touched her. Suddenly, a black horse appears in the road—the same as the one Kate saw in the jungle—and the marshal crashes the car into a pole. He gets knocked out and Kate grabs the keys to her cuffs. He regains consciousness and tries to stop her, but she kicks him out of the car and starts driving off. She stares at the horse before it trots off.

In the hatch, Michael asks Locke why he can’t just put the numbers in now. It doesn’t work that way, he says. The alarm goes off at four minutes—until then, nobody can type anything. He presses random keys to show that nothing appears on the screen. He mind if Michael checks out some the hardware? Sure. Just don’t break it. He walks to the kitchen and finds Eko sitting at the table. He greets him and Eko does the same. He tells him he has something he thinks Locke should see. If he doesn’t mind, he will begin at the beginning. Long before Christ, the king of Judah was a man named Josiah. Boy, when he says beginning, he means beginning, Locke mutters. At that time, the temple where the people worshipped was in ruin. And so the people worshipped idols—false gods. And so the kingdom was in disarray. Josiah, since he was a good king, sent his secretary to the treasury and said: "We must rebuild the temple. Give all of the gold to the workers so that this will be done." But when the secretary returned, he had no gold. And when Josiah asked why this was the secretary replied, "We found a book." Does he know this story? No, he’s afraid he doesn’t. What the secretary had found was an ancient book—the Book of Law. He may know it as the Old Testament. And it was with that ancient book, not with the gold, that Josiah rebuilt the temple. On the other side of the island, they found a place much like this, and in this place they found a book. Eko unwraps the Bible from the Arrow station and pushes it towards Locke. He believes what’s inside there will be of great value to him. Locke opens the book to find a square cut out of the middle, inside of which is a rolled up piece of film. He lifts it up and points it to the fake sunlight. There, on the slides, is the face of Dr. Candle.

Hurley approaches Jack as he chops wood in the jungle. He greets him and gets no response. So... Rose’s husband’s white. Didn’t see that one coming. Is there something he needs? No, just taking a walk, thought he’d say hey. Who’s taking care of Sawyer? Sun is. So, he’s, like, mad at him? Why would he be mad at Sawyer? Maybe because he’s the one that always comes down there and chops wood and now Jack is? It’s, like, transference. What, is he a shrink now? Well, that’s what they call it in the mental hospital. He’s not mad at anyone.

Sun is in the hatch with Sawyer. Kate enters and asks where Jack is. She doesn’t know. He didn’t come back. Has he said anything? Sawyer? No, he’s still sleeping. Can she watch him? Kate is silent. She can stay with—yeah, she can. Sun thanks her and leaves.

FLASHBACK. Kate enters a recruiting office and stands in front of the desk of an older looking man. On the tv in the corner, unbeknownst to Kate, Sayid’s face appears on the screen briefly. The man sees Kate standing in front of his desk and tells whoever he’s talking to on the phone he’ll call them back. He hangs up. Hi dad, she says. The police and the U.S. Marshals are looking for her. She shouldn’t have come there. She’s been waiting outside for two hours. They’re not there. Is it true what they’re saying? She doesn’t answer. Katie... what’d she come there for? Why didn’t he tell her? Tell her what? She was making a scrapbook—a surprise for his birthday. So she called one of his COs to get some pictures of him in uniform. The pictures had dates on the back—photos of him in Korea up until four months before she was born. Why didn’t he tell her that Wayne was her father? Why? He didn’t tell her because he knew she’d kill him. And her mother loved him. She was five years old. He wanted to take her along with him. She wouldn’t let him. So why didn’t he kill him? Because he doesn’t have murder in his heart. He’s going to have to call them, he says. Can she have an hour? He nods and Kate hugs him. Bye, Daddy.

Kate approaches Sawyer in the hatch. She sits beside his bed and asks if he can hear her. Sawyer? He doesn’t move. Wayne? He stirs. She’s probably crazy and this doesn’t matter, she says, but maybe he’s in there somehow. But he asked her a question. He asked her why she—why she did it. It wasn’t because he drove her father away, or the way he looked at her, or because he beat her. It’s because she hated that he was a part of him—that he would never be good, that she would never have anything good. And every time that she looks at Sawyer—every time she feels something for him, she sees Wayne. It makes her sick. That’s about the sweetest thing he’s ever heard, he says. Sawyer? Who’s the hell’s Wayne? He opens his eyes and sees the bed above him. He’s in a bunk bed? Yeah, he’s in a bunk bed. Are they saved? No, Sawyer. Not yet.

Eko and Locke are splicing the film back together. Locke finishes and holds up the tape. What are the odds? The odds? Think about it. Somebody made that film. Someone else cut this piece out. They crash—two halves of the same plane fall in different parts of the island—Eko’s over there, Locke’s over there. And now, the missing piece is right back where it belongs. What are the odds? Eko looks at him. Don’t mistake coincidence for fate.

Kate helps Sawyer walk through the hatch. She’s got to be kidding him, he says at the sight of it all. Air lock’s over this way, she tells him, guiding him. Admit it, he says, they’ve been rescued. She opens the hatch door and helps him through it and back into the jungle. Son of a bitch. She helps him sit down on a log. Home sweet home, he says. He really thought she was yanking her chain. What does she keep smiling at? He needs a haircut. Oh, really? He sees something behind Kate and tells her maybe she ought to take him back inside. She turns around and sees the black horse standing there. He see that? If she means the big ass horse standing in the middle of the jungle, then yeah. She quietly approaches the horse and nuzzles with it before it walks off. She know that horse? Yeah. She does.

Ana sits on the beach making another sharp, pointy stick. Jack approaches carrying some small bottles of liquor. Tequila and tonic, that’s her drink, right? Where’s the tonic? They’re running a little low on mixers. He sure he wants to waste that on her? Figured she could use a drink. He knows he could. Is he going to try to convince her that everyone doesn’t hate her? Only if she’s going to try to convince him that every woman in the world’s not crazy.

Locke puts the film on just before the newly spliced together part while Michael checks out the computer hardware in the other room. “...In this manner you will stay as fresh and alert—splice—utmost importance that when the alarm sounds the code be entered correctly, and in a timely fashion. Do not attempt to use the computer—splice—for anything else other than the entering of the code. This is its only function. The isolation that attends the duties associated with Station 3 may tempt you to try and utilize the computer for communication with the outside world. This is strictly forbidden. Attempting to use the computer in this manner will compromise the integrity of the project and worse, could lead to another incident. I repeat, do not use the computer for anything other than entering the code. Congratulations, until your replacements arrive, the future of the project is in your hands. On behalf of the DeGroots, Alvar Hanso and all of us at the Dharma Initiative, thank you. Namaste. And good luck.” In the computer room, Michael hears a ‘bing’ noise. He checks the timer and finds it to be at 51:00. He hears the ‘bing’ again and looks at the monitor. In green text is the word, “Hello?” He sits down at the computer and types, “Hello?” Who is this? This is Michael. Who is this? Pause. Dad?

What Kate Did was written by Steven Maeda and Chris Wright.