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A weekly commentary of the television showby Carlos R Savournin
3 - 6: I Do
*This commentary contains spoilers. Do not read if you have not seen the above mentioned episode.*
Our six week run is over, folks. We now have 13 weeks of empty Wednesdays and, yes, more questions.
In the fall’s season finale, we get another glimpse of Kate’s life as an outlaw, only this time, she’s trying desperately to
obtain a “normal life” by marrying Miami-Dade Police Officer, Kevin – all the while assuming a different identity and adopting the name Monica. She shops for groceries, cleans the house, and is every man’s dream come true in a beautiful, adoring wife. But when she is faced with a negative pregnancy test, Kate decides she can’t be the suburban housewife. Drugging her husband, she tearfully confesses everything, tells him she truly loves him (and I believe she did), and takes off to continue her run.
All this tests her feelings toward Sawyer back on the island. Kate and Sawyer are forced into another day of work – which Kate insists her and Sawyer are a “team”. There is a surprise appearance by Alex, Rousseau’s daughter, who attacks the village… with a sling-shot…She demands to see her boyfriend (which we can only assume is Karl who tried to help Sawyer escape in the first episode of the season). After she is apprehended, she demands to speak to Ben. The others, Zeke and Pickett included, agree to allow her.
Back in their separate cages, Kate sneaks her way into Sawyer’s cage and the two take part in…extra curricular activities. This has been coming for a while, and it finally happens when Sawyer confesses that there is nowhere to run. He tells Kate that their Alcatraz-type set up has them trapped, and for some reason, Kate finds this a turn on. Cameras rolling, they consummate for everyone to see.
And one of those people was Jack. After witnessing the two post-romp in Ben’s observation room, he decides to go through with the surgery. Could this be because he saw Kate’s arms wrapped around Sawyer after she begged Jack to perform the surgery or the Others would kill Sawyer? Or could it be because Jack had his own plans – finding himself alone? We find out, of course, that it was the latter. But before Ben is put down for his surgery, he asks if she asked for him. She, being Alex. The Others exchange looks, then tell him that she didn’t.
Juliet made it clear that she wants Ben dead. But just how deep does the Others’ hate for Ben go? They all lied to him before his surgery, so what exactly does that mean?
Cutting into Ben’s kidney sack while Pickett held Sawyer at gunpoint, Jack demands to speak with Kate – and by way of two way radio, he gets his wish. He tells Kate to run. In tears, watching her new boyfriend nearly executed, Kate tells Jack, “I’m not leaving without you!” Again, he tells her to run. Again, she declines.
Kate is a runner. She’s been running all her life. Even the Marshal looking for her knew she couldn’t live a normal life as Monica because she would eventually run. But now, she doesn’t. She stays. Is it because she truly loves Sawyer (which she never answered him, by the way), or is it because she will not leave without Jack. If that’s the case, who does she really love? Was her romp with Sawyer a sympathy gift because she thought his days were numbered? If so, what does that say about her?
Unfortunately, we have to wait 13 weeks to find out.
In the end, Jack tells Kate that when she decides to run, to call him back and repeat the story he told her the day they met; the day she stitched his side. If she doesn’t call him back to repeat the story, only then will he know that something went wrong. Miraculously, Kate claimed to remember the story… Time to take out the DVD package for season one, people. For those who don’t remember what the story was, I’ll give you a clue:
5…4…3…
Meanwhile, Eko is buried by Locke and his comrades, Sayid, Nikki and Paolo. During the ceremony, Locke hammers Eko’s “Jesus stick” to the ground and something catches his attention; a carving that reads “Lift up your eyes and look North”. For some reason, this means something to Locke, who firmly believes Eko died for a reason, and if we know Locke, he’ll find out why.
No answers were provided but certain things were made clear; Jack, Kate and Sawyer were all brought to the second island for the same purpose: so that Jack will perform the surgery on Ben. Kate and Sawyer were nothing more than emotional tools to help Jack see the light. I mean, the door mysteriously unlocks after Kate and Sawyer go for a roll in the hay, and Jack just so happens to see them? Too convenient. Ben once told Jack that the plan was to mess with Jack’s head so much that he would have done the surgery as though he, himself, wanted to. The same can be said about Kate and Sawyer. Kate saw a weakness in Sawyer that scared her enough to risk her own life and be with him in that biblical way, but had it not been for the Others, none of that would have happened. Not to say Kate doesn’t genuinely care for Sawyer – I believe she does – but there was also a reason she ran from a man she loved – twice – in her past…
There are still enough hanging subplots to fill this and several other pages with, and we can only hope that when the show returns on February 7th, we’ll get some definite answers.
Until next time, Get Lost.
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