Lost Blog

Note: this is a look back at earlier episodes to give a general review and to write about the mysteries as they unfold.

Character Episode: Kate

Quick Recap On Flashback:
Kate is in Australia where she ends up on Ray Mullens farm. She tells him her name is Annie, which brings to light that she must be on the run. Kate spends 3 months working at the farm until one night she decides to leave. Ray persuades her to stay one more night and he’ll give her a lift to the train station in the morning.

On the way to the train station Ray keeps looking in his rear view mirror and Kate grows suspicious and looks behind her to find they’re being followed by the Marshall. She asks Ray why he would betray her like that, and he says there’s a $23k reward. Kate grabs hold of the steering wheel and forces the car off the road. Before attempting to make a run for it, she made sure Ray was pulled to safety - unfortunately the Marshall had already caught up with her and points his gun at her, where assumably she is now arrested.

Quick Recap On Island:
On the Island, Kate, Sayid, Sawyer, Charlie, Boone and Shannon decide to make camp for the night before heading back to the beach. They decide not to tell anyone about the French womans distress signal and that it has been on a loop for 16 years.

Jack is attending to the Marshall. The Marshall is now half awake and tells Jack to look in his pocket - in there is a mug shot of Kate. The Marshall warns Jack that she is dangerous.

When Kate & Co. arrive back at the beach Sayid talks to the rest of the survivors about what “happened”.

Meanwhile, Kate finds Jack and she tells him what really happened on the hike. Jack doesn’t seem to digest this information properly as he seems more interested in finding out if Kate will tell him about her “fugitiveness”.

Kate goes to see how the Marshall is and he appears to be asleep, but he wakes and attempts to strangle her. Jack interupts and forces him off her.

Outside Kate asks Jack if the Marshall is going to die and if he’ll be in pain, suggesting that maybe they should put him out of his misery. Jack got angry with this suggestion and told Kate he knew that she was the Marshalls prisoner, and that he is not a murderer.

Later, the Marshall asks to speak with Kate alone to which Jack agrees, but Hurley mentions to Jack that Kate has a gun and a panic-stricken Jack rushes to the tent, only to see Kate walking out. He calls her, and when she turns around to look at him, a gun shot is heard from within the tent. Sawyer had shot the Marshall.

Unfortunately, Sawyer shot him in the chest and instead of hitting his heart, he hit one of his lungs, and now the Marshall was in even more pain. Jack had to do what he didn’t want to, and ended up smothering the Marshall to put him out of his misery.

The next day, Kate speaks to Jack and tells him she wants to tell him what she did, but Jack tells her he doesn’t want to know. He suggests that they all died in the crash, and that who they were doesn’t matter anymore, they’ve been given a new life to start over.

Things worth noting:

• Kate goes by the name of Annie in her flashback. At the time it seemed insignificant, but later in Season 3 we learn that Ben had a childhood friend called Annie who’s whereabouts are yet unknown. Coincidence?
• Michael tells Walt he will look for Vincent when it stopped raining. A couple of seconds later, it stops raining.

The Numbers:

• The reward for Kates arrest was $23k
• Rays wife died 8 months ago