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: Sawyer

Quick Recap On Flashback:
Sawyer is in a hotel room with a woman who we assume is his girlfriend. They’re talking and smooching when she notices the time and reminds Sawyer that he should be at a meeting. He quickly rushes to get dressed and grabs his brief case off the top of the wardrobe, but it opens and reveals a whole lot of cash which falls out onto the floor.

After Sawyer has explained that the money is part of a deal that will triple it, and that his meeting is with someone to put in the other half that’s needed, she tells him that she will invest the other half. Sawyer asks her where she’s going to get that much money from, to which she replies “my husband”.

A meeting is soon in place with the woman and her husband. Her husband is a little reluctant to get in on the deal until Sawyer tells him he can take his half of the cash with him and keep it for the night. The man is only 100% convinced that this is a legit deal when Sawyer calmly tells him that he’ll find someone else and starts to walk away.

In a bar, Sawyer is playing pool with someone who it turns out Sawyer owes money to. Sawyer explains that he likes to spend the money as much as he likes to earn it. The guy isn’t too impressed with his charm and tells Sawyer he wants his money back.

A few days later Sawyer is at the womans house to collect her husbands money for the deal, but when he sees that they have a young boy it triggers some bad memories for him and decides to call the deal off. He leaves the house with an angry man shouting after him.

Quick Recap On Island:
Sawyer catches Boone rumaging through “his stuff” and gives him a good beating for it.

At the caves, Sayid is explaining to Jack what happened to him when he tried to start the transceiver, when Boone arrives covered in blood. Boone explains to Jack that Shannon has asthma (and is starting to suffer with it), and that her inhalers were in his luggage along with the book, “Watership Down”. He saw Sawyer reading that book earlier, which means if he has his luggage he’ll have the inhalers.

Jack goes to the beach and starts looking through Sawyers things. Sawyer sees this and the two start shouting at each other. It gets pretty heated until they are interupted by Kate.

Later, Kate speaks with Sawyer alone. She asks Sawyer what he wants for the inhalers, and he tells her he wants a kiss, to which she refuses. Kate then tells him she’s seen him with a letter that he takes out and reads every now and then. This seems to spark some anger in Sawyer, and he makes Kate read the letter to him.

Dear Mr. Sawyer, you don’t know who I am but I know who you are and I know what you done. You had sex with my mother and then you stole my dad’s money all away. So he got angry and he killed my mother and then he killed himself, too. All I know is your name. But one of these days I’m going to find you and I’m going to give you this letter so you’ll remember what you done to me. You killed my parents Mr. Sawyer.

After reading it Sawyer asks Kate “Now how about that kiss?” - but Kate doesn’t respond.

In the caves Sayid is talking to Locke about what happened to him the day before. Locke comes up with the conclusion that it could’ve been Sawyer who knocked him out, and although Sayid explains that Sawyer had an alibi (he set off one of the bottle rockets), Locke pursuades him that Sawyer could’ve used a cigarette to time-delay the rocket.

Sawyer arrives at the caves for some water when Jack asks him about the inhalers. It gets pretty heated again and Jack punches Sawyer in the face… not once, but twice!

The next day, on the beach, Charlie is trying to pursuade Claire to move to the caves. The conversation leads to a reveal that she loves peanut butter. Charlie says to Claire that if he can find peanut butter she has to move to the caves.

Sawyer is asleep and wakes up to see Sayid peering over him. Sayid knocks him out and he and Jack drag him to the jungle and tie him up. Sayid goes on to torture him into telling them where the inhalers are, and eventually gives in and tells them he’ll only tell Kate.

When Kate arrives he asks her again for that kiss. She seems reluctant but gives in as she thinks this is the only way he’ll tell her where the inhalers are. After their kiss though, Sawyer tells her he never had them. The book washed up on shore. After a smack in the face from Kate, she joins Jack and Sayid to tell them he doesn’t know where they are.

Sayid thinks he’s lieing and rushes in to torture him some more, but Sawyer now has his hands free and a fight breaks out. Unfortunately, Sayid manages to stab Sawyer in the arm hitting an artery. Sayid rushes off to the caves to get Jacks medical supplies.

Later on, when Sawyer is recovering, Kate goes to speak to him. She tells him she’s read the letter again and that she noticed the bicentennial label on the envelope - the letter wasn’t written to Sawyer, it was written by Sawyer when he was younger.

Sawyer explains that when he was a little boy, a guy called Sawyer conned his parents which resulted in his father killing his wife and then himself. When he was older he got into some trouble and needed some money, so he took on the identidy of Sawyer and became a con man himself. He became the man he was hunting.

At the caves, Shannon is feeling a lot calmer now after Sun made a remedy which uses eucalyptus leaves. Jack thanks Sun for her help.

On the beach, Charlie tells Claire he has found some peanut butter and produces an empty jar. She looks puzzled by this but plays along with the pretence that there is actually peanut butter in the jar.

Sayid walks past Kate and he tells her he’s going to map the island and see what else is out there, and that he can’t think of anyone better to do it than the one person he trusts.

Things we learn:

• Sawyer is a con man
• Sawyer isn’t his real name

Things worth noting:

• The conman that conned Sawyers parents is infact Locke’s father. Sawyer gets a chance to read his letter to him in a Season 3 episode