Episode Report Card Daniel: B | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT I Do
By Daniel | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on November 7, 2006
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close. Jack's decided not to do Ben's tumour surgery, because he doesn't trust the Others? Really? After the beatings and the shootings and the druggings and the abductions? No trust? Ben -- who I hope has said to himself at least once, "You know, when the spinal surgeon crashed on the island I should have just asked him to do the surgery, instead of engaging in this violent, psychological manipulation -- turns the screws. Juliet brings Kate in to see Jack, and Kate asks Jack to do it, because otherwise the Others'll kill Sawyer. Jack doesn't believe them (nor, for that matter, does Sawyer), so Kate breaks out of her cage and into Sawyer's, not so they can escape, but so they can have sex, after Sawyer breaks it to her that they're on a smaller island and that there's no escape. This mystifies me; after all, there was a way onto the island. Ergo...? But no, they decide to get naked. Oh, who really blames them.Anyway, Jack's cell is conveniently unlocked (by whom, we're not told), enabling him to sneak around and see a post-coital Kate and Sawyer on one of the Others' monitors. Instead of that making him completely indifferent to Sawyer's fate, he tells Ben he will, in fact, do the surgery, because: sweet! A chance to be noble! And also, he has a plan. And those always work out.
Meanwhile, Locke, Sayid, and the Useless Twins bury Eko in the jungle (Locke rather paternalistically deciding that the rest of the Lostaways have had too many funerals lately). Locke sees something on Eko's Bible Thumper (a.k.a. the "Jesus stick") about looking to the north or whatever, and this seems to be important, but it'll be at least thirteen weeks before we get to that particular fireworks factory.
In flashbacks, we find out that Kate was married to that guy from Firefly who looks enough like Jason Bateman as to be kind of unnecessary in Hollywood, and he's a cop, and Kate reenacts her favourite scenes from Catch Me If You Can until she finally drugs her husband and leaves him behind, not wanting him to get caught up in her never-ending run from justice. Her marriage barely lasts longer than Firefly did. Tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.
Once Jack begins the surgery, Danny decides to get his revenge for Colleen, by shooting Sawyer. Fortunately, Jack makes an unnecessary incision in Ben that'll make him bleed to death, but Jack will fix it when he knows Kate and Sawyer (or was it just Kate?) are safe. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
In television's traditional guess-the-character style of opening, we follow a brunette from an elevator into a hotel hallway. The logical answer is that it's Kate. Which made me think it wasn't Kate. But then as she opens the door to room 752, she looks back over her shoulder. It's Kate, all right, but with a frillier haircut than we're used to seeing.
Inside the hotel room, Kate opens up the box she carried in with her. It's a wedding veil. Presumably acquired from a safe-deposit box in a daring daylight bank robbery.
There's a knock on the door, and someone calling himself the police explains that they have reason to believe there's someone dangerous in the hotel and they're doing a room-to-room search. Kate acts all shifty, saying she's fine, emphasizing she's alone, and the cop says someone could be holding her at gunpoint, forcing her to say that, so she has to let him in. "I don't think I should," says Kate, almost smiling, and the cop says she has two seconds before he breaks the door down, and just as you're thinking, "Holy shit! Calm down, Officer Sledge Hammer!" it occurs to you that she probably knows this alleged cop.
Sure enough, she opens the door, and standing there is Nathan Fillion, who IN NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM LOOKS LIKE JASON BATEMAN SO FIREFLY FANS CAN STOP SENDING ME EMAILS NOW GOD. And he's wearing a cop uniform. "Hey. Wanna get it on?" he says, so I guess the fantasy role-playing is over and the rutting can begin. Kate smiles and jumps on him, and fortunately the two of them go back into the hotel room instead of just doing it right there in the corridor, but it looked close there for a moment.
A sleeping Kate wakes up in her cage on Craphole Island's Alcatraz, and her smile fades when she realizes she is not in fact doing the guy from Firefly but sleeping in a bear cage across from a guy who woke her up by half-heartedly throwing rocks at the food-pellet machine, forcing it make clanking noises and say, "Warning!" She says she thought he needed to pull the lever. Clearly, he's intentionally not doing it right, and he snaps at her to that effect. She asks him to get her a fish biscuit, and he snarls at her for that too, like what a joy it must be to be locked up with Sawyer. "What, you trying to keep me feeling productive?" says Sawyer, who as we all know likes nothing more than working his ass off for other people. Kate just looks half-pissed, half-concerned.
Juliet and Ben enter Jack's cell (or at least, enter the room on the other side of the wall). Jack's studying X-rays and blood tests.