Episode Report Card Daniel: B | 6 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Thanks, But I'm Not Hungry
By Daniel | Season 4 | Episode 4 | Aired on February 20, 2008
"Don't make this about me, Kate," he snaps. Yeah, that's Sawyer's job. He says she didn't want a baby any more than he did; she just wanted an excuse to split, and now she's got one. But he's not worried: "In about a week, you'll find some reason to get pissed at Jack, and you'll bounce right back to me," he says. She slugs him. He's still not wrong. "In about a week"? He's even got the timeline right.
Flash forward to the courtroom, where Kate and Duncan wait while the DA has some sort of urgently whispered conversation with a couple of her ADAs, I suppose. "Are the people ready to proceed?" asks the unimpressed judge. Dunbrook asks to approach the bench, so she and Duncan do so, and she says her witness, Kate's mom, can't testify due to medical reasons. The judge asks how much time she needs, and she doesn't know, and he gives her until...the end of lunch. Wow. No sympathy from Judge Lazer Thong. The lawyers walk back to their tables, with Dunbrook telling Duncan that they need to talk.
In the same room where Kate met with her mom, Dunbrook bitches, "My key witness spoke to her daughter last night, and now she's got cold feet." So you did know about it. First day on the job, Dunbrook? You hoped maybe Kate's mama was going to wring a confession out of Kate? Anyway, she offers four years in prison. Duncan looks at Kate, who shakes her head. "No jail time," he says, because Kate is, after all, a "worldwide hero," whatever that is, who saved five people from a plane crash and who almost starved to death on a deserted island. "And after all that, you put her on trial for rescuing her mother from an abusive husband," he says. Well, "rescuing" is gilding it a little, but Dunbrook knows she's beaten. She offers "time served" as well as ten years' probation: Kate can't leave the state. Duncan starts to argue, but Kate interrupts him to agree: whatever Dunbrook wants her to sign, she'll do it. She just wants it to be over. "I have a child. I'm not going anywhere," she says. Ain't that the truth. Try getting out to go to a movie, let alone cross state lines.
Kate strolls towards a waiting taxi in the courthouse's underground parking garage. The way it was just sitting there made me think the driver was going to turn out to be Ben or something. What does happen is Jack gets out of his vehicle and walks towards her. She seems happy to see him, and he explains that her lawyer gave him a "heads-up" since he owed Jack one. Yeah, for suborning perjury, apparently. Kate thanks him for that, and he shrugs it off.