Eggtown SE4 EP4

“You’ll be fine if you bite down on the trigger. Enjoy your breakfast.”

A good solid “is she or isn’t she?” episode, but only one (albeit HUGE) “Ohmigod” moment.

The People versus Katherine Ann Austin
Kate is on trial, answering for the crimes she committed before the crash. Her lawyer wants to make her defense about her character, so he asks to bring her son into the courtroom to generate sympathy. Hold up—Kate’s son? Yeah, that’s right, and you're NOT using him for my defense, Kate says. I didn’t get a good read on the time frame of this backstory, but we can only assume its shortly after the Oceanic Six return to the mainland, since my main gauge is the level of disheveledness of the good doctor and Jack looks pretty good this episode.

It’s not looking so good for Kate, though. Her mom is going to testify against her. During Jack’s fairy tale of a character testimony for Kate, Jack speaks of Kate’s heroism, how she saved him from drowning, how she saved all eight survivors. Kate can’t take anymore and tells him to stop. On cross, the D.A asks Jack only one question: Do you love Kate? Jack says “Not anymore.” Later, Kate’s mom, obviously very ill, wheels in to talk to Kate, tells her she’s changed the way she feels about her, especially since she thought Kate was dead. She doesn’t WANT to testify, but she does want to see her grandson. Kate tells her no, and she wants her mother to stay away from her son. Kate’s mom ends up not testifying, Kate gets 10 years probation—where, notably, a condition of her probation is that she stays put—something Kate has been notoriously bad at throughout her life. As she’s leaving the courtroom, Kate tells Jack she’s heard him repeat that story so many times, she’s starting to think he believes it. He tells her he didn’t mean what he said on the stand to which Kate replies, if that’s the case, why don’t you come and visit? Kate understands why Jack won’t come and see the baby (or, as it were, the Baybay), but until he does, there can be no Kate & Jack. Which brings us to Kate’s son and the reveal of the next member of the Oceanic Six: Aaron.

Or is he? Aaron was not on the manifest of Flight 815 so there may be two more members of the Oceanic Six, despite the teaser for the reveal last week.

Eight survivors. There have been rumors that a major character will die. Apparently there will be two who die (Eight survivors minus Oceanic Six equals Two dead). Can we assume that one who will die is Claire, since Aaron makes it off the island and is now calling Kate “Mommy”? And why won’t Jack come to visit them? Why does Jack have a hard time dealing with the fact of Aaron? Could it have something to do with the fact that he found out that Aaron is his nephew? Could Jack be somehow responsible for the death of his half sister Claire? And Claire was told by the psychic that SHE alone must raise the Baybay, so could that part of Jack’s problem?? Also, does Kate maybe not want her mother to see Aaron because she knows her mother will know he’s not Kate’s son?

And by the way, doesn’t Kate have a nice house? And doesn’t Aaron’s room look like the nursery in the Medical Hatch back on the island? I kept expecting to see the little airplane mobile. And just to add a little fuel to a fire that’s all but gone out, Kate’s middle name—Ann—is clearly established in this episode. Could she be the mysterious Annie of Ben’s boyhood as Sig has suggested? Did you see the block paper cutouts above Aaron’s bed? They looked a little like the wooden dolls Annie carved for little Ben’s birthday (ok, that one may be a stretch).

Just like old times.
Locke is fixing the last two eggs to bring to Ben. Locke has Ben locked in his basement—a situation eerily reminiscent of when Ben was locked in the hatch, which Ben brings up of course. Locke’s self confidence is waning—he wants answers from Ben and Ben’s not about to give them up. And just like he did in the Swan hatch, Ben pushes all the right buttons on Locke—who manages to keep his cool until he leaves Ben and he throws the tray at the wall. Which of course Ben hears and reacts to with his creepy little “success!” smile.

Kate is under the impression that this is a democracy
I realize there’s a whole contingent of folks out there rooting for the Kate and Jack scenario, but sorry people: Kate OBVIOUSLY belongs with Sawyer. How can she resist when he says he’ll keep her safe? But Kate only wants Sawyer to help her bust Ben out of the basement because she’s made a deal with Miles for him to tell her everything he knows about her. Now, I’m not sure if Kate is looking for simple cold hard facts here (like her rap sheet) or is she asking Miles to use his extrasensory perception to see WHO she is. (Like Bai Ling and Jack’s tattoo?)

So Sawyer then goes to Locke and tells him what Kate is up to. Now to me it seemed like Sawyer was working for Locke, but trying to protect Kate. But Dana thought Sawyer only went over there to help Kate and get Locke out of the house. I guess you can see it both ways, but personally, I prefer this new “Island-responsible” Sawyer who believes Locke and is signed on to his cause.

If Hugo knows, everyone knows
Allow me to digress for a moment and promote my favorite theory: Hurley in the coffin. Hugo can’t keep a secret; everyone knows it. Back on the mainland, Hugo is one of the Oceanic Six who is being pursued by the creepy Mr. Abbadan and the ghostly Charlie. It has been implied that the very survival of his friends depends on Hugo keeping a secret, which we know he cannot. Now remember in “Through the Looking Glass” when Jack asks Kate if she went to the funeral, she says, “Why would I go?” and Jack will cop to neither friend or relative at the funeral home. These are the kinds of reactions you would expect when someone you were once very fond of, but has somehow irredeemably betrayed you, has died.

It is DEFINITELY Hurley in the coffin.

You’ve got one minute.
Kate smuggles Miles into the basement to talk to Ben. Miles looks at Ben.
“You know who I am. You know who I work for. You know the time & energy he’s put into finding you. I can tell him where you are right now, or I can lie and tell him you’re already dead.” Ok so far. “For $3.2 million dollars.” Huh? What’s that all about? Ben’s just as puzzled as we are: “This is all about bribery? Why $3.2 million? Why not 3.3 or 3.4?” Miles insists that this is extortion, not bribery, and Ben needs to make a choice. When Ben protests that he doesn’t have access to that kind of money, Miles freaks out on him: “DO NOT treat me like I’m one of them. Like I don’t know who you are and what you can do.” To which Ben replies, “ I’m a little bit restricted right now, can that be amended?”

So Kate goes through all this and whatever she was expecting from Miles, Miles only runs down her list of crimes: murder, fraud and arson, she’s a fugitive, caught in Australia, and the feds were brining her back. Miles then gives her some advice: “If I were you I’d stay right here on the island….” …And play house with Sawyer.

Meanwhile, Locke is none to pleased with Kate’s little escapade and banishes her—tells her to leave Otherville by morning. Kate then turns to Sawyer with whom she has a heavy make out session. Kate’s been acting all coy with Sawyer about whether or not she is pregnant—she finally tells him that she’s not, and she’s sure. Sawyer’s gleeful reaction is not exactly the reaction Kate was looking for, so she leaves to go back to the beach. “You’re just looking for an excuse to split.” Saywer says. “It’s ok Freckles. I’ll just sit here in my comfy bed and wait. In about a week, you’ll find some reason to get pissed at Jack and bounce right back to me.” Which earns Sawyer a huge slap—probably because Kate knows its true.

FYI, I’d like to state for the record here that just because Kate SAYS she’s not pregnant doesn’t necessarily mean that she’s not.

Meanwhile, Locke has learned an important lesson: What’s the sense of having rules if there’s no punishment for breaking them? The newly resolute Locke takes charge, moves Miles again and gives him a live grenade for breakfast.

Where’s the helicopter?
Daniel clearly has some memory problems—he can only remember two out of three card, which Charlotte says is good progress, but even Daniel isn’t buying it. Jack and Juliet want to call the boat and check up on Sayid and Desmond, so Charlotte puts the call through to Regina since Minkowski isn’t picking up. Regina doesn’t know anything about the helicopter—she thought it was still back on the beach, even though it took off a day ago. So where is it? Time travel, relativity, electromagnetic fields—it could be anywhere—or any time.

Next Week
Desmond! Desmond! Desmond! And we find out what happened to the guys on the helicopter.