“Bye bye, Baby.”
More fill in of pieces we didn’t know. E find out more about Kate’s missing time and that she actually had a pretty close relationship with Cassidy ad Sawyer’s daughter Clementine. An ok episode with standout moments between Hurley and Miles and that devastating scene at the end with Kate and Claire’s mom.
1977 Dharma Time
Dharma CSI, consisting of the lone member Horace, is conducting an investigation, which is really more like jumping to rather obviously wrong conclusions. Horace just knows the Others, specifically Sayid, are behind the breakout and the burning hippie van. Jack, still steamed that he, the neurosurgeon, demonstrated an aptitude as a workman, asks Horace “If he was locked up, then how did he start the fire?” Horace tells him that his help is not wanted or needed. Not only that, but, “The Security cameras didn’t pick up anyone, that means it was one of us.”
Kate and Roger Workman work together to remove the hippie bus from the front of the house. They strike up an easy banter. Then Jin rolls in with the injured Ben.
Kate seeks out sawyer in his multi-TV screen security room. She wants to know whats going on. Sawyer tells her, “Keep your mouth shut and stop asking questions.” At which time Horace shows up and wants to know, “What is she doing here?” Sawyer lies to cover it up, but he knows that things are quickly spiraling out of control, so he enlists Miles to gather up the new arrivals and put them under house arrest. When Jack questions this arrangement, Miles delivers one of the best lines of the night, “No. You’re free to leave whenever you want. I’ll just have to shoot you in the leg.”
Sawyer checks in on Juliet, who is feverishly working on Ben. He’s bleeding, but Juliet cannot find the source. “He needs a real surgeon,” she tells Sawyer—meaning Jack. So Sawyer treks back to the cabin where Miles is holding the new arrivals under house arrest.
Hurley apparently read Sig’s comments last week and knows that the rules of time travel include, but are not limited to: if you go into the past and change the future, then you disappear. So Hurley is watching intently to make sure he’s not fading ala Back to the Future. Miles explains how idiotic this is because, as he says, Ben lived, “We just weren’t around to see how it turns out.”
Meanwhile, Sawyer has asked Jack to step in to help save Ben and Jack says no. Sawyer can’t believe it, “If you don’t come with me, Doc, that kid’s gonna die!” “Then he dies.” Jack says. After Sawyer leaves, Kate lays into him. Jack is unremorseful while he makes his sandwich. “30 Years from now that man is going to lock me in a cage because he needs surgery, then he’s going to send you into beg me to do it so he doesn’t kill Sawyer. I already saved Ben once for you, Kate.” Jack says, which is a good point. “Maybe the Island wants to fix things itself. Maybe I was just getting in the way.” Kate replies, “I don’t like the new you. You didn’t used to just sit around and wait for things to happen.” You didn’t like the old me either.” Jack retorts, which is also a good point.
Kate storms out without Miles shooting her in the leg and goes to Jules to donate blood. She is frustrated by Jack’s refusal to help and tells Juliet all about it. “Something happened between you two?” Juliet asks, sensing that Kate’s frustration runs deeper than what she’s letting on. “We were engaged, does that count?”
Roger comes in to see how Ben is doing and he looks genuinely broken up for a guy who was just pounding on the same kid a few hours before. Roger knows that Ben stole his keys. And he knows it’s because of him. Kate is sympathetic to Roger while he tells the sad story of Ben’s mom dying in childbirth. “I thought I was gonna be the best dad ever. But I guess a boy just needs his mother.” And you can see Kate reading the double meaning into this remark and applying it to Aaron.
One of the best exchanges of the night was Hurley and Miles discussing time travel. I was too busy enjoying it to take it down verbatim, but the general gist Miles was trying to get across to Hurley was, “All this already happened. The time line is not straight anymore” But Hurley out maneuvers him. “Sayid tortured Ben back in our time. So then why wouldn’t Ben remember getting shot by that same guy when he’s a kid?” Miles is stumped. “Good question.”
Kate and Juliet are discussing Ben’s condition. Kate seems almost desperate for Ben not to die. Suddenly, you can see the light go on for Juliet. “Maybe there’s something that they can do.” “They?” Kate asks. “The Others.” So Kate and Juliet load Ben into the hippie bus and Kate takes him out to the sonic fence. Ben tells Kate to tell his dad that he’s sorry he stole his keys. Kate looks up to see the approach of another hippie bus. It’s Sawyer. Kate thinks he’s there to stop her. “Dammit Freckles, I’m not here to stop you. I’m here to help you.”
“Why are you helping me?” Kate wants to know. “Because Juliet said, No matter what he’s going to grow up to be, its wrong to let a kid die. I’m doing it for her.” Sawyer tells her.
Meanwhile, Juliet has a bone to pick with Jack. “Where’s Jack?” she asks, barging in on Miles and Hurley’s continuing time travel discussion. Juliet walks in on Jack getting out of the shower. She’s mad because she needed his help and he wouldn’t give it. She wants to know why he came back. Jack says he came back to save them. Juliet doesn’t believe him. ”We didn’t need saving. You came back here for you.” Jack shakes his head. “I came back because I was supposed to.” “Supposed to do what?” Juliet wants to know. “I don’t know yet.”
Kate tells Sawyer that Roger knows that Sawyer knows that Ben stole his keys. “A kid will do almost anything if he’s pissed off at his folks.” “Is that why you asked me to take of your daughter?” Kate asks. “What’s she like?” Sawyer wants to know, so Kate tells him, her affection for the girl clear in every word. “When she smiles, she looks just like you.” “I’ll bet you and Cassidy had a lot to talk about,” Sawyer leads. “She had an interesting theory as to why you jumped off the helicopter. Because you were afraid of what would happen if you didn’t.” Which is true, since Ben completely manipulated Sawyer by telling him that once they got back to real life his con man didn’t stand a chance against Jack’s neurosurgeon. Sawyer had no way of knowing that Jack would become a pill popping paranoid junkie. Sawyer tells Kate he had no business being Kate’s boyfriend or Clementine’s father.
Their chat comes to an abrupt end as the Others surround them. Sawyer tells them, “This kid’s been shot and it’s both of our problems. So you’re going to take us to Richard Alpert now.”
Richard meets them in the woods and sawyer is all surprised to see him. You’;d think these strange Other powers would cease to be so surprising by now. Sawyer and Kate ask Richer to save Ben. “If I take him, he will never be the same. His innocence will be gone. He will always be one of us.” Kate and Sawyer, knowing this to already be true, agree to Richard’s terms and release him to the Others.
One of the Others scolds Richard, “You shouldn’t do this without asking Ellie. And if Charles finds out… “ he warns. Richard doesn’t care. “I don’t’ answer to either one of them.” Richard takes Ben to the Temple and disappears inside…
…and we flash to Ben in the present time, recovering from his injuries “Hello Ben,” Locke smiles.
“Welcome back to the land of the living.”
After the Crash
Kate shows up at Cassidy’s house right after the plane crash with a baybay Aaron. She is singing “Catch a falling star, never let it fade away.” Blah blah blah—look I know that song has some significance, but this annoying piece of Lost minutiae is eluding me at the moment. Cassidy is happy to see Kate—besides being old friends on the con game a couple months back, she’s seen Kate on TV and has told her friends she knows her. “What are you doing here?” Cassidy wants to know. “Sawyer sent me,” Kate replies.
“Sawyer asked me to take care of his daughter,” Kate tells Cassidy handing her a big wad of cash. Cassidy is having none of it; she has no romantic notions about Sawyer and furthermore, she knows Sawyer has somehow dumped Kate, too. “You got the same look on your face that I had when he dumped me.” Kate tells Cassidy the truth about the Oceanic Six, but lies about Aaron being her son. Cassidy calls her on it. “Why are you lying to me about him?” “Because I have to.” Kate explains cryptically.
Then we flashback to pivotal the dock scene. Again.
As they leave the dock, Aaron tells Kate he is thirsty, so Kate stops at the supermarket. Aaron wants a juice box. She takes her eyes off him for a second and he’s gone. She panics, looking for him but can’t find him anywhere. Then she spots him walking towards the exit holding the hand of a woman with long wavy blond hair just like Claire’s. She turns around and it’s not Claire, but man, did your heart skip a few beats like Kate’s? Don’t bother answering. You know it did.
Kate shows up at Cassidy’s house where Clementine greets her warmly at the door, “Hi Auntie Kate!”
Clearly rattled, Kate collapses on Cassidy’s couch. “I lost him. The crazy thing is, that as scared as I was, I wasn’t surprised. All I could think was, ‘its’ about time.’ Why would I think that way? Why would I expect him to be taken?” Kate wonders aloud. “Because you took him, Kate.” Cassidy answers. “But he needed me,” Kate explains. “No,” Cassidy counters, “you needed him, Kate. Sawyer broke your heart. How else were you supposed to fix it?”
We next see Kate at the door of a familiar motel. It’s Claire’s mom. Kate goes in and tells Claire’s mom about her grandson. She explains he’s sleeping peacefully two doors down. Kate hands her a picture of Aaron. “He’s so sweet and kind and good.” She says, with tears running down her face. “I told him you’re his grandmother and that you’ll take care of him until I come back.” “Where are you going?” Claire’s mom wants to know.
“I’m going back to find your daughter.”
Next Week:
Ben came back to be judged? Really? Who’s buying that? Can I have a show of hands?
Oh and that teaser about “the most dangerous man on the island?” Yeah. Don’t be so sure it’s Ben.
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