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Evangeline Lilly as Kate Austen
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| Evangeline
Lilly: |
| Evangeline
Lilly was discovered on the streets of Kelowna, British Columbia by
Ford modeling agency. Although she initially decided to pass on a
modeling career, she went ahead and signed with Ford anyway, to help
pay for her University of British Columbia tuition and expenses. She
was previously featured in several LiveLinks Chatline television
commercials, which were shown on David Letterman's Late Show when she
was a guest, and on G4's Judgment Day. |
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| Kate
Austen: |
Prior to
the crash of Oceanic Flight 815
The cryptic Kate is not quite the innocent figure she initially seems
to be.
She grew up in Iowa, the daughter of a soldier and a diner waitress.
As we learn in flashbacks in What Kate Did, her parents divorce and
Kate's mother marries a man named Wayne, an alcoholic who physically
abuses Kate's mother (Diane) and may or may not have abused Kate. When
Kate is making a scrapbook as a present for her father, she discovers
that the man she thinks is her real father was still in Korea when she
was conceived, and she then realizes that Wayne is her biological
father. Kate takes out an insurance policy and blows up the house with
Wayne in it, meaning to benefit her mother. She explains all this to
her mother and then flees, but is captured at a bus station by US
Marshal Edward Mars, who claims that Kate's mother went to the
authorities with what Kate had told her. She later escapes from him,
while being driven to the indictment hearing for Wayne's murder, after
a large black horse appears in front of the Marshal's car, causing him
to swerve off the road. While the Marshal is still stunned from the
deployment of the air bag, Kate is able to take his keys. After a
brief tussle in the car, Kate knocks him out of the car and drives
off.
In the flashbacks in Born to Run, Kate travels around the country with
a car trunk full of license plates from various states, using hair dye
to disguise her appearance.
When she receives a letter that her mother is dying from cancer, Kate
takes a chance and goes home. There she meets and re-ignites the
romance with her childhood boyfriend Tom Brennan, now married and a
doctor at the hospital. The two dig up a time capsule they had buried
15 years earlier, which contains a tape recording and a selection of
Tom's toys, including a little toy airplane. Kate convinces Tom to
arrange a visit with her mother, who is being guarded, apparently in
case of her daughter's appearance. However, once Kate reveals herself
to her mother, Diane begins screaming for help, and Kate is forced to
flee. She asks Tom for his car keys, but he demands to go with her,
saying that the police will be easy on her if she cooperates. Kate
speeds through the parking garage, directly at a police car blockading
the entrance, but an officer fires off a few shots as she passes, and
she then crashes into another car. Kate turns to Tom and sees that he
is dead. Kate flees the scene, leaving behind the toy airplane.
Subsequently, Kate is involved in an elaborate bank robbery in New
Mexico, in which she presents herself to the bank manager as an
innocent bystander, while she is actually romantically linked with the
bank robbers' supposed leader. Posing as a "Maggie Ryan"
applying for a loan, Kate is rounded up by the robbers as one of the
hostages.
When another hostage overpowers a robber, Kate grabs one of their
guns, but she immediately claims not to be able to use it. The lead
robber then takes Kate into a back room, and after a quick kiss, hits
her to continue the ruse. The robber brings in the bank manager and
claims he will kill the seemingly innocent Kate, unless the vault is
opened. Thinking he is saving her life, the bank manager complies. In
the vault, the robber reveals that Kate has actually planned and
organized the whole operation. Appearing intent on shooting the
manager, the robber is stopped by Kate, who instead shoots the leader
in the leg, then forces the manager to open a safe deposit box. Inside
is a single item: Tom's small toy airplane.
Sometime later, Kate turns up in Australia as a fugitive. Using the
name Annie and claiming to be Canadian, she arrives at the house of an
Outback farmer, who, in exchange for help around his farm, offers her
a wage and a home. Months later, in the middle of the night, Kate
attempts to sneak out of the house. The farmer interrupts her in this
attempt, and insists he drive her to the train station the next
morning.
On the road, their truck is followed by Marshal Mars. The farmer
admits that he saw Kate's picture on a wanted poster at the post
office and has turned her in for the cash reward. Kate grabs the wheel
and drives off the road, rolling the truck. Despite being free to
escape, Kate pulls the injured farmer away from the wreck, giving the
Marshal time to capture her.
Immediately prior to the flight, the Marshal reveals to an Australian
law enforcement officer that he has been chasing Kate for three years,
and that he had put the toy airplane in the safe deposit box as bait.
He has the toy airplane in his possession, presumably having recovered
it from Kate's possessions after capturing her.
On board Flight 815, she is in handcuffs, sitting next to the Marshal.
Just prior to the crash, she asks the Marshal a favor, which she later
claims was to make sure the farmer received the reward for turning her
in. As the plane begins to break apart, the Marshal is injured. Kate
steals the keys to her handcuffs, but makes sure to apply the
marshal's oxygen mask before putting on her own.
On the island
Since arriving on the island, Kate has been involved with most of the
major developments that occur to the survivors, from the recovery of
the transceiver, to the discovery of the repeating transmission, the
polar bear, the cave-in, and the decision to move to the caves. This
is due in no small part to her friendship with Sayid, Charlie, and
Hurley, as well as her apparent feelings for both Jack and Sawyer,
although her relationship to Jack suffers because of her continued
manipulation and equivocation.
Kate agrees to kiss Sawyer only because that is his declared price if
he is to tell where Shannon's inhalers are located. After they kiss,
though, he tells her that he actually does not have the medicine.
During a game of "I Never" in Outlaws, Kate reveals to
Sawyer that she was married previously, though she says the marriage
didn't last very long. She also reveals that she has killed a man,
although she may have been referring to Tom, as she also tells Jack
that the toy airplane "belonged to the man I killed" -
although Tom was not the only man she killed, her father Wayne being
the first.
Kate delivers Claire's baby boy in the middle of the jungle, while
Jack is in the midst of trying to save Boone's life.
When Sawyer dumps out the contents of her backpack, he finds out that
she is carrying the passport of a survivor who drowned a few days
after the crash, presumably to use for future false identification, in
Born to Run.
Kate confesses to Sawyer that she killed Wayne, and says that Sawyer
reminds her of Wayne. She says that this makes her feel sick inside
when she looks at, or feels anything for Sawyer.
After Sawyer, Jack, and Locke decide to go after Michael, Kate demands
to go with them. Jack denies her request, but she disobeys his request
by following them anyway. |
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Information
and image taken from:
ABC's Lost Site and Wikipedia.org |
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