LOST ? Episode 3
?Three Days Ago, We All Died.?
By Lenafan
As you can tell by now, I like to use direct quotes from the show to highlight the episode we watched. This particular episode was a little choppy in that the editor cut back and forth between memory and current events.
We saw a lot regarding dying, especially the man (I think he?s a law enforcement officer), who had Kate in handcuffs on board the plane. Jack can?t find any good antibiotics and he, the patient, is dying?slowly. It starts with him telling Jack that Kate is dangerous. He wants to know where his handcuffs are and then wants Jack to look in his coat pocket. There Jack finds a wanted poster on Kate: she?s wanted for murder, maybe. That was not clearly delineated for us. He is very sick and in subsequent scenes, we see him try to grab Kate when she goes to see him alone. He asks Jack to let him talk to her.
In several flashbacks, we learn that an Australian farmer (Raymond) found Kate asleep in his barn. He offers her a job to help him (his wife died) and that he had a big mortgage to deal with. Kate tells him she is a Canadian and that she finished college. She was in Australia on her way around the world. Says she likes farms and knows how to work one. She stays with him for three months working for room and pay and then starts to leave one night. Ray stops her, saying he?ll drive her to the railroad the next day.
On the way, Kate sees the lawman is following them in his truck. The farmer sheepishly apologizes, saying that the $23,000 reward would help him keep up with the mortgage. Desperate, Kate jams her foot on the accelerator. The truck crashes, rolling down a hill. The farmer is hurt. The car is burning. Kate pulls the farmer out, saving his life. ?You could have gotten away,? says the lawman back in the tent.
What we don?t know is exactly why Kate is wanted: murder, armed robbery, what?
The six, including Kate, who went on the hike return, agree it would be best if the rest did not know about the transmission that had repeated itself for sixteen years, five months. Sayid says, ?Don?t take away their hope.? Here we will probably see someone from this group other than Kate or Sayid, drop the bomb on the survivors sometime in the future. Sayid says they need to separate into three groups and each needs a leader. Kate, however, walking away with Jack tells him about the transmission because she is drawn to his strength and compassion. (After all, they are our heroes in this play.) She knows he will not tell anyone either.
The oriental couple has some nice scenes. First, he (Jin) tells her (Sun) that he loves her; however, he continues, she is dirty and should wash up. There is a funny scene with Walt?s father, who is out looking for the dog. He is chased through the underbrush by some animal we do not see. He stumbles into the private part of the beach where Sun is half undressed and bathing herself. ?I didn?t see a thing.? He mumbles hurrying away. She does not know what he says, as she speaks no English, maybe. This might develop into a subplot, as someone will try to teach her. (Walt?s father?)
Meanwhile, the man known as Locke is making a whistle. Earlier, he told Walt about a secret. The father asked him what he was and Walt said Locke said, ?a miracle happened.? After finishing the whistle, Locke retreats to a private spot on the beach some distance from the survivors and uses it. Shortly after that, Vince, Walt?s dog, appears. Later near the end of the episode, Locke wakes up Walt?s father and tells him that he found the dog and thought it a good idea if he brings him back to his son. (I really liked this little subplot.)
Kate is concerned about her dying captor. She goes to see him and he grabs her, trying to either strangle or hold on to her, but Jack comes back in time and his patient faints from the exertion. She wants to know if the dying man will take long to die and when Jack tells her yes, she wants to know if he will be in pain. The answer again is yes. Jack knows why she?s asking?the man probably is suffering, put him out of his misery. He says, ?I saw your mug shot. I am not a murderer.? Touch?!
Later on, in another set of scenes, Sawyer thanks Kate for taking the gun with the bullet?they have only one?and keeping it. He looks toward the tent where the patient lies moaning loudly; stating the only one who could kill him is the one with the gun. The noise of the man?s dying is keeping the survivors on edge. In a distance, Hurley sees Jack and wants to know where Kate is. Jack tells him. Hurley tells him she has the gun. Jack races back to see her leave the tent and then there is a gunshot. She gave Sawyer the gun, because the dying man asked her if he was dying. Sawyer tells Jack the man asked him to do it, since Jack could not. (It?s the doctor-oath thing.)
As Jack joins them, they hear the man coughing. Moments later, Jack tells Sawyer all he did was hit the lung and not his heart. Jack says now it will take hours for him to die. Sawyer leaves hearing the gurgling sounds and then, nothing. Jack walks out of the tent past him having finished the job.
Jack sits on the beach looking out to sea. Kate joins him. She wants to tell him about herself. He doesn?t want to know. ?We all died three days ago. Everyone deserves a second chance.?
All right, it?s been three days and they are LOST on a tropical island. I think someone better get the dead bodies out of the plane and into a grave pronto. The smell and danger from being close is climbing fast. All sorts of nastiness can come from decaying bodies.
Somewhere in the episode, someone said to someone else ?trust me.? JJ Abrams loves those two words as they were prominently spoken innumerable times in Alias, his other show. I do like this show, but let?s get off the beach or move further away from the wreck, because trouble is on the horizon?or back in the jungle!
Trust me!
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