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Season 1: Episode 22- 'Born to Run'
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pulls into the parking lot of a hotel located next to a thriving
cornfield and comes to a stop. Although we can't see her face we see a
blonde woman get out of the car and open the trunk. Inside are license
plates for at least a dozen states. She very deftly removes the
Nebraska plate and replaces it with one from Ohio. In the background,
a family is checking out of their room, leaving the door open behind
them while the chambermaid pushes her cart along her appointed rounds.
Very casually, the blond woman takes her bag and walks right past the
departing family. While the maid is in another room, the blond woman
takes two towels and two bottles of shampoo from her cart and then
slips into the recently vacated room, closing the door behind her and
hanging the "Do Not Disturb" sign on the handle. |
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We follow the girl
inside and watch her go to the sink and remove her shirt. She pulls a
bottle of hair coloring out of her bag and begins to apply it to her
hair. A moment later we see her in the shower as the excess dye drips
down the drain. Her hair is now a dark brown and as she turns to
continue washing her hair, we finally get our first look at her
face…and it's Kate!
We follow her to the lobby where she asks the clerk for a letter that
should be held there for her. He asks her name. "Joan Hart,"
she tells him, and sure enough there is a letter. Back in her car, we
see the wad of cash that was enclosed and we realize that this is how
she must be surviving on the run. But there is something else with the
money this time, a handwritten letter. And something in that letter
hits Kate hard because she begins to cry as we go to…
The beach. Kate is playing with the toy plane she so desperately
wanted from the case the Marshal was carrying. Charlie comes along and
sits beside her and he's in very good spirits. He explains to Kate
that, once the raft sets sail and rescue comes as a result, they are
all going to be famous. "Don't you want to be famous,"
Charlie asks. But the look on Kate's face makes it unnecessary to
answer. Further down the beach another of the survivors, Dr. Arzt is
explaining that monsoon season is coming any day now and the trade
winds will shift directions when it does. Every day they wait to
launch increases the chance that they will die out there. Michael
decides that tomorrow will be the day to launch and he sets out to
make the final arrangements, but Kate is shadowing him the whole way.
When he finally asks Kate why she is suddenly so interested in the
raft she drops a bombshell on him: "Because I'm coming with
you."
Michael explains that the raft is full. There are 4 spots and those
are already spoken for. Kate tries her best to sell herself as the
best candidate for the raft and even goes as far as to suggest to
Michael that the raft is too dangerous for Walt. But this only edifies
Michael's position. He is the only one who is going to decide what is
right for his son. And right now, what's best is to get him off this
island.
We FLASHBACK to a hospital where we see Kate carrying a bouquet of
flowers down the hall. She is heading for a certain room when she
spots a police officer sitting guard in front of the door. She quickly
blocks herself from view with the flowers and walks right by,
pretending to be going somewhere else.
Later, a doctor heads to his car in the parking structure after a long
day at work. As he climbs in we hear a voice from the back seat:
"Hi, Tom." After his initial scare, Tom recognizes Kate. He
asks her what she is doing there and she tells him Diane is dying of
cancer and she thought she owed it to her to come and see her. But she
needs his help…
Back on the island, Jin is making some last minute adjustments to the
rigging when Sun approaches and asks him if he is going to be leaving
on the raft. He admits that he is, causing Sun to turn and walk away.
Meanwhile, Sayid is leading Jack through the jungle where they finally
meet up with Locke. Jack and Locke still carry a palpable distrust and
Jack is very suspicious as Locke asks him to follow him. Jack does and
they reveal the hatch, much further along in its excavation. This is
the first time Jack has seen it and his reaction is profound. Locke is
typically understated: "I guess it's time we talked about
this…"
Back at the raft Sawyer asks Michael why they need to pack so much
salted fish, can't they just catch their own on the raft? Michael
begins to wonder just how fit Sawyer is for the duty and admits that
he has other interested parties. This gets Sawyer over to Kate in a
hurry and when he arrives we see her burning the protective coating
off of a passport, which she quickly hides once Sawyer arrives. Sawyer
lays it out in plain English: Don't mess with me. He tells her he
knows who she really is and how badly she needs to get on that raft,
but that just isn't going to happen. No way. Kate's response is even
more to the point. "I want your spot, I'll get your spot."
Back at the raft, Michael is taking a much deserved water break and
explaining to Walt that it might be difficult to send help back to an
island this remote. As he is doing so, he keels over in pain.
Something is very wrong. Walt runs through the jungle looking for help
and finds Sun and Kate. He tells them what is wrong and Kate sends Sun
back to Michael with Walt while she runs off to try and find Jack.
But Jack is at the hatch and he's not too happy to find out about this
so late in the game. He demands to know why Locke kept this from him
for three weeks. Locke asks Jack how long he knew about the guns in
the Marshal's case before he decided to tell the rest of them.
"So how do we open it," Jack asks, but this sends Sayid into
a frenzy. He brought Jack out here to talk Locke out of trying to open
the hatch. Besides, Sayid asks, if the door was meant to be opened,
why doesn't it have a handle on the outside?
While making their way back, Locke, Jack and Sayid finally bump into
Kate, who tells them about the problem with Michael. Once back, they
find Michael in dire condition. Jack tries to make his diagnosis, but
all Michael has been doing is eating the same food and drinking the
same water as everyone else. Adding to his agony, Michael is ordered
to stay on his back until Jack can get more information.
In FLASHBACK, we see Kate looking at some snapshots stuck to the
refrigerator door with magnets. They show the doctor with a lovely
woman and a beautiful baby boy. Tom tells Kate that his name is Connor
and we can see how idyllic his life is. And how much that life lays in
contrast to Kate's. Tom says that he managed to get Diane into the MRI
room at 5am and that Kate should get some private time with her then.
When they realize that they have 3 hours to kill, Kate asks Tom a
cryptic question: "Do you think it's still there?" Tom's car
pulls to the base of a tree in the middle of a cow pasture. They
remove two shovels out of the trunk, walk off six paces and begin to
dig.
Back on the island, Jack and Locke are trying to diagnose Michael.
Jack inspects the empty water bottles from the camp and finds some
suspicious residue at the bottom of one of the bottles. He races back
to Michael and tells him not to drink out of any bottles except the
one Jack gives him. Michael catches on and immediately tells Jack that
Sawyer is the only one he feels had the motivation to poison him - -
in retaliation for possibly replacing him on the raft. Meanwhile,
Hurley accidentally tells Locke that Kate is a fugitive. This is
turning out to be a day full of surprises.
Claire is giving Charlie a haircut while he serenades the baby and
they fantasize about what they are going to do first after they get
rescued. Charlie invites her to come and stay with him until she
figures out what she wants to do next. When she accepts, Charlie is
visibly pleased.
Kate catches up with Jack at the caves and asks if someone is going to
be taking his place on the raft. This prompts Jack to ask her if she
poisoned Michael. Kate asks Jack if he thinks she is capable of that,
but she doesn't get the answer she is looking for. "I don't know
what you're capable of."
And off this we FLASHBACK to that field where Kate and Tom are still
digging. Kate's shovel hits something metal and they pull something
totally unexpected out of the ground. We get a closer look as they
open the box and it's…a time capsule. Inside are the treasures of
two children among which is… the toy airplane. And wait a minute,
but it's Tom's! Kate finds an audiocassette and as these two sit in
the car and listen to themselves as children, we learn that they were
more than just friends --- they loved each other. And the moment leads
to a kiss that is 15 years overdue. But things have changed for both
of them and Tom starts the car to head back towards the hospital.
Back on the island, Locke is applying a homemade ointment to a leg
injury when Walt arrives. He wants to tell Locke something -- he
didn't poison his father. He may have burned the first raft, but he
had nothing to do with this. When Locke comes over to take his hand
and tell him they are friends and not to worry, something happens to
Walt. Locke can see his face go slack and he asks him what is wrong.
"Don't open it," Walt says. And now it's Locke's face that
goes slack. "Don't open that thing!"
Sawyer delivers a bottle of antacid to Michael in the hopes that it
will solidify his spot on the raft, but the idea backfires when
Michael accuses Sawyer of poisoning him and kicks him off the raft.
"You're a liar and a criminal," says Michael, but Sawyer
isn't about to take this lying down. "Oh, I'm a criminal,"
Sawyer says. Kate is watching this exchange from a distance and Sawyer
goes over to her and brings her to Michael. He takes the bag from her
shoulder and dumps it out. And what does he find, but the passport
Kate was forging earlier. It belonged to Joanna, the woman who drowned
in episode 103. Sawyer outs Kate to the entire camp telling them that
she was the fugitive with the Marshal and that she will do anything to
anyone in order to remain free. "She doesn't care about anyone
but herself!"
But as we FLASHBACK to the hospital we see that isn't true. Kate as
risked everything to come and see this woman in the hospital and as
Tom wheels her in to a room on a gurney, Kate is finally allowed to
get close to her. "Mom? It's me, Katie."
Oh. My. God. This is Kate's MOM! And as she regains consciousness and
recognizes her daughter -- and while Kate begins to tearfully
apologize for putting her mother through "all this" -- and
while we are trying to take all this in, Kate's mother begins to
speak. Just a single word at first and barely a whisper:
"Help." Kate tells her it's going to be okay, but she
continues, a little louder each time until she is screaming for help.
Is her mother afraid of her? The noise attracts some unwanted
attention and Kate a security guard arrives. When he fails to believe
Kate's cover story, she is forced to knock him out with his
walkie-talkie. Tom arrives to find the guard on the ground and asks
Kate what happened. "I need your car keys," Kate says. The
two go racing to the garage and Kate climbs into the driver's seat
with Tom taking the passenger side. We can already hear the sirens of
the approaching police as they race down the garage, but they are too
late -- a police car has blocked the exit and the officer driving it
has his weapon drawn. This is it…
Kate tells Tom to get out, but he refuses. Tom pleads with Kate to
turn herself in; they'll ask the court to be lenient. It's her only
chance for a normal life someday. But if we know anything about Kate
it is this: She will do almost anything to get away. She tells him
this is his last chance, but Tom refuses to budge. Kate GUNS the
engine and the office gets of several shots before is car is rammed
out of the way and Kate is past him. And it looks as if they might
make it until another car slams into them, disabling their car. When
Kate recovers from the impact she reaches over to make sure that Tom
is okay…but he isn't. One of the officer's bullets hit Tom in the
chest and he sits there, dead in the passenger seat. Kate barely has a
moment to process the horror of what just happened - - of what she has
just done when the other police cars start to arrive. She catches a
glance of Tom's toy airplane in the backseat and considers climbing
back for it, but realizes that she doesn't have the time. Quick as a
flash, she is out of the car and running again, but something tells us
no matter how fast she runs, she will never get away from this.
And back on the beach, Kate is still there, suffering under the newly
hostile stares of the entire camp. She tries to resurrect herself by
coming clean and she tells everyone, for the first time that she was
the one the Marshal was transporting. "But I didn't poison
you," she tells Michael. But it's too late. The camp has a new
pariah now. And as the other survivors walk away from her, she
realizes that things will never be quite the same again.
Jack finds Sun leaning against a tree watching her husband make the
final adjustments to the raft. Jack asks her if she wants Jin to stay
and when she admits that she does, he asks if that is the reason she
tried to poison him. It's an easy enough mistake, Jin and Michael work
together all day -- it would be very easy to get the water bottles
mixed up. Sun breaks down and admits that she doesn't want him to die
out on the raft, so she mixed just enough of the poison to make him
sick. She didn't know what else to do. Jack promises not to tell
anyone about it, but he offers Sun some advice. "He's going. If I
were you, I'd say goodbye."
And as that lands on Sun we catch up with Kate at the fire. Seems she
has it all to herself this evening. That is until Sawyer comes to
deliver a post-mortem. Sawyer tells Kate he is back on the raft and
that Michael has rallied and will indeed launch the raft tomorrow.
Kate asks Sawyer why it's so important for him to be on the raft and
when Sawyer answers it's difficult to tell if he is answering a
question…or asking one of his own. "Because there ain't
anything on this island worth staying for."
Walt makes his way over to his father who is recovering next to his
fire by the raft. He tells Walt not to worry, that they will be
sailing away home in no time when Walt makes a startling admission:
"I'm the one that burned the raft." As Michael sits in
stunned silence, Walt explains that he didn't want to leave and that
he thought he could stop them from leaving by getting rid of the raft.
Michael processes this and tells Walt that they can stay behind on the
island if that is what Walt wants. "We don't have to leave,"
he says. But Walt's reply sends a chill down our spines.
"Yes we do."
And as Kate sits alone in her tent, reflecting on a very, very bad
day, Sun arrives. She tells Kate that Jack knows about the poison. But
what she says next knocks us for a loop: "I didn't tell him it
was your idea," she says. Kate thanks her and Sun explains that
there was no reason to punish her; she was only trying to help. And as
the two ladies sit alone, Sun opens up in a way we rarely get to see.
She tells Kate that, when she was a little girl she was a little girl
she believed that once she found the man she loved, she would be
happy…forever.
"Yeah," Kate says…"Me too." |
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