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As dawn ushers in
another day on the island we see Jin and Sun sharing an intimate
moment that is long overdue. For them the sunrise represents a new
beginning -- a second chance at love. And we get the feeling that
they're not going to let this one slip through their fingers.
We find Kate high up
in a tree picking fruit from the tall branches. As she slides back
down the trunk, she slips, almost falling and spilling several mangoes
to the jungle floor. As she crouches to collect them, she hears
something behind her and turns to see a magnificent black horse
standing in the morning mist. But that's not possible…is it?
In FLASHBACK we see a
younger version of Kate as she waits on the stairs of her modest
house. When a pickup truck swerves down the dirt road and stops in
front we get our first look at her mother's choice for a father --
"Wayne." He's happy to let Kate help him to bed, as long as
it affords him another chance to lay his drunken hands on her. So when
Kate tells him goodnight, she really means it. We see her go outside
and ride off on her motorcycle as the house behind her explodes into a
giant fireball.
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In the Hatch, Sawyer is still
delirious with fever as a result of his blood infection. As Jack checks his
wounds Sawyer calls out for Kate. When Jack leans in a little closer he hears
Sawyer say something that makes him a little dizzy himself. "I love
her." And before he has time to process what that means, there is Kate
herself anxious to take over his care once more.
Jack attends the funeral
services for Shannon and it's very difficult for everyone involved to keep a
dry eye as Sayid says a final goodbye to the woman he loved. Meanwhile, back
in the hatch, Kate has a very scary episode with Sawyer that shakes her to her
core, so when Locke and Jack finally return to the hatch they find Sawyer
unattended and the clock on the computer dangerously close to zero.
Back in FLASHBACK, we get to
see the beginning of Kate's "relationship" with the Marshal when he
arrests her at the bus station after trying to flee the area. While
transporting her back to Iowa, in the thick of a brutal rainstorm, they swerve
off the road and crash into a telephone pole, allowing Kate her first chance
at escape. After pushing the unconscious Marshal out into the rain, Kate looks
to see what it was that forced them off the road. And standing there, in the
middle of the road, just as placid as can be, is a very familiar-looking black
horse.
On the island, as Kate
struggles with her feelings for Jack and Sawyer as well as with her sanity,
Eko provides Locke with the missing piece of a puzzle that may ask more
questions than it answers. Jack reaches out to Ana Lucia at a time when she
needs a friend more than ever, and Michael discovers something new about the
computer that just might hold the key to getting back his son. |
