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Season 3: Episode 4 - 'Every Man for
Himself'
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Desmond is on the beach,
watching Claire take care of Aaron. As she lays him in the crib,
Desmond approaches and offers to help fix her roof. Charlie shows up,
and says that if anything needs to be fixed, he’ll do it himself.
Desmond wanders off.
Back at the Hydra station, Jack is sitting in his cell watching
cartoons when Juliet brings in some food. Jack tries to convince her
to bring Ben in to talk with him, but Juliet claims that he’s not
the leader, and that everything is decided by the group. At that
moment, Ben bursts in to tell her that there has been a situation. We
see a flash of the woods as a stretcher bearing Colleen is rushed by.
Meanwhile, the Others wake up Sawyer and Kate, but the morning work is
interrupted by a call on the radio, advising Pickett of the situation.
Sure enough, Colleen’s stretcher is brought in, upsetting Pickett
and delighting Sawyer. When Kate asks, Sawyer tells her that this will
be their ticket out of their prison.
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He wrenches his water pipe away
from the trough and then triggers off the fish biscuit award sequence. The
water runs out of the pipe and along the ground, creating a pool of water
outside the cage. He tells Kate that Pickett will be distracted with his wife
hurt, and that when someone comes to the cage, Sawyer can use the cage’s
electric shock to hurt the guard and take the keys. As they wait, Sawyer
recalls his time in prison, where he met an inmate named Munson. This man had
supposedly stolen ten million dollars from the government, and the warden was
looking out for him. Sawyer encounters Munson in the prison’s sewing
facility, where Munson is making tote bags, and informs the inmate of the
warden’s plot, and warns him that the next step is for the warden to send
Munson’s wife in to put pressure on him. The warden enters the facility and
asks if Sawyer is bugging Munson, proving Sawyer’s point.
In the present, Ben comes to Sawyer’s cage and begins to question him
regarding his age and weight. When he gets near the cage, Sawyer grabs Ben’s
hand and tries to trigger the electricity, only to discover that the Others
have shut it off. Ben whips out a nightstick and begins to beat Sawyer with
it, knocking him unconscious. When Sawyer awakens, he is strapped to a table,
and the Others are preparing to inject him with something. Elsewhere in the
station, Jack hears Sawyer’s screams through the broken intercom. Back at
the beach, Desmond wanders up to someone playing golf and borrows a golf club
from him.
When Sawyer wakes back up, Ben places a cage with a rabbit in it on his chest.
Sawyer is confused, and gets really worried when Ben begins to shake the cage,
driving the rabbit into a panic. The rabbit topples over, and Ben explains
that they had injected a pacemaker into the rabbit’s heart. When it got too
excited, the pacemaker exploded. He then explains that Sawyer has a similar
device in his body. He gives Sawyer a watch that will warn him when he is near
his danger limit. If he gets too excited – for instance, while fighting or
trying to escape – the device will explode. He further warns him that if
Sawyer tells Kate about any of this, they’ll inject her with a similar
device.
Sawyer is brought back to the cages, and the Others bring buckets of water
with sponges so they can clean up. They also provide Kate with a fresh pair of
clothes. As she’s changing into them, Sawyer can’t help but look, which
causes his watch to start beeping. He dumps water on his head to cool off
before the device explodes. He reflects back to the prison, where sure enough,
Munson’s wife comes in to visit with him, asking about the money. Sawyer is
also visited, by the woman who put him in prison, another of his con victims.
She shows him a picture of a baby, and claims that it is his daughter,
Clementine. Sawyer refuses to believe this, and storms out of the visiting
area.
Back in the present, Kate examines her cage and comes to the conclusion that
she can climb out near the top, but Sawyer tells her to be patient. Kate
can’t believe what she’s hearing, especially considering his stunt from
earlier! Elsewhere, Juliet rushes in to Jack’s holding area, begging for him
to help her save Colleen’s life. Above, the alarms start going off near the
bear cages as Jack is led past Kate and Sawyer with a burlap bag over his
head. They scream at him to get him to realize they are there, but he can’t
hear them. In a rudimentary medical facility, Jack notices some X-rays, but
Juliet tells him they aren’t for the patient. Jack tries to work on Colleen,
but almost immediately she begins to crash. He starts chest compressions, but
he can’t save her.
Pickett loses his mind at this point, and rushes out of the facility and up to
the cages, where he begins to savagely beat Sawyer. He throws him at Kate’s
cage, repeatedly hitting him and yelling at Kate, asking if she loves him.
Finally, Kate breaks down and admits that she does and Pickett storms off,
yelling at the others to throw Sawyer back in his cage.
In his prison flashback, Sawyer is approached by Munson, who agrees that
Sawyer was right, and his wife was pressuring him to turn over the money.
Munson asks Sawyer to move the money before his wife can find it, but Sawyer
refuses, claiming that it’s too risky. As Sawyer walks away, Munson begins
to beg him for help. In the present, Sawyer cleans his wounds, while Kate
begins to climb to the top of her cage, and easily slips through the top. She
tries to free Sawyer, but he tells her to escape on her own. “It’s every
man for himself,” he tells her. “If you really love me, you’ll just
go.” Kate tells him that she only told Pickett that she loved him to get him
to stop beating Sawyer, and then heads back into her cage. “Live together,
die alone,” she reminds him.
Ben has been watching this exchange on his monitor, and then turns his
attention to where Jack has been handcuffed to Colleen’s gurney. Juliet
enters, and informs Jack that she’s no surgeon, only a fertility doctor.
Jack says there was no way to save Colleen, and what’s more, he has
determined his purpose for being there. The X-rays he saw were for a 40 year
old man with a tumor on his spine. Since Jack is a spinal surgeon, he has
realized that he is there to save someone’s life.
Back at the beach, Desmond has constructed some sort of antenna with the golf
club at its tip. A storm rolls in, and lightning strikes the rod, right in
front of Charlie, Claire, and Aaron. I guess they should have listened to
Desmond earlier about fixing the roof!
Ben wakes up Sawyer in the middle of the night, and tells him they’re going
for a walk. Sawyer recalls a similar walk while he was in prison, one in which
he was brought before the warden, and Agent Freedman from the Department of
Treasury. Sawyer informs this agent as to where Munson’s money has been
hidden, and in exchange, the warden ends Sawyer’s sentence and lets him go.
When asked about his reward, Sawyer tells the agent to send it to an account
in Albuquerque for Clementine Phillips, with the stipulation that she can
never know where the money came from.
Ben leads Sawyer up a mountain side, which causes the watch to begin beeping
again. Sawyer asks if this is just a way from Ben to get him killed, but Ben
informs him that “the only thing we injected you with is doubt.” There was
no pacemaker, and the rabbit from earlier had only been injected with a
sedative. When they reach the summit, Sawyer looks across an expanse of water
and sees the island he has spent so much time on. Ben tells him that Sawyer is
currently on an island twice the size of Alcatraz, and that there is nowhere
to run. “The only way to gain a con man’s respect is to con him. You’re
pretty good, Sawyer. But we’re better.” The Others take Sawyer back to his
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