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"What Kate Does"
Previously on LOST: Our losties walk around a lot and end up prisoners at the Temple, Juliet croaked, Sayid woke up from the dead and, by the end, our losties are in serious need of a bath.
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Begin Episode 6.03
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[AT THE] TEMPLE
Uber-Hippie makes a beeline for Sensei's lair deep w/in the Temple. Sensei is typing on a VERY FAMILIAR TYPEWRITER (aka Mikail's typewriter, I'm thinkin'). He fondles his necklace when he hears the news: "He's alive."
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TEMPLE SPA ROOM
Jack and Hurley fawn over a newly resurrected Sayid.
- Sayid: I feel lightheaded.
- Jack: You've been mostly dead all day!
- Kate: Back from the dead. Weird, right?
- Sawyer: I'm outta here.
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LA_X
Kate escapes the airport with a gun on the cabbie and Claire in the backseat. She tells Claire to Shut Up! SHE SPOTS JACK ON HIS CELL PHONE (weird non-verbal exchange between them). Claire tries to split, the cabbie DOES split, and Kate mans the wheel. Once away from the airport, she kicks Claire (who we NOW see is very pregnant) to the curb.
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TEMPLE REC AREA
Kate leads the way as Jin and Jack help Sayid out to the courtyard. Sayid gets some water and the skinny. Jack check's Sayid's gut wound. It's almost completely closed.
- Sayid: (to Jack) thanks for saving my life.
- Jack: You've been mostly dead all day!
Sensei arrives in a snit. Uber-Hippie asks Sayid to come inside for a little chit-chat. Jack protests. Sensei sicks his droogs on our Crew! A gunshot.
- Sawyer: Open the frickin' door cuz I'm leavin'.
- Sensei: You have to stay.
- Sawyer: Up yours!
- Kate: Don't go, James!
- Sawyer: Don't come after me.
Sawyer exits. Sensei's droogs restrain Jack and haul Sayid off. Poof! A familiar face (the guy reading when he was supposed to be guarding Carl in the mind control room) pops up waving a gun. Kate insists she can bring Sawyer back (and make him stay -- Anyone thinking that might be stretching the truth a bit? What's she got? A magic Sawyer leash and collar?). Jin volunteers to go with her. Weirdness alert: Uber-Hippie: It's very important he get back here safely.
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LA_X
Kate's cab arrives at a mechanic's shop. In an oddly reasonable act of "help the pretty convict," the mechanic cuts Kate outta those stinkin' handcuffs. She tells him she's wanted for murder (!) and heads off to change clothes. She opens Claire's bag and finds a polaroid of a heavily pregnant Claire happily pointing to her belly. Weirdness alert: She finds a package of onesies, a bottle, a rattle and a big stuffed Orca (Shamu for you non-zoological types). [I'm pretty sure that Claire didn't have any of that stuff with her on the island, AND that stuffed Shamu? I totally remember a toddler Aaron holding it in "Something Nice Back Home," the episode where Jack and Kate almost get engaged, but split up when he hits the booze and pills (appendicitis episode).] Kate handles the Orca. In the mirror, she begins to remember something - but we're not sure what.
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TEMPLE REC AREA
Kate packs for Operation Retrieve Sawyer. Jack says he'd come with her if he could. They trade an interesting goodbye. Weirdness warning: We've seen THIS specific LOOK on Kate's face before: At the END of the incident when a bloody, bomb-bearing Jack pleads for her support. Special note: Smokin' HOT Jack is BACK, baby! Woot!
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TEMPLE - SENSEI'S LAIR
Sensei proceeds to torture a strapped down Sayid (See Instructions Below).
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Sensei's Handy Dandy Recipe for Mini-Torture/What's-goin'-on-in-there Testing of the Recently Reanimated
- First sprinkle little powder (I'M GUESSING ASH).
- Then add some groovy S & M NEEDLE leads to the chest and belly.
- Apply ONE good dose of electricity (KINDA LIKE DANIELLE DID WHEN SHE TORTURED SAYID).
- Press a glowing hot poker, fresh from the fire, against the belly.
- Closely observe victim's reaction.
- Unstrap victim.
- Apologize and reassure victim that everything went really well.
- Plot sneaky assassination of victim with evil grease-man/cohort.
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[This is about when I decided 1) Sensei is a BAD GUY and 2) Sensei doesn't THINK he's a bad guy.]
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LA_X
Kate finds Claire at a bus stop. She returns her stuff (including her money) Claire discloses that 1) she's giving up her baby for adoption and 2) the adoptive couple didn't show up at the airport. Kate offers her a ride. Claire climbs in.
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JUNGLE
Kate leads the Operation Retrieve Sawyer parade. Through random exposition, via the Grumpy Kid [the kid that Kate doesn't remember cold-cocking with a rifle butt when she, Sawyer and Alex were attempting to rescue Carl in Season 3], we find out: The Temple peeps are "protecting" our losties from the "big pillar of black smoke that makes a ticka ticka sound when it's pissed off." Jin questions grumpy boy about the Ajira flight. Weirdness alert: "Is this a press conference?!" Justin, the nice guy/secondary Other on escort duty lets it slip that they ARE aware of "the one that landed" before Grumpy Kid tells him to SHUT UP! Weirdness alert: They MIGHT be referring to the plane that landed at LA_X. It's possible since they don't mention Ajira specifically.
Kate tracks Sawyer. "After you princess!" Apparently Sawyer "shot a guy" on his way out (That's a weird thing to say-- anyone see Sawyer shoot a guy on his way out?).
Justin stops Kate from tripping a Rousseau-type booby trap: a net full of rocks. Justin says: She's been dead for years. This couldn't be-- Grumpy Kid AGAIN with the Shut Up! Grumpy Kid gets it, tho. When he starts monologuing about "Remember when you smacked me with your rifle," Kate smacks him with her canteen. She knocks out poor Justin, too, by trippin the rocks-in-a-net trap. She gathers the handgun and rifle.
- Jin: What are you doing?
- Kate: Escaping. (Duh!)
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TEMPLE SPA ROOM
Sensei's droogs deliver Sayid. Sayid tattles on Sensei's "torture victim by torturing victim and never asking any questions." Jack is not pleased (and SO sexy! Woot!). Weirdness alert: Jack approaches two droogs standing guard at the door. He simply says: Step aside. And they DO with a Monty Python glance at each other and zero fuss.
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TEMPLE - SENSEI'S LAIR
Sensei is grinding something with a pistol and mortar. Weirdness alert: Jack has no problem navigating the maze with the temple (from the opening shot with Uber-Hippie), and walks straight into Sensei's lair. Weirdness alert: Sensei's lair is no longer just a banzai tea room. Instead we see a shelf of books, a desk and a full-on "organic yet most likely illegal drugs made here" work table.
- Jack: WTF?!
- Uber-Hippie: Language!
- Jack: Not cool torturing my pal like that.
- Uber Hippie: One man's torture is another man's diagnostic tool. You need to get out more.
- Jack: Ha Ha. Very Funny.
- Uber-Hippie: Yer pal? He's sick. "He's infected."
- Jack: Yuh-huh.
- Uber Hippie: Seriously. He needs to take this pill.
- Jack: Well I'm not giving it to him! I'm a doctor, not an idiot!
Sensei puts the whammy on Jack with scary puppy eyes.
- Sensei: How many pals died helping you, Shephard?
- Jack: A few. More than a few. Pretty much everyone but my main peeps.
- Sensei: This is your chance to redeem yourself, guilt-boy. Now, buck up and trick Sayid into taking his medicine. And hurry up will you? The infection'll spread if you don't get moving.
[Jack always falls for that ****! Right?]
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TEMPLE SPA ROOM
Jack pow-wows with Sayid.
- Jack: Gotta pill for you.
- Sayid: Yeah, and?
- Jack: You thanked me for saving you, but they "fixed you," not me.
- Sayid: Look, bud. Enough chit-chat. You want me to take the pill, I'll take the pill cuz I know you've got my back.
- Jack: Hm.
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JUNGLE
Jin and Kate trek on without their droogs.
- Jin: You played them?
- Kate: Duh! What's yer point?
- Jin: My point is my wife's here on this island!
- Kate: Well, I dunno where she is!
- Jin: I find your lack of faith AND priorities disturbing. I need to find my wife.
- Kate: Then go find her!
- Jin: Fine! I will!
- Kate: Fine!
- Jin: Fine!
They split off.
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LA_X
Kate drives Claire through Brentwood.
- Claire: This is nice.
- Kate: It's Brentwood.
- Claire: I bet this couple I'm giving my baby to are really nice, even if they didn't bother coming to the airport to meet me.
- Kate: Your denial is my denial, sweetie.
They arrive at the house.
- Claire: Will you come with me?
- Kate: GEEZ! You're so frickin' pregnant and needy! Fine.
A weeping woman answers the door.
- Weeping woman: Dang. You're coming today? Boo-hoo.
- Claire and Kate: Hm.
- Weeping woman: I should've called. My husband left me, so I can't take the baby cuz my life is SO complicated and I'd rather die than be a single mom. Boo-Hoo!
- Kate: Are you effing kidding me with the boo-hooing? This girl, willing to give you HER baby, flew halfway around the world! She's big as the side of a house on that plane for 18 hours! She's got no place to live, little money, no food --
Claire doubles over.
- Kate: ...and another thing! PLENTY of single moms do GREAT jobs raising their kids, and I bet THEIR lives are more complicated than yours! What's complicated? Figuring how to clean your HUGE house AND take care of your baby?
- Claire: AHHHH!!
- Kate: What now? Are you in labor?! Terrific. (to Weeping Woman) Lookit what you did you stupid crybaby!
Kate leads her to the car.
- Kate: You better not give birth in my cab is all I'm saying.
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NEW OTHERTON
Kate creeps carefully through the debris. She hears a strange noise coming from a dark and spooky house. Naturally, she investigates (with gun in hand). Unseen, she peeps on Sawyer in what used to be (we assume) Sawyer and Juliet's bedroom (bedspread's still ugly, tho). He crowbars up a few floorboards and pulls out a shoe box. He pulls a small, black velvet bag from the box (with a hand that clearly doesn't belong to Josh Holloway), remembers and mourns. Weirdness alert: Kate looks like she's doing that remembering thing again. A bit perturbed, she turns away. Sawyer hears a noise and quickly pulls his gun.
- Sawyer: What the hell are you doing here?
- Kate: I was worried about you.
Sawyer, looking like he needs a shower now MORE than ever, stomps off. Weirdness alert: Kate looks guilty and sad.
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LA_X
Kate's cab screeches to a halt at the Emergency Room door.
- Nurse: What's happening?
- Kate: We're buffalo hunting. Duh!
- Claire: I'm having contractions.
- Nurse: (to Kate) Are you with her?
- Kate: (ducks her head as a cop car goes by) Yep. Absolutely.
After what must have been some kind of world record triage in the emptiest ER room on the planet, Claire freaks in her hospital bed/gown as the nurse takes her blood pressure. Apparently spoiled by the speedy service so far, Kate fetches a doctor to look Claire over. Weirdness Alert: The first doctor she happens upon? Ethan (psycho who snatched Claire on the island. Also a surgeon, Juliet's plumber, an Other and a widower after his wife died in childbirth). He immediately attends to Claire (I really need to find this hospital of magical efficiency!).
- Dr. Goodspeed/Ethan: Congratulations, you're at 36 weeks (8 months), and you're in labor! Isn't childbirth just the most amazing miracle?
- Claire: No.
- Dr. Goodspeed: Um, well, okay, since you feel THAT way about it, I could give you "perfectly safe" meds to stop your labor [again with the Magical Medical Treatment!], but only if you want to go home all huge and pregnant. OR you could just stick around and have your baby today! [And skip all those nasty needles I'm gonna poke you with]
Claire trades looks with Kate. She declines childbirth for the moment. Weirdness alert: Immediately, the monitors on the baby go flatline. Dr. Goodspeed calmly does an immediate ultrasound (since the ultrasound machine happens to be IN the ROOM). As he fishes around, Claire starts to freak out and babble/wail.
Weirdness alert: As soon as she says Aaron's name, everything returns to normal, and the ultrasound looks just fine. [And if you didn't see something really weird on the ultrasound screen just before the baby comes into view, you weren't looking!]
Weirdness alert: Kate looks almost disappointed maybe? Odd reaction from Kate. She sympathetically holds a relieved Claire's hand.
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NEW OTHERTON - THE DOCK
Kate joins Sawyer.
- Kate: I came back to the island cuz I need to find Claire & reunite her with Aaron.
- Weirdness alert:
- Kate: I'm sorry. I never should've followed you.
- Sawyer: Which time?
- Kate: It's my fault Juliet's dead cuz I crashed yer submarine ride into the sunset plan.
- Sawyer: Nah. I talked her outta getting on the sub, like, five minutes after we hit Dharmaville. I made her stay on this island cuz I didn't want to be alone. You understand that, right?
- Kate - No answer.
- Sawyer: But I think some of us are meant to be alone.
Sawyer cries some big ol' tears. He fingers a [cheap!] engagement ring.
- Sawyer: I was gonna ask her to marry me.
Kate looks away - sad and regretful. She looks at the ring in Sawyer's FILTHY fingers. Sawyer pitches it into the water and leaves. Weirdness alert: Kate cries AS IF SHE FEELS WHAT JULIET WOULD FEEL IF SHE WAS THERE TO WATCH SAWYER'S PAIN AND REGRET.
[However, deep down in her soul, Kate could be saying: You weren't alone on the CHOPPER, were you Jerky! Yeah, yeah, Mr. Crying man--Don't want to be alone, right? Try picking out a better ring next time! I mean, Jack came up with something fabulous, and he was a junkie! Don't want to be alone my ***. Pfft.]
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TEMPLE - SENSEI'S LAIR
Sensei spins a baseball on his desk. (?)
- Jack: What's that?
- Sensei: It's a baseball. (Sheesh. I can't believe you people got past the first line of Others!)
- Jack: What's with the "I don't speak English" routine?
- Sensei: It makes me mysterious and a little scary -- both good things if you want to be in charge.
- Jack: Who are you & how did you get here?
- Sensei: I was brought here, like everyone else.
- Jack: What do you mean brought here?
- Sensei: You know what I mean.
- Jack: Um, if I knew what you mean, I wouldn't ask you to tell me what you mean, now, would I?
- Sensei: You didn't know what a baseball is either. I choose not to judge.
- Jack: (stands) Nevermind. Sayid and I talked it over, and we aren't taking any kind of organic/plant concoction you give us that can't be smoked in a pipe.
- Sensei: He'll die if he doesn't take it.
- Jack: Yeah, well he already died, so that's no good reason. Tell me what's in the pill.
- Sensei: You'll have to trust me.
- Jack: Oh NO you didn't!*
Jack knocks the pill back. Quick as greased lightning, Sensei performs 8 different judo versions of the Hemilich maneuver on him [no small feat considering Jack is about a foot and a half taller than he is.] during the course of which Jack starts to look a little green around the gills. Weirdness alert: Jack coughs the INTACT pill out on the floor. A relieved Sensei picks it up.
- Sensei: Okay fine. It's poison.
- Jack: HA! I KNEW IT!
[*Weirdness alert- Jack: I don't trust myself. How'm I supposed to trust you?]
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LA_X - HOSPITAL
Claire admires an ultrasound pic. Cops enter and ask about "JOAN HART." Claire covers for her, and in a remarkable display of WE ARE NOT PSYCHO MARSHALLS LIKE EDWARD who's supposedly manhunting for her all over town, the cops thank her and leave. Kate comes out from her hiding place. They trade thank yous.
- Claire: Why are they after you?
- Kate: Would you believe that I'm innocent?
- Claire: Sure. Why not.
Kate makes to leave. Claire hands her a credit card.
- Kate: Aaron's a great name.
- Claire: I dunno why I said it. It's like I knew it or something.
- Kate: I think you should keep him.
- Claire: Well, um--Good luck.
- Kate: You too.
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NEW OTHERTON
Kate fills her canteen from a spigot. Weirdness alert: Sawyer walks outta the jungle [still in need of a serious BATH] to a cacophony of weird bird calls. He passes Kate without looking at her, enters a house an closes the door. Kate looks--well--she just looks odd. She gathers her pack and leaves.
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TEMPLE - SENSEI'S LAIR
Sensei pours a cup of tea.
- Uber-Hippie: He SWALLOWED it?
- Sensei: Yup.
- Uber-Hippie: How did these people make it past the first line of Others?
- Sensei: I try not to judge.
A shaken Jack [ALSO badly in need of a BATH] sits crumpled in a chair. Weirdness alert: He holds his unmoving left arm close to his body in a way that I think looks weird. Sensei puts the cup before him.
- Jack: What is it?
- Sensei: Tea. I dare you to drink it.
And like a COMPLETE IDIOT, Jack DOES drink it! Even Uber-Hippie does a double take!
- Jack: Why would you people want to kill Sayid?
Weirdness alert from here to end of scene:
Creepy noise. Sensei turns.
- Sensei: We believe he has been -Japanese-.
- Jack: Well that clears things up.
- Uber-Hippie: Best translation: claimed.
- Jack: Claimed like dry cleaning? Claimed like lost luggage? Claimed like a gold mine? What? Help me out here.
- Sensei: There is a darkness growing with in him. Once it reaches his heart, everything your friend once was will be gone.
- Jack: That's it? Darkness? You people were gonna trick me into tricking him into killing himself because you're afraid of the dark?! What a bunch of wiennies! Some Others you turned out to be!
- Sensei: Cripes you are thick! We're pretty sure of what's happening to Sayid because it happened to your sister.
- Jack: Uh-oh.
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JUNGLE
Jin stops for a drink (and the water looks nasty too!). Grumpy kid attacks with Justin scoping the surrounds.
- Grumpy kid: Where's that bitch?!
- Jin: I'm not in charge of keeping up with her! I got my own problems. I'm on my way back to the temple anyway, so chill.
- Justin: Maybe we should just take him back.
- Grumpy Kid: OR maybe we didn't find him ALIVE!
- Justin: No! We can't! He's one of THEM. [?]
- Grumpy kid: He MAY be one of them.
Jin makes a run for it, but trips up in a bear trap (?). Grumpy Kid snorts.
- Grumpy kid: Where you going, jerky?!
He raises his gun. Two rifle shots to the chest wipe the grin off his face. Another wings Justin. Jin spots a woman on a ridge above them. It's Claire [and she really needs a BATH. Go figure.] Claire stares down at Jin like she's trying to remember.
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End Episode 6.03
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