Season 1 - Episode 15 (Homecoming) and Episode 16 (Outlaws)
Episode 15 (Homecoming)
This episode opens with Locke and Boone bringing an unconscious Claire into the caves. Jack springs to action, telling everyone to back off and give the girl some air. Such sound, cutting, medical advice could only come from a doctor. The doctor then proceeds to coax Claire back to consciousness with a time tested technique that can only be performed by one trained for years in the arcane art of medicine; he asks her to "Wake up, now." Eventually, she does. That guy Jack, he's a miracle worker.
Claire wakes up and starts screaming, terrified of the people she should be most comfortable with on the island. How strange. Charlie tries to reassure her, but she doesn't know who he is. Poor bass player in a has been band, nobody ever recognizes him anymore.
Actually, Claire doesn't recognize any of the survivors. She also doesn't seem to remember Ethan or how she got to the camp or even the crash. The last thing she remembers is being on the plane.
She puts one of the obvious questions into words: "If it's been almost a month, then why hasn't somebody come to get us?" Why does it always take extreme stress to get these people to ask the simple questions?
Jin and Sun have a little Korean chat about Claire's situation and the health of the baby. Sun looks oddly uncomfortable when discussing the baby. Isn't that odd.
As Boone and Locke discuss Claire and her sudden reappearance, we learn that she's been gone for almost two weeks. At one point in the conversation, Boone states that there's nothing out there that deep in the jungle and Locke just gives him one of those Cool Zen Locke smiles that says: "I know something you don't know."
Charlie tries to make Claire comfortable. He gives her back her diary and tries to get her settled. When she asks about Ethan and who he is, Charlie boils it right down to the quick: "Ethan's the bad guy." Charlie stays with her and does what any good friend would do for someone recently returned from a horrific mother/child kidnapping. He uses the opportunity to get just that much closer to the cute blonde.
Speaking of friends, Charlie flashes back to a heroin laced adventure with one of his heroin laced friends. This friend encourages Charlie to follow in the footsteps of great con men past and get in tight with a plain looking girl who happens to be the daughter of a man with some real money. Money that the two of them can parlay into more drugs for further heroin laced adventures.
Charlie takes to the con, a duck to water.
On the beach, Charlie, Jack, Locke and Saayid discuss Claire, her amnesia and Ethan. Charlie gets angry when Saayid, ever the practical one, suggests that perhaps there is more to Claire's return than meets the eye. True amnesia is pretty rare and it is possible that, just as Ethan did, Claire might be there to gain the group's collective trust for some unknown reason.
On his way back to the cave, Charlie encounters Jin. They have a great one sided conversation about life on the island and how not speaking English gives Jin a fairly simple existence as a castaway.
In the middle of the conversation, Jin hears a strange sound. The sound is that made by a sling as it gathers momentum to release it's ammunition. That ammunition hits Jin and knocks him cold. Charlie looks around to find the source of the attack and comes face to face with Ethan. Ethan wants Claire back. Charlie has other ideas, but the fact that Ethan can kick his hobbit ass puts him in a less than dominant position. With Charlie held off the ground by the neck, Ethan delivers his ultimatum. Bring Claire to him by sundown or he will kill one of the survivors. If Charlie doesn't bring Claire to him by sundown the next day, another will die. I sense a pattern developing. Ethan promises to kill Charlie last.
Charlie delivers the message to the tribe and demands that they go after Ethan and kill him. Locke suggests that they would be better served with a defensive posture than an offensive one.
Whatever happened to the best defense is a good offense?
Charlie uses his recently developed con man skills to lead Claire to believe that nothing is going on and that she is not going to be in any danger. Right.
Speaking of Charlie's con man days, he's ingratiating himself to Lucy and finding out about her father's money. He spies a silver cigarette case that might be easily pilfered and sold for heroin money. Lucy invites the hobbit over for dinner.
Jack is sharpening a knife when Kate joins him to chat about Ethan and Claire. She suggests that it might be time to break out the weapons from the marshal's case. Jack is not convinced.
Locke and Saayid are testing an early warning garbage bag system. Saayid, ever practical and oddly not the leader, has set up sentry fires and begun organizing the men for sentry duty. Boone volunteers. Saayid does his most amazing trick yet: He keeps a straight face when Locke tells the Cheekbone Kid that they're all counting on him to be one of the camp's guards.
Charlie wants to protect Claire and he feels responsible for her being taken in the first place.
Charlie struggles with responsibility issues as he meets Lucy's father. He's also struggling with a lack of funds thanks to some trouble with Driveshaft, his brother and their royalties. Lucy's father offers him a job and he takes it.
His friend who got him into this wants Charlie to return to the con rather than chucking all the fun of heroin addiction for the grind of copy machine sales.
Back in the camp the boys are looking very serious and stern as they patrol the perimeter. Even Boone seems to be committed. Until he falls asleep. He wakes to something in the jungle tripping their early warning alarm. When he tries to attack it, he falls flat on his cheekbones and ends up finding impending danger...er, Vincent. Same thing.
As Saayid does his best not to burst out laughing at the sight of Boone being licked to death by the resident canine, a scream cuts through the morning air.
One of the castaways has been murdered, his neck, arms and all his fingers broken. The perimeter, the guards, the fires, none of it was enough to stop Ethan from fulfilling his promise. The first victim was Rosencrantz...er, Steve...er, Scott.
Hurley presides at the funeral. These folks really need a priest.
Claire confronts Charlie about the danger that she is really in. Charlie claims to have just wanted to take care of her.
He's tried the hobbit-in-shining-armour routine before. With Lucy. He's off to sell Lucy's dad's copiers and become a respectable member of society. While Lucy is off getting his "Good Luck" present, Charlie pockets that silver cigarette case that he spied earlier. Lucy quashes his getaway plans by driving him to work.
Jack and Locke are talking about the consequences of not following Ethan's orders. Locke tries to explain to Jack that compared to Ethan, they're all just a "Bunch of scared idiots with sharp sticks" and they don't stand a chance against him. Jack tells Locke about the guns and they work up a plan to turn the tables on Ethan. They bring Charlie into the plan but keep him off the gun toting squad.
Back at copier sales central, Charlie is experiencing withdrawal and it is strong enough to interfere with his burgeoning sales career. Being completely incompetent as a salesman and puking on the copier he's trying to sell doesn't make him any friends either.
In camp, we see Jack recruit Sawyer to make a foursome. Kate wants in too. Since they have the original gun that Sawyer killed the bear with plus the four in the case, they have a gun for her too. And then there were five.
Saayid lays out the plan. Claire is bait and they will watch her from five hidden positions. They want Ethan alive.
In the jungle, Claire is being bait. She's pretty good at it, and in short order, Ethan obliges the group by walking into their trap. My question is how did this guy, Mr. Sneak In, Kill a Guy and Leave Unnoticed, not see five people within spittin' distance of his target?
Anyhow, Claire screams, runs and eventually Jack manages to tackle Ethan, losing his gun in the process.
This time, Jack is able to wrestle Ethan to the ground and subdue him. Then, he subdues him some more. And some more. And for good measure, just a little more.
Even after all that subduing, Ethan still tries to get up, prompting Sawyer to cock his gun and issue his best line in a while:
"Ah, ah, ah, Jungle Boy. Not even for one second."
Six shots ring out in quick succession. It seems that Jack's gun found its way into Charlie's seriously pissed off hands. Never knew he had it in him.
Later on, Jack wants to know why Charlie did it. I guess he doesn't go in for that "dispensing jungle justice" thing. Charlie figures that Ethan deserved to die. Jack wanted to question him, but Charlie is probably right when he tells Jack that Ethan never would have told them anything. He was protecting Claire, taking care of her. And redeeming himself.
Charlie tries to fix things with Lucy, but his betrayal of her was too much to be forgiven. She doesn't understand that he really wanted to be respectable. Too bad he's a junkie and could never take care of anyone.
Back in the cave, Shannon is dressing Saayid's wound. How did he get injured? I must've missed that.
Claire approaches Charlie. She remembers peanut butter. She also wants to trust Charlie.
"Goodnight Claire."
Discussion
Episode 16 (Outlaws)
This is young Sawyer's eye. This is young Sawyer's eye opening. This is young Sawyer's eye hearing someone demand the door be opened and let him in. (Yeah, I know, eyes don't hear. Roll with it, will ya?) Oh, and this is young Sawyer's eye hiding under the bed while his Mommy lets the crazy man in.
Not the brightest thing she ever did. Sawyer hears a shot and suddenly his Mommy is very quiet. A pair of boots fill his vision as he hides beneath his bed. The boots turn around and sit down on the bed. He hears another shot.
From the dream Sawyer wakes up to hear something in his tent.
It's a boar.
Using a handy aluminum baseball bat (???) he chases it from his abode. It takes his abode with it as it flees into the jungle. Sawyer gives chase and ends up alone in the jungle. Alone except for the whispers he hears.
While Sawyer is cleaning up the mess made by his nocturnal visitor, Saayid comes along to ask him about his adventure.
Sawyer: "...I hit it, and it ran off into the jungle."
Saayid: "With your tarp? Perhaps he wanted to go camping."
Sawyer: "You enjoying yourself?
Saayid: "Yes."
After that little gem of a chat, Sawyer asks Saayid about the whispers he heard in the jungle. Saayid tries to shrug it off, but Sawyer presses. When Saayid turns the questioning around, Sawyer walks away, saying that he didn't hear anything.
Flash to Sawyer bringing a woman into his hotel room. They seem friendly.
Just as things are progressing from friendly to HBO, a voice from the darkness interrupts them.
It's a T-1000 and he's come back in time to kill Sawyer and prevent him from becoming the leader of an anti-machine rebellion in 30 years after the machines have conquered the planet. Oops. Wrong movie.
It's Agent Dogget and he's there to be Sawyer's new partner, now that his old partner has been kidnapped by aliens. Oops. Wrong again.
The voice belongs to someone from Sawyer's past. Someone that Sawyer swore he'd kill if he ever saw again. He's risk the Wrath of Sawyer to provide his former partner on the Tampa Job with information about the man who ruined Sawyer's life, trying to provide reparations for whatever happened between them in Tampa.
He has found Sawyer. The man who's con led Sawyer's father to kill his Mommy and them himself on his son's bed.
Kate and Jack are putting away the guns in the Haliburton case. Kate wonders if anyone was curious about where the guns came from. Apparently everyone believes that the marshal was on the plane to protect them all from terrorists rather than really hot bank robbers.
Jack got all the guns but one back from the "Let's use Claire as bait so we can capture the scariest guy on the island" posse. Naturally, Sawyer hasn't returned that particular party favour.
Kate figures she can get it back. Jack points out that making out with Sawyer doesn't seem to produce the desired results. Ultimately, Jack doesn't want Kate owing Sawyer anything.
Anything.
Claire tries to chat up a strangely withdrawn Charlie.
Sawyer finds his tarp. On his way back to camp, he hears more whispers. Then the boar attacks, chasing him through the jungle and dumping him face first into a mud puddle. Needless to say, Sawyer is beginning to have a hankering for some ham.
Back in camp, he collects what he needs to hunt down his porcine nemesis.
Kate tries to point out that Sawyer hasn't got a clue about how to hunt a boar. That doesn't matter to a man with revenge on his mind.
Sawyer has traveled to Australia to pursue his revenge. He buys a gun. The original Sawyer's days seem numbered.
Hurley is helping Charlie bury Ethan. Charlie is willing to do the work but Hurley wants to help. He's worried thought, that they might be in for some horror movie, guy rising from the dead shenanigans.
"This is gonna end with you and me running through the jungle, screaming and crying. He catches me first, 'cuz I'm heavy and I get cramps."
Hurley asks Saayid to talk to Charlie about what happened with Ethan, worried that the hobbit might have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Sawyer is tracking the boar of his dreams. Unsuccessfully. Kate offers to provide her tracking skills to the quest in return for carte blanche rights to request something from him.
That night they make camp. By the light of a "let's have hot jungle sex" camp fire, they play a little game of "I Never". Personally, in similar circumstances, I'd suggest a game of "Strip Breathing", but that's just me.
The game leads to some personal knowledge about the islands two criminal masterminds.
Kate never went to college.
Sawyer never kissed a man. Kate did.
Sawyer never went to college either.
Neither of them have ever been to Disneyland.
Kate never wore pink. Sawyer did. (It was the eighties, I know how he feels)
Kate never voted Democrat, Sawyer never voted period.
Sawyer's never been in love, Kate has.
Kate's never had a one night stand. Sawyer probably wouldn't have enough booze if he had to drink for each one.
Sawyer's never been married. Kate was, briefly.
Kate's never blamed a boar for all her problems. Sawyer? Well, here they are.
Sawyer never cared about having Carte Blanche so he could spend time with the only other person on the island who just don't belong. Kate drinks.
Kate never carried a letter around for twenty years because she couldn't get over her baggage. That would be the sound of Sawyer drinking.
Both of them drink when Sawyer says "I never killed a man."
Suddenly the game just isn't so much fun.
Sawyer dreams about the boots again. Then they become the hooves of his boar-y nemesis.
The two of them wake to find that the boar has come into their camp and destroyed it. More precisely, it destroyed Sawyer's stuff and left Kate's alone. It even peed on Sawyer's shirt.
Locke comes across them and joins them for coffee. He tells them the story of his sister Jeannie who died when he was a child and how his foster mother withdrew from the world as a way of self punishing herself for the death of her child. He explains how six months after Jeannie's funeral, a golden retriever finds its way into their living room and sits down on the floor and stares at Locke's foster mother until she bursts into tears. The dog stayed with them until his foster mother died, sleeping in Jeannie's old room on Jeannie's old bed.
Kate: "So, your saying the dog was your sister?"
Locke: "Well, that would be silly. But my mother thought it was."
Locke's balloon full of Zen Cool is still inflated. He tells them how his mother thought that the dog was his sister returned to let her off the hook for the accident.
Sawyer has tracked the original Sawyer to his shrimp truck. He saddles up to the window, ready to deal death to this man who ruined his family and his life. After some conversation about the American South, a discount on his shrimp, and a brief exchange of names, when the target turns to hand Sawyer his shrimp, Sawyer is nowhere to be seen.
He's in a bar, drowning his hesitation in alcohol. Another American is in the bar with him. He's misplaced his wallet and since Sawyer is such a generous man, he helps him out with a drink. This American turns out to be Christian. He gives Sawyer some manly advice about suffering, being in Hell and the Red Sox. He talks to Sawyer about his son and how his son is a good, even great man who thinks that his Father hates him. He expresses his gratitude and pride in his son's actions and regret at his own inability to fix all their problems with a phone call. His words push Sawyer to act.
He goes back to the shrimp truck.
On the beach Saayid gives Charlie some manly advice about guilt and trauma.
In the jungle, Kate and Sawyer find a boar's wallow. Sawyer catches a piglet and tries to use it as Claire...er, bait.
Kate is unimpressed.
Back at the shrimp truck, Sawyer pulls the trigger. Only one small problem. The man he just shot wasn't Sawyer. His pal Hibbs set him up. Sawyer just killed a man who had nothing to do with him. His final words are fateful:
"It'll come back around"
The boar finds Sawyer. Sawyer finds his gun. Perhaps he also finds a sort of redemption, since he doesn't fire.
Off trots the boar to do whatever boars do when they aren't tormenting Southern con men.
On the beach, Claire is watching Raft Building and Fetch Playing, starring Michael and Walt, when along comes Charlie, no longer withdrawn, offering to take her on a walk. Awww.
Sawyer finds Jack in the jungle and returns the last gun to the leader. Turns out that Kate traded Carte Blanche for him returning the gun.
When Jack uses the same Red Sox related quote, Sawyer realizes that the man he drank with in the bar is Jack's Father. Jack wants to know why Sawyer is asking him about his Father.
"No reason."
Discussion
This episode opens with Locke and Boone bringing an unconscious Claire into the caves. Jack springs to action, telling everyone to back off and give the girl some air. Such sound, cutting, medical advice could only come from a doctor. The doctor then proceeds to coax Claire back to consciousness with a time tested technique that can only be performed by one trained for years in the arcane art of medicine; he asks her to "Wake up, now." Eventually, she does. That guy Jack, he's a miracle worker.
Claire wakes up and starts screaming, terrified of the people she should be most comfortable with on the island. How strange. Charlie tries to reassure her, but she doesn't know who he is. Poor bass player in a has been band, nobody ever recognizes him anymore.
Actually, Claire doesn't recognize any of the survivors. She also doesn't seem to remember Ethan or how she got to the camp or even the crash. The last thing she remembers is being on the plane.
She puts one of the obvious questions into words: "If it's been almost a month, then why hasn't somebody come to get us?" Why does it always take extreme stress to get these people to ask the simple questions?
Jin and Sun have a little Korean chat about Claire's situation and the health of the baby. Sun looks oddly uncomfortable when discussing the baby. Isn't that odd.
As Boone and Locke discuss Claire and her sudden reappearance, we learn that she's been gone for almost two weeks. At one point in the conversation, Boone states that there's nothing out there that deep in the jungle and Locke just gives him one of those Cool Zen Locke smiles that says: "I know something you don't know."
Charlie tries to make Claire comfortable. He gives her back her diary and tries to get her settled. When she asks about Ethan and who he is, Charlie boils it right down to the quick: "Ethan's the bad guy." Charlie stays with her and does what any good friend would do for someone recently returned from a horrific mother/child kidnapping. He uses the opportunity to get just that much closer to the cute blonde.
Speaking of friends, Charlie flashes back to a heroin laced adventure with one of his heroin laced friends. This friend encourages Charlie to follow in the footsteps of great con men past and get in tight with a plain looking girl who happens to be the daughter of a man with some real money. Money that the two of them can parlay into more drugs for further heroin laced adventures.
Charlie takes to the con, a duck to water.
On the beach, Charlie, Jack, Locke and Saayid discuss Claire, her amnesia and Ethan. Charlie gets angry when Saayid, ever the practical one, suggests that perhaps there is more to Claire's return than meets the eye. True amnesia is pretty rare and it is possible that, just as Ethan did, Claire might be there to gain the group's collective trust for some unknown reason.
On his way back to the cave, Charlie encounters Jin. They have a great one sided conversation about life on the island and how not speaking English gives Jin a fairly simple existence as a castaway.
In the middle of the conversation, Jin hears a strange sound. The sound is that made by a sling as it gathers momentum to release it's ammunition. That ammunition hits Jin and knocks him cold. Charlie looks around to find the source of the attack and comes face to face with Ethan. Ethan wants Claire back. Charlie has other ideas, but the fact that Ethan can kick his hobbit ass puts him in a less than dominant position. With Charlie held off the ground by the neck, Ethan delivers his ultimatum. Bring Claire to him by sundown or he will kill one of the survivors. If Charlie doesn't bring Claire to him by sundown the next day, another will die. I sense a pattern developing. Ethan promises to kill Charlie last.
Charlie delivers the message to the tribe and demands that they go after Ethan and kill him. Locke suggests that they would be better served with a defensive posture than an offensive one.
Whatever happened to the best defense is a good offense?
Charlie uses his recently developed con man skills to lead Claire to believe that nothing is going on and that she is not going to be in any danger. Right.
Speaking of Charlie's con man days, he's ingratiating himself to Lucy and finding out about her father's money. He spies a silver cigarette case that might be easily pilfered and sold for heroin money. Lucy invites the hobbit over for dinner.
Jack is sharpening a knife when Kate joins him to chat about Ethan and Claire. She suggests that it might be time to break out the weapons from the marshal's case. Jack is not convinced.
Locke and Saayid are testing an early warning garbage bag system. Saayid, ever practical and oddly not the leader, has set up sentry fires and begun organizing the men for sentry duty. Boone volunteers. Saayid does his most amazing trick yet: He keeps a straight face when Locke tells the Cheekbone Kid that they're all counting on him to be one of the camp's guards.
Charlie wants to protect Claire and he feels responsible for her being taken in the first place.
Charlie struggles with responsibility issues as he meets Lucy's father. He's also struggling with a lack of funds thanks to some trouble with Driveshaft, his brother and their royalties. Lucy's father offers him a job and he takes it.
His friend who got him into this wants Charlie to return to the con rather than chucking all the fun of heroin addiction for the grind of copy machine sales.
Back in the camp the boys are looking very serious and stern as they patrol the perimeter. Even Boone seems to be committed. Until he falls asleep. He wakes to something in the jungle tripping their early warning alarm. When he tries to attack it, he falls flat on his cheekbones and ends up finding impending danger...er, Vincent. Same thing.
As Saayid does his best not to burst out laughing at the sight of Boone being licked to death by the resident canine, a scream cuts through the morning air.
One of the castaways has been murdered, his neck, arms and all his fingers broken. The perimeter, the guards, the fires, none of it was enough to stop Ethan from fulfilling his promise. The first victim was Rosencrantz...er, Steve...er, Scott.
Hurley presides at the funeral. These folks really need a priest.
Claire confronts Charlie about the danger that she is really in. Charlie claims to have just wanted to take care of her.
He's tried the hobbit-in-shining-armour routine before. With Lucy. He's off to sell Lucy's dad's copiers and become a respectable member of society. While Lucy is off getting his "Good Luck" present, Charlie pockets that silver cigarette case that he spied earlier. Lucy quashes his getaway plans by driving him to work.
Jack and Locke are talking about the consequences of not following Ethan's orders. Locke tries to explain to Jack that compared to Ethan, they're all just a "Bunch of scared idiots with sharp sticks" and they don't stand a chance against him. Jack tells Locke about the guns and they work up a plan to turn the tables on Ethan. They bring Charlie into the plan but keep him off the gun toting squad.
Back at copier sales central, Charlie is experiencing withdrawal and it is strong enough to interfere with his burgeoning sales career. Being completely incompetent as a salesman and puking on the copier he's trying to sell doesn't make him any friends either.
In camp, we see Jack recruit Sawyer to make a foursome. Kate wants in too. Since they have the original gun that Sawyer killed the bear with plus the four in the case, they have a gun for her too. And then there were five.
Saayid lays out the plan. Claire is bait and they will watch her from five hidden positions. They want Ethan alive.
In the jungle, Claire is being bait. She's pretty good at it, and in short order, Ethan obliges the group by walking into their trap. My question is how did this guy, Mr. Sneak In, Kill a Guy and Leave Unnoticed, not see five people within spittin' distance of his target?
Anyhow, Claire screams, runs and eventually Jack manages to tackle Ethan, losing his gun in the process.
This time, Jack is able to wrestle Ethan to the ground and subdue him. Then, he subdues him some more. And some more. And for good measure, just a little more.
Even after all that subduing, Ethan still tries to get up, prompting Sawyer to cock his gun and issue his best line in a while:
"Ah, ah, ah, Jungle Boy. Not even for one second."
Six shots ring out in quick succession. It seems that Jack's gun found its way into Charlie's seriously pissed off hands. Never knew he had it in him.
Later on, Jack wants to know why Charlie did it. I guess he doesn't go in for that "dispensing jungle justice" thing. Charlie figures that Ethan deserved to die. Jack wanted to question him, but Charlie is probably right when he tells Jack that Ethan never would have told them anything. He was protecting Claire, taking care of her. And redeeming himself.
Charlie tries to fix things with Lucy, but his betrayal of her was too much to be forgiven. She doesn't understand that he really wanted to be respectable. Too bad he's a junkie and could never take care of anyone.
Back in the cave, Shannon is dressing Saayid's wound. How did he get injured? I must've missed that.
Claire approaches Charlie. She remembers peanut butter. She also wants to trust Charlie.
"Goodnight Claire."
Discussion
Episode 16 (Outlaws)
This is young Sawyer's eye. This is young Sawyer's eye opening. This is young Sawyer's eye hearing someone demand the door be opened and let him in. (Yeah, I know, eyes don't hear. Roll with it, will ya?) Oh, and this is young Sawyer's eye hiding under the bed while his Mommy lets the crazy man in.
Not the brightest thing she ever did. Sawyer hears a shot and suddenly his Mommy is very quiet. A pair of boots fill his vision as he hides beneath his bed. The boots turn around and sit down on the bed. He hears another shot.
From the dream Sawyer wakes up to hear something in his tent.
It's a boar.
Using a handy aluminum baseball bat (???) he chases it from his abode. It takes his abode with it as it flees into the jungle. Sawyer gives chase and ends up alone in the jungle. Alone except for the whispers he hears.
While Sawyer is cleaning up the mess made by his nocturnal visitor, Saayid comes along to ask him about his adventure.
Sawyer: "...I hit it, and it ran off into the jungle."
Saayid: "With your tarp? Perhaps he wanted to go camping."
Sawyer: "You enjoying yourself?
Saayid: "Yes."
After that little gem of a chat, Sawyer asks Saayid about the whispers he heard in the jungle. Saayid tries to shrug it off, but Sawyer presses. When Saayid turns the questioning around, Sawyer walks away, saying that he didn't hear anything.
Flash to Sawyer bringing a woman into his hotel room. They seem friendly.
Just as things are progressing from friendly to HBO, a voice from the darkness interrupts them.
It's a T-1000 and he's come back in time to kill Sawyer and prevent him from becoming the leader of an anti-machine rebellion in 30 years after the machines have conquered the planet. Oops. Wrong movie.
It's Agent Dogget and he's there to be Sawyer's new partner, now that his old partner has been kidnapped by aliens. Oops. Wrong again.
The voice belongs to someone from Sawyer's past. Someone that Sawyer swore he'd kill if he ever saw again. He's risk the Wrath of Sawyer to provide his former partner on the Tampa Job with information about the man who ruined Sawyer's life, trying to provide reparations for whatever happened between them in Tampa.
He has found Sawyer. The man who's con led Sawyer's father to kill his Mommy and them himself on his son's bed.
Kate and Jack are putting away the guns in the Haliburton case. Kate wonders if anyone was curious about where the guns came from. Apparently everyone believes that the marshal was on the plane to protect them all from terrorists rather than really hot bank robbers.
Jack got all the guns but one back from the "Let's use Claire as bait so we can capture the scariest guy on the island" posse. Naturally, Sawyer hasn't returned that particular party favour.
Kate figures she can get it back. Jack points out that making out with Sawyer doesn't seem to produce the desired results. Ultimately, Jack doesn't want Kate owing Sawyer anything.
Anything.
Claire tries to chat up a strangely withdrawn Charlie.
Sawyer finds his tarp. On his way back to camp, he hears more whispers. Then the boar attacks, chasing him through the jungle and dumping him face first into a mud puddle. Needless to say, Sawyer is beginning to have a hankering for some ham.
Back in camp, he collects what he needs to hunt down his porcine nemesis.
Kate tries to point out that Sawyer hasn't got a clue about how to hunt a boar. That doesn't matter to a man with revenge on his mind.
Sawyer has traveled to Australia to pursue his revenge. He buys a gun. The original Sawyer's days seem numbered.
Hurley is helping Charlie bury Ethan. Charlie is willing to do the work but Hurley wants to help. He's worried thought, that they might be in for some horror movie, guy rising from the dead shenanigans.
"This is gonna end with you and me running through the jungle, screaming and crying. He catches me first, 'cuz I'm heavy and I get cramps."
Hurley asks Saayid to talk to Charlie about what happened with Ethan, worried that the hobbit might have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Sawyer is tracking the boar of his dreams. Unsuccessfully. Kate offers to provide her tracking skills to the quest in return for carte blanche rights to request something from him.
That night they make camp. By the light of a "let's have hot jungle sex" camp fire, they play a little game of "I Never". Personally, in similar circumstances, I'd suggest a game of "Strip Breathing", but that's just me.
The game leads to some personal knowledge about the islands two criminal masterminds.
Kate never went to college.
Sawyer never kissed a man. Kate did.
Sawyer never went to college either.
Neither of them have ever been to Disneyland.
Kate never wore pink. Sawyer did. (It was the eighties, I know how he feels)
Kate never voted Democrat, Sawyer never voted period.
Sawyer's never been in love, Kate has.
Kate's never had a one night stand. Sawyer probably wouldn't have enough booze if he had to drink for each one.
Sawyer's never been married. Kate was, briefly.
Kate's never blamed a boar for all her problems. Sawyer? Well, here they are.
Sawyer never cared about having Carte Blanche so he could spend time with the only other person on the island who just don't belong. Kate drinks.
Kate never carried a letter around for twenty years because she couldn't get over her baggage. That would be the sound of Sawyer drinking.
Both of them drink when Sawyer says "I never killed a man."
Suddenly the game just isn't so much fun.
Sawyer dreams about the boots again. Then they become the hooves of his boar-y nemesis.
The two of them wake to find that the boar has come into their camp and destroyed it. More precisely, it destroyed Sawyer's stuff and left Kate's alone. It even peed on Sawyer's shirt.
Locke comes across them and joins them for coffee. He tells them the story of his sister Jeannie who died when he was a child and how his foster mother withdrew from the world as a way of self punishing herself for the death of her child. He explains how six months after Jeannie's funeral, a golden retriever finds its way into their living room and sits down on the floor and stares at Locke's foster mother until she bursts into tears. The dog stayed with them until his foster mother died, sleeping in Jeannie's old room on Jeannie's old bed.
Kate: "So, your saying the dog was your sister?"
Locke: "Well, that would be silly. But my mother thought it was."
Locke's balloon full of Zen Cool is still inflated. He tells them how his mother thought that the dog was his sister returned to let her off the hook for the accident.
Sawyer has tracked the original Sawyer to his shrimp truck. He saddles up to the window, ready to deal death to this man who ruined his family and his life. After some conversation about the American South, a discount on his shrimp, and a brief exchange of names, when the target turns to hand Sawyer his shrimp, Sawyer is nowhere to be seen.
He's in a bar, drowning his hesitation in alcohol. Another American is in the bar with him. He's misplaced his wallet and since Sawyer is such a generous man, he helps him out with a drink. This American turns out to be Christian. He gives Sawyer some manly advice about suffering, being in Hell and the Red Sox. He talks to Sawyer about his son and how his son is a good, even great man who thinks that his Father hates him. He expresses his gratitude and pride in his son's actions and regret at his own inability to fix all their problems with a phone call. His words push Sawyer to act.
He goes back to the shrimp truck.
On the beach Saayid gives Charlie some manly advice about guilt and trauma.
In the jungle, Kate and Sawyer find a boar's wallow. Sawyer catches a piglet and tries to use it as Claire...er, bait.
Kate is unimpressed.
Back at the shrimp truck, Sawyer pulls the trigger. Only one small problem. The man he just shot wasn't Sawyer. His pal Hibbs set him up. Sawyer just killed a man who had nothing to do with him. His final words are fateful:
"It'll come back around"
The boar finds Sawyer. Sawyer finds his gun. Perhaps he also finds a sort of redemption, since he doesn't fire.
Off trots the boar to do whatever boars do when they aren't tormenting Southern con men.
On the beach, Claire is watching Raft Building and Fetch Playing, starring Michael and Walt, when along comes Charlie, no longer withdrawn, offering to take her on a walk. Awww.
Sawyer finds Jack in the jungle and returns the last gun to the leader. Turns out that Kate traded Carte Blanche for him returning the gun.
When Jack uses the same Red Sox related quote, Sawyer realizes that the man he drank with in the bar is Jack's Father. Jack wants to know why Sawyer is asking him about his Father.
"No reason."
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