In a flashback, Kate helps Cassidy avoid having the police called when she tries to scam someone at a gas station. Kate is calling herself Lucy. When asked why she chose that name, Kate mentions it being a saint’s name, and having learned them all in Sunday school. It is interesting that Kate justifies having killed her stepfather by saying that he was a bad guy. The Others talk about some people in the same way.
Kate wants to see her mother. The marshall is there. Cassidy dresses like Kate, them claims to just be selling Bibles. She has a case of them. The authorities question her but let her go. Kate wants to find out why her mother betrayed her. Cassidy goes with Kate to the diner where her mother works, and spills soup on her so that she will have to go to the bathroom, where Kate is waiting. Her mother says that you can’t help who you love, and she loved Dwayne, and Kate murdered him by burning him alive.
Locke tells Kate goodbye, saying that he is going with the Others. He says that he made a case for her, but they told him about her past, and forgiveness isn’t one of their strong points. Later, we see the Others put on gas masks, and then leave, throwing a gas canister into the place where Kate is being kept. She wakes up in the jungle, handcuffed to Juliette. They get into arguments, then hear the smoke monster. They hide in a circle of trees. We then see some flashes of light, and then it goes away. I don’t think that this was ever explained. Presumably the circle of trees, like the circle of ashes later on, serves as protection. Juliette claims not to know what the smoke monster is. She also tells Kate that Jack saw her and Sawyer in the cages, and that he didn’t tell her not to come back in order to protect her, but because she broke his heart.
They are chased by the smike monster again, and Juliette turns out to have the key to the handcuffs, and turns in the sonic fence. Juliette says “we don’t know what it is, but we know it doesn’t like our fences.” She says she didn’t want to be left behind again, and so wanted to make her think they were in it together. They go back to the barracks for Jack and Sayid. Then all four head back to the beach where the survivors’ camp is.
Hurley tells Sawyer that there is going to be a vote about whether to banish him. Hurley points out that Sawyer can’t even feed himself, and uses their latrine and drinks their water. Sawyer manages to catch a fish, then struggles to clean it. He then goes to Hurley saying he is ready to make amends. Hurley gets Sawyer to give Claire some blankets and be nice to her and Aaron. He then goes hunting with Desmond, saying that he has hearts and minds to change, and politics is all about bribes. Sawyer discovers that there isn’t going to be a vote. Hurley tells him that he is their temporary leader. This element is interesting – does tricking someone into being nice have the potential to bring about genuine transformation? That is a question that ethicists, including in religious traditions, have pondered. Can being a certain kind of person be cultivated even before one buys into its being worthwhile? And can the former actually lead to the latter?
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