Island Reality; 2007: Lennon tells Yoko that Sayid is alive, while the Losties tell Sayid that he was dead. Over near the doorway, Sawyer grumbles to Kate. “Of course he's alive. He's an Iraqi torturer who shoots kids; he definitely deserves to live.” But he's not bitter. Sawyer plans to run away from the Temple. When the crew takes Sayid outside for some air, Jack examines his wound and finds it almost closed. Lennon and Yoko want to talk to Sayid. Jack wants to go with him, but Lennon puts him off -- because what they actually do is hook poor Sayid up to electrodes, shock him, and then brand him with a hot poker. And then they do. Lennon tells Sayid the whole exercise was a test and he passed, and after Sayid leaves the room, we learn that was a lie. Somewhere in there, Sawyer ends up pulling a gun on the group and escapes. The Templars say it's imperative for him to return, so Kate volunteers to track him. Jin goes with her, but so do two Templars...at least until Kate knocks them out and admits to Jin that she's not bringing Sawyer back; she's joining him. Jin just wants to know where Ajira 316 landed, so he can look for Sun. Kate doesn't know, and asks him if he thinks the Others care about him, Sun, or any of them. Since she's being so cranky, Jin takes one for the fans. “Who do you care about, Kate?” She gives him a dirty look and wishes him luck.
When Kate finally finds Sawyer in New Otherton, he's digging up the floorboards of the bedroom he once shared with Juliet. He pulls out a shoebox and cries over its contents. At first, he thinks Kate's an intruder. Well, a dangerous intruder. Well, a dangerous intruder he never slept with. But when he realizes it's just her, he walks out, leaving her standing there. Later, they end up talking down on the dock. Kate reveals she really came back to find Claire, for Aaron's sake and was hoping Sawyer could help her. She apologizes for following him. Sawyer, also takes one for the fans and says, “Which time?” Kate also apologizes for Juliet's death. She feels responsible for it, because she got Sawyer and Juliet to get off the sub. Sawyer feels he's at fault, because he talked Juliet out of leaving Craphole before that -- and he only did it because he didn't want to be alone. “You understand that, right? But I think some of us are meant to be alone.” He reveals he was going to propose to Juliet and takes out the engagement ring and throws it in the water. When he's done, he tells Kate she can probably make it back to the Temple by nightfall. After Sawyer walks off, Kate cries and cries. Later, Kate fills her canteen at a spigot attached to one of the cottages. James walks right past her and into his old home, where he closes the door. She caps her canteen, picks up her backpack and heads off. Now let's slideways into...
L.A. Reality; 2004: Kate's just hijacked a cab but Arzt drops his luggage across the road and gets in the cabbie's way. After Arzt moves, Kate makes the cabbie drive off, but the next time they stop, he jumps out of the cab. At first, Kate won't let Claire get out, but eventually, she relents. She keeps all of Claire's things, though, and drives to a chop shop run by Rack (Jeff Kober). He helps her take off her cuffs and gives her a place to change, but when Kate opens Claire's luggage and sees a picture of her with her pregnant belly, and all the cute little baby things Claire packed, Kate seems to almost make a connection to the other reality in which she was one of Aaron's mommies. She drives back to find Claire waiting for a bus. Kate gives her back all her money and clothing, and then Claire explains she was supposed to be picked up at the airport by the couple who is planning to adopt her baby. Kate offers Claire a ride, and at Claire's request, walks her to the front door. The woman answers and explains that her husband recently left her and she didn't know what to do. Kate hollers at her for letting Claire fly all the way from Australia for nothing, but to no avail. This woman is in no shape to take the baby. Suddenly, Claire goes into labor. Kate drives her to the hospital, leaving the stolen cab out front. When a doctor doesn't examine Claire soon enough for Kate's liking, Kate goes and tracks him down and brings him in. It's Ethan (Rom) Goodspeed! He'll try to stop the labor but involves taking a lot of drugs and he doesn't want to stick needles in Claire, unnecessarily. HA! Good one, Show. Later, the cops come looking for Kate (or Joan -- the alias she used when she signed in Claire) but Claire covers for her newfound friend. Kate thanks her and tells her she should keep her baby. Claire thanks Kate for all her help, and tells her to keep her credit card! Oh, Claire. That was stupid, dear. You need that a lot more than Kate does. Meanwhile, back in the...
Island Reality; Temple; 2007: Lennon and Yoko want Jack to give Sayid some pill, but they won't tell him what's in it, and will only say it's for an infection -- even though Sayid has no fever. I'm assuming they're worried about the same kind of infection that got Danielle Rousseau's crew, years ago. Jack brings the pill to Sayid, but when Sayid says he do anything Jack says because he trusts him, Jack balks and goes back for some one-on-one time with Yoko. When Yoko still won't give him any details about the pill, Jack forces his hand by popping it himself. Yoko gets it out of him, and then admits it was poison. They think Sayid has been "claimed"; there's a darkness growing in him. Once it reaches his heart, everything Sayid once was will be gone. Jack asks how he can be sure. Yoko says, “Because it happened to your sister.” Speaking of...
Jin is making his way through the jungle. The Templars have recovered from their Kate attack, and they capture him. When one of them (Aldo) wants to kill Jin, he tries to run, but gets his foot stuck in a trap. (Yikes!) Aldo, points his gun at Jin and looks ready to shoot, but someone shoots him, instead. Next, his partner is shot, too. Jin looks up to find his unlikely savior. Is it Kate? Oh hells, no. It's CLAIRE and she's gone all Rousseau! She drops her gun, brushes her hair from her eyes, squints and... fade to black. Bad Robot!
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Previously, on Lost: Sawyer brings Juliet a sunflower and they kiss. Sawyer holds Juliet as she dies. Sawyer tells Jack "You did this." Kate, Hurley, Jack, Jin, and a dying Sayid get grabbed by the Templars. Lennon and Yoko bring Sayid to the Temple spring, which looks more like a cesspool. The Templars seem to drown Sayid. Sayid dies. Sayid comes back to life to ask what we've been asking for five and half years: "What happened?"
NOW; Island Reality: Lennon hustles through the maze that is the Temple floor plan and bursts into Yoko's lair -- the Unholy of Unholies -- to announce Sayid is alive. Meanwhile, by the side of the baptismal spring -- which I'll so be calling the "Murky Mikvah Mezzanine" -- Sayid is still coming out of it. He's a little light-headed from either his death or Hurley's bear hug, so Jack tells a completely confounded Miles to go get Sayid some water, because that's what every drowning victim most craves. When Sayid asks what happened to him, Jack tells him he died. Across the way, Kate wonders how that's possible. How is any of this possible, Kate? The time for that question is long past. At any rate, Sawyer scowls about Sayid. "Of course he's fine. He's an Iraqi torturer who shoots kids. He definitely deserves another go-around." Come on, James. Okay sure, you'd resent anyone other than Juliet being brought back, and since Sayid's attempt to murder wee Benjamin Linus blew up your ultimate long con over there in New Otherton, I get that you don't love him. And yeah, he tortured you in the past. But I thought you'd left the Iraqi bigotry behind you, years ago. Knock it off. Be better than that. (Plus? You left off assassin; I guess you probably don't know about that, though.) Anyhow, Sawyer asks Kate how many guards and guns are outside the Temple. He's thinking about running. Kate feels a twinge like you do when someone jacks your gimmick. Running is what Kate does.
L.A. Reality: There's a brief review of Kate escaping her Marshal and getting away from the airport by hijacking the cab Claire is already in. The cabbie (David H. Lawrence XVII, or possibly Billy Joel) stops, because his way is blocked by Arzt, who is trying to collect all his luggage he spilled into the street. In this reality, Arzt thinks he's Ratzo Rizzo. "Hey, I'm walkin' here. I'm walkin' here!" Kate scans the scene while they wait for Arzt to get out of the way. When she spots Jack, who is on the sidewalk talking on his cell phone, their gazes lock and Kate looks as if her two realities are trying to merge. Claire takes advantage of this moment between her (unknown?) big brother and her captor, and tries to jump out of the cab, but Kate pulls her back in and yells at her. Finally, at Kate's insistence, the cabbie drives off, dragging one of Arzt's bags with him. When they approach a set of lights, Kate instructs the cabbie to take a left, but instead, he ditches the cab, while Claire begs to be released. Kate crawls up to the front seat, which would be the ideal time for Claire to escape, were she not infected with persistent, pervasive imbecility in this reality. Anyhow, Kate takes the wheel, speeds away and demands Claire's purse. Once she has it, she screeches the cab to a stop and orders Claire out of the car. Mean old Kate won't even let Claire take her suitcase. The poor pregnant child cries alone on the sidewalk, as Kate drives away. We slide sideways to...
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