We hope you’ve recovered from last week’s "mind-bending, action-packed, who's-the-new-bonsai-ninja-guy-and-what-did-he-just-say" episodes. As you probably guessed, Charlie and I were pretty thrilled with last week’s premiere and are totally excited for the rest of the season. Now that we’ve come off our premiere-high, we’re ready to really nerd out and get down to business.
Tonight’s episode: What Kate Does.
Will Kate do what she did? Or did she already do what she already did? Or…what?
Everybody all together now: ready…set…alternate reality!
As we found out last week, in some point in space and time, a version of Oceanic 815 has landed at LAX. Tonight’s episode title seems to be implying that at some point in space and time, Kate did something other than what we think she did…before.
Confused?
Okay. Tonight’s episode “What Kate Does” is a play on the season 2 episode “What Kate Did,” where we were finally let in on Kate’s little secret about why was she being escorted back to America by a U.S. Marshal on Oceanic 815. In case you didn’t rewatch the episode this weekend (cough cough, ahem), let me remind you. Kate was on the run from the law for blowing up the house of Wayne, her drunken biological father. A few other things happened in that episode many moons ago. We saw Kate’s big black horse. Kate kissed Jack for the first time. Aaaaand then she ran away. Shocking.
Oh! Best part of the episode. Mr. Eko added a quote to my “Best Quotes of All Time” list: he told Locke “do not mistake coincidence with fate.” (swoon)
Nice, Maggie. Okay, so what are going to see tonight?
Well, one of our tasks tonight will be to compare and contrast season 2’s “What Kate Did” to tonight’s “What Kate Does.” From everything we saw last week, I’m guessing we’re going to see some minor differences. At the same time, I’m also guessing we’re going to see some major differences. As you might recall from a post earlier this month, the America’s Most Wanted video shown at Comic Con stated Kate Austen was a criminal for killing Wayne’s apprentice…NOT Wayne.
Confused?
Okay. Tonight’s episode “What Kate Does” is a play on the season 2 episode “What Kate Did,” where we were finally let in on Kate’s little secret about why was she being escorted back to America by a U.S. Marshal on Oceanic 815. In case you didn’t rewatch the episode this weekend (cough cough, ahem), let me remind you. Kate was on the run from the law for blowing up the house of Wayne, her drunken biological father. A few other things happened in that episode many moons ago. We saw Kate’s big black horse. Kate kissed Jack for the first time. Aaaaand then she ran away. Shocking.
Oh! Best part of the episode. Mr. Eko added a quote to my “Best Quotes of All Time” list: he told Locke “do not mistake coincidence with fate.” (swoon)
Nice, Maggie. Okay, so what are going to see tonight?
Well, one of our tasks tonight will be to compare and contrast season 2’s “What Kate Did” to tonight’s “What Kate Does.” From everything we saw last week, I’m guessing we’re going to see some minor differences. At the same time, I’m also guessing we’re going to see some major differences. As you might recall from a post earlier this month, the America’s Most Wanted video shown at Comic Con stated Kate Austen was a criminal for killing Wayne’s apprentice…NOT Wayne.
Okay…so…huh?
I know some of you will be shocked by what I’m about to say, but I don’t think we need to be too stressed about this change of events (that Kate killed the apprentice instead of her father) in Kate’s backstory (or any of the changes, really). Sure, it is a pretty big difference. It changes a lot of Kate’s motivation…adds a helping of guilt to her troubled past…and means crazy Wayne is still alive, drunk as ever.
However, I think we need to focus on the 2 Kates we have seen in this season…and what THEY DO from this moment on. The 2 Kates I’m referring to are (1) the gun-wielding Kate that just got into a cab with (pregnant?) Claire and (2) the Kate who is at the dirty healing pool with a not-so-dead-anymore Sayid.
Taxi Kate: I’m very intrigued about what Taxi Kate does from here. She’s on the run (again) with her baby mama (hahahaha) in a cab. I don’t see how this could end well. I also don’t see how her story is going to intersect with any other 815-X-ers who just landed…which makes me wonder if Taxi Kate’s story is not going to last very long. (Yep, I said it.) Let’s see, she either gets thrown in jail, goes into hiding, or…
At the Healing Pool Kate: Back on the Island, what Healing Pool Kate does is far more interesting. Along with the rest of the gang, she is essentially a prisoner of Bonsai Ninja and his Other Others. And the Other Others likely have a lot of answers to a lot of stuff that’s gone down over the last five seasons. There’s what they know about the Man In Black. There’s why they believe in / follow Jacob. There’s what’s their relationship/history with Ben’s Others. There's how the heck Sayid is alive right now. For these reasons, I’m hopeful that the overall story will keep moving tonight, even though it is Kate-centric. (This is good in my book, as I have grown skeptical about Kate episodes over the years. They often seem to drag.)
Guest Stars
None listed. Again.
Really?
I. Love. This. Show. I love the mystery of not knowing. And I love that there will be so many guest stars tonight and we’ll have no idea who they are and what they’re doing. AWESOME!
Episode Description
“Kate finds herself on the run, while Jack is tasked with something that could endanger a friend’s life.”
Vague. Again.
ABC is on it’s a game this season. Well played, episode description writerman. Well played.
Okay. “Kate finds herself on the run.” Right. Taxi Kate is on the run. Got it.
“Jack is tasked with something that could endanger a friend’s life.” So this is our only on-island intel. Well, last week ended with Bonsai Ninja wanting to talk to Jack in private…and Jack refusing and starting a street fight with the Other Others. And in the middle of this, Sayid rose from the dead and interrupted. So, I’ll go out on a limb and guess that after the excitement over Sayid’s resurrection (deliberate choice of word, by the way) dies down, Jack will have the meeting with the Ninja…and receive his task.
What’s the mission going to be? Call me crazy, but I’m thinking it is going to be something pretty huge. I mean, I’m thinking in the realm of “move the island” huge.
Write this down, kids: I’m wondering if this task will have something to do with why fate brought Jack to the island in the first place.
>Is Jack the key to this whole show?
>Is he the next leader of the Others? Of the Other Others?
>Is he the means by which Jacob will reincarnate?
>Is he the only one who can stop Man In Black?
Go ahead and roll your eyes, all you Locke fans (ahem, Charlie, ahem)...but Jack is still a big player in this game, like it or not. Maybe not as a big as these questions imply, but big. Mark my words.
As far the part about “endangering a friend’s life?” Not sure. Honestly, Jack doesn’t have many friends as this point. Technically, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Jin, Miles, and Sayid are the friends with him at this point in time and space, so you have to assume it is one of these peeps. And seeing as Sayid nearly died last week and is now alive because he went swimming in a dirty pool…well…if I was a betting girl (guess what? I am!), my money would be (is!) on Sayid.
Well, that’s all she wrote! Enjoy the episode!!
Namaste,
Maggie
Okay. “Kate finds herself on the run.” Right. Taxi Kate is on the run. Got it.
“Jack is tasked with something that could endanger a friend’s life.” So this is our only on-island intel. Well, last week ended with Bonsai Ninja wanting to talk to Jack in private…and Jack refusing and starting a street fight with the Other Others. And in the middle of this, Sayid rose from the dead and interrupted. So, I’ll go out on a limb and guess that after the excitement over Sayid’s resurrection (deliberate choice of word, by the way) dies down, Jack will have the meeting with the Ninja…and receive his task.
What’s the mission going to be? Call me crazy, but I’m thinking it is going to be something pretty huge. I mean, I’m thinking in the realm of “move the island” huge.
Write this down, kids: I’m wondering if this task will have something to do with why fate brought Jack to the island in the first place.
>Is Jack the key to this whole show?
>Is he the next leader of the Others? Of the Other Others?
>Is he the means by which Jacob will reincarnate?
>Is he the only one who can stop Man In Black?
Go ahead and roll your eyes, all you Locke fans (ahem, Charlie, ahem)...but Jack is still a big player in this game, like it or not. Maybe not as a big as these questions imply, but big. Mark my words.
As far the part about “endangering a friend’s life?” Not sure. Honestly, Jack doesn’t have many friends as this point. Technically, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Jin, Miles, and Sayid are the friends with him at this point in time and space, so you have to assume it is one of these peeps. And seeing as Sayid nearly died last week and is now alive because he went swimming in a dirty pool…well…if I was a betting girl (guess what? I am!), my money would be (is!) on Sayid.
Well, that’s all she wrote! Enjoy the episode!!
Namaste,
Maggie
3 Snarky Comments:
Nice preview Maggie. That's gotta be hard to do with out much info to pull from, so kudos. Given those limitations, you seem to hone in on a few things that are interesting to ponder before we watch so that's good.
Maybe yourself or Charlie or any other readers here will have some thoughts about this too, but I may have a possible intersect from Taxi Kate and the other 815ers. By way of Jack's dad's funeral perhaps. Maybe Claire in this alt reality isn't going to LA to give her baby up for adoption, but to attend Christian's funeral. I dunno. Looked like Claire was in the taxi and maybe had given the driver a destination. Maybe Kate will just go along for the ride gladly to have escaped from the marshall. The destination is the funeral. Kate gets there and hides out in the cemetary or something. Jack remembers her from the plane. They share some weird dejavu thing and they end up smooching or something. lol Ok, it was a random idea I know. But who knows.
As the title suggests, perhaps it is what "Kate does" from now on. This is about redemption for her I think. Somehow that Jacob interaction with her about not stealing again yadda yadda, when she was a sweet little fiver finger discounter, is going to come full circle for her. And maybe Sayid/Jacob will give her the opportunity to wipe her slate clean and prove to him her moral worthiness.
Also, from the ABC preview it looked like she's was tasked to get Sawyer and convince him to return to the temple cause they need him to be apart of the battle. So maybe that's what she "does". Wooooo. *Insert dramatic chipmunk stare here. Hell if I know. I'm probably way wrong about that too.
You are right about one thing for certain, and that is I will enjoy this episode. I mean c'mon, it's Kate-centric!!!
Nice intersect theory Schnick!
Thanks for the comment, Scnhicky. And interesting funeral theory! BUMMER it didn't work out. But I think the intersection of the timelines is still going to happen...soon? I hope? Unless things get interesting in LA, it needs to end soon.
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