LOST: What Kate Does

First off, I am so happy to have Claire back on Lost! Oh how I missed her. I can't wait to find out more about what's been going on with her. Tonight's episode was pretty good. I just wish we could get lots of answers with no new questions. That's never going to happen with this show though. I've pretty much come to terms with the idea that the final scene of the show is going to be something ambiguous that will keep me obsessing over it for the rest of my life.

In the non-crash timeline, Kate is on the run from the marshall. So she hops in Claire's cab and tells the driver to take off. When Kate kicked Claire out of the cab and wouldn't even let her get her bag, I was so mad. It made me remember that no matter what good stuff Kate occasionally does, she is still an awful, selfish person. I was mad at Kate until she opened Claire's bag though. Then I think Kate remembered raising Aaron. The look on her face when she saw the stuffed killer whale (the same whale Aaron is holding in season 4 episode "Something Nice Back Home") - that was a deja vu face! That's what made her go back and help Claire. Of course, that lady couldn't take Claire's baby because Claire's the one who is supposed to raise him. So some things stay the same weather the plane crashes or not. I love that Kate and Claire were together again when Claire started to go in labor. I also love that Kate stuck around to help Claire. How flippin' crazy was it when Kate went to get a doctor and it was ETHAN?! What the hell is he doing there? Good to see his name was Dr. Goodspeed because that's what his last name should be. (On the island, when he pretended to be a crash survivor, Ethan's last name was Rom.) I don't even have any theories or explanations for why Ethan was there. It makes me head almost explode just thinking about it. Maybe it's just to show that everyone who interacted on the island will still interact with each other in this new timeline. I loved this whole part of the episode because I really like Kate and Claire together. It's so season one Kate delivering Aaron. So in this timeline, Kate gets to do exactly what she is wanting to do in the island timeline, which is get Claire back with Aaron. How cool is that?!

So back on the island in 2007, Sawyer takes off and Kate and Jin go after him. Of course, Kate goes because running off is her thing. Jin goes to look for Sun. When they were in the jungle, I kept thinking that the white Other looked familiar. How cool that the show brought him back? You can tell it's the last season because Aldo actually tells Kate (and us) who is and when she saw him before. Normally, we'd have to figure that out on our own or it wouldn't come back up for 6 or 7 episodes. The Others seem to know a lot about what happens on the island because that one guy totally knew Rousseau was dead and about the Aijia plane landing. So then Kate runs off to Sawyer. I loved the scene with Kate and Sawyer on the dock. Even though I am glad Juliet is gone, I cried because Sawyer crying just broke my heart. I guess Kate was crying so hard out of guilt. Or was it because Sawyer won't help her look for Claire? Or because Sawyer doesn't want her anymore? I was kinda confused about that. Looks like Kate won't have to look far for Claire though because Jin found her!

In Temple-land, Sayid wakes up and the head dude and interpreter man demand to see him. He gets strapped to a table and tortured. I felt so bad for my ninja man Sayid, but then I remembered he used to do that to people everyday. They claimed to be testing him and/or diagnosing him. I am so glad that Jack is finally demanding answers for all the crazy island stuff that happens. The leader Dogan guy seemed to be willing to tell Jack a few things. A darkness is taking over Sayid and how did Dogan know this? "Because it happened to your sister," he tells Jack. So that's what happened to Claire! The Christian we have seen on the island must be a form of Smokey or actually the MIB in Christian's form. Then that means he's a bad guy and has been leading Locke down this crazy bad path the whole time. Maybe I'm slow, but were the Other dudes giving Sayid the poison pill to kill him or just to kill the darkness inside him? Would the pill stop the infection? If there's no way to fix it, my Sayid is gone forever. I wonder if Ben got the darkness inside him when he was saved at 12. That would explain a lot because Ben's a douche.

I Googled Dogan and apparently there was some tribe called Dogan back in the day. Here's the freaky thing it said "Because there are no paved roads, no electricity, no surface water and little contact with the outside world, the Dogan Territories in the Hombori Mountains have been called the 'end of the earth.'" That's very Temple-sounding! (Yes, I have been reading too much Doc Jensen at because I actually Googled Dogan.)

I knew there was a reason I was trying to go spoiler-free this season! I totally saw the last Lost scene coming because I had already seen a picture of Claire with a gun looking all Rousseau-like. That last moment would have been shocking if I hadn't seen that pic. I could see it coming though because that Other guy mentioned Rousseau had been dead for years and yet there was a Rousseau like trap. So my new question is does the island keep repeating itself and every time it loses someone, someone else has to come in and take their place? Example: Rousseau's baby got kidnapped and she had to go all badass by herself on the island. Claire's baby was taken and now she's resumed Rousseau's spot as the female island ninja. Claire even has an accent! Oh and apparently Claire was infected with darkness. Was Rousseau too? Or just her team?

The preview for next week made it seem like a Sawyer episode. I don't know for sure though because I am not going to any Lost spoiler websites anymore. I don't want to ruin another big reveal for myself. Maybe this time I'll learn....