Season 4 Episode 4

Let’s continue my new weekly tradition of adding some info from the previous weeks episode as discovered through the “missing pieces” repeat:

“The episode is entitled “The Economist” a name shared by a British magazine which publishes its articles anonymously.”

After killing the man on the golf course:
“Sayid vowed he’d never torture again so one might wonder if he ever found redemption on the island.”

As Daniel sets up his experiment:
“The ship is 80 nautical miles from the island. That’s the equivalent of 92.0623 miles. “

As Desmond arrives with Juliet:
“Desmond saw a helicopter in one of his ‘flashes’. He told Charlie he saw Claire and Aaron leaving the island in a helicopter prompting Charlie to sacrifice himself to help secure their rescue.”

When it is revealed Hurley set up Sayid:
“This turn of events is an homage to ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ when Han Solo was lured into a trap by Lando Cairissian.”

When Sayid tells Elsa her boss is on a list:
“The Others kept lists of survivors but this is the first list to be mentioned off the island.”
The point of course is Ben made both lists.

The final scene:
“It is appropriate this flash forward unfolds against the backdrop of Berlin, a city where east meets west, where the unimaginable once happened and two opposing sides unified.”


Season 4 Episode 4
Eggtown
Kate flash-forward

Locke brings Ben breakfast and a book to read:
Locke: “Help ya pass the time.”
Ben: “I’ve already read it.”
Locke: “You might catch something you missed the second time around.”
I always do John, I always do.

Next we see Kate and Claire having a coffee. Coffee mugs provided by Dharma, as well as the Wal-Mart Mainstay collection.

Jin is trying to find a place for he and Sun to live. He starts with Albuquerque Kate’s hometown. Sun is determined to raise the baby in Korea (my money is on at least Sun being one of the Oceanic 6).

Jack, Juliet, Dan and Charlotte reach the beach. Jack introduces everyone:
Jack: “… they can make arrangements to get all of us off this island.”
The look on Dan’s face seems to say otherwise.

Kate wants to track down Miles so she can figure out if the freighter-ites knows she’s a fugitive. She tricks Hurley into giving up his location:
Hurley: “You just totally Scooby Dooed me didn’t you?”

Kate makes a deal with Miles to get him a conversation with Ben, if he shares what he knows about her.

Kate is uncomfortable around a baby:
Kate: “I’m just not very good with babies.”
Claire: “The last thing I ever thought I’d be good at is being a mom.”
That’s true, since we know Claire was on her way to LA to give up her baby.

Hurley has some Xanadu on the TV when Kate drops by. She recruits Sawyer into tricking Locke so she can hook up Miles and Ben. And what better way to trick Locke than using the game he and Walt used to play, backgammon.

Locke is surprised to discover Sawyer knows where Miles is:
Sawyer: “If Hugo knows everyone knows.”

While Locke and Sawyer are at the boat house Kate sneaks Miles into the basement:
Miles: “You know who I am?”
Ben: “Yes.”
Miles: “You know who I work for?”
Ben: “Yes.”
Miles: “Then you know he’s put a lot of time and energy into finding you. So now I found you and I can tell him exactly where you are. Or I can lie and tell him you’re already dead. And I’d be willing to do that for 3.2 million dollars.”
Ben: “You arranged this meeting to blackmail me?”
Miles: “It’s extortion if you wanna get technical.”
Ben: “3.2, why not 3.3 or 3.4? (I’m sure there’s a better reason but 32 backwards is 23) What makes you think I have access to that kind of money?”
Miles: “Do not treat me like I’m one of them, like I don’t know who you are and what you can do.”
Ben: “Your friend Charlotte seen me, she knows I’m alive.”
Miles: “I’ll take care of Charlotte you just worry about getting me the money. You have two days.”
Ben: “My present situation is a little bit restricted can that be amended?”
Miles: “Ok one week, in cash. And don’t even think about…”
At that Kate pulls Miles out of the room, where he confirms that he knows everything about Kate. She turns Miles back over to Locke who then bans her from O-Town.

Back on the beach we find out Dan’s memory isn’t so great. Charlotte calls the freighter and Ragina tells her she hasn’t heard a word from the helicopter.

Locke ties Miles back up in the boat house. And to make sure he doesn’t do anymore talking he gives him a grenade sandwich:
Locke: “Enjoy your breakfast.”

After spending one last night with Sawyer before returning to the beach, Kate is disappointed over Sawyer’s joy at the news she isn’t pregnant:
Kate: “Would it have been the worst thing in the world?”
Sawyer: “Yes, yes it would have been the worst thing in the world.”
HAHAHA

Sawyer: “… cause in about a week you’ll find some reason to get pissed at Jack and bounce right back to me.”
That line was well worth getting slapped over.

Now let’s travel forward in time …

Kate is being brought into the court house through a crowd of onlookers. Now this crazy dude shouts something at her.

I played this back 20 times and couldn’t figure out what he said. Then I remembered the old rule, when something doesn’t sound right in Lost play it backwards. Sure enough when you play it backwards he screams “WE HATE YOU.”
click here to listen

Kate is denied bail. We learn Kate’s mom is still alive but more importantly that Kate has a son. This is most likely who Kate was referring to when she said this:
Season 3 Episode 22, Kate speaking to Jack
Kate: “I have to go. He’s gonna be wondering where I am.”

Kate’s Lawyer calls Jack as a character witness:
Jack: “On September 22nd, 2004, Kate… Miss Austen and I were both passengers on Oceanic flight 815 which crash landed on an island in the South Pacific.”
Lawyer: “Were you aware that Miss Austen was a fugitive being transported by a United States Marshall on the flight to Los Angeles for trial.”
Jack: “I did learn that eventually, yes.”
Lawyer: “From the US Marshall?”
Jack: “No the Marshall died in the crash. I never spoke to him. Miss Austen told me.”

This of course is a lie, the Marshall did survive for a few days and he did tell Jack about Kate.

Lawyer: “Did you ever ask her if she was guilty.”
Jack: “Never.”
Lawyer: “Well it seems like a reasonable question, why not?”
Jack: “I just assumed there’d been some kind of mistake.”
Lawyer: “And why would you think that?”
Jack: “Only eight of us survived the crash. We landed in the water. I was hurt pretty badly. In fact if it weren’t for her I would have never made it to the shore. She took care of me. She took care of all of us. She gave us first aid, water, found food and shelter. She tried to save the other two but…”

At that Kate cuts him off. Now as we know all of that was a lie but it’s likely the story the Oceanic 6 gave when they got off the island. I have some other comments about Jack’s speech which I’ll save for the end.

Jack tells the DA he doesn’t love Kate anymore. Kate gets to see her mommy for the first time in a long time. She says she doesn’t want to testify just wants to see her grandson. Kate refuses.

Did you notice the DA’s first to offers to Kate? 15 years and then 4 years. Even lawyers love the magic numbers. In the end Kate leaves with 10 years probation and isn’t allowed to leave the state. No wonder she can’t go back to the island like Jack and Hurley want to do.

Jack lets Kate know he does love her, but doesn’t want to see her son.

Then the big twist ending.
THE FINAL SCENE
Baby: “Hi mommy.”
Kate: “Hi Aaron.”

OK… this episode raises numerous questions. I’ll try to give some theories I have on this:

Why does Jack say 8 people survived the crash instead of just 6?
Either way it’s a lie but why add two more people that you have to explain away. I think this will play a role in the later episodes.

Why doesn’t Jack want to see Aaron?
I have two theories on this. One being the fact that Aaron is Jack’s nephew. We learned last season that Christian Sheppard was both Jack and Claire’s father. Second, this flash-forward is before Jack’s season ending flash-forward, so Jack at this point doesn’t want to be reminded about the island.

How does Kate get Aaron?
With Charlie’s death, rumors of a regular cast member being killed off this season and this new information things don’t look good for Claire surviving. Perhaps she dies and gives Aaron to Kate. One hole in that theory is that Desmond seen Claire and Aaron getting on a helicopter and leaving the island. But I guess that is no guarantee they make it back to the real world.

Now Claire could get scared that someone else will take Aaron when she gets to the real world, as she was on her way to LA to give him up. But why not keep Aaron and stay on the island?

My real question about this whole scenario is, how does Kate pull this off? When rescue comes how does she explain how somehow she had a child? Claire was 8 months pregnant on the flight. Kate clearly was not. No matter how much time passes now there will be no explaining how she gave birth.

Who are the Oceanic 6?
First 4 we know
Kate
Jack
Hurley
Sayid

Does Aaron count as number 5? Was he technically on flight 815? Certainly he wouldn’t be on the manifest.
What about Michael and Walt? They are at least off the island right now, do they make it.
And I still got my money on Sun, she can’t have that baby on the island.

Guess we’ll have to wait and see

NEXT WEEK
Season 4 Episode 5
The Constant – Desmond Centric

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