The Lost Rewatch's third week closes with the Kate-centric episode in which she and Sawyer find the case that had belonged to the U.S. Marshal on Flight 815. But it's no ordinary case. It holds some sort of special significance for our feminine fugitive.
Kate and Sawyer liberate the case from the bottom of a small lake they find in the jungle. The two explore the depths and spot two bloated corpses still fastened into their plane seats. (Let me just add here that these two corpses, which I'm sure were supposed to look disturbing and/or frightening, are just comically unrealistic. Well, I've never seen any waterlogged corpses, but I'm sure they look a lot more disgusting than the two featured here.) Underneath them is the case that becomes the object of Kate's affection.
We witness how shifty and sly Kate is, as she tries to convince Sawyer that she's not very interested in the case when he believes the opposite. Later on, she tries several times to lift it from him, betraying the cool and collected indifference she once professed about the case's contents. When she's unsuccessful in getting the case from Sawyer, she tries to pull one over on the good doctor. She tells him the unadulterated truth about the case, its contents, and how to open it. They have to exhume the Marshal's body, because the key was in his wallet. When they dig the guy up, Kate attempts to earn another Academy Award nomination by sneaking the key out of the wallet and then pretending to be upset that it's not there. But Jack knows better and demands to inspect her hands. Tsk tsk, Kate.
Eventually they open the case together, and in addition to all of the Marshal's guns and ammunition there's a small green envelope. As the suspense builds for the audience (what the hell's in there?!), Kate slowly withdraws a miniature toy airplane from the envelope. Um, what? Jack, like us, thinks there's more to it, and demands to know what's so damned important about it. All she can tell us is that it belonged to the man she loved. When pressed further by Jack, she exclaims that it belonged to the man she killed. She then breaks down, and we think, Oh, right. She was a fugitive. We don't know any better at this juncture, but we'll learn later that it actually belonged to a guy who indirectly died as a result of Kate's actions. It was her childhood friend Tom. She didn't actually murder him. She murdered her father.
Reinforcing this outlaw image, the flashbacks show us how Kate duped a whole bunch of people to get her hands on the plane in the first place. Some dude that she was with at the time orchestrated a bank heist, and she played the foil. She acted as a helpless victim so that the bank manager would allow the robbers access to the bank's vault. But once they were back there, she turned it all around on her beau so that she could get into a safe deposit box (GASP! She wanted access to box #815!). She put a bullet in each of the bad guys and then coerced the manager to open the box. Inside was nothing but an envelope, which I would guess held the plane that she so desperately wanted.
Other things of note in this episode? More of Maggie Grace's atrociously awful acting skills. When Shannon gets upset by Sayid's frustration, I always burst out laughing at what terrible range Ms. Grace possesses. I know that Shannon was written as a whiny, spoiled brat, but you'd think that Maggie could have some sort of two-dimensional whininess rather than the one-dimensional version she delivers. It's really, really bad.
Oh, and Rose rains on Charlie's self-pity party. A bit of tough love, and it seems to slightly help the recovering junkie as he worries about Claire.
This episode doesn't strike me as terribly deep, especially since Locke is absent. It's simply an opportunity to learn a little more about Kate's past. But even then, we don't learn too much. Just that she's an outlaw with a heart of gold.
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