"
What Kate Does" is the third television episode of the
American Broadcasting Company's
sixth season of the serial drama television series
Lost and 106th episode overall. The episode aired on February 9, 2010 on ABC in the United States, was directed by
Paul Edwards and written by
Edward Kitsis and
Adam Horowitz. The title alludes to the
season two episode, "
What Kate Did".
Plot
2004
In flash sideways,
Kate Austen (
Evangeline Lilly) flees
LAX in a taxicab she has hijacked, in which a pregnant
Claire Littleton (
Emilie de Ravin) is a passenger. The cab driver (
David H. Lawrence XVII) bails and Kate lets Claire go, keeping all of Claire's possession in her haste. She drives to a chop shop, where a mechanic frees her from handcuffs. While searching for a new outfit, Kate learns that Claire is pregnant. She returns to where she left Claire, returns her luggage and offers her a ride. She drives Claire to the house of Lindsey (Jenni Blong), the woman who was supposed to adopt her baby, but Lindsey's husband has left her and, devastated, she no longer wants the child. Claire goes into labor on the doorstep and Kate takes her to the hospital, where Claire's doctor is
Ethan Goodspeed (
William Mapother). The police later come looking for Kate in the hospital, but Claire covers for her, allowing Kate to escape.
2007
Following the events of the previous episode, "
LA X",
Sayid Jarrah (
Naveen Andrews) has come back to life after apparently dying. The
Others, led by Dogen (
Hiroyuki Sanada) and his translator Lennon (
John Hawkes), wish to speak with Sayid, privately.
Jack Shephard (
Matthew Fox), however, wishes to go with them and starts a fight.
James "Sawyer" Ford (
Josh Holloway) seizes the opportunity to obtain a gun and announce his departure from the temple, explicitly telling Kate not to follow him. The Others send Kate,
Jin-Soo Kwon (
Daniel Dae Kim) and two of their own, including
Aldo (
Rob McElhenney), to bring Sawyer back. Meanwhile, Dogen brings Sayid to a room, where he is first given an electric shock and then burned with a poker. Dogen later explains to Jack that he has diagnosed Sayid as being infected and gives Jack a pill for Sayid to take. Jack refuses and takes the pill himself, which Dogen hurriedly forces him to regurgitate, revealing that pill is in fact poison. He explains that the infection, upon reaching Sayid's heart, will remove any trace of the person he once was, and adds that it has happened to Jack's half-sister, Claire.
In the jungle, Kate, Jin and the Others come across a trap; Kate activates the trap and overtakes the Others. Jin and Kate split up; Kate follows Saywer's trail, while Jin begins to search for his wife,
Sun-Hwa Kwon (
Yunjin Kim). Kate finds Sawyer at the
Dharma Initiative's barracks, in the house where he and
Juliet Burke (
Elizabeth Mitchell) had previously lived for three years. He retrieves an
engagement ring he had hidden and later talks with Kate at Dharma's dock. He explains that he planned to propose to Juliet and that he blames himself for her death, saying that he convinced her to stay on the island with him because he was lonely. Meanwhile, Jin is caught by the Others; however, Claire frees him by shooting them.
