Lost - I Do

***½ / ****

What a hell of an episode! I don’t even know where to start, really.

Kate was married to a Miami-Dade cop (Nathan Fillion!) in the past, going by the name of Monica. With a pregnancy scare and pretending to be involved in Taco Night, Kate just can’t do it. That and Kate can’t stay still very long. Just seeing Kate in a wedding dress and part of a ceremony is rather surreal, considering her as a bride seems unfitting. She’s still gorgeous, of course. You put this back story in perspective with her complicated relationship with Sawyer on Hydra Island and this is quite a Kate episode of Lost! Kate even initiates sex with Sawyer, escaping from her cage and breaking into his! Juliet takes her to Jack to see him where she begs for him to operate on Ben! Jack considers this action a manipulative effort by Ben to secure his surgical services. Oh, but Jack has a trick up his sleeve!

Having an edge on Ben and the Others for once comes in handy for Jack who insists Kate is allowed to leave the island. Danny itching to shoot Sawyer for the death of Colleen, Kate needs to somehow rescue him from certain doom. The scene where Sawyer is on his knees and Danny is just about to shoot him, such matter of interruption from Jack’s slit of Ben’s kidney sack (an hour to fix this or Ben will die!) couldn’t be more convenient! That is not how Lost’s typical *main island* operates, but this is Hydra Island, so maybe a little of one island’s magic rubbed off on the other? Not convenience as much as fate?

Jack enduring a crisis—the ole Hippocratic Oath—as Ben’s life (tumor on the spine will continue to grow and he has maybe a week as Jack so amusedly points out to him) depends on him is quite a piece of melodrama. But that sure is leverage in Jack’s favor! So why not use it to rescue Kate and Sawyer? So Ben is vulnerable, life hanging in the balance, and Jack telling the Others to let Kate go. Jack looking into Ben’s monitors and seeing Kate and Sawyer in romantic embrace is certainly the turning point! Unfortunately, Jack doesn’t realize that he’s on a completely different island while Kate yells through the walkie-talkie provided by Danny that she can’t. It ending there sure is a masterful cliffhanger!

The third season gets Juliet involved as much as possible. There around Kate and Sawyer digging up rock and at Jack’s side in the operation room; Juliet is vital and important to those in Lost Creative. She listens to Ben and obeys his orders, although she tells Jack that they are equals. But she is quite involved in all that happens on Hydra Island, serving quite busily in Ben’s plans. Jack cutting the kidney sack in the middle of an operation sure surprises Juliet and Tom! He got one over them for sure! But will Kate and Sawyer escape Hydra Island? Will Jack be successful in getting them off the island? Ben sure needs them to!
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Although the episode spends very little time on the main island, Locke initiates a small funeral for Mr. Eko, with only those that know of his death being invited. Locke felt the others have been through enough death. Sadly the tail section of the Oceanic so special to the second season are gone. Sigh, that's too bad.

Episode 6 of the third season