1.22 Born to Run

1. Kate is on the run. She has several license plates from different states. She changes the color of her hair from blond to brown. She receives a letter at the hotel under Joan Hart. From Lost Hatch
2. "Drive Shaft's albums must have spiked when they found out I died in a catastrophic plane crash." Charlie
3. "The helicopters will come." Charlie talking to Kate about Michael getting them rescued.
4. Dr. Arzt says it's monsoon season, that the trade winds are going North, which is where they want to go.
5. Kate wants on the raft, to take Sawyer's spot. She says she spent a few summers crewing on J boats.
6. Kate's mom has cancer. She goes to Tom for help at the hospital.
7. Sayid takes Jack to the hatch as per Locke's request. From Lostpedia
8. It's been three weeks since Locke found the hatch. Jack wants to know why he didn't tell him.
9. "Maybe it was never meant to be opened from the outside." Sayid
10. Sawyer figures out that Kate was the prisoner on the plane and that she wants to take his spot on the raft so she can get away.
11. Michael is poisoned by something in his water. He thinks it was Sawyer.
12. Tom is Kate's childhood friend, or first love. He is a doctor, helps her with her mother, Diane.
13. Kate and Tom go to a field and dig up a time capsule. Inside a New Kids on the Block lunchbox is a hat, baseball, a tape labeled "Kate and Tom 1989" from August 15 of that year, and Tom's toy plane that he got when he went to Dallas by himself. From Lost Hatch
14. On the tape, Tom talks about getting married and having 9 kids, but Kate says they should leave.
15. "You always want to run away." Tom "Yeah, and you know why." Kate
16. Locke finds out about Kate from Hurley, because he suggests Kate might have poisoned Michael.
17. Walt tells Locke that he didn't poison his did, then Locke touches Walt to comfort him and he has some sort of psychic vision.
18. "Don't open it. Don't open it, Mr. Locke. Don't open that thing!" Walt "What thing?" Locke "Just don't open it!" Walt
19. Sawyer tells everyone about Kate being a fugitive and wanting to get on the raft so she can run.
20. Kate goes to see her mom at the hospital. "I'm so sorry for everything that I've put you through."
21. Diane screams for help and Kate runs with Tom, he won't get out of the car. Tom is shot by the security guard, Kate crashes into gold Pontiac Bonneville. Tom dies, Kate runs. From Lostpedia From Lost Hatch
22. Kate says she didn't poison Michael, but admits she was the fugitive.
23. "When we get rescued, we're gonna come back for everybody else, right?" Walt "The thing is, finding the island might be hard." Michael
24. Walt tells Michael that he burned the raft, that he didn't want to leave.
25. "We don't have to go." Michael "Yes, we do." Walt
26. Jack figures out that Sun is the one who poisoned Michael, trying to make Jin sick instead, so he wouldn't leave on the raft.
27. Kate helped Sun, it was her idea, she says Jack won't tell anyone.
28. "Jack's good at keeping secrets." Kate

Questions:

1. Who sent the letter to Kate?
2. Why weren't the police waiting for Kate at the hospital or at Tom's house?
3. Where is Edward Mars?
4. Did Kate really crew on J boats? If so, when?
5. What did Sun use to try to make Jin sick?
6. How did the toy plane get from the backseat of Tom's car in Iowa to the safety deposit box in Albuquerque, New Mexico? Who put it there? How did she get the key?
7. What did Walt see when Locke touched him? What does he think is going to happen?
8. How does he know about the hatch?
9. Does Walt being special somehow mean he has a psychic ability?

Favorites:

1. "Of course it's going to work. Look at that thing, it's not a raft, they built a sodding boat!" Charlie
2. "I'm a doctor, and you're a hillbilly." Arzt "You're a damn high school science teacher!" Sawyer
3. "You going to vote me off, Mickey?" Sawyer
4. "What? You want to open it?" Sayid
5. "You and Locke kiss and make up?" Michael
6. "How am I supposed to keep straight who knows what around here? I mean, Steve didn't even know about the polar bear!" Hurley
7. "This is track 2. It's called Monster Eats the Pilot." From Lostpedia

Notes:

1. We see the Pontiac Bonneville again, the same one that hit Michael and Locke.
2. When Kate goes to visit her mother, Diane, she screams for help, just as she said she would in Left Behind.
3. In the flashback, Kate loses her mother and Tom as a result of her actions. On the island, she is alienated because of her actions.

1.12 Whatever The Case May Be

1. Kate and Sawyer find bodies and Halliburton case in lake. From Lostpedia
2. The tide is shifting. They move up the beach.
3. Kate, New Mexico, photographer for a coffee table book.
4. Rose tells Charlie that he doesn't get to not help, that nobody blames him for what happened to Claire. "Maybe I should've died." Charlie
5. The guy Kate cons to rob the bank for her is named Jason.
6. Sayid has maps from Rousseau. He tries to translate. He asks Shannon to help him. From Lostpedia
7. "We have a problem, or you have a problem?" Jack, to Kate. In the Halliburton, 4 9mm guns and boxes of ammo.
8. The sea of silver sparkles that change, next to the pond, blue infinity. "There's something about this that seems so familiar." Shannon translates for Sayid. From Lostpedia
9. Jack threatens that he won't give Sawyer his drugs so he'll give him the case. "Whatever she told you, she lied." Sawyer
10. Kate opens security box in the bank, #815. She's not a signatory.
11. "It belonged to the man I loved. It belonged to the man I killed." Kate
12. Rose says that she knows her husband is alive. "There's a fine line between denial and faith. It's better on my side." Rose
13. Charlie asks her for help. "I'm not the one that can help you." They pray.
14. Shannon tells Sayid that the notations from the maps are from the song La Mer.
15. Toy plane in envelope from Halliburton and safe box.
    From Lostpedia

Questions:

1. How does Kate know about the safe deposit box? How does she get the other key? Did Edward Mars give it to her?
2. How did the plane get to the deposit box? Did he put it there? Why is Kate so attached to that damn toy plane?
3. How does Rose know her husband is alive?
4. What do the maps and notations mean?

Favorites:

1. "I'm protecting you!" Sawyer "Protecting me from what? Southern perverts?" Kate
2. Shannon asking Boone if Locke is his new boyfriend.
3. Sawyer and Kate fighting over the case. When Sawyer climbs up the cliff to drop the case, she runs in and takes it, while giving him a snickering look. It makes me laugh every time.
4. "You're wasting your time, man. If you pick the lock on a Halliburton, I'll put you on my back and fly us to LA." Michael "You better find yourself a runway, daddy, cause there ain't a lock I can't pick." Sawyer
5. "Do you think you're the only one on this island that's got something to be sad about? Baby, I've got sob stories for you." Rose, to Charlie.

Notes:

1. The bodies underwater and Kate and Jack digging up the marshal's body is totally creepy.
2. For once Jack does something right. He figures out Kate's motives.
3. Jack finally does something good, but then he has to mess it up with wanting to know everything about Kate. What's she supposed to tell you her life-story, dude?
4. It's really awesome that Maggie Grace sang La Mer. From Lostpedia