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Lost Recap: Capsules, Carats and a Crazed Claire

Posted Feb 10, 2010 by Michele Sager

Updated Feb 10, 2010 at 09:17 AM

The episode is called “What Kate Does” but finally gives us answers to what happened to Claire.
We start in the temple with everyone amazed to see Sayid alive. Well, everyone but Sawyer who is busy scoping his escape route. When Kate asks exactly what he has planned, Sawyer replies he plans to run. Cue the flash sideways of Kate running from the marshal.

We are where we last saw Kate, commandeering a cab by gunpoint with Claire as her unwilling passenger. As they make their getaway, that darn Dr. Artz gets in the way giving Kate a chance to look at Jack with puzzled recognition. Shortly after, the driver bolts and Kate dumps Claire before driving off.

Back in the Temple, Sayid thanks Jack for saving his life. The Others want to chat with Sayid, but Jack isn’t down with that plan. Just before Jack gets pummeled by some beefy body guards, Sawyer starts waving his gun around. His mission isn’t to save Jack but to leave the Temple. The others beg him to stay, but he walks out anyway.
Kate and Jin go after him.

Flash sideways: Kate finds a friendly mechanic who is more than happy to remove her handcuffs for $200. When Kate goes to change clothes, she opens Claire’s bag to find a Polaroid of the pregnant mom and some baby items.

Temple: Remember when Sayid wondered in the last episode what would happen to a torturer after he died? Well he found out. The Others shock Sayid with electric wires before sticking him with a hot poker. They claim it’s not torture, but a test. The Others tell Sayid he passed the test, but later reveal they lied.

Flash sideways: Kate, the courteous carjacker, goes back to where she dumped Claire to return her bags and ends up offering her ride to the house of the couple that planned to adopt Claire’s baby. It seems they forgot to pick her up at the airport.

Island: While Kate and Sayid trek through the jungle looking for Sawyer, they learn three important facts: 1) an Other lets it slip they know about the Ajira plane crash (and possibly the location of Sun) 2) There are still Rousseau-style traps all over the island 3) When you knock an Other out with the butt of your gun, he holds a grudge three years later.

Back in the Temple, Jack demands answers after learning how Sayid was tortured. He’s told that Sayid is “infected” and that he needs Sayid to take a capsule willingly. When Jack wavers on helping with the plan, the Asian man lays a major guilt trip on our favorite doc for getting Sayid shot and some of his friends killed.

Meanwhile, Hurley asks Sayid the question we were all wondering – “You aren’t a Zombie, right?” (Whew, cross that one off my mounting questions list.) Jack reveals to Sayid he didn’t fix him, but Sayid says he’ll still take the mysterious capsule if Jack recommends it because he trusts him.

Flash sideways: Kate and Claire discover the adopting couple has split up and they no longer want the baby. Claire decides this is a good time to have labor pains. In a later flash, we see Claire at the hospital where the doctor is her old pal Ethan. He says she can deliver her baby or have the choice of trying to stop Aaron’s early arrival. This kinder gentler Ethan isn’t prepared to plunge her belly with syringes like he did on the island saying “I don’t want to have to stick you with needles if I don’t have to.”

Island: Kate reveals to Sawyer she came to the island to find Claire so she can reunite her with Aaron. She consoles a sad Sawyer who blames himself for Juliet’s death and reveals an engagement ring for Juliet that he had hidden in his old Dharma digs. (Is there a Kay Jeweler’s on this island?) He tosses the ring into the sea.

Back in the Temple, the Asian leader reveals his name, Dogan, and tells Jack the secret of his leadership is to remain separate from his people because he has to make the tough decisions. Jack says he won’t give Sayid the pill until he knows what’s in it but Dogan refuses to say, so Jack pops the pill himself. Dogan forces him to spit it out, revealing it’s a capsule full of poison. Later, Dogan tells Jack he is trying to kill Sayid because a darkness is taking over him and that’s he’s seen this before – in Jack’s sister.

Over in the jungle, the Others catch up with Jin and the angry Other is pretty ticked and wants to kill Jin even though he’s “one of them.” Just before Jin gets shot, someone shoots the angry Other. Who was the gunman behind the grassy knoll? It’s Claire looking a bit crazed and like she had been to Rousseau’s hairdresser.