The Tail Section

Season 1 Episode 03
Title: Tabula Rasa
Director: Jack Bender
Writer: Damon Lindelof
FlashBack: Kate

Synopsis

In the infirmary, the marshal mutters something to Jack. He instructs Jack to look in his coat pocket. Jack pulls out a mug shot of Kate.

We also realize that we are only intersecting with the lives of these people at certain points. We know this because there are parts of the conversation that we have missed. Sayid was given pretty good detail about what the pilot said by Kate. The signal party agrees that they will not mention the content of the signal.

Hurley runs across the mugshot and asks of Jack, "What do you think she did?"

FlashBack

Kate was running in Australia and was discovered sleeping on hay in a barn near Melbourne. With a shotgun pointed her, she was coerced by a one armed farmer named Ray Mullen to have breakfast. She agreed to work on the farm. She goes by "Annie."

Jungle
At the signal party camp site. Boone lifts the gun and the clip that were taken from Sawyer earlier. They wake and somehow figure that Kat is trustworthy enough to carry the gun.

The Signal Party arrives where we find out that Kate can’t keep secrets. She runs to Jack telling him everything about the transmission. Kate is very curiuos if the Marshal said anything during the surgery to which Jack said, "no."

Hurley looks for stronger antibiotics, but cannot find any. Jack checks in the fuselage amongst the dead bodies. He finds Sawyer scavenging the personal articles of the dead. Sawyer criticized Jack for not seeing the big picture, that he needed to end the life of the Marshall rather than waste meds and resources on a dying man. The exchange ended with Sawyer telling Jack, "Me? I’m in the Wild."

Claire and Charlie interact while loading luggage onto a wheelchair. Jin and Sun interact showing how far they are from one another.

Hurley tries to play it cool with Kate, but can’t now that he knows she was the fugitive.

FlashBack

Kate decides it is time to move on. Ray reasons with her ans she agrees to allow him to take her to the station. Later, we find out that Ray turned her in and he was giving her a ride to the authorities under the guise of taking her to the train station. Curiously, Ray was driving on the wrong side of the road when the Marshall pulled beside Ray’s truck. A wreck occurred thanks to Kate causing the truck to flip. Ray was knocked unconscious, and Kate pulled him to safety. Her act of kindness led to her capture.

On the Island

The Marshal wakes up seeing Kate over him, he grabs her by the throat. Jack intervenes before it is too late.

Michael has difficulty making a connection with Walt. When he realizes that Walt and Locke have become friends, Michael tells his son to stay from Locke. Michael made a promise that when the rain stops, he would continue to look for Vincent. Which is also about the time the rain stops. On his search he hears a sound and runs away from it running into a topless Sun.

The rest of the beach hears the pain of the dying Marshal. His obsession with bringing Kate back goes well beyond the job. Even to the point that he wanted Kate to end his suffering. Sawyer obliged by shooting him in the chest, missing his heart, and collapsing a lung. Sawyer was obviously sick with himself for his ineptitude. Jack, as far as we know, finished the job.