The Tail Section

Director – Tucker Gates

Story – Javier Grillo-Marxauch

Teleplay – Edward Kitsis & Adam Horowitz

Kate episode

Synopsis:

Flashback

• Blonde-haired woman pulls up to motel, sneaks into room and dyes her hair brown: it’s Kate!

• Kate, saying she’s Joan Hart, get a letter from the front desk. She goes to her car and cries about the content of the letter.

Beach

• Kate is playing with the toy plane.

• Charlie and Kate talk about getting back to the real world.

• Arzt tells everyone that they need to launch the raft NOW.

• Kate shows interest in leaving, tells Michael she’s going on the raft.

Titles

Beach

• Michael and Kate argue about going on the raft.

Flashback

• Kate with flowers goes to hospital to see her mother.

• She hides behind the flowers to avoid a police man.

• Kate hides in Tom Brennan’s car. Her mom is dying. Asks Tom for help.

Beach

• Jin and Sun argue about Jin going on the raft.

Jungle

• Sayid and Jack are going to see something, run into Locke.

• Jack sees The Hatch for the first time.

Beach

• Michael doesn’t know if Sawyer is right to go on the raft.

• Kate is burning an ID. Sawyer confronts Kate, lets her know he knows more about her than she knows.

• Sawyer threatens Kate, lets her know she’s not getting on the raft. Kate says otherwise.

At the raft

• Walt and Michael work on the raft.

• Michael drinks some water and gets sick.

Jungle

• Walt runs to get help. Kate runs to get Jack.

• Kate yells for Jack.

The Hatch

• Jack and Locke talk about the Hatch. Power struggle.

• Jack wants to open it. Sayid doesn’t want anything to do with it.

• Sayid points out the quarantine sign, “it’s on there for a reason.”

Jungle

• Kate finds Jack and they run back to the beach.

At the raft

• Jack looks after Michael. It must have been the water he drank.

• Kate looks after Michael while Jack goes to investigate.

Flashback (Tom’s Kitchen)

• Kate is looking at photos of Tom’s kid, Connor. Kate looks sad.

• Tom agrees to help Kate.

Flashback (In a Pasture)

• Tom and Kate drive to a pasture and start to dig.

Beach

• Locke and Jack discuss what made Michael sick.

• Jack reveals residue on the bottom of Michael’s bottle.

At the raft

• Jack takes Michael’s water. Michael thinks it’s poison and accuses Sawyer.

Beach

• Hurley and Locke discuss the raft. Jack comes up and Hurley says, “Because of Kate? Because she wants on the raft.”

• Hurley proposes that it might have been Kate that poisoned Michael. “You know, the whole fugitive thing.” Locke is shocked.

• Discussion about dissemination of information. Power struggle between Jack and Locke again.

Beach

• Claire is cutting Charlie’s hair. They talk about rescue and how great it would be.

• Charlie writes “Monster Eats the Pilot”.

Caves

• Kate asks Jack about the raft. Jack accuses Kate of poisoning Michael.

• Kate plays innocent. Jack doesn’t buy it.

Flashback (In a pasture)

• Kate and Tom are digging. Kate finds the time capsule.

• Contents of time capsule made from New Kids on the Block lunch pail: a red hat, a toy plane (Tom’s), a baseball, other junk, and an audio tape from August 15^th, 1989.

• In the car, they listen to the tape. They’re supposed to be together now, married.

• “You always want to run away, Katie.”

• They kiss. It’s wrong.

Jungle

• Walt and Locke talk about Michael being poisoned.

• Walt says he didn’t do it. Locke didn’t think he did.

• Walt then grabs Locke’s arm and says, “Don’t open it.” Locke is confused.

At the raft

• Mike tells Sawyer he poisoned him and he’s off the raft.

• Sawyer, pissed, outs Kate in front of everyone with the dead girl’s passport.

Flashback

• In the hospital, Tom sneaks Kate in to talk to her mom.

• Kate wakes her mom up. Mom is upset. Kate apologizes for what she did. Mom starts screaming, “Help!”

• Kate runs and attacks a security guard.

• Tom follows her to his car. Kate peels out and the cops are in hot pursuit.

• Kate wants Tom to get out. He refuses.

• She peels out and rams through a car barricade. Shots are fired. She rams a car.

• Tom is dead. Shot to death.

• Kate looks back at the toy plane, but there’s no time. She runs.

At the raft

• Sawyer calling Kate out. Kate admits she is a criminal.

• No one trusts Kate anymore. She is left alone with the toy plane as a reminder of what she’s done.

At the raft

• Last preparations are being made for departure.

• Jack and Sun discuss the poisoning. He knows that Sun tried to poison Jin. “I didn’t want him to die out there.” She confesses.

• Jack won’t rat her out, he’s a good guy.

Beach

• Sawyer tells Kate he’s back on the raft.

• “You cornered me, freckles.” “That’s that.” He’s sorry, in his own Sawyer way.

• Kate asks why he wants to leave so bad. “Because there ain’t anything on this island worth staying for.” Deepening the Kate-Jack-Sawyer love triangle.

Beach

• Walt and Michael talk. Walt admits he burned down the first raft. He didn’t want to leave. Apologizes.

• Michael is understanding. Offers to stay. “We don’t need to leave.”

• Walt responds, “Yes we do” in his creepy, cryptic kid way.

Beach

• Sun and Kate talking. Sun says she won’t tell anyone it was Kate’s idea to poison Jin. She says Jack won’t say anything. “Jack’s good at keeping secrets.”

• Kate believes once she found the man she loved, she’d be happy forever. But who?

Crash to “Lost”