So last night we made some headway in the standoff between The Others and our hapless captives Jack, Kate and Sawyer. What had turned into a mildly frustrating Groundhog Day of near escapes, kisses, nookies, surgeries, revelations and executions finally transcended into utter chaos and we found what approximates on the island as closure.

Sawyer and Kate got it on and now there’s all ooey gooey in love with each other. I guess living in cages for a while can do something for fledgling relationships after all! Gives me hope for my little experiment in the attic. We also discover that Kate, prior to going to Australia was married to a cop! Funny how opposites attract, huh. She was running from the law, namely some chisel faced US Marshall, and running from herself at the same time. Once a father-blowing-up hardened criminal, always one. Her plan of settling down and playing the housewife was going well until hubbypants decided their delayed honeymoon was going to, you guessed it, Australia! Just a day prior she was planning taco night and now she was in a aqua caliente. There she sat at the table listening to his plans her face twisted like he was crushing puppy skulls with his fist while talking. Why? Oh that’s right. Fugitives on the lam can’t leave the country cause fugitives on the lam can’t get passports!

Which begs the question: so how did she get out of the country anyhow? Another day, another Lost.

Anyhoo, she gets all emo and tells her cop husband that she’s a fugitive. She just can’t do taco night and she can’t do the housewife schtick anymore. .She turns to leave, he tries to follow but dum dum dum she drugged his drink so he collapses in a heap. She leaves the “something borrowed” her mother-in-law gave her on her wedding day in the hand of the something she blew.

Back in present day we get to watch Jack struggle with his decision about whether to operate on Ben or not. Juliette had asked him to agree to operate on ol’ creepypants as an opportunity to kill him, botching the job. Jack ends up playing the jackass and refusing so The Others do what The Others always do and threaten one of the other captives to force a different captive to do something. This time they threaten to kill Sawyer to get Kate to tell Jack to do the surgery. For those of you keeping track from home, it doesn’t work.

So in the night Kate sneaks out of her cage to boink Sawyer, doomed to die because of Kate’s failure to turn Jack. Jack, meanwhile, sneaks out of his room thanks to some mysterious female and gets himself a gun and a sneak peak of a post-coitus Kate & Sawyer. Then Ben walks in and Jack, in a moment of ABC-nility, decides getting away from The Others is more important than, oh I don’t know, shooting his way out and rescuing his friends. So he agrees to do the surgery as long as it means his ticket off their prison island.
So the next morning Jack gets all scrubbed up to do the hatchet job while bad men come to kill Sawyer. The clouds decide to rain for dramatic effect. Jack appears to be cooperating but then makes a small incision in Ben’s kidney sac to cause a bleedout within an hour. Using this as leverage he gets a radio from one of The Others and calls over to Kate telling her to take off, that she has a one hour head start. Heh, no mention of Sawyer tho.

Will she stay or will she go? We won’t find out until February because ABC hates us and wants us to suffer. Thank the frakking gods for Battlestar.