What was the story Jack wanted Kate to remember as their signal?

To me, Jack thought of his plan when he saw Kate with Sawyer. That got him upset enough to do whatever it takes to look like her Hero again. The story could also serve to remind her of their early days.

Do the Others know about the One-eyed guy? He could be another castaway.

Yeah, I remember him telling her a story, but I couldn't for the life of me remember what it was.

I have the DVD of the first season. I'll be watching it tonight.

Democrats make better lovers. Whoever heard of a good piece of elephant?

I'm the oddball here, I guess. I simply cannot stand Jack at this point. I've never been a huge fan and don't find him the least bit attractive, but he never annoyed me like he's annoying now every.single.minute of screen time they waste on him.

I think it was the story about how he was performing a spinal surgery early on in his career, and he sliced some wrong part, and the patient's nerves spilled all over, and he allowed himself to feel the fear while he counted to 5. . .

I think he was telling her a.) that he was doing the operation on Ben, as she begged him to do, and b.) not to be afraid.

Like a bird on a stick, like a burning midnight fire, I have tried, in my life to be free.
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I'm with you on Jack, geg.

Good memory! I just watched the scene on my DVD. I recalled the scene but not what he said. Kate asks Jack why he doesn't seem afraid, he said (and it's long and kind of gory!), "Fear is an odd sort of thing. When I was in residency, my first solo procedure was a spinal surgery on a 16 year old girl. At the end, after 13 hours of surgery, I was closing her up. I accidentally ripped her girdle(?) sac, shredded the base of her spine where all the nerves come together. Membranes thin as tissue, so it ripped open. Nerves spilled out of her like angel hair pasta, spinal fluid flowing out of her. The terror was so crazy, so real, and I knew I had to deal with it. So I made a choice, I let the fear in, let it do it's thing. Only for 5 seconds, that's all I was going to give it, so I started to count, 1,2,3,4,5. And it was gone. I went back to work, sewed her up and she was fine." (Let's hear Kate repeat that word for word!) I think in true Lost fashion, Jack's request was working on several levels -- to tell her not to be afraid, that she should go for it, and also to remind her of their history.

During the first season, in an interview, Matthew Fox speculated that Kate would end up with Sawyer in the short term, but with his character down the road. I think that too. For me the last few minutes made up for a pretty ho-hum episode. That was the Jack I knew and loved from season one! I hope the move the action back to the beach. I'm tired of the Others story, they're too mean and manipulative. I'm much more interested in Desmond's and Alex's stories, and the other Losties.

Thank You CTgirl and Frodis. I knew someone here would have the answer! It does fit well to the situation.

As far as Alex' story, it might be the key to the Others' story. When we learn more about her, we'll know why they take the kids, what they try to do with them and also why they let some go. Seeing her with the sling shot shows that Alex has picked up some of her mother's hunting talents even if she probably doesn't know she exists.

It seemed like the Others were almost a little afraid of Alex. Who knows.

I hate Jack, and this ep made me want to hurl him off a cliff.

But I'm SO bored with Others-land. What's going on at the beach, anyway?


Just don't tell me what I can't do.

I think Jack was planning on his...plan...for the surgery for quite some time.

Locke will see...who knows what.

Nah.

And also a few questions of my own:

Is Ben honestly letting Jack do surgery on him, or are the Others somehow managing to set it up to look that way or something?

Are they really on a separate island, or can Kate and Sawyer effectively run if they got the chance?

And probably a few more that I can't think of right now.

das.

To throw my little 2 cents in I think that Kate only slept with Sawyer to get Jack to do the surgery.

I was never a big Jack fan but I just loved him in this episode!

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I'm having some real problems with the last few episodes.

First of all, WHERE THE HECK ARE SUN AND JIN? Why wouldn't Sayid say anything about them? Why hasn't Sayid mentioned the fact that they SHOT one of the others, probably mortally wounding her, and the others are seriously PISSED!

I didn't like the way they put Kate and Sawyer together. It seemed too contrived; only there to give us our cliffhanger ending.

Why are they introducing this lame new couple? Are they "red shirts", just there to die soon? Is the girl going to be a new love interest for Sayid? Or Jack?

Where the heck are Bernard and Rose? They've left that story hanging for way too long.

Why didn't Sawyer tell Kate that they're on camera? Why did the others keep her in that cage, knowing she could escape?

^^^agree^^^

I replace Kate with Jack as my least favorite. Jack sort of redeemed himself this episode.
I'm totally sick of the lame love triangle they have going on. If I wanted to watch cheesy soap operas, I would be watching CW, not Lost.

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