What Kate Does

Welcome to our second edition of Instant Dharma, where we break down all things 'Lost' every week. Because we like to. And because hopefully it'll help us all see things on this crazy amazing show a little more clearly.

This week, IGN TV editor Eric Goldman (@EricIGN) and TVGuide.com editor Natalie Abrams (@NatalieAbrams) join me to talk about fugitive Kate -- has she gone soft? Is she even guilty? -- sad, loveless, destined to be alone Sawyer and those linen-clad keepers of the temple who just got a whole lot more interesting.

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(S06E03) "It's the Others, dude. They caught us ... again." - Hurley

As 'What Kate Does' unfolded, I couldn't help but shake the feeling that everything we're witnessing in the "post-Jughead worked" 2004 time-line is going to end up being very important. Of course, that could have been due to the fact that in this past week's Official 'Lost' Audio Podcast, Cuse and Lindelof essentially laid it bare for us -- there is no alternate reality happening here. What's going on in LA in 2004 and what's going on in 2007 on the island are both very real.

The question to ask is what effect actions in one time-line will have on the events in the other. As far as 'Lost' mindf#%ks go, this one is a doozie, because it's forced us to reevaluate everything we remember about these characters, right back to the pilot episode.