Last nights Sawyer centric episode was an interesting and well plotted episode.

The show started with the now fully clothed Desmond suggesting that Clair take her baby and move down the beach. “Your roof is leaky” he informs her, as a ploy to get her to cooperate. Charlie walks up nearly huffing at the seemingly concerned castaway, explaining to Desmond that he is plenty handy with his hands, and that his help isn’t really necessary. Desmond simply walked away, unscathed by Charlie’s jealous actions.

Jack makes a play at Juliette when she brings him some food while he’s watching a cartoon on the tv in his aquarium. He asks her why he’s there. No answer. He says “I’m beginning to think that you are nothing more than the one that brings me my food”. Jack tells her that perhaps he should be talking to Ben. “He won’t tell you anything”, the now bothered Juliette responds. “Well, you work for him don’t you?” To that Juliette says “I don’t work for him! It looked to me like Jack bested her by manipulating the conversation, which is what is was trying to do.

At that moment, Ben walks in. “Juliette, we need you.” “Can it wait?” Juliette seemed to be more aggravated at this point than anything, I think she wanted to stay and try to make Jack understand that her role there is more than just that of a gopher. Ben’s reaction didn’t help her rebuttal. “No, you are needed now”. She turned and left the room.

Sawyer spouts off at Picket about his nose bandage as Picket opens the cage. Picket comments “Keep it up and your gonna get shocked?” “That’s what I’m trying to do, what do I gotta do, talk about your momma?” I don’t know what Sawyers motivation is here, perhaps some shock therapy? As Picket attacks Sawyer his radio goes off. He locks the cage and heads off into the woods with his 2 hinge men. A few minutes later, Coleen is carried through a door, with her concerned husband at her side.

When Kate asked Sawyer what happened, he replied “We happened”, with smirk on his face. Her irritation at this was obvious. “Its our ticket out of here” Sawyer explained. Why he thought that Coleen being shot was their ticket out is yet to be known. Maybe he figured that Jack would negotiate a trade, her life for their release.

Sawyer pulls the bear trick to get his cage to release some fish biscuits and water. After he does that a few times, a considerable puddle has formed just outside of his cage. He explains to Kate that when the next person comes to get him out of his cage, he will push the shock button, and him and the person at the cage will both be shocked, while the person letting him out stands in the water, increasing their shock. “What about Jack” Kate says. “Every man for himself.” He’s right in that, if they did escape and tried to rescue Jack on their own, they would certainly fail. If they were to go back to the beach, then they would be able to form a rescue party and lead them back to Jack. Kate didn’t see things this way, however, as she expressed her dislike in leaving Jack behind.

While in prison, Sawyers ex, Cassidy shows up for a visit. It’s made clear that she is the one that put him there, probably in retaliation for him scamming her out of $600,000. Cassidy shows Sawyer a picture of little girl that she claims is his. He denied that Clementine was his daughter, and got up and stormed away.

Sawyer’s bout in the jail leads him to a man, who stole $10,000,000 and is serving time for his crime. He soon finds out that the warden is giving this man protection, and comes to the conclusion that the warden wants to get his hands on the stolen loot. So Sawyer approaches the man and offers up some free advice. The man is skeptical of Sawyers intentions at first, but after seeing the hatred between the warden and Sawyer, decides to trust him. He tells Sawyer where the money is, and begs him to make sure that Sawyer gets it before his estranged wife finds out where it is hidden. Sawyer agrees, only to turn around and tell the warden the exact whereabouts of the money. In return, Sawyer gets released from the prison system 6 years early, and a cut of the loot, which Sawyer generously gives to the little girl he so adamantly denied was his with one condition, that she never find out where the money came from.

Ben appears from the doorway, and Sawyer smirks at the thought of getting to electrify the head honcho. Ben steps up to the puddle of water as Sawyer looks on in anticipation. Ben asks Sawyer his age and weight as he steps closer to the water, exciting Sawyer even more. 32, he replied sarcastically. Ben seems to know better, and requests again. “35 and 180 pounds.” Ben steps to the cage, into the puddle and opens the cage door. Sawyer makes quick to grab Ben’s hand through the bar and twists it around to prevent Ben from striking back. He picks up a stick and presses the electrifying button, to no avail. He looks shocked, confused as he tries again and again, still to no avail. Ben explains to Sawyer that they turned it off, then proceeds to beat the hell out of Sawyer. Ben seems to be pretty tough, but I think his main advantage was the element of surprise. He knocks Sawyer out with some sort of club.

Sawyer awakens strapped to a table, with his arms and legs bound. An Other places an object, similar to a stick of dynamite, into Sawyers mouth. Then one of the Others holds up a syringe, about a 5 inch needle, and lifts it over Sawyer. The aim was to go straight through the sternum, but from the looks of it, they went straight through the rib cage and into the heart.
Alarms sound as a door swings open, and a hooded Jack is led out through the opening between Sawyer and Kate’s cages. They both start screaming for Jack, but the alarms are too loud, and its unclear as to whether Jack could even hear them. They open another door, and go through it. As the door slams shut, the alarm is cut off.