Week 1 Day 4: Secrets and Reveals – LOST

[Andrea Verde]

What’s the set up? It’s the love triangle. The demand to know what Kate’s secret is by Marshall dying. How is Kates secret revealed? By a clever game of a truth or drink game. Kate is honest and reveals herself as a killer. The drama is when Kate’s boyfriend (i don’t know the whole story) but he’s drunk and abusive and she feels threatened and blows up the house, leaving him in there while he’s passed out. I can tell by the way he speaks to her that he’s not a good guy and scary. Just focusing on Kate’s character is she’s been deeply hurt, angry, and honest, while untrusting to a point.

[Susan]

How is Kate’s secret set up…
The set-up begins before the first scene here, both Jack and Sawyer suspect Kate of something.
Then Deputy is dying of his wounds from the plane crash and tries to tell Jack about the dangerous criminal he was with, but he keeps passing out. He wants to know where his handcuffs are showing that the criminal needs to be in them and may have taken them. Finally he tells Jack to go into his jacket pocket. There Jack finds a folded paper. As he opens the wanted poster and the Deputy says she’s dangerous again as Jack sees Kate’s face in mugshots.

So the set up goes in steps, 1st Kate is suspected, 2nd the Deputy decries his criminal dangerous, 3rd A wanted poster, 4th Kate’s flashback of the murder (although the flashback hints at, but doesn’t show the exact nature of relationship between her and the victim – we find that out even later in another reveal).

What causes demand to know what the secret is?
First, that she is suspected of having some deep secret and is hiding something important.
Second, the fact that Kate is the alleged criminal and a fugitive. She is in a wanted poster.

How is Kate’s secret revealed?
It is revealed in steps as it was set up.
1st She is in the wanted poster, deputy says she is dangerous and she should be in handcuffs.
2nd Then she plays a game of “I never” with Sawyer and admits she killed a man.
3rd a flashback of the murder.

The Drama the scenes were built around were knowing there was a loose criminal, knowing Kate had a secret she was hiding, and after the reveal Jack and Sawyer both jumpy (each in their own way) about just how dangerous Kate is to them and everyone else from the plane. The Drama was also built around the drawing out of both the set ups and the reveals of Kate’s secret. Each reveal is another set up. In the 3rd scene the Drama is built up around Kate flicking the the lighter, the smell in the house, the obvious unwanted sexual tension between her and the man, then Kate looking back, riding away before the explosion.

What traits showed up in these characters’ words and actions?

Jack: Impatient, Distressed, Goader, Overwhelmed

Sawyer: Selfish, Greedy, Vain, Sly, Vengeful, Provocateur, Wounded

Kate: Secretive, Strong, Vengeful, Compassionate, Smart, Determined