Kate Loves Jack, not Sawyer
by Michael Canfield


    Last night on Lost Sawyer and Kate got busy in broad daylight right under the Others' surveillance cameras. Sawyer loves Kate, we know. I'm guessing he is pretty sure now that Kate loves him too.

    I hate to break it to Sawyer, but I see things completely differently. If I'm right, which is far from certain, of course, Kate doesn't love Sawyer, although she is attracted to him. She may or may not have admitted it to herself yet, but Kate loves Jack. Here's why I think so ...

    First, I think that Kate slept with Sawyer because, as she keeps saying to him, she didn't want him to give up and die, and she certainly knows that Sawyer loves her. That, along with the tension of imprisonment, and fearing for their lives gets them together, but it doesn't mean she's in love with him.

    Furthermore, we saw in the flashback that she ran away from her husband, Nathan Fillion's character. Kate doesn't think she deserves anything or anyone good.

    Jack is good, at least in Kate's mind. So there's more of a reason she would go toward Sawyer, when she really loves Jack. You still might argue that she prefers a bad-boy like Sawyer, but she gives herself away when she tells Jack over the walkie-talkie that she won't leave without him. She does not say we won't leave without him. She's only thinking about Jack at that point. She'd rather die than leave without Jack, just as Sawyer would rather die than leave Kate behind.


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