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Before I start tonight's recap post, I just wanted to note that the extra four minutes in this episode totally made up for The Other 48 Days.... and when I say that, I mean that it makes up for that entire episode. Tonight's episode was definitely, in my opinion, the best episode this season, and quite possibly one of the best Lost episodes ever.

The episode begins with Jin emerging from his tent, bare-chested and smugly satisfied from a night with his wife. Hugo comes out of the tent next door and smiles at him knowingly. Jin smiles back and Sun emerges from the tent, hugs her husband from behind and looks to the left and sees Sayid, digging Shannon's grave.

More after the jump...

We cut to Jack tending to Sawyer. Sawyer says "I love her." Jack looks disturbed.

Just to make sure we can follow who he's talking about, we then cut to Kate climbing a tree, almost falling out, catching herself, and then as she is back on the ground and "stable" she sees a black horse. My first thoughts were that we were going to have a sudden The Black Stallion cross-over, but no such luck. Instead, we're in the midst of the first of many Kate-centric flashbacks that do, in fact, tell us What Kate Did, the title of tonight's episode. Kate is playing with a lighter, as a drunken man—who we later will discover is named Wayne, married to her mother, and, in fact, is young 24-year-old Kathryn's father by blood—pulls up in a truck. She helps his stumbling drunkenness get into the house and into bed. He calls her beautiful, makes a lewd comment about her taking off his pants, and then says she's beautiful again. She gives him a disgusted look, leaves the house, jumps on a motorcycle and starts to ride off as the house blows up. Whoa. Wayne's dead, and Kate killed him. The Lost logo flashes slowly across the screen with eerie Lost music and we're at our first set of commercials.

After the break, we're back in the flashback with Kate walking into a diner where her mother apparently works. She took an insurance policy out on the house for her mom and when her mom asks her what she had done, she says, "I took care of you, Mom." Her mom didn't seem to pleased, and later, we'll discover that her mom turned her in for killing her abusive beau, Wayne. This flashback cuts back to Jack and Kate in the bunker with Sawyer and Kate volunteers to sit with Sawyer.

Cut to Ana and Mr. Eko and Eko tells Ana that he is going to attend the funeral for Shannon. Ana says she won't make it, but he tells her that they realize it was an accident. Cut to the survivors gathering for Shannon's funeral. Sayid stands over the open grave, saying "Shannon and I were strangers. We wouldn't even have met...wouldn't even have spoken if....but we did meet and we did speak. At least....I loved her." Then he started crying and walked away after exchanging a glance with Jack who walks up to the grave and throws some dirt on her gently and says "May she rest in peace." Locke follows suit as do the rest of the people in attendance.

Cut back to Kate and Sawyer. Kate starts talking to Sawyer while he's passed out and says "I saw a horse. Yeah, that's what happens when you don't sleep." Suddenly, Sawyer's hand thrusts upwards, grabs her throat and he says "Why did you kill me?" As we enter the next installment of commercials, the viewers are confronted with the possibility that dead Wayne has possessed the seemingly dead Sawyer.

We come back to the alarm going off for the numbers with only 23 22 21 seconds left. Locke hurriedly enters the numbers just in time. While Jack walks around looking for Kate, yelling her name as he finds Sawyer on the floor and Locke comes over to help him pick Sawyer up. Quick cut to Kate walking outside acting a little more crazy than last time we saw her and Charlie walks up talking to her and she's ignoring him and then she asks him about horses on the island. Flashback to our friendly neighborhood federal agent who died way back in episode three, healthy and breathing and handcuffing Kate and telling her that her mom turned her in.

This scene is interrupted by Michael asking Locke about the bunker and the numbers and Locke tells him about the movie. Mr. Eko says that he would like to see the film. Then we cut to Kate and Jack running into each other in the forest. Jack asks why she abandoned her post and she flips out and yells at Jack that she's not as perfect as him and then she kisses him passionately and then walks slowly away and then runs away. Crazy.

After another barrage of commercials, we come back to Locke showing the film for Michael and Mr. Eko. As it finishes Michael says, "Alright. You've been pressing that button every 2 hours since you got down here?" Michael and Locke start discussing the film and Locke asks Mr. Eko what he thinks and he just stands up and walks away. In a few more scenes, we find out why.

But first, we cut to Kate who has gone totally nuts. She's by Shannon's grave apologizing to Sayid and saying "I went crazy." She asks him if he believes in ghosts and he says, "I saw Walt in the jungle just before Shannon was shot. Does that make me crazy?" and then he walks off.

Flashback to Kate and the agent asking her why all of a sudden she killed Wayne. They run the car off the road dodging a dogeither a horse or a deer [Edit note: sorry, but it happened quickly and I was busy typing while watching and it looked smaller than a horse /deer] in the rain and she punches him and gets the keys to her cuffs, kicks him out of the car and drives off. Before she does she sees a black horse on the road.

Back to Locke demonstrating to Michael that they cannot punch in any numbers before it is time. Locke goes to see Mr. Eko who says, "I have something that I think you should see." Mr. Eko starts by saying, "Long before Christ..." and begins talking about King Josiah and how the Temple was rebuilt when they found a book of Law, the Old Testament. This part is interesting, because Mr. Eko stops in the middle of his story and asks Locke if he's heard the story before. Locke says no. I liked the way Locke's position as the story-teller with the moral of the Island was usurped by Mr. Eko in this episode and with no confrontation. It was very natural. After he finishes his story, Mr. Eko says, "On the other side of the island, we found a place much like this and in that place we found a book." He uncovers the book in front of Locke and Locke picks it up and opens it. The book is hollow and has a bit of extra film inside with the scientist from the Hanso corporation on it. Mr. Eko presented all this information just as Locke would have done, somewhat cryptically and with a bit of showmanship.

Back to Jack chopping wood as Hurley walks up and says, "So, Rose's husband's white! Didn't see that one coming." Then he asks him if he's mad at Sawyer. Jack wants to know why he would think that and Hugo says, because you're chopping wood which is what Sawyer always used to do: transference. Ah, the psycho-babble you'll learn in a nut-house!

Kate starts watching Sawyer again, relieving Sun, and Kate enters into another flashback. She shows up at a military to see her real dad, who is in the military, and who we shortly find out isn't her real dad, a fact that she herself discovered while making a scrapbook and discovering that he had been in Korea when her mother became pregnant with her. The man she killed was her real father. She asks him why they never told her, and he says because he knew that she would kill him. She asks her dad, "Why didn't you kill him?" and he says, "Because I don't have murder in my heart." Interesting side note in this scene: Sayid appears as if he is a military prisoner.

Back to the present: Kate starts talking to Sawyer as if he were Wayne and tells him that she hates him being part of her and that every time she starts to feel something for Sawyer she sees Wayne. So it is clear that the "murder in her heart" comes from her murderous wife-abusing father who she killed and that she hates that part of herself. Just when it's getting a little too heartfelt, Sawyer coughs and sputters and says something like, "That's the sweetest thing I've ever heard. Who is Wayne?" as he wakes. She smiles and laughs.

Back to Locke splicing the film, marveling at how they landed on this island, split in two groups, and each group found part of this film. Eko interjects as the new instructor of the island and tells Locke: "don't mistake coincidence for fate." Zing!

Back to Kate helping Sawyer get up and walk out of the bunker. As they walk about, Sawyer keeps talking about how he thinks they've been saved, and that she's pulling his chain, but Kate walks him outside and he exclaims something Sawyer-esque and very unlike "Oh, fiddlesticks." As she's laughing at him he spots the black horse and then they see the horse together. Kate goes up and pets it. Sawyer says, "You know that horse, Freckles?" Kate: "Yeah, I do." Now, considering that Shannon died after Sayid and her saw Walt together, was this a real horse or just a vision, and if it was a vision, does that mean that one of these two is slated for death? Nah.

Jump from one couple to the next. Jack comes up to Ana and gives her some alcohol and they exchange a nice little flirt session. Then we cut back to the film as Eko and Locke watch the extra footage that continues to warn not to use the computer for anything other than entering the numbers, especially not for communication because that may lead to another incident. Then we cut over to Michael tinkering with wires as the computer starts beeping. He walks over to it and in a very Matrix moment the screen types: Hello?

Michael then types: Hello?

SCREEN: Who is this?

MICHAEL: This is Michael. Who is this?

SCREEN (WALT?): Dad?

OMG!