"LOST" Recap October 25th episode

2006 October 26 Lost Recap ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6867118/from/ET/)

A con within a con: Still keen on escape, Sawyer tried to put together a plan to shock one of his captors, but Ben pulled the plug on it and gave Sawyer a walloping. Waking up strapped to a table, Sawyer took a syringe to the chest only to wake up again in a stranger state. Ben sat a caged rabbit on top of Sawyer and shook the animal furiously, presumably killing the rabbit. He explained that the rabbit had a pacemaker, and Sawyer now had a matching one of his own. If his heart rate exceeded 140 bpm, his heart would explode — so, no point in trying to escape. Oh, and if told Kate, they’d put one in her, too. Back in flashback, Sawyer was still a prisoner, as he convinced new inmate Munson that the warden was pulling a scam with his wife to get his hands on the money he stole. Munson trusted Sawyer enough to tell him where the money was, but ever the conman, Sawyer took the info straight to the warden for a commuted sentence.

Who do you love? Realizing that something wasn’t right with Sawyer when he returned, Kate pushed to find out what happened. He denied anything happened, but Kate knew better. When Pickett found out about Colleen’s death, he dragged Sawyer to Kate’s cage demanded to know if Kate loved Sawyer, all the while beating him to a pulp. “Yes, I love him!” Later her thoughts were back to freedom for her and lover-boy. She conveniently noticed that the top of her cell had easily accessible gaps that she could fit through. Monkey-barring her way out, she went over to release Sawyer, but he begged her to leave him. She hopped back in her cage and reminded him, “live together, die alone."

Rabbit season: Ben, and a few of his Other-pals, led Sawyer on a hike. When his heart-rate monitor started beeping, Sawyer wanted to know if Ben brought him up there to kill him. Ben told him that his heart wouldn’t explode. “The only thing we put in you was doubt.” He then produced the not-at-all-dead bunny from his sack. Turns out the bunny was sedated and it all part of an elaborate hoax, because “the only way to gain a conman’s respect is to con him.” Sawyer then saw the real reason for their excursion. It was all about the view. Looking out over the peak, he could see that they weren’t being held on the main island at all; it was their very own version of Alcatraz.

On call: Colleen wasn’t completely dead when she came back to camp, and Juliet enlisted Jack’s help in trying to save her. Jack played island-ER with Juliet, under the watchful eyes of the gallery, but Colleen died. Noticing a series of X-rays, Jack suspected there was another reason he was brought there. The X-rays showed a man with a tumor on his spine, and being a specialist in the field, Jack thought it was too much of a coincidence.

Suddenly psychic: Seems that electromagnetic blast that pitted the hatch also gave Desmond special powers of prescience. Just as he was wise to Locke’s speech before he gave it last week, this time he knew precisely when the forecast called for rain. After rounding up odds and ends from the beach Desmond put it all together. “Is it art?” Hurley asked. Explaining that it was an experiment, Desmond told an exiting Hurley that he might want to wait a minute before he left. Just then rain poured down and moments later a bolt struck Desmond’s makeshift lightening rod.