Season 2, Episode 8: Collision

The tail-section survivors' journey to the main group will end. We also begin to have Ana Lucia's portrait painted for us through flashbacks.

MAJOR PLOT POINTS

A former LAPD officer, Ana Lucia was shot by a perp and had to go through counseling before her captain, who also happens to be her mother, would reinstate her. Her husband, Danny, has left her since the incident and her mother wants to assign Ana Lucia to the evidence room rather than put her back on the street.

A defiant Ana Lucia gets her way, though, and returns to duty with her old partner in squad car 8A16. Her first day back, responding to a domestic, Ana Lucia draws down on a guy holding a TV. Her partner orders her to holster her weapon and is unhappy at her potentially itchy trigger finger. Of course, she has every reason to be since a perp put four shots in her chest as she responded to a burglary. When the man who shot her is caught, she lies rather than ID him, then stalks him and shoots him outside a bar. It turns out, Ana Lucia was pregnant when she was shot and lost the baby.

With Shannon shot, Sayid goes after Ana Lucia in a rage but is headed off by Mr. Eko and tied up on Ana Lucia's orders. With Sawyer's condition worsening, Eko defies Ana Lucia, who is working out what to do and fears Sayid is intent on killing her. and leaves the group, trying to save Sawyer's life. He runs into Kate and Jack, who are playing a three-hole golf challenge (which Kate is dominating), in the jungle.

Ana Lucia decides she will have to go it alone and agrees to release Sayid if Michael will return with a survival kit for her that includes clothes and ammo. In the interim, Bernard, Libby and Jin also head for the main camp, leaving Ana Lucia alone with Sayid. The two bare their souls, revealing the depth of their guilt and talking about the scars from the murders they have committed, she frees him and gives him the knife and gun. She wants Sayid to kill her, because she thinks she deserves to die, but he refuses and instead gathers Shannon's remains and takes her back to the beach.

Jack has Eko take Sawyer, whose infection is now sceptic (in the bloodstream) to the hatch. Kate whispers to Sawyer and gets him to swallow the antibiotics, which will save his life.

Rose and Bernard, Jin and Sun as well as Jack and Ana Lucia, who met at the airport bar before boarding Oceanic 815, are reunited as the episode ends.

QUOTABLE

"She has no plan. She only has her guilt and a gun." — Sayid answering for Ana Lucia when asked what her plan is after accidentally shooting Shannon and detaining Sayid