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10-13-06, 10:31 PM
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Hodgepodge
10-16-06, 04:43 PM
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Ana-Lucia’s first appearance was during the season one finale, Exodus. She flirts with Jack at a Sydney airport bar. She tells him she’s on the same flight back to Los Angeles. In the tail-section of the plane, seat 42F.
We next see her in Orientation, being thrown into a pit with our rafters Jin, Michael, and Sawyer. She feigns being a prisoner, in hopes of finding out where they're from. When they tell her they were on Oceanic flight 815, she lets them know, she was too. When Sawyer comes up with the plan to use the gun to escape, she shows her true colors. She elbows him, takes the gun, and holds the rafters at bay.
During Everybody Hates Hugo, she interrogates the rafters and comes to believe their story. But for some reason, feels the need to physically abuse Sawyer by stomping on his wounded shoulder. She and a couple of her people, lead the rafters to what we find out is another hatch. There we meet the remaining members of what we've come to call the Tailies.
After a discussion with her compatriots in …And Found, she decides to make the long trek to join the Fuselies. They gather food and water and start the perilous journey. After Michael runs off to look for Walt, she really begins to push everybody. “We’re leaving before he can tell Them where we are.”
After Michael returns to the fold in Abandoned, she explains why they’re so scared. “They came the first night we got here. They took three of us. Nothing happened for two weeks, then they came back. They took nine more. They’re smart, and they’re animals, and they could be anywhere at any time…” She continues the torrid pace through the jungle. Never wanting to stop and tend to Sawyer’s worsening wound. They come to an embankment, and she realizes Cindy is missing. She draws the gun when they hear the whispers, and tells everybody to run! Shannon appears out of nowhere, Ana-Lucia fires, killing her.
In, The Other 48 Days, we get a glimpse into what Ana-Lucia and the Tailies went through after crashing on Craphole Island.
The tail section of the plane plummets into the ocean. I’m still trying to understand how anyone could’ve survived such a fall. Ana-Lucia breaks the surface and finds complete chaos. People screaming, bodies everywhere!
She notices Mr. Eko dragging survivors out of the water and starts to help. Eko brings a little girl ashore, whose not breathing. Ana-Lucia performs CPR and revives the little girl. She encounters Goodwin on the beach, and is told there’s someone stuck in a tree. She follows him and they find Bernard. She climbs the tree and saves him as well.
That first night, they’re attacked by the “Others”! Eko manages to kill two, but the next morning, they find three of the Tailies missing. “These people are out here in the jungle with no shoes, nothing in they’re pockets, no labels on their clothes. These people were here before us.”
Day 12, the children and some other adults are taken. Ana-Lucia manages to kill one of the abductors. She discovers while going through the their pockets a list of the nine people taken. They decide it’s best to leave the beach and try and find shelter in the jungle.
After trekking through the jungle for three days, they come upon a stream. They decide to make this area their new campsite. Two days later, we find Ana-Lucia digging a pit. She knocks Nathan out and throws him in. She and the others come to the conclusion he wasn’t on the plane, and she starts the interrogation. After four days, Nathan still denies he’s part of the “Others” and assures her he was on the plane. That night, Goodwin helps him out of the pit. Only to break his neck to keep his identity hidden.
Thinking they’ve been found again, Ana-Lucia and the others head deeper into the jungle. They find the “Arrow” bunker, some blankets, a Bible, and a radio. Ana-Lucia and Goodwin take the radio to higher ground hoping to get a signal. During a rest period, she confronts Goodwin with the knowledge he’s the infiltrator. They struggle, and she impales him on her spear. She finally breaks down during this ordeal. Eko finds her crying next to a stream. “You waited 40 days to cry.”
Day 45, they find Jin washed up on the beach. Ana-Lucia immediately thinks it’s another trap setup by the “Others”. She ties Jin to a tree, but he escapes and makes it to the beach. There he finds Michael and Sawyer. They’re knocked out and captured by the Tailies. Ana-Lucia comes up with the idea to pose as a prisoner too, to get at the truth.
In Collision, we have our first Ana-Lucia-centric episode. It opens with her at a firing-range, and then switches to a session at a therapist office. We find out from the conversation, she’s been seeing this therapist for four months. We find out a short time later, she’s on leave from the Los Angeles Police Department.
The scene switches to the island, where its right after she's shot Shannon. Sayid, comes after her with his gun drawn, but is tackled by Eko. She knocks Sayid out and grabs his gun. She fires off a warning shot to keep everyone back. At this point, she’s completely psychotic. She forces Libby to tie an unconscious Sayid to a tree.
A flashback takes us to a LAPD station house where we meet Ana-Lucia’s captain, who also happens to be her mother. She convinces her mother (on threat of transfer) to reassign her to street patrol.
Back on Craphole Island, she is brandishing the gun like a crazy person. She gets really upset when Eko decides to take Sawyer to the Fuselies camp for much needed medical attention. “Don’t leave, please. If that were you, he’d let you die.”
Returning to her flashback, we find her and her partner on patrol. They take a domestic disturbance call and find a couple arguing outside their apartment. Ana-Lucia pulls her gun and demands the man to get down on the ground. Her partner has to verbally force her to holster her weapon.
Back to the island once again, she still has everybody at gunpoint. She demands Michael to bring her some ammo for the gun, along with a pack, blanket, medicine, and some clothes. Her plan is to live in the jungle alone.
Another trip to the real world finds her and her partner arriving back at the station. She’s told they’ve found the guy who shot her. It seems while on a police call, she let her guard down and was shot four times. The bullets were hollow-points and penetrated her flak jacket. She also lost her unborn baby in the shooting.
Peering through mirrored glass into an interrogation room, we see the suspect. But she says she doesn’t recognize him. Her mother tells her they matched his fingerprints to a partial at the scene. He’s also confessed! She still refuses to recognize the guy.
Again on the island, we find Ana-Lucia holding everybody hostage. Bernard and Libby decide to leave. Jin is allowed to go with them. It’s only her and Sayid left. She asks him where he’s from, if he has any kids. She tells him the shooting incident that put her in the hospital and killed her unborn child.
One last flashback, finds her sitting in a bar. We recognize one of the patrons as the guy the police had in custody for her shooting. She follows him outside, calls his name, and fires three shots. He goes down, whereby she stands over the body and fires three more shots, point blank.
Sayid asks what happened to the guy who shot her. She says they never caught him. She picks up Eko’s knife and cuts him loose. She drops the gun at his feet, “Go ahead, pick it up. I deserve it.” Jack and Eko arrive to find Sayid carrying Shannon's body, followed by Ana-Lucia.
She decides to forego the funeral services for Shannon in the episode, What Kate Did. She doesn’t think she’s been forgiven for the accidental shooting. Jack arrives and offers her a drink. He confronts her again in The Hunting Party. He wants her to help him raise an army. Their next conversation is in Fire + Water. She’s curious whether something’s going on between him and Kate. “You hittin that?”
In The Long Con she’s convinced the Fuselies aren’t scared enough until Sun is kidnapped. She tells Jack since the abduction, she’s gotten more people wanting to join the army. She takes Sayid into the jungle where they find Danielle in One of Them.
Locke gets her to interrogate Fenry in The Whole Truth. She gets Fenry to draw the map to his balloon and his wife’s gravesite. She then convinces Sayid and Charlie to accompany her to find the balloon. On the journey, she gets to apologize to Sayid for Shannon’s death.
In Lockdown, she, Sayid, and Charlie find the grave and balloon. At the end of the episode they return to the hatch and inform Fenry they dug up the grave to find the ID and the real decomposed body of Henry Gale. They lock Fenry in the armory and start to question him again in Dave. She also stops Sayid from shooting him. She’s still part of the guard team in S.O.S. She informs Jack it’s been two days and Fenry still hasn’t eaten.
Two for the Road, is another Ana-Lucia-centric episode. It opens with her mother, Captain Cortez, asking her whereabouts for last night. It seems Jason, the guy who shot her, was found dead, execution style. She denies having anything to do with it, and when her mother accuses her of the murder, resigns from the force. Back on the island, we find her trying to get Fenry to talk. He grabs and starts strangling her. Locke enters and hits him with his crutch.
Another flashback, we find her working as a security guard at an airport. She meets Christian Shepard in a bar and they begin to talk. He convinces her to accompany him to Australia. In Sydney, she drives him to a house, where she has to drag him off the premises because he’s drunk and disorderly.
The next morning we find her and Christian parked near a wharf. She tries to convince him to come back to the States with her. They literally bump into Sawyer, but she doesn’t see him.
To the island again, we find her trying to convince Sawyer to give her a gun. They start to fight, and then they start to make out. After the deed is done, she leaves him in the jungle. She heads back to the hatch to find out Michael’s been found. She stays with Fenry when the others decide to confront Sawyer about the guns. At this point Sawyer realizes she stole his gun during the act. When he tells the others what happened, Locke realizes her plan. Kill Fenry!
Last flashback finds Ana-Lucia talking to her mother from the airport in Sydney. She wants to come home. Her mother says she’ll meet the plane. “Flight 815!”
She cuts Fenry a loose, but she can’t pull the trigger. When she tells Michael she can’t do it, he says he’ll do it. She gives Michael the gun and the combination to the armory. He turns, apologizes, and shoots her.
In ?, she appears to Eko in a "havid". Then the gang find her and Libby shot in the hatch. Kate checks her for a pulse, but she’s dead. She’s laid to rest in Three Minutes.
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