Marshal is Kates DAD!

[dtroi26]

I think the Marshal was Kate's Dad!
He calls her Kiddo in a pretty fatherly way on the plane. She is concerned about him when the plane starts to crash, even putting the oxygen mask on him. He is old enough. And, being a Marshal and using guns alot, he might have taught his daughter how to shoot, which would explain how she shoots like a cop. And she doesn't want him to suffer when he is injured with the shrapnel. Any thoughts???

[mamasmf]

I kinda thought the same thing. I think there is a previous connection there but not father daughter. I can't imagine a father saying not to trust her she's a liar unless she was a really horrible person and if she was so horrible wouldn't he feel responsible for that? I am thinking the marshal was a friend of her dad's (Cop partners?) Blaming her for her fathers death as she blames herself.

[Rooster]

Not much of a reaction from Kate when the marshall finally pasted on.No not her father,just a marshall that has been looking for her to long.

[JacksGirlfriend]

I'm moving this to the character forum.

[Hodgepodge]

Ummmm.....I can't imagine this being true. I always got the impression that the Marshall only had a formality with Kate because he'd probably been chasing her all over the World. I also can't imagine the Marshall Service allowing one of its own to bring in their daughter. I'm sure they would think it would be a conflict of interest.

[dtroi26]

YEAH...but what is up with him calling her "kiddo"!!! If he was just a marshall hunting his fugitive down....he wouldn't call her KIDDO!!!

There is more to that than we know...plus she knows how to shoot pretty well for someone who doesn't know anything about guns.

Maybe the marshall was a friend of the her dad's...the guy she shot was her father (the man I love)....

Any thoughts????

[Hodgepodge]

dtroi26 asks:
YEAH...but what is up with him calling her "kiddo"!!! If he was just a marshall hunting his fugitive down....he wouldn't call her KIDDO!!!

There is more to that than we know...plus she knows how to shoot pretty well for someone who doesn't know anything about guns.


Maybe the marshall was a friend of the her dad's...the guy she shot was her father (the man I love)....
As I said in my initial response, maybe he's been chasing her for months. He may've even caught her before, and she's gotten away. I don't see an off remark (KIDDO), as anything other than that, an off remark.

In next weeks episodes, Raised by Another, we find out that Kate's father was a U.S. Army Ranger. I would assume he taught her to shoot. Makes sense doesn't it?

We all have our theories about our survivors, I just don't think yours is right!

[constantkitty]

Marshal as Kate dad. No way. That can't be a story. It would be just wrong and sick. I can't imagine that could happen. EWww

[TheJohnStamos]

There is more to that than we know...plus she knows how to shoot pretty well for someone who doesn't know anything about guns.
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Maybe Kate was also a Marshall or some similar part of the US government and they trained together or were partners prev

[Cody Ody O]

i think that he isn't her dad, but the man she loves. maybe she killed him awhile back and was chasing her all over the world for revenge. I think it would be cool if the power of the island is what brought him back and he disguised himself as a marshall to get revenge on her. Then he rigged the plane to crash in hopes that it would kill her, but it didn't. Just a thought. What do you guys think?

[azteclady]

O God.

She killed him so he followed her all over the world?

O God.

[Chance Gardener]

I'm sorry, but do you honestly think that? She kills someone, then the island somehow resurrects him but in a different form so that she doesn't recognize him, the he chases her all over for killing him, catches her, gets her on a plane going to the U.S. (why?) only to blow the plane up and then die because of it?

Without her dying?

Why? So the island can mate with her maybe and make new Ethans?

[HavanaOmelette]

In episode#2 when Sawyer kills the bear, he mentions that he got the gun and badge off one of the bodies in the wreckage. Why wouldn't he have said he got it off the guy that was on the ground with the piece of metal sticking out of his stomach?
Just a thought.

[Chance Gardener]

Cause then he'd be accused of stealing from a live person instead of scavenging off a dead one. Perhaps there is little difference, but maybe he thinks it might sound worse that way.

Just a thought.

[HavanaOmelette]

"The Marshall" is working for the same guy that sent Sawyer to Australia.

[azteclady]

Welcome, HavannaOmelette!

The marshal/not marshal/bounty hunter/shrapnel guy's identity issue has been debated literally to dead in this forum since September 2004. Just so you know, he was a marshal.

I'll try to look for specific links to those discussions later, but in the meantime I suggest you check both Kate's and Jack's forums for it.

While I understand that it can be kind of discouraging to come to a community in which seemingly everything had been discussed before, reading older threads can be extremely rewarding, as well as informative.

Most of the time you'll find that someone notice what you did, someone else noticed things you didn't, yet another person brings personal experience/expertise/knowledge to the discussion, or opens up an avenue of thought you had never consider.

Yes, there's also the silly, the petty, the lazy, but I firmly believe that the overall quality of the community is amazing. Enjoy it!


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[Hodgepodge]

HavanaOmelette asks:
In episode#2 when Sawyer kills the bear, he mentions that he got the gun and badge off one of the bodies in the wreckage. Why wouldn't he have said he got it off the guy that was on the ground with the piece of metal sticking out of his stomach?
If I might add to CG's comment, which maybe completely true.

HavanaOmelette, you're going under the assumption Sawyer realized the Marshall, and the guy he stole the gun and badge from, are the same person. Remember, this guy was knocked unconsciouses. Kate had to put an oxygen mask on him, or he would've died in flight.

[Chance Gardener]

For some reason, this thread kept popping up in my mind this morning. Due to the age's involved and the unlikelihood of a parent being the one allowed to go after a family member fugitive, I pretty much dismissed this as a pipe dream.

I suppose what has stuck in the back of my mind is the "kiddo" comment. The thought then struck me that was more like the remark a brother would have made. Which then made me wonder if the marshall was Kate's brother. The ages would be better together for that. But then I came up against the relative chasing relative unlikelihood.

Then, as it often does, my mind twisted and said maybe he's not her brother, but her brother-in-law? That there was a history between them from before/after the marriage.That Kate scammed this supposed marshall's brother to get some kind of info/thing/safe deposit box key??? and that led to the death of the brother.

From the byplay between Kate and the marshall, its obvious they have a history, a history that was personal but went bad somehow, a history that made Kate and her apprehension his reason for existence.

But I still don't think that the marshall was Kate's dad.

That would be silly now, wouldn't it?

[DontWannaBLost]

I think the "kiddo" comment is just part of the Marshall's word choice...implying positional authority over her and him relishing in the fact that he caught her, ie: "games over, kiddo...you were a novice and i beat you...you'd be silly to try and escape again!"

I don't think it has anything to do with a family relationship...in my first job out of college, I looked (and was) quite a few years younger than everyone else i worked with. Despite it being in a professional office environment, one of the guys called me kiddo...maybe he thought he was being endearing, but I took it as an insult that I was young and didn't know how to do my job as well as anyone else...I think that's what the Marshall was implying when he said it to Kate.

[lostlvr4eva]

Maybe the marshall was an Uncle.....maybe a hated one.

[Chance Gardener]

M'well Don't, I have to say that was my first thought as well - I may have even said so elsewhere as a matter of fact. More and more though, the idea of it being a relative, either of hers or of the man she killed (who is not necessarily the man she loved - at least that's my interpretation of her words from the upcoming repeat this Wednesday). The marshall wasn't just some zealous law enforcement officer (hmm, maybe we can call the marshall that? Leo Marshall?) tracking Kate; it was personal for him for some reason.

But I agree that it was meant in part as a putdown. I'm just thinking that it used to be a term of affection that he had for her and now he's twisted it to use as a putdown.

Or, he was her mentor in how to use "the system" for fun and profit and somehow she burned him???? I suppose we really do need more info still.