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AKA: Kate Ryan, Kate Austen, Joan Heart, Annie, Maggie
Resided in: Iowa
Occupation: Unknown
Reason for Travel: Captured by marshal in Australia, being flown to US as prisoner
Flight Seat #: Unknown

Kate has been on the run from one thing or another since she was a teenager. Kate was an Army brat, raised by her mother, Diane, and Sam Austen, who was stationed at Fort Lewis, WA.  She grew up learning to hunt and track with Austen, who she grew up knowing as her father.  She learned later that he was stationed in Korea up until 4 months before she was born, and couldn't have been.  Her parents divorced when she was 5 years old, and her mother ended up marrying Wayne, who Diane had an affair with while married to Sam. Wayne was likely Kate's biological father, a fact which disgusted Kate, because he was an abusive alcoholic.

Kate grew up in Iowa as a young girl, where she spent a lot of time with her childhood friend, Tom Brendon. In 1989, Kate and Tom buried a time capsule together and vowed to dig it up in 20 years or so.

When Kate is 24, she was fed up with Wayne's abuse of her and her mother, and took out an insurance policy on the house.  While Wayne was sleeping, she set up a gas leak and blew the house up, killing him.  She gave the insurance policy to her mother, who knew nothing about the plan, and told her "I took care of you."  She then took off, on the run for the rest of her life.

Some time while she was on the run, Kate tried to escape to Tallahassee, but got caught at the bus station by U.S. Marshal Edward Mars.  It turned out that her own mother turned her in for the crime.  From her mugshot, Kate was arrested in Harrison Valley, PA and we know she had a brief marriage at some point, having changed her maiden name from Austen to Dodd.  As she was driven back in custody to her arraignment, a black horse suddenly came out in front of the car and caused Mars to veer and hit a pole.  He was knocked unconscious, and Kate took the opportunity to escape.  

A couple of years before Flight 815, Kate returned to Iowa to visit her now-dying mother in the hospital where Tom Brendan worked. Kate had been on the run for a while now, under the pursuit of the marshal. While they were waiting for the right time to visit Kate's mother, Tom and Kate took a late night trip to dig up the time capsule. Inside the New Kid's on the Block lunchbox, they found an old cassette and a toy airplane belonging to Tom, amongst other items.

Things went wrong when Kate visited her mother. Diane, who had never forgiven her, began screaming for help, and Kate was forced to go on the run once again, as security personnel tried to apprehend her. Kate ran into Tom as she was fleeing the hospital, and asked for his keys. Tom tried to convince her to turn herself in, but they raced out of the parking garage together as an officer fired rounds into the car. Kate lost control and the car hit another vehicle before coming to a stop. Kate then realized that Tom was killed during the escape. She glanced back and saw the toy airplane, and was forced to flee before the cops catch up.

Some time later, Kate made several phone calls to the marshal, and ended up figuring out where he locked up the personal effects from Tom's car.  Kate organized what appeared to be a bank robbery, conning a robber named Jason into being her partner. Once she gained access to the vault, however, it is clear she was only after a lone safety deposit box, and got the bank manager (Hutton) to open it. Inside was the toy airplane, which she took, leaving the money behind.

Kate then fled to Australia, where she lived on the farm of Ray Mullen for three months.  Ray turned Kate in for a $23,000 reward. The marshal apprehended Kate, and arranged to fly her back to the states in his custody. However, along the way of the fateful flight, he sustained a fatal wound in the crash of Flight 815, and Kate was able to free herself from the cuffs he had placed her in.

On the island, Kate forms a bond with both Jack and Sawyer, two very different men who are often at odds with one another; she is the center of a potential love triangle. She surprises many people when she shows her leadership skills, and that she is a fearless, adventurous woman who can handle firearms.

However, she is at times also dishonest and scheming, in order to keep her secrets well hid, and to make sure she isn't caught again. Kate helps Sun try to poison Jin in order to free a spot on the raft for herself (so she wouldn't be on the island when rescuers came).  She then burns Joanna's ID, so that she can use it as her own. Sawyer, who was taking heat for the poisoning, believes Kate is not all she tells people she is.

At one point, while she is helping Sawyer recover from fever, he deliriously mumbles that he knows she tried to kill him.  She then thinks she is going crazy, and that he is the embodiment of Wayne, who she killed.  She then sees the same black horse as she had in her past off the island in the middle of the jungle.  Later, after Sawyer gets better, they both see it, and she is able to touch it before it runs off.

She is frequently the one who volunteers for dangerous expeditions.  She goes with the group to find Michael after he ran off for  Walt the first time, but she is captured and used by the Others as leverage to get her friends to disarm.  She's released shortly thereafter.

Kate goes with Jack, Sawyer, Hurley and Michael to get their revenge after Ana-Lucia and Libby are killed, and retrieve Walt.  However, the group is betrayed by Michael, and they are ambushed and captured by the Others.

Kate's S3 promo pic.

jeez ILE, she looks 13 in that picture

*GB changes threads quickly

Lmao. I know, eh? She looks weird.

That doesn't really look like her does it!

I just realized that Evie is only 26 years old!
Wow! I just thought she was older than that. Not that she looks old, but compared to other 25-27 year old female actresses, she definitely looks more mature then some of them do!

We need to add that Kate has now gone as "Monica"...

I wonder if we will see more of "Monica's" husband ?

And - she just left, so technically, she may be still married to him.

I was wondering, if she married him under her false name, that would make the marriage not legal?

After last week's episode, what do you think Kate's motivation is to be angry at Sawyer? She took a very stubborn stance with him and am I alone in finding her reaction, considering all that they went through, out of character?

I think Kate has been out of character a lot lately. And I didn`t understand her reaction twoards Sawyer either, Pen.

I'm glad I'm not alone on that. She really was acting odd. I am guessing something happened to her on the Others Island that we have not been made aware of yet

I think Damon and Carlton (and possibly Gregg Nations also mentioned this) said in a podcast that nothing really happened to her after the breakfast with Ben - her hands were scratched up from trying to break free from the cuffs.

I still wouldn`t be surprised to find out she had been subjected to the brain washing video at some point.

that's more what I was getting at - some brainwashing. Like she was half-turned into a Cindy-esque person?

Yes I have thought that too, Pen.
maybe she was too strong willed for the brainwashing to work completely?

I really wonder what Kate was thinking when she saw Jack happily playing with Tom. After all she had suffered when held captive, if I was her, I'd take this behavior as a slap in the face. They have been on a mission to rescue him to find out he's a lot better off than the rest of the Losties right now. He has food, shelter, football and goodness knows what else.

Evangeline has landed her first starring movie role:

http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/zap-lillymalkovichafterwardscasting,0,2701448.story?coll=zap-movies-headlines

'Lost' Lass Lands Thriller Role

Malkovich and Duris will also star in 'Afterwards'
April 16, 2007

Evangeline Lilly will use her summer "Lost" hiatus to shoot the thriller "Afterwards."

In addition to Lilly, John Malkovich and Romain Duris ("The Beat That My Heart Skipped") will appear in the film, set to begin shooting in early June in New York and Montreal, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
French director Gilles Bourdos will direct from a scrïpt he wrote with Michel Spinosa.
Based on the novel by Guillaume Musso, "Afterwards" focuses on a lawyer (Duris), who becomes estranged from his ex-wife (Lilly) and child. When he meets a doctor (Malkovich) with the ability to predict people's deaths, things change.
Christal Films Prods. is financing "Afterwards" and eying a 2008 Canadian release.
This would be the first major feature role for Lilly, currently in her third season playing Kate on "Lost."
Malkovich was most recently seen in "Colour Me Kubrick," "Eragon" and "Art School Confidential," with roles in "Beowulf" and "The Great Buck Howard" on tap.

Kate's reaction to Jack and Juliet confuses me. Was she more hurt that he has just decided to take a disinterest in her, or was she truly jealous?

Does this mean Sawyer is a "sloppy second?" I don't think so. But I find it interesting that Jack's actions lured her to Sawyer. It certainly speaks volumes of just how disassembled her relationship with Jack has become due to the Others.

I think it is also interesting her and Sawyer said the same thing to Jack about it being weird to be back at the beach. They really are more alike than she is willing to admit.

I`m still mad at her for running straight to Jack and tell him about Naomi. And not only Jack, but Juliet as well. When Jack refused to talk to her in private, she should have just left him.