I try to analyze the situation as realistically as possible and I can only see Kate and Sawyer growing closer from what's happened." If Sawyer gets back to the island, they should have a new sense of value in each other. They say if you love something, let it go, and then see what happens from there. Not only did they break physically, but they really broke ties emotionally before Sawyer left. You see them both gazing out across the beach, looking for each other, so they clearly play a significant part in each other's lives.I also think that what Sawyer gives to Kate is a sense of normalcy and mutuality.When she is around Sawyer, suddenly who she is doesn't have to be hidden and I think she's less ashamed of it. I think she is more able to say, "This is who I am. Take it or leave it,buddy!'' That's a real gift. In real life, usually the people we feel the most in love with and attracted to are the people that allow us to be ourselves- faults and all.

I have fans write and say, "I hope you get together with Jack" and others who say, "I hope you get together with Sawyer." I'm torn for Kate too. Right now I think Kate should be with Sawyer, because they are on an equal playing ground - they understand each other, they relate to each other and neither has the upper hand. So far Jack always has the upper hand because Kate is always screwing up. He's always taking the higher moral ground, which for me makes for an unbalanced relationship.

"Viewers will have a chance to see the softer side of Sawyer as his romance with Kate continues to heat up ( look for clothes to be shed when the two take a swim in the January 5 episode). "He generally cares [for her]," Holloway says. "She triggers something in him that's vulnerable." once again Holloway finds himself drawing on his own experiences for inspiration: "Kate very much reminds me of someone I loved once in real life."

Dominic Monahgan: They have a nice chemistry!
Damon Lindelof: Yes.

"How could anyone choose?" Evangeline Lilly tells me. But she does have an opinion for her alter ego, Kate. "Honestly, I think that I have to say sometimes I feel like Kate is a better match for Sawyer, because they've got a lot in common. I mean, Jack's almost like Kate's hero, whereas Sawyer's like her equal. They're kind of just these sparring partners, and Jack is like someone she almost idolizes and that, to me, is not the kind of relationship I'd want to be in. I don't know about you, but I don't wanna worship the guy that I'm with. I wanna kind of play around with him and be on equal terms with him, so I'm gonna have to go with Sawyer... for now!"

I think at this point, Kate's not ready for the likes of Jack. I think she's a few steps behind. I think she's really enamored by him, idolizes him and I think there's a part that thinks 'well, when you're in a relationship, should you not be more equal?' and I think Kate and Sawyer tend to be more mutual. The fact that she tackles him to the ground over a case shows she's on equal footing with Sawyer

Who will Kate end up with? "I think if Kate can conquer her demons, it would be beautiful to see her and Jack together", said Lilly. "He's been so kind to her and he's really supported her. But I think she has a long way to go until she can be in a relationship with Jack. He seems to be so much more sure of himself. He has so much of the hero in him. He looks at her with big brother or daddy eyes. And I don't think that's what makes a romantic relationship". However, the sexual tension between Kate and Sawyer is much rawer. "They're at the same level at this point", she said. "She treats him like she doesn't give a flying bleep about what he think's and he treats her completely as an equal. There not afraid to go head to head, and I think that's what you need in a relationship".
Not that Lilly has any idea who Kate will finally shed her skivves for. "After a year and a half of doing this", she said, "I have eased into the comfort of ignorance. I just roll with the punches and take it as it goes".

No doubt fans are eagerly anticipating Sawyer and Kate locking lips again but will his absence truly have made their hearts grow fonder? "I don't know how reuniting with Kate will strengthen or weaken their relationship," reports Holloway. "It is yet to be discovered. However, their current relationship definitely is motivating his will to survive."

It's over. Just like Ross and Rachel were over. And Dave and Maddie were over. And Han and Leia were over. And Rick and Ilsa were over. And Antony and Cleopatra were over.

There's no major love scene yet, but it's definitely heading in that direction. He's got an in with Kate right now because he's been injured, so don't think he's not gonna work that angle. He's definitely using the "poor me" thing. It's heating up, which is good. Sawyer's got needs. He hasn't gotten any action since he's been on the island.

People honestly care whether Kate and Sawyer get together? Really? I hadn't heard. Oh, except for the time my own mother called me during the middle of "THE OTHER 48 DAYS" and told me, "If you kill Sawyer before he gets together with Kate I will come down to your house and spank you like you were 4 years old." But other than that... Stay tuned, we know you all are dying to find out what happens. Trust me.

How does Sawyer choose nicknames?
"That depends on whether or not he likes you," Lost executive producer Damon Lindelof says. "He is inclined to nickname you based on the way that you look. He is sort of the ugly part of us that says the things we may be thinking but are afraid to say. The only endearing name he has for anyone is Kate."

What's your favorite part about doing the show?
"One of my favorite things has been the development of Sawyer's relationship with Kate, which has been such a cat-and-mouse thing. I'm a man and I love to work with a woman. I love the energy between men and women and I try to play with that."

There is one man in her life who she is happy to talk about. If you don't want to be spoiled for saucy goings-on in the second series, turn the page now. Because it seems the love triangle between Kate, Jack and Sawyer becomes more of a straight line, leading directly to the lips of that long, cold drink of Texan water. It's a line that Evangeline doesn't mind walking. "Sawyer makes so much more sense than Jack because Kate is Jack's inferior in so many ways', she nods emphatically. 'Jack is so righteously superior compared to her and that's not attractive. She and Sawyer are on a level. They get each other. They might get each other in a depraved, wild way, but at least it's parallel"

Evi: "Now this scene was great in that there was - I think Paul you left a lot open, you left me with a lot of freedom to play, play with the scene and try out whatever I needed to do."
Evi: "Sawyer had to pee so bad here - Just use it Josh, just use it."
Director: "I actually wanted to do this (scene) in a wide shot, they wouldn't let me."
Evi: "I dunno, I think wide would of worked, that way people could of looked at Sawyer?s body the whole time."

[Sawyer waking up]

Director: "I love this scene"
Director: "It's sweet"
Director: "Its sort of like you get it off your chest and that awakens him."
Evi: "Like I kiss the prince and he wakes up."
Director: "Yeah exactly, you break through all the bullshit and you come clean and suddenly he's resurrected."

"And concerning the relationship between these two people, I believe that Jack is attracted to Kate, but he knows deep down that she'll never be what he needs, that she'll never play the part, and that all things considered, she's much more attracted to someone like Sawyer."

"I keep calling the writers of the show, asking when things between Kate and Sawyer are gonna happen!"

"Sawyer lives as a selfish person, he doesn't care about anyone, except for Kate, with whom he is secretly in love"

"There always has been. You know, maybe they'll finally heat up to something. I'm ready... I'm ready for something to be resolved or at least ignited. You know, something has to happen."

"After Ana's arrival, it's not just a love triangle between Jack, Kate and Sawyer but it's a real quadrangle, but as soon as Sawyer comes back, very sick because he's wounded and the infection caused by it, Kate completely falls for him. She's going to take care of him in the bunker for days until he gets better. At this moment she chooses Sawyer rather than Jack!"

"When we started shooting LOST, me and Matthew (Fox - Jack) used to talk about the romantic relationships on the show, and we always thought that, at first, not only the characters didn't really know each other, but there were so many things to deal with on the island bigger than love interests. We really pressed the writers to wait until the characters were familiar with each other and with that new situation, and only after that romance would come. I believe that romance on the show bloomed on the right moment, and the way it's happening, I believe it's very realistic, without being infantile or gratuitous. It's something genuine, mature and sensitive."

"[…]Cool ideas, and it’s a pity that they’re never gonna be part of the show, because our mothers wouldn’t care. At the risk of making this a running gag - but my mother will ask: Alvar who? I want to know when Kate and Sawyer are finally going to kiss!"

I think that Kate is going to really be an interesting character this year because she is going to finally make a romantic choice and a commitment. This is a character who has been very afraid of commitment. I'm very excited to see the journey of that character this season. I think that Evangeline [Lilly] is really just blossoming as an actor. I'm very excited about what we have planned for her.

Carlton Cuse: But let's talk about Kate hooking up with Sawyer, just for a sec.
Damon Lindelof: Sure, I'd love to.
Carlton: I mean, I know you want to talk about Taye Diggs, but, what do you think? Was this actually the definitive choice?
Damon: I- You know, people keep asking me that and it's...I don't-
Carlton: Was this the definitive choice?
Damon: How- How much clearer-
Carlton: Was this choice...definitive?
Damon: How much clearer could you be about her choice? I mean, who's watching it and going, 'I'm not sure that she picked Sawyer, I think maybe she went with Jack there.' She's had sex with him.
Carlton: And yet- And yet people actually do, you know, I think certain people maybe just don't value the act of sex as being that important.
Damon: *stunned laughter* I don't- I don't even know how I could possibly respond to that in any PG-13 sort of fashion.
*more chuckles from Carlton Cuse*
Damon: But...I will say that when you are curled up naked on someone's chest, as I have been on Carlton's on several- on several occasions...
Carlton: I knew that was coming.
Damon: You...You've made your choice.

[...]

Carlton: I guess if you blow your father up that might not be an illegal act, as having sex with someone doesn't mean you are necessarily committed to them.

[...]

Carlton: By the way, speaking of the sex-cage, I just need to ask you part of this question that's under the title: 'Are we that dumb?" posted by Gil Vidella.
Damon: There seems to be a recurring theme here.
Carlton: There does seem to be. *chuckles* 'Our IQ seems to have dropped very perceptibly since our last podcast. Um, um, not only was that sex scene ridiculous, but the cage Kate and Sawyer effed in was not at the same cage that Sawyer was locked up in. Once the clothes came off did you see how much bigger and more roomy that cage was? How did the waterhole bearfeeding machinery disappear all of a sudden so they had enough room to roll around. And why all of a sudden did these two's hormones get excited, certainly there's been plenty of opportunities prior to coming to Island 2 for these two to get it on. At least in a cleaner environment.
Damon: Wow, first off. Kate and Sawyer specifically reserved the honeymoon cage. *Carlton titters* So that explains the extra added space and the release of the machinery. No, I'll be honest with you. We have the dailies, they shot that scene in exactly the same..
Carlton: Same cage.
Damon: Same set that Sawyer's been in all season,
Carlton: That's right.

“At the time of shooting the scene I didn’t think about anything! (laughters) . The secret to make a good romantic scene is to know how to communicate with your partner and feel if you are both in the same mood. Evi is wonderful, very open artistically. She is the kind of person who thinks ‘let’s do it right!’ and this is what matters: to make it work. This is great and liberating”

When the audience last saw Sawyer, he and Kate (played by Evangeline Lilly) had just made love inside the animal cage where he'd been held captive since the beginning of the season. He said that he had always been personally hoping for Kate to choose Sawyer over her other potential love interest, Jack (Matthew Fox), but was never sure that it would turn out in his favor.
"It's great, because neither of us really know where it's going, so we don't know exactly what to fully invest in, which actually plays on camera," Holloway said. "It's nice kind of not knowing. And one minute we're really kind of close and sappy, and the next minute we're like 'Who are you?' It's that thing. But our friendship has deepened quite a bit. We've been working together constantly and having to discuss these things and how we're going to do them and so forth. So it was good. And we're really proud of the way that love scene turned out, because we wanted it to be different. We wanted it to take some time and have some moments in the middle of it. Not just this crazy furious thing. Because it's been such a long time coming."

Kristin: You left the fans with a nice little gift before the hiatus, the nice love scene between Kate and Sawyer. Thank you for that.
Josh: You are quite welcome, my pleasure.
Kristin: What did you think when you saw it, were you pleased with how it turned out?
Josh: We were really, Evangeline and I talked about it and you know it has been a long time coming, we wanted it to be right, we talked about it and we talked about it with the director and we all worked it out, it was really great that they actually let us take our time, we wanted it to mean something, have some moments in between not just this crazy animal thing in the dunks. So they allowed us that and it added something to it, it's good.

If you think Jack and Kate make more sense as a couple, how many people do you think make sensible choices? Maybe a more interesting dissertation topic would be how people don't make the "sensible" choice?
And from whose perspective does it make more sense? Jack's? Kate's? Jack seems to have this character issue about fixing things, so does Kate need fixing? How will she feel about that? And Kate doesn't seem to be able to settle down. How will Jack feel about that? Let me just throw in for the argument that Sawyer seems to accept people for whom they are and not who he wants them to be.

From the moment they first laid eyes on each other in the wreckage of Flight 815, there's been a slowly building passion burning between Kate Austen and James "Sawyer" Ford.
Both damaged souls with shady pasts, they are fiercely independent even in the wilds of their new home in the jungle. Despite being stranded in the middle of the Pacific, they hold fast to their adopted armor, keeping their distance from those who reach out to them. Yet their metaphorical fences don't apply to one another, as they've connected in a smoldering dance, testing one another's comfort zones while revealing small increments of their true selves. Be it a sexy kiss by a tree, or Sawyer's nickname for Kate of "Freckles," this pair of kindred souls have been captivating one another and Lost audiences since the show began.

Over the first six episodes of season three, the pair fight their circumstances, and they eventually come to terms with where they are and what they will do to protect one another. With that mutual understanding of what they mean to each other, the stage was set for that moment many fans were waiting for - Kate and Sawyer finally making love. Holloway admits he's been waiting for the moment for ages. Echoing fan sentiments, he says, "The love triangle between Jack, Kate, and Sawyer has been going on for a while now. Naturally, after a certain amount of time invested, it becomes necessary for the audience to see some kind of resolution."

By virtue of being caged together, in a way, they were forced to intimacy. That has an effect on a human being, to face your worst nightmare has an effect on you, which is unsettling and unnerving and strips you bare. I feel that is a huge part of how Kate became vulnerable enough to cry out that she loves a man and actually offer him her kiss, instead of letting him kiss her. I think because she was stripped so bare, when Sawyer says, 'I was trying to give you hope,' the idea that in all of this hell he was trying to protect Kate broke her down. It opened her up to offer him this little nugget of love, which was her kiss. Even after she did it, he asks, 'What was that for?' and she says, 'I don't know,' when clearly she knows. Obviously, the actual answer is, 'I love you, and I don't know how to say it because I am afraid to say it.' He is so much like her that when she says that, he hears, 'I love you,' and then kisses her back. I think the writers did it so beatifully because it was real and grown up.

While many fans expected the sex, the exchange of the word "love" between the two was more surprising than the actual deed. "The reality of when you first say 'I love you" to somebody, in my experience, it's never some grandiose thing. You've been wanting to say it for so long that by the time it comes out of your mouth, it's the most obvious thing in the world." But the actual words coming from Sawyer's mouth, in earnest, was still a huge moment. Holloway concurs. "It was tricky. As we all know, 'I love you' is just not something a guy like Sawyer would normally say to anyone. But then again, different things and different situations do affect people signficantly at times. Like when you come out alive from a really horrible car accident. What do you do next? You call your wife, husband, family, friends, whoever, just to let them know how much you care about them and that you're OK. That is human nature. In this specific case, Sawyer has survived a plane crash, been stranded on this mysterious island and experienced things that even in his wild law-breaking days, he'd never imagined experiencing. That type of 'out of this world' experience brings out a lot of different feelings in any human being. This [love] scene is a prime example of that."

I really think a defining moment is when she climbs back into the cage. It said so much about Kate. There was so much in that: sex, love, hatred, vulnerability, and a complete closing-off. There were so many things that didn't make sense and yet made perfect sense that opposed one another, that I think it was an amazing representation of who she is and how torn she is inside.

The long standing love triangle between Kate and her potential love interests, Jack and Sawyer, seems to have reached a conclusion, at least for now, as Kate and Sawyer ended up sleeping together recently. Asked if he was happy to see a resolution to that story, Holloway said, "Finally! I was like, 'Come on… Yes!'" More seriously, he added, "It was important to us, because it took so long, to really make it something different because you know, on a show and a situation like that, the sex… Well with Michelle [Rodriguez], it was very animalistic, and fast and furious. We wanted [for Kate and Sawyer], since it was such a long payoff, that it meant something, and they actually care about each other. We discussed that, Evangeline [Lilly] and I, and to have moments in between it of intimacy. Not just constant physical actions. So we wanted to [have it be] action, action, but have pauses in there, and connect, and we were able to do that I feel like, which made it different. "

If I understand your post correctly, you think that Kate and Sawyer's relationship is based only on sex. I think it's much more than that. When Damon said that Kate was drawn to Sawyer, I think he was referring to their emotional natures. They are very similar types of people and probably understand each other on a deeper level than even they would want to acknowledge. Of course both of them are very attractive people, but their attraction to each other is far deeper than that.

Damon: You know, Jack has actually stayed behind, you know, Kate and Sawyer have now left him behind. She feels incredibly guilty having been sprung, so sort of any romantic advancement between her and Sawyer is gonna be sort of mitigated by the fact that the only reason they're alive is because of this act of heroism that Jack did, so, you know, that complicates things.
Carlton: Yeah, that complicates things, but it would be wrong to say that Kate and Sawyer are over, too.
Damon: Oh, no!
Carlton: They are not over.
Damon: They are not over by a long shot
Carlton: There's more to come.

Kristin: Kate loves Sawyer.
Damon and Carlton: True!!

The triangle has been in place since the beginning. If you think about it, I'm sure you can figure out a similar triangle that started the same way. (Han, Luke and Leia? Lucas just chickened out and made Luke and Leia brother and sister so he didn't have to deal with the triangle thing... or the incest thing. That would've been really weird.)
Outlaws took place before I Do, so at the time that they were answering those questions they were being truthful. How do you know that their "I Never" game didn't push them over the edge for each other? Love develops over time, even for those who don't like to lower their emotional defenses. And there are many more episodes left, so you never know how things are going to turn out.

SKATE lives!

I don't think of Kate as a "prize" or Sawyer as a "consolation prize." I think of them as complex people whose behavior and motivations are probably unknown to either of them. They don't seem to be very self-actualized people -- they just react.
My experience of relationships is that once you're in one, it's not always easy. It's a lot of work, and there can be a lot of miscommunication and hidden agendas (nothing major like cheating on someone but about minor things that the other person is usually afraid of admitting). When Kate goes to Sawyer crying, I read that more as her desiring some sort of emotional connection. It was primarily motivated by seeing Jack with Juliet, but it doesn't mean she isn't interested in Sawyer. If she were really using someone, she would gone to any guy in the camp and slept with him. But she didn't. So when The Brig rolls around, she's with Sawyer in his tent. What's there to miss? They are together and have been together. They're trying to make it as a couple the best way they know how.
Then Sawyer has his experience in the Black Rock. He just murdered a man. It changed him. I'm sure he wasn't in the mood to explain himself to Kate or try to reassure her everything was okay between them. Kate noticed something was wrong with him immediately, so I'm not sure why you think she didn't. I read those looks from her as trying to figure out what was going on with him.
You write he can't count on Kate but I don't read it like that. He's lonely, but whose fault is that? Sawyer has pushed Kate away from him, and she's understandably not happy about that. I have never found either Kate or Sawyer to be upfront about their feelings. Sharing what is going on between them is not something they do well at all. This is not a couple that would go to couples therapy. I don't see their relationship only as lust or sex. I see it as two troubled people trying to work it out the best way they know how. They just don't have a good set of tools to use or to communicate with each other.

"My hope right now, I desperately want Kate to be pregnant, and I want it to go on for long enough that she gets the belly, and I've always been so envious of Claire and the way she got to play that role with the baby all the time."

Crossing over to the other man in Kate's life, Sawyer seems to be, on the whole, coming of age because of his love for Kate...
"I think it's beautiful and so endearing. I feel like, unfortunately, it's my job to play Kate in a certain way, but I feel like, "Awww Kate! Can't you see how much he's trying and what he needs from you?" When Hurley said to Sawyer, "You're the leader now," the idea had never drawned on Sawyer in a million years that he could lead people. He doesn't think that he's capable of taking care of himself. But when he realized that, I think that he couldn't help but reflect on why Hurley would see that in him. I think he realized that Kate has seen that in him too. She has always pulled on his shirt tails, saying, "Come on! Be the person I see in you and the person I know you are." She was the first person to do that with him on the island when everyone else thought he was the scum of the Earth. She understood him because they are two peas in the same pod. She was basically saying, "I am offering an olive branch and I will be that person that will care for you and invite you to come with everyone else." Kate's not as much of an outsider as Sawyer is, so he can be that bridge. I think when he finally realized - and it took a while - that Kate has seen that in him all along, he realized if he was going to be that person, he needs her. Sawyer sees the good person in himself reflected through how Kate looks at him and feels about him."

You have Kate and Sawyer, who are these two characters who are obviously really, there's this incredible thing happening between them, and yet both of them I think are afraid of, you know, this sort of intimacy and kind of connection, and they're drawn to and also sort of afraid of the feelings that they have between each other at the same time.

I love the contrast between the two stories because every element of them is completely opposite to the other. So when Kate is with her husband in the flashbacks, she wants it so badly, and yet she knows she can't have it. And yet with Sawyer, she so desperately doesn't want to go there, and doesn'twant that thing to happen, but she can't seem to stop it from happening, because there's this momentum and this chemistry between them that she can't really help. And, you know, where she's relatively free in the flashbacks to make it happen, she's not in a cage, and she's not being forced to do labor every day, it's actually more difficult for her to stay in that house, and you know, cook breakfast, and be a little housewife, than it is for her to break rocks and work in a quarry and sleep in a cage. And there's all these contrasts that happened that I just love, because I think the island represents who she truly is in her heart and the flashback represents who she wishes she was.

This is such a big moment, obviously, in the show, for these characters to finally culminate their relationship. [...] It was great. I mean you think about it, you know, in a show, in a television show, to basically go fifty-five hours before these two characters - (Evi: It's beautiful.) - who are in love with each other actually finally culminate and, you know, make love. And I think it's really amazing, and I think it was all the better for that. And I think just as a starting point to that relationship, and you know, really kind of deepening and existing on a different level, it was really a great scene.

Evi: I was actually surprised, and really pleased with the writing when I read that there was this sort of post-coital scene, because I felt like for it to be really clear that Kate and Sawyer didn't just have a weak moment of lust where they gave in to their desires, but that they actually had realized, physically realized, something that was inside of them emotionally. I thought this scene provided that, and it proved that, and it supported what we were trying to show in, you know, the previous cage scene. It was really nice to read it and to feel like they were honoring that, they were honoring the emotion.
Carlton: Yeah, and just having Sawyer say 'I love you too' to Kate was such a huge moment for us on a writing level, because just that acknowledgement from him was such a hard thing for that character to get to that place.
Josh: Yeah, that was tricky, too, to play, because it so... can not be melodramatic, and it's a fine line, how to bring that out.
Carlton: And the way he sort of tosses it off but, you know, committing to it without having to you know... but doing it obliquely, which is great.
Josh: Yeah, she's not looking at me, so I can just kind of do it, and see how it fits. See how it lands.
Carlton: (laughs) Yeah, exactly. He's trying it on.
Josh: Seeing if it lands, did it land or not?
Carlton: Exactly
Evi: You know, again in contrast to the flashbacks, where she's got this man who is doing the exact opposite. He's, you know, really really heartfelt and intense and intimate about the way he will look her in the eye and say, 'I love you Monica.' And it's just really sort of what you imagine the traditional idea of falling in love with someone being like. And then here on the island she's got, you know, a guy who's kind of throwing it out there flippantly while she's not even looking at him, and it seems to mean so much more for her!
Carlton: Yeah! Thatt's cool.

Carlton: And rain is really very metaphorically significant in our show. I mean, when rain shows up, bad things tend to happen.
Josh: I remember this scene, and I was so tired at this point of being beaten down. I fought with Tucker, because I really felt like he needed to not just lay down and walk out of the cage and take it. So we made that scene more dramatic... the fight not to die more significant. And it came out of that emotion of constantly being in that, and being beaten down and not doing anything about it. So I really dig Tucker for having to put up with my emotion there and helping us find a way through it that made sense.
Evi: Yeah. Well, I think Kate and Sawyer are both fighters. You know, neither of them-
Josh: That was it. It just didn't make sense that they would just lay down. So we had to really amp that a bit.
Evi: And I think they also both for the first time, maybe in their lives, have something worth fighting for. And that's what kind of breaks my heart in this scene, is that I think Kate displays some of the girliest qualities you ever see her display, in this scene. She's kind of weak and whimpery about the whole thing, but I.. for me, where that came from was that 'I just for the first time, maybe ever, finally connected to someone, and feel like I have something here, and something worth fighting for and worth living for, and now you're gonna take it away.' And I feel like Sawyer is, again, in the same situation, where this is the first time, maybe ever in his life, where he's found someone who he can love. And now he's about to be killed.

The fact that she cared enough about this cowboy that drove her crazy to get back in that cage was incredbly significant. And I was sitting there reading and I was like "Yeah!"

Elizabeth Mitchell: Awww, look.
Damon: This is a great moment.
Liz: Aw, it's beautiful, they do the most beautiful work together. Awww. And he doesn't know what happened, and she's in a dress! Aw, it's heartbreaking! [...] Aww, guys! Aww, this is sad!
[Sawyer's line about requesting Kate's cage]
[They laugh]
Damon: Nothing like a good joke to break the ice.
Sawyer: Nice dress.
Kate: They made me wear it
Damon: He doesn;t like that
Liz: Oh my God! Noooo! Awww!
Sawyer: You hungry?
Damon: See, this is a perfect exemple of awesome acting, because we write the dialogue here, but all the great stuff is happening around the lines, you know, all these looks they're throwing at each other
Liz: Yeah, they did it, they've got an amazing thing. They are so much fun to watch.
Damon: I like that she covers her mouth there, it's kinda like, you know, it's this sort of demure moment in the mix of complete and utter insanity.

Favorite Lost moment: "Episode six, I Do, is my favorite. I was really happy with the prelude to the love scene. What you see now is exactly the way I put it together. I changed one thing where Damon saw a mismatch, but otherwise it was exactly the same. It was really difficult. There were two cameras, but they didn't match the same way through the series of takes. I've discovered that the sexual lens on that happens beforehand is where the power is - how long you keep them from touching or kissing. The prelude is where the hot part is. I was very fearful of it. The dailies didn't feel like the finished product. It was faster and all the moments of them looking at each other weren't there. A lot of times I will cut a scene and rough it out, but because of matching, I had to be happy with each cut. I had to work it really slowly but I was really happy with it."

My all time, all time, all time favourite moment is when Sawyer and Kate are in the cage and they've just made love and then he says to her... I don't know if he says "Did you mean it when you said-"... I think he says something like, "Did you mean it earlier when you said what you said?" And she says nothing and he goes, "I love you too". In that moment she loved Sawyer. Definitely. Do you not remember like when they were going to kill him and she was *cries*? Look. Listen. We can speculate about what the island is, and who the others are, and what the smoke means, but Kate loves Sawyer all right? When Naomi and Kate become mates Naomi will say, y'know, "So what's up do love Sawyer or what?" 'Cause Naomi's from Manchester. And then Kate will say "Yeah, I really do. I think he's fit." Because she will have been hanging out with Naomi who is from Manchester.

So far it's still, there's still feelings there and um, we have an encounter again this season. And it's an interesting one too...We've still got feelings, and we're undecided where that's going, and like I said before, I'm not sure exactly sure where my character is going to end up, so I think he may be proposing certain things to her, or her to him, like, "Where ya gonna go?" It's kind of all up in the air because of the situation on the Island.

we did this scene where Kate wakes up in Sawyer's tent; presumably post-coital, and she can't sleep and has to leave. There was such an immediate and undeniable sense of love, intimacy, and comfort that was there between Kate and Sawyer in that scene that did not have to be worked for by Josh and me. It has become a given. It has become easy and comfortable because we earned it. I feel like I can't play a scene with Sawyer without the intimacy. We haven't earned the other yet. We haven't established anything that would have driven them apart indefinitely yet.

You know the scene where she was changing in the tent? That one was written so she gets dressed much more quickly and she leaves. Sawyer chases her around camp trying to talk to her, while she brushes him off and ignores him. At the end of the scene, when he basically implies that she just wants to have sex, she loves him and she feels very confused.

He comes into her tent and she was trying to play cold, but she can't help but be charmed by Sawyer. She can't help but love him and feel intimate with him. So she playfully brushes him off and she is kind of like, "Look, you are my petulant boyfriend and I have to get rid of you right now." Is it such a weird idea that people that meet on this island have a relationship? Up till now, we have seen Boone and Shannon, which was so short-lived. We've seen Charlie and Claire, which was always pull in, push away. It was never a constant, sure thing. So that scene in the tent illustrated that this is a con artist and a convict version of boyfriend/girlfriend. It's just that they are crap at it! But this was their attempt at it.

There is always that debate. But the reason why Kate has to be with Sawyer, is that they do understand each other. Let's just for a moment imagine that Kate is up in the middle of the night and got up from the tent, and she's leaving the tent and Jack asks where she is going. When she says, "Old habits" to Sawyer, she calls him out on his exact same issues. She's reminding him that she is a convict that has been on the run for 12 years and she doesn't know how to do this. He gets it. He lets her off the hook with a joke, and she goes back to him with a tongue-in-cheek thank you and they go their separate ways. It works because they get each other. Jack would be hurt, confused and devastated. He would question her motives and think that she didn't love him. He doesn't get her.

Josh: Is it Jack's turn with Kate?
Carlton: [Laughs] That doesn't sound very romantic, but I guess we get the underlying meaning. The Jack-Kate situation remains unresolved and probably will be for a while.
Damon: We will say we haven't seen the last of Sawyer and Kate this season. Not by a long shot.

Carlton: Would Sawyer prefer Ginger or Mary Ann, if given the choice?
Damon: Ginger.
Carlton: Would he prefer her to Kate?
Damon: No.

I personally think Sawyer and Kate have this insane chemistry