Outlaws (Lost)

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“Outlaws”

Lost (TV series) episode

Episode no.

Season 1
Episode 16

Written by

Drew Goddard

Directed by

Jack Bender

Guest stars

John Terry
Robert Patrick
Stewart Finlay-McLennan
Jeff Perry
Susse Budde
Gordon Hardie
Brittany Perrineau
Alex Mason

Production no.

114

Original airdate

February 16, 2005

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"Outlaws" is an episode of Lost. It is the sixteenth episode of the show's first season. The episode was directed by Jack Bender and written by Drew Goddard. It first aired on February 16, 2005 on ABC. The character of James "Sawyer" Ford is featured in the episode's flashbacks.

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Sawyer has a nightmare about the night, as a child, he was told by his mother to hide under his bed while she went to the door to tell his father to leave. In the dream, his father forces his way into the house, kills his mother, sits on the bed Sawyer is hiding under, and kills himself. Sawyer wakes up to find a giant boar in front of him and it attacks his tent and runs away into the trees, taking Sawyer's tarp with it. Sawyer chases after it, and while he is in the jungle he hears whispering. A louder whisper says "It'll come back around".

In the morning, Sawyer talks to Sayid about the voices Sayid heard while he was in the jungle some time before, and when Sayid asks why he wants to know, Sawyer shrugs it off. In a flashback, a former associate tells Sawyer that the real Sawyer who ruined his life as a child is now living under the alias Frank Duckett in Australia. Sawyer travels there, buys a gun, and goes to the shrimp shop where Duckett works. He chats with him briefly, but doesn't kill him.

On the island, Sawyer is obsessed with finding the boar that attacked him and goes into the jungle with Kate to find it. During a drinking game ("I Never..."), Kate reveals to Sawyer that she's killed a man. The next morning the two of them wake up to find that Sawyer's belongings have been ruined while Kate's remain untouched. Locke joins them and tells them that his sister died very young and that their foster mother blamed herself, suffering a severe depression. But a few months later, a dog came into the house, without tags or collar. The dog slept in his sister's room, but when his mother died years later the dog vanished. Locke alludes that his mother believed that the dog was his sister who came back to tell her that her death wasn't her fault.

In a flashback, Sawyer goes to an Australian bar and happens to meet Jack's father, Christian Shephard. Christian tells Sawyer that some people are meant to suffer, and "that's why the Red Sox will never win the damn Series." He says that he wishes he had the strength to call his son, say how proud he is of him, and "fix everything", but he is too weak to do it. Christian tells Sawyer to fix the thing that's making him feel bad. Sawyer shoots Frank Duckett, but Frank denies being the real Sawyer, and he tells Sawyer that "It'll come back around", the phrase whispered when Sawyer encounters the boar.

Sawyer catches up to the boar and decides not to kill it. He gives Jack his gun. Now all the firearms are with Jack, who locks them back in the marshal's case. They start to talk, and Jack says, "that's why the Sox will never win the Series." Sawyer does not tell Jack that he met Christian.

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