Whatever the Case May Be
| "Whatever the Case May Be" | |
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| Lost episode | |
The Key to the suitcase which holds Kate's personal effects.
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 12 |
| Directed by | Jack Bender |
| Written by |
Damon Lindelof Jennifer Johnson |
| Production code | 110 |
| Original air date | January 5, 2005 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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L. Scott Caldwell as Rose Nadler |
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L. Scott Caldwell as Rose Nadler
Victor Browne as Jason
Tim Halligan as Mark Hutton
Dezmond Gilla as Baseball hat
Achilles Gacis as Six foot five
Michael Vendrell as Trucker
"Whatever the Case May Be" is the twelfth episode of the first season of Lost. It was directed by Jack Bender and written by Damon Lindelof and Jennifer Johnson. It first aired on January 5, 2005, on ABC. The character of Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) is featured in the episode's flashbacks.
Kate is in New Mexico, applying for a loan at a bank using an alias ("Maggie", "Meg", "Miss Ryan"). Three masked men with guns enter and attempt to rob the bank. Kate is thrust to the floor in the chaos. A man tells Kate that they can stop them before he grabs and disarms one. Kate grabs the gun but when the man tells her to shoot the thief she claims that she can't use a gun. One of the thieves pulls Kate into a back room after the situation is handled and they share a kiss, revealing that Kate is a part of the robbery. The man hits Kate to make it look as if she's an innocent civilian, and threatens to kill her unless the manager takes them to the cash vaults. In the back, one of the robbers tells the manager that the whole robbery was Kate's idea. However, she shoots the felons and tells the manager to open the safety deposit box #815 — the true reason for the robbery. The manager opens the safety deposit box and Kate takes the contents inside: a single envelope.
On Day 21, October 12, 2004, while swimming near a waterfall, Kate Austen and James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway) find a locked halliburton suitcase among some sunken wreckage. Kate wants it, but refuses to tell Sawyer what's inside, so he takes it. At the beach, the tide is rising and will soon submerge the fuselage. Shannon Rutherford (Maggie Grace) asks her stepbrother, Boone Carlyle (Ian Somerhalder), what he and John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) do every day when they go out into the jungle, and Boone replies that they're looking for Claire Littleton, who has been kidnapped by the mysterious Ethan Rom. While Shannon complains that Boone should locate food, Boone gets upset; in retaliation he calls her "useless."
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