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Episode 8 : Confidence Man

The Davidoff aftershave opening confirms pretty much straight away it's Sawyer's turn in the spotlight this week, though thankfully he does put some clothes on.

Launched into flashback real quick we have Sawyer in bed after having 'relations' (as Charlie would put it) with a woman, but he's late for a meeting and jumping up to get ready picks up a suitcase which spills money all over the place. The woman is confused, we are confused and Sawyer immediately has the air of a con man.

Back on the island and Sawyer has given Boone a beating for looking through his stash of stuff. You see Shannon has asthma and is running out of puff (literally) and Jack isn't really able to help that much seeing as his medicine stockpile appears to be mostly compromise of what remains of the plane's duty free.

Jack and then Kate both try to get Sawyer to give up Shannon's spare inhalers without success. First off it's manly chest beating with Jack (Doc Daring backs down) and then kiss and tell with Kate. Well, except there's no kiss and the tell part takes the form of a letter Sawyers keeps in his pocket. The letter is from small boy promising to find him as Sawyer's con flipped out this kid's dad who killed himself and the boy's mother. Sawyer is a bad, bad man it seems.

Flashback to Sawyer progressing his con with the happy couple, promising to triple their investment in three weeks he asks for a paltry $160,000 to make the initial investment. The wife is already in, hook line and sinker but the hubby needs convincing. So Sawyer suggests the couple hold on to the money he's kicking in as a good faith gesture. Sawyer leaves the table grinning like a redneck a moonshine still.

On island Sayid is unleashed on Sawyer in full communications office mode ("My training included getting the enemy to communicate") and a few prods with sticks under the fingernails later and Sawyer is ready to give up the info, but only to Kate.

Duly Kate agrees to pay her part and finally concedes and gives Sawyer a kiss, but it has to be said she seems to get really, really into it rather than feeling awkward about it as you might expect from her previous objections. He doesn't have them. Yep, that's right Sawyer never had the inhalers and appears to be a masochist who wants everyone to hate him, though 'Freckles' seems to be on to him about this one.

Back in the day Sawyer is ready to finish the con when a cute little kid comes wandering into the room and his face darkens. He calls off the deal, refusing to take the money and leaving as quickly as possible. It seems he isn't a bad, bad man at all (plus we've already seen some unsavoury types threatening Sawyer if he doesn't pay them back). We the audience and Kate both now realise the letter was not written to him but by him, he's a misunderstood tragic figure you see. He has become the man he's hunted for all his adult life.

Meanwhile Sun has actually helped Shannon out using eucalyptus whilst everyone else was busy playing victimise the charismatic loner, Charlie has convince Claire to come to the caves via a sweet/annoying (delete as desired) imaginary peanut butter ruse.

We close on Sawyer looking moody out on the beach by himself and Sayid going walkabout, having disgusted himself during the torture of Sawyer, he's decided to explore the coastline of the island.

Thus we learn lots about Sawyer, the only real lie this week was him lying by omission and not telling he didn't have the inhalers as well. Though the pattern is starting to develop because we still have no clue who hit Sayid and trashed the equipment.