Confidence man whale shark12/7/2023 And it’s not like Jin is a complete mark, either. Sun has caught herself a fish in Michael, who’s perfectly fine with pretending to everyone else that he doesn’t know about her cunning linguistic skills. As we saw in Walkabout, when Shannon conned Charlie into getting her some food to prove to her brother Boone that she could “take care of herself,” it was all about catching a fish. It’s particularly delicious that she catches Michael when he’s trying to gut a fish. Don’t forget, this was the woman who planned to slip away from her husband at the airport in Australia, who planned this for months. Here, she manipulates Michael into seeking out some eucalyptus on the sly, so as not to arouse the suspicions of her husband, Jin, or anyone else at the Caves for that matter – all so she can maintain her cover as someone who doesn’t know English. She’s been conning just about everyone since the plane crashed, pretending that she doesn’t know English. She agrees to move to the Caves.Īnother con artist actively plying the trade is Sun. Only through the power of his imagination can he convince her to enjoy the creaminess of emptiness. But all he can actually offer is an empty jar. So Charlie does his best to con Claire by pretending that he has, in fact, found peanut butter. There isn’t any to be found, much to his consternation. Of course, Charlie can’t find any peanut butter. So she manipulates Charlie into finding peanut butter on the Island. However, there’s something she really wants – peanut butter. He wants Claire to move to the Caves with him, but she’s all, like, preferring to stay on the beach and shit. Kate, as it turns out, is really good at the art of con.Ĭharlie is, too. She’s played the part of “the good girl” with him, with a certain amount of righteousness, but this is just cover for her true feelings. Because up to that point, she’s expressed a tremendous amount of disgust towards Sawyer, but that kiss betrays a passion that’s the antithesis of disgust. The seminal moment, I think, is when they kiss. And yet, in this episode, she doesn’t seem to be conning anyone: she’s the subject of Sawyer’s con to get a kiss.īut upon closer examination, doesn’t she kind of go out of her way to figure out Sawyer himself and his story? She doesn’t have to get so deeply enmeshed in the episode’s drama, but she dives right in anyways. When hiking up the mountain with Sawyer, Sayid, Shannon, Boone, and Charlie, after Sawyer shot the polar bear, she feigned ignorance regarding how to use and dissemble a handgun. She lied to the farmer, Ray Mullen, about her identity back in Tabula Rasa, when she was a fugitive on the lam hiking across Australia. Some, of course, are obvious simply from what we’ve seen prior to Confidence Man. Because, I mean, it’s not exactly apparent that everyone is a con artist, or who their marks are. Instead, let’s begin with some of the less obvious con artists running about. We’ll get back to him in due course, for this is what we’d expect given the episode title. Obviously, of course, we have Sawyer, both on the Island and in the Flashbacks. In fact, I think we can safely say at this point that everyone featured in this episode is either a con artist of one kind or another, and many of them are simultaneously marks as well. And it’s certainly the case that the episode title is a clue to character connections, or at the very least represents the prevailing sort of relationship at this juncture in the Losties’ adventure on the Island. Confidence Man is an episode about the art of the con, and the different confidence men (and women) who practice it. (Which is fair - I would consider them the main cast, but it'd be nice to get some more interactions with them and perhaps shorter class discussions.Sometimes everything you need to know about an episode of LOST comes from the title. Looking forwards to seeing where we go next.Īlso, I got the principal/dean to revert back to attempting to reclaim her youth by dressing slutty the first time in an interaction I've never seen before - any chance we'll see more of that version of the Dean? Or for that matter more of Alida, or Maria? Some characters definitely feel neglected in the face of the students. I finished the update last night - great party, kinda a shame we can only check up on one of the girls by the end of it. My solution, I must admit, was taking my save file and altering it so I had 30 brutality and 30 empathy.Īnyways. I ran what was a brutal playthrough with all characters except one and it was enough I couldn't pick any option without using a confidence point for class field-trip discussion. Click to expand.I kind of believe you're right.
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