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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grymar" data-source="post: 3167312" data-attributes="member: 41371">If the whole show is about giving context to characters (why do they act the way they do and can they change), then the flashback was about how Kate runs.  That is what she does when confronted with a problem.  Even the story Jack told her on the beach just after the crash, Kate says "I would have run."  Now we have seen her twice NOT run, first with Saywer a few episodes ago when she got out but he refused to go with her, and now she doesn't want to run without Jack.  She is learning to put down her fight or flight instinct.Otherwise, we have seen more of how the Others (or just this group of Others?) isn't uniform in what they want or how they want to do it.  They are vulnerable and not immortal.  They are not the physical manifestation of Cerebus, like one theory states.  Benry wasn't lying about the tumor, that wasn't a tool for manipulation.  I'd say we learned quite a bit!</blockquote>