Who really is Sawyer?

Season 1 Episode 8: Confidence Man


Kate is walking on the beach alone, when she is upon clothes. She turns and sees Sawyer skinny dipping in the ocean. Immediately after, Boone is caught going through Sawyer's horde and gets beat up by Sawyer. Shannon helps Boone hobble to Jack asking for help. He tells Jack that it was Sawyer who beat him up because he was looking for an inhaler because Shannon has asthma. Jack knows that this is a serious problem that needs to be dealt with. Sayid and Jack confront Sawyer and demand for the medicine but he will not budge. They let Kate talk to him. He shows her a letter that a kid wrote to him and makes her read it aloud. It is very disturbing, and pretty much says that Sawyer killed his parents because he had intercourse with the kid's mom and the dad both killed his wife and himself.

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Sun, the Korean woman tells Michael that she could probably help Shannon with her asthma (Remember, Michael is the only person who knows that she can speak english). She recruits Michael to help her. Meanwhile Jack and Sayid are becoming even more paranoid that Sawyer won't tell them where the inhalers are. Jack agrees to let Sayid use violence to get Sawyer to tell them. Sayid uses minimal tortue but is bad enough to make Sawyer scream. Sawyer falls apart and tells them that he will only tell Kate. Sawyer exclaims he needs a kiss to tell her. She reluctantly agrees realizing that Shannon's asthma is the bigger problem. After the kiss, Sawyer tells Kate that he doesn't have the medication. Sayid rushes in. Sawyer managed to uncuff his hand and the too lunge at each other. The fight ends up with Sayid's knife in Sawyer's arm.

The next day Sawyer wakes up and Kate is watching him closely. Kate talks to Sawyer about the letter. He tells her that Sawyer isn't his real name, it is the kid's name. The letter also actually written by Sawyer to another man, and the name Sawyer is just an alias. He explains to Kate that con man ruined his family so he became one too (If you want better detail on this last part the conversation between Kate and Sawyer is 35 minutes into the show).