You Lost Me

Warning: Possible "Lost" spoilers below:

I hate to admit it when I don't get an episode of any of the shows I watch, especially one of the shows that has been consistently good. But, I have to admit, I just didn't get last night's episode of Lost. Maybe I was just distracted or not in the right frame of mind, but this episode didn't seem to live up to the high level of plausibility that it normally does - at least they make it seem plausible most of the time, even though I still have a hard time buying the whole "man-eating polar bear" story line.

What didn't seem to make a lot of sense to me last night was Kate's fascination/determination to recover the contents of the brief case she and Sawyer found under the waterfall. After building up the suspense through the entire episode about what was really locked up in that case, we find out it was a toy airplane! Woo hoo! Like...OK, it apparently belonged to your dead boyfriend, but still...why go to all that trouble for a toy airplane?

I could accept that she wanted to have something of sentimental value (if there can be anything sentimental about killing your boyfriend), but that doesn't really explain why she went to all of the trouble of setting up a bank heist with some apparently new loverboy just so she could get her hands on the key to the lock box that contained the airplane.

And, is it really all that smart to take time for a quickie in the back room with loverboy/bankrobber while the heist is underway? If it were me trying to rob a bank of a toy airplane, I'd try to get the business done as quickly as possible and save playtime for later. And I certainly wouldn't kill several people in the process.

I know there are lots of good story lines out there that they can follow - I just hope they let the toy airplane wash out to sea.