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@slurpeez108 wrote:
That’s so cool that it’s a Lost reference, which I wouldn’t have known otherwise. What exactly happened in Tallahassee on that show?
Oh man, how to explain something Lost related in a nutshell to someone who didn’t watch the show. 😆
Kate has a link to Tallahassee. After she blew up the house with her father in it, her mother called the cops on her, and she tried to flee to Tallahassee, but was caught, but then escaped. That led to the Marshal, Edward Mars’ obsession with hunting her down, (he eventually caught her in Australia and was escorting her back to the US on the flight that crashed).
Kate has a link to Cassidy. Cassidy was a con artist who Kate helped out so she wouldn’t get busted, and in return, Cassidy helped Kate try to re-connect with her mother.
Cassidy has a link to Sawyer, (who mentions having been to Tallahassee once and getting an STD there). Sawyer was also a con artist, and after he attempted to con Cassidy, he instead ended up schooling her in con techniques and they worked together, but he eventually ended up taking her money and running, (she was pregnant with his child).
Sawyer had embarked on a life of being a conman after being scarred for life by an incident when he was a child, when he was still known by his real name, James. His mother had had an affair with a conman who called himself Sawyer, (which is why Sawyer also adopted that name), who screwed the family out of their money. Young James hid under the bed and watched as his father shot first his mother, and then himself. After that, James vowed to find this “Sawyer” and kill him. The conman’s real name was Anthony Cooper.
Anthony Cooper was “The Man From Tallahassee,” (that was an ep title), the show’s ultimate conman. He ended up on the Island, where Sawyer killed him, finally getting the revenge he’d been pursuing his whole life.
Anthony Cooper was the father of John Locke. Locke was regarded as “special” and grew up in the foster system (dun dun duuuunnnn, special kid growing up in the foster system, sound familiar?), but as an adult, reconnected with Anthony. But it turned out Anthony was only forming a relationship with him to con him because he needed a donor kidney. In a later storyline, Locke tried to stop Anthony from conning a woman by marrying her for her money. Anthony ended up pushing Locke out a window, the fall that resulted in him ending up in a wheelchair, (though after the crash, on the Island, Locke could miraculously walk again).
So basically, the man from Tallahassee was the root of why Locke and Sawyer were so messed up, emotionally and physically. Sawyer was the root of why Cassidy was messed up. And Cassidy also interacted with Kate, who had attempted to flee to Tallahassee to escape the cops, which set off a chain reaction that ended up with her landing on the Island. So bad stuff has its root in Tallahassee.
Did that make any sense? Lost stuff can be somewhat convoluted, (to say the very least). 😆 To read more about those characters, you can look them up on http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page
@Marilou wrote:
The interesting thing however is that the LOST episode “The Man From Tallahassee” happens in season 3 and the question it answered was one we had been asking since day 1 (how the heel did john became handicapped?)
So, Tallahassee, is a place mostly of hurt and pain but also a place for answer for the public.
Excellent point! And it’s safe to say the pattern may repeat on Once.