Development
The episode was written to humanize Sawyer and set up the love triangle between him, Kate and Jack. It also shows the moral ambiguity of characters to reveal more of their personalities, with the ones introduced as heroes doing things that are not heroic - Jack beating Sawyer and eventually asking Sayid to torture him - and a villainous one proving to be not much of a bad person - Sawyer's backstory and flashback.
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