S2: Collision

In the 8th episode of the 2nd season, we get another episode focused on the Tailes.  Finally, the Tailes and the Losties are being brought together but it's almost torturous in the method that it's happening.  Ana Lucia made a mistake by shooting Shannon and out of her own guilt, she doesn't know what to do and goes from leader to hostage taker.

We are shown flashes off island of Ana Lucia's police work past where she seems just as jumpy and disgruntled as she is on the island.  After several months of work with a psychiatrist, she is allowed to go back to work.  We learn that she was shot with armor piercing bullets and almost died.  We later learn that she was pregnant, lost the baby, and the father of the baby has left her after the incident.  She found the guy that did this to her and killed him in cold blood.

After dwelling on this, and the words from Sayid that maybe it was meant to be that he should be punished for the torturing he did in his past, she decides to untie Sayid whom she captured.  She gives him the weapons she had on her person and tells him to kill her for what she had done, now, and in the past.  Sayid, of course, does not kill her since they are both already dead.  (This is probably where man fans got the purgatory idea.)

After all is said and done, we are treated to the best part of the episode -- the reuniting of many characters:  Michael and Vincent, Jin and Sun, and Bernard and Rose.  The end scene with the fantastic orchestra playing as the people hugged, laughed and smiled was great and again, it was the highlight of this episode.