Skate is the fan-given name to the romantic relationship between Sawyer and Kate.
Timeline in Lost:
Season 1
1x02 "Pilot, Part 2" - Day 2: First time Sawyer flirts with Kate
1x03 "Tabula Rasa" - Day 2: First time Sawyer calls Kate Freckles
1x04 "Walkabout" - Day 4: Sawyer protects Kate from the wild boar attack
1x08 "Confidence Man" - Day 9: Kate sees Sawyer naked; Sawyer extorts a kiss from Kate in exchange for information about the whereabouts of Shannon`s inhalers. The kiss affects them both in a way neither expected.
1x12 "Whatever the Case May Be" - Day 21-22: Sawyer follows Kate into the jungle to protect her from the Others, they swim together at the waterfall, and later fight over the Marshal`s briefcase
1x16 "Outlaws" - Day 29-31: Kate helps Sawyer track his boar; they play "I never" by the campfire and share secrets
1x22 "Born to Run" - Day 43: Sawyer reveals Kate`s fugitive status to the group in revenge for her trying to take his spot on the raft, they part on bad terms
1x23 "Exodus, Part 1" - Day 44: They look for each other at separate times before the raft launches
Season 2
"2x05 "...And Found" - Day 47: Kate reveals to Sun that she didn`t say goodbye to Sawyer before he left on the raft, she seems to regret this
2x08 "Collision" - Day 48: Eko delivers a half-dead Sawyer to Kate and Jack; Kate is able to get Sawyer to stop fighting the antibiotics he needs to recover from the shooting; Kate tells the unconscious Sawyer that he`s home now and will be okay. Sawyer tells Jack that he loves Kate.
2x09 "What Kate Did" - Day 49: Kate watches over Sawyer day and night until she`s nearly sick herself; he sees her horse
2x11 "The Hunting Party" - Day 51-52: Kate throws a banana at Sawyer because she can`t find any rocks; Sawyer is angry when Tom reveals Kate as his hostage.
2x13 "The Long Con" - Day 57: Sawyer uses Kate to accomplish his gun con
2x19 "S.O.S." - Day 62: Kate abandons a dinner date with Sawyer to go into the jungle on a mission with Jack
2x21 "?" - Day 65: Sawyer comforts a distraught Kate, following the murders of Ana Lucia and Libby
2x22 "Three Minutes" - Day 65: Jack tells Sawyer that he and Kate were "caught in a net" while in the jungle, Sawyer believes this to be a euphemism for sex
2x23 "Live Together, Die Alone" - Day 65: Kate explains to Sawyer that she and Jack actually got caught in a net.
Season 3
3x01 "A Tale of Two Cities" - Day 68: Sawyer gives Kate a fishbiscuit
3x02 "The Glass Ballerina" - Day 69: Sawyer kisses Kate, later that night they flirt from within their respective cages. Kate learns his real name is James.
3x04 "Every Man for Himself" - Day 70-71: Kate tells Pickett she loves Sawyer
3x06 "I Do" - Day 72-73: They have sex for the first time in the cages, Sawyer admits he loves Kate, Kates begs for Sawyer`s life as Pickett threatens to execute him
3x07 "Not in Portland" - Day 73: Sawyer and Kate fight off Pickett and his accomplice On the beach, Kate runs toward Sawyer when Pickett comes after him one last time
3x09 "Stranger in a Strange Land" - Day 74: Sawyer accuses Kate of sleeping with him only because she thought he was a "dead man"
3x10 "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead" - Day 75: Kate goes to rescue Jack without telling Sawyer she`s leaving
3x16 "One of Us" - Day 85: Kate returns to the beach, she and Sawyer have an emotional reunion
3x17 "Catch-22" - Day 86-87: Kate tells Sawyer Jack already knows they have a thing; Kate comes to Sawyer in tears and seduces him after she sees Jack and Juliet flirting; the next day Sawyer makes Kate a mix tape and tells her not to use him
3x19 "The Brig" - Day 91: Sawyer and Kate have spent the night together; Kate leaves to sleep in her own tent
3x22 "Through the Looking Glass" - Day 92: Kate points out to Sawyer that the Others were coming for the pregnant women, including possibly her.
Season 4
4x03 "The Economist" - Day 94: Sawyer asks Kate to live with him on the Island
4x04 "Eggtown" - Day 95-96: Sawyer invites Kate to move in with him and after Locke banishes her, he "unbanishes" her and they sleep together but don`t go all the way; the next day, she tells him she`s not pregnant, they fight over his relief, she leaves to return to the beach.
4x13 "There`s No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3", - Day 100: After Sawyer makes Kate promise him something, he kisses her passionately and jumps from the helicopter.
4x13 "There`s No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3", - Day 100: After Sawyer swims back ashore the island, he worriedly turns back to the ocean, and is frightened for Kate`s life as he sees the smoke from the freighter explosion
Season 5
5x04 "The Little Prince" - Sawyer sees Kate in the jungle during a flash. He is obviously upset when the Island flashes again and she disappears. He then pretends to Locke that it didn`t matter to him, but later confesses to Juliet that he wanted to touch Kate and talk to her and that he truly misses her.
5x08 "LaFleur" - Sawyer tells Horace Goodspeed that he "used to have a thing for" Kate, but now he can hardly remember her face. Sawyer and Kate are reunited the following day, Sawyer`s expression indicating what he told Horace was a lie.
5x11 "Whatever Happened, Happened" Sawyer and Kate discuss their relationship while tending little Ben in the jungle, with Sawyer commenting that they never would have worked out, as he was too immature for her.
5x14 "The Variable" - Sawyer casually refers to Kate as "Freckles" in front of Juliet, much to her annoyance.
5x15 "Follow the Leader" - When Radzinsky beats Sawyer up to find out where Kate is, he refuses to tell them. When the tape pauses on Kate, Sawyer looks at her longingly. Later, on the submarine, Kate has been caught by DHARMA and joins Sawyer on the sub.
5x16 "The Incident, Parts 1 & 2" - Kate, Sawyer and Juliet escape the submarine, and while they are rowing in the inflatable raft, Kate and Sawyer flirt, much to Juliet`s annoyance. When Rose and Bernard say all they care about is being together, Sawyer looks at Kate. Juliet breaks up with Sawyer because she saw him looking at Kate. During The Incident, Kate and Sawyer try to help Juliet. After the bomb detonates, their fate is unknown.
Season 6
6x01 "LA X, Parts 1 & 2" - Kate offers to stay behind to help bury Juliet but Sawyer refuses. Later,she wipes the blood and dirt off his face and the two share a moment. In the Flash-Sideways - Sawyer and Kate "met" in the plane and share a look. Then later at the airport, Sawyer helped her to leave the elevator before TSA employees noticed it was the girl they were looking for.
6x02 "LA X, Part 2" - Kate offers to stay behind to help bury Juliet but Sawyer refuses. Later, she wipes the blood and dirt off his face and the two share a moment. In the Flash-Sideways - Later at the airport, Sawyer helps Kate to leave the elevator before TSA employees realize she is the woman they are looking for.
6x03 "What Kate Does" - Sawyer, broken-hearted over Juliet`s death, threatens the Temple people at gunpoint and makes his escape. He warns Kate not to follow him. Undaunted, Kate does follow Sawyer, accompanied by Jin and Temple people Aldo and Justin. After knocking out the Temple people, Kate tells a frustrated Jin that when she finds Sawyer, they`ll figure out what to do next. Kate finds Sawyer in Dharmaville, grieving over Juliet. She apologizes for following him.
Kate and Sawyer discuss Juliet`s death
and confesses that she`s sorry for Juliet`s death, claiming it was her fault because she prevented them from leaving the island in the sub(("The Incident, Part 1")). Sawyer says it was really his fault, because he had not let Juliet leave back in 1974, because he didn`t want to be alone. He shows Kate the engagement ring he had been planning on giving to Juliet. In frustration, he tosses the ring in the water and leaves. Kate breaks down crying.
6x06 "Sundown" Back at the Temple, Miles observes to Kate that Sawyer sent her packing. She doesn`t deny it, but looks bothered.
6x08 "Recon" Sawyer and Kate are reunited in MIB`s group. MIB sends Sawyer on a Recon mission at the Hydra Island. Kate asks MIB where Sawyer is. He comes across the cages where he and Kate were once imprisoned, and has a nostalgic moment as he notices Kate`s dress and picks it up. When he returns, he tells Kate that the two of them are going to get the hell off the island. She smiles and they share a moment. He resumes his old habit of calling her Freckles.
In the Flash-Sideways Sawyer, a cop, and Miles, his partner, are sitting in a parked car when Kate runs into them. She tries to escape, but Sawyer chases her down on foot. After he catches her, he recognizes her as the women he encountered in the elevator at LAX.
6x13 "The Last Recruit" Sawyer and Kate discuss their plan with the other survivors and then go get the sailboat together. Before they swim to the boat, Sawyer convinces Kate to leave Claire behind. Earlier in the episode he said to Jack that he wouldn`t let Claire attack Kate ever again. They sit next to eachother in the boat.
In the Flash-Sideways - Sawyer brings Kate downtown and proceeds to question her before the Feds get there. He notes that they were on the same Oceanic Flight and wonders if she remembers him from the elevator. She does. He speculates that something keeps drawing them together. She accuses him of hitting on her. She then wonders aloud why Sawyer helped her escape apprehension in LAX, and comes to the conclusion that he was trying to lay low because he was never supposed to be in Australia. Sawyer appears taken aback by her accuracy, and says he likes her.
6x14 "The Candidate" Widmore holds Kate at gunpoint when Sawyer takes Seamus`s gun and tells him he`ll shoot her because he doesn`t need her. Sawyer drops the gun. Later that night, Sawyer and Kate reminisce about being back in the cages, with Sawyer remarking that he feels like they are going in circles. Sawyer asks Kate if she remembers the cliffside cave he had told her about, where all the names were written, and confesses that her name was there too, but was crossed out, also saying, "He doesn`t need you, Kate." When Kate got shot he worries about her and tends to her before they discover the bomb.
6x16 "What They Died For" Kate leans on Sawyer`s shoulder as they watch the flotsam from the sub. In the Flash-Sideways - When police officers arrive to take the prisoners (including Kate) to county, Kate says to Sawyer that he can still let her go, because she told him she was innocent. She asks if he believes her and he says it doesn`t matter, although he looks tempted. He says he still can`t let her go because he`s a cop. She smiles and says he doesn`t seem like a cop to her. He says it was nice knowing her, Kate looks dissapointed. They look at eachother for the last time and she gets taken away.
Flashback connections
2x13 "The Long Con" - Kate`s mother Diane Jansen served Sawyer at a diner in a flashback
3x15 "Left Behind" - While Kate was on the lam, she met and befriended Cassidy, a mark of Sawyer`s and the mother of his daughter Clementine
See also: Character connections#Chart
editUnanswered questions
Did Sawyer pull off the "gun con" as a reaction to Kate`s being held hostage in "The Hunting Party"? ("The Hunting Party"), ("The Long Con")
What happened to the gun Sawyer gave Kate in "Maternity Leave"? ("Maternity Leave")