I love the contrast between the two stories because every element of them is completely opposite to the other. So when Kate is with her husband in the flashbacks, she wants it so badly, and yet she knows she can`t have it. And yet with Sawyer, she so desperately doesn`t want to go there, and doesn`twant that thing to happen, but she can`t seem to stop it from happening, because there`s this momentum and this chemistry between them that she can`t really help. And, you know, where she`s relatively free in the flashbacks to make it happen, she`s not in a cage, and she`s not being forced to do labor every day, it`s actually more difficult for her to stay in that house, and you know, cook breakfast, and be a little housewife, than it is for her to break rocks and work in a quarry and sleep in a cage. And there`s all these contrasts that happened that I just love, because I think the island represents who she truly is in her heart and the flashback represents who she wishes she was.
- Evangeline LillyI was proud of what Jeff did and particularly proud of how young Shawn Sawyer skated, because I have worked with him a lot. Shawn handled himself so well through the entire Olympic experience.
- Annette BeacherSawyer lost despite being the stronger candidate in terms of experience.
- Art Pope