Starletta DuPois

Sayid confronts Ben's spy on the freighter, and Ben urges daughter Alex to flee Locke's camp in order to survive an impending attack.

The face-off between the survivors and the freighter people continues, and the Oceanic Six find themselves closer to rescue.

Former boxer Joe Kagan moves to Sleepy Eye and offers his assistance with the maintenance of the blind school while Adam and Houston are out of town. Joe is clearly in love with Hester Sue, but she refuses to get involved. Later, when she is unable to get through to a struggling student, Hester questions her teaching abilities and ends up making some foolish choices.

Rush and the team look into the death of an inner-city school teacher, originally thought to be a carjacking gone wrong, when a former student finds her car keys in an old desk.

When Cynthia discovers her parents are having marriage problems, it forces her to confront problems in her own marriage.