Ray found a fugitive Kate sleeping in his sheep pen one morning, and gave her a job doing chores around his farm, since his wife had died eight months previously. Kate worked at Ray's farm for nearly three months until Ray spotted her mugshot at the post office and decided to turn her in to United States Marshal Edward Mars for a $23,000 reward. During the confrontation with Mars, Kate caused Ray's truck to overturn. She then saved him by pulling him out from the burning wreckage, which allowed Mars to capture her. Later, on the Island, Kate told the marshal that she wanted to make sure the reward went to Ray, since he had "a hell of a mortgage". ("Tabula Rasa")