Mommy
Issues: Ana Lucia Cortez
Ana's mother is also her
police captain. She seems to have some struggles with her regarding what she can
and can not do.
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CAPTAIN [to Ana]: How are you?
CAPTAIN: Good. Your assignment.
ANA: Evidence? You're putting me
behind a desk?
CAPTAIN: Is that a problem?
CAPTAIN: I don't care what you want.
ANA: Just put me in a car.
CAPTAIN: You were in an officer involve shooting -- no.
ANA
[subtitled from Spanish]: You're doing this because you're my Captain? Or
because you're my mother?
ANA: I need to be back
on the street. Please.
CAPTAIN: I put you in a car -- everyone's going
to know I pulled strings. You don't want me to treat you like my daughter? Don't
ask for favors.
[Ana's mother/Captain
fills out a form.]
CAPTAIN: You don't get the transfer, but I'll give
you the car. Happy?
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Later, after Ana has killed Jason, her mother confronts her about Ana's role in his death. She asks Ana to allow her to help her, but in a fit of pique, Ana refuses and resigns from the force. It is only after Ana's strange experience as Chrstian's bodyguard that she realizes that she needs her mother, and she was on her way home when the plane crashed.
Mother Issues: Lost Child
Ana
was involved in a shooting and the result was the loss of her unborn child.
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RAGGS [entering]: Hey, Ana-Lucia -- you're guy -- we got him.
[We see a suspect in an interrogation room from the other side of the
mirrored glass.]
CAPTAIN: His name is Jason McCormick. We picked him up
on an assault on an elderly woman in Echo Park. His fingerprints matched a
partial from your crime scene. We questioned him and he confessed. The D.A. is
ready to file charges -- all he needs is for you to I.D. him.
CAPTAIN [to the lawyers in the room]: Can you guys give us a minute? [to
Ana] Why are you doing this?
ANA: Because it's not him.
CAPTAIN:
He put 4 bullets into you -- hollow points through your vest -- he tried to kill
you. You want a list of his priors? You want to put this guy back out on the
street?
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LATER
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ANA: I'm a cop. I was a cop. One night my partner and I
responded to a burglary call. We were the first ones there. I covered the front
and he went around the back. I was there a minute and then this kid comes right
through the front door -- I tell him to put his hands up -- and he's says I'm
making a mistake -- that he's a student and he wants to show me his I.D. I
believed him. I just -- I let him reach. All I remember was a pop. By the time I
hit the ground I thought I was dead. I feel dead.
SAYID: What happened
to him -- the man who shot you?
[FLASHBACK to Ana in a bar. We see the
guy who had been in custody before leaving the bar. Ana gets up and follows.]
ANA [pulling her
gun]: I was pregnant.
[Ana shoots 3 times, walks over and shoots 3 more
times.]
SAYID: What happened to him?
ANA: Nothing. They never
found him. [She picks up Eko's homemade knife and swings it at Sayid, but only
to cut the ropes. Then she drops the knife and gun at Sayid's feet.] Go ahead,
pick it up, I deserve it.
SAYID: What good it would be to kill you if
we're both already dead?
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Marriage
Issues
Probably due to either Ana's drive to remain
a cop and continue to be in danger, or the fact she lost the baby, her
husband/boyfriend left her.
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MATTHEW: So, how's Danny -- you 2 trying to work things out?
ANA: There's nothing to work out. He left.
MATTHEW: You okay
with that?
ANA: I guess you could say I'm one of those people that's
just better off alone.
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BIG MIKE: I heard about you and Danny. Want me to go kick his
ass for you?
ANA: Nah. It's better this
way
Exerpts from Collision written by Leonard Dick and Javier Grillo-Marxuach
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