Does It Hurt?

Enzo and Sylvester discuss sharks and Enzo’s work, with Enzo responding tersely. Sylvester tells Enzo a storm is coming, so they should get inside soon, patting Enzo on the shoulder as he walks away. Enzo tells Sylvester not to touch him or Sawyer again, but Sylvester walks away in silence. Sawyer appears and tells Enzo to be nicer to Sylvester. Enzo tells her that men made her feel like she needed to give up her comfort for them, so men should apologize to her. However, Enzo refuses to apologize, convinced that Sawyer could not possibly have a good reason to steal his identity. Sawyer says Enzo does not know her life, but she refuses to tell him more. They walk into the lighthouse in silence.

In the lighthouse, Sylvester tells them the power will go out soon, and he suggests that they drink and get to know each other. Sawyer asks Sylvester about losing his leg and his family. Sylvester explains that he lost his leg to necrosis after being stung by a fish, and his wife, Raven, left him shortly before the lighthouse was retired. Enzo then explains that he was abandoned by his mother in Rome when he was a young boy. Sylvester asks Sawyer about her past, and she reveals that she grew up in a relatively wealthy home with her twin brother, Kevin. She implies that Kevin isolated Sawyer from her friends and sexually assaulted her. When Kevin joined the police force, Sawyer implies that other police officers assaulted her as well. Enzo is disturbed by Sawyer’s story, and Sawyer adds that she has been running away since she left home. Sylvester offers to house Sawyer at the lighthouse, and Enzo worries that Sylvester intends to force Sawyer to stay.

Sawyer is drunk, and Enzo carries her to the spare bedroom. From the window, they can see giant waves forming and crashing against the lighthouse. Sawyer wonders if Enzo feels different about touching her after finding out about Kevin, but Enzo tells Sawyer that she is more than her trauma, encouraging her to survive and be a better person. Enzo also wants to find Kevin and hurt him. They fall asleep but awake to the sound of someone crying. The sound fades, and Sawyer asks Enzo if he found his mother. Enzo says he did not and repeats his desire to kill Kevin, noting that Sawyer should not need to steal people’s identities anymore. Enzo says he wants to be the only person who hurts Sawyer, and Sawyer realizes that she both wants Enzo and cannot live with him. She tells Enzo that she will do what she needs to do to survive, and Enzo says he will never forgive his mother because she hurt others to keep herself alive. Sawyer thinks Enzo’s mother is lucky that Enzo stopped searching for her.

Sawyer heads to the cave, noting that it has been a week since she drank too much and told Enzo and Sylvester about her childhood. They have been on the island for 19 days, meaning the ship should arrive in about a week. A boat passes the island, but Sawyer knows the fog is too thick for the boat to spot them on the beach. She makes her way into the cave, remembering how she drank a lot of vodka the previous night. She is upset with herself for drinking too much, feeling attracted to Enzo, and allowing herself to become attached to others. The weight of her series of identity thefts saddens Sawyer, and she relishes the glowworms’ presence. She greets the worms, thinking she would like to become one of them, and she searches for a path deeper into the cave. She knows she is hungover, making the trek dangerous despite her and Kevin’s mountainous upbringing in Nevada. Following a hole in the cave, Sawyer finds another open area filled with glowworms, but she trips on a rock, falls, and is knocked unconscious.

Enzo notices how Sylvester keeps looking at the front door, and Enzo opens the door to make sure nothing is behind it. Enzo tells Sylvester about the crying he and Sawyer heard, and Sylvester tells Enzo about his family. When Trinity was 16 years old, she wanted to leave the island to live a normal life, and Raven supported her desire. Kacey, who was 14 years old, also wanted to leave, but Sylvester was still working and could not go with them. Trinity died by suicide by hanging herself out a window in the lighthouse, and Raven left with Kacey two days later. Enzo thinks about Sawyer and his feelings for her—mixing his emotions regarding his mother and Sawyer—and he concludes that he needs to talk to her.

Enzo goes to the cave, and he panics when he sees that Sawyer is not there. He finds the path she took to get farther down and finds Sawyer at the bottom, bleeding from her head. Enzo wakes Sawyer up, explains that she is injured, and gets her to hold onto his back. Enzo brings Sawyer to the surface, where Sylvester finds them, expressing concern about Sawyer’s injury. Enzo reminds Sawyer that she needs to live so he can hurt her further, but he gently carries her to the spare bedroom. Sawyer tells Enzo that they are even now, explaining that she carried Enzo to shore when the Johanna sank. Enzo is not sure if he can trust Sawyer, but he collapses to his knees by the side of the bed.

Enzo forces Sawyer to get in the shower. Sawyer insists that she does not need help, but Enzo helps clean her wounds without getting soap in them. Enzo asks Sawyer to describe swimming to shore and saving him, and Sawyer says she swam for a long time toward the lighthouse. Enzo says Sawyer is strong, and she should have corrected him when he called her weak, but Sawyer disagrees, saying she only runs from her problems rather than confronting them. After the shower, Enzo is aroused, but Sawyer does not want to have sex. Sawyer then reveals that she feels like she should run from Enzo, but she does not want to run anymore. Enzo admits that he is lying to himself by saying that he is only physically attracted to Sawyer. Enzo tells Sawyer to masturbate to show him how she likes to be touched, and he does the same. They masturbate together. After they each have an orgasm, the emotion drains from Enzo’s face, and he leaves the room. Sawyer tries not to cry, not wanting to give Enzo power over her.

Sawyer lies in the water, staring at the moon, and Enzo interrupts her thoughts to ask what she is doing. Sawyer says she wants to die, but Enzo praises her and encourages her to live. Sawyer says she only fears living a life without meaning, and Enzo says he wants to make her suffer, preventing anyone else from hurting her. They have sex on the beach, and Sawyer is glad to feel a pain other than her own self-loathing. She makes Enzo orgasm by performing oral sex. After, Sawyer tells him that she lives to spite her brother, but she needs to live her life alone. Sawyer leaves, dreading the night she will spend with Enzo.

Enzo laments his interaction with Sawyer, and he is irritated by Sylvester’s assurances that Sawyer will be fine. Sylvester gives Enzo some whiskey, and Sylvester comments that he will take good care of Sawyer if she stays and Enzo leaves. Enzo is immediately furious with Sylvester, who tells Enzo that Sawyer cannot be kept. Enzo says it would be easy enough to escape from Sylvester, leaving the room and hearing Sylvester mutter that they have not escaped him yet.

In the spare bedroom, Enzo finds Sawyer in bed. Sawyer tells him there was a boat the previous day, though the fog was too thick to alert it. Sawyer suspects that boats pass by more frequently than Sylvester claims, and maybe someone is looking for Enzo. She considers staying on the island to avoid arrest. Enzo says she should stay with and work for him, rather than Sylvester, but Sawyer says Enzo would make her suffer. Enzo admits that he does not hate Sawyer, and he reiterates that she is brave and strong. Sawyer recalls the way Enzo assaulted her on the boat before it sank, and Enzo admits that he was wrong. Sawyer poses on the table and demands that Enzo apologize more fully, refusing to forgive him. She makes Enzo kiss her pinkie toe, which is her favorite, and still refuses to forgive him. Enzo tells Sawyer how amazing she is and how much he wants to be with her, promising to take care of her forever. Sawyer is embarrassed and asks if this means Enzo will be nice to her, and Enzo promises to keep hurting her, thinking he will only hurt her in ways that make her smile. They decide to go to bed and search for the beacon the next day.