A Claire episode. The plot thickens as The Others, who already have infiltrated the survivors, are further revealed. We also learn about Claire's life before Oceanic 815: her failed relationship and the decision to put her baby up for adoption.
Claire is innocence and naivete personified, but she also represents the advancement of wisdom.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Claire awakens to a crying baby but is no longer pregnant and encounters a black-eyed Locke (who may not, in fact, be Locke but rather the foreshadowing of Jacob's nemesis, but we'll get to that). Anyway, alien-looking Locke warns that everyone must pay a price because Claire gave her baby away. She checks her baby's crib but finds only blood and then comes out of the nightmare screaming with blood on her own hands. The blood, though, is only from her forming fists so tight her nails dug into her palms. She's still preggo, but the dream hints at the terror to ensue.
We don't yet know it, but women have stopped getting pregnant on the island. Ethan, a plant from The Others, is actually a doctor who tries to perform tests on Claire while she sleeps. These attempts at an amniocentesis frighten and awaken Claire, but not everyone is convinced the attacks are real. Jack, for one, thinks they are stress-induced and suggests a sedative, which enrages the hormonal and protective mother-to-be.
Jack's lack of faith prompts Claire to leave the caves and return to the beach, but something goes horribly wrong on her move. Her contractions start as Charlie tries to escort her back to the beach, but they are met by Ethan on the trail.
In a flashback, we meet Thomas, a painter who knocks up Claire when she was supposed to be on the pill. He eventually leaves her and Claire seeks out a psychic's advice, but the psychic refuses to reveal her fate or that of her unborn child. All he will do is warn her that she must raise the child, because danger swirls if her baby — Baby Aaron — is raised by another. She presses on with adoption plans nonetheless until no pens will work as she tries to sign over the rights to her still-unborn child. Sensing it is fate, Claire reneges and leaves the attorney's office only to be hounded by the psychic who eventually talks her into taking Oceanic 815.
In the wake of the attacks on Claire, and concerned the group doesn't know enough about each other, Hurley, whose real name is Hugo Reyes and who refuses to divulge the origin of Hurley, gets the flight manifest from Sawyer and begins a census. He's the one who discovers that Ethan was never on the plane. Meanwhile, Sayid returns and reports Rousseau's existence.
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