Charlie's personal struggles on and off the island are chronicled. The roller-coaster of my impression of him swings back toward disdain with this episode as far as his on-island persona, but it also strikes a blow for sympathy in his pre-island affairs.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Charlie, of course, came from a poor British family, though, it's hard to tell judging by the toys both kids received at Christmas. Liam was loaded down with typical Toys R Us fare, but Charlie was given a piano. His mother believes in his musical gift and further believes he "will get us out of here. All of us." Of course, his dad, a butcher, doesn't agree and Liam is skeptical.
Doesn't matter as it turns out, because it's just a dream. And as it progresses, Charlie finds himself playing a piano in the surf (a la Augustana) then hears Aaron trapped inside, but can't open the piano's lid. He wakes up worried about Aaron, but Claire is still mad about the whole lying-about-heroin thing. Charlie notices that Locke has stepped into his role as Claire's caretaker even more. Now, he's really beginning to resent it.
During another dream, Charlie sees Aaron floating out to sea in cradle and rescues him. On the beach, his mother Megan and Claire kneeling in prayer together telling him the baby is in danger and he must save it. A dove also swoops in from the clouds, a sign Mr. Eko will later tell him is an indication Aaron must be baptized. When Charlie comes to, he has stolen Aaron from his crib and is standing with the baby in the surf at night. Now, Claire is über pissed and Locke assumes Charlie is using again. He lies to Locke about burning all the statues.
Charlie voices his concerns about Aaron to Claire, but she's still angry. After being shooed away by Kate, Charlie visits his heroin stash, where Locke catches him breaking open one of the Virgin Marys. Charlie insists he was planning to destroy them, but Locke doesn't buy and confiscates the remaining statues, which he'll lock up in the hatch's armory. At Claire's request, he then moves back to the beach and next to her for protection. Charlie then starts a fire in the jungle as a diversion, so he can steal Aaron again. But when he's caught, the entire camp is angry with Charlie and Locke gives him a beating. Still, just to be safe, Claire eventually seeks out Eko so he can baptize her and Aaron.
During the Charlie-centered flashbacks, we see him covering for his brother, who didn't show up to the hospital when his daughter, who was named Megan after the brothers' mom, was born because he was strung out on heroin at Charlie's apartment. Still a mess, Liam gets Drive Shaft fired from a diapers commercial. No sooner does a now-clean Charlie start writing again, when his brother Liam sells his piano in a last-ditch effort to save his relationship with Karen, the mother of his newborn daughter. Her family is in Australia and he has a job and a drug treatment stay lined up there. It's Liam's best hope for salvaging his family, but wrecks Charlie's life all over again.
Hurley seeks Sawyer's advice on wooing Libby and does laundry with her at the hatch.
QUOTABLE
"You've given up the right to be believed, Charlie. ... Trust is a hard to thing to win back. Claire needs time. You should leave her and the baby alone for a while." — Locke trying to direct Charlie back to sanity
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