Turns out Rousseau is anything but a threat. She's already won over Sayid, but few others among the survivors. That will change, of course. No flashbacks, aside from Claire's during her abduction are offered in this episode.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Baby Aaron is sick, but Jack isn't concerned and wants to let the fever run its course. Claire, though, is convinced The Others have done something to Aaron. Bits and pieces of her period of abduction are flooding back, so she enlists Libby's help to being out additional repressed memories. Among them: Ethan Rom — an anagram for Other Man — was a doctor and administered prenatal shots to the baby at a Dharma medical station.
Rousseau again approaches Claire — she'd already kidnapped him once, hoping to trade him for her daughter — but is shooed away by Kate. Claire begins to suspect Rousseau could lead her to that station, though, so she and Kate, who used her doe eyes to get a gun from Sawyer, set off to find the reclusive Frenchwoman. She leaves Aaron with Sun.
Upon tracking down Rousseau, she only agrees to help when Claire mentions a teenage girl who was at the station. Claire also remembers a nursery The Others have built for Aaron and we see Ethan talking with Walt's kidnapper, who doesn't have a beard anymore. He is unhappy that Ethan didn't get his list made. Against his friends' wishes, he takes Claire for a walk and implores her to give The Others her baby (giving her sour water to drink on the walk?). Ethan also mentions that he's going to miss Claire, who is doped up and quite confused during her stay with The Others.
Rousseau takes her to where Claire scratched her and Claire eventually finds her way back to the medical station, which is now empty. The nursery has been taken down. During the search of the facility, Kate finds The Others' costumes, which disguise them as riff-raff, but the fridge with vaccine for Aaron is empty. Claire eventually remembers that Rousseau actually saved her from The Others and carried her back to the survivors' camp. Claire tells her that she met Alex and that Alex isn't like the rest of the group, who had planned to kill her and cut Aaron from her womb the night Alex helped Claire escape.
Elsewhere, Mr. Eko is building a log lodge of some kind. At the hatch to get a saw, he notices "Henry's" cot and confronts Jack about the captive. Eko asks to speak to him alone. He shakes "Henry's" hand and confesses that he killed two of The Others, but that he's back on a righteous path and regrets it. Eko then cuts off the two scruffies from his beard.
Aaron is OK in the end, though, Rousseau warns that Claire will have to kill him if he's infected. Meanwhile, "Henry" continues driving a wedge between Locke and Jack.
QUOTABLE
"You'll thank me for this one day." — Alex when helping Claire escape from the medical station
"Are you the genius or are you the guy who always feels like he's in the shadow of the genius?" — "Henry" asks Locke in reference to a conversation he overheard between Locke and Jack about Hemingway's jealousy of Fyodor Dostoevsky
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