Episode 10

It's day 15 on the island and Claire wakes up screaming two nights in a row. The first time is from a nightmare where she isn't pregnant. She gets up to find Lock with one solid black and one solid white eye. He tells her that the baby was her responsibility, but since she gave him away everybody pays the price. She hears crying from the jungle and follows it only to find a crib filled with blood. The second time she wakes up screaming, she says somebody attacked her and tried to inject something in her stomach. Jack sees no wound on her stomach and thinks the attack was a hallucination brought on by the stress of her situation.

The next day, Hurley starts a census in order to keep tabs on everybody that is on the island. He discovers that Ethan wasn't on the flight manifest, meaning that however he got here, it wasn't from the plane crash.

Claire, taking offense by Jack's claim that she wasn't actually attacked, decides to move back to the beach. While walking there with Charlie, she begins having contractions and Charlie runs to get Jack's help. Along the way he sees Ethan and tells him to go get Jack so he can stay with Claire.

Sayid, badly injured and exhausted, returns and informs the group about Rousseau and how they aren't the only ones left on the island. Meanwhile, Ethan returns to where Claire and Charlie are, obviously knowing that he didn't go get Jack. BUM BUM BUM!!

Flashbacks:

Claire and her boyfriend Thomas find out that she is pregnant and he assures her that they will be good parents. Claire visits a psychic and he knows she is pregnant, but after seeing more he refuses to tell her what he saw and tells her to leave. Later, Thomas tells Claire that he is leaving her and that he isn't ready for the responsibility. Claire returns to the psychic who finishes the reading by telling her that she must be the one to raise the baby or she will put everyone in danger. Claire goes to adoptive services and is about to sign over her rights when at the last second she changes her mind. 

She goes back to the psychic who tells her that he found an alternative to her keeping the baby. He says there is a family in LA that she will meet there and give them the baby. He assures her they are good people and give her $6000 and a ticket on flight 815 to LA. Despite her hesitation, she accepts and that is how Claire ended up on the flight.

Why do you think Locke had the solid black and solid white eye? Remember that he was also there when the black and white stones were found.

OK: I think that this is referencing the yin yang, which was originated in Daoist philosophy, and I think it relates to Locke in the sense that his character is the philosophical perspective of the show.

SH: So I definitely thought of demons because of Super Natural. Black eyes are those of the stereotypical demons and white are of the more powerful demons. But that aside, the stones do seem to be symbolic, although I don't know why.

What was your reaction to finding out that Ethan was on the island before the others? Do you think he has any connection to Rousseau?

OK: I was super surprised. Even though I did think he was kind of sketchy from the beginning, I didn't think that was why. I think we will find out that he does have some sort of connection to Rousseau in some way, shape, or form.

SH: Ethan seemed like he didn't belong because of the way they put him into this episode. I was wary of him because I thought it seemed strange that he just now came up. I don't think he is connected to Rousseau though. Call it intuition, but there is something telling me that he is a weirdo on his own.

Do you think the psychic intentionally put Clair on that plane knowing that it would crash and force her to be the one taking care of the baby?

OK: I think he did. What makes me mad is that he knows why the baby needed to be taken care of by her, but we never found out! I'm kind of wondering what will happen to the plot once the baby is born.

SH: I thought that the psychic intended for Claire to die so that her baby wouldn't be born, but now that I look back on it, it does seem like he would know that she would survive. I am wondering what is so significant about the baby though.