Episode 11

So, Ethan is just as sketchy as we thought. He wasn't included in the list of passengers, so a group rushes out into the jungle to find Claire and Charlie. Jack feels guilty now that he didn't believe Claire when she tried to tell him about the danger she was in. This ties back to what we witnessed in this episode's flashbacks.

Jack and his father work as surgeons at the same hospital and they both end up operating on the same patient. The woman had recently suffered injuries from a car accident and was first operated on by Jack's father, who was under the influence while he was operating. Because of this, he ends up severing an artery and the patient is lost after Jack's attempts to save her. Jack decides to tell the truth despite his father's pleas to lie and leave out the fact that he was drunk.

While on the trail for Claire and Charlie, Jack notices the "L" bandage that Charlie had on his finger and decides that Charlie is trying to leave a path for the others to follow them. Locke disagrees and the party splits into two; Boone and Locke following the footprints and Jack and Kate following the bandages.

Ethan catches up with Jack and Kate and knocks Jack out while Kate isn't looking. Before he does so, he tells Jack to stop following him or Charlie or Claire will be hurt. After Jack regains consciousness, they find Charlie hanging from a tree. My little heart broke because he died. But wait! Jack saved him because he refused to give up, just like in the flashback when he didn't want to give up on the woman he was operating on. It then flashes to Locke and Boone who have found a metal hatch in the ground. Claire still hasn't been found.

Which path would you have followed if you were searching for Claire and Charlie?

OK: I would follow the footprints as well. Based on the same reason as Sonya.
SH: I would have followed the footprints honestly because the bandage could have just fallen off (before we know it didn't) so it seems like the footprints give a stronger lead.

What do you think Ethan wants with Claire? Do you think it has anything to do with what the psychic said?

OK: I think it does have something to do with the psychic just because he tried to kill the baby and the psychic thought the baby was such a danger.

SH: I have no idea what Ethan is up to. Quite frankly I don't like how he was "introduced" into the show, or how little there has been about him previously. I think he does have something to do with what the psychic said though because that is the only reasonable explanation I have at this point.