Hmm. In Walkabout, jackass!boss tells Locke to get a therapist, and Locke replies "I have a therapist".

Scary man with knives and not enough drugs. Could be interesting.

After watching "Solitary" again, I'm wondering if it is Michael.

So...who wants to know everything about the next two Lost eps?

'Cause I've got scripts, yo.

yo! me. totally. I want the good shit please.

Me!

Bring ON the hardcore!

OOh, Ooh, memememe.

let me roll up my sleeves. I just had my cookies and milk. I'm ready.

Raised By Another

The opening scene is one of the creepiest, most frightening things I've ever read. It is going to seriously freak people's shit out. Claire is woken up in the middle of the night by a baby crying. She sits upright, puts her hand on her stomach, and is not pregnant. She starts to run through the woods. She finds Locke, sitting at a table with a desklamp. He looks up, and one of his eyes is completely black. One is completely white. Claire hears the baby again and keeps running. She finds a bassinet with a mobile above it. The mobile is made up completely of broken toy airplanes. When she picks up the baby, it's just a doll, which screams when she lifts it up. She sees blood running down her hands.

She wakes up and there is still blood running down her hands. Charlie has found her and tells her that she was sleepwalking. Jack bandages her hands (apparently she'd dug her nails so hard into her palms that they bled), and asks her a few medical-type questions about her pregnancy. She gives all the right answers, but in a very evasive way.

Flashback! Claire & Thomas' apartment in Sydney. She's looking at the results of a pregnancy test, and, well, it's bad news. But Thomas assures her that they can do this, and he'll stay with her, etc etc etc. So they decide to keep the baby.

Present day, Jack & Kate banter expositionally. Charlie brings Kate some tea. (No idea where the tealeaves came from. Probably some kind of island herbal concoction from Sun.) Charlie is trying to get closer to Claire, but she's being deliberately distant.

Flashback! Claire and her friend Rachel are going to see a psychic about the baby, just for kicks. Claire's reluctant, but Rachel drags her in. They psychic (Malkin), starts to do the reading, gets a terrified look on his face, and refuses to continue. Claire and Rachel leave, Claire visibly shaken.

Present day, night. Claire wakes up and sees a man standing over her. He holds her down and injects her with a hypodermic needle. She starts to scream and doesn't stop. The other survivors come running (Jack & Charlie in front), and she tells them what happened. Jack thinks she's had another anxiety nightmare. Charlie's not so sure. Hurley, Ethan (remember Ethan?) and Michael check the area, but find nothing out of the ordinary.

This gives Hurley the idea to take a census of all the survivors so that they know everyone's name. Jack's like, okay, whatever. Hurley's real name is Hugo Reyes, by the way.

In Sydney, Claire is about four months pregnant, and Thomas is leaving her. Needless to say, she's not happy.

Jack is telling Kate what "happened" to Claire. Charlie is still pissed off that Jack thinks it was a dream. Kate tries to be practical, saying, okay, so let's say it wasn't a dream, what do we do about it? And nobody really has an answer to that one.

Hurley, taking his census, is talking to Ethan, who's a little creepy. Turns out he's Canadian.

Jack tries to give Claire a sedative, which offends her, so she takes her things and heads back for the beach. Jack tries to stop her, fails. Charlie is now seriously angry with Jack, who seems to be fucking with his best girl's head.

Meanwhile back in Sydney, Claire is going to the psychic again. She gives him $200 (Australian), and he reluctantly does the reading. He tells her that under no circumstances must she give the child up. That he forsees great danger for the child if she allows it to be raised by another. This isn't what she wanted to hear -- she was planning to give the child up for adoption as soon as it was born. But Malkin is deadly serious.

Still in flashbackland, Malkin has apparently been calling Claire and sending her notes, trying desperately to change her mind about the adoption. She's having none of it.

Charlie is following Claire, trying to take care of her. She doesn't want to let him.

Hurley is censusing Boone and Shannon, who tell him that if he really wants to make (continued...)

( continues...) this easier, he should just get the flight manifest from Sawyer. They crossed off the names of all the dead passengers after the memorial, so what's left should be a complete list of who's on the island. Hurley goes to Sawyer, who gives him the manifest without much of a struggle.

Charlie's still trying to help Claire. She's still not wanting to let him. She then starts to go into labor, and tells Charlie to get Jack. Charlie's all "No, I kicked heroin, I can deliver a baby!" And then he realizes that he just told the woman he's interested in, while she's in labor, that he's a heroin addict. So he backpedals a little, then goes to get Jack.

Claire is in the final stages of signing the adoption papers. There's a lawyer there, and a young couple. But when she goes to actually sign, no ink will come out of the pen. She tests the pen on another piece of paper, and it works just fine. But it won't sign the papers. Resigned, she leaves, and goes to Malkin.

Charlie finds Ethan on the way back to the caves, tells him to go get Jack, and then heads back to Claire. She's babbling about how she shouldn't be here, how she was told she wouldn't be here, how she was promised it wouldn't turn out like this. Charlie calms her down, and she tells him the whole story...

Malkin seems to have changed his prophecy. He wants to give her $6000 to move to LA and give the baby to a couple he found, who he claims the baby will be safe with. And she has to leave on a flight tomorrow. And it really, really has to be this specific flight...

...but he must have been wrong, because the flight went down, and now there's a couple waiting in LA, who'll never see Claire or her baby, right? Right? Charlie's thinking a little more clearly, and suggests that maybe what Malkin wanted all along was to ensure that Claire raised the baby alone. Which is why she had to be on that plane...

Sayid, running through the forest. Hurley, also running through the forest, in a different direction.

Claire's contractions have stopped. Seems it was a false alarm. Charlie promises not to let anything happen to her.

Sayid arrives at the beach and breathlessly starts to tell everyone about Danielle, and the voices in the woods.

Hurley, running in from the other direction, starts breathlessly to tell everyone that there's an islander whose name doesn't appear anywhere on the flight manifest...Ethan wasn't on the plane.

Claire and Charlie are making their way back to the caves, slowly, in the dark. They hear a voice, and standing in front of them, eerily calm, is Ethan, who tells them that he's sorry it's come to this...

END OF EPISODE