( continues...) hot monkey sex in the fuselage talk about their little tiff, and Sayid's experiences of the past few days. Sawyer lets Sayid know that he kept the signal fire going when the tide was about to put it out. Sayid appreciates this. They come to a stoic, manly understanding.
Boone & Locke might be lost. Or they might not be. Locke says it's about to rain, and it does.
Kate and Jack hear something through the rain, and move towards it.
In flashbackland, the husband of the woman who died in surgery is threatening to sue for negligence.
Kate and Jack are wandering aimlessly in the rain. They start to hear the whispers, Jack falls down a steep slope, and come face to face with Ethan. Jack tries to attack him, but Ethan is soooooo much better at this, and stomps on Jack's chest. They fight. Ethan knocks Jack out. Kate revives him (he was only out for a minute, but Ethan is gone). Kate is trying to persuade Jack to give up, because they're hopelessly lost, and it's raining, and dark, and other very sensible reasons. Jack refuses. He's not going to let this happen again.
At the trial, JackDad is being very convincing, and the hospital board is totally buying it. Jack is silently listening, until one of the other doctors asks Daddy if he was aware of the woman's pregnancy while he was operating. Daddy wasn't, but he answers smoothly that of course he was, but it was too late, etc etc. This is too much for Jack. He stands up and informs everyone that his father was operating while drunk, cut the hepatic artery, and that's why the woman died. (Jack's dad's name, by the way, is Christian Shepard. Because this is a show about subtlety.)
Jack and Kate are climbing back up the slope, when they run smack into Charlie's hand. Which is attached to Charlie's body, which is hanging limp from a noose. At this point, we are lead to believe that Charlie is dead for three fucking pages before Jack finally revives him. Bastards!
Michael and the loser search party have returned empty-handed. Jack and Kate and Charlie have returned as well. There's no sign of Claire, Locke or Boone.
This is because Locke and Boone are still in the woods. They are about to turn back, when Boone drops the flashlight into a stream, and they uncover what looks like a shiny piece of metal. As they uncover more and more of it, it's clear that this is not a piece of the plane.
Charlie is practically catatonic back at the caves.
[Now, at this point, there are two almost identical pages, and I have no idea which one will be used.]
Jack is trying to get information out of him, but all Charlie says is (version 1) "Claire. All they wanted was Claire." (version 2) "Claire. All he wanted was Claire."
END OF EPISODE