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Fire & Water

Written by six from the blog The Lost Chronicles on 18 May 2006
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Episode 12
Fire & Water

Warning: Extreme Charlie biasness contained in this article!

For a moment during last night’s episode, I thought that all my wildest fantasies were about to come true, only to have them cruelly shattered. Seeing Charlie disrobe was great, but what happened next…. Well, you watched, you know!!



That has got to be the funniest moment on the show thus far. It beats Hurley’s cluckitty-cluck chicken man – even though that bordered on the weird rather than the funny.

Oh Charlie! What have you done? It’s going to be really difficult for me to look at this objectively. I love Charlie, and I am not expecting much Charlie-love from the masses.  The thing with Charlie is that he is so desperate for love and so desperate for what he thinks is family that he inevitably ends up doing the wrong thing.

I am not excusing his often questionable behaviour, I’m just clinging on to this wild hope that redemption is still on the cards for Charlie, as it is for all other survivors.

Charlie’s flashback begins with a young Charlie unwrapping Christmas gifts. His mother gives him a piano and says that he will “save them”. Later we see an adult Charlie looking through a hospital glass as his new-born niece, while his brother Liam was drugged up at his apartment.

Liam’s wife kicks him out and he moves in with Charlie, where they both work on a new song. Later, Charlie comes home one day to find his beloved piano sold. Liam sold it so that he could go to Australia and clean up and be with his family. “What about my family” asks Charlie?

Back on the island, Charlie is struggling with his isolation. He misses Claire and Aaron desperately, and is jealous of the bond that seems to be growing between Claire and Locke. It doesn’t seem to be mutual though, and Claire asks him for time and space.



Charlie is having very weird dreams and it all centers around the same theme – Claire and or Aaron being in danger. He sleepwalks one night and awakes with Aaron in his arms and no recollection of what he’s done or how he’s got there.

Charlie speaks to Eko and confides in him about his dreams. Eko asks him if he doesn’t think that the dreams could mean something…possibly that the baby needs to be baptized. Charlie tries to speak to Claire, but she doesn’t want to listen. Admittedly he’s quite frantic by now, and I think that he is really frightening Claire.

Locke suspects that Charlie has been using again, something Charlie vehemently denies; claiming that he doesn’t have any heroin as he and Eko set the plane alight. But Locke follows Charlie, and confronts Charlie when he smashes open one of the statuettes.



Charlie states that this is his test; that the island is testing him, but Locke isn’t buying any of it. He takes the statues from Charlie. Charlie resorts to desperate measures. He sets some trees alight as a diversion and sneaks up to where Claire and Aaron are camped out on the beach.

He tries to sneak of with Aaron but the baby’s cries gets Claire’s attention. Everyone comes running and Locke tries talking Charlie into handing Aaron over. “I won’t hurt him” says Charlie to Claire. “But you are hurting me” she returns.

Charlie hands over Aaron, and Locke beats him up. Charlie has now totally isolated himself, but his desperate attempts to get Aaron baptized have not been in vain. Claire approaches Eko, and Eko baptizes both Claire and the baby.



Claire slapping Charlie earlier I understand, Aaron is her baby and I doubt any mother would have reacted differently. But I thought that Locke’s beating up of Charlie was so harsh. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Sure, what Charlie did was so wrong, but Locke (of all people) – I expected different.

I really feel so bad for Charlie. It seems that all his life he’s proven that he is worthy to be loved but only if he does this…or does that… It seems that no-one has actually loved him for himself. It would explain his desperate need for love and acceptance.


I really don’t know what else to say. It’s very difficult to look at this without any bias.

In other island news, Hurley takes the first tentative steps towards dealing with his attraction to Libby. Meanwhile, Sawyer and Kate begin to notice the growing connection between Ana Lucia and Jack - and it doesn't make either of them particularly comfortable.





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