On the island Claire has been having nightmares. In one of them we see her walking in the jungle and finds Locke sitting at a table playing cards. Locke tells her “He was your responsibility, but you gave him away, Claire. Everyone pays the price now.". Locke then looks at her with one white eye and one black. She then sees a crib and inside the crib she finds lots of blood. She awakes screaming with her fingernails buried into the palms of her hands. In yet another nightmare she dreams someone holds her down and injects something into her stomach leaving no wound.
In flashbacks, Claire takes a pregnancy test with her boyfriend Thomas present. The test is positive, and Thomas tells her everything will be alright as they will be good parents. Later, Claire goes to a psychic who knows she is pregnant. He touches her hand and has a vision that he is disturbed by. After more time passes, Thomas tells Claire he is leaving as he is not ready to be a father.
The "attack" on Claire, that may or may not have happened, leads Hurley to do a makeshift census of all the survivors for everyone to get to know each other better. When talking to Locke about why he was in Australia Locke tells him he was looking for something. Hurley asks him if he found it and Locke tells him that it found him. Hurley speaks to Ethan who seems reluctant to give Hurley his information. Meanwhile, Jack gives Claire a sedative and tells her that the attack might have been her imagination. She of course gets pissed and decides to move from the caves back to the beach. Boone suggests that Hurley go to Sawyer and get the flight manifest as that might help him conduct the census. Surprisingly Sawyer gives it to Hurley freely.
After Thomas leaves her alone, Claire goes back to the psychic who knows Thomas left her. She tells him she is going to give the baby up for adoption, but he tells her she cannot allow anyone else to raise her baby. If she does it will put the baby in danger. She tells him she is still going through with the adoption. He implores her to reconsider. Later at a lawyer’s office she is there to finalize the adoption which will be complete upon birth. Her only caveat is that they sing the song “Catch a Falling Star” which her father used to sing to her and they agree. As she is about to sign the adoption papers none of the pens work. Taking this as a sign she leaves and goes to the psychic for a third time. He gives her six thousand dollars and a plane ticket. He tells her when she gets to Los Angeles the adopters will give her another six thousand dollars. Claire asks about him telling her she must raise the baby herself. He tells her the people are not strangers but offers no further explanation. Claire agreed after he tells her they are good people.
Charlie helps Claire move back to the beach who goes into labor in the middle of the jungle. Claire tells Charlie to go get Jack for help which he does. A little while later Charlie finds Ethan in the jungle and tells him to go get Jack to help Claire who is in labor. Charlie goes back to comfort Claire while they wait for Jack to get there. She tells him about the psychic and what he said. Charlie suggests the psychic knew the plane was going to crash and that was his way to get her to raise the baby herself.
Sayid, injured, makes his way back to the caves and tells the rest about Danielle as well as them not being on the island alone. Sayid then passes out. Hurley comes over and tells Jack that one of the survivors was not listed on the manifest meaning that at least one of them was already on the island before the crash. Claire’s contractions stop and Charlie begins to take her back to the caves. Ethan walks up and Charlie asks him where Jack is. Ethan just stares at Claire who then looks frightened. Adding my two cents in here with an interesting thought that just a little tweaking turns the episodes title into Raised by An Other. Ethan Rom is an anagram for Other Man.
