Homecoming

 

On the island we pick up right where last episode left off with Locke and Boone finding Claire in the jungle.  When she wakes up she has no recollection of the crash or does she know any of the other survivors including Charlie.  The next day Ethan confronts Charlie and tells him he will kill one survivor every day until they return Claire to him.  The survivors begin to set up an island defense setting makeshift alarms and traps around the camp perimeter. Their security proves ineffectual as Ethan kills Scott (or was he Steve?) by breaking both his arms, his neck, and all the bones in his fingers.  Locke suggests he came in from the ocean.  Jack gets the guns from the Halliburton and along with Sayid, Kate, Locke, and Sawyer they go to set a trap for Ethan using Claire as bait.  Charlie says he wants to go but Jack tells him no.  When Claire finds out what is going on she yells at Charlie for not telling her the truth.  He tells her he just wants to take care of her.  She tells him she can take care of herself. 

 

 

In flashbacks, we see Charlie in full fledged drug addict mode.  While in a bar Charlie’s friend Tommy convinces him to seek out a girl there named Lucy whose father is rich.  Tommy wants Charlie to steal some items from the house so they can pawn them and use the money for heroin.  Instead of stealing a cigarette case that belonged to Winston Churchill he begins to have feelings for Lucy and tries to be respectable by taking a job working for Lucy’s father.

 

In the jungle Jack and Locke wait in ambush for Ethan to show up to try and get Claire back.  Sayid warms them that they want to take Ethan alive so they can get some answers.  Eventually Ethan shows up and Jack manages to fight him off and then subdues Ethan.  Before Jack can interrogate Ethan, Charlie shows up and using Jack’s gun shoots Ethan four times in the chest, killing him.  Jack asks Charlie why he did it and Charlie says that Ethan deserved to die.  Later, Claire remembers Charlie, especially the moment when the two of them shared a jar of imaginary peanut butter.  She says she wants to trust Charlie now.

 

 

Once again in the flashback, Charlie goes into withdraw which proves too much for Charlie and he does eventually steal the cigarette case.  Still trying to sell photocopiers for Lucy’s father, Charlie manages to vomit into the copy machine before passing out.  While he is passed out, one of Lucy’s father’s clients finds the cigarette case in Charlie’s jacket.  When Charlie goes to Lucy’s house to explain, she refuses to hear him out.  She tells him he will never be able to take care of anyone.  Just a side note: this is Damon Lindeloff's (co-creator, head writer, and executive producer of the show) least favorite episode of the entire show due to him not liking them re-visiting the drug addiction part of Charlie’s story so soon.