On the island:
Claire is ignored and avoided by the other survivors after
the crash. Claire claims it's because she's a ticking timebomb
of responsibility. With the exception of Jack, who checks
her physical condition, only Charlie approaches Claire frequently,
and they become friends. She and Charlie are kidnapped by
Ethan Rom. Charlie is found first, soon after the abduction,
and Claire wanders back to the castaways two weeks later,
still pregnant but with no memory of anything after the
crash.
In Maternity Leave we see in flashbacks what happened to
Claire after she was kidnapped by Ethan. Claire is taken
to a medical Dharma station where she is given medication
for the baby. She is often in a drugged state of mind. Ethan
tells her that they are going to take the baby and return
Claire to camp. She begins to trust Ethan with the decision
to keep the baby. When Claire was sleeping she awoke to
see this young girl. She told her that they were going to
cut the baby out of her and kill her. Claire panics and
the girl uses chloroform on her. She wakes up in the jungle
and sees Rousseau. Rousseau knocks her unconcious so the
"Others" could not find her. She takes her near
her camp.
She gives birth to a boy, Aaron. Kate has to deliver the
baby because Jack is in the midst of trying to save Boone's
life. Following the birth Claire has trouble trusting others
with Aaron. Nonetheless, Charlie continues to remain ever-present,
helping Claire with Aaron when she needs it. Claire wears
a necklace with the Chinese character ? ("ai"),
which means "love".
Mr. Eko asks her why she named her son Aaron and Eko tells
her that Moses' brother's name was Aaron. When Eko sees
the Virgin Mary statues, he reveals to Claire that it contains
heroin. Soon after, Claire confronts Charlie about the drugs,
saying that she remembers something about him being a drug
addict. Claire asks Charlie to stay away from her and Aaron.
Charlie believes that Aaron must be baptized and steals
the baby. This causes Claire to trust him even less, but
she asks Eko to baptize her and Aaron. She does not interact
with Charlie much anymore, but is often seen with Locke
who helps her with the baby.
When Aaron falls suddenly ill, Claire asks Libby (a clinical
psychologist) to help her remember what happened to her
when she was taken by Ethan. Claire begins to have frightening
flashbacks of what happened to her. She sets off with Kate
and finds the place she was taken to, a medical Dharma station.
Afterward, she learns that the girl that saved her might
have been Alexandra, Rousseau's daughter, who was abducted
by the others at a young age.
Before the crash:
Claire, a young Australian woman, has job at "Fish
'n' Fry". She becomes pregnant, and she intends to
give the child up for adoption after the baby's father,
Thomas, walks out on her. Her plans to give the baby up
are altered by her own guilt and the involvement of a psychic,
Mr. Richard Malkin, who hounds Claire for several months,
telling her she must raise the child herself or else great
danger will come to the baby. When she refuses to listen
to his insistent demands, the psychic appears to recant
and tells her he has found a couple in Los Angeles for the
baby, and arranges the flight for her. After the crash,
Claire believes that the psychic may have known of the airplane's
impending disaster.
At the airport she is at a coffee shop, sitting at a table
handling her cup shakingly. The pilot walks over to her
to comfort her. He tells her that he sees pregnant women
all the time on long flights. He said that he will make
the ride extra smooth for her. She later tells him about
the psychic she met. The pilot tells Claire about his mother.
He says that his mother went to a psychic too. The psychic
told her to marry a guy with a name that started with "R".
She went for "Roger". She dumped her husband Bernard
and she never found a man named Roger. Bernard then made
millions of dollars in later years after the separation. |
