DukeUsul's bon voyage 'Lost' post.
This episode gave me problems. I don't really want to recap it. I have a lot of problems with it. That said . . .
Flashback: Christmas morning when Charlie's a kid. Most of the presents are for Liam. Charlie wonders where his presents are. His mother tells him to look over here. Father Christmas brought him a piano. His mother tells him he's special, he's going to get them all out of there. We see the hands of Charlie's dad, a butcher cutting meet. Liam is suddenly older. The entire family is pleading with Charlie to save them, save them all. I don't think this is a flashback anymore. Charlie is now playing the piano on the beach. He hears a baby crying. It sounds like the baby is inside the piano. Charlie wakes up in a sweat. He is understandably very worried about Aaron. He sees Claire with Aaron and relaxes a bit until he sees Locke come up to the two of them, then the green-eyed monster (TM Shakespeare, it's in Othello) rears it's ugly head.
Charlie tries again to talk to Claire. She asks for some space. Charlie, it's really not unreasonable.
Flashback: Charlie goes to see his niece - Megan - in the hospital after she is born. Liam's wife Karen asks where Liam is. Charlie covers for him. Liam's on a bender, of course. Is that what you call it with the drugs? The story at this point is that Charlie and Liam are both doing heroin but in these flashbacks Charlie really seems to have it together, at least a lot more than Liam does. When exactly did Liam get married? How did he find a stable woman to marry him anyway? He's been a junkie for awhile. Anyway, Charlie goes back to his loft to find Liam passed out on the sofa. Megan was their mum's name. Charlie tells Liam to clean himself up.
Hurley asks Sawyer about Libby. Sawyer teases him, of course. Kate is helping Sawyer with his rehab exercises for his shoulder. They see Jack and Ana Lucia walk out of the jungle.
I'm on my husband's laptop and I have to post periodically or it zones out on me.