Charlie meanwhile is on the beach strumming his guitar when he hears the baby crying again. He looks out and sees that the baby is in its crib being washed out to sea. When he saves the baby and comes back to shore he looks up and sees Claire and his mother dressed and posed like the angels in the Verrocchio painting from his childhood home. They keep telling him that the baby is in danger and he has to save them, then a dove flies from the sky. Hurley comes into frame dressed as a fat John the Baptist asking Charlie what he’s doing. Cut to Charlie and we see its nighttime and he’s on the beach holding the baby. Hurley is asking him what he’s doing with the baby in the middle of the night. Then we hear screaming from the camp as Claire realizes the baby is gone. When she rushes out to grab him from Charlie she slaps him over the face.

The next day on the beach Sawyer and Hurley are playing 21 when Libby comes by getting ready to do laundry. Sawyer tells him to join her saying “I'm sure you've got a load you need to drop in.� Ejaculation euphamisms on network TV. Nice. When Hurley doesn’t want to, Sawyer then pulls a Cyrano De Bergerac and yells out Libby’s name and makes her think its Hurley. Awww, he’s not just a sarcastic murdering con man, he’s also a good wingman.

Charlie is confronting Locke in the jungle where Locke is no doubt tracking something or methodeically cutting an apple with his bowie knife with one hand or whatever it is Locke’s do. He wants Locke to help him get back in with Claire but Locke just asks him if he’s using again. Charlie insists he isn’t and even tells him that he and Eko destroyed the plane full of drugs. Yet another lie by Charlie, leaving out the part where he has a huge stash of drug filled Mary statues hidden in the jungle. The man is digging quite a grave for himself here. Locke initially believes him and in answer to his question tells him “Trust is a hard thing to win back. Claire needs time. You should leave her and the baby alone for awhile.�

In flashback we see Charlie with the other members of his kick ass band Driveshaft sitting in robes on a set. His Brother Liam is purple and obviously strung out. When they take off their robes we see they are in diapers and dressed as babies to do a commercial for “Bubbies� diapers. I gotta meet the marketing genius who thought this one up. Nothing makes women want to buy diapers more than a strung out has been rock band. It's probably from the same guy who made Keith Richards the national spokesman for Monistat 7.

The commercial shoot doesn’t go well with Liam so high on heroin that he starts falling over. I’m not sure if he actually shat himself but let us hope he did because it’s the only time he can do it and not worry becuase Bubbies have twice the strength of a normal diaper. When the director calls cut he warns Charlie that he needs to ditch his druggie brother. Charlie refuses and the director fires all of them.

In the hatch Hurley and Libby are washing clothes and Libby asks a question I’ve been wondering for months now. “Is this washer and dryer newer than everything else in here?� Hurley doesn’t care much, unlike me. Libby then starts trying on a shirt and asking him how she looks. Hurley just asks her “Do I know you from somewhere?� Libby says that Hurley stepped on her foot in the plane, but we know that this means in a future Hurley or Libby flashback we will see that they indeed know each other from before. It’s how this show works.

In the woods Eko is marking X’s on a tree, as priests are wont to do. Charlie comes up to him and asks him why. Eko just tells him that “Because these are the ones I like.� Perhaps this has something to do with his big Jesus stick? Charlie asks him if he told Locke about the statue he gave him at the plane. Eko says he doesn’t and then asks if everything’s all right. Charlie then explains his dreams to him and when he does Eko becomes very interested. “Have you ever considered that these dreams mean something?� Eko asks him. What if he really does need to save the baby, he wonders. This is not the smartest thing to tell Charlie because he then goes mental and chases down Claire demanding to see the baby telling them that his dreams mean that he has to baptize Aaron. Charlie truly is a stinkin gobshite nutter. Kate grabs him and tells him to take a hike, and in the background we see Locke watching it all.

After a small vignette of Ana Lucia flirting with jack asking if he was “hitting that� in regards to Kate, we go right to the flashback. Charlie is composing a song on his piano when his brother Liam comes in sobbing. Karen kicked him out because he dropped the baby and his wife was upset acting like a babies skull is somehow magically softer than anyone elses skull. What-ever. When he says they have no money, Charlie tells than that it’s OK because he’s started writing again. Then Charlie sings, or should I say the guy they hired to do Charlie’s singing voice sings, what can charitably be described as a piece of crap song. It makes PoPozao look like a masterpiece. Since Liam is a strung out junkie he thinks its great, but then again he also thinks shitting in your pants is great. . He then smiles and then asks his brother if “he’s got any�.

Posted by EdHIll on January 31, 2006 6:33 PM