"Lost" clues: "Maternity Leave," season 2, episode 15

Official recap from ABC:

Maternity Leave

Air Date: 03/01/2006
What happened to Claire when she was abducted by the Others?

When Rousseau shows up at camp and tells Claire that her baby could be 'infected', Claire sets out on a journey to find the answer to this question. Armed with memory "flashes" triggered first by Rousseau's presence and then through Libby's relaxation exercises, Claire remembers that she was in fact being held somewhere on the island and given vaccine for the baby. Convinced that the only way to cure Aaron is to find the vaccine, she enlists the help of Rousseau and Kate to find this mysterious place where she was being kept while the Others had her.

With Kate and Rousseau as her guides, Claire slowly pieces together this missing time in her life to discover something unthinkable…but in the end, the most important information she uncovers is that she was meant to be a mother.

Meanwhile, Jack and Locke continue to try and keep Henry a secret from the camp, but it's becoming increasingly difficult. When Mr. Eko ventures down into the hatch to borrow some tools, he figures out that they are keeping a man inside the armory and tells Jack he wants to speak with the prisoner. While Henry maintains that he is not an Other, Eko treats him as such and confesses to killing two of his friends.

Jack and Locke continue to butt heads about how to handle the situation, further straining the power balance between our two heroes. And when Henry uses this information to try and get inside Locke's head, John Locke's composure snaps for the first time, giving way to his complete frustration at being trapped by his responsibilites to the hatch.


Observations/speculation:



* So it looks like the scruffy Others and the neat-looking Dharma Initiative folks (Ethan, etc.) are one and the same. Why are they trying to fool the crash survivors with their "shipwreck" clothes, beards and all?

* I'm starting to wonder if the survivors are on an island at all. What's to say they weren't drugged on board the plane and brainwashed to believe they survived a crash. Claire, obviously, was very successfully drugged/brainwashed into thinking Ethan and his cronies had her best interests at heart.

* Why did the Dharma folks abandon the medical hatch? And where the heck are they now?

* The medical facility has an "emergency hatch." Why? Where does it go?



* Who is the "he" Zed refers to when talking with Ethan? Hanso? DeGroot? Gale? Somebody unknown to us?



* Here are some details from Amazon on the book Sawyer is reading:

Lancelot Lamar is a disenchanted lawyer who finds himself confined in a mental asylum with memories that don't seem worth remembering. It all began the day he accidentally discovered he was not the father of his youngest daughter, a discovery which sent Lancelot on modern quest to reverse the degeneration of America. Percy's novel reveals a shining knight for the modern age--a knight not of romance, but of revenge.

* Where the heck is Michael?

* Where the heck is Desmond?

* Where the heck is Walt?



* It doesn't seem like Locke and Jack will be able to carry on their private Gitmo scenario with Henry forever. Especially with Henry starting to play mind games with Locke. Seems like something a Dharma-trained psychologist ought to be pretty good at.

* Ethan says it would be complicated to explain when Claire asks him where all the items in the nursery came from. Also hard to explain where the late model washing machine and dryer in the more familiar hatch came from. Perhaps the Dharma folks go "off the island" occasionally.

* The airplane mobile appeared in a Claire flashback in an earlier episode, but why would the Dharma folks use such a mobile? Do they want to make Claire think about the plane crash? Do they want to make her think there was a plane crash? As you can see from this person's screen grab, the little planes of Oceanic Air logos on them:



* This picture in the nursery looks like the Others boat:



* What's the deal with Eko's beard? Did the two nubs he cut off represent the two men he killed?

Other stuff:

* See a preview for the next episode.

* Hear the latest "Lost" official podcast.

* See screen shots from "Maternity Leave."

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