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Synopsis
Two nights in a row, Claire wakes up screaming; on the second, she insists that someone held her down and stabbed her stomach to hurt her unborn child, although no physical marks support this. Jack questions her and learns that the baby is due in just over a week; concerned that stress could trigger early labor, he says Claire is having anxiety nightmares, and that an attack would have been unlikely with so many other people around. But Charlie — who has been doting on Claire — isn't so sure, and the alleged attack prompts Hurley to begin a census of the islanders.
Angered by Jack's suggestion that she wasn't really attacked and his advice to take a mild sedative, Claire leaves the cave alone and heads for the beach. Charlie catches up to her shortly before she is overcome by contractions; on the way to get Jack, he finds Ethan and tells him to relay the message. Charlie manages to calm Claire down, and the contractions end.
In flashbacks, we learn that Claire was flying to Los Angeles on the advice of the psychic Richard Malkin who had initially warned her not to let anyone else raise the child, but claimed he'd found a "good" couple in the U.S. to adopt the baby. Claire was encouraged to see the psychic by her friend Rachel. After she tells Charlie her story, the two conclude the psychic's insistence that Claire take the doomed flight indicated he'd known about the crash.
An ailing Sayid returns to camp and tells the others he found the woman on the recording, and Hurley reveals that one of the island's inhabitants (apparently Ethan) was not listed on the flight manifest as one of the plane's passengers. Simultaneously, Ethan ominously accosts Claire and Charlie in the jungle.
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