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1x10 - Raised by Another

(Original Air Date: 12/01/2004)

LOCKE
You know what's happening.

CLAIRE
But I don't understand why.

LOCKE
He was your responsibility. But you gave him away,
Claire. Everyone pays the price now.

CLAIRE
Who said it was a nightmare?

JACK
I'd say when someone makes a fist so
tight they dig their fingernails a
quarter of an inch into their palms,
they probably weren't dreaming about
riding ponies. Did you ever sleepwalk
before?

CLAIRE
No, I don't think so. How would I know?

JACK
It'd get back to you. I had a girlfriend
once that told me I talked in my sleep.

CLAIRE
What did you say?

JACK
Don't know. Whatever it was, she didn't
like it. How was your OB/GYN in Sydney?

CLAIRE
(lying)
Good. She was good.

JACK
She was okay with letting you fly in your
third trimester?

CLAIRE
Yeah. I went for a check-up a week before
and she said it would be fine.

JACK
Ultrasound was cool?

CLAIRE
Mm-hmm. Very healthy.

JACK
How have you been feeling?

CLAIRE
Okay. Back's pretty sore, but probably just
from sleeping on the ground. I get dizzy if
I stand up too fast, and I have to pee all
the time.

JACK
You eating enough?

CLAIRE
Boar and bananas.

JACK
How many weeks in are you? What was the date
that you found out that you were pregnant?

CLAIRE
I don't know yet.

THOMAS
I mean, did you actually pee on it?

CLAIRE
Mm-hmm. Just give me a second.

THOMAS
Maybe you didn't do it right.

CLAIRE
Thomas, I can pee on a stick.

THOMAS
What color is it?

CLAIRE
How long's it been?

THOMAS
Uh. Six...66 second, oh gosh.

CLAIRE
Shh.

THOMAS
Okay, there's definitely two lines.

CLAIRE
Two pink lines?

THOMAS
Pink? No, no, no. These are, like, red.

CLAIRE
What? They're pink.

THOMAS
These two lines -- Okay, first of all, these
test are not always accurate.

CLAIRE
Thomas!

CLAIRE
Yeah, he did. He's dead.

THOMAS
Well, yeah, I mean, no, no. It was like a wrong...
it was a bad diagnosis. Look, this thing, it doesn't
mean for sure that you're pregnant...

CLAIRE
Thomas!

THOMAS
We should go get another one.

CLAIRE
I am six weeks late, okay? Six weeks. That never
happens. I'm pregnant.

CLAIRE
I know, I know.

THOMAS
Hey, Claire. You know, if we wanted to, we
could do this.

CLAIRE
Stop it.

THOMAS
No, I'm not kidding.

CLAIRE
My mum would disown me.

THOMAS
She basically has already.

CLAIRE
Yeah, and but with what? I mean, my $5-an-hour
job at Fish-'N-Fry?

THOMAS
You're not the only one with a job, you know.
I mean, I've got my painting.

CLAIRE
That's sweet, but this isn't what we want.

THOMAS
Maybe it is, you know? This could be like, uh, I
don't know. It could be like the best thing ever.

CLAIRE
You'd really want to try?

THOMAS
Yeah. Claire, I love you.

KATE
I'm doing something.

JACK
Yeah? What's that?

KATE
I'm sinking.

JACK
Ah, new plan. You're just gonna sink your way
right off the island. Sayid would be proud.

KATE
He's been gone for almost a week.

JACK
Something tells me he'll be okay.

KATE
So, what are you doing this far from the caves?

JACK
Bringing water down. Bringing fish back.
Claire's gonna have the baby soon.

CLAIRE
It was just a dream.

CHARLIE
Mmm. I have this dream. I'm driving a bus and my
teeth start falling out. My mum is in the back
eating biscuits. Everything smells of bacon. It's
weird. Of course, I don't wake up screaming.

CLAIRE
I'm all right, Charlie.

CHARLIE
Mm. No, of course you are. It's just, I think
about you, in this place, how hard it must be
for you without your family and your friends.
And I think, we could be friends, I could be
your friend.

CLAIRE
Charlie...

CHARLIE
Okay.

CLAIRE
I didn't mean that I...

CHARLIE
It's cool, Claire. It's cool.

FRIEND
That is great!

CLAIRE
I know. He's awesome.

FRIEND
No, you're not backing out now.

CLAIRE
It just seems silly.

FRIEND
He's just a psychic, Claire. I mean, I thought
you were all into this, all your astrology stuff.

CLAIRE
Yeah, I know. But I don't need somebody telling
me what's gonna happen or how to live my life.

FRIEND
It's not about what you need, it's about what's
fun. So unless you have another excuse.

CLAIRE
What?

MALKIN
About the baby?

FRIEND
She hasn't told her mum yet.

CLAIRE
Shh.

CLAIRE
What -- what were you gonna -- what did you see?

MALKIN
I'm not doing this reading.

CLAIRE
No, you were gonna say something.

JACK
What?

CLAIRE
He held me down.

CHARLIE
Which way did he go?

CLAIRE
I don't know. I couldn't see any--

JACK
How long ago?

HURLEY
(joining)
What's going on?

CLAIRE
Just now. He just ran away.

CHARLIE
We should fan out and check around the caves.

JACK
Wait, wait.

CHARLIE
Hurley, come on. Let's go.

JACK
(to Claire)
Come on, come on. Let's sit down here, okay?
(to Ethan)
Can you get her some water?

ETHAN
Yeah, sure.

JACK
Look at me. You're okay. You're safe now.

MICHAEL
Did you get a look at him at all?

CLAIRE
No, It was dark. I couldn't see.

JACK
Where did this happen?

CLAIRE
It was here. I mean, I was sleeping and I
woke up and he was trying to hurt my baby.
Yeah, he had this thing, like a needle, and
he stabbed me with it.
(lifts her shirt)
He was trying to hurt my baby!

JACK
It's okay. It's okay.

JACK
Nobody saw or heard anything?

HURLEY
Unh-unh. Nada. Everyone was asleep. So,
I had an idea. I'm out here looking for
some psycho with Scott and Steve, right?
And I'm realizing, who the hell are
Scott and Steve?

JACK
I'm not following you.

HURLEY
Look, if I was a cop and some woman got
attacked we'd canvass, right? Knock on
doors, find witnesses. But we don't
even have doors.

JACK
Hurley, you're not helping me understand
where you're --

HURLEY
Look, we don't know who's living here and
who's still at the beach. I mean, we didn't
know each other. My name isn't Hurley, it's
Hugo Reyes. Hurley's just a nickname I have
all right? Why? I'm not telling. The point
is, we got to find out who everyone is.

JACK
You want to start a census.

HURLEY
Yeah, a registry. You know, names, what people
look like, who's related to who. I mean, we start
laying down the law maybe people will stop attacking
each other. It seems like someone's getting punched
or stabbed or something every other day here. We got
to find out who did this to her.

CLAIRE
I know. I feel all grown up.
(laughs)
You like 'em?

THOMAS
Yeah, they're good.

CLAIRE
I don't know why drapes represent age for me.
I guess it just feels like something my mum
would do.

THOMAS
Claire, I can't do this.

CLAIRE
Do what? Did you have a bad day?

THOMAS
This isn't working. Come on, you know that.

CLAIRE
I what? Um, just so I'm not overreacting here,
are you breaking up with me?

THOMAS
For the past three month, it's just, you know,
there's always some plan, some responsibility,
somewhere that we have to be, someone that we
have to talk to.

CLAIRE
Well, yeah. I'm trying to make sure that
when the baby comes...

THOMAS
"When the baby"? Yeah. I mean, that is just
not -- if it's like this now, you know, what's
it gonna be like when the baby comes?

CLAIRE
But you said we should do this.

THOMAS
Yeah. Yeah, well. Now it's real.

CLAIRE
Well, you just can't change your mind.

THOMAS
How in the hell am I supposed to be a dad,
Claire? How about my painting? My life?

CLAIRE
I knew -- I knew this was gonna happen.

THOMAS
I told you so. Perfect. Now I get all your
daddy abandonment crap.

CLAIRE
Hey, you bastard. Don't you dare try and justify
what you're doing.

THOMAS
I have done nothing, okay! I have done
absolutely nothing!

CLAIRE
What, and I have?

THOMAS
You don't think I've seen what you've done?

CLAIRE
Excuse me?

THOMAS
You were supposed to be on the pill.

CLAIRE
You think I got pregnant on purpose?

THOMAS
I don't even care.

CLAIRE
Or that this was some kind of plan? You are
out of your mind.

THOMAS
It's over, Claire

CLAIRE
No, it's not over.

THOMAS
I'm out of here.

CLAIRE
Thomas!

LOCKE
Is this about your census?

HURLEY
Yeah, you know. I thought it would be a good
idea. You know, get everyone's names and place
of residence.

LOCKE
And who's checking on you?

HURLEY
Uh...me.

LOCKE
It was a joke.

HURLEY
Uh, good one.

LOCKE
Yup. You already know my name. I lived most
of my life in Tustin, California.

HURLEY
Cool, and, uh, reason for travel? The reason
you were in Australia?

LOCKE
I was looking for something.

HURLEY
Looking -- uh-huh. Right on. Something. So,
did you find it?

LOCKE
No, it found me. Anything else?

HURLEY
No, no. That's good. Uh, thanks.

KATE
People come and go. But, no, I don't know. What?

JACK
I'm not sure anything actually happened.

CHARLIE
Wait. What?

JACK
Claire told Michael and I that this attacker
tried to inject her with something. But there
was no mark on her stomach. She wakes up two
nights in a row screaming. The first time,
she was sleepwalking.

CHARLIE
You think she's making this up? She was
terrified, man.

JACK
Look, she said that the guy was trying to hurt
her baby. Why would someone do that now with
all of us sleeping twenty feet away?

CHARLIE
So you think she's lying?

JACK
No. Pregnant women have extremely lucid...

CHARLIE
Lucid, right.

JACK
These are textbook anxiety nightmares.

CHARLIE
You know everything that's going on with
everyone, huh?

KATE
Hey! So what do we do?

JACK
Claire's due in a little more than a week, maybe two.
But if she stays stressed out like this, or has another
panic attack, it could trigger an early labor. And out
here with no instruments, no monitors, no anesthetic.
That would not be good.

CHARLIE
It's not all in her head.

ETHAN
Sorry?

HURLEY
Lance. Your name's Lance, right?

ETHAN
Ethan.

HURLEY
Dude, that's right. Lance is a little
skinny guy with glasses and red hair.

ETHAN
I can see how you'd confuse us.

HURLEY
Sorry, dude. Lots of names and faces. It's
pretty pathetic, huh? You'd think after a
couple weeks on the island with the same
people we'd all know each other.

ETHAN
Yeah, you're right. You would think so.

HURLEY
So, we're doing this list, all the survivors
names, home addresses, stuff like that.

ETHAN
Okay, well. You already have my name.

HURLEY
All right, not Lance.

ETHAN
Definitely not.

HURLEY
Last name?

ETHAN
Rom.

HURLEY
Rom -- R-O-M?

ETHAN
That's right.

HURLEY
Great, where are you from, Ethan Rom?

ETHAN
Ontario.

HURLEY
Right on. Love Canada. Great, uh... Well, that
should do it. Thanks for your time, dude.

ETHAN
Hey, what's this for?

HURLEY
Oh, it's nothing. Just, uh, you know, thought
it'd be a good idea.

CLAIRE
Did you find him?

JACK
Um, no.

CLAIRE
What if he comes back?

JACK
Claire, this situation that we're in -- the crash,
that no one's coming, this place -- it can kind
of mess with your head a little and maybe make
you see things that aren't actually there. Now,
I know it feels very real.

CLAIRE
I -- I don't underst-

JACK
Your baby's coming. Soon. And I can't even
imagine how scary that must be for you. But
the more upset you are the more dangerous it
is for you...and your baby. So, I want you
to take these.

CLAIRE
What are they?

JACK
It's a sedative. Very mild. Commonly used in
situations like yours. It won't harm the baby.
I promise.

CLAIRE
You don't believe me.

JACK
Claire.

CLAIRE
You think I'm making this up? I get attacked
and you want to give me sleeping pills?

JACK
They're not sleeping -- look, it's a very mild
sedative, Claire.

CLAIRE
I'm leaving.

JACK
What? No, Claire. Claire.

CLAIRE
It was safe at the beach; it's not safe here.

JACK
Don't do this, Claire. You need to think about
the baby, Claire.

CLAIRE
Don't talk to me about the baby. I'm sick of
everyone telling me what to do.

JACK
Please.

CLAIRE
Mr. Malkin. We met before?

MALKIN
Yes, I remember.

CLAIRE
You wouldn't give me a reading. I was hoping
you would now.

MALKIN
That's not how it works.

CLAIRE
I was just joking
(puts her hands in his)
So, how does it work?

MALKIN
I don't know.
(closes his eyes)
Oh...when did he leave you?

CLAIRE
Last week. Is that why you didn't want to
do my reading last time?

MALKIN
No, no, no. I saw something -- sort of
a blurry thing.

CLAIRE
And blurry's bad?

MALKIN
Blurry's bad. That's why I stopped the reading.
Are you sure you want to go on now?

CLAIRE
Yes, please.

MALKIN
I can tell you. This is important.

CLAIRE
Okay.

MALKIN
It is crucial that you, yourself, raise
this child.

CLAIRE
You mean with Thomas? Is he...?

MALKIN
The father of this child will play no part in
its life, nor yours.

CLAIRE
So, what exactly are you saying?

MALKIN
This child, parented by anyone else, anyone
other than you...danger surrounds this baby.

CLAIRE
Danger?

MALKIN
Your nature, your spirit, your goodness, must be
an influence in the development of this child.

CLAIRE
Look, if Thomas and I don't you know, get back
together, I'm putting this baby up for adoption.
I just wanted to find out what would give this
baby the happiest life.

MALKIN
There is no happy life, not for this child, not without you.

CLAIRE
I don't --

MALKIN
There can't be another. You mustn't allow
another to raise your baby.

CLAIRE
Okay, great. Thanks for taking my $200 dollars.

MALKIN
Look, take it.

CLAIRE
I can't raise this child by myself.

MALKIN
You have to listen to me.

CLAIRE
Okay, thanks for your time and my money back.

MALKIN
Miss Littleton, please! The baby needs
your protection.
(Claire runs out the door)
Miss Littleton! Please!

MALKIN
Miss Littleton. It's Richard Malkin.

CLAIRE
Oh, my God.

MALKIN
Listen to me. I have a plan. Something
that will make this all better.

CLAIRE
Hey, you've got to stop calling me. It's
too late. I'm going to see adoptive
services tomorrow.

MALKIN
I've been telling you for months, you
cannot do that.

CLAIRE
What I do with my baby is none of your
business.

MALKIN
If you don't do what I'm suggesting, great
danger will befall you and the baby.

CLAIRE
No, great danger will befall you if you don't
stop calling me in the middle of the night.

MALKIN
I know what you're feeling inside, Claire.
That you're doubting your decision to give
up the baby. Look, I'm begging you. Don't
do it. At least hear my plan first.

CLAIRE
Good night.

CLAIRE
Back to the beach.

CHARLIE
Well, what happened? Did Jack --

CLAIRE
Jack tried to dope me. He thinks I'm making
all this up. That none of it really happened.

CHARLIE
Right. So, to prove your sanity you go
tramping through the jungle alone.
Well done.

CLAIRE
I'm not crazy, Charlie.

HURLEY
So, uh, where were you guys last night?

SHANNON
Uh, the beach.

BOONE
Why the interrogation?

HURLEY
You're like the twentieth person to ask me
that. Why is everyone so uptight about
answering a few questions?

BOONE
Well, maybe we're just not cool with you setting
up your own little Patriot Act, man.

SHANNON
He's a liberal

BOONE
Seriously, why the list?

HURLEY
It's nothing. We just had a little incident in
the valley last night.

SHANNON
An incident?

HURLEY
Yeah, Claire. The pregnant girl -- you know
her? She, uh, kind of got...attacked.

SHANNON
What?!

BOONE
She okay?

HURLEY
Yeah, she's a little shook up, but...

SHANNON
I am so not moving to the rape caves!

BOONE
You know, your life would be much easier if
you just had the manifest. We crossed out
all of the names of the dead after we burned
the fuselage. So, should be a full roster
of the rest of us.

HURLEY
What? Really? Who has it?

BOONE
Who do you think?

SAWYER
Okay, you do that.

HURLEY
I hear you have the flight manifest and I
need it and I want you to give it to me.

SAWYER
That so?

HURLEY
Now, you could do what you normally do where
someone asks for something, tell me to
screw off...

SAWYER
Screw off?

HURLEY
Or you could just give it to me. 'Cause, dude,
you could use the points.

SAWYER
Well, gosh. You sure know how to butter a man
up, Stay-Puft.

HURLEY
It's a gift.

SAWYER
(chuckles)
Manifest is in the brown suitcase. Take it.

CLAIRE
I'm fine.

CHARLIE
I know you're fine. But I can still carry
your bag.

CLAIRE
Why did you come after me?

CHARLIE
Well, it's probably because I like you. What?

CLAIRE
You don't like me, Charlie. Okay? You just
want to rescue me because I'm -- because of this.
(points to her belly)
But I'm fine, okay? I don't need rescuing.
I don't need...

CLAIRE
Yeah.

CHARLIE
Okay, we need to time the contractions. That's
what you do, time the contractions, okay. One
sugar plum fairy, two sugar plum fairy.

CLAIRE
Charlie!

CHARLIE
You just need to calm down, all right?

CLAIRE
Okay.

CHARLIE
Big deep breaths. Oh bloody hell.

CLAIRE
Charlie. I need you to go get Jack.

CHARLIE
What?

CLAIRE
I'll be all right.

CHARLIE
I'm not leaving you alone. I can deliver a
baby. I can do this.

CLAIRE
Please just go.

CHARLIE
This must happen all the time.

CLAIRE
Charlie, you don't know how to deliver --

CHARLIE
Wait, no. Listen to me. I'm not gonna let
anything happen to you. I might not know
what I'm doing, but I'll figure it out. If
I can kick drugs, I can deliver a baby.
(Claire looks at him.)
Let me explain. I'm a drug addict. I was
a drug addict. I'm clean now.

CLAIRE
Get Jack!

CHARLIE
Right.

ARLENE
We found you an apartment. It's a really nice
2-bedroom place, and, well, we think you're
gonna be really comfortable in it.

LAWYER
As discussed, once the baby's born and handed
over to the Stewarts, you'll have no right to
see the child again. You'll have no right to
correspond with the child, and it will be
entirely up to Arlene and Joseph to decide
whether to tell the child anything about you.
Understood?

CLAIRE
Yes.

LAWYER
Upon your discharge from the hospital, you will
be given an additional payment of $20,000.

CLAIRE
(to Stewarts)
I just want to make sure that you're gonna take
really good care of the baby.

ARLENE
Of course we will.

LAWYER
Now, I'll need you to sign and date here...
(slides a paper and pen to Claire)
...where indicated.

CLAIRE
Do you know "Catch a Falling Star"? It's a
song. Like a lullaby.

ARLENE
"Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket."

CLAIRE
My dad used to sing that to me when I was little.
Do you think you could sing it to the baby once
in a while?

ARLENE
Of course.

ARLENE
What? No! No!

ETHAN
Ethan. Are you all right?

CHARLIE
You need to go to the caves. Run to the
caves, get Jack. Tell him that Claire --

ETHAN
Claire, she okay?

CHARLIE
She's having the baby. Go fast, okay?
I'll be with her, on the path right
there. Go!

CLAIRE
I'm here.

CHARLIE
Claire. Okay, Jack's coming. How you doing?

CLAIRE
It hurts.

CHARLIE
Okay, just take my hand. Squeeze, okay, breathe.
Inhale, exhale. Good, just breathe. Inhale,
okay, good.

CLAIRE
Oh, I'm not supposed to be here.

CHARLIE
I think we all feel like that a little bit.

CLAIRE
I know. It's just, someone promised me it
would be different.

CHARLIE
Well, he was wrong.

CLAIRE
Yeah, he was wrong.

MALKIN
I found a couple in Los Angeles who are
very eager to adopt. The baby will be safe
in their care. Now, I've foreseen...

CLAIRE
You've foreseen? I don't even know why
I'm here. I'm sorry.

MALKIN
I know this sounds ridiculous, Claire, all
this psychic business, and I appreciate that
you must think I'm a raving madman, but this
is what must happen.

CLAIRE
So, you're giving me $6,000 to give my baby
to a couple of strangers in Los Angeles?

MALKIN
$12,000. The other $6,000 when you arrive in
Los Angeles, and they're not strangers Claire.
They're good people.

CLAIRE
I know. It's embarrassing. I don't know.
After everything he was just full of it.

CHARLIE
Or not. I mean, all he wanted was that no
one else raise your baby, right? Maybe he
knew. I mean, if he wanted it bad enough,
you know, if he had the gift, and I -- I believe
some people do, then maybe he knew, Claire.

MALKIN
(interrupts)
It has to be this flight. It can't be any other.
They're already scheduled to meet you when you
arrive. Flight 815. Flight 815.

CLAIRE
I don't think so.

CHARLIE
Where the hell is Jack?

CLAIRE
You know, I think...
(stands)
I think I'm all right.

CHARLIE
The contractions?

CLAIRE
Maybe that was the last one. Please let that
have been the last one.

CHARLIE
Jack said that stress can cause, like, a false
labor. Are you sure you're all right?

CLAIRE
No pain.

CHARLIE
Birthing emergency averted. I told you I'd take
care of you.

CLAIRE
Thanks, Charlie.

CHARLIE
You're quite welcome. You think you can make it
back to the caves? I won't let anything happen
to you.

CLAIRE
(smiles)
Okay. Okay.
(Charlie smiles)
Let's go.

SAYID
Listen to me.
(falls to the ground)
I found her, the French woman.

JACK
I need some water. What happened?

SAYID
The woman on the island; I had to come back.
I had to come back.

CLAIRE
Yeah, yeah. He just kicked. Here...

CHARLIE
Ethan, where's Jack?