Fire + Water (Lost)
| "Fire + Water" | |
|---|---|
| Lost episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 12 |
| Directed by | Jack Bender |
| Written by |
Edward Kitsis Adam Horowitz |
| Featured music | "He's Evil by The Kinks "Papa Loves Mambo" by Perry Como |
| Production code | 212 |
| Original air date | January 25, 2006 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
|
Neil Hopkins as Liam Pace |
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Neil Hopkins as Liam Pace
Vanessa Branch as Karen Pace
Sammi Davis as Megan Pace
Zack Shada as Young Liam Pace
Jeremy Shada as Young Charlie Pace
Craig Young as Commercial director
"Fire + Water" is the 37th episode of Lost. It is the 12th episode of the second season. The episode was directed by Jack Bender, and written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. It first aired on January 25, 2006, on ABC. The character of Charlie Pace (Dominic Monaghan) is featured in the episode's flashbacks.
The episode begins with Charlie Pace, as a child, receiving a new piano. His family wants him to use his musical talent to "save" them and get them out of their current impoverished circumstance, but his father, dressed as a butcher, appears, saying, "He ain't savin' no one, he is," and cuts the head off of a doll with a cleaver. Later, Charlie, an adult, is seen in a hospital, where Karen, his brother Liam's girlfriend, has just given birth to a daughter, named Megan after Charlie and Liam's mother. However, Liam's increasing drug habit is causing problems: it prevented him from showing up at the birth, and is interfering with the brothers' band, DriveSHAFT. When Karen throws him out, Liam turns up on his brother's doorstep, but abuses Charlie's hospitality by secretly selling his piano, defensively claiming that he needed the money in order to travel to Australia to get a job and enter rehab, "for his family."
Hearing a baby's cries, Charlie looks towards the ocean and sees Aaron's cradle floating away. He swims out to save the baby and brings him back to the beach, where Claire and Charlie's mother, dressed as angels, repeatedly call out to Charlie that he must "save the baby." Hurley also appears, dressed as John the Baptist. Charlie awakens from his dream, finding that he is holding Aaron on the beach, but with no memory of how it happened. A frantic Claire runs up and takes her baby back from Charlie and slaps him across the face.
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