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Resided in: Australia
Occupation: $5/hr job at Fish & Fry
Reason for Travel: Placing baby for adoption in LA
Flight Seat #: Unknown

Claire is a young lady from Australia whose boyfriend, Thomas, left her soon after she became pregnant (she found out about her pregnancy 8 months before the crash of Flight 815).  

Her friend Rachel took her to see a psychic one day for fun, who turned out to be Richard Malkin (who had once met Eko).  Malkin, who at first refused to see Claire, became concerned that her baby remain with its mother, and gave her a warning that harm would come to it if raised by another.

Claire, at this point, had already decided to place the baby for adoption, and left confused and bewildered.  She met with Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, prospective adoptive parents, along with their attorney, Mr. Slavitt for the final document signing.  Even though they promised to sing "Catch a Falling Star" to the baby one day (a song Claire's own father used to sing to her), she started to have second thoughts because of what the psychic said, and changed her mind at the last minute.

She went to Malkin again, who now wanted to pay Claire a large sum of money to travel to LA, where he said there was a couple waiting to adopt the baby.

Once Flight 815 crashes, Claire is stranded on the island with the other survivors, and has no choice but to keep the baby.  She has disturbing dreams about her baby coming to harm, and writes in her diary about a black rock.

While she is still pregnant, Claire is kidnapped by Ethan, who takes her to the Staff Station, drugs her, and injects medication into her belly which he calls "a vaccine" for the baby.  Claire sees that they have built a nursery for the baby that includes a plane mobile that plays the same song from her childhood.  He and the Others have plans to take the baby by c-section, but Alex and later Danielle help her escape and return to her friends, with partial amnesia.

She gives birth to Aaron, who is soon kidnapped by Danielle (trying to exchange him for Alex) before Sayid and Charlie recover him.  

Claire later recalls many of her memories with Libby's help, and accompanies Kate and Danielle as they explore the newly discovered Staff Station.  She is distressed that she cannot find the medication, which she believes her baby now needs, because she becomes convinced that he has been exposed to the sickness.

She has been forming a bond with both Charlie, and then Locke, who have both helped her significantly in her care of the baby.  She rejects Charlie after she learns that the Virgin Mary statues he carries around are filled with heroin, and tells her not to come near her or Aaron anymore.  However, she starts to get closer again to Charlie and his finding of the medication/injector in the food drop solidifies things.  She kisses him shortly after.

Claire's S3 promo pic.

Me likee the Claire!

Oooooooooo unnnnnnnnnnnnn yeahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!

Not bad for a chick with a kid.

Do you think Claire and Jack will ever discover they are siblings? I wonder if the Others - who seemingly have all the facts on the Losties - have this information.

I am hoping they are going to end up finding his body at some point. To which both will be, "Dad?" and also "wtf" when they notice eachother's reactions LOL.

Oh that would be great
I don`t see the point of the backstory unless they will make some important revelation about Christian, or have Jack and Claire find out.

I was reading over at Lostpedia, and they brought up an interesting question I thought:

Why did she lose her memory of being taken by Ethan? Was it a psychological response to a traumatic experience, a result of Rousseau knocking her out, the drugs Ethan gave her, or a similar form of brainwashing as used on Karl in Room 23?

Brainwashing I bet. Karl seemed uber out of it too once he was rescued. And remember when Kate was acting odd after her "breakfast" with Ben and we were wondering if she was brainwashed? In all three cases, no one has shared what happened. But this would mean there is another brainwashing room as I think Claire was based in the Staff only. I don't think they took her to the Hydra island.

Claire was obviously drugged the entire time there. Some of those drugs can make you not have or lose memories.

Yeah, I don't think she was brainwashed.

Do you think the implant Juliet spoke of, will have any impact on her in the future?
Does it only work when activated by the others, or would leaving the island for example cause it to activate?

That's a great question Rain. Whose to say they won't just activate it and let her die anyway?

I don't know about the brainwashing thing. In my opinion it's obvious that she was drugged to some extent, but what could they have given her to make her forget that Ethan had attacked her? She and Charlie were together when she was taken. They took Charlie too. What happened with that?! Was Ethan alone? Did he knock Charlie out and then force Claire to follow? I really wanna know why she was so trusting of Ethan. What did he do to make her feel that way?

I'm looking forward to season 4. I'm hoping that Claire will have more screen time. I know there is a lot more to her story than is being told right now.

Here are, in my opinion, some interesting factors:

She and jack are related. They have to delve into this or else what was the point of mentioning it?

She may be a victim of the brainwashing room but no one is really certain. When she sees Ethan in the jungle with Charlie she's terrified. But then when we see her in the flashback, she's drugged but kinda chummy with him.

I hope they explain more of her character.