Charlie Mans Up

Season 1 Episode 7: The Moth

Charlie is playing his guitar in the cave area, obviously struggling and in pain because of his drug withdrawals. Locke asks him to go on a walk with him, so he goes. Charlie starts running and it sounds like a boar is chasing him, but suddenly the boar gets trapped in a net, made by Locke. Charlie complains about his drugs and Locke decides to let Charlie ask for his drugs three times, and on the third time he will get them. Charlie has been getting flashbacks from his brother who is also in the band named Liam. Liam is the reason that Charlie started using drugs. Jack stops by the beach only to grab some of his stuff, and vital recourses. Kate and Jack get into a little argument but eventually Jack just walks away. Right when he leaves Sayid comes up with a plan to track down the french signal that has been transmitting for 16 years. He recruits Kate and Boone to help him out. The plan is to set up a triangular signal pattern with a transceiver on each triangle point to close in on the signal. To tell each other that they are in place they use bottle rockets to act like a flare gun. They start to hike to get to their assigned areas.

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Meanwhile Jack returns to the cave and gets in another argument but this time with Charlie. They are inside a cave when it suddenly collapses. Charlie barely makes it out. Everyone there starts to dig to try to get Jack back. Charlie decides to run down to the beach to get more help, Hurley tells Charlie to tell Kate too. When Charlie gets there he tells everyone so Michael and a few more people rush up to help but Kate is missing. Sawyer informs him what Sayid has in plan for. Sawyer says he would tell her. He finds Sayid and Kate but doesn't tell Kate what has happened. Charlie makes it back to the cave. Jack is pinned down inside the cave so they need someone to crawl in and unpin him. Charlie steps up and goes into the tunnel. The tunnel collapses so now both of them are trapped.

Kate finds her triangle point. Sayid leaves her and Sawyer so he can go to his point. Sawyer tells Kate the new of Jack being trapped. She leaves in a flash and lets Sawyer be responsible for setting the transceiver off. When Kate arrives at the camp she learns that Jack and Charlie are both trapped in the cave. She panics and starts digging. Inside the collapsed cave Jack asks Charlie about his drug addiction. He offers his help and Charlie seems grateful. A minute later Charlie sees a moth and finds light. The too trapped people dig their way up and find themselves outside. They surprise the camp by arriving out of the blue.

All of the bottle rockets went off and Sayid finds a signal and starts to close in on the repeating message. Suddenly he gets hit from behind by a stick which knocks him out cold. Back at the cave Charlie asks Locke for his drugs for the third and last time. Locke honors his deal and hands him the drugs. Instead off walking away, Charlie just throws the drugs in the fire.