Claire Littleton

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Claire
First appearance	"Pilot: Part 1"
Centric episodes	"Raised by Another" "Exodus, Part 2" "Maternity Leave" "Par Avion"
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Name	Claire Littleton
Status	At the survivors' camp
Profession	Fast Food Clerk
Portrayed by	Emilie de Ravin

Claire Littleton is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Emilie de Ravin.

[edit] Fictional character biography

[edit] Prior to the crash

Claire, a young Australian woman, was a gothic teenager when she was involved in a car accident. Clair was driving at the time of the accident and it appears that her mother—a passenger—was thrown through the windshield during the collision. Her mother survived, but in a vegetative state. Claire blamed herself for her mother's grave condition. Sometime soon after the crash, Christian Shephard showed up at the hospital where her mother was a patient. He told Claire that he was her father and that he'd been paying the medical bills. Later, Christian shows up at Claire's workplace (a tattoo parlor), taking her out for coffee. He suggests that she let her mother die to save her from pain. Claire is appalled and walks out on him; he disappears from her life without her ever learning his name.

Claire in her teen years.

Claire later has a job at Fish 'n' Fry. She becomes pregnant, and chooses to give the child up for adoption. Her decision is finalized when her boyfriend Thomas, the baby's father, walks out on her. She still visits her mother at the hospital, and whispers to her that she plans to give up the child. Her plans change due to her own guilt and the insistence of psychic Richard Malkin. Malkin hounds Claire for several months, telling her that she, and no one else, must raise the child or great danger will come to the baby. When she refuses to listen to his increasingly agitated demands, Malkin changes tactics. He appears to recant and tells her that he has found a couple in Los Angeles to adopt the baby. He arranges her flight to the USA (Oceanic 815), which will leave the next day. He insists that she take only the flight he has arranged, and no other. After the crash, Claire believes that the psychic may have known of the airplane's impending disaster, thus leaving her with no option but to bring up her baby herself. Later, in one of Mr. Eko's flashbacks, the psychic claims that he is in fact a fraud.

[edit] After the crash

Claire and Charlie are abducted.

Claire is ignored and avoided by the other survivors after the crash. Claire claims it is because she is a "ticking timebomb of responsibility." With the exception of Jack, who takes it upon himself as a physician to monitor her condition, only Charlie approaches Claire frequently, and they become friends. She and Charlie are kidnapped by Ethan Rom. Charlie is found first, soon after the abduction, and Claire wanders back to the castaways two weeks later, still pregnant but with no memory of anything about the crash, or her abduction.

In Maternity Leave, we see in flashbacks what happens to Claire after she was kidnapped by Ethan. Claire is taken to a medical Dharma station, where she is given medication for the baby. Ethan drugs her, to keep her compliant and "happy." He tells her that they are going to take the baby and return Claire to camp. She begins to trust Ethan with the decision to keep the baby. Ethan shows her what will be the baby's room after it's born, which is filled baby furniture and toys. Among the objects in the room is the same Oceanic Airlines carousel Claire saw in her dream in Raised by Another. The carousel plays "Catch a Falling Star," which is the same song she requested the adoptive parents in Sydney play for the child. Later, when Claire is sleeping, she awakes to see a young girl, who tells her that they are going to cut the baby out of her and kill her. Claire panics and the girl uses chloroform on her in order to help her escape. Claire wakes up in the jungle where she is found by Rousseau. Claire starts screaming for Ethan, and Rousseau knocks her unconscious so the "Others" cannot find her. Before Claire is knocked unconscious, she manages to scratch Rousseau. Rousseau carries her back to the survivor's camp.

Claire remembers being kidnapped.

She eventually gives birth to a boy, Aaron. Kate has to deliver the baby because Jack is in the midst of trying to save Boone's life. Charlie and Jin are there as she gives birth. Following the birth, Claire has trouble trusting others with Aaron. Nonetheless, Charlie continues to remain ever-present, helping Claire with Aaron when she needs it. Also, it is interesting to note that in "Do No Harm," Sawyer (who had previously had little contact or communication with Claire) offers her fish in an uncharacteristic gesture; then, in the next episode, "The Greater Good," he reads to Aaron because his voice soothes the infant.

Later, whilst walking along the beach, Claire discovers the message bottle that was taken onboard the raft. Fearing the worst, she consults Shannon, and they both decide to give it to Sun because her husband Jin was on the raft.

When Mr. Eko, a tail-section survivor, learns that Claire has named her son Aaron, he notes that the biblical Aaron was the brother of Moses. He asks her why she named her son Aaron. She replies that she simply liked it. When Eko sees some Virgin Mary statues that Charlie had been keeping, he reveals to Claire that they contain heroin. Soon after, Claire confronts Charlie about the drugs, saying that she remembers something about him being a drug addict. Claire asks Charlie to stay away from her and Aaron. After a bit, Charlie starts having dreams that the baby is in danger. Charlie believes that Aaron must be baptized (to be saved from this danger), and steals the baby. This causes Claire to trust him even less, but even so she asks Eko to baptize her and Aaron. She does not interact with Charlie after this incident, but is often seen with Locke who helps her with the baby.

When Aaron falls suddenly ill, Claire asks Libby (who claims to be a clinical psychologist) to help her remember what happened to her when she was taken by Ethan. Claire begins to have frightening and weird flashbacks of what happened to her while she was in care in the Medical Station (later found as The Staff). She sets off with Kate and finds the place she was taken to, a medical Dharma station. Afterward, she learns that the girl that saved her might have been Alexandra, Rousseau's daughter, who was stolen by The Others a mere two weeks after she was born. Recently, Charlie brought Claire a case of vaccines and a pneumatic injector for her and her baby. At the funeral of Libby and Ana Lucia, she clasps Charlie's hand, signifying a reconciliation between them. Later, she kisses Charlie at the end of "Live Together, Die Alone".

When a mute Locke returns to camp the next day in "Further Instructions", Claire tells Charlie to find out where he's been. He and Locke return later with a severely injured Eko, and Claire is sent to get some towels to clean up the bloody mess. Later that day, Desmond approaches her and unsuccessfully tries to convince her to leave her shelter for the day. Lightning strikes and, thanks to Desmond's lightning rod, it misses her shelter entirely, saving her, Aaron and Charlie.

Claire is rescued by Desmond.

The next day, Claire decides to go for a swim, and leaves Aaron in the care of Sun. Unfortunately, Claire is unexpectedly pulled under by the current and drifts out to sea. She is saved, however, when Desmond comes to the rescue, and revives her ("Flashes Before Your Eyes"). She approaches him later to thank him, unaware of his clairvoyant ability.

In "Par Avion", Claire notices a glint coming from a flock of seagulls and realizes that one must have a tracking bracelet, which scientists use to study migration. She comes up with a plan to capture the bird and tie a note to it telling about the fate of Oceanic Flight 815. Charlie, who had always been supportive of Claire, denounces the plan and does not take part in it, which upsets Claire deeply. Even more strange, Desmond seems to purposely ruin Claire's attempts at capturing the seagull (by "hunting" near the site where Claire, Sun, and Jin are about to drop the net on the birds). She decides to follow Desmond for answers since he seems tied to Charlie's change in attitude. He wanders off to a rocky shore and manages to easily capture the seagull himself. He reveals to Claire his clairvoyant ability and explains that Charlie is going to die. If Charlie had helped catch the seagull, he would have slipped on the sand and been hurt by the sharp rocks nearby. Desmond keeps warning Charlie away from the activities that could lead to his death, preferring to do things himself in order to keep Charlie alive. Claire later promises Charlie that he will not die. She ties a note to the seagull's tracking bracelet that explains the survivors' plight, asks Charlie his opinion of the letter, and releases it. Later in "Exposé", Claire attends Nikki and Paulo's funeral and burial. No one realizes that they are both just paralyzed. That night, in "Left Behind", Claire is visited by Sawyer and, after an awkward conversation, is given a blanket as a kind gesture. She is again visited by Sawyer the next day, who converses more. Claire allows him to hold Aaron.

[edit] Trivia

• Emilie de Ravin was initially a guest star who was billed as a regular in Season 1. In "Outlaws", she officially became part of the regular cast.
• Claire is Jack's half-sister, though neither of them knows this.

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