Recently damnbueno and I were discussing the events surrounding Richard Malkin (Claire’s psychic) and it evolved into a theory that may explain his actions. As you recall, he told Claire that no one else must raise her baby. Then he, supposedly, found an American couple that were “good people” and he gave her a ticket onto Oceanic 815. In Claire’s first flashback episode, she and the audience came to the realization that there was likely never an American couple and we assumed that he put her on that plane because, being a psychic, he knew the plane was going to crash. Very cool back story.
In Season 2, we see a flashback of Eko in Australia where he crosses paths with Malkin. This is where things get confusing. Eko is sent by the church to investigate a possible miracle regarding Malkin’s daughter, Charlotte, who was clinically dead but came back to life during her autopsy. I don’t think there is anything special about the fact that Eko’s and Malkin’s paths cross. This was quite common in the show and illustrated the connection the Losties had with each other. It was Malkin’s reaction that was strange. He frantically tried to stop Eko’s investigation and proclaimed himself to be fake, even describing how he cons people. So what are we to believe about Malkin?
There are two possibilities:
Claire's Psychic Explained? by Jhisc9999
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LOST: A Pair of Vile Miscreants Knapped Mark Silverman – S1 Ep. 5 by Robert Lee
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Again… we open with an opening of an eye. But who’s eye this time? Jack’s eye. Again. But this time it is young flashback Jack in a schoolyard, just after getting punched in the face. This is the furthest into the past a flashback has gone yet, because we need to go further into the past to pave a way to the future. To understand these characters, we need to know them intimately.
This episode is wonderfully Shakespearean. All of the elements of a great play of the Globe are present. An unsure leader is literally haunted! Sins of the father are visited upon the son! Insanity plagues the hero! Magical islands! A clandestine meeting with a wise old man in the woods! It is all here.
From the schoolyard, we cut to present day on the beach. Charlie runs up screaming for help. “Somebody’s out there!” He points to the water. Jack being the hero that he is, without thought to his well-being, rushes into the sea as Charley eerily mumbles to himself “I don’t swim.” We’re all going to find out the extent of your swimming capabilities soon enough Charlie…
