The episode opens with a flashback of
Kate Austen (
Evangeline Lilly) and
Jack Shephard (
Matthew Fox) on
Penny Widmore's (
Sonya Walger) boat, following their rescue in early January 2005. Kate convinces Jack that when they return home, they should claim that Aaron (William Blanchette) is Kate's biological son, while in fact his mother is
Claire Littleton (
Emilie de Ravin).
On the Mainland In late 2007, Kate leaves Aaron in the care of
Sun-Hwa Kwon (
Yunjin Kim) in order to confront attorney Dan Norton (
Tom Irwin), who is pursuing a maternity test for Kate and Aaron. Sun receives a package with a gun and pictures of Ben and Jack. Norton tells Kate that he is going to meet his client later and Kate decides to follow him. Meanwhile,
Ben Linus (
Michael Emerson) meets up with Jack and
Sayid Jarrah (
Naveen Andrews) at the hospital. An orderly armed with a tranquilizer gun attacks Sayid, but Sayid overcomes him, and when he finds Kate's address in his wallet he, Ben and Jack suspect Kate is the next target. The three decide to split up, with Jack going after Kate, and Sayid and Ben going to the prison where
Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (
Jorge Garcia) is being held. Jack and Kate follow Norton to a motel where he meets with Claire's mother, Carole (Susan Duerden). Once Norton leaves, Jack confronts Carole, who is only in Los Angeles to collect on a successful suit against
Oceanic Airlines and has nothing to do with the maternity test. At the prison, Ben meets with Norton, who is also acting as Hurley's lawyer and is confident that he can have Hurley released the following morning. Ben and Sayid meet up with Jack and Kate, where Kate figures out that Ben has hired Norton to do the maternity test, while Sun, armed with a gun, watches the conversation from a car with Aaron.
On the island Following the latest time jump, Charlotte is still unconscious. She eventually wakes up and the group of her,
Daniel Faraday (
Jeremy Davies),
Miles Straume (
Ken Leung),
John Locke (
Terry O'Quinn),
James "Sawyer" Ford (
Josh Holloway) and
Juliet Burke (
Elizabeth Mitchell) leave to travel to the
Dharma Initiative Orchid Station, where Locke believes he can find a way to leave the island. Several other characters begin to show similar symptoms to Charlotte's. Daniel informs them that the nose bleeds may have something to do with one's time spent on the island; however, this makes no sense to several of the group since Charlotte, who has the worst symptoms, has only been on the island for a few days. The latest time jump brings the group to nighttime, where Locke observes in the distance the light coming out of the hatch. Following screams, Sawyer witnesses the then-Claire and Kate during Aaron's birth. Another time jump brings them to the future. At their abandoned beach camp, they find a canoe which they use to paddle to the other side of the island. They are attacked by unknown assailants and another time jump brings them to the past, in the middle of a storm that caused a French science team's boat led by Robert (
Guillaume Dabinpons) to run aground on the island. In their emergency raft, the French team, Montand (
Marc Menard), Brenan (
Bruno Bruni), Lacombe (Chris Marvin), and Nadine (Alexandra Tabas) find
Jin-Soo Kwon (
Daniel Dae Kim) unconscious floating on flotsam from the freighter that exploded. They land on the island and question Jin after he wakes up. The episode ends with
Danielle Rousseau (
Melissa Farman) revealing her identity to a befuddled Jin. ==Production==