Grade: C+ | Genre: Drama Summary: This episode was a shade better than average. It was fun seeing Charlie become completely derailed, but the tension was rather slight. It had to happen sooner or later. You have a plane swan dive into the Pacific, mythical monsters look to make shiskabobs out of you and improbably hot women prance around on the beach in front of you all day. Somebody was bound to go crazy sooner or later. So the island's resident lunatic is none other than Charlie. Now I'm sure a lot of you are thinking our scruffy ex-rock god just fell back under the spell of that heroin witch, but you would be wrong. The temptation is certainly ever present since he hid that mitful of Virgin Mary statues before Eko could light them up. But Mr. Clean steps in at the fateful moment of choice. Will Charlie turn the beach camp into charcoal? Will he sacrifice Claire's baby to the island gods? Will he reform Drive Shaft with Hurley on drums and Sawyer on lead vocals to tour the local islands? Read on my Lost fanatics.

Charlie (Dominic Monaghan) is in the hot seat this episode. We open in flashback mode, seeing him get his first piano as a child. His jubilation is short lived as he's immediately hit with his father telling him to quit being a sissy music boy and mom putting the weight of the families' salvation on his young shoulders. No pressure or anything Charlie. Next thing we know, he's tapping the keys on the beach as the tide slowly pulls the piano out to sea with crying baby Aaron trapped inside. Once awake again, he tries to mend fences with Claire (Emilie de Ravin) over that whole trivial "I'm still a junkie at heart" thing, but she's having none of it. Talk to the hand Charlie. He looks on as Locke makes time with his woman, and his tinge of lunacy starts hungrily feeding on itself. He starts having visions of Aaron's bassinette errantly floating off to sea. He saves him only to see his mom and Claire dressed up like the nativity beachside, and wham Charlie is convinced that if Aaron isn't baptized properly, the kid's got a one-way ticket to hell. This time when he wakes up the entire camp descends upon him to counter his raving nonsense, wading in the ocean. They get the baby out of his grubby clutches (my precious!) unharmed, but Locke cleans his clock with one blistering punch; leaving him to blub, blub, blub in the surf. I felt that one on my couch.

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Eko suggests that perhaps Charlie's visions are a sign that Aaron is in danger. This, of course, gives Charlie all the incentive he needs to completely flip off the deep end. Last week, Eko was ready to turn you into a trash compactor, but hey as long as he's supporting your fruity delusions this week he must be a righteous guy. Eko does end up baptizing the baby and Claire at the end of the episode. So I guess the priesthood somehow jumped bodies from his brother in death? I think the "act as if" principle is in full effect here on mystery island.

Jack (Matthew Fox) and Ana Lucia (Michelle Rodriguez) seem to be getting very chummy, burrowing away into the forest every chance they get. When the conversation floats over to the topic of Kate (Evangeline Lilly), Ana Lucia asks, rather matter of factly, "are you hittin' that?" Flustered, Jack pretends slang is a foreign language until Ana Lucia spells it out for him. When he gives the official no go, you can see her mentally form fitting herself to his body. I see dirty, nasty, "say my name bitch" sex in their future. I wonder if she still packing those handcuffs?

Locke (Terry O'Quinn) discovers Charlie's stash in the jungle and loads up all the virgins in his backpack. The simmering brouhaha is set between scruffy and Mr. Clean. When presented with the opportunity to bury Charlie in Claire's eyes, Locke takes the high road and doesn't tell her about the army of heroin-filled statues he's lugging around. Strangely, instead of destroying them or skeet shooting them over the ocean, he stores them on the top shelf in the weapons locker in the hatch. Charlie is kind of a short guy come to think of it. We haven't seen the last of Charlie's heroin cravings. Could it be Locke will use it for future control over Charlie perhaps? Hmm...

This episode was a shade better than average. It was fun seeing Charlie become completely derailed, but the tension was rather slight. I think we've finally put the kibosh on Charlie and Claire. He's one straight jacket away from the funny farm, and I think its time to tie him to a dingy and float him out to sea. We have enough characters around these parts without having to worry about someone burning down the island and playing flag football with the baby. Frodo could have smacked his pal into line. So does this mean Locke is next in line to become Claire's new baby daddy? Keep tuned in to this enticing drama to find out.

Catch Lost Wednesday nights at 9/8c on ABC.