12. Par Avion
Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Lost: Season Three: 12. Par Avion
Aired March 14

Writers: Christina M. Kim and Jordan Rosenberg
Director: Paul Edwards

Guest Cast
Mira Furlan: Danielle Rousseau
John Terry: Christian Shephard
M.C. Gainey: Tom/Mr. Friendly
Andrew Divoff: Mikhail
Gabrielle Fitzpatrick: Lindsey
Julian Barnes: Dr. Woodruff
Rhett Biles: Officer Barnes

Claire's plan to capture a bird is seemingly foiled by Desmond and Charlie. As she tries to figure out why, she recalls the death of her mother and the truth about her father.

Claire backstory III

Notes:
-As many have suspected since Two for the Road, Christian Shephard is Claire's father, making her Jack's half sister.
-Claire is the fourth Lostaway to have met Christian before the flight along with Jack, Sawyer, and Ana Lucia.
-Locke kills Mikhail in a test of the Others' security system.
-Just like Juliet knew about Jack in A Tale of Two Cities, Mikhail seems to know a lot about the Lostaways.
-Unanswered Questions: How do the Others know so much about the survivors of 815? Does their contact with the outside world allow this? Why does Mikhail thank Locke for killing him? Why is there such an extreme security measure surrounding the barracks? Is it to keep people in or out? Or both? Why does Jack seem to be so chummy with the Others? Why did Locke take the C4?
By TomM on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 - 9:21 pm:

Doc Vader: "Claire, I am your father." (Of course we knew that -- or should have -- for a year, ever since Ana-Lucia's last episode.

Charlie's resolve to ignore Desmond's doomsaying and live for the day didn't last very long did it? Then again, a private romantic picnic down on the beach never seems to work out on the island, does it.

By ScottN on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 12:04 am:

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And what do Claire and Charlie expect to happen to the note when the bird lands on the water to feed?

Also, if they needed to brace the tree for Kate to go over, how did either Rosseau or Sayid get over without anyone holding it? That little support didn't look very sturdy.

By Kevin (Kevin) on Thursday, March 15, 2007 - 4:14 pm:

Possibly the best episode of season three. A revealing flashback and Island mythology advanced.

What I'm not really pleased with, and it's minor, are these 'teaser tags' at the last minute or two of the past few episodes. They break from the narrative flow and are a bit gimmicky.

So is Charlie really leaving the show?

By Kevin (Kevin) on Friday, March 16, 2007 - 6:25 am:

Was it really necessary for Desmond to shoot the birds away? I mean, if he hadn't, if Jin had caught the bird as he almost cerainly would have, wouldn't that have negated the Charlie-on-the-rocks vision?

In the opening scene of the car crash, lots of people are around, but nobody gathers around until after Claire crawls out of the windshield. Since several of them must have witnessed the accident, were they just twiddling their thumbs until she crawled out?

And why is there no truck or truck driver around?

By LUIGI NOVI (Lnovi) on Friday, March 16, 2007 - 11:20 pm:

Why are Desmond and Charlie so reluctant to initially tell Claire what the're up to. They should know that she believes in psychics, since she's on the island because of one; doesn't it stand to reason that she'd accept precognitivity?

By Kevin (Kevin) on Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 5:45 am:

Maybe that is why. They didn't want her to worry or freak out.

Although I'm not sure they actually know her story with the psychic.

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