The Tail Section

Season 1 Episode 07
Title: The Moth
Director: Jack Bender
Writers: Jennifer Johnson, Paul Dini
FlashBack: Charlie

This is another episode that opens with an eye. This is however is the "eye" of a guitar up to the eyes of Charlie. Either he sucks at playing or the withdrawls are really messing him up. Locke tells a walk will do him good. He goes out and hears something, maybe the "monster."

FlashBack

Charlie is confessing to his priest about things that make you understand why the celebacy requirement for preist may not be in the Church’s best interest.

Outside the church, Liam meets him with the details of a recording contract.

On Island

Charlie is running his with a boar behind him. It turns out that Charlie was being used by Locke as bait. Charlie demands his drugs to which Locke lays out the deal for Charlie. Charlie gets to asks for his drugs three times. On the third time, he will give him the drugs. To be clear, this was the first.

Sayid tells Kate of his plan to triangulate the signal by using bottle rockets for signal flares. Really, fireworks smugglers?

Charlie gets in the way trying to help move bags to the caves. One of the bags has a bottle of pills that Charlie considers taking for a "headache," but Diazepam is a little strong for headaches. Jack takes the pills and Charlie returns to his guitar feeling unimportant.

FlashBack

Liam tries to convinces Charlie to stay in he band. Charlie ultimately agrees on the promise that they will walk away if it no longer is about the music.

Back at the Caves

Hurley tells Charlie that he has to move his guitar to make room for supplies. He confronts Jack proclaming that he is a "Rock God" which results in rocks falling on top of them in the cave.

The triangulation party (Kate and Sayid) make their way through the jungle while Boone shifts his responsibility to the cause to Shannon to help dig out Jack. Sawyer chases after them to tell Kate what happened to Jack. Charlie made it out of the initial cave in, but is now alone after enlisting help.

FlashBack

Fans screaming, lights flashing, Rock gods on stage. Charlie on his bass looks at Liam as he takes Charlie’s chorus in the song, "You all everybody." Backstage, Charlie is mad but is just as easily dismissed by his older brother as others have done on the island. Liam leaves him and retreats to his women and drugs.

In the Caves

Everyone is helping clear the rubble from the cave opening. We learn that Michael was in contruction, and he lends his expertise to the project.

Sawyer catches up to the triangulation party to tell Kate the events in the cave, but her unkind response to him causes him to reconsider. He invites himself along for the adventure.

While Locke is working on the boar that Charlie helped trap, he tells of the situation with Jack. Locke, understanding that this is not about Jack, asks him what he is really here for. This is the second time that Charlie asks for the drugs to which Locke uses visual aids to make a point… Locke explains to us that the caterpillar for moths are more interesting than butterflies even though the result of their metamorphosis is much less brilliant than the butterfly. If, when the moth is in the cocoon, someone tries to help by opening the cocoon, the moth will not be strong enough to survive. Struggle is necessary to strengthen.

The rescuers finally tunnel through to where Jack can hear them. He is pinned down. Someone has to go in after him, and Charlie volunteers without an objection from anyone.

Sayid leave Kate and Sawyer at the point in the triangulation effort. Sayid gives instructions to both of them. Sawyer eggs on Kate about Jack to which she tells Sawyer how he doesn’t compare to Jack. This is enough venom to allow him to tell her about Jack’s predicament.

As Charlie tunnels trough the rubble…

FlashBack

Charlie is tunneling through the crowd to get backstage. Charlie finds Liam drinking with groupies. Charlie gets on his brother about missing another sound check and he threatens to cancel the rest of the tour. They agreed to walk away before beginning the tour, but now Liam is a product of the fame. Liam leaves Charlie devastated. Charlie turns to Liam’s drugs and begin his collapse.

In the Cave

The walls begin to collapse as Charlie reaches Jack. They are both trapped. Charlie unpins Jack and helps crunch his shoulder back into place. Just take a moment to imagine that sound.

FlashBack

In Australia, a messed up Charlie visits a cleaned up Liam. Charlie pleads with Liam to revive the band, but Liam refuses. Instead he offers Charlie a chance to get cleaned up himself. Charlie, committed to the fame and the drugs storms off for L.A.

At the Caves

Kate arrives to a disheartened group. She energizes them and continues the recus effort.

Jack sees that Charlie is going through withdrawls and tells him that he will help. When it looks like it might be too late, Charlie sees a moth. he chases it until he breaks through to the ground. Charlie and Jack stumble back to the camp where everyone passes by Charlie.

On the Beach, Shannon lets off the bottle rocket after seeing Sayid’s. The third one is up giving Sayid the signal that he needs to turn on the transceiver. He gets a full set of bars and a log to the head. (Concussion number 1)

That night at the fire, Charlie goes to Locke and asks him a third time for his drugs. Charlie takes them, looks at them, then tosses them in the fire. Locke expresses his pride Charlie as he watches a moth flutter above the fire.