The Accident
Episode 3x12, Par Avion - Flashback 1Claire opens her eyes. She has blood on her forehead and jet black hair. She is in a car and a woman is lying in the street. She's been in an accident. Claire can't get the door open, so she crawls through the broken windshield. She goes to the woman, yelling, "Mum!"
Not My Fault
Episode 3x12, Par Avion - Flashback 2Claire is getting stitches in her head. The doctor tells her to hold still. He finishes and looks at a policeman and says, "We're through now."
The officer walks into the room and introduces himself as Officer Barnes. He asks how the accident happened.
"A truck forced us off the road," she says.
"Who was driving?"
"Me."
"Has anyone contacted your father?"
"My father died when I was two."
"I'm sorry to hear that. I spoke with the truck driver. He's fine, by the way. He said that when you hit him-"
"No, he hit us."
"And what speed would you say that that happened?"
"He just came out of nowhere. I didn't--"
"That's not the question I asked, Ms. Littleton."
"I don't know how fast I was driving. Why are you even asking these questions?"
"These questions are standard procedure when there's a fatally."
"My mother is in surgery. She's not dead!"
He turns to walk out and she says, "This is not my fault!"
"I didn't say it was, Ms. Littleton."
Aunt Lindsey
Episode 3x12, Par Avion - Flashback 3Claire, dressed completely in black, walks into her mother's hospital room. Her mother's face is badly bruised and she has a tube in her mouth.
"Where were you?" a woman says.
Claire looks at the woman standing off to the side. "I went home to take a shower."
"That must have been nice," she says sarcastically.
"They said she was still in surgery," Claire says. "I had glass in my hair, Aunt Lindsey."
In anger, Lindsey says, "Well I'm glad that you're feeling refreshed."
Claire looks down. A doctor walks in. "Good afternoon. Are you the daughter?" Claire nods and he says, "I'm Dr. Woodruff from neurosurgery. I'll be observing your mother for the next few days."
"How is she?" Lindsey asks.
"We've managed to stabilize her immediate injuries, but," he looks at Claire, "your mother suffered a severe head trama. We'll have to wait for the swelling in her brain to go down before we can determine the full extent of her injuries. But I'm afraid we're looking at fairly widespread damage."
"What does that mean?" Claire asks.
"It means that at least right now, these machines are sustaining her life."
"But they won't always be," Claire says. "I mean when she wakes she won't be-"
"I can't say with any confidence," the doctor says, "that she will wake up."
Claire goes and sits by her mother. "Can she hear us?"
"I like to think she can," the doctor says.
"How long will she be like this?" Lindsey asks.
"Could be a day, a week, or years. We'll just have to wait and see. But I can assure you that she'll be very well taken care of."
"That's very nice," Lindsey says, "but we can't pay for that."
"Don't worry," Dr. Woodruff says, "your expenses have already been taken care of."
Lindsey and Claire look at each other and then Lindsey asks the doctor, "By who?"
"I've been asked to keep that confidential," he says.
Claire's Father
Episode 3x12, Par Avion - Flashback 4In a small shop, Claire pierces a girls ear. The door opens and she says, "I'll be with you in a sec."
She asks for 10 dollars from the girl, then looks up to see that it's her father who had come in. She goes behind the counter. "What are you doing here?
"Buy you a cup of coffee?"
"I have nothing to say to you."
"Claire, I'm leaving tonight and I'll be out of your life forever. Just let me buy you one cup of coffee."
As they have coffee, Claire says, "So it's true?"
"Yes, it's true," Christian says.
"How'd you find out about the accident?" Claire says and he says that a doctor friend called him. "Why did she tell me you were dead?"
"I guess because I left her with so many wonderful memories," he says sarcastically. "Look, we had a fling. I was back in Los Angeles when she told me she was pregnant. When she told me she was going to have a baby, have you."
"You didn't want to see me?"
"No, no, I came out a bunch of times when you were little. I stayed over, gave you toys, I sang to you."
"Why'd you stop coming?"
"Because your aunt hates me and your mother didn't like the fact that I had another family."
"Why'd you come, then? I mean, you could have just paid the bills from the States."
"I came over because I wanted to help. Claire, your mother is alive, but she's not really living. Now may be the time to look at other ways to relieve her pain. Now, it is illegal to turn off her machines, but I know some ways to achieve the same effect without facing the legal consequences."
"Just shut up! You didn't come here to help me. You came here to try and fix a mistake that you made."
"No, honey, that's not it."
"You think that just paying her bills makes you noble or something? You come down here and you try to get me to kill her? Just go! Go back to your real family." She gets up and throws her cup in the trash then turns around. "You know, you might be my father, but I don't even know your name. And I want it to stay that way."
She walks off and he goes after her. "Do not keep your mother alive for the wrong reasons. There is hope and there is guilt, and believe me, I know the difference. Bye, kid. It's great seeing you again." He walks away.
