Fire + Water: Families Ayn Rand Would Love
My pal Sharon pointed out a parallel I overlooked regarding Charlie and Locke in Fire + Water.
The only thing I got out of that episode was that Charlie and Locke share a similar situation. Charlie’s bro sold C’s beloved piano for his own gain — to get clean. Locke’s dad took L’s kidney. Then Liam and L’s dad shut C and L out of their lives.
They do share that situation of family members taking valuable things from them, items that help them survive life, while leaving younger brother and son cast out of their lives. It’s a shared pain, but what makes Locke right about his things “happening for a reason” versus Charlie’s things?
I think it’s response.
Charlie responded by going deeper into his heroin addiction. We haven’t seen whole story of Locke’s response, and I suspect his walloping of Charlie foreshadows a coming flashback.
Foreshadowing a flashback. There’s something I never thought I’d say.
