Lost - Outlaws**

Outlaws finds a way for Sawyer to go on a hunt. You could almost say that the trauma of the past has been hunting him, and this giant boar that disrupts his supposed idyll is a manifestation or representation of that. The boar raids his tent, runs roughshod over his refuge, and directly targets him specifically. This giant nuisance is meant specifically for Sawyer. So as written Sawyer’s back story involving a murder he’ll never be able to forget is made known to us. The murder of his mother, much like his own murder of someone else innocent, is a giant boar that torments him. It is no mistake that the episode also continues to include Charlie’s own boar. No, Charlie isn’t tormented by a giant boar produced by the island as Sawyer is but murdering Ethan—shooting him six times—when he isn’t a killer produces its own nuisance that won’t just fade into the ether. No matter how Charlie might repeatedly balk at others for feeling concerned that he is bothered by what he done, he killed a man and that action, no matter the cause or reasoning, doesn’t just disappear. Sayid adheres to Hurley’s request to talk with Charlie. Charlie might smash open melons and pretend he’s a-okay, but Sayid knows all too well that PTSD, no matter how it is acquired, isn’t something that willingly subsides once it arrives. To know he isn’t the only one with such trauma—Sawyer can vouch for that—is what Sayid gets across to him.

Claire obviously feels a kinship with Charlie, and an offer to spend friendly time with him—a walk in this episode’s case—is avoided due to that trauma. Despite her being his reason for killing Ethan, she still represents a memory afresh he is having some issue contesting. By episode’s end, Charlie realizes he’s not the only one dealing with issues involving violence in the past, and it is easier for him to take that walk with Claire. It is day to day, really.