Mimi Fairchild sat on the beach and looked out over the ocean and thought about her life. She was a short 24 year old with fiery red hair and piercing green eyes. She had spent an amazing few weeks in Australia on a quest to find her birth mother. She had been unsuccessful in her search, but she had had a great time anyway. Her great time had come to a crashing stop when the flight she was on from Sydney to Los Angeles had crashed onto a deserted island. It was Oceanic Flight 815 and Mimi was one of 47 or 48, she could never remember the exact count, survivors. Actually, she thought the total count of survivors had just risen with the passengers from the tail end of the plane finally finding their way to the camp.
After a few minutes, Mimi decided to return to the shelter that she had built. As she approached her "home", she heard her "neighbors" arguing about something. Without trying to be too obvious, Mimi listened to what was going on. Claire, the blonde that had just had the baby, was hollering at her boyfriend, Charlie. Mimi wasn't exactly sure about what was going on, but it seemed to have something to do with whatever was in the Virgin Mary statue. Claire said something about drugs and then told Charlie to leave. Mimi couldn't hear much after that, but a little while later she saw Charlie lead Mr. Eko into the jungle.
Mimi wondered what had happened. She remembered seeing Charlie carrying around a Virgin Mary statue, but she had assumed that that meant that he was some sort of religious freak. She couldn't believe that that was true however, because she knew that he was the bass player for Driveshaft. She had also heard all the stories about drugs, alcohol, and loose women. She couldn't believe that Charlie Pace would indulge in all those sins and then be religious enough to carry around a Virgin Mary statue. Well, people do change she thought. She didn't really know anything about Charlie. Maybe the stories she had heard were wrong or maybe he had just straightened himself out and found religion.
For the rest of the afternoon, Mimi couldn't stop thinking about Charlie, the stories she had heard, and the Virgin Mary statue. She remembered that when they had first crash landed on the island, Charlie had seemed different than he did now. For a few weeks, he had been sick with what the Doc called the flu. Mimi suddenly pieced all the information together. When Charlie had supposedly been sick with the flu, he had been going through a painful detox. Mimi wasn't sure what his drug of choice was or if he had given it up or if he had run out, but the signs were all there. Mimi also remembered reading an article one time about the different things that drug smugglers used to get their drugs out of one country and into another. Religious artifacts were a popular form because they were rarely thoroughly checked. Mimi surmised from all of this information that Charlie had found his drug of choice somewhere on the island and had started using again or had seriously thought about using again if he was carrying it around with him everywhere.
Mimi thought about all of this for a little while. She decided that when Charlie came back to camp, she was going to talk to him. She didn't know if he would want to listen to her, but she had to give it a try.