I have pondered over this for a while. Someone said the Aussie psychic might be one othe others sent to the timeframe of Claire's pregnancy to make sure she got on that flight. He gave her $6,000.00 to take the flight and give her baby up for adoption to an LA couple. Now, what I believe is this...I am surmising and have no proof .....is that originally the writers planned to use this thread to show that Aaron was heir to the Jacob legacy and for some reason dropped the whole Aaron timeline because they couldn't
make it work in such a short time frame. I think that Thomas, Aaron's father looked very muchlike a young Benjamin Linus, and whether the plan was to show that Aaron was the rightful successor to Jacob, because he was either Benjamin Linus's son or kin somehow. When they show Locke with one black eye and one white eye he says to Clarie that she made the mistake of not keeping Aaron and now they will all pay the price ( kind of a Twin Peaks thing). There is no doubt that the storyline was planted and followed for sometime. Later, when Claire disappears, Kate is forced to take Aaron back to LA as part of the Oceanic 6, The storyline changes and Kate comes back to the island to find Claire to take her back to Aaron. Nothing else is mentioned about Aaron being special. I think they made Aaron's importance at first to use the Ethan storyline and center in on his birth, until that actually happened and the writers dropped the whole storyline.   See 17 other replies