It's almost as if Charlie has had a false memory of the events in the hatch implanted to keep him from remembering what really happened...an after-effect of the electromagnetic variations?

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Things fall apart, the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

--Lines 2-6, "The Second Coming" by Wm. Butler Yeats