Characters of Lost

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This article contains character information for the American drama/adventure television series Lost.

Contents 1 Main characters 1.1 Current main characters 1.2 Former main characters 2 Supporting characters 2.1 Crash survivors 2.1.1 Bernard Nadler 2.1.2 Rose Henderson 2.1.3 Vincent 2.1.4 Aaron Littleton 2.1.5 Cindy Chandler 2.1.6 Edward Mars 2.1.7 Dr. Leslie Arzt 2.2 Island inhabitants 2.2.1 The Others 2.2.2 Danielle Rousseau 2.2.3 Kelvin Joe Inman 2.2.4 "Patchy" 2.3 Orientation film characters 2.3.1 "Dr. Marvin Candle" / "Dr. Mark Wickmund" 2.3.2 Gerald and Karen DeGroot 2.3.3 Alvar Hanso 2.4 Flashback characters 2.4.1 Dr. Christian Shephard 2.4.2 Sarah Shephard 2.4.3 Anthony Cooper 2.4.4 Jae Lee 2.4.5 Yemi 2.4.6 Penelope "Penny" Widmore 2.4.7 List of recurring flashback characters 3 Characters in other media 3.1 From the Diary 3.2 From the Oceanic Air website 3.3 From the Hanso Foundation website and the Lost Experience Alternate Reality Game 3.4 From the Lost novels 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Main characters

The following are characters who have led the plot.

[edit] Current main characters

Picture	Name	Portrayed by	Former Residence	Occupation/Status (pre-crash)
	Katherine "Kate" Austen (Season 1–)	Evangeline Lilly	Iowa, USA	Fugitive
	James "Sawyer" Ford (Season 1–)	Josh Holloway	Knoxville, Tennessee, USA	Confidence man
	Desmond David Hume (Season 3– )	Henry Ian Cusick	Scotland, United Kingdom	Stationed at "the Swan", former solo racing sailor; Former prisoner; Former soldier in the Royal Scots Regiment of Her Majesty's Armed Forces
	Sayid Jarrah (Season 1–)	Naveen Andrews	Tikrit, Salah ad Din, Iraq	Former Communications Officer of the Iraqi Republican Guard
	Juliet (Season 3–)	Elizabeth Mitchell	Unknown	Other; Fertility Doctor
	Jin-Soo Kwon (Season 1–)	Daniel Dae Kim	Namhae/Seoul, South Korea	Doorman/Mob Enforcer
	Sun-Hwa Kwon (Season 1–)	Yunjin Kim	Seoul, South Korea	Homemaker
	Benjamin "Ben" Linus (a.k.a. Henry Gale) (Season 3–)	Michael Emerson	None	Leader figure of The Others
	Claire Littleton (Season 1–)	Emilie de Ravin	Australia	Food Service - "$5 an hour job at 'Fish and Fry'"
	Johnathan "John" Locke (Season 1–)	Terry O'Quinn	Tustin/San Francisco, California, USA	Regional Collections Supervisor for a box company, formerly home inspector, formerly department store clerk, formerly worker at a drug-growing farm/orchard
	Nikki (Season 3–)	Kiele Sanchez	Unknown	Unknown
	Charlie Pace (Season 1–)	Dominic Monaghan	Manchester, England, United Kingdom	Rock musician
	Paulo (Season 3–)	Rodrigo Santoro	Unknown	Unknown
	Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Season 1–)	Jorge Garcia	Los Angeles, California, USA	Millionaire businessman after lottery win; formerly Food Service at "Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack"
	Dr. Jack Shephard (Season 1–)	Matthew Fox	California, USA	Spinal surgeon

[edit] Former main characters

Picture	Name	Portrayed by	Former Residence	Occupation (pre-crash)	Cause of Absence
	Boone Carlyle (Season 1)	Ian Somerhalder	Los Angeles, California, USA	COO of a subsidiary of his mother's wedding company	In a Beechcraft when it fell from the tree it was in, died of injuries, deceased[1]
	Ana Lucia Cortez (Season 2)	Michelle Rodriguez	Los Angeles, California, USA	LAPD Police Officer, Airport Security Guard	Shot by Michael, deceased[2]
	Michael Dawson (Seasons 1–2)	Harold Perrineau	New York City, New York, USA	Construction Worker/Freelance Artist	Left the Island in the Others' boat[3]
	Mr. Eko (Seasons 2–3)	Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje	Nigeria/Australia	Former Nigerian drug lord, self-proclaimed Catholic priest	Picked up and beaten by "the monster", deceased[4]
	Elizabeth "Libby" (Season 2)	Cynthia Watros	USA	Clinical Psychologist	Shot by Michael, deceased[5]
	Walter "Walt" Lloyd (Season 1)	Malcolm David Kelley	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	Elementary School Student	Left the Island in the Others' boat[6]
	Shannon Rutherford (Seasons 1–2)	Maggie Grace	Los Angeles, California, USA	Ballet instructor	Accidentally shot by Ana-Lucia, deceased[7]

[edit] Supporting characters

The following groups of characters have played supporting roles in the plot.

[edit] Crash survivors

The following are residents of the islands who arrived during the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, or are descendants of those who arrived during the crash.

[edit] Bernard Nadler

Main article: Bernard Nadler

[edit] Rose Henderson

Main article: Rose Henderson

[edit] Vincent

• Played by: Madison^[8]
• Also known as: "the dog", "Vinnie"
• Appears in: "Pilot: Part 1", "Tabula Rasa", "Walkabout", "The Moth", 'Solitary", "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues", "Whatever the Case May Be", "Hearts and Minds", "Special", "Homecoming", "Outlaws", "...In Translation", "Do No Harm", "Exodus: Part 1", "Exodus: Part 2", "Man of Science, Man of Faith", "Orientation", "Everybody Hates Hugo", "...And Found", "Abandoned", "Collision", "The Hunting Party", "The Long Con", "Maternity Leave", "S.O.S.", "Three Minutes"
• Reason for trip: Brought with Michael and Walt on the plane to live with the father and son in New York.

Vincent is Walt's dog (a Yellow Labrador Retriever). Michael told Walt that he was given to him by his stepfather. Prior to Michael, Walt, Jin and Sawyer setting sail on the Raft, Walt leaves Vincent under the care of Shannon, who loses him. Vincent often appears before something bad is about to happen to one of the survivors. With Shannon now dead and both Michael and Walt seemingly gone from the island forever, Vincent has not been seen on the island since. On Lost DVD was said that Vincent left with Michael and Walt from the island.

[edit] Aaron Littleton

• Played by: various
• Also known as: "the baby", "Turnip Head" (Charlie).
• Appears in: "Do No Harm", "The Greater Good", "Born to Run", "Exodus: Part 1", "Exodus: Part 2", "Adrift", "Everybody Hates Hugo", "Abandoned", "What Kate Did", "The 23rd Psalm", "The Hunting Party", "Fire + Water", "The Long Con", "Maternity Leave", "Lockdown", "S.O.S.", "Three Minutes", "Live Together, Die Alone", "Further Instructions", "Every Man For Himself"
• Reason for Trip: Carried by Claire; he was to be adopted in America after birth.
• Origin of Name: Aaron, brother of Moses, from the Book of Exodus.

Born to Claire Littleton on the island, Aaron Littleton was originally going to be adopted after birth. A psychic told Claire that she must raise the baby herself, (at least not by another, possibly an "other") but, when she refused, the psychic arranged for Claire to be on Flight 815 so a family in Los Angeles could adopt him. Rousseau kidnaps Aaron, saying she wants to trade him for her own child, Alex; however, Charlie and Sayid rescue him. Shortly after burning the drug-runner plane, Charlie begins to have vivid dreams that Aaron is in danger. These dreams spur Charlie into abducting Aaron and attempting to baptize him. However, Locke returns Aaron to Claire. She then asks Mr. Eko to baptise her and Aaron because Charlie admits he believes they are in great danger.

[edit] Cindy Chandler

• Played by: Kimberley Joseph
• Appears in: "Pilot: Part 1", "Pilot: Part 2", "Tabula Rasa" (reused voice), "Adrift" (glimpsed), "Orientation" (no dialogue), "Everybody Hates Hugo", "...And Found", "Abandoned", "The Other 48 Days"
• Reason for Trip: Working on Flight 815
• Profession: Flight attendant

Cindy was a flight attendant on Flight 815. She along with JD and another air hostess chase Charlie to the restroom prior to the crash. She is the only known surviving cabin crew member of the crash. She lands with the tail section survivors and, of the 23 of them, is one of only five not to have been killed or taken by "the Others" before encountering Jin, Michael, and Sawyer. During the journey back to the mid-section survivors' camp, she mysteriously disappears while the other surviving passengers are on the run. She confirms that Flight 815 was flying off course before the crash. Cindy copes generally well in the aftermath of the crash, and follows Ana-Lucia's orders. When Nathan is suspected of being an "Other", Cindy claims to have good memory of the passengers' faces but does not remember Nathan. She casts no doubt on Goodwin's having been on the plane, nor does she recognize Jin, Michael, or Sawyer. She was in a relationship with one of the passengers, the novelist Gary Troup, as described in the foreward to his latest book, Bad Twin. He even gave her a cameo role in the novel, as a stewardess on an Oceanic flight from Los Angeles to Sydney. When Cindy disappears, whispers can be heard in the jungle, the same whispers that other characters have heard repeatedly throughout the series.

[edit] Edward Mars

• Played by: Fredric Lane
• Also known as: "the marshal", "the man with the shrapnel"
• Appears in: "Pilot: Part 1" (no dialogue), "Pilot: Part 2", "Tabula Rasa", "Whatever the Case May Be" (as a corpse), "Exodus: Part 1", "Exodus: Part 2", "What Kate Did", "I Do"
• Reason for trip: Bringing the fugitive Kate Austen back to the United States
• Profession: US Marshal

U.S. Marshal Edward Mars had been pursuing Kate for three years before capturing her in Australia, and was on Flight 815 to extradite her to the United States. He aggressively chases her, and gloats over her whenever he does apprehend her. He is badly injured during the crash and whenever he regains consciousness, he warns that Kate is dangerous. However, shortly before dying, he seems to make peace with her. Sawyer shoots Mars (since Mars wants to be put out of his misery) in the chest, but fails to kill him. Jack then euthanizes Mars.

[edit] Dr. Leslie Arzt

• Played by: Daniel Roebuck
• Appears in: "Born To Run", "Exodus: Part 1", "Exodus: Part 2"
• Also known as: "Arnzt" (Hurley)
• Profession: Ninth grade science teacher
• Origin of Name: German for "doctor".[1]

Arzt, who asks the survivors to address him as "Doctor" ("Arzt" is the German word for "doctor"), was a ninth grade science teacher. He warns the raft crew that the coming monsoon season will take the raft straight to Antarctica. Arzt accompanies the team going to the Black Rock to assist in the retrieval of dynamite to blast open the hatch. When Jack, Kate, and Locke bring it outside, a panicked Arzt explains to them that, in the hot jungle temperature, dynamite "sweats" highly unstable nitroglycerin. As he continues to explain the properties of nitroglycerin fanatically, he waves the dynamite in his hand very erratically, which causes it to explode, taking his life.

The name/character was based on a disliked high school science teacher that creator Damon Lindelof had in Teaneck High School.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Island inhabitants

The following are residents of the islands who arrived prior to the crash of Oceanic Flight 815.

[edit] The Others

Main article: Others (Lost)

• Tom
• Danny Pickett
• Ethan Rom
• Alexandra "Alex" Rousseau
• Goodwin
• Bea Klugh
• Colleen Pickett
• Karl

[edit] Danielle Rousseau

• Played by: Mira Furlan
• Appears in: "Pilot: Part 2" (voice), "Solitary", "Numbers", "Exodus: Part 1", "Exodus: Part 2", "The Long Con" (reused voice), "One of Them", "Maternity Leave"
• Profession: Scientist
• Origin of name: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 18th century philosopher
• Also known as: The Frenchwoman or "The French Chick" (Hurley, Sawyer, Ana Lucia)

Danielle Rousseau is a Frenchwoman who has been on the island for approximately 16 years and is responsible for the distress signal that Sayid found. She traps Sayid, thinking that he is one of "the Others", and holds him prisoner. When he insists that he does not know anything about her missing daughter Alex, she tortures him with electric shocks. While holding Sayid prisoner, she tells him how she came to the island. Danielle was on a science expedition, which included amongst several others, her husband Robert. Her science team was armed with rifles. When the team members "became infected" she killed them all, in order to ensure that when they got rescued, the contamination would not spread. She estimates that the island is at least three days away from Tahiti.

Sayid and Danielle hear a noise outside of her camp. While she is out hunting it, Sayid steals her maps and notes about the island, grabs her other rifle, and escapes back to the other survivors. Before letting Sayid go, she tells him that her companions started to become sick, so she killed them one by one. She then gave birth to a daughter, Alex, and shortly afterwards a plume of black smoke appeared and "the Others" kidnapped Alex. After seeing that the papers Sayid stole contain "the numbers", Hurley searches for Danielle. She tells him that the numbers were being broadcast on the radio, and she knows nothing about them.

She takes some of the crash survivors to an old ship called the Black Rock, while trying to get dynamite to blow the hatch, in an area she called the "dark territory". They come up against the monster, but Danielle describes it as a "security system" that was there to protect the island. Earlier, she had told them that the transmitter carrying the "numbers" broadcast, which her team picked up and followed to the island, was near the Black Rock.

After another plume appears in the distance, Danielle warns the survivors that "the Others" are coming. While everyone prepares for their arrival, she kidnaps Claire's baby, Aaron. Sayid and Charlie pursue her and find her with the baby near the source of the black smoke, planning to exchange Aaron for her own child, Alex. However, she did not find "the Others" there. Sayid and Charlie, who believes Danielle lit the fire for the plume of black smoke herself, return Aaron to Claire. Sayid, however, noticed there were no tracks beside the fire. Some weeks later, Danielle finds Sayid and takes him to a trap she set. A man, "Henry Gale", is inside, who she claims is an "Other". When "Henry" tries to escape, Danielle wounds him with an arrow.

Danielle arrives at camp one night to warn Claire that Aaron is sick. The next day she helps Kate and Claire search for a DHARMA station. Claire remembers that after she escaped from the station when she was pregnant, Danielle helped her get back to her camp. Before Danielle leaves back into her lonely life Claire tells her she witnessed a teenaged girl in the medical hatch. Claire explains that this girl is of good nature and might have been Danielle's daughter who was kidnapped.

[edit] Kelvin Joe Inman

• Played by: Clancy Brown
• Appears in: "One of Them", "Live Together, Die Alone"
• Profession: DHARMA Initiative employee, former US intelligence operative

Kelvin Joe Inman was formerly an intelligence operative for the United States government, actively involved with prisoner interrogation during the Gulf War of 1990-1991, during which he made Sayid into an unwilling student of torture techniques. Later, Kelvin joined the DHARMA Initiative, and ended up on a two-man crew operating the Swan Station on the island. His partner was a man named Radzinski, who taught him how to hotwire the blast doors and draw an invisible map on them using detergent. After Radzinski kills himself (or so Kelvin tells the story), Kelvin continues to press the button alone until he finds Desmond, dragging him into the Swan in a HAZMAT suit. Kelvin instructs Desmond in the operation of the blast doors and administration of the vaccine, and, during a drunken episode, tells Desmond about the station's failsafe mechanism, claiming that it has the power to "make it all go away". It soon becomes clear to Desmond that Kelvin has become disenchanted with DHARMA and that he has some kind of ulterior motive in preventing him from leaving the hatch. In fact, unbeknownst to Desmond, Kelvin is repairing Desmond's boat and planning to escape the island. When Desmond discovers that Kelvin plans to leave him alone to press the button, Kelvin advises him to "screw the button", saying, "We don't even know if it's real." Desmond, furious that Kelvin "stole his life", fights with Kelvin and accidentally kills him. Kelvin's supposed death appears to have occurred mere minutes before the crash of Flight 815, as the fatal struggle between him and Desmond delays the entry of the code, and the resulting electromagnetic event presumably brought down the plane.

[edit] "Patchy"

• Played by: Andrew Divoff
• Appears in: "The Cost of Living"
• Profession: Unknown
• Origin of Name: Actual Name Unknown

Patchy is the nickname given by the producers^[9] for the character seen on a monitor in the episode "The Cost of Living" when Locke, Sayid, Desmond, Nikki and Paulo visited the Pearl station. Sayid was able to fix the wires so that the video surveillance feed to the upper-right monitor worked. "Patchy" appears on one of the screens, however he manages to quickly turn off the camera. Locke then says that "he'll be expecting us". Nothing about him is known as of yet, though he clearly wears an eyepatch and what seems to be DHARMA Initiative coveralls. The existence of a one-eyed member of the Others or the DHARMA Initiative was implied in The Other 48 Days, when the discovery of a glass eye was made in 'The Arrow' station.

[edit] Orientation film characters

The following are characters that have only been seen in the 1980's orientation films for the DHARMA Initiative stations and all information on them comes from these videos. Their current status remains unknown.

[edit] "Dr. Marvin Candle" / "Dr. Mark Wickmund"

• Played by: François Chau
• Appears in: "Orientation", "What Kate Did", "?", "Live Together, Die Alone" (reused footage), "The Cost of Living" (reused footage)
• Profession: Alleged Scientist

Marvin Candle and Mark Wickmund are the names that the man in the DHARMA Initiative orientation films calls himself. It is unknown if one or either is his real name, or if they are even the same person, but the similarities of their names (both first names begin with Mar, and "Wick"mund may be a pun on the other name, Candle) suggest they are both aliases.

In the Station 3 Orientation film, "Candle"'s left arm appears to be a prosthetic (which was confirmed in an interview with the creators on their podcast). In the Station 5 Orientation video, both of "Wickmund"'s arms move.

"Candle" or "Wickmund" is also featured on the special features disc of the second season DVD set. In an orientation film similar to the one on the show, he addresses the viewer and presents various featurettes as part of their "tour of duty" observing the island and its inhabitants. Both his arms move in this appearance.

[edit] Gerald and Karen DeGroot

• Gerald DeGroot played by: Michael Gilday
• Karen DeGroot played by: Courtney Lavigne
• Appear in: "Orientation", "What Kate Did", "?"
• Profession: Scientists

Gerald and Karen DeGroot were a couple of doctoral candidates from the University of Michigan and followers of the teachings of B. F. Skinner. In 1970, thanks to the funding of the Hanso Foundation, they founded the DHARMA Initiative, which they envisioned as a large-scale communal compound of scientists and free thinkers from around the world gathered to study meteorology, zoology, electromagnetism, parapsychology and psychology (the mention of the final subject of study remains partially revealed: "utopian social...").

[edit] Alvar Hanso

• Played by: Ian Patrick Williams (in Sri Lanka video and finale of the Lost Experience)
• Appears in: "Orientation"
• Profession: Businessman, former arms salesman and manufacturer

The Danish reclusive creator of the Hanso Foundation, he is a former NATO arms supplier. He is only seen once in The Swan Orientation film, in a single photo which is also used on the Hanso Foundation website and television commercials. However, the narrator in the Orientation film segment of the Sri Lanka Video of the Lost Experience also claims to be Alvar Hanso. This video is dated as being copyrighted in 1975, while his photo is dated as both 2003 and as being taken before 1980. Hanso was an arms supplier for various resistance movements in World War II and then for NATO during the Cold War.

Most of the information on him comes from the Hanso Foundation website.

[edit] Flashback characters

Many characters have appeared through the main characters' flashbacks, and are not on the island. See IMDB for a complete listing of all guest and flashback characters.

[edit] Dr. Christian Shephard

• Played by: John Terry
• Appears in: "Walkabout" (no dialogue), "White Rabbit", "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues", "Outlaws", "Do No Harm", "Man of Science, Man of Faith", "The Hunting Party", "Two for the Road", "A Tale of Two Cities"
• Profession: Former chief of surgery at St. Sebastian Hospital
• Character relations: Jack (father), Ana Lucia (companion), Sawyer (bar acquaintance)

Dr. Christian Shephard is the father of Jack Shephard and the chief of surgery at St. Sebastian Hospital. According to Jack, Christian was the reason for Jack becoming a doctor; however, he was often hard on his son, encouraging Jack to avoid trying to save everyone and instead focus on letting go when the time calls for it so that he could "have what it takes". Jack says that Christian was hated by many people throughout his life, but instead of taking responsibility he blamed it on fate. Although Christian's relationship with his son is unstable at times, he occasionally provides Jack with inspirational advice, particularly the night before Jack's wedding. After his divorce, Jack suspects Christian of cheating with his ex-wife, Sarah, and the conflict results in a fight between the father and the son during Christian's Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, and Jack's subsequent arrest. The stress of Jack's accusation leads to Christian falling off the wagon; Sarah tells Jack that an extremely inebriated Christian called her and begged her to bail Jack out of prison.

However, the major (and ultimately final) chasm in the father/son relationship comes as a result of Christian's drinking problem. While operating on a patient while intoxicated, (according to Jack) Christian severed her hepatic artery (a vague accusation as the Common hepatic artery leads to the Hepatic artery proper before bifurcating into the right and left hepatic arteries), resulting in the patient's death. Christian manages to convince Jack not to report that Christian, operating under the influence, had caused the patient's death, but Jack changes his mind when he discovers that the patient was pregnant, ending Christian's medical career (by review-board ordered Autopsy and Christian's confession were required since Jack's written recounts contradict each other, and are defensively biased as he too operated on Christian's patient). Christian and Jack never speak to each other after this incident.

Christian later met Ana-Lucia at a bar in LAX. After a brief conversation, he convinces her to accompany him to Australia to serve as a bodyguard, saying that it is fate. After several days of drinking, Christian has Ana-Lucia take him to a house where he confronts a blonde-haired woman. Christian then demands to see his daughter, but is beaten away by the woman. The next day, Ana-Lucia leaves Christian, calling him pathetic. Christian goes into a nearby bar and meets Sawyer, where he tells him that he is made to suffer by fate. "That's why the Red Sox will never win the damn series", Christian says to him. Christian then tells Sawyer about Jack (he doesn't say his name), and how, despite what Jack thinks, he loves his son and is proud of him for doing the right thing, calling him a great man. (Later, on the Island, after hearing Jack repeat Christian's expression about the Red Sox, Sawyer realizes that Jack is the son Christian was talking about.) Christian dies not long after his meeting with Sawyer, due to a heart attack caused by a high blood-alcohol content. Jack, in Australia looking for him, identifies his body at the morgue and has his body put on Flight 815 with him, so that he can have the funeral as soon as the flight lands in order to be "done with it". Jack finds Christian's casket on the island, but the body is not inside. In "Walkabout" and "White Rabbit", Jack has visions of Christian on the island.

Although he doesn't tell Jack Christian's words at first, before boarding the raft, Sawyer says to Jack what Christian wanted to, finally allowing Jack to relieve himself of the guilt brought on by the death of his father.

[edit] Sarah Shephard

• Played by: Julie Bowen
• Appears in: "Do No Harm", "Man of Science, Man of Faith", "The Hunting Party", "A Tale of Two Cities"
• Character relation: Jack (ex-wife)

Sarah Shephard was Jack's wife. Eight months before her wedding to her fiancé, Kevin, she was involved in a car crash with an SUV driven by Adam Rutherford (Shannon's father and Boone's stepfather). She is rushed to St. Sebastian hospital, and is treated by Jack. Sarah has broken her back, and Jack informs her that she will never walk again. Sarah invites Jack to her wedding. However, Kevin leaves her when he discovers her paralysis. Sarah feels sad over the death of Adam Rutherford, and Jack says that he will "fix her". Knowing that a full recovery is highly improbable, the surgeon goes out for a run and meets Desmond, who tells Jack to believe in miracles. When Jack presents Sarah with the bad news, she surprises him by wiggling her toes. They fall in love and marry but sometime later, Sarah leaves Jack. Prior to her leaving, Jack confronts her and he admits to kissing the daughter of a patient who had died in surgery. Sarah, in return, reveals that she has been seeing someone else due to Jack's frequent absence, and says that she wishes to leave. Even after their divorce, she is seen caring for Jack, as she and Christian try to help him through a rough time.

[edit] Anthony Cooper

• Played by: Kevin Tighe
• Appears in: "Deus Ex Machina", "Orientation", "Lockdown"
• Origin of name: Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, friend of John Locke
• Character relation: Locke (father)

Anthony Cooper is Locke's biological father. Cooper is an avid outdoorsman, enjoying hunting, fishing, and scuba diving, among other things. Cooper impregnates Emily Locke; however, she tells him that she wasn’t going to have the baby before leaving him. Over a year later Emily comes back with the news that she has put their son, John, up for adoption. Years pass without Cooper even trying to seek his son. However, in his older years his kidneys fail, and he needs a transplant. Emily comes back asking for money once again, and Cooper agrees to help her if she finds John for him. When he meets with his son for the first time, he extends an invitation to go hunting, which John, who never knew his father, accepts. The next few weeks Cooper and John bond over hunting, and it seems as if they have forged the father-son relationship John has always hoped for. Then Cooper tells John of his kidney failure, and Locke immediately donates his kidney to his father. Upon waking up after the surgery, however, Locke discovers that Cooper has left, going back to his home. When John tries to visit his father he is denied access, and realizes that there was no bond between them; Cooper has simply used his son for a kidney.

Unable to let go, John continues to park outside Cooper’s house, even after Cooper has moved. Cooper eventually meets with his son for the first time since the surgery, and tells him that people get conned all the time, and to get over the incident, saying “And John, don’t come back. You’re not wanted.”

Later, Cooper cons two men out of $700,000. Afraid they might kill him, Cooper fakes his death, then enlists his son’s help to get the money from a safety deposit box, promising him $200,000. When John delivers the money, he rejects it, saying that he didn’t do it for the money. John then tells Cooper about Helen, and how he was planning on proposing to her. Just then, Helen herself appears at the door and slaps Cooper for not letting John find peace and put his past behind him after finding out about his father's death. She then confronts John about his promise to let go of Cooper, and rejects his proposal. Cooper then leaves John, with only the slightest bit of sympathy for his son and what he has done to him in his face.

An interesting connection between Saywer and Anthony Cooper has been displayed through the Season 2 Lost DVD Bonus disc, prompting one to wonder about Cooper's own past and connections to James "Sawyer" Ford. Cooper often refers to Cons in season two, specifically in reference to long Cons, one last Con, and telling his son "You think you're the first one to be conned?". In Lockdown Cooper displays that he needs to con people to survive, which gets him in trouble to the point where his life is in danger. Anthony also is very guarded, living with 24 hour security and surrounded by weapons in his home. Anthony's age would place him in his 30s to 40s when James Ford was a child, meaning he could be the elusive Sawyer.

[edit] Jae Lee

• Played by: Tony Lee
• Appears in: "...And Found", "The Whole Truth", "The Glass Ballerina"
• Character relation: Sun (secret lover/English Instructor), Jin (owner of hotel where formerly employed)

Jae Lee was the wealthy son of the owner of the Seoul Gateway Hotel and the hotel's General Manager.

He attended Harvard and studied Medieval Russian Literature, where he met and fell in love with an American woman. He met Sun on a family arranged date, but told her he wasn't interested because of his previous love, which apparently failed.

He taught Sun English (at her request), and ended up having an affair with her. He gave her a strand of pearls and asked her to leave for America with him.

In The Glass Ballerina, Mr. Paik finds out about the affair, but instead of telling Jin about it, lies to Jin and tells him Jae is stealing from him, addressing this in terms of "honor". He orders Jin to "deliver a message to" (kill) Jae. Jin finds him and beats him up, but cannot bring himself to kill him and so tells him to leave the country and never return.

Jae Lee ends up falling from many stories high and lands on Jin's car with the string of pearls he attempted to give Sun clutched in his hand.

Many fans initially suspected foul play, but his death has been confirmed a suicide by the producers in their podcast. His large funeral is attended by Sun, who comes to mourn for him, and by Mr. Paik, who is obligated to attend because of family business connections.

[edit] Yemi

• Played by: Adetokumboh M'Cormack
• Appears in: "The 23rd Psalm", "?", "The Cost of Living"
• Character relation: Mr. Eko (brother), Locke (vision)

Yemi was the brother of Mr. Eko. When they were young, the village of Yemi and Eko was invaded by drug runners, who commanded that Yemi shoot an old man. Eko saved him from doing this task, however, and shot the man instead; the men sensed the potential for ruthlessness in Eko and took him with them when they left, leaving Yemi behind. Yemi later became a priest and worked to improve the lives of his parishoners. For example, he made arrangements to procure vaccines twice a year for the village; thugs took 80% of the vaccines in exchange for offering "protection" to the village, but villagers acknowledged that without Yemi's efforts they would have had no vaccines at all. He planned on moving to London to continue his education.

One day, the week before Yemi is scheduled to leave for London, Eko pays him a visit. Eko needs to transport heroin out of the country and wants to use the missionary planes of the church. Yemi initially refuses, but gives in when Eko warns him that his partners will burn down the church if Yemi does not cooperate. Yemi reluctantly signs papers to give Eko and his men the authority of priests. Yemi dies trying to stop Eko and the men from leaving; he is shot by gunfire from the army as the plane with the heroin begins to take off.

He later appears as a vision to Locke and Eko, and he leads them to the Question Mark. It is implied that the "monster" also takes his form and kills Mr Eko.

[edit] Penelope "Penny" Widmore

• Played by: Sonya Walger
• Appears in: "Live Together, Die Alone"
• Character relation: Desmond (ex-girlfriend)

Penelope "Penny" Widmore is the great love of Desmond, and his girlfriend before he was seperated from her by her domineering father, Charles Widmore. Desmond was shipwrecked on the island while trying to win a race to prove his worth to her father and get her back. As shown at the end of the Season 2 finale, she may still be looking for him. She is also a member of the extremely wealthy Widmore family, as described in the Lost tie-in novel Bad Twin.

[edit] List of recurring flashback characters

Character Name	Actor Name	Main Character Connection(s)	Episodes
Sergeant Major Sam Austen	Lindsey Ginter	Kate (step-father), Sayid (captor)	"What Kate Did," "One of Them"
Randy Burgess	Billy Ray Gallion	Locke (supervisor), Hurley (supervisor)	"Walkabout," "Everybody Hates Hugo"
Chrissy	Meilinda Soerjoko	Some crash survivors (ticket agent)	"White Rabbit," "House of the Rising Sun," "Two for the Road"
Captain Teresa Cortez	Rachel Ticotin	Ana Lucia (mother)	"Collision," "Two for the Road"
JD	John Dixon	Crash survivors (flight attendant)	"Pilot: Part 1," "Pilot: Part 2," "Exodus: Part 2"
Diane Jansen	Beth Broderick	Kate (mother), Sawyer (waitress)	"Born to Run," "What Kate Did," "The Long Con"
Helen	Katey Sagal	Locke (girlfriend)	"Orientation," "Lockdown"
Noor "Nadia" Abed Jazeem	Andrea Gabriel	Sayid (girlfriend), Locke (client)	"Solitary," "Lockdown"
Susan Lloyd	Tamara Taylor	Michael (girlfriend), Walt (mother)	"Special," "Adrift"
Richard Malkin	Nick Jameson	Claire (psychic), Eko (acquaintance)	"Raised by Another," "?"
Mary Jo	Brittany Perrineau	Sawyer (girlfriend), Hurley (lotto girl)	"Numbers," "Outlaws," "Everybody Hates Hugo"
Michelle	Michelle Arthur	Crash survivors (flight attendant)	"Pilot: Part 1," "Pilot: Part 2," "Exodus: Part 2"
Nurse	Julie Ow	Locke (nurse), Jack (co-worker)	"Deus Ex Machina", "A Tale of Two Cities"
Liam Pace	Neil Hopkins (older), Zack Shada (younger)	Charlie (elder brother)	"The Moth," "Fire + Water"
Mr. Paik	Byron Chung	Sun (father), Jin (employer)	"...In Translation," "The Glass Ballerina"
Cassidy Phillips	Kim Dickens	Sawyer (ex-girlfriend)	"The Long Con," "Every Man for Himself"
Carmen Reyes	Lillian Hurst	Hurley (mother)	"Numbers," "Everybody Hates Hugo"
Adam Rutherford	Uncredited	Shannon (father), Boone (step-father), Jack (patient; victim of wife's car accident) [10]	"Man of Science, Man of Faith," "Abandoned"
Marc Silverman	Zack Ward (older)	Jack (friend)	"White Rabbit," "Do No Harm"
Leonard Simms	Ron Bottitta	Hurley (friend)	"Numbers," "Dave"

[edit] Characters in other media

The following characters have been named or identified in other media related to Lost, but have not appeared in the broadcast series:

[edit] From the Diary

1. Janelle Granger - a woman who kept a diary during the first season of Lost on ABC's official website.
2. Larry - a man whose odd behavior bothered Janelle.
3. Chris Dobson - Found the diary after Janelle was attacked, and continued writing. Believed "Henry Gale" to be his brother Steve.
4. Steve Dobson - Chris's brother. Died in the crash, because he had switched seats with Chris.

[edit] From the Oceanic Air website

1. Michael Orteig - president of Oceanic Airlines.
2. Sally Rafflethorpe - a crash survivor mentioned in an Easter egg on the site.
3. Robert D. West - another crash survivor mentioned in an Easter egg on the site.
4. Jake Smith - another crash survivor mentioned in an Easter egg on the site.
5. Bob Jones - another crash survivor mentioned in an Easter egg on the site.

[edit] From the Hanso Foundation website and the Lost Experience Alternate Reality Game

1. Dr. Thomas Werner Mittelwerk - president and chief technologist of the Hanso Foundation.
2. Hugh McIntyre - director of communications for the foundation.
3. Peter Thompson - vice president, general counsel, and secretary of the foundation.
4. Joop - a 105-year-old orangutan. Foundation "experimental subject 626".
5. Rachel Blake, alias Persephone - a 24 years old hacker who controls the newsletter signup page and reveals a number of secrets of both the Foundation's activities as well as its key individuals. Her purpose is to expose the truth about the Hanso Foundation and bring it down. She is the daughter of Alvar Hanso.
6. DJ Dan - a conspiracy theorist and internet radio DJ seeking to turn the public against the Hanso Foundation.

[edit] From the Lost novels

1. Faith Harrington - an environmentalist who survived the crash. The novel, Lost: Endangered Species, is written from her point of view.
2. George - another crash survivor who is mentioned in Lost: Endangered Species and Lost: Secret Identity.
3. Dexter Cross/ Dexter Stubbs - another crash survivor in Lost: Secret Identity which is written from his point of view.
4. Jason - the brother of Dexter's girlfriend, as told in Lost: Secret Identity; found dead on the island two days after the crash; presumed to have died on impact.
5. Jeff Hadley - another crash survivor, as told in Jack Thompson's novel Lost: Signs of Life. He was a professor of art in Scotland.
6. Gary Troup* - the author of a Lost tie-in novel entitled Bad Twin, and confirmed in canon to be one of the initial crash victims.^[11] The manuscript of this book was found on the island and was read by Hurley and later by Sawyer during Season 2. According to editors of the now published Bad Twin, Gary Troup lived in New York and was in love with Cindy Chandler, a flight attendant on Oceanic Airlines, who was on the flight with Troup when the plane crashed. According to his 'official website' made by ABC, he also has written a book called The Valenzetti Equation.^[11]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Lost at the Internet Movie Database

Lost
Production:	DVD releases • Episode list • Season 1 • Season 2 • Season 3 • Soundtrack
Main characters:	Ana Lucia • Ben • Boone • Charlie • Claire • Desmond • Hurley • Jack • Jin • Juliet • Kate Libby • Locke • Michael • Mr. Eko • Nikki • Paulo • Sawyer • Sayid • Shannon • Sun • Walt
Supporting characters:	Bernard • Rose • The Others
Organizations:	DHARMA Initiative • Hanso Foundation • Oceanic Airlines
Elements:	Crossovers • DHARMA Initiative stations • Flight 815 • Mythology • Thematic motifs
Miscellaneous:	Gary Troup • In popular culture • Lost Experience • Rachel Blake • Video game