Bram was a member of a team that worked for or with Jacob. He abducted Miles shortly before the departure of the Kahana, and offered him an alternative to joining Widmore‘s team. He directly opposed Widmore and had interests in the Island, claiming that he was on „the winning side“ of the war. He was also a passenger aboard Ajira Airways Flight 316 and a survivor of the crash on the Hydra Island.
Bram, along with Ilana Verdansky, indicated that he was on the island to protect Jacob. However, upon discovering Jacob had been killed, he attacked the man claiming to be John Locke, who then revealed himself to be the Monster and killed Bram.
Bram’s name did not appear in dialogue in „Namaste“ and the final broadcast edit of the episode did not include any speaking lines for him. Nonetheless, he was credited as „Bram“.
The casting call described him as „Brian, any ethnicity, late 20s to mid-30s. Smart, charismatic and clever with the ability to be physically imposing. He is wise beyond his years. Capable of genuine charm, he is also the first person you’d want to help you out of any serious jams.“
Bram is one of the eight recurring characters whose last names we don’t know, the other seven being Omar, Phil, Zack, Emma, Jason, Neil and Zoe.
Abraham „Bram“ Stoker is the author of Dracula, one of the most famous „undead“ characters in literature. Stoker also wrote The Lair of the White Worm and The Jewel of Seven Stars. The first is about an ancient serpent living under an English manor, leading its inhabitants to the occult. The latter is about an attempt to reanimate an Egyptian mummy.
Bram is impaled by wood, which is a method for killing a vampire.
Caesar, along with Ilana, were already mentioned in the fifth Dharma Special Accesse-mail. He and Ilana were also hinted at in other videos and mentioned heavily before the fifth seasonpremiere. Despite all this hype, Caesar abruptly died midway into his fourth episode.
Caesar became the de facto leader of the Ajira 316 survivors, however he was quickly killed and Ilana took control of the group. This is similar to the fate planned for Jack and Kate in „Pilot, Part 1“ before the writers changed their minds.
In the casting call Caesar was described as „a dangerous, physical, and extremely intelligent male between the ages of 35 and 45. Although his intentions are unclear, this much is certain: he’s as skillful at charming people as he is at killing them. He also has a dark past…“
Was originally intended to be a series regular for Season 5 before being toned down to a guest star. Subsequently, he was also going to become a regular for Season 6, where he was supposed to have a big role (which was taken over partly by Zoe) and also have a large part in the series finale, but he declined because of other commitments.
Rupa Krishnavani was an Ajira Airways flight attendant aboard Ajira Airways Flight 316. She checked the boarding pass and tickets of the passengers as they boarded the plane. A few minutes later, she handed JackLocke‘s suicide note saying that security had found it while processing the coffin prior to it being put in the cargo hold. Later, Jack got up and walked toward Rupa, requesting to speak to the captain after having heard his announcement. She instructed him to take a seat as she went to summon Frank. When the plane was engulfed in the flash of light and under heavy turbulence, she was seen being thrown about the cabin. („316„) („Namaste„) It is presumed she died in the crash, as she is the only person from the plane not seen on the beach. If she survived the crash, it is likely she was killed alongside the rest of the Ajira 316 survivors. („Recon„)
In the casting call Rupa was described as „20s, Indian (South Asian), pretty. Sweet, fun-loving professional young woman who can be tougher than she appears. Can deal with difficult customers with charm and ease…“ .
Rupa’s clothing may be a pun to the term „redshirt“ as she was wearing a red stewardess uniform at the time of her presumed death.
According to her name tag, her name was supposed to be Ruga Magge, and she was possibly named after the writers’ room assistant Rupa Magge.
Ilana Verdansky was a survivor of Ajira Flight 316. She claimed to Sayid Jarrah to be a bounty hunter hired by the family of Peter Avellino to capture Sayid and escort him to Guam. In reality she was summoned to the Island to protect the remaining candidates by Jacob, with whom she had a previous relationship. Once Ilana had captured Sayid in Los Angeles, she forced him aboard Flight 316, where they were accompanied by most of the Oceanic Six. During the flight, the plane encountered turbulence and crash-landed on Hydra Island. There, she assumed leadership of a group of people, including Bram, a fellow server of Jacob, Sun, Frank, Ben, and several survivors of the Flight 316 crash. She led this group to the remains of the statue of Taweret, where she revealed to Richard Alpert and the Others that the man with them, John Locke, was not who they thought he was. During her time on the the Island, Ilana led some of the candidates to safety. Upon encountering Richard again, she explained to him that Jacob had identified him as the person who would know what to do. Following Richard’s instructions, Ilana prepared a mission to destroy the Ajira plane. However, in her haste she mishandled some dynamite from the Black Rock, which detonated, killing her instantly.
Ilana is one of 13 main characters to not have their name appear in a soundtrack title.
Ilana’s episode count is 16 (including the appearance of her flash-sideways counterpart in „The Last Recruit„).
Ilana was the fourteenth main character to die, and the fourth main character who was not a passenger of Flight 815 to die (after Charlotte, Daniel and Juliet).
Ilana was the last main character to be introduced into the series (altough the Man in Black’s presence in earlier episodes did not become clear until after Ilana’s introduction).
She was on the same plane as Kate. However, she never spoke to her.
She was aware of Sun’s husband, Jin, as well as Sawyer, Libby and Locke. It is also likely she is aware of Charlie and Boone, because the Oceanic 6 mentioned them in their lie.
Ilana first met Desmond and Claire in the flash-sideways timeline.
Ilana is one of only four members of the main cast who have not been given their own centric episode. The others being Charlotte, Frank, and Libby.
If you include the characters promoted to main cast in the finale, then Ilana is one of eight members of the main cast, as Penny, Eloise, Pierre and Christian did not have their own centric episodes either.
Ilana’s casting call was the very first for Season 5, as she was originally meant to appear in „Because You Left„. She was described as „Ilanna, a European female in her late 20s to early 30s who possesses great intelligence, but who is also dangerous. She was alluring and apparently accustomed to getting her own way.“
Ilana, after the Man in Black, was the second character to be portrayed as recognizing Jacob when first encountering him in the series.
In her character bio on the ABC website, Ilana is described as having recovered from being „badly burned“ while she was in the Russian hospital. This fact was also revealed in theenhanced version of the fifth season finale.
The ABC episode recap for „Ab Aeterno“ says that she was burned during training.
Although, the episode recap also says, „Jacob reaches over and touches her face, helping the burns heal and Ilana get better“, Jacob is not seen to touch Ilana in the episode.
Ilana means „tree“ in Hebrew. In Kabbalah, (Jewish mysticism), the numeric value of Ilana (96) equals the „throne of God.“ Two variations of the name are „Elana“ and „Ilanit.“
Ilana was the 31st character to have a flashback.
Ilana was the seventh guest character to have a flashback and the third to have a flashback as a guest star before becoming a regular. The other two are Desmond and Frank.
According to Zuleikha Robinson in an interview with NY Magazine, Ilana’s badge in „316“ and „He’s Our You“ bore the false name „Mary.“
Her death is reminiscent of Leslie Arzt‘s death. („Exodus, Part 2„) Jack and Hurley were present for both explosions.
Ilana wore the same clothes for an entire season, then changed her clothes shortly before her death. The same happened to Mr. Eko.
Ilana consistently wore a red shirt shortly before her death. (See redshirt)
Her last name may be a reference to the famous Russian scientist and philosopher Vladimir Vernadsky, most famous for developing the concept of the biosphere and the noosphere. This would be keeping with the Lost tradition of naming characters after philosophers and scientists.
Ilana’s abrupt death and the lack of answers regarding her past despite being promoted to the regular cast confused some fans. When asked about it, Carlton Cuse has said they had „greater plans“ for Ilana but decided to spend more time with established characters instead. In the same interview, he also said that Ilana led a „hard and tragic life“ that he could not reveal any details of yet. Cuse initially likened the character to Heath Ledger’s Joker from The Dark Knight, stating that: „There was something very unsettling about the way the Joker kept telling different stories about his background — something very similar to what we had planned for Ilana.“
Zuleikha Robinson confirmed that Ilana had originally been intended to be Jacob’s biological daughter. However, this was later dropped as it was deemed that there was not enough screen time to develop the storyline further in the final season.
Ilana also told Ben Linus that „Jacob was the closest thing [she] ever had to a father. („Dr. Linus„)
Ilana is not featured on the season 6 poster, despite her main character status in the final season. She is the only main character (not including those upgraded in „The End„) to not appear on a season poster, even as recurring characters Rose and Bernard (with Vincent) appear.
Of the twenty-eight credited main characters in „The End„, Ilana was the only one who did not appear.
Out of all the main characters, only Ilana and Frank appeared in no scenes before the crash of Oceanic Flight 815.
Last words: „Hugo, I’m looking out for your best interests! All of you! Nothing is more important than this! That thing is evil. And God help us if it ever leaves this island, you’ve got to be-„
People who witnessed her death: Ben, Sun, Hurley, Richard, Jack, Frank, Miles
Frank J. Lapidus is an aircraft pilot who was originally scheduled to pilot Oceanic AirlinesFlight 815, but overslept and missed the flight, causingSeth Norris to fly it instead. Before joining the freighter team, Frank was among the few who believed that the wreckage of Flight 815 that was found at the bottom of the Sunda Trench was staged. Matthew Abaddon described him as a „pretty good pilot“, but Frank may be an alcoholic with some past issues according to Naomi. Frank was hired by Charles Widmore to be the lead chopper pilot on the freighter Kahana in order to ferry thescience team to the Island. After the death of Naomi, however, he begrudgingly transported the entire mercenary team as well. When Frank learned that Oceanic Flight 815 passengers were alive on the Island, he agreed to help them escape, and succeeded after the Others’ ambush of the mercenary team. When the freighter sunk and the island disappeared, the helicopter eventually ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean, but Frank found rescue along with Desmond and the Oceanic Six. After being rescued, Frank participated in the cover up story of the Oceanic Six.
Three years later, in 2007, he began piloting for Ajira Airways. Frank piloted Ajira Flight 316, the plane that returned the Oceanic Six to the Island. Frank safely landed the Ajira Plane on the Runway at the Hydra Island despite some system failures. After the rough landing, Frank ventured on withSun in search of Jin and her friends, but they eventually parted ways. As soon as he returned to the Hydra Island in hopes of fixing the plane, he encountered Ilana’s group and got knocked out after failing to answer their question („What lies in the shadow of the Statue?“). While unconscious, he was taken back to the Main Island. Bram questioned Ilana about Frank’s status as a „candidate“ for the replacement of Jacob as guardian of the Island. Frank accompanied Ilana’s group to the Statue where he watched Ilana show Richard the corpse of John Locke. After Jacob was murdered, he followed Ilana to the Temple and arrived there just in time to witness the Temple Massacre. Frank resided at the beach camp along with Sun,Ilana, Miles, Ben, Richard, Hurley and Jack until Ilana’s death, at which point the group split in two, with Frank staying with those who chose to reason with the Man in Black in order to keep him from leaving the Island. He left in the submarine with Jack’s group, and was on board when it exploded and sank. Frank survived and was saved by Miles and Richard, who helped him repair the plane. The three of them left the Island along with Kate, Sawyer, and Claire.
He was the fourth minor character to have a flashback. He was the second of three guest stars to have a flashback before becoming a regular, along with Desmond and Ilana, not counting Rose, Bernard, Penny, Eloise or Pierre, all of whom were credited as main cast solely for the finale.
Frank is one of the six characters to have their first flashback in the episode they first appeared in. The other five are Charlotte, Miles, Jacob, Juliet, and Jack.
Frank is one of the two living members of the Kahana crew, the other being Miles.
Frank has worn his pilot outfit from „316“ all the way to „The End„, the whole time during his second visit to the Island.
Frank is one of only three Season 6 main characters whose fate has not been revealed in the flash-sideways world. Richard Alpert and The Man in Black are the other two, though since Richard would have died a natural death by 2004, and without the Island MiB would have either not existed or also died a natural death, Frank is the only character who hypothetically could have been a part of the afterlife.
Frank is one of only eight members of the main cast who have not been given their own centric episode, the others being Charlotte, Ilana, Libby, Penny, Pierre, Christian and Eloise.
Not counting Penny, Eloise and possibly Pierre (whose status is unknown), who were only listed as main cast for the finale, Frank is the only main character to survive to the end of the series without having had a centric episode.
Jeff Fahey was promoted to the main cast for Season 6 after appearing as a guest star in sixteen episodes over the course of two seasons.
Despite being a guest star in Season 4, he appeared in more episodes than Miles, Desmond and Michael. He appeared in as many as Charlotte, Sun, Jin and Claire, who were all main characters. His guest star status was likely due to his decreased role in Season 5 in which he only appeared in six episodes, less than any main character, save Charlotte (Rebecca Mader) who only appeared in five.
Frank is one of only two characters to escape the island twice, the other being Kate (whom he piloted off on both occasions).
Frank has spent the least amount of time on the Island out of all the main characters who have visited the Island and are still alive at the end of the series. In December 2004, he piloted the helicopter from the Kahana to the Island three times and spent no more than a day on the Island each time, then in 2007, he landed Ajira Flight 316 on the Island and piloted the same plane off the Island 14 days later, a total of 17 days.
Frank is one of 13 main characters to not have their name appear in a soundtrack title.
Benjamin Linus was a long-time resident of the Island and a leader of the Others. Though often a calm, eloquent antagonist, Ben’s insecurity and jealousies sometimes brought out a petulant, reckless side. He remained, however, an expert manipulator, a liar and a murderer, and he served as a main villain for much of the series.
Ben came to the Island a polite, quiet eight-year-old, the son of an abusive DHARMA Initiativejanitor. He met the island’s natives, who healed him after a prisoner he freed shot him, and he remained in touch as he grew and worked for the DHARMA Initiative. Ben eventually helped these „Hostiles“ kill the Initiative members, and he later ousted and replaced their leader, Charles Widmore. As their new leader, Ben tried to solve the Island’s pregnancy issues, and he raised an adoptive daughter, Alex, as one of the Others.
In 2004, Ben developed cancer, but the crash brought a surgeon, Jack Shephard. After entering the survivors‘ camp as a prisoner under the nameHenry Gale, Ben kidnapped Jack and manipulated him into operating. He also met John Locke, who threatened his leadership, and Ben’s older rival Widmore meanwhile sent a ship to the Island to capture him. A mercenary from the boat killed Alex thanks to Ben’s negligence. To protect the Island, Ben moved it, letting several survivors escape and leaving Locke as his successor.
He spent the next few years on the mainland, and though he failed to kill Widmore’s daughter as promised, he eliminated much of the man’s organization using Sayid, a survivor who escaped. He murdered Locke, who’d come to retrieve those who’d left, but he continued Locke’s mission and returned the survivors to the Island. There, the monster judged him for Alex’s death and took the form of Locke, convincing Ben to kill Jacob, the Island’s protector. Confidence and power lost, Ben became the survivors’ apologetic ally. Hurley became the new protector, and Ben served for years as his advisor.
After death, Ben was a teacher of his previous ‘daughter’, Alex. As his acquaintances from the Island moved on, he chose to stay behind to work out his issues.
Ben was the twenty-fourth character to ever have a flashback.
Ben is one of 22 main characters to have their names appear in a soundtrack title.
Ben’s episode count is 59 as of „The End„, making him the character with the most appearances who was not on Flight 815.
Ben appeared in eight episodes as a guest star before being promoted to main cast.
One of his appearances was made solely by his flash sideways counterpart. („The Last Recruit„)
Ben is one of the seven characters to have a flashback, a flash-forward and a flash sideways episode centered around them. The other six are Hurley, Sayid, Kate, Sawyer, Sun and Jack.
Ben is one of only two characters to be members of four out of the five major factions on the Island, the DHARMA Initiative, the survivors, the Ajira survivors, the Others and the Kahanacrew. Ben wasn’t part of the Kahana crew, though was part of the four others. Miles is the other character to be a part of four major Island factions.
Paulo saw him from the bathroom of the Pearl, but they never formally met.
Ben has been seen to visit six of the ten known DHARMA Initiative stations: the Swan, the Pearl, the Hydra, the Flame, the Orchid and the Lamp Post. However as he was leader of the island for a significant amount of time and had connections with all the other stations it can be strongly assumed he has visited at least most of the others if not them all.
When Ben asks Jack to pick up Locke’s body, he tells him it’s at the corner of Grant and Hayes. Named after president’s Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes, „Ulysses“ is the novel Ben read aboard Ajira 316, and Rutherford is the surname of 815 survivor Shannon Rutherford.
In a way, Ben is the cause of both his parents’ deaths.
Emily died giving birth, and Roger died when Ben gassed him.
Both of Ben’s parents died on his birthday.
He says that he hates needles, although he may have said this as part of conning Sawyer. („Every Man for Himself„)
Juliet told Ben about his tumor the day before the crash. („One of Us„) However, 72 days after the crash, Ben told Jack, „Two days after I found out I had a fatal tumor on my spine, a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky.“ („The Cost of Living„)
His use of the alias „Henry“ in Season 2 earned him the nickname „Benry“ among some fans.
The vehicles that were used in the opening scene of „The Man Behind the Curtain“ could inform the year of Ben’s birth:
An anonymous source associated with the production claims that he was ordered to get cars 1963 or older for the Portland scene.[2]
The green car appears to be a Dodge Dart two-door Hardtop ’65 (the rear lens, front hood, and grille are different from ’63 and ’64 models)
In the Season 3 DVD commentary for „The Man Behind the Curtain„, it is explained that Ben, as leader, and Richard Alpert, as someone who nominates the leader, keep each other in „check“ by having the power to pick each other’s replacement on the Island.
Also in the commentary, the producers describe the battle between Ben and Locke as being a multi-chapter showdown for the title of „Master of the Island“.
At the barracks, Ben’s study prominently features preserved moths in framed displays. At least one of these was taken with him to the ruins.
Both Ben and Locke were born prematurely and named by their mothers, who had the same name, Emily.
Ben shows many signs of being a sociopath: excessive lying, manipulation, kills with no guilt or mercy, has few emotional attachments to anyone, claims Juliet is his „property.“
Ben has been assaulted more than any other character in the show. He has a tendency to be brutally beaten by someone for various reasons, such as the torture received from Sayid in „One of Them‘, the passionate pummeling unleashed by Jack in „, Through the Looking Glass, Part 2, the angry assault from Sawyer in „Confirmed Dead“ , and the beating dished out byDesmond in „Dead Is Dead„.
Ben has stabbed someone to death in a finale twice. (Martin Keamy and Jacob)
Ben appears to believe in God. He took the fact that a spinal surgeon felt out of the sky, shortly after he found out he had a fatal tumor on his spine, as proof that God exists.
Though he could, as always, be lying.
Ben is a compulsive liar, but any time he gives „his word“, he holds to it, no matter what.
Ben declares that if the Island is going to sink, he will go down with it. This is a traditional attribute of a sea captain, to go down with his ship, and refers to the role in which Ben sees himself as leader of the Island.
Also Ben has no family or friends that we know back in the real world. The island is all he has and he sees no point in returning to the real world.
Dr. Jack Shephard was an American spinal surgeon and the plane crash survivors‘ de factoleader. Before the crash, his obsessive personality wrecked his marriage and his relationship with his father. On the Island though, the survivors sought his guidance during many crises and missions, and he united them until they cooperated and formed a society.
Jack developed romantic relationships with Kate and later Juliet. Jack and Sawyer’s shared romantic interest in Kate sparked a jealous rivalrybetween them for her affections. His rationality, so useful when solving problems, prevented him from accepting the Island‘s mystic properties and caused friction with „man of faith“ John Locke. Problems arose that Jack could not fix despite his obsession and self-sacrifice. Though he tried to repress his guilt, at times he would resort to physical or emotional outbursts.
After suffering a kidnapping and almost negotiating his own rescue, Jack escaped the Island with five other survivors. Off-island, he laid his father to rest and proposed to Kate, but visits from John Locke and the ghost of his father sent him towards depression and substance abuse. Yet he gained new faith, and he led the survivors back to the island, believing it was his destiny. He then found himself in the past, where he tried to reset his own life and the lives of the others and prevent the crash of Oceanic 815.
The attempt failed, sending Jack to a new low. But after discovering he was a candidate to replace Jacob as Protector of the island, he gained confidence and decided to stay on the island. He also ceded decision-making to Sawyer, overcoming his control issues. He chose to become the Island’s new protector and was almost killed by the Man in Black, but with Kate’s help, he killed him before he could leave the Island. He then sacrificed himself to relight the Heart, saving the Island from destruction. Post-death, he imagined a son and an ex-wife to come to terms with his bad relationships. His personality mixed science and faith, but he again felt the compulsion to fix others. His stubbornness returned, and unlike his friends, he resisted remembering his life, even after experiencing flashes. Eventually though, he remembered everything and after seeing his father again, he was able to „let go“, reuniting with Kate and his friends, to finally move on in the church.
Jack is the only one who has met all the main characters, since Sun and Sayid haven’t met Pierre, Hurley hasn’t met Eloise, and Sawyer hasn’t met Ilana.
Jack was the nineteenth and last main character to „remember“ his experiences on the island in the flash-sideways.
Jack is one of the seven characters to have a flashback, a flash-forward and a flash-sideways episode centered around them. The other six are Hurley, Sayid, Kate, Sawyer, Ben and Sun.
When Jack sees his father in the hospital and asks another doctor for stress-relieving medication, he asks for Clonazepam. This is the same medication Hurley was prescribed during his stay at Santa Rosa.
As de facto leader, Jack has resorted to some extreme measures to protect the crash survivors. This includes sanctioning the torture of Sawyer (who he believed to have Shannon‘s asthma medication), setting up the ambush of Ethan Rom, holding Ben hostage to trade for Walt, engaging in a risky attempt to recover Walt, holding Ben‘s life hostage during surgery to allow his friends to escape, and refusing to bring the phone to Ben which would have resulted in Jin, Sayid, and Bernard‘s „deaths“.
In the commentary track on the Season 1 DVD, the producers explained that the character of Jack as the de facto leader of the survivors was intended to be killed off in „The Pilot, Part 1“ bythe Monster, with Kate becoming the de facto leader. However, ABC executives and advisers to the producers convinced the writers and producers to keep him alive. They reasoned that killing him off, while a novel idea, generated feelings of betrayal, bewilderment, and anger in the audience. Instead, Oceanic 815’s pilot, Seth Norris was written in and killed in Jack’s place.Fox‘s portrayal of Jack as such a likable and noble character that audiences can relate to only helped solidify his survival and importance to the show.
In the same commentary track, it was discussed that the role was originally intended for Michael Keaton but this idea was discarded after it was decided that he wouldn’t die in „Pilot, Part 1„.
In Lost: Via Domus, his full name is given as Jackson Shepherd. However, only the Island locations in the game are considered canon, but the story-line and characters are not.
Jack is a baseball fan, and seems to have some affection for the Boston Red Sox and some contempt for the New York Yankees.
Jack’s frequent crying and over-emoting earned him the fan nickname „Jears“, which combines „Jack“ and „tears“.
Jack may be indirectly responsible for Shannon‘s disdainful attitude towards others. If he had chosen to save Adam Rutherford instead of Sarah in „Man of Science, Man of Faith„, Shannon may have had an easier transition from childhood to adulthood without her step-mother‘s influence.
Nearly every time Jack is seen with a gun it is a Colt .45 pistol.
Jack and Pierre are the only main characters confirmed to be aware of all the DHARMA Initiative stations.
Jack, like Ben, develops a deadly condition (appendicitis) on an Island where people including Rose, Locke, and Jin are all healed in some way (Rose’s cancer, Locke’s paralysis and Jin’s infertility).
Jack’s candidate number, 23, is special with respect to the Numbers and the remaining candidates.
Jack is the only character to play his theme. He played it when Kate tried to rescue him from the Barracks, while he was held by the others.
Jack revealed to Kate that he had taken a couple of flying lessons but realized that „It wasn’t for him“.
Jack is one of 22 main characters to have their names appear in a soundtrack title.
Last words: „I’ll see you in another life, brother“
Witnesses of his death: Vincent
Episode statistics
Counting archival footage, Jack appeared in 113 episodes, more than any other character, and he was the first to appear in 100 episodes.
Jack, along with Hurley, hold the record for longest streak of appearances, both having a streak of 31, both between „Pilot, Part 1“ and „Abandoned„.
He had the most centric episodes, including seven in a single season, also a record.
Jack had one of the highest ratios of centrics to appearances (22/113), second only to Jacob who appeared in just 11 episodes.
The first three season premieres featured Jack’s flashbacks. He starred in the first flashback and flash forward, though twocharacters had centric episodes before his first.
He tied Michael with 5 mobisode appearances, and he tied or surpassed all characters for appearances each season, except for season 3, when Kate appeared more.
He and Kate are the only characters to appear in every premiere.
Jack was the nineteenth main character to die, the third from the Oceanic 6, and was the last person to die on screen.
Sun-Hwa Kwon (née Paik) (Korean name: Paik Sun-hwa; Hangul: 백선화; Hanja: 白善華), more commonly known as Sun, was married to Jin-Soo Kwon and was one of the middle sectionsurvivors of Oceanic Flight 815. Though she initially pretended to speak only Korean while on the Island, she was helpful, caring, sociable and occasionally brave with survivors, eventually forming notable relationships with Kate and Hurley.
Before the crash, Sun and Jin’s marriage suffered because Jin oppressed her and they couldn’t conceive. She strayed from and almost left her husband at one point. On the Island, the couple isolated themselves until Sun revealed that she spoke English, shocking her husband. He shunned her, but they later reconciled. Despite Jin’s infertility, Sun conceived Jin’s baby on the Island, which strengthened their marriage but threatened Sun’s health. The couple managed to board an offshore freighter, but only Sun seemed to escape its explosion.
Back in civilization, Sun became more self-confident and daring, seizing control of her father’s company. She also sought revenge for Jin’s death, but then flew back to the Island upon learning he was still alive. Their reunion was very brief, however. A submarine they boarded sank, and she and Jin drowned together. In the flash sideways, the pair were reunited and moved on with their friends from the Island.
She has appeared in the fewest episodes of any character that has been a main character in all six seasons, and therefore also has the highest number of credits for episodes in which she does not appear of all the main characters.
Sun was the fifth character to ever have a flashback and the fifth to have a flash-forward.
Out of her 14 centric episodes, 11 were centered on at least one other person (usually Jin or the other Oceanic Six members), making her the character with the most multi/shared centric episodes, with only „The House of the Rising Sun„, „The Whole Truth“ and „D.O.C.“ being solely Sun-centric.
Sun has the fourth-most amount of centric episodes, trailing only behind Locke, Jack and Kate.
Sun is one of two main characters along with Jack who’ve always had more than one centric episode per season.
Sun is one of the seven characters to have a flashback, a flash-forward and a flash sideways episode centered around them. The other six are Hurley, Sayid, Kate, Sawyer, Ben and Jack.
Sun is the last character, chronologically to be seen in „Pilot, Part 1„.
Sun was the only member of the Oceanic Six (aside from Aaron) not to have a flash-forward episode centered solely on them. Her flashforward episode was shared with Jin, who had flashbacks.
Sun has experience in botany, which helped the survivors many times (like growing fruit for example, or helping Shannon with her asthma).
Sun is one of 22 main characters to have their names appear in a soundtrack title.
Sun is one of the Korean names for the facets of the I Ching, which is the basis for the DHARMA logos.
Last words: „I love you“
Witnesses of her death: Jin
Name
„Sun“ is only half of her Korean name. Dr. Je-Gyu Kim, apparently a friend of the family and who knows her on a first-name-basis, can be heard addressing her as „선화씨“ (Sun-Hwa-ssi) indicating that her full given name is Sun-Hwa. („The Whole Truth„)
When Sun was married, if she followed an old tradition of Korean women, her title would be Paik Sun-Hwa, wife of Kwon when the relation has to be known. It remains unclear why she followed the Western practice of taking her husband’s surname. She may have just let herself be addressed as „Mrs. Kwon“; however, Colleen referred to her as „Sun-Hwa Kwon“, so it can be inferred that she took Jin’s name.
Her passport, as seen in „Because You Left„, clearly shows „Kwon“ as her surname and „Sun-Hwa“ as her given name.
Koreans put their surname before their given name. „Sun-Hwa Paik“ is a Westernised form; in Korean, her name is 백선화 (Paik Sun-Hwa).
„Sun Hwa“ roughly translates to „Goodness and Beauty“
There is no male counterpart to „Sun Hwa“
Alternate Romanized spellings:
Revised Romanization of Korean (RR): Baek Seon-hwa
Sayid Hassan Jarrah (Arabic:سعيد جراح) was a middle sectionsurvivor of Oceanic Flight 815 and a former Iraqi Republican Guard torturer. A courageous man and a competent leader, Sayid maintained a conservative manner which reflected strength and spirituality.
Sayid spent much of his adult life searching for his love, Nadia, and trying to atone for his past. On the Island, his skills and leadership played a key role in his group’s survival. Sayid worked to find the source of a distress signal and met the woman who sent it out. He developed a relationship withShannon, another survivor, and was devastated by her accidental death. Sayid proved very useful in the survivors’ fight against the Others, first interrogating one who they trapped and later helping Kate and Locke rescue Jack.
Sayid was one of the six who escaped the Island. He reunited with Nadia, but when a hit-and-run driver killed her, Sayid joined Benjamin Linus as a hitman against Widmore to avenge her death. Afterward, he did charity work in the Dominican Republic, but Ilana forced him aboard Ajira Airways Flight 316, returning him to the Island. Sayid found himself in 1977, where the DHARMA Initiative captured him, believing him a Hostile. He escaped and unsuccessfully tried to kill young Ben, whose father then shot him. After he returned to 2007, he died, but the Man in Black resurrected him and recruited him to his side. After this, Sayid lived in the Man in Black’s group in an almost blank state. After speaking with Desmond, he broke out of this state, and was later redeemed when he sacrificed himself aboard Widmore’s submarine, exploding while carrying the Man in Black’s bomb.
Sayid is one of the seven characters to have a flashback, a flash-forward and a flash-sideways episode centered around them. The other six are Hurley, Sun, Kate, Sawyer, Ben and Jack.
Sayid was the fifteenth main character to die.
Sayid was the first main character of the Oceanic Six to die.
Sayid was also the first main character to die in the season that was on Oceanic Flight 815 and was a main character since Season 1.
Sayid also was the first main character not seen at the crash site to die.
Sayid is the third main character to die in an explosion, after Michael, and Ilana.
All of Sayid’s love interests over the course of the show have ended up dying (Nadia, Shannon, Elsa and Ilana).
In almost all of his appearances on island Sayid wears an undershirt.
The name Sayyid is an Arabic honorific for a descendant of the prophet Muhammad. However, Sayyid and Sayid have greater pronunciation and written differences in Arabic. While Sayyid(سيّد) means a master or one of the prophet descendant, Sayid (also pronounced Sa’eed – سعيد) is an adjective in Arabic means simply a happy person.
Sayid’s surname, Jarrah (Arabic: جراح), originally meaning a ‘cutter’ or a ‘wounder’ in traditional Arabic, is currently the typical Arabic translation for the word ‘Surgeon’.
Eucalyptus marginata (Jarrah) is a very durable Australian hardwood, once used to make roads in England.
The names Sayid / Said may be a link to Palestinian-American literary theorist, critic. and philosopher Edward W. Said (Arabic:إدوارد وديع سعيد). Among other books on related topics, Edward W. Said wrote Orientalism; a book that reflects on colonization and how the colonizers of a new land start to call the original habitants „the Other“.
That name similarity may have played in a part in Sawyer assuming Sayid was the one in handcuffs and was a terrorist, who was to blame for the crash. („Pilot, Part 2„)
Three of the six Sayid-centric episodes (not counting the multi-flash finales) have been followed by a Claire-centric episode.
Sayid is considered by many Lost fans to be the most level-headed Survivor, and is highly regarded for being the best at judging characters.[2]
Sayid can be seen on the TV in the background of the U.S. Army Office where Kate’s father works in the episode „What Kate Did„.
The name of Sayid’s father, Hassan; Sayid’s date of birth; and location of his birth were all obtained from his passport details as seen via the Oceanic Air Website.
In the post-hatch timeline, Sayid is seen using a compass in season 3, apparently unaffected by any island magnetism.
Sayid appears to have been shot more than any other survivor. He has been shot four separate times; once in a flashback, by himself, once on the Island in the present, by Mikhail Bakunin, once in the future, by Elsa and once on the Island in the past, by Roger Linus.
He was also shot with a tranquilizer dart.
Has been mistaken for an Other/Hostile more than once. Danielle Rousseau captures him, thinking he is an Other, Mikhail pretends to think he is an Other when he first encounters him, andRadzinsky thinks he is a Hostile when he is in the past.
Sayid is one of 22 main characters to have their names appear in a soundtrack title.
Last words: „Because it’s going to be you, Jack“
Witnesses of his death: Jack, Sawyer, Hurley, Kate, Jin, Sun, Frank
Hugo Reyes, more commonly known by his nickname „Hurley„, was one of the middle sectionsurvivors of the crash of Oceanic Flight 815. Hurley’s father disappeared when he was ten and did not return until Hurley was 27. During his father’s absence, Hurley developed an eating disorder, and later a traumatic accident landed him in a mental asylum where he started seeing an imaginary person. He was overly-conscious about his sanity and weight afterwards. While employed at Mr. Cluck’s, Hurley won the lottery by playing the numbers given to him by Lenny. Because of a series of unfortunate incidents following his win, he believed himself to be plagued with bad luck because of the numbers and searched for an answer to the curse.
On the Island, Hurley was typically happy-go-lucky and kept the spirits of his fellow survivors up. He was also a voice of reason in the group and used his common sense to solve difficult situations. Eventually, Hurley found that he could not escape the Numbers, and after seeing them on the side of the Hatch, believed that opening it would be a bad idea. He struggled with being given the task of dividing up the food in the Hatch and began seeing his old imaginary friend on the Island. Later, he was captured by the Others, along with Jack, Kate, and Sawyer as a part of Michael‘s betrayal, but was released to go back and warn the other survivors not to come for them. Back at camp, Hurley found an old DHARMA van which he was able to get running again with the help of Charlie, Sawyer, and Jin, restoring his and the rest of the survivors’ optimism, and creating a belief in him of self-created luck. He later used the van as a crucial part in the mission to rescue Sayid, Jin, and Bernard.
After Jack called the freighter for rescue, Hurley and five other survivors managed to escape the Island by using a helicopter. However, they were forced to leave everyone else behind when Benmoved the Island. Hurley tried to carry on happily with his life, but began seeing visions of Charlie offthe Island and struggled with accepting the lie they created. Eventually, he was readmitted to the Santa Rosa Mental Institute where he routinely conversed with Charlie and other deceased people. He was removed from Santa Rosa by Sayid, and taken to a „safe house“, where he was mistaken for a murderer. He later threw a Hot Pocket at Benjamin Linus and surrendered to authorities. Hurley was found innocent and released from prison where he was convinced by a man to return to the Island.
He boarded Ajira Flight 316 and was flashed to 1977 where he worked in the kitchen for the DHARMA Initiative. After the detonation of Jughead byJuliet, he time traveled to his original timeline. Soon afterward, the now-deceased Jacob began to appear to Hurley, first telling him to take the wounded Sayid to the Temple, and then instructing him to take Jack to the Lighthouse. Hurley later acted as a medium between Richard and his deceased wife Isabella.
Hurley was confirmed to be one of Jacob’s candidates by Jacob himself. He was visited and touched by Jacob while off the Island. Hurley’s name appears on the wall in the cliffside cave and the Lighthouse wheel as „8 – Reyes“. Hurley eventually took over as protector of the island for Jack and hired Ben as an advisor. („The End„)
In the flash-sideways, Hurley was finally reunited with his murdered island lover, Elizabeth „Libby“ Smith and along with their friends, they moved on.
Hurley was the thirteenth character to ever have a flashback.
Hurley was the second character to ever have a flash-forward.
Hurley is one of the six characters to appear in all six seasons and Missing Pieces along with Jack, Sun, Christian Shephard, Claire and Jin.
Hurley’s episode count is 107. He is the third most-frequently appearing character behind Jack and Kate.
Hurley, along with Jack, hold the record for longest streak of appearances, both having a streak of 31, both between „Pilot, Part 1“ and „Abandoned„.
Hugo is one of 22 main characters to have their names appear in a soundtrack title.
Hurley became the third character to appear in 100 episodes, after Jack and Kate.
Hurley is one of the seven characters to have a flashback, a flash-forward and a flash-sideways episode centered around them. The other six are Sun, Sayid, Kate, Sawyer, Ben, and Jack.
Hurley is worth $156 million. (That is without counting any potential life insurance he had that his parents could collect after the crash.)
The ceiling of Hurley’s bedroom was shaped like a horseshoe, a traditional symbol of good luck. („Tricia Tanaka Is Dead„)
Hurley’s nickname, not his forename or surname, is stitched onto the pocket of his DHARMA jumpsuit. He is the only member of the DHARMA Initiative seen to hold this distinction.
Hurley’s favorite television show is Exposé. The show that Nikki guest starred on.
In the episode „…In Translation„, Hurley can be seen on TV when Jin entered the house of Byung Han, the secretary of environmental safety for the Korean government. This may have been around the time Hurley won the lottery.
Hurley has been the most slapped character on the show.
Hurley’s family name, „Reyes,“ means „kings“ in Spanish.
Hurley is the last character ever to have a traditional centric episode.
The band, Weezer has made an album called, „Hurley“ with Hurley on the cover.
Hurley is one of five original main characters to survive it at the end of the series, ignoring flash sideways.
Hurley, along with Sawyer, is one of two main characters who rarely used their actual names.
At the 2011 Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais joked that the finale of Lost was complicated, but “from what I can make out, the fat one ate them all“, in reference to Hurley.
Hurley is also one of the few Oceanic Flight 815 passengers still alive at the end of the show, presuming that deaths are only determined by what is directly seen and said onscreen. This does not include the flash sideways. The others are Zach, Emma, Kate, Sawyer, Claire, Aaron, Walt, Cindy, Rose,Bernard and Vincent.
Katherine Anne Austen, more commonly known as Kate, was one of the survivors from the crash of Oceanic Flight 815. Before the crash, Kate had spent many years fleeing the law after killing her abusive father. To achieve her goals, she would commit several other crimes and would turn to bank robbery, assault and seduction.
On the Island, she became an integral member of the survivors’ society, forming strong bonds and eventually romantic relationships with Jack andSawyer and also becoming close with Claire and Sun. Resourceful, quick-witted and mysteriously reclusive, she participated in many missions while attempting to hide her troubled past from the rest of the survivors.
Kate was captured by the Others along with Jack and Sawyer, but she eventually escaped the Island with five other survivors. Off the island, Kate consummated her feelings for Jack and they began a romantic relationship. Kate went on trial for her various crimes and, in desperation to resolve her issues with the law, accepted a ten-year probation order. Kate and Jack eventually moved in together and were briefly engaged, but Jack’s guilt about leaving the others behind finally caught up with him and manifested in drug and alcohol problems which ultimately ended their relationship. She raised Aaron Littleton as her son, but she finally decided to return to the Island to rescue his mother, Claire.
Once she returned to the Island, Kate was stranded in 1977 with the other survivors. She worked for the DHARMA Initiative and saved a youngBenjamin Linus‘s life. She then time-traveled to 2007, where she found an „infected“ Claire. Kate joined the Man in Black‘s side, but she did not trust him. She helped Jack to kill the Man in Black and said her final goodbye to Jack. They re-affirmed their love for one another before she escaped the island with Claire. Jack and Kate were reunited in the afterlife and moved on with their friends.
Kate was born sometime between May 21 and June 21, 1977 and grew up in rural Iowa. („Pilot, Part 2„) („Tabula Rasa„)She was raised by her mother, Diane and Sam Austen, the man that she believed was her biological father. Her actual father was a man named Wayne. Her parents divorced when Kate was five, and Kate lived with her mother. Diane married Wayne, even though he was an alcoholic and physically abused her. Wayne had occasionally leered at Kate during her childhood as well. („What Kate Did„)
The character of Kate was first intended to be the leader of the survivors, after Jack’s character was to be killed off in „Pilot, Part 1„. Later, the writers found that killing Jack in the first episode would raise feelings of betrayal and anger in the audience. They decided instead to have the pilot killed in Jack’s place.
In this depiction, Kate was written as an older woman traveling with her husband, whom she is separated from after he goes to the bathroom right before the crash. This idea was still employed, but with the characters of Rose and Bernard.
Kate, along with Claire, Rose, Penny and Eloise Hawking, is one of only five female main characters alive at the end of the series, not counting the flash sideways.
Kate is one of only two characters to escape the island twice, the other being Frank (who facilitated her escape on both occasions).
Kate is the only member of the Oceanic 6 to fly off the island on Ajira 316.
On her mugshot the subject file is: 00-0428-23-5607-01, which contains the Numbers 4, 8, 23 and 42.
Kate has visited five of the ten known DHARMA Initiative stations: the Swan, the Staff, the Hydra, the Flame and the Tempest. Kate, Jin and Desmond have visited the most stations. SinceJin is dead and Desmond isn’t a survivor, Kate has visited the most stations from the survivors.
Kate, while on the run as a fugitive, called Edward Mars on Catholic Holy Days of Obligation. („I Do„)
Kate seems to be a fan of American country singer Patsy Cline. She plays Patsy Cline records twice on the Island, once in the hatch in „What Kate Did“ and once at Claire’s house in „Eggtown„. Patsy Cline songs also play in Kate flashback scenes in „Tabula Rasa“ (in Ray Mullen’s truck), „Left Behind“ (in the tow truck) and „The Incident, Parts 1 & 2“ (in the grocery store she attempted to steal from). Kate also listens to Patsy Cline on the way to Cassidy’s house in her car in Whatever Happened, Happened. Interestingly, Patsy Cline was killed in a plane crash.
Kate is one of seven characters who has their real name in the title of an episode, in Kate’s case two episodes. („What Kate Did„) („What Kate Does„) The others are Sun, Hurley, Tricia Tanaka, Dave, Ji Yeon and Sawyer (as LaFleur).
Kate is one of 22 main characters to have their names appear in a soundtrack title.
Kate is one of the five original main characters still alive at the end of the series.
Kate is the only one of the Oceanic survivors and candidates whose candidate number is not one of „The Numbers“ or a multiple thereof. The only survivors on the list in addition to Hurley, Locke, Sawyer, Jack, Jin and/or Sun, and Sayid are Kate, Michael, and Shannon. Shannon’s number is 32, a multiple of 4 and 8 and Michael’s number is 124, a multiple of 4. Kate’s number is 51, which is not a multiple of any of the numbers.
Kate’s episode count so far is 108, as of „The End„.
Kate was the second character, after Jack, to appear in 100 episodes.
Kate was the central character of the first episode to contain the traditional flashback format. („Tabula Rasa„) In season 6, she was the first to receive an individual flash sideways. („What Kate Does„)
Until Season 5, she was the only character to ever have consecutive centric episodes, and maintained this position until „The Candidate„, only episodes before the series finale.
Kate was the third character to ever have a flashback.
Kate was the fourth character to ever have a flash-forward.
Kate is one of the seven characters to have a flashback, a flash-forward and a flash sideways episode centered around them. The other six are Hurley, Sayid, Sun, Sawyer, Ben and Jack.
Kate was the first character to do this.
Kate and Jack are the only characters to appear in every season premiere of the series.
Kate has had three instances of back-to-back centric episodes, although in both cases, one of these episodes was shared with at least one other person. In the first season, she appeared in the second of two flashbacks in „Pilot, Part 2“ before having the first traditional flashback in „Tabula Rasa„. Later in the season, she had a flashback in „Exodus, Part 1„, which followed Kate-centric „Born to Run„. In the sixth season premiere, Kate had flash sideways in both parts of „LAX„, following the first traditional flash sideways in „What Kate Does„.
Kate was the final Oceanic 815 character to have a flashback episode centered around them.
Kate was the main character who made the most episode appearances in Season 3.
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Kate has been referred to as or used the aliases Katherine Ryan, Katherine Dodd, Joan Hart, Maggie Ryan, Annie, Lucy, and presumably lived under the name Monica Callis during her marriage. Her father, Tom Brennan, and Jacob called her Katie. Her mother called her Katherine. Sawyer almost always calls her Freckles, but occasionally calls her Kate during particularly emotional or tense conversations.
She is called „Kate Ryan“ at the Oceanic-air.com seating chart.
„Joan Hart“ is a reference to Melissa Joan Hart, who starred in the television show Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Her co-star, Beth Broderick („Aunt Zelda“), plays Kate’s mother, Diane Janssen.
Kate’s name may be derived from that of a character from John Steinbeck’s Nobel Prize-winning novel East of Eden. Catherine is one of the main antagonists and, like Kate, sets her parents’ home on fire as a young girl (killing both of them, as opposed to Kate who just kills her step-father) and spends most of her life from that point forward running from the law. Catherine later changes her name to Kate to further avoid detection.
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