The '''Oceanic Six''' is a group of characters, that in season 4 is presented as a group who have safely left the [[Island (Lost)|Island]],<ref>[http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212128385.shtml Oceanic Six The Six 'Lost' To Survive: FlyOceanicAir, FindFlight815] by Tashi Singh, ''The Post Chronicle''</ref> and are given ''flashforward'' episodes showing them coping with life after rescue, as opposed to the regular style of [[flashback]]s:
The '''Oceanic Six''' is a group of characters, that in season 4 is presented as a group who will eventually have safely left the [[Island (Lost)|Island]],<ref>[http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212128385.shtml Oceanic Six The Six 'Lost' To Survive: FlyOceanicAir, FindFlight815] by Tashi Singh, ''The Post Chronicle''</ref> and are given ''flashforward'' episodes showing them coping with life after rescue, as opposed to the regular style of [[flashback]]s:
Characters are listed alphabetically. "Starring season(s)" refers to the season in which an actor or actress received star billing for playing a character. "Guest season(s) identifies a season in which an actor or actress appeared, but received guest star or special guest star billing.
Oceanic Six
The Oceanic Six is a group of characters, that in season 4 is presented as a group who will eventually have safely left the Island,[1] and are given flashforward episodes showing them coping with life after rescue, as opposed to the regular style of flashbacks:
After blowing up her step-father, Kate goes on the run and is eventually captured by a federal marshal while in Australia. On the island, Kate is attracted to both Sawyer and Jack. After escaping the island, she is put on trial for murder, but subsequently makes a highly favorable plea bargain that does not require prison time.
The rich daughter of a hotel owner/automobile manufacturer with ties to the Korean mob, Sun has an affair and almost leaves her husband Jin before the crash. They reconcile on the island and she becomes pregnant with Jin's baby. After escaping the island, Sun gives birth to Jin's baby, named Ji Yeon.
The son of Claire Littleton and her boyfriend Thomas. Sometime in the future, Aaron leaves the island, and is being raised by Kate under unknown circumstances. Over fifty male and female blonde-haired, blue-eyed babies have acted as Aaron throughout the first three seasons.[3]
After winning the lottery with the numbers, Hurley suffers from great bad luck. He remains optimistic on the island and builds a golf course. After escaping the island, Hurley is hospitalized for psychiatric reasons.
A spinalsurgeon with father issues, Jack is the survivors' leader. He has feelings for Juliet and Kate. After escaping the island, he becomes drug-addicted and suicidal because he longs to return to the island for unknown reasons.
A former LAPD police officer, Ana Lucia is the leader of the survivors of the tail section of Flight 815 and guides them to the relative safety of the fuselage survivors. She is shot and killed by Michael Dawson.
While trying to escape the island via raft, Michael's son Walt is abducted by the Others. After making a deal with the Others that included killing some of his fellow crash survivors, Michael and Walt are given a boat and leave the island. He later infiltrates the Kahana freighter crew under the orders of Ben in order to save everyone on the Island.
Nikki is an actress who, with Paulo, murdered a television producer for his diamonds. When they got to the island they spend their time searching for the diamonds lost in the crash. She is Paulo's girlfriend. Assumed dead and buried alive on the island after being paralyzed from a spider bite.
The son of a poor fisherman, Jin marries Sun on the condition that he works for her father as a mobenforcer, which is unbeknownst to Sun. On the island, Jin struggles as the single castaway who does not speak English.
Claire gives birth on the island to a baby boy and forges a strong relationship with Charlie. She is also Jack's half-sister, although neither of them are aware of their sibling ties.
After having his paralysis healed during the crash, Locke lives out his dreams of becoming a hunter on the island. Being a man of faith, he believes he has a special connection with the island, leading him to clash with man of science Jack.
A one-hit wonder, rock musician Charlie ends his addiction to heroin on the island and cares for Claire and her baby. Drowns in the Looking Glass station, trying to help the survivors to communicate with the outside world.
Paulo helps Nikki murder a television executive for his diamonds. He spends his time on the island with Nikki searching for the diamonds. Assumed dead and buried alive on the island after being paralyzed from a spider bite.
Shannon is a ballet instructor and Boone's stepsister. She has a relationship with Sayid on the island. Accidentally shot and killed by Ana Lucia on island.
A former Nigerian drug lord turned priest, Eko crashes with the tail section survivors. He meets the smoke monster on more than one occasion in the island's forests, and is eventually killed by the monster.
* Was credited as a recurring guest onward midway through season two.
Three years prior to the crash, fertilitydoctor Juliet is recruited by the Others. Ben does not allow her to leave the island and she later lives with the crash survivors, developing a relationship with Jack.
Desmond shipwrecks on the island and lives in the Hatch for three years until he moves in with the crash survivors. At the end of season 2, after he turns the failsafe and the hatch implodes, Desmond gains the ability to get flashes of future events.
Ben is the manipulative de facto leader of the Others. He eventually leaves the Island in the future and uses Sayid to hunt down all the employees of Charles Widmore.
Dr. Leslie Arzt is a ninth grade science teacher from New Jersey three times married. He crashes with the fuselage and keeps a collection of native fauna in various jars and discovers a handful of new species on the island. Arzt complains about not being included in the various missions the likes of Jack and Locke go on, finally joining them on a trip to the Black Rock. He ironically dies when a stick of dynamite explodes in his hand whilst he lectures Jack, Locke, Kate and Hurley on how to safely handle it.
Cindy Chandler is an Australian Oceanic Airlines stewardess dating the Flight 815 passenger Gary. She crashes with the tail-section survivors and is taken by the Others on day 48 during the journey to the fuselage survivors' camp. Cindy lives comfortably with the Others and the other tail section survivors following her abduction.
Emma and Zack are two sibling children from the tail section of the plane who live under the care of the Others and the kidnapped tail section survivors following the pair's kidnapping.
A woman with terminal cancer from the Bronx, New York, Rose Henderson marries Bernard less than a year before the crash. She lives with the fuselage survivors and reunites with Bernard on day 48. She opts to return to the beach around day 91 when the survivors contact the freighter.
Scott Jackson and Steve Jenkins are a couple of friends traveling together who crash with the fuselage. They are regularly confused with each other, even after one of the pair is murdered by Ethan on day 28.
Edward Mars is an American marshal who is obsessed with capturing Kate, finally apprehending her in Australia. He is critically injured during the crash and dies on day 3.
An American dentist, Dr. Bernard Nadler weds Rose less than one year prior to the crash. He crashes with the tail section survivors, but joins the fuselage survivors on day 48. Bernard stays with the majority of the group after some of the freighter crew arrive. He is the only tail section survivor not to be abducted by the Others or killed.
Seth Norris marries his high-school sweetheart and replaces his friend Frank as the pilot of Flight 815, which he flies 1600 kilometres off course. He is the only crash survivor in cockpit; however, he is killed by the monster on day 2.
The New York author of the metafictional novel, Bad Twin[4] Gary Troup is Cindy's lover. He dies when he is sucked into the plane's turbine on day 1.[5]
Vincent is Walt's yellow Labrador retriever, who is originally owned by Walt's stepfather Brian Porter. He is left behind on the island when Michael and Walt attempt to leave the island. He is given to Shannon by Walt and remains under her care until she is killed. He is later seen accompaning Sun.
Alexandra is Rousseau's daughter who is kidnapped by the Others sixteen years prior to the crash of Flight 815 and is raised by Ben. Alex aids the crash survivors in various escapes and eventually defects around day 91. She dates Karl, but Ben tries to keep them apart because she would die if she became pregnant. She is executed by Keamy.
Dr. Richard Alpert is Ben's advisor who seems not to age. In the early 1970s, Richard—one of the original "Hostiles" (Others)—conspires with a young Ben to gas the Barracks and kill the Dharma Initiative, with the Others moving in. Richard works as a recruiter for a front company for the Others, called Mittelos Bioscience. Richard prefers not to take a position of power, but disputes several decisions by Ben. Richard leads the surviving Others to the temple after Ben is taken prisoner sometime after day 90.
Mikhail Bakunin has an eyepatch over his right eye. He is born in Kiev in present day Ukraine and serves for the Soviet Army. He is recruited by Jacob and lives in the Flame Dharma station until Locke blows it up on day 77. Mikhail explodes a hand grenade, which kills Charlie at the Looking Glass Dharma station.
A young Other, Karl is Alex's boyfriend. Worried that Karl would get Alex pregnant, which would kill her, Ben cages Karl on day 68 and forces him to watch a brainwashing film repeatedly. Alex, Sawyer and Kate rescue him on day 73, and he goes with Kate and Sawyer by canoe back to the main island. Sawyer lets him go free once they return. He lives in the forest until Alex tells him to go warn the crash survivors of the Others' upcoming raid on their camp on day 92. He reunites with Alex on day 93 and they join Lockes' group. As he, Alex and Danielle go to the Temple at Ben's insistence, they are ambushed and Karl is shot. Bashoff has confirmed that Karl is dead. [8]
Beatrice Klugh, who introduces herself as Ms. Klugh to Michael on day 54. She visits Michael during his forced stay with the Others and is present when they capture Jack, Kate and Sawyer. On day 79 at the Dharma Flame station, she is found by Sayid, Locke and Kate and demands her death from Mikhail in fluent Russian. Mikhail complies regretfully.
Jacob is the Others' highest authority. With the exception of Ben, the Others have never met or not seen Jacob in years. Jacob lives in a shack—that appears at various places—without electricity and is invisible to some. When Locke visits Jacob sometime after day 90, Locke cannot see him, but can hear him asking for help. Hurley encounters Jacob's shack the next day and sees what appears to be Christian inside.
Danny Pickett is a forceful and violent Other who supervises the construction of an airstrip on the island where the Hydra station is located. He is married to another Other named Colleen until her death on day 71. Enraged, Pickett takes all of his anger out on Sawyer, repeatedly beating him and threatening to kill him for days. He almost succeeds, but he is shot dead by Juliet on episode 7 of season 3.
Dr. Ethan Rom poses as a fuselage survivor until he is exposed on day 16, at which point he kidnaps Claire and Charlie. He unsuccessfully attempts to murder Charlie and takes Claire to the Staff Dharma station, where he performs tests on her unborn child and implants a device that can cause her to become sick. Charlie kills Ethan on day 29.
Goodwin is married to the island's therapist named Harper Stanhope. He has an affair with Juliet, which dismays Ben because he is in love with her. Partially out of jealousy, Ben sends Goodwin on a mission to pretend that he is one of the tail section survivors. When Goodwin's identity is discovered by Ana Lucia Cortez, she confronts him and engages in a fight that results in his death.
Tom, aka "Mr Friendly," wears a fake beard when acting as a liaison to the crash survivors until they kidnap Jack, Kate and Sawyer. He recruits Michael to spy on the boat Kahana. He is murdered by Sawyer in season 3.
Recruited by Matthew Abaddon to lead a group of four people on a mission to the island. Naomi is the first of her team to arrive on the island, although she injures herself as she parachutes in. She is discovered by Desmond, Hurley, Charlie, and Jin, and is brought back to the survivor's camp in secret. She claims she has come from a freighter off-shore that has been sent by Penny Widmore to search for Desmond. She is mortally wounded when Locke throws a knife into her back.
A male mercenary on the freighter. When Frank returned with Desmond and Sayid, he assisted Omar in escorting Desmond to the sick bay to join Minkowski, who was experiencing a similar symptom. After Ray sounded the alarm, Omar and Keamy return to see Desmond on the satellite phone with Daniel. Keamy and Omar took Frank to see the captain of the ship, and locked Desmond, Sayid and George in the room. Later, he leads a team on a mission to the Barracks to find Ben, killing Karl and (possibly) Danielle Rousseau and capturing Alex. After a stand-off at the Barracks, in which Ben refused to surrender, Keamy shot Alex in the head, killing her. This caused Ben to release the Monster on them, killing many of the mercenaries.
A helicopter pilot who brings Daniel, Miles, and Charlotte to the island. He worked for Oceanic and was supposed to be the pilot for Flight 815. He has an alcohol addiction. Frank is later selected to be one of five who visits the island around day 94. He takes Sayid and Desmond to the freighter via helicopter.
George Minkowski is the ship's communications officer on the freighter. When Jack calls the ship on day 93, Minkowski answers. He later speaks to Naomi just before she dies. Minkowski gets caught in a time loop and dies from brain aneurysm.
Ray identifies himself as a doctor and wears a white lab coat. He is assaulted by Sayid when he objects to Desmond taking a call from Daniel Faraday in his "sickbay" but later shows Sayid and Desmond to their quarters about the ship. His body washes up on the beach (The Shape of Things to Come), though people on the freighter report that "The doctor is fine."
A female crew member on the freighter who answers calls from the satellite phone after Minkowski gets stuck in a time loop. She is contacted by Miles and Daniel and helps Daniel with an experiment by sending a rocket to the island. She commits suicide by jumping off the boat into the water with a large chain around her in the episode Ji Yeon.
A male crew member on the freighter. When Frank returns with Desmond and Sayid, he assists Keamy in escorting Desmond to the sick bay to join Minkowski, who is experiencing a similar symptom. After Ray sounds the alarm, Omar and Keamy return to see Desmond on the satellite phone with Daniel. Keamy and Omar take Frank to see the captain of the ship, and locks Desmond, Sayid and George in the room.
Named after Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, the mentor of the philosopher John Locke,[9] Cooper is the man who conned Sawyer's parents, leading to both of their deaths; he is Locke's biological father. Cooper eventually finds Locke, and cons him into donating a kidney. Sometime later, Cooper begins another con with a woman, Ms. Talbot. Locke, having been visited by her son, confronts Cooper, and tells him to stop conning. Cooper kills her son and pushes Locke out a window, causing Locke's paraplegia. Soon after the crash of Flight 815, Cooper has a car accident in Tallahassee and is taken and imprisoned on the island. Ben reveals to Locke that they have Cooper in captivity and Locke takes Cooper to the Black Rock. His true identity is revealed to Sawyer, who then kills him.
Danielle Rousseau arrives on the island sixteen years before the crash of Flight 815 as part of a research party. She gives birth to Alex on the island after she had killed her team because they had gotten "sick" and Alex is kidnapped soon after by the Others. Rousseau occasionally helps the survivors, but has decided that she will remain on the island even if rescue is possible; thus, she joins Locke after possible rescue arrives. She is shot in an ambush along with Karl while leading Alex to the Temple on Ben's orders. Her fate after the 9th episode of the 4th season unknown.
He is an intelligence operative for the United States government, and responsible for making Sayid torture his former commander. Later, Kelvin joins the Dharma Initiative, and operates the Swan station until Desmond accidentally kills him.
A couple who helped Roger and a very pregnant Emily Linus after Emily went into early labor. Years after Emily's death, Horace and Olivia offered a job to Roger at the DHARMA Initiative. Horace was presumed to be a worker at the The Arrow, while Olivia was a teacher. Horace died during the purge, however Olivia's fate is left unanswered. The producers have confirmed that Horace and Olivia Goodspeed are important to the DHARMA story.[citation needed]
A former arms salesman and manufacturer, he is the enigmatic Danish leader of the Hanso Foundation. Hanso can be seen in the show via an orientation film in "Orientation".
Ben's father and an employee of the Dharma Initiative. He is killed by Ben in the Purge (the massacre of the members of the Dharma Initiative). Later, his corpse is discovered by Hurley in "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead".
A fierce and ruthless corporate recruiter who appears intimidating. Abaddon first appears in the flash forward in "The Beginning of the End". He visits Hurley in the mental hospital where he tries to learn from Hurley if the other survivors are still alive. He abruptly leaves when Hurley becomes agitated. He returns in a flashback talking to Naomi about the crew he has assembled for her in "Confirmed Dead". He appears to be in charge of the freighter's operations on the Island and recruited all the people on Naomi's freighter, including Miles, Daniel, Charlotte, and Frank. He and Naomi also seem to imply that they are either not convinced by the finding of Oceanic 815 or they themselves planted the fake plane. He apparently works for Charles Widmore since Widmore is financing the freighter and is the main person trying to find the Island.
The wealthy son of the owner of the Seoul Gateway Hotel and the hotel's general manager. He attended Harvard University and studied Medieval Russian Literature. He meets Sun on a family-arranged date. He teaches Sun English at her request, and ends up having an affair with her. He asks her to leave for America with him. Sun's father finds out about the affair. Instead of telling Jin about it, Sun's father tells Jin that Jae is stealing from him. He orders Jin to kill Jae. Jin beats up Jae, but tells him to leave the country and never return instead of killing him. Jae subsequently commits suicide by jumping from his apartment.[12]
A recently divorced woman whom Sawyer conned. Despite being in love with her, Sawyer steals her money. Cassidy then goes to Iowa and tried to con people using the techniques she had been taught, and met Kate. Cassidy later reports Sawyer to the police and as a result, he is thrown in jail. While Sawyer is in prison, Cassidy visits him and shows him a picture of a baby girl named Clementine, who she said is his daughter.[citation needed]
Shephard worked as the chief of surgery at St. Sebastian Hospital, and was a recovering alcoholic. He began drinking again and died in Australia before the crash. He has been seen on the Island after the crash by Jack, Hurley and Vincent.
Eight months before her wedding to her first fiancé, Kevin, she is involved in a car crash with an SUV driven by Adam Rutherford (Shannon's father and Boone's step-father). When Jack informs Kevin that Sarah may never be able to walk again, Kevin leaves her. Sarah's back is broken, and her doctor, Jack, informs her that she will never walk again, however she does. They fall in love and marry, but some time later, Sarah has an affair and divorces Jack. Sometime after the crash survivors are rescued, Sarah is pregnant.
A wealthy industrialist and the father of Penny Widmore, the love of Desmond's life. He thinks Desmond is a coward and strongly disapproves of his relationship with his daughter. He tries to keep Desmond as far from Penny as possible. According to Ben, Charles is as an enemy of the people of the Island and is trying to exploit the island. It was he who sent the freighter to help him with that venture. According to Tom, he is the one who placed the fake wreckage in the Sunda trench.
The great love of Desmond, and his girlfriend before he was separated from her by her domineering and extremely wealthy father Charles. Desmond is shipwrecked on the island while trying to win a race to prove his worth to her father and get her back. Penny is searching for the island, with two Portuguese men stationed at a polar research station. On day 93, Penny transmits a message to the Looking Glass Hatch, which Charlie receives, and she informs him that Naomi was not sent by her. Desmond was finally able to make contact with Penny after 3 years of searching for him on Christmas Eve. Carlton Cuse has stated that "Penny is an important character in the overarching mythology of the show".[14]
When they were young, the village of Yemi and Eko was invaded by guerrillas who command Yemi to shoot an old man. Eko saves him from doing this task by shooting the man himself. The men sense the potential for ruthlessness in Eko and take him with them when they leave, leaving Yemi behind. Yemi later becomes a priest and works to improve the lives of his parishioners. For example, he makes arrangements to procure vaccines twice a year for the village; thugs take 80% of the vaccines in exchange for offering "protection" to the village, but villagers acknowledge that without Yemi's efforts they would have no vaccines at all. He plans on moving to London to continue his education. 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 on day 64, and he leads them to the Pearl station. The "monster" also takes his form and kills Mr. Eko on day 72.
