Other Lost Characters
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Present-day Characters
Nadia
Noor "Nadia" Abed Jaseem
Played By: Andrea Gabriel
Sayid: This isn't a game, Nadia.
Nadia: Yet, you keep playing it, Sayid — pretending to be something I know you're not.
Nadia Jaseem is the long lost love of Sayid Jarrah. The two were childhood friends in Iraq and she became involved in the insurgency against Saddam Hussein. Sayid, who was an interrogator for the Republican Guard, was assigned to interrogate her and instead helped her escape. Sayid's priority in life is to find his way back to Nadia, and he was headed to Los Angeles to find her when the plane crashed.
- Agony of the Feet: The soles of her feet were flayed during her captivity.
- Broken Bird: Subverted. Despite all the horrible things she goes through, Nadia doesn't let it get to her and stays a cheerful, good-hearted woman.
- Character Death: While out with Sayid, she's hit by a car as she's crossing the street. She dies shortly after in Sayid's arms.
- Childhood Friend Romance: With Sayid. As children, Nadia would push him in the mud and tease him so that he would notice her. They eventually get married as adults.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Survived it without breaking, even after they flayed off the soles of her feet.
- Covered in Scars: Nadia shows Sayid several scars left by her torture, including a large acid burn on her chest and damage to her hands when they were drilled through, as well as offering to show him the previously flayed soles of her feet.
- Deadpan Snarker: Even as she's being held by the Republican Guard, Nadia finds the will to snark at Sayid's questioning.Sayid: Are you ready to talk?
Nadia: That depends on what you'd like to talk about, Sayid. Books? Weather? Since I've seen neither, locked in this cell for weeks, I'm afraid my conversation will suffer. - Defiant Captive: While held prisoner by the Republican Guard, Nadia refused to yield an inch to her captors despite the tortures she endured.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: She dies with Sayid holding her.
- Happily Married: Nadia enjoys a happy (but brief) marriage to Sayid.
- Impaled Palm: One of the many tortures Nadia suffered was to have her hands run through with a drill.
- La Résistance: She was a member of an insurgent group against Saddam Hussein's regime.
- Look Both Ways: She's killed when crossing the road. Not entirely her fault, since it was a murder as opposed to an accident.
- The Lost Lenore: For Sayid, who spends a great deal of the series trying to find her. When he does, and marries her, she is killed, thus making her The Lost Lenore yet again.
- Nice Girl: What little we see of Nadia's character shows her to be a well-meaning and decent person. When she and Sayid are together, he's clearly happy, Nadia's words leave a positive impact on Charlie, and she quickly becomes friendly with the rest of the Oceanic 6, even giving Hurley a hug on his birthday.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Sayid. She's a member of La Résistance, he's a Torture Technician for the Republican Guard.
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are:
- As Sayid tried to make her give up her La Résistance associates, Nadia insisted that he was trying to be something he wasn't. While Sayid has a definite dark side (particularly after Nadia's death), she's proven right; he frees her rather than allow her to be tortured, and on the Island, proves himself a genuine hero.
- Nadia met Charlie when he intervened as she was being mugged in London. When Charlie tries to downplay his actions, Nadia informs him that several people saw her struggling, but ignored her, and insists that he is a hero. This clearly left an impact on Charlie; shortly before his death, he includes Nadia's words as part of the top five greatest moments of his life.
Cooper
Anthony Cooper
Played By: Kevin Tighe
"A conman goes by many names, friend."
John Locke's biological father. Cooper was shown to have used the alias of Adam Seward, and he claimed to have used Tom Sawyer, Ted MacLaren, Louis Jackson and Paul, among others. He was, by his own admission, a con man. As "Tom Sawyer", he seduced James Ford's mother, Mary Ford and then used her in order to swindle money from her and her husband, which resulted in the death of both. This prompted James to take on the alias "Sawyer", and to hunt down his namesake.
- Abusive Parents: Very much so. Aside from the implications of either abusive or disinterested foster parents, Locke's own father frequently ruins his life with no remorse and ultimately tries to kill his own son.
- Archnemesis Dad: To Locke. He abandons him, steals his kidney, abandons him again, destroys Locke's romantic relationship with Helen (albeit not on purpose) and eventually tries to kill him.
- Asshole Victim: Go on, it's okay to admit you cheered when Sawyer strangled him with a chain.
- Billy Needs an Organ: He shows the true depth of his sociopathy when he pretends to reconcile with his son so he can convince him to donate his kidney, then abandon him after the operation.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Part and parcel of being a conman is pretending to be a good, trustworthy person. In Cooper's case, he's particularly special: it wouldn't have cost him anything to have a son who worshipped him but he still dropped Locke like a grenade when he no longer needed him.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: He admits he'd run the same con as the one he pulled on Mary Ford at least two dozen times. Cooper doesn't even remember her name when Sawyer confronts him about it.
- Card-Carrying Villain: He's a charming, manipulative liar...but when he drops the charade, he's refreshingly up-front about being a selfish, sociopathic sub-human monster. While on the Island, he doesn't hesitate for a second to believe that he's in hell, clearly aware that that's exactly what he deserves.
- Character Death: After Sawyer realizes who Cooper is and confronts him about being indirectly responsible for the death of Sawyer's family, Cooper shows no remorse whatsoever and taunts him. In a rage, Sawyer throttles him with the old slave chains in the Black Rock.
- Character Name Alias: Cooper once went by "Tom Sawyer"; when Sawyer calls attention to it, Cooper explains it by him being young at the time, quipping that "Huck Finn" was taken.Sawyer: Tom Sawyer.
Cooper: I was young, and "Huck Finn" was taken. And the ladies loved that, let me tell you.
Sawyer: Well, how about that...
Cooper: What?
Sawyer: Sawyer's my name, too. - Con Man: His trade. His victims include Sawyer's mother, his own son, a pair of low-life criminals, an elderly widow and presumably many more.
- Create Your Own Hero: By conning Sawyer's parents and causing their deaths by proxy, he sets Sawyer on a path of vengeance which eventually leads right to him.
- Deadpan Snarker: Cooper has some great lines, even when faced with certain death.
- Defiant to the End: Even as he realizes that Sawyer means to kill him, he remains cruel and taunting.
- Ephebophile: He fathered Locke on a teenager half his own age.
- Evil Is Petty: Cooper doesn't just refuse to read Sawyer's letter, he tears it up in front of the poor man, chuckling as he does.
- Evil Old Folks: The son of a bitch deserves some props. He's never scared, fearlessly taunting Sawyer and Locke when they're just about to kill him. He never begs for his life.
- Fate Worse than Death: In the flash-sideways, he is left in a catatonic state due to the plane crash he and Locke were in. This makes him unresponsive to others and thus unable to remember his past life and move on, leaving him stuck in what is essentially purgatory. Not that he doesn't deserve it, of course.
- Faux Affably Evil: Don't let his polite facade fool you for a second. Beneath it lies an utterly unrepentant, sociopathic monster who cares not one bit about the innumerable lives he has destroyed.
- Hate Sink: He's far easier to hate than any of the main villains. He manipulates, abandons, and tries to kill his own son, takes pleasure in ruining people's lives, and cares only about money. He's such a remorseless monster that Sawyer murdering him while he's defenseless comes off as completely justified.
- Humiliation Conga: In a short period of time, Cooper is run off the road, kidnapped by the Others, brought to the Island, and spends several days tied up as a prisoner at Locke's mercy before being delivered to Sawyer, who kills him in a brutal and painful fashion. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
- I Have Many Names: We don't know his real name; "Anthony Cooper" is just one of his many aliases.Cooper: A con man goes by many names, friend. I've been Alan Seward, Anthony Cooper, Ted MacLaren, Tom Sawyer, Louis Jackson, Paul—
- It's All About Me: If he seems like he cares about you or likes you at all, its only because you are useful to him in some way.
- Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Cooper is able to screw Locke over again and again because he's very good at faking Pet the Dog moments.
- Lack of Empathy: Human suffering means nothing to Cooper. On top of all the misery he piles on Locke, he flat out mocks Sawyer and his family for the devastation he brought upon them, all but laughing in Sawyer's face. His callous dismissal of the Murder-Suicide that killed Sawyer's parents shows just how little the misery in his wake affects him.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: After pushing Locke out a window, Cooper fled to Mexico and disappeared. Four years later, he was captured by the Others and brought to the island, where both Locke and Sawyer avenged themselves upon him; Locke led Sawyer to realize that Cooper was the "Mr. Sawyer" who tore his family apart, and brutally strangled Cooper in a fit of rage.
- Karmic Death: A very well deserved strangling at Sawyer's hand; his life ended by the man whose life he ruined. What's more, Cooper's death is orchestrated by Locke, his oft-discarded son.Sawyer: You want to go to hell?!
- Kick the Dog:
- Virtually anything and everything Cooper does to Locke qualifies, but special mention goes to immediately cutting him out of his life after getting the kidney he needed. Locke had given up the kidney willingly and with no strings attached, and Cooper hadn't done anything illegal to get it, so his cruelty is doubly needless.
- After he and Sawyer realise their connection to each other, Cooper mocks Sawyer's suffering, makes cruel comments about his late mother and father, and finally tears up the letter Sawyer had waited nearly thirty years to force "Mr. Sawyer" to read. The last turns out to be Sawyer's Rage Breaking Point, prompting him to strangle Cooper in a fit of rage.
- Manipulative Bastard: He's made an entire career out of playing with people's emotions and motivations.
- Meaningful Name:
- Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury was an English statesman who served as the patron of the philosopher John Locke. This is mirrored by having Cooper and Locke as father and son.
- Around the time he seduced Mary Ford, Cooper used the name "Tom Sawyer", a character known for being a charming smooth-talker who can convince other people to do anything. Invoked, as Cooper obviously chose that name because it fit his manipulative personality so well.
- Nerves of Steel: Cooper doesn't panic, make hasty decisions or even show fear when a situation becomes dangerous. He always maintains control of himself, even when tied up by the Others or faced with the possibility of an incoming Karmic Death.
- Never My Fault: Confronted by Sawyer, Cooper tries to brush off any responsibility for the destruction of Sawyer's family, blithely saying that it isn't his fault if Sawyer's father overreacted and "pulled the ol' Murder-Suicide."
- Offing the Offspring: Cooper caps off his years-long abuse of Locke by pushing him out of an eighth-story window. John survived, but Cooper clearly didn't want him to.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Cooper believed this to be the case, as Oceanic Flight 815 had been reported found with all passengers dead. When he sees Locke alive on the Island, Cooper becomes convinced that they're both dead and in hell.
- Pet the Dog: The closest to a decent thing he does for Locke is letting him keep $200,000 in exchange for recovering his money, saying it's the best he can do to make up for stealing his kidney. Even then, Locke declines to accept it, and when he sees Helen walk out on him for lying to her, Cooper just gets in his cab and drives away.
- Smug Smiler: He frequently shows off a big, bright smile, usually whenever he's gotten away with something monstrous.
- The Sociopath: Good God, is he an example of this trope. Cooper is entirely concerned with himself and doesn't feel an ounce of remorse for his numerous horrific crimes.
- Speak Ill of the Dead: Cooper insults the memory of Sawyer's dead parents to taunt him, singling out his mother and claiming (once Sawyer reminds him what her name was) that she "begged" him to take her money and take her away from her life.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Zigzagged in the flashsideways, as in that he is much nicer to John and had a better relationship with him than he did in their actual reality, but he did still con Sawyer's parents, which lead to their deaths.
- Two Aliases, One Character: Locke's abusive father Anthony Cooper and the "Mr. Sawyer" who destroyed the life of a young James Ford? One and the same.
- Undignified Death: Cooper is painfully strangled to death by a man he'd been sneering at seconds before while chained up and totally helpless.
- Unreliable Expositor: According to Cooper, Sawyer's mother all but begged him to take her with him when he stole their money and skipped town, but given that Cooper didn't even remember Mary's name until Sawyer reminded him, and he spent the entire encounter taunting Sawyer, it's not unlikely that he was lying to twist the knife a little more.
- Wrong Assumption: Upon seeing Locke alive on the Island, Cooper assumes that he died in a car accident, and that he's in hell, punished for his sins by being at the mercy of Locke (whom he wrongly believes to have died when Flight 815 crashed). Contrary to Cooper's assumption, he's alive and well... until Sawyer is through with him, anyway.
- You Killed My Father: Cooper may not have pulled the trigger to kill Mary and Warren Ford, but his actions are why they ended up dead.
Carmen
Carmen Reyes
Played By: Lillian Hurst
Hurley's mother. She was a devout Catholic, and was fluent in Spanish. She was often overbearing towards Hurley.
- Christianity is Catholic: She's very devoutly Catholic. She even gets a golden Jesus (and she hilariously puts her hands over Jesus' ears when talking about sex with her husband).
- Deadpan Snarker: She earned some degree of adoration by fans due to the sheer hilarity of her lines.
- Dirty Old Woman: Carmen admits (after covering the ears on a statue of Jesus) that part of why she brought David back into her and Hurley's lives is because she "has needs". Hurley is not pleased to hear about it.
- Good Parents: As smothering and critical as she can be, Carmen loves her son dearly and can be relied on to help.
- Innocently Insensitive: For Hurley's first post-Island birthday, Carmen throws him a big party... with a tropical island theme.Sayid: Interesting theme.
Hurley: Yeah, my mom... doesn't really get it, dude. - Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Carmen is often short-tempered, rude and critical of her son. As critical as she is of Hurley, she does love him and shows it.
- Mama Bear: For Hurley.
- My Beloved Smother: She tries to insert herself into Hurley's business with some frequency.
- Right Through the Wall: With her husband, very much to Hurley's horror.
- Secret-Keeper: Hurley tells her the truth about what really happened to Flight 815 and everything about the Island. She doesn't understand most of it but believes her son is being honest. There's no indication that she tells anyone else what she knows.
- Too Much Information: With regards to Hurley, explaining that she 'has needs'. Hurley puts his hands over his ears.
Diane
Diane Janssen (nee Austen)
Played By: Beth Broderick
The mother of Kate Austen.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: She loves and adores her abusive drunk of a husband more than her own daughter. She even divorced the decent and upstanding Sam Austen to go back to Wayne.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She seems like a typical battered housewife and sweet waitress; the reality is that she placed her alcoholic, abusive husband before her own flesh and blood. She never forgives Kate for killing Wayne, taking every opportunity (save one) to turn her into the police. She even tries to threaten Kate with her testimony in exchange for seeing her "grandson".
- Domestic Abuse: Diane's husband Wayne would beat her when he was drunk (which was often).
- Entitled Bitch: After Kate returns from the Island with Aaron, Diane believes, despite choosing the loathsome Wayne over her own daughter and trying to turn Kate over to law enforcement, that she deserves a chance to meet who she believes to be her grandson, even being willing to threaten Kate over it.
- Jerkass Has a Point: As awful as Diane is to her daughter, she is right about at least a couple of things:
- When Kate arrives at Diane's diner and tries to order a beer, Diane refuses to give her one since Kate already insists on riding a motorcycle without a helmet and Diane doesn't want her doing so after drinking.
- Kate did blow up the man Diane loved, even if said man was a repulsive waste of skin.
- When Kate tries to claim that she killed Wayne for her mother, Diane fires back that Kate did it for herself; while Wayne's treatment of Diane was definitely a factor, Kate admits on the Island that she wanted to kill Wayne out of disgust for the fact that he was her biological father. Even if she did intend for Diane to benefit from Wayne's death, Kate's motives weren't totally altruistic.
- Posthumous Character: Subverted. In her first flashback, she's dying of a terminal disease. She appears in several more flashbacks, but they all clearly take place before the first one. Then, in a flash-forward, it's revealed that she still lives. "The doctors have been given me a year to live for the past five years now."
- Prefers Proper Names: She only ever calls Kate "Katherine".
- Took a Level in Jerkass: She was never a good person, but after Kate returns she becomes much more underhanded.
- The Topic of Cancer: She has terminal cancer.
- Ungrateful Bastard: Kate murdered Wayne to free Diane from his abuse, and acted out a bit of insurance fraud to ensure her mother would be left with some money. Diane, who, for whatever reason, loved Wayne, never forgave Kate for it and had no qualms with handing Kate over to the authorities.
Randy
Randy Nations
Played By: Billy Ray Gallion
The cruel, diabolical, and taunting middle management boss for whom both Hurley and Locke have worked.
- Bad Boss: He's mean-spirited, bullying and cruel to his employees.
- Beard of Evil: When he's working in Locke's office, although he's later seen without it.
- The Bully: To Locke especially, who he detests for some strange reason that may have something to do with Locke being in a wheelchair.
- Control Freak: He looks into Locke's personnel file and takes things off his desk.
- Jerkass: Randy is a smug bully who openly insults his employees. Even the good-natured Hurley (who gave Randy his box company job after winning the lottery) considers him a pain in the ass.
- Jerkass Has a Point:
- He puts it about as cruelly as he can, but Randy isn't wrong in his assessment of Locke's hopes of going on a walkabout; the agency running the walkabout tells John the same thing, albeit in a far less cruel fashion.
- While he's typically condescending when firing Locke in the Flash-sideways, his reasoning for the decision is justifiable, given how Locke had misused company funding for an international trip to attempt a walkabout, completely skipping out on the work duties that he had been assigned to complete in the process.
- Karma Houdini: Despite his horrible treatment of Locke and Hurley, he doesn't really face any consequences.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: His bullying of Locke seems to stem from his prejudice against a disabled man.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He's fond of giving these to Locke, as part of his whole bullying campaign."What is it with you, Locke? Why do you torture yourself? I mean, imagining you're some hunter? Walkabouts? Wake up, you can't do any of that."
- Smug Snake: He's a truly horrible little man who fires people with a smile on his face.
Cassidy
Cassidy Phillips
"Show me how to con people, Sawyer."
Played By: Kim Dickens
A divorcée who fell in love with Sawyer, but was conned by him, and later gave birth to his daughter Clementine. She also became friends with Kate.
- All Girls Want Bad Boys: She falls in love with Sawyer, even when she knows he's a con man.
- Con Woman: When Sawyer's con (seemingly) fails, she asks him to teach her how to con people. She learns from Sawyer and works with him for a time before they split and she goes solo.
- Law of Inverse Fertility: She's understandably mixed about discovering that in addition to conning her, Sawyer also impregnated her.
- Outlaw Couple: With Sawyer, for a short while. They teamed up to con people, and had a whale of a time doing it. In reality, she was actually the mark. Sawyer was hoping to con her out of her divorce settlement money.
- Secret-Keeper: Kate tells her that the "Oceanic Six" story is a lie and that Aaron isn't actually her son.
- True Companions: With Kate, Kate becomes close to the point that Clementine calls her "Auntie Kate". Cassidy becomes Kate's one true confidant.
- Wham Line: "This is your daughter."
- Woman Scorned: After Sawyer leaves her, she presses charges and as a result Sawyer winds up in prison. She remains viciously angry toward him for years afterward and never does forgive him, at least not on-screen.
Mr. Paik
Woo-Jung Paik
Played By: Byron Chung
The CEO of the South Korean corporation Paik Heavy Industries. Mr. Paik was Sun's father and Jin's father-in-law, as well as Jin's employer.
- Archnemesis Dad: To Jin, although they're obviously not related. It's played straighter with Sun, who, by the time she's returned from the Island, has grown to hate her father for the damage he's inflicted to her and Jin's lives.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He's an extremely rich man who keeps his motor business operating through illegal means...theft, blackmail and even murder.
- The Corrupter: Is this for Jin.
- The Don: Of his criminal empire.
- The Dreaded: Everybody who knows about Mr. Paik is understandably terrified of his power and reach.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Subverted; while he wants Sun to grow up well and disapproves of her lying about a broken glass ballerina or cheating on her husband, it's because of Paik's own ego, and his actions cause more strain on Sun's marriage and emotional health than anything else.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He seemed to disapprove when, as a child, Sun broke a valuable glass ballerina and blamed it on a maid. That said, Paik still fired that maid, despite suspecting or even knowing that she wasn't responsible.
- Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: It never seems to hit home for Paik that Jin is a fundamentally decent man and not a murderer; when he orders Jin to deliver "a message" to showcase his displeasure, Paik is angered that Jin actually delivered a message instead of a beating, and when ordering Jin to kill Jae Lee, Paik clearly expects him to go ahead and do it simply because he was ordered to (and without Paik even mentioning the personal motive that might actually make Jin want to kill Jae Lee), despite Jin having already shown an aversion to killing.
- Evil Parents Want Good Kids: He seems very disappointed when Sun lies about who broke the glass ballerina, blaming the maid and getting her fired.
- Hate Sink: He's a cold, corrupt man who exists to be an obstacle to Jin and Sun's marriage, and is everything wrong with their lives before the plane crash.
- It's All About Me: Daughter cheats on her husband? She's disgracing his name and honor. Even when he orders Jin to kill Jae Lee, Paik never mentions the affair; he just claims that Jae Lee stole something from him, making it clear that as far as Paik is concerned, he is the only one affected by the affair, and Jin doesn't need to know anything other than that.
- Jerkass: Paik is a cold, emotionless man who treats people like objects to be used and discarded. He cares for nothing but profit.
- Kick the Dog: When he discovers Sun's affair with Jae Lee, he orders Jin to kill him, and when this results in the man's suicide, Paik crashes his funeral to rub his death in Sun's face, telling her that "he must have felt great shame."
- Lack of Empathy: The thoughts and feelings of others, even his own daughter, aren't worth a thing to Paik. He orders assault and murder without the slightest concern, and is totally apathetic to the damage he causes to Sun and Jin's marriage.
- Laser-Guided Karma: When Sun returns, she uses her newfound wealth (courtesy of her settlement from Oceanic Airlines, which she only got because Paik sent Jin on an errand in the first place) to secretly take control of her father's company and oust him. Paik loses his company and his daughter, the two things he placed the most value on.
- Last-Name Basis: He's almost never addressed by his given name. Even his henchmen only refer to him as "Mr. Paik".
- Like Father, Like Son: Or like Sun, anyway; while she has far more of a moral compass than her father, Sun shows, especially later in the series, that she can be just as cold and ruthless as Woo-Jung when she needs to be, even showing that ruthlessness to her despicable father by buying his company out from under him.
- Morality Pet: Sun. He does try to protect her, but he wants to make all her decisions. It's likely he sees her more as something he owns than an actual daughter, especially when he tells Jin that Jae Lee stole something of his.
- Never My Fault: When he finds out about Sun's affair with Jae Lee, Paik never considers for a second that him using Jin for his criminal enterprise might be the cause; he just orders Jin to kill Jae Lee, not even telling him about the affair.
- Obnoxious In-Laws: Played for Drama; he treats his son-in-law, Jin, like an attack dog, verbally berating him for showing a little too much mercy to a man Paik wanted brutalised or killed as "a message" (Jin, unaware of Paik's worse qualities, assumed that he meant an actual message and simply told the man that Paik was unhappy with him). This treatment weighs heavily on Jin and severely strains his and Sun's marriage.
- Pet the Dog: He does show up to welcome Sun home after she leaves the Island, but soon afterwards reverts back to being a cold jerk.
- Suddenly Shouting: When Paik raises his voice, it's sudden and terrifying.
- The Stoic: Paik rarely changes his expression.
- Not So Stoic: When he's pissed off, you'll know it.
Margo
Margo Shepherd
Played By: Veronica Hamel
Jack's mother and Christian's widow.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Margo was alive in her last appearance, and is presumably still alive after Jack returns to the Island and dies saving it.
- Satellite Character: She doesn't have much character herself, existing pretty much just to facilitate plot between Jack and Christian.
- Small Role, Big Impact: It's Margo who insists that Jack go to Australia to retrieve Christian, the thing that put him on Flight 815.
Carole
Carole Littleton
Played By: Susan Duerden
Claire's mother, Lindsey's sister, Christian Shephard's former lover and Aaron's grandmother.
- Convenient Coma: A car accident puts her into a coma for years on end. She only comes out of it after the plane crash.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Carole believes that Claire died in the crash of Flight 815, but is eventually informed by Kate that Claire is alive.
- Red Herring: Jack and Kate initially believe that Carole hired Dan Norton to try and take Aaron away from Kate. After Jack confronts her about it, however, it becomes clear that Carole doesn't even know who Aaron is and her hiring Norton was a complete coincidence (she retained his services as part of a lawsuit against Oceanic Airlines over Claire's presumed death). It's later revealed that Ben hired Norton as part of his plan to get the Oceanic 6 back on the Island.
David
David Reyes
Played By: Cheech Marin
"Having hope is never stupid."
Hurley's father, and husband of Carmen Reyes.
- The Atoner: For abandoning his son. After he returns, David gradually realizes what a mistake it was to abandon his family and dedicates himself to being a better father to Hurley.
- Cool Old Guy: It's Cheech Marin! Of course he's cool!
- Deadpan Snarker: As is the standard for any character played by Cheech Marin.
- Dirty Old Man: Much to Hurley's horror, David remarks with approval that Carmen is "a passionate woman".
- Disappeared Dad: When Hugo was a child, David gave him a candy bar, jumped on his motorcycle and rode off into the sunset for years on end...until Hurley won the lottery, at which point he promptly turned up.
- Easily Forgiven: Carmen quickly forgives him for abandoning the family, and he ends up back in her bed very fast.
- Innocently Insensitive: At Hurley's first post-Island birthday party, David cracks some jokes at Hurley, Kate, and Sayid about the party's desert island theme and what their lives were like when they were stranded, totally oblivious to any trauma they may have from the experience.
- Only in It for the Money: At first, Hurley is correct in assuming that the only reason he turned up back in his son's life was because he'd won the lottery. That was true, but it's eventually subverted the more time David spends with him.David: When your mom called me about the lottery I was on my bike before she could hang the phone up. I'm getting old. Yeah, I saw my retirement. You're right. I'm here for the money.Hurley: Well, you're not getting any of it.David: That's not why I'm here talking to you now. I'm here talking to you now because going to Australia's not going to break any curse. You don't need to leave. You just — you need a little hope. We make our own luck, Hugo. You know what I think you should do?Hurley: What?David: I think you should give away the money. All of it, every penny. Just save enough for a new carburetor — work on the Camaro — you know, just you and me — take it off the blocks and make that road trip to the Grand Canyon. Never too late for a fresh start.
- Papa Wolf: Once he returns from being a Disappeared Dad and especially after Hurley comes back from the Oceanic crash. When delivering the unconscious Sayid to him, David orders Jack to leave Hurley alone.David: Dr. Shephard, when this is over, you're gonna do something for me.
Jack: What?
David: Stay away from Hugo. Whatever it is you talked him into, something tells me you don't have his best interests at heart. So stay away from my son. - Right Through the Wall: With Carmen, much to Hurley's horror.
Malkin
Richard Malkin
Played By: Nick Jameson
A self-professed psychic in Australia whom Claire visited several times while pregnant with Aaron.
- Con Man: Malkin pretends to be a fortune teller to con people out of money. He's rather good at it, too.
- Fortune Teller: Subverted, it's all a charade.
- Irony: Malkin makes his living as a Phony Psychic, and his daughter may well have had a genuine supernatural experience.
- Manipulative Bastard: Successfully manipulates Claire through careful lies and actions. Malkin first gives Claire her money back, pretending he 'saw' something terrible, and then slowly pushed her into boarding the plane.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Subverted; after crashing on the Island and discussing her experience with Malkin with Charlie, Claire comes to believe that Malkin knew all along that Flight 815 would crash, and only told Claire to allow a Los Angeles couple to adopt her baby to get her on the plane. However, Malkin's next appearance would have him admit to Mr. Eko that he's an unambiguous fraud, which strongly suggests that there really was a couple in Los Angeles, and the crash was an unforeseeable coincidence.
- Only in It for the Money: Well, he's a con artist, after all.
- Phony Psychic: Malkin admits to Eko straight-up that he's a fraud.Eko: Why would [Malkin's wife] spite you?Malkin: Because she knows I'm a fraud. Because I make my living as a psychic. You see, that's what I do. I gather intelligence on people and I exploit it. Everyday I meet people looking for a miracle, desperate to find one. But there are none to be had. Not in this world, anyway.
Dr Brooks
Dr. Douglas Brooks
Played By: Bruce Davison
Hurley's therapist at the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute. During his sessions with Hurley, he focused on helping Hurley feel better about himself, and he helped Hurley examine his unhealthy relationship with food.
- Nice Guy: A genuinely caring doctor who only wants to help his patients. He does everything he can to help Hurley better himself.
- Not So Above It All: He's generally a competent and well-intentioned guy, but he does accept a bribe from Hurley in the flash-sideways. It's in the form of a donation to the hospital, however, and not a donation to his own pocket.
Leonard Simms
Leonard Simms
Played By: Ron Bottitta
A former U.S. naval officer who Hurley knew at Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute.
- Madness Mantra: "4...8...15...16...23...42..."
- Sanity Slippage: He was driven insane by the numbers.
- Talking to Themself: Leonard only repeats the numbers to himself over and over.
Dan Norton
Dan Norton
Played By: Tom Irwin
An attorney working for the Agostini & Norton law firm, and Benjamin Linus's lawyer.
- Amoral Attorney: Norton doesn't do anything really illegal, but has no qualms harassing Kate so she'll be pushed into returning to the Island.
- Punch-Clock Villain: He's only doing a job for Ben.
- Smug Smiler: Always seen with a big grin on his satisfied face.
Big Mike
Det. Mike 'Big Mike' Walton
Played By: Michael Cudlitz
A police officer, and later detective, for the LAPD and the partner of Ana Lucia Cortez before she quit the force.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Implied for Ana-Lucia. He tries to get information out of Hurley about her, and describes her as 'gorgeous' in a melancholy tone.
- Hidden Heart of Gold: He acts like a hard-ass to intimidate Hurley, but he's actually a good-natured fellow and an excellent cop.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite hiding his Hidden Heart of Gold, he actually treats Hurley pretty well for someone who'd led the police on a car chase. When he was a beat cop with Ana-Lucia, he was even-tempered and kept a leash on Ana's Hot-Blooded ways.
Mrs Dawson
Mrs. Dawson
Played By: Starletta Du Pois
Michael's mother and Walt's grandmother.
- Mama Bear: Toward Walt, of whom she's very protective.
- Never Mess with Granny: She's capable of giving Michael a very stern talking to and does the same to Hurley when Walt goes to meet with him.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Michael is killed when the Freighter explodes in the Season 4 finale, leaving his mother to raise the now orphaned Walt.
- Promotion to Parent: After Michael's return and later death, she raises Walt. Interestingly, this is exactly what Michael suggested in a panic after Susan died.
- What the Hell, Hero?: She gives an extensive one to Michael when he returns from the island. Prior to that, she gave him an unheard one when he asked if she could 'take Walt'."I thought you were dead! They said your plane crashed in the middle of the ocean, but you show up here fine and dandy, only I can't tell anybody about you or Walt, can't call you by your real names. He barely talks to me, but he does wake up screaming in the middle of the night, and I'm the one that's got to tell him it's gonna be okay. So until you can explain to me where you were for over two months and what happened... you gave up your rights."
Ray
Ray Shephard
Played By: Raymond J. Barry
Christian Shephard's father and Jack Shephard's grandfather.
- Cool Old Guy: Ray has a tendency to make daring escapes from his nursing home. The casting call for him described him in such a way:Successful, handsome and charming rogue with a twinkle in his eye. A guy who can still fight the establishment and win.
- Deadpan Snarker: He comes across as this in his short screen-time.
- Like Father, Unlike Son: Unlike his arrogant, emotionally abusive son, Ray is charming and good-natured, showing far more respect and affection to Jack than Jack ever got from his own father.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Ray outlived his son, Christian.
Karen Decker
Karen Decker
Played By: Michelle Forbes
A public relations representative of Oceanic Airlines.
- The Cameo: For Science Fiction mainstay, Michelle Forbes.
- Miss Exposition: She's the one who describes the false circumstances of the Oceanic Six's 'rescue'.
Bram
Bram
"We are the good guys."
Played By: Brad William Henke
Bram: You're playing for the wrong team!
Miles: Yeah? What team are you on?
Bram: The one that's gonna win.
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.
- The Big Guy: In Ilana's group. He's the one who leads the charge against the Man in Black.
- Character Death: Bram shoots at the Man in Black, who reacts violently. While the Man in Black (in his smoke form) kills his friends, Bram places ash around himself to protect him. The Man in Black pulls down some stone pillars, knocking Bram out of the protective circle. Then he grabs him, lifts him up and impales him on a splint of wood.
- Good Is Not Nice: Despite being a hot-tempered jerk, Bram is working for Jacob, and is opposed to the Man in Black.
- Hot-Blooded: He grows increasingly impatient outside the statue, finally just charging in.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: On a piece of wood by the Smoke Monster.
- Jerkass: Moreso on the island than on the mainland. On the island he's impatient, argumentative and wants to kill Frank just because he doesn't like dragging him around.
- The Lancer: To Ilana.
- Number Two: Seemed to be this to Ilana.
- Smug Snake: Comes across as such when he talks to Miles.
- Too Dumb to Live: When he attacks the Man in Black even after he's given the chance to leave.
- Underestimating Badassery: Bram thoroughly underestimates the Man in Black, shooting at him ineffectually and failing to realise that the Man in Black could kill him without needing to cross the protective circle Bram had drawn around himself.
Caesar
Caesar
Played By: Saïd Taghmaoui
Caesar: What you are going to do is to sit down and tell us how you know so much about this Island, my friend.
Man in Black: You're in the habit of calling people "friend", but I don't think you mean it.
A passenger aboard Ajira Airways Flight 316 from Los Angeles to Guam when it crashed on the Hydra Island. Caesar assumed a semi-leadership role among the small pocket of survivors there, and took an interest into exploring the DHARMA Initiative station on the island.
- Blown Across the Room: Ben blasts him away with a shotgun.
- Catchphrase: Calling people 'friend', especially when he's trying to take charge or threaten.
- Character Death: When Caesar attempts to stop the Man in Black and Ben from leaving Hydra Island, Ben shoots him in the chest with a shotgun.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Caesar is one of many people who end up worse off for putting any amount of trust in Ben.
- Jerkass: Caesar tries to assert leadership in a pretty aggressive way, insulting Frank and being stand-offish in general.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: Caesar, as it happens, was very right to be suspicious of "Locke", although his suspicions come more from being manipulated by Ben and "Locke" knowing more about the Island than he logically should.
- Tempting Fate: He claimed to be 'calling the shots' and gets shot.
- Too Dumb to Live: His attempts to take charge come across as this.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: He thinks he's going to be the heroic leader who takes command. He doesn't realize how bad an idea this is, especially since he puts his trust in Ben.
Flash-sideways
David
David Shephard
Played By: Dylan Minnette
The son of Jack Shepherd and Juliet Burke in the flash-sideways. He is a piano-playing prodigy but has a difficult relationship with his father.
- Ambiguous Situation: Exactly what David is is never made clear; in life, neither Jack nor Juliet ever had children, and they certainly didn't have a child together, and with the flash-sideways revealed to be a sort of purgatory which both Jack and Juliet move on from at the end of the series, David's nature is never elaborated on. Even an awakened Locke telling Jack "you don't have a son" clears nothing up.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted, he has the same first name as Hurley's father.
- Teen Genius: He's a piano-playing prodigy.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Despite the distance between them, David wants his father to think well of him and is insecure about their relationship. Jack, proving to be a better father than his own, assures David that he can never disappoint him.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: What happened to him when Jack and Juliet both Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence? Did he just disappear? If he was never real in the first place, what was he to begin with?
Principal Reynolds
Principal Donald 'Don' Reynolds
Played By: William Atherton
The principal of the Washington Tustin High School, at which Dr. Benjamin Linus and Leslie Arzt worked in the flash-sideways timeline and where John Locke also appeared as a substitute teacher. Reynolds seemed to have a chilly relationship with Dr. Linus, dismissing the importance of the "History Club" that Ben ran and forcing Ben to oversee afternoon detentions instead.
- The Bully: Reynolds pushes Ben around, dismissing him at every turn.
- Dirty Old Man: Reynolds, a middle-aged (and married) man, conducts an affair with the school nurse on school grounds, and in the nurse's own office, no less.
- Jerkass: He frequently belittles and insults Ben. He even threatens to destroy Alex's future academic career for something she had nothing to do with.
- Karma Houdini: He doesn't get much in the way of comeuppance for his adultery, bullying and abuse of power, save for having to give Alex a very positive letter of recommendation.
- Smug Snake: Very confident in his abilities, which extend to being the incompetent principal of a school.
