Charlotte Lewis (Lost)

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Charlotte Staples Lewis
First appearance	"Confirmed Dead"
Centric episode(s)	"Confirmed Dead"
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Name	Charlotte Staples Lewis
Age	25 (born July 2, 1979(1979-07-02))
Former residence	Essex, England
(Former) profession	Anthropologist, works on Naomi's team
Portrayed by	Rebecca Mader

Dr. Charlotte Staples Lewis is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Rebecca Mader. Lewis was introduced in the second episode of season 4 and is an anthropologist hired to work with Naomi. Charlotte's name is a tribute to C. S. Lewis, the famous Christian apologist author and scholar best known for writing The Chronicles of Narnia series as well as multiple Christian classics including Mere Christianity.^[1] Lewis taught at the University of Oxford for years, which is also where she earned a doctoral degree in Cultural Anthropology. When angry, Charlotte speaks in an odd manner that involves raising her voice when saying the last few syllables of her sentences.

Contents 1 Fictional Character Biography 1.1 Prior to arrival on island 1.2 After arrival on island 2 References

[edit] Fictional Character Biography

[edit] Prior to arrival on island

Charlotte has two sisters and was born in Essex, England. She grew up in Bromsgrove with her parents. She went to University of Kent for her undergraduate degree and earned a doctoral degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Oxford.

While in Tunisia, she picked up a newspaper stating that Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 had been found and her partner asked her, "How many languages do you have to read that in before you believe it's true?" Charlotte responded, "How many languages are there?". She went to an excavation site, in the Sahara Desert, of what was discovered to be Polar Bear remains. She uncovered a collar on the bones, which bore the Hydra logo from the DHARMA Initiative. Later, it was revealed that Matthew Abaddon had selected Charlotte, along with Miles, Faraday, and Lapidus, to work on her mission, which took her to the island. En route to the island, Charlotte was forced to eject from the Helicopter during a lightning storm.

[edit] After arrival on island

Charlotte first arrives on the island on December 23, 2004 after the crash survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 contact her and her crew on the freighter. After crash landing in a tree, she detaches herself and lands in a small lake. She encounters Locke and other survivors shortly after. The survivors remove her tracking device so that they cannot be found by other people from the freighter. They place the tracker on Vincent and make him run so Jack will never find them. She maintains that she is there to rescue them, however Locke does not believe her. Charlotte later spots a flare that she says belongs to a member of her team. When no one wants to investigate, Charlotte becomes impatient and begins to go off on her own, leading Ben to shoot her, but she is wearing a bullet proof vest and survives. Ben then reveals detailed personal information about her and says that her team has come to find him and that he has a man on their boat.

The group head for Jacob's cabin, but cannot find it. Locke then leads them to the barracks, where they encounter Kate, Sayid, and Miles. Sayid arranges for Miles to take Charlotte's place as Locke's hostage for passage on Frank's helicopter. When offered to go back to the freighter, Charlotte elects to remain on the island. Jack and Juliet escort Charlotte and Daniel back to the campsite along the beach. That night, she tests Daniels memory with playing cards. He guesses 2 out of 3 cards, which Charlotte says is "progress". Jack and Juliet then force her to call the freighter on an emergency line when they cannot get though and learn that the helicopter with Sayid, Desmond, and Frank never arrived.

Later that night, Charlotte and Daniel sneak off on a long trek to the Tempest (the island's electrical station), where they work to neutralize a potential source of poison gas. In the midst of their trek, Kate stumbles across their position and begins to ask questions suspiciously. With little time and difficulty to explain the situation, Charlotte is given no choice but to pistol whip Kate and knock her unconscious. They leave her in the jungle and continue towards the Tempest. Whilst Daniel is attempting to render the gas inert, Juliet confronts him and is abruptly tackled to the floor by Charlotte. Juliet manages to get the upper-hand and holds Charlotte at gunpoint. She asks Charlotte to order Daniel to stop whatever it is he's doing, but Charlotte tries to assure Juliet that they're trying to render the gas useless so that it can't be used by Ben. Juliet complies and lets Daniel finish his objective. When Jack and Kate finally arrive at the Tempest, Charlotte apologizes to Kate and Juliet backs her actions. Later on Charlotte and Daniel are surprised when a body of the doctor on the boat they had been on washed up ashore, his throat was slit leading to Jack questioning Charlotte and Daniel some more and they tell Jack the doctor was fine when they last saw him and that they know nothing about it.

While getting medical supplies at the Staff, Jin sees Charlotte smile when Sun remarks, in Korean, that Charlotte knows Daniel fancies her because she is a woman. That night, Jin confronts Charlotte, speaking in Korean. She at first pretends not to understand, but Jin says he will hurt Daniel if she doesn't cooperate. After she concedes that she does speak Korean, Jin makes her promise to take Sun off the island with them when the helicopter returns.

Later, when Daniel uses the phone to overhear the helicopter crew and hears about the Orchid he tells her they must leave the island "Right now". She is seen looking on as Daniel ferrys people to the freighter and gives him a smile goodbye.

It is implied at the end of the season 4 finale that not only has she been to the island before, but was born there, and had worked to get back. She ultimately chooses to stay and disappears with the island and its remaining inhabitants when Ben "moves" it to its new location.

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