Charles Widmore

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Nome	Charles Widmore
Interpretato da	Alan Dale
Prima apparizione	Tom Connolly (17 anni) David S. Lee (40 anni)

Charles Widmore è un ex leader degli altri, un facoltoso industriale ed il padre di Penelope Widmore e Daniel Faraday. Ha una misteriosa rivalità con Benjamin Linus da molto tempo (anche lui un'ex leader degli Altri) per il controllo dell'Isola. La spedizione del cargo Kahana fallì nell'impresa di farlo tornare in possesso dell'Isola. Per ragioni sconosciute, Ben non può uccidere Widmore nemmeno quando gliene viene data l'opportunità. Comunque, Widmore sta apparentemente complottando per uccidere Ben, un "interesse comune" che ha con Sun-Hwa Kwon, finché Sun scopre che le azioni sull'Isola di Ben non hanno avuto come conseguenza la morte di suo marito. Nel 2007, Widmore ritorna sull'Isola con un sottomarino e fa scoppiare una guerra con l'Uomo in Nero. Ha riportato Desmond Hume sull'Isola contro la sua volontà per usarlo in qualcosa di davvero importante.

Sull'Isola

1954

Richard and Charles argue over "some sodding old man's" ability to track through the Island. ("La bomba")

Widmore served as an Other on the Island under the command of Richard Alpert in 1954, as mentioned in conversation to John Locke. He was 17 years old ("Vita e morte di Jeremy Bentham"). He and two other men, Cunningham and Mattingly, wore stolen army uniforms with name labels (his reading "Jones"). After the beach camp survivors fled from an attack by the Others, Widmore and his group captured Sawyer and Juliet. However, John Locke arrived and killed Mattingly, allowing Widmore and Cunningham to be captured by Locke, Juliet, and Sawyer. ("La grande menzogna")

Cunningham attempted to converse with Widmore in secret via Latin, but Juliet understood them and revealed that all Others could speak Latin. She explained that the three soldiers were Others. When Cunningham tried to explain where their camp was to Juliet, Widmore killed him by snapping his neck then fled into the jungle. Locke refused to shoot him as, in Locke's words, "he's one of my people". He unknowingly led Locke's group to his camp. As Locke entered the camp, Widmore aggressively pointed a gun to Locke's head ordering him to stand down. After Locke won Richard's trust, Richard identified Widmore by name, telling him to lower his weapon. Locke then greeted Widmore, revealing knowledge of his first and second name, without saying how he knew him. This encounter with Locke seemed to inspire Widmore, since a man from the future knew who he was (although there is as of yet no evidence that Widmore was informed in 1954 that Locke was from the future). ("La bomba")

1977

Charles in 1977, spotting Kate and Jack. ("Il nuovo leader")

When Kate and Sawyer handed the young, gut-shot Ben over to Erik, Widmore was mentioned. Erik indicated that Widmore would be unhappy with Ben's arrival, and implied that he was in some sort of leadership position at this time. ("Quel che è stato è stato") After Richard took Ben to be healed at the Temple, Charles confronted Richard about his decision to help the boy, and his protests were only silenced by Richard's insistence that Jacob wanted them to help Ben. Charles entered the tent where young Ben was being kept and introduced himself. He told Ben that he had to return to living with the DHARMA Initiative, but he would still be "one of us." ("Ciò che è morto è morto")

After Daniel Faraday was shot in the Other's camp Charles approached Jack on his horse and knocked him out with his rifle's butt. Charles brought Jack and Kate captive to the Other's camp and Richard explained the situation to him. Widmore inquired why the DHARMA Initiative people would declare war on them, but Eloise told him that the three intruders were not DHARMA people. Widmore then took notice of Daniel's body and remarked that he looked familiar. As Eloise informed Widmore that she was taking Jack and Kate to the bomb, he began to argue with her and rejected the idea but eventually gave in. ("Il nuovo leader")

Anni successivi

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Charles, as the leader of the Others, orders Ben to kill the baby. ("Ciò che è morto è morto")

During his time as leader of the Others, Widmore made routine trips off the Island. During one of those trips, he fathered Penny with an unknown woman who lived in the outside world.

In 1989, Widmore assigned Ben and Ethan to kill Danielle Rousseau. When Ben returned to camp with Rousseau's baby, Alex, he was angrily confronted by an aging Widmore, who demanded to know why Ben was holding a baby. Ben was angered that Widmore had not informed him of the baby prior to accepting the mission. Widmore demanded that Ben kill her, claiming it to be the will of Jacob. Ben refused, and instead proposed that if it were indeed the will of the Island, Widmore should be able to do it instead. Scoffing, Widmore turned his back and walked away, leaving Ben holding the baby. ("Ciò che è morto è morto")

Ben has Widmore exiled from the Island. ("Ciò che è morto è morto")

As leader of the Others, it is presumed that Widmore played an active role in the purge of the DHARMA Initiative in December 1992. However it is still unclear where he stands on the event, although Ben claimed that it was "the leader's" decision to kill the Initiative members. ("Ricerca febbrile") It is currently unknown whether he meant Widmore or Jacob. It should be noted that since Ben is a known liar, this might not be necessarilly true.

Some time after the Purge, Ben had Widmore exiled from the Island and supplanted him as leader of the Others. As Widmore was led to the submarine by armed guards, Ben came to say farewell. Widmore, however, felt Ben had come to "gloat" about his victory in having him exiled. Widmore had been exiled for "breaking the rules": namely, for regularly leaving the Island, and for having a family off the Island (specifically, a "daughter with an outsider"). Widmore scornfully told Ben that one day he would have to choose between Alex and the Island. He was then led to the submarine and exiled. ("Ciò che è morto è morto")

Fuori dall'Isola

Off the Island, Charles Widmore became known as a prolific entrepreneur and an executive at his own company, Widmore Industries. Little is known about when or how he acquired his business empire.

Although Charles was apparently not involved in the upbringing of his son Daniel (and never told Daniel that he was his father), he did bankroll Daniel's research at Oxford, and when Daniel's girlfriend Theresa Spencer suffered catastrophic psychological damage as a result of one of Daniel's experiments, Charles took responsibility for her care.

Il suo rapporto con Desmond

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Widmore tells Desmond the story about Anderson MacCutcheon. ("Déjà vu")

Charles was visited by Desmond Hume, who intended to ask Charles for his daughter's hand in marriage. Charles, under the impression that Desmond was looking for a job, looked over his resume, noting Desmond's job as a theatrical set designer, as well as Desmond's failure to graduate from university. After Desmond took note of Widmore's beautiful model of a boat, Widmore informed him of a solo race around the world that his company was sponsoring. He offered Desmond a job in his administrative department, after which Desmond told him that he had not come looking for a job, but instead wanted Charles's permission for himself and Penny to wed. Though noting that Desmond was making a noble gesture, Widmore stated that Desmond was unworthy of marrying his daughter, because he would never be a "great man," using Anderson MacCutcheon, the namesake of a brand of whiskey, as an example of a great man. Desmond then left, saddened and ashamed. ("Déjà vu")

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Widmore offers Desmond two paths for his life. ("Si vive insieme, si muore soli, seconda parte")

In 1996, Widmore purchased the journal of the first mate of the Black Rock, a 19th century British slave ship, at a Southfield's auction. Desmond found him at the auction, demanding to know Penny's new contact information. Widmore asserted that it was Desmond's cowardice that separated Desmond from Penny. Desmond asked why Widmore hated him; Widmore retorted that it wasn't he who hated Desmond. He then gave Desmond Penny's address. ("La costante")

Widmore's disapproval of his daughter's relationship with Hume led to his interception of letters that Desmond wrote to Penelope while serving time in a military prison. ("Si vive insieme, si muore soli, seconda parte")

Widmore attempted to bribe Desmond to cease the relationship and never see Penelope again. He sponsored the sailing race around the world that Desmond, in an attempt to regain his honor, was participating in when he crashed onto the Island. ("Si vive insieme, si muore soli, seconda parte")

Alla ricerca dell'Isola

Widmore spots the camera man of Ben's tape. ("L'altra donna")

As seen in a video tape, Widmore brutally beat a blindfolded, unnamed Other, purportedly in his efforts to extract information about the location of the Island. ("L'altra donna")

At some point, Widmore learned that Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on the Island. According to documentary evidence Tom presented Michael, Widmore had purchased a Boeing 777 fuselage and disinterred 324 graves in Thailand to create staged wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815 in the Sunda Trench. Tom told Michael that Widmore had done this because he wanted the Island all to himself. ("Vi presento Kevin Johnson")

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Widmore reveals his dark secrets to his son. ("Costanti e variabili")

Widmore sent the freighter Kahana to the Island, hiring Gault to captain the expedition, and telling him that, in fact Ben had planted the wreckage of Flight 815. ("Ji Yeon") He also hired Martin Keamy to lead a mercenary team to breach the Island, locate and apprehend Benjamin Linus, and kill every other living person on the Island, including the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815, if Keamy's team found that they existed. ("Vi presento Kevin Johnson")

On the day the fake wreckage was discovered and shown on television, Charles paid a visit to Daniel in Essex, Massachusetts. He told Daniel that the wreckage shown on television was a fake, and that he knew this because he had planted it himself. He then offered Daniel an opportunity to travel to the Island, telling him that the Island's unique properties would allow him to further his research, and suggesting that the Island could heal the memory problems Daniel had been experiencing ever since his accident at Oxford. ("Costanti e variabili")

Dopo il salvataggio dei 6 della Oceanic

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Widmore is awakened by Ben, and drinks to fight the nightmares. ("Cambio delle regole")

Widmore was unsuccessful with the Kahana expedition. Sometime after the Oceanic Six were rescued, Widmore was confronted by Ben in his London penthouse. Widmore looked tired and unshaven, and when asked by Ben when he started "sleeping with a bottle of scotch by the bed", he replied "When the nightmares started." Widmore assumed that Ben had come to kill him, but Ben replied, "We both know I can't do that." The two argued about who was responsible for the death of Alex. Widmore claimed that everything Ben had he took from him. Ben threatened to kill Widmore's daughter, Penelope, whom Widmore indicated would be never found. Widmore claimed the Island was his but Ben asserted that he would never find it. Widmore mused that the hunt was on... for both of them. ("Cambio delle regole")

Widmore visits an injured Locke in Tunisia, after he moved the Island. ("Vita e morte di Jeremy Bentham")

It was shortly after this that Widmore's surveillance in Tunisia caught John Locke lying in the desert after having been transported there. Widmore had cameras fixed on this spot because he somehow knew it to be "the exit" from the Island. Widmore's associates found Locke and brought him to a field hospital. After he awoke, Locke found himself face-to-face with Widmore. Widmore reminded Locke of their meeting in 1954, which for Locke had only been 4 days ago. Widmore told Locke of an approaching war and agreed to help him in his quest to bring the Oceanic Six back to the Island.

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Sun hands Charles her business card of Paik Industries. ("Casa dolce casa, seconda parte")

He gave Locke his cover identity of Jeremy Bentham and provided Locke with the services of Matthew Abaddon, as well as dossiers on the whereabouts and status of the Oceanic Six. ("Vita e morte di Jeremy Bentham")

Some time later, Sun approached Widmore in London. At first he pretended to merely know her through his connection with her father. However, Sun confronted him, indicating that he knew she was part of the group that had been on the Island and that they were lying about it. Sun then offered to collaborate with Widmore. He asked her why she would want to help him, but she didn't answer. ("Casa dolce casa, seconda parte")

Quinta stagione

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Widmore gives the address of Faraday's mother to Desmond. ("La bomba")

While Sun was checking in for her flight to Los Angeles, the attendant asked her to hold for a moment, then escorted her to a room where the door was locked behind her. Widmore appeared and scolded her for approaching him in broad daylight in front of his colleagues. He brought up her statement about their common interests, and asked what they are. She told him plainly, "To kill Benjamin Linus." ("L'assenza e il vuoto")

Shortly thereafter, in his office, Widmore was surprised by an unexpected visitor: Desmond Hume, whom he had not seen in around seven years. Desmond demanded to know where he could find Daniel Faraday's mother. When Widmore appeared confused, Desmond revealed that he knew Widmore had subsidized Faraday's research at Oxford for about ten years before he sent Daniel to the Island on the freighter, and also paid for Theresa's medical support. Widmore attempted to find out whether Penny was safe, yet Desmond insisted on a location for Faraday's mother.

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Widmore receives a phone call from Ben, informing him of his intentions to kill Penny. ("Ciò che è morto è morto")

Widmore eventually gave Desmond an address in Los Angeles, yet warned Desmond that he was "getting (himself) involved in something that goes back many many years." and begged Desmond to keep himself and Penny out of it by hiding. ("La bomba")

A few days later, as Widmore was walking out of Widmore Industries, Ben phoned him from a marina in Long Beach. He told Widmore that he was about to return to the Island, to which Widmore replied that the Island wouldn't let him. The conversation ended with Ben reminding Widmore that he was going to murder his daughter Penelope, and that he was staring at Desmond's boat. Widmore responded, "You wouldn't dare," as Ben hung up. Ben ended up shooting Desmond, but hesitated to kill Penny, giving the injured Desmond enough time to stop him. ("Ciò che è morto è morto")

Charles and Eloise discuss their son. ("Costanti e variabili")

After this, Charles traveled to Los Angeles and appeared at the Long Beach hospital where Desmond was being treated for his gunshot wound. Here, he met up with his old friend, Eloise Hawking, who informed him that Desmond was recovering, to which he indicated that he was pleased, and Penny was inside and that he should go see her. Charles stated that he had sacrificed his relationship with Penny. It is then revealed that Eloise knew that sending Daniel to the island would lead to his death, stating that it was she who had made a sacrifice. Charles interrupts her saying "He was my son too, Eloise." Angered by this remark, Eloise slapped Charles in the face and walked off. ("Costanti e variabili")

Ritorno sull'Isola

Gennaio 2008 (Sesta stagione)

Widmore managed to take Desmond from the hospital, while he was still unconscious. Having heard of how Desmond survived a catastrophic electromagnetic event in the past, Widmore planned to check if Desmond could do it again, claiming that if he cannot they will all die. ("E vissero felici e contenti") He and his crew took Desmond back to the Island via a submarine.

Charles finally returns to the Island. ("Dottor Linus")

As Jack, Hurley and Richard reunited with Sun, Ilana, Ben, Miles and Frank at the beach camp, Widmore and his crew approached the Island, detecting this activity on the beach. Widmore ordered his men to continue on their course as planned. ("Dottor Linus")

After seeing the activity on the beach camp, Widmore's submarine docked at Hydra Island and set up a perimeter using a sonar pylon similar to the sonar fence once employed by the DHARMA Initiative. Widmore's team, led by Zoe, captured Sawyer after he threatened her and took him to the submarine. When Sawyer was brought to Widmore's cabin, Widmore and Sawyer made an agreement that if Sawyer brought the Man in Black to Widmore, then Sawyer and his friends could safely leave the Island. ("Ricognizione")

Widmore strikes a deal with Sawyer. ("Ricognizione")

After the Man in Black temporarily left his group to try and recruit Sun, a team of Widmore's people attacked the group with tranquillizer darts and captured Jin. The next day, the Man in Black came to Hydra Island in an outrigger and discovered that Widmore had already set up a sonar fence around the perimeter of the island, preventing the Man in Black from coming in. Widmore's men appeared and led the Man in Black further down the beach to a meeting with Widmore himself. Widmore asked the Man in Black whether he knew who he was. The Man in Black did, and then asked Widmore whether he knew who the Man in Black was. Widmore guardedly answered that the Man in Black obviously wasn't John Locke. The Man in Black said that he had come because Widmore had taken one of his people, Jin. Widmore denied knowing anything. The Man in Black ominously said that the war Widmore once foretold to Locke "just got here."

Widmore comes face to face with the Man in Black. ("Il pacco")

Later, in the Hydra station, Widmore berated Zoe for making a move ahead of their planned schedule. Noticing that Jin was in the room, Widmore gave him a camera containing pictures of Jin's daughter, Ji Yeon, that Widmore had found amongst Sun's luggage in the Ajira plane. Widmore told Jin that he, too, had a daughter and knows how it feels to be kept apart. He went on to say that Jin's reunion with his daughter would be short-lived if "that thing" (the Man in Black) ever got off the Island, because everything they knew and loved would "cease to be." Widmore claimed he had come to the Island in order to stop the Man in Black from escaping. When Jin asked Widmore what his next move was going to be, Widmore announced that it was time for Jin to see the package, which he said was a "who," not a "what." ("Il pacco")

When Widmore was later talking to a confused Desmond, who thought he was still in the hospital and that Zoe was a nurse, he told him he had come back to the Island. This made Desmond mad, so he then began banging Widmore's head with an IV stand. Widmore's response was the same a Eloise's, "The Island isn't done with you, Desmond". After leaving the room, Jin asked what Desmond is doing on the Island. Widmore replied that it would be easier to show Jin and ordered Zoe to take him to the generator room, despite Zoe's protests about not the tests not being scheduled until tomorrow. Simmons is accidentally killed in the solenoid chamber as the test was set-up. Widmore looked sadly at Simmons' dead body as he is taken out and ordered that Desmond be placed inside. He insisted that Desmond would be fine if what he has heard about him is true. He then tells Desmond that once the experiment is over, Desmond will have to make a sacrifice. Desmond cynically asked what Widmore knows about sacrifice. Widmore angrily told him about his son dying, his daughter hating him and him never seeing his grandson, all in the name of the Island. Unless Desmond can help him, he said that all that would have been for nothing and Penny, Desmond's son and everyone else will be dead. Desmond was then exposed to the electromagnetism inside the chamber, which he survives, being left unconscious for only a few seconds. Widmore offered to explain why he had to put Desmond through that, but Desmond declined and cooperatively asked when they start with whatever is so important. ("E vissero felici e contenti")

After Desmond had been captured by Sayid and the Man in Black, Widmore sent Zoe to the Man in Black's camp on the main island to deliver an ultimatum for the Man in Black to return Desmond. When Sawyer and other Survivors arrived on Hydra Island, Widmore instructed Zoe to tell Sawyer that their deal was off and ordered firing on the Man in Black's group, having arrived on a beach on the main island, resulting in casualties of the Man in Black's group. ("L'ultima recluta")

Widmore lead Kate, Sawyer, Sun, Jin, Hurley, Claire and Frank to the Hydra station with his team. After Sawyer refused to go in the cages, again and seizes a rifle from Seamus, Widmore grabbed Kate and threatened to kill her but when Sawyer tried to call his bluff, Widmore informed them that he had a list of names including "Ford, the Kwons, and Reyes but not Kate Austin" and that so it didn't matter to him whether she lived or died. Widmore approached Sawyer and added that he was doing this for Sawyer's own good. Widmore checked with his men whether the fence was live yet. ("Il candidato")

Trivia

• Nell’Odissea di Omero Poseidone era la suprema divinità marittima che odiava Ulisse e utilizzava i suoi poteri sugli oceani per impedire all’uomo di tornare nella sua Itaca da Penelope,sua moglie. In Lost Charles Widmore non vuole che Desmond sia il compagno di sua figlia Penelope e vigila il mare tramite il Kahana,il suo cargo ormeggiato al largo dell’Isola. Si può fare un parallelismo tra Poseidone e Widmore,dato che entrambi sorvegliano le acque ed impediscono a un uomo di tornare dalla propria amata.
• Il magnate possiede una limousine,una Bentley Arnage guidata da un autista.
• Charles Widmore è proprietario della Widmore Corporation,che produce dei test di gravidanza usati da Sun,Kate e Rachel. La scritta “Widmore Corporation” è visibile anche sulla cesta della mongolfiera di Henry Gale e su un tabellone mentre Charlie sta uscendo di scena in “Fuoco e acqua”.
• Il nome Charles ha ascendenze germaniche e significa “uomo libero”. Deriva dalla parola “karl”,simile all’antica parola inglese “Churl” (“uomo”).
• Quando Desmond si reca nell’ufficio di Charles Widmore,si può notare appeso alla parete di destra un grande quadro raffigurante un orso polare e un immagine di un Buddha; in cima al dipinto appare la parola “Namaste”. Lo stile dell’opera è molto simile a quelle dipinte da Thomas,l’ex ragazzo di Claire e il padre di Aaron e si può ipotizzare che sia proprio lui l’autore della tela.
• Charles Widmore é il padre di Daniel Faraday. Nella puntata "Costanti e Variabili", dopo la visita in ospedale a Penelope, Eloise Hawking incontra l'uomo all'uscita. I due hanno una discussione durante la quale emerge chiaramente che i due hanno avuto una relazione amorosa e che da questa è nato Daniel.

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Storia

• Dove è nato?
• Come è diventato membro degli Altri?
• Come è riuscito a diventare ricco uscito dall'Isola?
• Qual'è il motivo della rottura con Eloise Hawking?
• Widmore era coinvolto nella Purga?
• Quali sono le regole che ricorda a Ben?
  • Perché Ben non può uccidere Charles?

Eventi attuali

• Come trova l'isola dopo 20 anni di esilio?
  • E' a conoscenza del Lampione?
• Did his associates pose a threat to the Oceanic Six?
• Quali sono i suoi piani per l'Isola?
• Come e' riuscito a trovare l'isola di nuovo pur avendo detto che non avrebbe potuto farlo?
• Riconosce Sawyer dal 1954?