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==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
 
*Boone was the ninth character to ever have a [[flashback]].
 
*Boone was the ninth character to ever have a [[flashback]].
*Boone's total episode count so far is 25 (one uncredited--in {{ep|2x07}} his voice was heard over Bernard's radio); he died in his 18th episode.
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*Boone's total episode count so far is 25 (one uncredited--in {{ep|2x07}} his voice was heard over Bernard's radio); he died in his 18th episode.
*Boone has never met [[Ana Lucia]], [[Eko]], [[Libby]], [[Ben]], [[Juliet]], [[Desmond]], [[Daniel]], [[Charlotte]] and [[Miles]]. However, he's met the rest of the main fuselage-survivors.
 
 
*Boone was the first main character to be killed.
 
*Boone was the first main character to be killed.
 
*Boone's name is the first name of any character to be said on the show. Soon after [[the crash]], [[Shannon]] shouted Boone's name on the beach, prior to his introduction to the viewer. {{crossref|1x01}}
 
*Boone's name is the first name of any character to be said on the show. Soon after [[the crash]], [[Shannon]] shouted Boone's name on the beach, prior to his introduction to the viewer. {{crossref|1x01}}

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Boone Carlyle was a middle section survivor of Oceanic Flight 815 and was Shannon's stepbrother. He attempted to assume a semi-leadership role with the survivors but failed due to being rash and young, though he became Locke's apprentice when the two formed a close bond. Boone survived on the Island for 41 days before he died of injuries sustained in a fall whilst he tried to contact 'rescuers' from the drug smugglers' plane. According to Locke, Boone was a sacrifice the Island demanded.

Before the Island

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Boone coming to Shannon's aid in Australia. ("Hearts and Minds")  (promotional still)

Boone Carlyle was the son of Sabrina Carlyle. When he was six years old, he had a nanny named Theresa. He called her to his room constantly because he was angry with his mother for leaving him alone all the time. One day Theresa fell down the stairs and broke her neck while responding to Boone's calls. Boone's mother married Adam Rutherford when Boone was ten. He was the stepbrother of Shannon Rutherford, who was two years younger than he. At some point in his teens, Boone worked as a lifeguard. According to Shannon, he didn't believe in guns and went on marches, though he denied it. Shannon also told Hurley that Boone was a political Liberal.

By the time he was 20, Boone was living in New York. After flying back to Los Angeles for Adam Rutherford's funeral, Boone comforted Shannon and gave his underage stepsister some alcohol to mollify her grief. He told Shannon she could live with him in New York if it would help get her career as a dance instructor started. After Shannon got the job, Boone was offered a job by his mother. He accepted the job as the Chief Operating Officer of the wedding clothing subsidiary of his mother's company, Carlyle Weddings, and had to move from New York. Shannon had asked him to ask his mother for some money, but he came back empty handed. He said his mother knew why he asked for the money. Boone then offered Shannon some of his own money to get her started in New York without him, but she refused because she wanted to prove herself. ("Abandoned")

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Boone at an Australian police station. ("Hearts and Minds")  (promotional still)

Although he would not openly admit it, Boone was in love with Shannon and often rescued her from abusive relationships. While at a tennis court with Nicole, Boone received a phone call from Shannon pleading for him to come help her. She was living with a man named Bryan in Sydney, and she told Boone things weren't so good. Boone flew to Australia, where Shannon showed him a bruise on her forehead. He went to the police station, and while talking to the detective Boone saw a violent American being hauled off to jail after being interrogated. Boone pleaded with Malcolm to help and even tried to use his family name to gain leverage. However, Malcolm was unwilling to help because Boone and Shannon were not blood related, and joked that they were not the "dating police." Boone took matters into his own hands. In the past, he had paid at least three men to leave Shannon, so he went to a marina where Bryan was working and gave him a check for $50,000. Later, when Boone went to Shannon's house to take her home to America, Bryan was still there. When Boone confronted him, Bryan said that because of what Sabrina Carlyle had done to her, Shannon had set Boone up knowing he would pay Bryan off, and then he and she would share the money. Boone then attacked Bryan, but Bryan won the fight and Boone left the house embarrassed. That night, Shannon appeared at Boone's hotel room and told him Bryan had left her and taken the money. Intoxicated, she seduced Boone, and they had sex. Afterwards Shannon suggested that they return to Los Angeles and act like nothing had happened. ("Hearts and Minds")

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Boone giving Shannon her medication. ("Exodus, Part 2")

At Sydney Airport, Boone attempted to upgrade their seats to first class. When he told Shannon the agent wouldn't upgrade do it because Shannon had been difficult during check-in, she stormed off to try again. In response to Boone questioning how immoral she could be, she notified an airport cop that "some Arab guy" had left a suspicious bag in the waiting area.("Exodus, Part 1")

Boone took Shannon to the food court to relax before the plane took off; however, Shannon continued to yell at him about not getting the upgrade to First Class. Boone found a table next to Paulo and Nikki, and asked Paulo if they could borrow a chair. Before he could sit down, Shannon stormed off and told him to "stop flirting with random guys," and Boone followed her out of the food court.("Exposé")

After boarding Flight 815, Boone sat in Business Class seat of 9E, next to Shannon. While in their seats, Shannon searched for her asthma medicine that she forgot to pack. Boone, who remembered to bring it for her, smiled, pulled the medicine out of his pocket and handed it to her. ("Exodus, Part 2")

On the Island

Season 1 (Days 1-42)

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Boone after the crash, searching for a tracheotomy pen for Jack. ("Pilot, Part 1")  ("Exposé")  (promotional still)

After the crash of Flight 815, Boone helped Jack in getting many of the passengers away from the exploding wreckage. While he was willing to help, Boone did several things wrong in the panic of the moment. He incorrectly applied CPR to Rose, blowing air into her stomach, before Jack stopped him and sent him to get pens to perform a tracheotomy. He then ran around asking other survivors (including Nikki) for pens, and retrieved a large amount of them which Jack never used. Later that day Boone offered Shannon a chocolate bar, and she refused, saying she would eat something better on the rescue boat. Eager to redeem himself from his earlier mistakes, Boone was put in charge of watching the injured survivors while Jack set out to the cockpit. ("Pilot, Part 1"), ("Exposé")

The next day, he went out with Sayid, Kate, Charlie, Shannon and Sawyer to get to high ground and send out a distress call. They were walking through the jungle when a polar bear charged at them. Sawyer shot and killed it, and they were left to ponder where it could have possibly come from. They were ultimately unsuccessful in acquiring a signal, as all channels were blocked by a distress signal that had been repeating for sixteen years. ("Pilot, Part 2")

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Boone giving sunglasses to Shannon. ("Tabula Rasa")  (promotional still)

They made camp for the night on their way back down from the mountain, and while everyone was sleeping Boone lifted the gun off Sawyer. When everyone asks why he did so, he said somebody needed to stand guard with the gun. The group gave the gun to Kate, thinking she was trustworthy. ("Tabula Rasa")

Boone argued with Shannon, telling her she could not provide for herself. This prompted her to flirt with Charlie so he would catch a fish for her. When Charlie returned with a fish, Boone accused her of being too manipulative. That night, Boone and Hurley helped with Claire's memorial service for those who did not survive the crash. ("Walkabout")

On day 6, Boone saw Joanna struggling to stay afloat in the ocean. He was the first one to enter the water in an attempt to save her but soon was pulled underwater by the same riptide. Jack, who entered the water shortly after Boone, saved him but was unable to get back in time to save Joanna. Boone was despondent and bitter, blaming himself for Joanna's death. He grew angry at Jack for going after him rather than Joanna, and tried to establish himself as useful and attempted to ration the camp's remaining water supply on his own. The other survivors mistook this as an attempt by him to steal all the water for himself. He was about to be attacked and harmed when Jack intervened on his behalf. ("White Rabbit")

When Jack attempted to persuade the rest of the survivors to move to the caves he discovered, Boone and Shannon decided to stay at the beach camp with Kate, Sawyer, Sayid, Michael, Walt and others as they believed there is a possibility that they may still be rescued. ("House of the Rising Sun")

While he was treated as an outsider for a brief time, he was quickly accepted back into the fold after he proved himself to have a helpful and friendly attitude after all. He assisted the survivors on several projects, including Sayid's attempts to triangulate the French signal, and rescuing Jack from the cave-in. ("The Moth")

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Boone at the beach. ("White Rabbit")  (promotional still)

After Shannon's inhaler ran out, Boone went looking for her replacements in Sawyer's stash. Sawyer beat Boone for going through his stuff, and Boone ran to the caves to tell Jack and the other survivors what Sawyer had done. It later turned out Sawyer did not have the medicine, but Sun was able to help Shannon using some plants native to the Island. ("Confidence Man")

When Hurley built a golf course, Boone encouraged Shannon to come with him to see Jack, Hurley, Michael and Charlie play. At the game, Boone bet against Sawyer for two bottles of sunscreen for Shannon. ("Solitary")

When Hurley tried to take an island census, Boone informed him that Sawyer had the flight manifest. When he asked Hurley why he was making the census, Hurley told him about the attack on Claire at the caves. Shannon then refused to move there, to Boone's dismay. ("Raised by Another")

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Boone unties Shannon in his hallucination. ("Hearts and Minds")  (promotional still)

Boone was a part of the search party that went looking for Claire after she was taken by Ethan. Boone and Locke split up from Jack and Kate, and began to form a bond. They talked of their lives before the crash, but Boone did not believe Locke had worked at a box company. When Locke threw a flashlight to Boone, it fell on top of a hatch buried in the ground. ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues")

Boone worked with Locke to break into the Hatch, stealing the ax to break the glass, and even lying to Shannon, at Locke's request, about what he was doing. Because he was away from the beach so much, Shannon started to form a relationship with Sayid, which Boone grew jealous of, especially when Shannon sang for Sayid. ("Whatever the Case May Be")

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Boone and Shannon run away from what he thinks is the Monster. ("Hearts and Minds")  (promotional still)

Locke built a trebuchet to open the Hatch but that ultimately failed. Boone told Locke the survivors were getting suspicious since they were not bringing back boar, but Locke replied, "What we're doing here is far more important." As Boone regularly went on hunting trips with Locke into the jungle, Locke began to notice his feelings toward Shannon. When Boone told him that he was going to tell Shannon about the Hatch, Locke drugged him and tied him up to a tree 4 miles east of camp. While tied up, Boone experienced a hallucination of being chased by the Monster and finding Shannon dead. He eventually found his way back to camp, and attempted to kill Locke for causing his sister's death. When Boone told Locke that Shannon had died in his arms, Locke asked Boone why there was no blood on him. Boone realized the entire thing was a hallucination, and when Locke asked Boone how he felt when Shannon died, Boone couldn't help but give the honest answer that he felt relieved. The experience helped Boone learn to let go of Shannon, and become more devoted to "listening to the Island" with Locke. ("Hearts and Minds")

When Michael and Walt fought on day 25, Walt found refuge with Boone and Locke, who taught the boy how to throw a knife. Later that day at the caves, Boone shrugged off a nagging Shannon, and instead of helping her, went off with Locke to find Walt's missing dog, Vincent. However, Boone and Locke stumbled upon Claire instead. ("Special")

Knowing Ethan would return for Claire, the survivors decided to have some people take shifts to act as guards all day and night. Boone volunteered to be one, but Scott was still killed when Ethan attacked coming not from the jungle but from the ocean. ("Homecoming")

After Charlie killed Ethan in a failed capture, things began to cool down on the Island. Sayid came to Boone to explain that he and Shannon were drawing closer. Boone became aggressive, and Sayid told him he was not asking Boone's permission. Boone told Sayid that Shannon had a thing for "guys who can take care of her" and would leave him eventually. ("...In Translation")

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"Theresa falls up the stairs, Theresa falls down the stairs," from Locke's vision ("Deus Ex Machina")

On day 40, Locke took Boone to the Beechcraft he had seen in a dream. On the way there, Locke confided in Boone about his paralysis and healing. Because Locke was having difficulty walking, he told Boone to climb into the plane to investigate. Boone discovered the Beechcraft was really a Nigerian drug runner plane when he found a number of Virgin Mary statuettes all filled with heroin. He tried the plane's radio and briefly made contact with someone who claimed to be a survivor of Oceanic Flight 815. The plane fell with Boone still inside, and he was crushed. Locke carried him back to the caves, where Jack asked him what had happened. Locke said Boone had fallen off a cliff, then left for The Hatch. ("Deus Ex Machina")

Jack, with the aid of Sun, battled desperately to save Boone, even giving him some of his own blood in a transfusion, but because of Locke's lie, Jack could not save him. He realized Boone's leg was crushed and attempted to cut it off, but Boone stopped him, knowing he would die regardless. Boone died the following day. His last words were "Tell Shannon...tell her..." He died before he could complete his last phrase. ("Do No Harm")

Post-Death

Boone was buried along with the other deceased survivors in the graveyard. Shannon did not speak at his funeral, but Sayid instead when Shannon was unable to, and when Locke showed up, Jack attacked him for causing Boone's death. ("The Greater Good")

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Boone, guiding Locke in his vision. ("Further Instructions")  (promotional still)

Twenty-seven days after Boone's death, Locke was in search of further instructions from the island. He set up a sweat lodge and consumed the same paste that he had put on Boone earlier. It seemed that nothing was going to happen when Boone appeared.

When Locke tried to apologize to Boone, he acknowledged (with a hint of sarcasm) that he was a "sacrifice the Island demanded," as Locke had repeatedly described him. Boone led Locke away, but John discovered that he had lost the use of his legs. Boone put him in a wheelchair.

Boone led John around Sydney Airport, and warned him that it was up to him to save another survivor's life. Locke saw Charlie and Claire. Boone responded they were "fine... for a while" (hinting at Desmond's later premonition of Charlie's imminent death.) Locke saw Jin and Sun arguing, but Boone assured him that Sayid would lead them to safety, and that Hurley and Desmond would be fine as well. After John saw Jack, Kate, and Sawyer being accosted by Henry, Boone told him that he must clean up his own mess before he could help them. Boone, realizing John wouldn't comprehend on his own, led Locke to the top of the escalator. There, John found Eko's stick, covered with blood. Boone, now pale and bloody, as he was when he died, told Locke to save Eko before it was too late. ("Further Instructions")

According to the official story of the Oceanic 6, Boone was one of the three people who survived the initial crash but died before rescue. According to Jack, Boone had massive internal injuries, and died soon after the crash. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")

Trivia

  • Boone was the ninth character to ever have a flashback.
  • Boone's total episode count so far is 25 (one uncredited--in "The Other 48 Days" his voice was heard over Bernard's radio); he died in his 18th episode.
  • Boone was the first main character to be killed.
  • Boone's name is the first name of any character to be said on the show. Soon after the crash, Shannon shouted Boone's name on the beach, prior to his introduction to the viewer. ("Pilot, Part 1")
  • Boone was originally going to be called Boone Anthony Markham V (Called Five by the group). Being called "Five" would be almost a direct reference to "Fiver" a character in the book Boone took on the trip, "Watership Down."
    • On the Season 1 DVD special features, it is revealed that they ran a search and replace on the "Pilot, Part 1" script, it accidentally changed this story to have Jack say: "1, 2, 3, 4, Boone".
  • The Chinese figure on Boone's singlet means the number 84, which is a reference to Yin & Yang - a central symbol in Taoism.
  • Despite his early death, Boone serves as a plot device or character motivation in every season: In season 1, his death causes Locke to continue his quest to enter the hatch -- which, as revealed in season 2, keeps Desmond from committing suicide -- referred to in both seasons as "the sacrifice the island demanded." In season 3, a spirit vision of Boone gives Locke the impetus to find the gravely injured Mr. Eko. In season 4, Boone is said to be one of three survivors to survive Flight 815's initial crash but perish before rescue as part of the Oceanic 6's cover story.

See also

Unanswered questions

Unanswered questions
  1. Do not answer the questions here.
  2. Keep the questions open-ended and neutral: do not suggest an answer.
For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Boone Carlyle/Theories
  • Who is his father?
  • What did he want to tell Shannon?