- "Charlotte" redirects here. For the flashback character from "?", see: "Charlotte Malkin".
Charlotte Staples Lewis was a gifted cultural anthropologist who grew up on the Island, where her parents were members of the DHARMA Initiative. She eventually escaped with just her mother, leaving her dad (and possibly two younger sisters) behind. She spent the rest of her life trying to find the Island again. This was mostly due to her mother's insistence that she had made it all up, and for a chance to find her father again. She then finally parachuted back onto the Island on day 91, as part of the freighter science team. After initially being held hostage in Locke's group, Sayid traded her freedom for Miles, and she arrived at the beach camp with Daniel Faraday (who she shared reciprocated feelings for), where her presence aroused the suspicions of the survivors due to her secrecy and dishonesty about their mission while on the Island, as well as her attitude to the others, although she eventually gained trust when she and Daniel diffused deadly gas from a DHARMA station. Following Benjamin Linus's turning of the frozen wheel and the increasing frequency of the time flashes that ensued, Charlotte began suffering the effects of temporal displacement and eventually became unable to travel with the other survivors, due to having been on the island for the longest period of time. She succumbed to the illness 16 days after her arrival on the Island, dying by Daniel's side.
On the Island
DHARMA Initiative
Charlotte waves at Daniel as a very young child in the Barracks. ("LaFleur")
According to information provided by Ben that he received from Michael, Charlotte Staples Lewis was born on July 2, 1979 in Essex, England to parents David and Jeanette Lewis. She was raised in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England along with her two younger sisters. ("Confirmed Dead")
It has since been uncovered that this information is, at least, partially incorrect; Charlotte was actually born in 1971 and she spent a great deal of her younger childhood on the Island. Her family were members of the DHARMA Initiative, whom she lived with at the Barracks. ("This Place Is Death")
In 1974, a much younger Charlotte was present on the same day that Sawyer's group arrived at the barracks with Amy, and infiltrated the Initiative after the frequent time shifts. Giddily, she ran across the grounds with her mother following, and waved to Daniel - who gasped in shock "Charlotte", as this happened just after she had died from the time flashes. ("LaFleur")
Daniel Faraday tells Charlotte she has to leave the Island. ("The Variable")
Three years later in 1977, Daniel came to her at the playground while she was on the swingset. She seemed apprehensive to talk at first, due to the fact she was "eating chocolate before dinner" and was not allowed to, but relaxed when Daniel informed her he wouldn't tell anyone. He told her that Pierre Chang would soon begin to evacuate people from the Island and that she needed to go with her mother when that happened. He also told Charlotte that if she ever returned to the Island, she would die. The conversation with Daniel left Charlotte upset, enough that she would repress the memory until the moments leading up to her death where Daniel was by her side. ("This Place Is Death") ("The Variable")
Charlotte was seen by Miles being helped out of a DHARMA van by her mother Jeanette, seconds before his own mother exited the same van with the past version of him and argued with his father. Her mother said something to her, and they headed for the submarines. It is presumed that they evacuated the Island on the submarine that Kate, Sawyer and Juliet were forced to board. Her father did not leave with them, and was left behind. It is also possible her sisters were left behind also, as they were not seen at the submarine docking, however it is also equally likely that Charlotte's mother remarried and bore them off the Island. ("Follow the Leader")
Off the Island
After leaving the Island, Charlotte and her mother settled in England. Charlotte claimed that whenever she asked her mother about the Island, her mother insisted that it was all in Charlotte's imagination. ("This Place Is Death")
Charlotte smiles as she finds the DHARMA collar on a polar bear skeleton in an archaeological dig in Tunisia. ("Confirmed Dead")
Charlotte did her undergraduate studies at the University of Kent, and she also received a DPhil (mistakenly referred to as a Ph.D.) in Cultural Anthropology from Oxford University. She stated that her reason for becoming an anthropologist was so that she might be able to find her way back to the Island again. She also spoke fluent Korean and claimed, perhaps jokingly, but did not demonstrate an ability, to speak Klingon. ("Confirmed Dead") ("Something Nice Back Home") ("This Place Is Death")
Tunisia
In 2004, around the time that the faked wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815 was recovered (about which she had already expressed serious disbelief), Charlotte was at an excavation site in Tunisia. She bribed a man in charge to allow her into a dig-site. The excavation revealed the skeleton of a polar bear, and, around the bear's neck was a DHARMA collar, with the Hydra station logo emblazoned upon it. This discovery caused Charlotte evident pleasure as she began smiling. Charlotte recognized the DHARMA logo from her time on the island when she was a child, and the emblem on the collar clearly proved the Island's existence and thus confirmed that she had not simply made the island and her tropical polar bear story up like her mother had said. ("Confirmed Dead")
Recruitment
Charlotte was recruited by Matthew Abaddon and Naomi Dorrit to go to the Island in search of Benjamin Linus. Together with Miles Straume, Naomi, Daniel Faraday and Frank Lapidus, she formed a five-member team for which every member was chosen for (apparently) a specific reason. Also, at some point before she was recruited by Abaddon for the mission aboard the freighter, she won an award, most likely for her outstanding work in anthropology during the archeological dig in Tunisia. ("Confirmed Dead")
Back on the Island
Days 91–100 (Season 4)
Charlotte is quizzed by Locke's group. ("Confirmed Dead")
Charlotte Lewis arrived on the Island after parachuting from a helicopter which had taken off from the freighter, after it encountered severe difficulties mid-flight. She was the last of the passengers to jump out (after Miles and Daniel) when the helicopter encountered electrical problems. During landing, her parachute got caught in a tree which hung over a small river, causing her to become suspended upside down. She managed to free herself by releasing her parachute, landing in the water below, evidently very happy to be back on the island, just before encountering Locke's group of survivors. She showed great pleasure at arriving on the Island and finding inhabitants, smiling and laughing. She questioned the group about various issues, such as how many survivors there were. When she broached the subject of potential rescue, she seemed surprised when Locke announced that his group didn't want to be rescued from the Island. Locke told Charlotte that he wanted her to come with his group, at which she looked greatly shocked and apprehensive. Her transponder was later found attached to Vincent apparently to throw off anyone who may have been looking for her, as she had been taken hostage. ("Confirmed Dead")
Charlotte is shocked as Ben recites her entire history. ("Confirmed Dead")
After Frank Lapidus let off a flare, Charlotte was told she couldn't leave, but defied Locke and attempted to leave Locke's group to meet up with the rest of her team anyway but, before she could leave them, she was shot twice in the chest by Ben. She survived the gunshot however, because she was wearing a cleverly concealed bullet-proof vest that had been provided by Miles before she jumped out of the helicopter. After this, Sawyer held a gun to Ben's head, but was talked out of killing him by Locke, who said it was his mess to clean up. Just as Locke is about to shoot him, Ben began to divulge extremely detailed information pertaining to Charlotte's personal history and background, and the background of the rest of her team.
Charlotte after being swapped for Miles. ("The Economist")
This information, however, may or may not be correct, according to Charlotte herself. Ben then bartered with them to keep himself alive, informing the group that he had a spy among the freighter people. ("Confirmed Dead")
Charlotte continued traveling with Locke's group unwillingly, and as she pointed out to Hurley, her status was basically that of a hostage. With the rest of the group, she reached the barracks. She wasn't there for long however, as Sayid arrived (with Kate and Miles), and proposed a deal to Locke; he wanted to exchange his hostage, Charlotte, in return for Miles. Locke accepted the exchange and Charlotte was released back to Jack and her other team-mates. Frank asked her if she wanted to return to the freighter by helicopter, but she refused, explaining that she had work to do on the Island. ("The Economist")
Juliet commands Charlotte to call the "other number" to the freighter. ("Eggtown")
Along with Jack, Juliet and her fellow science team member, Daniel, Charlotte traveled to the beach camp, where she met some of the other Flight 815 survivors. That night she played a card game with Daniel to test his memory. After only guessing two out of three cards correctly, Charlotte attempted to console Daniel by telling him that he was making progress, showing a more compassionate side to her usually forceful personality. Their game was interrupted when Jack and Juliet questioned them about the satellite phone they had in their possession from the helicopter. They didn't believe that there was only one contact number to get in touch with freighter. Charlotte told them that there was also another number, one used for emergencies, and Juliet asked her to dial it. Charlotte reluctantly called the number and Regina picked up; she informed Charlotte that the helicopter, carrying Sayid and Desmond, never arrived back at the freighter. ("Eggtown")
Charlotte is displeased as Faraday explains the existence of time travel. ("The Constant")
While being continuously questioned by Jack about the discrepancies of the helicopter flight, Charlotte repeatedly answered that she didn't know what was going on and why it hadn't arrived at the freighter by now. Juliet then noted that it was very peculiar and strange that Charlotte didn't seem to be at all worried about those who were on the helicopter. Daniel then asked Charlotte if they should "tell them", and Charlotte hinted to him that she did not want to. However, Daniel told them that the Islander's perception of time was not realistic, and that the helicopter was fine. Daniel informed them that their people would arrive on the freighter given time anyway, much to Charlotte's clear displeasure. ("The Constant")
Charlotte and Faraday consult a map on their way to the Tempest. ("The Other Woman")
Later that night, in secret, Charlotte and Daniel packed a bag full of gas masks and HAZMAT suits and set off for the Tempest, a DHARMA station on another side of the Island. During a rest-stop along the way, a somewhat anxious Daniel asked Charlotte what would happen to them if "he couldn't do it". Reassuring him, Charlotte told him that he would be able to, and just as they were about to set off once more, Kate chanced upon them while running through the jungle. She quizzed them about what they were doing, and Charlotte lied to her, fabricating a false story that they were looking for the packs that they threw away from the helicopter. When Kate searched in their bags and found their gas-masks, before she could question either of them, Charlotte whacked her on the back of the head with the butt of her gun, rendering her unconscious. ("The Other Woman")
Charlotte reveals her and Daniel's true intents at the Tempest. ("The Other Woman") (promotional still)
The two journeyed on, and they eventually reached the Tempest. When they arrived there, they then began working on the station's computer network to disable the lethal gas system that was installed there. They nearly completed their mission, when Juliet arrived and attempted to stop them, under the false impression that they were trying to destroy the island by switching the lethal gas system on instead. Juliet fought Charlotte for a while, before beating her into submission, but when she and Daniel told Juliet what they were actually doing there, she changed her mind and allowed them to continue their work. Later, an angry Kate arrived and held Charlotte at gunpoint outside the station, but after Juliet explained that Charlotte was on their side, she relented, and Charlotte brought her into the Tempest to explain to her what had just happened. ("The Other Woman")
Charlotte was also one of the people present at the beach when the body of Ray, the Kahana's medic, washed up on shore with a slit throat. When she was questioned by Jack, she denied having any knowledge about his death. As a result, Daniel later revealed that it was never their objective to rescue any of the survivors from Oceanic 815. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
Charlotte and Daniel disagree about disclosing information. ("Something Nice Back Home")
A day later, both Charlotte and Daniel were still being hassled by the survivors, most notably Bernard and Rose, about how much information they knew about the freighter, and the intentions of the people still on board. The bickering was interrupted by Jack, who needed emergency surgery to remove his infected appendix. Charlotte, along with her teammate Daniel, and 815 survivors Jin and Sun, agreed to travel to the Staff station to collect medical supplies for Jack's treatment. When they reached the station, Daniel gallantly offered to enter inside first to make sure that there wasn't any danger. Jin remarked to Sun in Korean that he wondered if Charlotte knew that Daniel liked her, to which Sun replied "she's a woman, she knows". Charlotte then smiled to herself at this interchange while looking at the both of them, all the while not realizing that she had just given away the fact that she could understand Korean to Jin. ("Something Nice Back Home")
Jin forces Charlotte to admit she speaks fluent Korean. ("Something Nice Back Home")
After gathering the medical supplies for Jack's operation, the group returned to the beach, where Jin decided to confront Charlotte about earlier. He revealed that he knew that she could speak Korean, as he noticed her listening, and reacting to, several conversations he and Sun were having on the way there. Though initially she denied this fact at first, Charlotte finally caved in after Jin threatened to harm Daniel if she didn't admit to it. Charlotte spoke to Jin in Korean, and asked him what it was that he wanted from her. Jin instructed her that she was to make sure that Sun was on the helicopter when it left the Island. Charlotte agreed to his proposal. ("Something Nice Back Home")
Charlotte watches as Daniel rides away on the Zodiac. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")
The next day, Frank Lapidus, who was flying overhead in a chopper, threw a satellite phone down onto the beach. The phone was tracking the helicopter, and Jack and Kate believed that they should follow it inland. Before they did however, Daniel put a call through and listened to what was happening on the other end, but he appeared to be very dismayed by what he heard. Charlotte, noticing that something wasn't right, asked Daniel "what's wrong?" He told her that "they were using the secondary protocol" and that they had to get everyone off the Island right away, due to extreme danger. A while later, Daniel began to ferry people from the Island to the freighter via the emergency raft, the Zodiac. Charlotte stood from the shore watching, looking somewhat anxious after him as he left with the first group of survivors. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")
When Daniel returned to ferry a second group to the freighter, he told Charlotte and Miles that they should be on the next one. Charlotte was initially compliant with Daniel's request, until Miles asked her why she was willing to leave so soon, after trying hard to get back to the Island again - implying that she has been to the Island before. Charlotte was very visibly surprised that Miles knew of this. This clearly led Charlotte to rethink her decision. Later, Charlotte told Daniel that she was not going to go back to the freighter quite yet, because she was still "looking for where she was born." She kissed Daniel tenderly on the cheek before they parted ways. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")
Season 5
Time flashes
Charlotte watches for Daniel to come back. ("Because You Left")
Charlotte was at the beach camp when white light immersed the whole of the camp, and the various makeshift structures disappeared from sight. When Daniel arrived back on the Zodiac she was overjoyed to see him alive and OK, having thought he may have been on the freighter when it exploded, sank and disappeared, and the two embraced each other. She then followed Daniel as their group headed to the Swan to try and analyze the events in progress. She displayed her anger and annoyance when Sawyer struck Daniel, becoming very protective over him. Later, while conversing with Daniel, her nose bled in a manner similar to that of Minkowski and Desmond when they were unstuck in time in "The Constant". She made an off-hand comment that she had not had nosebleeds since she was a child. Daniel displayed serious concern and fear because of this, but then managed to cover it up convincingly and effectively by saying that it was just the sight of blood that was disturbing him. Daniel then told Charlotte to return to the beach while he recovered his backpack from the jungle. ("Because You Left")
Charlotte reveals she forgot her mother's maiden name. ("The Lie")
Back on the beach, around two hours afterward, and after another timeshift, Charlotte hugged Daniel when he reappeared, claiming he had gotten lost while looking for his pack. Later that evening while he was doing calculations, Charlotte approached him and gave him some fruit she had found while they'd been in the jungle. She explained to him that her headache was consistent, was not going away, and was getting increasingly worse. More worryingly, she seemed to be suffering from severe and peculiar memory loss; she was unable to remember her mother's maiden name for a short time, which was obviously worrying her greatly. Suddenly looking serious, revealing the true intent of why she had approached him, she asked Daniel if he knew why this was happening to her. Before he had the time to answer her, Miles approached the camp with a boar he had found dead. Soon after, the camp came under heavy attack from an unseen group firing flaming arrows from within the jungle. Charlotte and Daniel, sticking close together, fled into the jungle, Daniel helping Charlotte when she fell over while running away. ("The Lie")
Charlotte is held captive with the 2 other freighter members, right before Faraday confesses his love for her. ("Jughead")
However, soon after reaching the rendezvous point, Charlotte, Daniel, and Miles were captured by a group of Others, led by a young woman named Ellie. The three remaining members of the freighter crew were then taken back to a camp being occupied by the Others, and led to a tent where they were held captive. Charlotte's headaches became worse and worse as their journey towards the camp progressed. As leverage, Daniel offered to help deactivate the bomb, citing his love for Charlotte as the reason he would not detonate it instead, as he would 'never do anything to harm her'. Before he departed, he admitted to Charlotte that he was telling the truth, and that he did love her, as she expressed skepticism that he was telling the truth to Richard Alpert so that he would trust him. He then departed for the bomb with Ellie. Charlotte then remained in the tent with Miles until the survivors time-traveled again, crying slightly to herself after he left. Soon after, the flashing light of the time travel happened, and the survivors were all reunited again. Daniel ran over and embraced Charlotte, however when they let go, Charlotte's nose began bleeding profusely, and she collapsed onto the ground, unconscious. Daniel huddled over her and grabbed her in obvious distress and fear moments later. ("Jughead")
"This place is death!" ("This Place Is Death")
Charlotte was incapacitated for over ten minutes as a concerned Daniel and Juliet attempted to revive her. Eventually, she regained consciousness, but was initially slightly confused, not remembering who Daniel was although, apart from a slight headache, she said she felt fine. Along with the rest of the group, she trekked back to the beach camp to collect the Zodiac so as to sail around the horn of the Island and reach the the Orchid. Along the way, Daniel told Charlotte that she'd be able to rest up when they reached the zodiac, to which she replied, "you're sweet, but you don't have to baby me. I'm fine". Eventually, they reached the beach camp after enduring another time-shift. They found the camp deserted, the zodiac missing and two canoes beached on shore. They took one of the canoes and began sailing to another part of the Island, but along the way they were waylaid by unseen assailants firing guns at them from another canoe. They survived the attack when a timeshift brought them back in time to 1988. After landing on another shore of the Island during an extremely violent storm, Charlotte found some scattered items and the recent wreckage of a sailing vessel strewn about on the beach. She immediately alerted the other survivors to her curious discovery. ("The Little Prince")
Charlotte dies in Faraday's arms. ("This Place Is Death")
Charlotte and the others continued their lengthy trek to the Orchid, all the while experiencing increasingly frequent (and obviously more damaging) time flashes along the way. After another double attack of these flashes, Charlotte collapsed, bleeding profusely from her nose. As Dan and the others tried to revive her she spoke rapidly in Korean, not making much sense. Then, in English, she told Jin that "she" must not return to the Island because "This place is death." While the others discussed what to do with her, Charlotte's consciousness seemed to slip between time, much like that of Minkowski and Desmond. She referenced many past experiences in her life, speaking in a childlike voice, i.e. "you know what my mum would say about me marrying an American". Unable to move by herself, Locke refused to allow anyone to help Daniel with carrying Charlotte the rest of the way. She urged a reluctant Dan to leave her behind and accompany the rest of the group to the Orchid, which he refused to do. Before the others left, they discussed how they would find the station if it was at a point in time when it had not been built yet and, in a rare moment of lucidity, Charlotte mysteriously told them "you will find it at the well". ("This Place Is Death")
A little while after the other survivors continued on to the Orchid and Charlotte's condition had dramatically worsened, she confessed to Dan that she remembered how she grew up on the Island as a child, and had left it with her mother at an early age. She also mentioned the DHARMA Initiative, having been on the Island while they were still functioning there. Despite her mother's assertion that she had merely invented the Island, Charlotte believed otherwise, and had been searching for it ever since. She was desperately trying to find her dad, which is why she became a cultural anthropologist. She also confided to Dan that, as a child, a "crazy man" told her that she must leave the Island and never return, or she would die. Realizing that she was going to die on the Island as a result of the repeated time jumps, she finally recognized that man as Dan, warning her from the future. After telling him this, she experienced one more moment of madness due to her repeated time jumps. Smiling, she said she was "not allowed to eat chocolate before dinner", remembering when she met Daniel as a child, and then tragically died as he comforted her. ("This Place Is Death")
Post-death
When the final flash occurred and the living members of Sawyer's group where transported to the 1970s, Charlotte's body remained in the ancient time in which she died. As the time flash occurred, she disappeared in front of Daniel as he moved through time and left her behind. The rest of Sawyer's group came back for Charlotte and Dan, and Juliet consoled Dan over Charlotte's death. ("LaFleur")
When the rest of the survivors became part of the DHARMA Initiative, Daniel noticed a young Charlotte amongst the members with her mother. He quietly exclaimed her name and she waved at him, before running off out of sight. Daniel, Sawyer Juliet, Jin and Miles would later witness key events from Charlotte's childhood, including her exodus from the Island. ("LaFleur") ("The Variable") ("Follow the Leader")
Just beyond the opening of the Cliffside cave is a room in which Jacob has written the last names of several candidates on the walls and ceiling, and a number preceding each one. When the wall is first seen, all of the names and numbers are crossed out except for those preceded by one of The Numbers. The Man in Black explains that each name is the name of a candidate. Charlotte's surname Lewis is crossed out, meaning that at some point in her life (possibly her death although since there were other names of living people crossed out, the reason is unknown.) something happened that revoked her chance. According to it, her number is 140. Her surname is also written on The Lighthouse Wheel. According to the wheel, the number is 104. ("The Substitute") ("Lighthouse") This however has been confirmed by the producers to be a prop error and the number were supposed to match the cave wall.
Afterlife
Charlotte shuts her door in James' face. ("Recon")
In the afterlife, where everyone is stuck in a state of limbo, Charlotte Lewis is an archeologist who works with Dr. Pierre Chang at the Golden State Natural History Museum in Los Angeles.
A few weeks prior to the Oceanic 815 flight, Daniel Widmore sees Charlotte in the museum where she works, eating a chocolate bar. He later tells Desmond that he was instantly attracted to Charlotte and had felt like he had 'already loved her'. ("Happily Ever After")
After the Oceanic 815 flight had landed, Pierre Chang's son, Miles Straume, set her up on a blind date with James Ford. James approached Charlotte at the bar of a restaurant and introduced himself. They sat down to eat and got to know each other by discussing what they did for work. Charlotte asked James why he chose to become a cop. They ended up having sex at James' apartment, and afterwards, Charlotte asked him if she could borrow a t-shirt to wear to bed. James told her that she could find one in his dresser. When she looked in his dresser, she found a notebook labeled "Sawyer," and a picture of a young boy and his parents fell out. She recognized the young boy as James, and then opened up the notebook to replace the picture. Inside she discovered a newspaper article about James' father killing both himself and James' mother. When James saw Charlotte looking at the notebook, he became very angry and told her to leave.
Charlotte meets Daniel. ("The End")
Later, James went by her apartment in Santa Monica with a sunflower and some beer to apologize. Charlotte told him he blew his shot with her and closed the door on him. ("Recon")
Later, Miles mentioned to James that Charlotte would be attending a benefit concert that night, causing James to pass on Miles' offer to go. ("What They Died For")
In the band room, on the night of the concert, Charlie Pace has passed out and is woken up by Charlotte. Also in the band room, is Daniel Widmore who introduces himself to Charlotte. She is later seen watching the Drive Shaft and Daniel's concert. ("The End")
Trivia
- Charlotte's total episode count is 20 (as of "The End").
- Charlotte was the twenty-seventh character to ever have a flashback.
- Charlotte was the fourth former main character to appear in Season 6.
- Charlotte is one of the six characters to have their first flashback in the first episode they appeared in. The other five are Miles, Lapidus, Jack, Juliet, and Jacob.
- Charlotte has appeared in five episodes since her death ("LaFleur", "The Variable", "Follow the Leader", "Recon", and "The End"). In the first three Charlotte appeared as a child, and in the latter two she was in the afterlife.
- Ben's recitation of Charlotte's birth date as "July 2, 1979" in "Confirmed Dead" was an error according to producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. They have implied that Charlotte's birthdate should have been 1971.
- The producers initially assigned partial blame for the error to Rebecca Mader, indicating Mader changed the date on set without the producers' permission. (Official Lost Podcast/March 19, 2009) Lindelof and Cuse later retracted the statement and apologized, admitting Mader's script had indeed shown 1979 as Charlotte's birth date. Despite the confusion, Lindelof and Cuse maintain that the 1979 date is incorrect.[1][2](Official Lost Podcast/March 26, 2009)
- In the March 19, 2009 and March 26, 2009 Official Lost Podcasts, the producers were ambiguous about whether her birthdate should have been 1970 or 1971. In their official apology to Mader on March 24, 2009, they stated that the date they used in the show, 1979, was eight years off, suggesting that Charlotte's actual birthdate should have been 1971.[3]
- Charlotte has met all of the main cast except for Boone, Shannon, Nikki, Paulo, Ana Lucia, Eko, Libby, Walt and Ilana.
- Charlotte met Charlie in the flash-sideways timeline.
- Charlotte has met almost all of the survivors who were alive at the time of her arrival, because she had visited both Jack and Locke's group of survivors.
- Charlotte has met everyone that it was possible for her to meet: Boone, Shannon, Nikki, Paulo, Ana Lucia, Eko, Libby and Charlie were all dead at the time of her arrival, Walt was off island and Ilana was not introduced into the series until after her death.
- The headline on the right hand side of the Tunisian newspaper she is reading reads "Le lavage de cerveaux en liberté" - "Brainwashing in liberty".
- Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have confirmed that the role was originally offered to Kristen Bell, who turned it down to join the cast of Heroes. Thus, Rebecca Mader auditioned for the part, and was the only new cast-member to read for her role.[4]
- Charlotte was originally intended to be in eight episodes but her role was expanded to a series regular.
- Because Charlotte studied for her doctorate at Oxford, it would be a D.Phil rather than a PhD as stated by Ben in "Confirmed Dead".
- Charlotte was the last member of the freighter crew to be cast for Season 4.
- Charlotte was originally scripted as an American character. Rebecca Mader auditioned with an American accent, and then her own, and the producers liked it so much that they changed the character to be British. [5]
- Despite her storyline in Season 4 revolving around her role as part of the science team from the Kahana, Charlotte has never been seen aboard the ship.
- Charlotte knew Charles Widmore; she wondered if Widmore would look for them, after the Island moved. ("Because You Left")
- Charlotte is one of two main characters to die who were never given a centric episode with more than one flashback, the other being Libby.
- Charlotte is one of only eight members of the main cast who have not been given their own centric episode, the others being Frank, Ilana, Libby, Penny, Pierre, Christian and Eloise.
- Charlotte is the second main character to have previously lived/survived on the Island. She was on the Island before any of the others, apart from Richard
- Charlotte is the tenth main character to die (although the death of the tenth, Locke, was revealed to have happened before hers was revealed to have happened.)
- Charlotte is the first main character to die who was not on Oceanic Flight 815.
- Charlotte was the first main character to die without another character being responsible-the rest were killed directly or indirectly (Boone died because Locke lied about how he was injured and Michael died due to the C4 being set off by Keamy after Ben killed him) by someone, though it has been argued that she died as a result of Ben turning the FDW.
- Charlotte is the only main character to be dead (in the personal timelines of the Losties) before her first appearance on the show, as the flashforwards in "Through the Looking Glass" take place after her death but before her first appearance two episodes later.
- In the casting call she was described as "Late 20s. Very attractive in a naturalistic, athletic way, her looks are only one small part of charms. Precocious, loquacious, and funny, Charlotte a very successful academic who also knows how to handle herself in the real world. On a personal level it is hard to crack the hard shell of poise and certainty around her, but when it DOES crack its like an egg; lots of repressed and pent up emotions spill out."[6]
Name
- Like the Victorian author Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte Lewis is the eldest of three sisters.
- The name Charlotte Lewis appeared as a Season 4 clue word for chapter 3 of the Find 815 ARG. it was initially thought to be the names of two separate characters, Charlotte and Lewis.
- Charlotte Staples Lewis is a reference to the British writer and scholar, Clive Staples Lewis. Lewis is most famous for his works on medieval literature, Christian apologetics, literary criticism, and in fantasy literature (The Chronicles of Narnia). Both C.S. Lewises attended Oxford University.
- In connection to her name being a reference to C.S. Lewis, Charlotte's mother tries to convince her that the Island is imaginary, similar to the character Susan from Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, who becomes convinced that Narnia is imaginary despite her time spent there.
Unanswered questions
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- For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Charlotte Lewis/Theories
- Why did her mother lie to her about growing up on the Island?
- Did Ben know that Charlotte was born on the Island?
- How did she know that the frozen wheel could be found at the well?
- Where did she learn Korean and why?
- What happened to her corpse?
References
- ↑ http://www.tvovermind.com/tv-news/lost/trouble-on-the-island-deceased-lost-beauty-accuses-former-bosses-of-cover-up
- ↑ http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009/03/lost-exclusive.html
- ↑ http://the-odi.blogspot.com/2009/03/official-statement-from-rebecca-mader.html
- ↑ http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid8541540001/bclid8605745001/bctid8633832001
- ↑ http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid8541540001/bclid8605745001/bctid8633832001
- ↑ http://spoilerslost.blogspot.com/2007/08/full-casting-information-on-russel-and.html
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