Goodwin Stanhope

Goodwin Stanhope
Actor	Brett Cullen
ImageSize	248px
First	"...And Found"
Last	"The Other 48 Days" "The Other Woman" (in flashback)
Goodwin Stanhope
Age	Presumably Mid 40s
Place	Unknown
Status	Deceased
Family	Harper Stanhope - Wife Juliet Burke - Lover
Images	Images of Goodwin

Goodwin Stanhope was an Other who was sent by Ben to join the tail section of survivors. He was killed by Ana-Lucia after she found out his true identity. At the time of his death, he was unhappily married to Harper Stanhope and was having an affair with Juliet Burke.

Off the Island

Goodwin claimed to be in the Peace Corps, when he was talking with Ana Lucia, which may have been a partial truth, but little is known for sure about his life prior to the Island, if he was indeed brought there. It is currently unknown whether Goodwin was telling the truth about his time in the Peace Corps, or whether he was one of the Island's original Hostiles (like Richard Alpert).

On the Island

Goodwin after failed surgery on Sabine ("One of Us")

On Ben Linus's orders, Goodwin worked with chemicals at the Tempest station. Goodwin was married to Harper Stanhope, the surly, spiteful therapist of the Others. Their relationship had become unhappy by the time Goodwin met Juliet after the death of pregnant Other Henrietta. On their first meeting, Juliet treated a chemical burn wound on Goodwin's arm. ("The Other Woman") Goodwin was present in the operating room of the Staff while Juliet and Ethan operated on Sabine. When Goodwin saw how Juliet was affected by Sabine's death, he consoled her. ("One of Us")

Goodwin after sleeping with Juliet ("One of Us")

Goodwin began an affair with Juliet, to the chagrin of leader Ben Linus, who believed Juliet belonged to him. ("The Other Woman") Goodwin and Juliet were seen in bed together on Juliet's third anniversary of coming to the Island. ("One of Us")

After receiving a warning from Goodwin's wife Harper, who had learned about the affair, Juliet pressed Goodwin not to go public with his new relationship. Juliet feared for Goodwin's safety, believing, as Harper had warned her, that Ben would eliminate anyone who stood between himself and Juliet. ("The Other Woman")

Seconds after Oceanic Flight 815 broke apart in the air above the Barracks, Ben ordered Goodwin to go to the crash site of the tail section, pose as a survivor, quietly observe and learn about them, and make a list within three days. Goodwin immediately ran off toward the crash site. ("A Tale of Two Cities") Harper's expression of quiet, helpless outrage on hearing the orders intimated that she understood the mission would also be a death sentence for her husband. ("The Other Woman")

Among the survivors

Goodwin reached the crash site quickly, and he emerged from the jungle and alerted Ana-Lucia Cortez to the fact that Bernard Nadler was stuck in a tree. Goodwin pretended to be one of the tailies and was forced to become quite heavily involved with the group due to the small size. Goodwin's list led raids on the tail-end survivors' beach camp by members of the Others to kidnap those survivors considered to be "good". ("The Other 48 Days")

Upon discovering a list of kidnap victims on the dead body of an Other killed in one of the raids, Ana-Lucia began to suspect one of her group was a mole. She put Nathan, who had been acting suspiciously, in a tiger pit. When she threatened to cut Nathan's fingers off the next day as an interrogation method, Goodwin released and then killed Nathan. Goodwin hid Nathan's body to make it appear that he had escaped. ("The Other 48 Days")

Though all of the kidnap targets had been successfully acquired, Goodwin remained with the Tailies. According to the version of events related by Others leader Ben Linus to both Juliet Burke and Ana-Lucia, Goodwin had remained to build a case for Ana-Lucia as "good" person, "worthy" of being taken into the Others' society. ("Two for the Road")  ("The Other Woman")

When Bernard suggested travelling to high ground in order to test the radio, Goodwin volunteered to go alone, but Ana-Lucia insisted on accompanying him. When they reached the top of a hill, the two stopped to rest and have a snack.

Ana-Lucia and Goodwin find Bernard trapped in the trees. ("The Other 48 Days")

Alone with Ana-Lucia, Goodwin was asked to theorize about why the Others kidnapped only some of the group. He proposed that the Others had attempted to remove the strongest, fittest members of the group—the threats—including Eko, who survived the kidnapping by killing his would-be capturers. Ana-Lucia revealed that she had deduced that Goodwin was the mole, as Goodwin's clothes had been dry in the moments after the crash. Abandoning pretense, Goodwin admitted that he killed Nathan because he feared that after Ana-Lucia's intended torture of Nathan proved unproduction, her suspicions would shift elsewhere. The murder was justified, Goodwin said, because Nathan "was not a good person"—which was "why he wasn't on the list"—and Goodwin claimed that the kidnapped children, Emma and Zack, were "fine" and "better off now".

Ana-Lucia kills Goodwin.

Enraged, Ana-Lucia attacked Goodwin, and a struggle ensued. The two rolled down a hill, and Goodwin was impaled upon a stick. ("The Other 48 Days") (Ben Linus later insisted to Ana-Lucia that Goodwin had no intention of harming her. ("Two for the Road"))

His unburied body was found later by Jin and Eko, ("...And Found") and later still by Others Tom and Pickett, who reported the casualty to Ben. Ben brought Juliet to the hillside where he confessed that he sent Goodwin on this mission because he knew there would be a good chance that Goodwin would die. ("The Other Woman")

Unanswered questions

• What was his full name?
• Was he in surgery to observe or because he was needed?
• What was Goodwin working on when he received the chemical burn?
• Who put Goodwin's corpse in the woods, did Juliet drag him there after Ben showed her the body?