Lennon

Lennon
Actor	John Hawkes
First	"LA X, Part 2"
Last	"What Kate Does"
Episode Count	2

Lennon is one of the Others taking refuge in the Temple. He acts as translator for Dogen. ("LA X, Part 2")

On the Island

2007 (Season 6)

When Jack, Kate, Hurley, Jin, and Sayid arrived at the Temple, [[Dogen] ordered the Others, through Lennon, to shoot them. Hurley, however, announced that Jacob had sent them and wanted Sayid to be healed. Lennon then asked for proof that the group was sent by Jacob. Hurley produced a guitar case containing a wooden ankh. Inside the ankh was a paper, presumably listing the survivors' names, among other unspecified information regarding Sayid.

Lennon later on was present when Sayid was taken into the spring to be healed, and, following Sayid's death,told everybody that he wasn't able to be saved. He led Hurley to Dogen's chamber deep within the Temple, where he learned that Jacob was dead. Lennon assisted The Others in preparing the Temple's defenses, and told Hurley the goal was to "keep 'him' out".

Lennon was then sent, along with several armed Others, to retrieve Jack so that Dogen could speak with him. As Lennon tried to convince Jack to come with him, Sayid suddenly sat up, alive, much to Lennon's surprise. ("LA X, Part 2")

After conferring with Dogen about this turn of events, Lennon summoned Sayid to Dogen's room, where Sayid was promptly tortured. Lennon informed Sayid that it had simply been a "test", and that he had "passed". As Sayid left, Lennon observed that he had just lied to him. ("What Kate Does")

Trivia

• The casting call described him as "Male, mid 30s to late 50s, could be any ethnicity. Scruffy, edgy and charismatic, yet can be deferential when needed; may have gone a little stir-crazy. Spokesperson and translator for the president of a foreign corporation. He facilitates the weight and power of his boss’s commands. He is a wily negotiator who is far more powerful than it seems from his position...."
• He wears the same style of glasses musician John Lennon (with whom he shares a name) was famous for wearing.
• The character has similarities to the Photojournalist character (played by Dennis Hopper) in Apocalypse Now. The Photojournalist was also a sort of majordomo or aide-de-camp to a leader of a group, Kurtz (played by Marlon Brando), in unusual circumstances.