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Reason for Coming to the Island

Sent by Widmores

• She is with Penny Widmore's group to find Desmond.
  • She appears to have an English accent as does Penny.
  • Penny Widmore was on another helicopter which crashed into the sea.
  • Having some knowledge as to the nature of the Island, as evidenced by the listening station, Penny may have sent Naomi to find the Island with some device they can later track and find.
  • Her equipment tells much of her origins. Given the parachute type, locator beacon design, and possession of a civilian satellite phone, it is extremely unlikely that she is a military pilot. However, her equipment - specifically helmet, mast, and flight suit - are military grade, implying a civilian with access to very expensive equipment. The concatenated implications would seem to point towards Widmore.
  • She has a copy of Desmond's photograph and Penny is the only other person besides Desmond that has a copy.
  • As stated above, she was most likely sent by Penny to find Desmond. Penny would not have known of the plane crash, only of Desmond's location (from the listening post). Penny has the money to fund a search and rescue party outfitted with high-grade equipment, and the determination to find Desmond, as she's done it before, in addition to having a copy of the Desmond/Penny photo.
• Her mission is take someone home just like the Biblical Naomi, probably Desmond.
• She was in fact sent by Penny's father, Charles Widmore, when he discovered Penny's research and became intrigued by the mystery of the Island.
• She is not necessarily a pilot, but a co-pilot, or a HALO Jumper.
  • While the possibility most certainly exists that she is a crewmember other than a pilot, her equipment is inconsistent with a HALO jumper: she wears no oxygen tanks, and her mask coupler is designed to mate to an aircraft air supply; and her parachute is of the wrong type for anything but survival (HALO and other deliberate jumpers, aside from mass paradrops, use typically use ram-air "airfoil" parachutes for control).

Sent by Others (Dharma or "the Others")

• She is Desmond's replacement.
• She was sent by the others' connection to the mainland to re-establish contact with them, could be the reason she had the phone. When Hurley fired the flare gun he unintentionally gave the others her location, and Mikhail came running there on purpose, to find the phone. Naomi then informs Mikhail she is not alone.
  • Not likely, as she seemed surprised when Hurley stated they were flight 815 survivors. If she is an Other, she would most likely know of the crash and not be surprised. Portugese was the last language we heard Naomi speak, and at first she probably would not have realized if any of the 'camping' party would have understood her, hence her trying different languages. She realized Mikhail understood Portugese, and then told him she was not alone.
    • Would she not have realised Desmond could speak English from the offset if she was there to rescue him - if so why bother trying different languages?
• She may not know what is going on on the island. It is possible Ben reported the crash and said their were no survivors to cover up some possibly "unethical research" (off the radar work) he intended to carry out on the survivors.
  • It is far from easy to "report" a crash with no survivors, there would be a huge investigation into a crash this size and the authorities would not confirm the passengers dead unless they had definite proof.
• When Naomi said "I am not alone," it may have been code for "I am an other" or have been expressing relief at seeing another "other."
  • She spoke in different foreign languages, changing from Spanish to Portuguese when she realised Hugo could understand her to mask what she was saying to Mikhail.
• She was not speaking English, Hurley was speaking Portuguese/Italian/Chinese like in "Everybody Hates Hugo" when Hurley speaks to Jin in Korean in his dream.

Displaced in Time

• Naomi is from the future, and works for the Widmore Corporation on a special project started by Penny, in our time - determining the whereabouts or final resting place of Desmond.

Why did Naomi claim that there were no survivors of flight 815 in the "found" wreckage ?

• Either the remaining Dharma initiative group or the group of Ben who aren't on the island reconstructed the plane crash somewhere else to prevent the island from being found, eliminating the threat of the island being exposed.
  • If wreckage was found, it would need to be from a Boeing 777. None have previously crashed or been retired to act as a source of the wreckage. Also, serial numbers on parts can be traced to the tail number of a particluar plane.
• The government realized they could never find the crashed plane and so faked a recovery to silence the families (particularly powerful ones such as the Paik's and the Carlyle's).

Connections to other Characters

• She is connected to Ruth, Desmond's ex-fiancee (an allusion to the Biblical story of Ruth and Naomi).
• Penny was supposed to land on the Island, but since Desmond saved Charlie from the arrow, Naomi ended up there instead.

The helicopter

• She crashed because of remaining electromagnetic fields around the Island.
• She was flying in the helicopter used for Periodic Resupply Drop (P.R.D.) shown in the Sri Lanka Video.
  • The helicopter drop was launched from the Hanso supply ship the Helgus Antonius.
  • The helicopter shown in the Sri Lanka Video would be unable to deliver a load of supplies the size of the one found by the castaways in "Lockdown". Furthermore, Naomi's equipment - particularly the oxygen mask - is inconsistent with the model (and age) of the helicopter shown. However, more modern vehicles, such as a CH-46, can indeed handle such a load. The problem in the theory lies with the parachute; helicopter-delivered equipment is not parachuted to the ground, it is lowered by winch and released. A parachuted supply drop is, by modern standards, solely a fixed-wing aircraft job, most often given over to a C-130 Hercules or similar plane.
    • The C-130 is a propeller driven plane; therefore, could make a "helicopter" type-sound similar to the one heard just before the crash.
• The helicopter and the parachute jump were two separate events coinciding at the same time. The parachute jump came from another aircraft at a much higher altitude. The night camouflaged this.
• The helicopter was a decoy. The night jump was deliberate for camouflage purposes. The jumper was sent by the Others from within the island, not from off-island.