Naomi Dorrett arrived on the Island by parachute. ("Catch-22")
Off the Island
Nothing is known of her life before she crashed on the Island.
On the Island
Naomi hangs from the tree
Naomi traveled to the Island by helicopter. The helicopter she was traveling in appeared to experience mechanical difficulties which caused it to crash into the ocean. She parachuted out of the helicopter and drifted over the island, landing in some trees. She was carrying a backpack when she jumped which contained a satellite phone and a copy of the novel Catch-22 (Ardil-22, a Brazilian edition in Portuguese), which contained a photograph of Desmond and Penny, among other things such as a packet of beef stew, a nutra fruit bar and the hula doll. A flare gun was also later discovered. The photograph led Desmond to believe that it was Penny who had been in the helicopter. She was later cut down by Desmond, Jin, Charlie and Hurley. She recognized Desmond and spoke his name when she saw him after her visor was removed. ("Catch-22")
When she evacuated the helicopter, she was wearing an oxygen mask, a tinted visor, and was equipped with an emergency beacon.
Naomi suffered a punctured lung from a tree branch when she landed in the tree. She asked "出了甚麼事?" ("What happened?") in Chinese Mandarin and said she was dying in Spanish and Italian as Desmond attended to her. Mikhail, captured by Jin and Desmond, revealed that he was an army medic and offered to save her in exchange for his release. He placed an improvised chest tube in her to drain the blood from her lung and reinflate it, then packed the wound. While still apparently dazed, she spoke to him in a foreign language and he claimed she thanked him for saving her. She actually said: "Eu não estou só" which is Portuguese (with a Brazilian accent). It means: "I am not alone".
After waking up, she asked Hurley where she was (in English with a British accent). He informed her that she was on an island with survivors from Oceanic Flight 815. She replied that wasn't possible as the plane had been found with no survivors. ("D.O.C.")
Trivia
Naomi's Satellite Phone
Naomi's Hula Girl
Naomi's Copy of Catch-22
Naomi's Tattoo
- Naomi was called "Parachutist" in the original "Catch-22" press release. The press release was revised and her name was revealed to be Naomi, though her name is never spoken in the episode.
- Naomi is a Biblical name that means 'pleasantness.' It appears in the book of Ruth, which is also a Biblical name appearing in "Catch-22".
- In the Bible, after Naomi's husband and sons die, her daughter-in-law Ruth refuses to abandon her. Naomi urges her to stay in her home country, but Ruth persuades her to take her back to Naomi's home. Ruth falls in love, marries, and gives birth to a son. Naomi adopts this child who becomes the grandfather of King David and thus an ancestor of Jesus.
- The conversation between Ruth and Naomi before setting out for Bethlehem includes "Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die (Ruth 1:16)," an ultimate expression of love commonly quoted in Christian and Jewish weddings.
- Both Naomi and Ruth first appear as characters in "Catch-22".
- Naomi's arrival on the island via parachute is similar to an event from William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies. In the novel, a parachutist bails from a falling aeroplane at night and is caught suspended in the trees. The parachutist is subsequently discovered by the survivors to be dead.
- Naomi has a tattoo on her upper right arm. However, like Matthew Fox with Jack, the tattoo is actually one which actress Marsha Thomason has had for years.
- "Naomi" was the name of the personal helicopter pilot/assistant (played by Caroline Munro) to "Karl Stromberg" in the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me". In the film, Stromberg is a reclusive super-villain who lives in a submersible lair named "Atlantis". Naomi is the first female character ever to be killed by Bond when he shoots her out of the sky with a surface to air missile shot from his car/submarine. info
- Naomi James was the first woman to sail solo around the world via Cape Horn (similar to the race that Desmond was in).
Unanswered questions
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- For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Naomi Dorrit/Theories
- Is she connected to Penny or the Portuguese-speaking researchers, Mathias and Henrik, in the listening station?
- Why did the helicopter crash?
- Why did she have the picture of Penny and Desmond in her book?
- Why does she speak so many languages?
- What did she mean by she wasn't alone?
- Why did she say there were no survivors of the Flight 815?
- Why was she wearing an oxygen mask?
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