Naomi Dorrit was a mercenary assigned to the freighter team. She arrived on the Island by parachute. She landed in a tree in the jungle, and was cut down by Desmond and Charlie, and was found to have a punctured lung that was treated by Mikhail. When she arrived, Desmond mistook her for his estranged love, Penelope Widmore and was shocked to find Naomi in her place. ("Catch-22") Naomi survived on the island seven days (days 86-93), assisting the survivors in contacting her freighter, before being knifed in the back by Locke and dying later on. ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 2") ("The Beginning of the End")
Off the Island
Naomi, discussing with Matthew Abaddon ("Confirmed Dead")
There is very little information on Naomi's past, but judging by her accent and conversation with Charlie, it is assumed that she lived in Manchester, England for a good length of time prior to appearing on the Island. She is multilingual and can speak English, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Her conversation with Matthew Abaddon prior to her mission to the Island also suggests that she is a skilled operative with military experience, and suited for dangerous black ops scenarios.
Before arriving on the Island, Naomi was hired by Matthew Abaddon for a special operation. She was told to lead and protect a team of civilians (Daniel, Miles, Charlotte, and Frank), but she doubted that she could, as they had no experience in the field or the type of mission that they would be undertaking. Her mission would take her to the Island, and Naomi commented that she believed that on the island there may be survivors of Oceanic Flight 815. Abaddon reassured her in a stern manner that there were no survivors, and believed that Naomi was very well trained for the mission and encouraged her to take it. She agreed. ("Confirmed Dead")
Naomi did not really interrelate with her team-members before the mission. Frank described her as "senior management" and implied that they never had much contact, and Miles stated that the first time that he met her was on the freighter and that he didn't know her very well. ("The Economist")
According to the story which Naomi told the survivors, she worked for a search and rescue team hired by Penelope Widmore although she had never met Penelope herself. They were given coordinates and told that they were looking for Desmond Hume. Naomi was skeptical about the whole operation, as the coordinates were just a point in the middle of the ocean, causing her team to believe the mission was a fool's errand. While flying the helicopter back to her ship, which was 80 nautical miles from the Island, the clouds suddenly parted and she saw land. The instruments on the helicopter then began to malfunction, and Naomi parachuted out before the craft crashed into the ocean. ("The Brig")
Penny gave Charlie the impression that Naomi did not work for her by stating, "I'm not on a boat. Who's Naomi?" It remains to be seen whether Naomi's company was, in fact, hired by Penelope, but before he died, Charlie wrote on his hand "NOT PENNY'S BOAT" and showed it to Desmond. ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 2")
On the Island
Charlie and Desmond tend to Naomi after finding her ("D.O.C.") (promotional still)
Season 3 (Days 87-93)
Naomi landed on the Island after ejecting from a helicopter, with her parachute getting stuck 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 Portuguese edition), 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. Before her face was revealed, the photograph led Desmond to believe that she was actually Penny. Naomi was cut down out of the trees by Desmond, and caught by 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.
During her emergency landing, Naomi suffered a haemothorax, when a tree branch punctured her lung. She asked "出了甚麼事?" ("What happened?") in Mandarin (Chinese), and then said she was dying in Spanish and Italian as Desmond attended to her. Mikhail, who suddenly appeared and then was captured by Jin and Desmond, revealed that he was a Soviet Army field 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 Mikhail claimed she had thanked him for saving her. Her actual words were "eu nao estou so" which is Portuguese for "I am not alone".
Naomi looks on as Karl tells the group about the Others plan ("Greatest Hits") (promotional still)
After waking up, she asked Hurley where she was (in English, with a Mancunian English 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.")
Naomi tells Sayid that her search and rescue team was hired by Penelope Widmore (although she had never met Penny herself) to search for Desmond. Naomi also tells Sayid that flight 815 was found in a 4 mile deep ocean trench off the coast of Bali. She also says that cameras and robots were used to survey the wreck and found all the bodies. From what Kate tells Jack, Naomi's ship is 80 nautical miles away from the Island, and, using the radio phone, she hopes to contact the ship and get them rescued. ("The Brig").
Naomi tries to get a signal on her satellite phone ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 1") (promotional still)
The next day Naomi tells everyone about the radio phone and tells them it's not important that the world thinks they're dead. ("The Man Behind the Curtain")
Later, Naomi asks Charlie who the rival group on the Island are. They get talking and it is revealed that like Charlie, Naomi is from Manchester. Naomi realizes that Charlie is that "dead rock star" everyone made a big deal about when they found the wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815. She tells him that they had a big memorial service and that his band Drive Shaft released a new "Greatest Hits" album in memory of him, which apparently sold well. ("Greatest Hits")
On the 93rd day Jack, Rousseau and Naomi led most of the Losties towards the radio tower, where they would shut off Rousseau's 16 year old repeating transmission and clear the frequency to allow her to contact her ship following Charlie's shutdown of the jamming system in the Looking Glass. On their trek, they were met by Ben and Alex, and Ben attempted to dissuade Jack from contacting Naomi's crew. Ben made a point of approaching Naomi and introducing himself before Jack told her not to talk to him. Ben asserted to Jack that Naomi is not 'who she says she is', that she was 'one of the bad guys', and that contacting her ship would not bring rescue, but end the lives of everyone on the Island. Ignoring and later attacking Ben, Jack proceeded to lead his group towards the tower, and shut off Danielle's transmission. Naomi had just made the call to her freighter when she suddenly fell over with a knife in her back, thrown by Locke. ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 1")
Season 4 (Days 93-94)
Naomi holds Kate at knifepoint. ("The Beginning of the End") (promotional still)
However, Locke's knife attack failed to immediately kill her. She managed to get up and escape into the jungle, when no one but Ben was looking. Thinking that the survivors were out to kill her, she managed to create a dummy-trail using her own blood, to confuse anyone who may come looking for her. Jack and Danielle (along with Ben) did come looking for her, and were misled by her fake trail, but Kate, who also went searching for her, followed the correct trail.
Naomi, hiding in a tree, ambushed Kate and then held her at knife-point. She asked why the survivors had tried to kill her when all she was doing was trying to save them. Kate convinced her that it wasn't them who attacked her, it was Locke, who thought that she wasn't who she said she was. Seemingly convinced, Naomi took the satellite phone, readjusted the weak signal, giving Minkowski a better idea of where their location was, then told him that she had sustained a serious injury (referencing the injury she had received, but had recovered from, when landing on the island a few days ago). She then asked Minkowski to tell her sister that she loves her, just before succumbing to her injuries and dying. However, it was later revealed that the message about a sister is a pre-arranged code meaning that she was under duress, and Miles comments that Naomi in fact has no sister. ("The Beginning of the End") ("Confirmed Dead")
Naomi's bracelet: "N, I'll always be with you. R.G." ("The Economist")
Kate led Miles along with the rest of the team to Naomi's body, where he examined her, possibly communicating with Naomi, and agreed that it was Locke who was responsible for her death. Kate and Daniel Faraday then carried her body to the helicopter, against Miles' wishes, who said it was just 'meat' (meaning her spirit had left). The helicopter was too low on fuel to carry her, so her body was to be left behind until the helicopter could refuel on the freighter. ("Confirmed Dead")
Awhile later, Sayid respectfully closed Naomi's eyes and pulled a blanket over her body. While doing so, he noticed she wore a bracelet that was inscribed with the message, "N, I'll always be with you. R.G.". Later the same day, the helicopter took off for the freighter. As Miles was with Locke's faction, he was unable to fly, therefore there was room for Naomi on the helicopter. Sayid suggested that she should be taken "home," and her body was placed on the helicopter. ("The Economist")
Trivia
Naomi's satellite phone ("Catch-22")
Naomi's hula girl ("Catch-22")
Naomi's copy of Catch-22
Naomi's tattoo
- Naomi was the twenty-ninth character to ever have a flashback.
- Naomi is the first deceased person to have a flashback.
- 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 marries the wealthy Boaz 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".
- Her family name Dorrit was first revealed in the Official Lost Podcast/April 30, 2007 and then mentioned by Naomi in "The Brig". "A very Dickensian name", according to Carlton Cuse.
- Little Dorrit is a serial novel by Charles Dickens published originally between 1855 and 1857. The novel's main character is called Amy Dorrit. It is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period.
- 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 aero plane 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.
- Naomi James was the first woman to sail solo around the world via Cape Horn (similar to the race that Desmond was in).
- Anagrams of "Naomi Dorrit" include: "Maid in rotor" (a possible reference to her status as a female helicopter pilot) and "Raid monitor".
- Naomi's episode count is 9.
Unanswered questions
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- For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Naomi Dorrit/Theories
- Why did she parachute to the island several days ahead of her crew?
- Why did she speak so many languages?
- Where did she get a copy of the picture of Desmond and Penelope?
- Why did she ask Matthew Abaddon about what to do if she and the team encountered survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 on the Island, after "footage" of it has been found underwater?
- Why did she even consider that there may be survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 on the particular island she is being sent to find?
- What prior training did she have that she could train and lead the freighter team?
- If she was looking for Ben, why didn't she say anything after she had found him?
- Who is "R.G." on her bracelet inscription?
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