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Lost Bernard Nadler Biography
Bernard Nadler is a recurring fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Sam Anderson. According to the plot, Bernard is a survivor of the crash of the tail-section of Oceanic Flight 815 and is married to Rose Henderson.
Arc
Bernard is a dentist who meets Rose Henderson (L. Scott Caldwell) after
fifty-six years of bachelorhood. He proposes five months later, where
Rose reveals that she is sick and has only a year to live. The two
marry regardless, and on their honeymoon in Australia, Bernard
surprises her by taking her to a faith healer. Rose is upset, as she
has already accepted her fate, but agrees to see the man. Afterwards
she lies to Bernard that she has been cured. During the flight home,
Bernard leaves to use the bathroom, but at this point the plane
separates in midair, and the two ends crash at different points on an
island.
Bernard lands with the tail-section survivors, still buckled to a seat,
and stuck atop a tree. He is coaxed down by Ana Lucia (Michelle
Rodriguez) and Goodwin (Brett Cullen). After the Island's previous
inhabitants known as the "Others" invade the camp, Bernard finds
himself as one of the few remaining survivors. They move inland, and
discover a building known as the Arrow station, where they find an
assortment of items, including a radio. Bernard uses it, and makes
contact with Boone (Ian Somerhalder), one of the fuselage survivors.
Ana Lucia switches the radio off, dismissing it as a trick by the
Others. After three other fuselage survivors, Michael (Harold Perrineau),
Jin (Daniel Dae Kim) and Sawyer (Josh Holloway) arrive, they reassure
Bernard that Rose is alive and well. He sets off with them to migrate
with the fuselage survivors. After Ana Lucia accidentally kills one of
the fuselage survivors, Shannon (Maggie Grace), she refuses to allow
anyone to go to the fuselage survivor's beach camp, but they eventually
press on without her; Bernard is then reunited with Rose. Later,
Bernard makes preparations to create a giant S.O.S. sign on the beach.
After being discouraged by Rose, however, he takes his frustration out
on the few people willing to help, until he is reduced to constructing
it himself. Rose admits to lying about being healed on their honeymoon.
Bernard abandons the sign when he learns that her illness disappeared
on the island.
Much later, Bernard and Rose assist in rigging the shelters with wire
from the wreckage. However, when Karl arrives on the beach to warn the
camp of the Others' imminent arrival, Bernard volunteers to stay behind
and detonate the dynamite, much to Rose's concern. That night, Bernard
hits his target, killing a few Others in the ensuing explosion. When
the plan backfires, however, Bernard retreats but is caught by Tom (M.
C. Gainey). As he, Jin and Sayid (Naveen Andrews) are interrogated,
Bernard reveals the location of the other survivors. He is soon rescued
by Sawyer, Hurley and Juliet. When they all reunite at the cockpit
crash site, Locke proposes to move into the barracks. Bernard offers
his support to Rose if she wants to go with him, but the two end up
staying with Jack and return to the beach. Bernard accompanies Jin on a
fishing trip, where he states that he believes Jack was the right
person to side with because Locke is a murderer. When the people who
arrived from the freighter cannot use their phone they successfully use
morse code to contact the boat, saying that the message is that their
people are coming to save them all. But Bernard, who also knows morse
code, reveals that they are lying about the message and that there is
in fact no one coming to rescue the survivors. After arguing with them
the next day, Bernard assists Juliet in Jack's appendicectomy,
chloroforming him against his will when he and Juliet agreed that Jack
was a danger to himself while conscious.
He remained on the Island during the final events of season 4,
promising Rose he would stay on the island with her, even in the face
of being rescued. He stayed with her during the shifts in time after
Ben moves the island and was still on the beach until it came under
attack by The Others circa 1954. He has not been seen since.
Development
In the initial plans for the series, Jack was going to die midway
through the first episode, and then Kate would emerge as the leader of
the survivors. Kate's backstory was that her husband went to the
bathroom shortly before the plane split in mid-air, and on the Island
she would remain adamant that he was alive. However the producers
quickly changed their minds about Jack's death, making him the leader
and creating a new backstory for Kate. They liked Kate's original
backstory though, so they used it for Rose, and created Bernard as her
husband.
L. Scott Caldwell's husband was going through health problems during
the shooting of the first season, which was the inspiration for the
flashbacks in "S.O.S.". Bernard and Rose do not feature in the third
season until the penultimate episode "Greatest Hits". The writers cited
Anderson and L. Scott Caldwell's other projects as a reason for their
absence. Additionally, it was feared that fans would complain if they
appeared, when many actors with star billing had received limited
screentime in the early third season. The writers also do not want to
have the couple on the show if they are just going to be standing in
the background; they want to have Rose and Bernard in the show with
interesting storylines.
Lost producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse joked that Rose and
Bernard would later have their own spinoff show entitled "Rose &
Bernard's Love Island", with Charlie as a pool boy, which would air for
thirty-nine episodes after Lost finishes.
