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Lost Trivia
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Lost Charlie Pace
Charlie Hieronymus Pace is a fictional
character on ABC's science fiction television series Lost, chronicling
the lives of the survivors of a plane crash. Played by Dominic
Monaghan, Charlie is a recurring character in the first three seasons
until, following the character's death in the season three finale,
Monaghan was billed as a guest star in season four. Introduced in the
pilot episode, Charlie battles with an addiction to heroin in the first
two seasons, before he finally lay his demons aside, establishing a
relationship with Claire Littleton (Emilie de Ravin) and her son Aaron.
In season three of the show, Charlie had to face his own mortality when
Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick) repeatedly foresaw his death.
Flashbacks from the series show Charlie as a member from a band named
DriveSHAFT.
Arc
Prior to the Crash
Charlie was born in 1979 to Simon and Megan Pace, and lived in
Manchester, England. When Charlie was young, he was given a piano as a
gift on Christmas Day, thus beginning his career in music. Charlie
honed his musical talents by playing on the street for money, where he
spotted a woman being mugged, and saved her, prompting her to call him
a hero.
Sometime later, Charlie and Liam had formed a band called DriveSHAFT,
and landed a record deal. Suddenly, Drive Shaft became extremely
popular, although they were a one hit wonder band. Liam, amidst their
popularity and success, turned to heroin. On
Christmas
Day, while touring Finland, Liam gave Charlie his D.S. family ring,
saying that because of his addiction he would never have a family so it
should go to Charlie. Eventually, though, Charlie became addicted to
heroin. As the bands fame decreased, Charlie sunk further into his
addiction. Liam later sold his piano so he could enrol into
rehabilitation, after dropping his newborn daughter.
With Drive Shaft disbanded, Charlie resorted to theft to support his
heroin addiction. He charmed a wealthy woman, Lucy, in order to rob
her, but she learned of his intentions and left him as he began to
develop real feelings for her. Later, Charlie traveled to Australia to
persuade a sober Liam to rejoin the band. Liam refused, offered to help
him enter a rehabilitation program, but Charlie angrily refused, and
left to board a plane to Los Angeles the next day. The night before the
flight, he took heroin with a woman named Lily, who he fought with over
the last of the stash until she left angrily. On the plane, he
struggles without any heroin, and goes to the bathroom to take some,
when the plane begins to crash.
After the Crash
On the second day in the island, he, Jack Shephard and Kate Austen
venture inland to the plane’s cockpit, where he retrieves his stash of
heroin. John Locke later discovers his addiction to heroin and in
exchange for his guitar, Charlie gives Locke the drugs. After Jack is
trapped in a cave-in, Charlie saves him. Afterwards, Charlie burns his
drugs in a fire. When Charlie tries to stop Claire from going back to
the beach, both are kidnapped by Ethan Rom. Pursuing him, Jack and Kate
find Charlie hung from a tree almost dead. When Claire returns and
Ethan comes to recapture her, Charlie kills the latter with a gun.
When Claire goes into labour, Charlie, along with Jin-Soo Kwon, helps
Kate deliver the baby. When Danielle Rousseau abducts the baby, named
Aaron, Charlie and Sayid Jarrah go to rescue him. Along the way,
Charlie and Sayid stop by a beechcraft carrying several Virgin Mary
statues filled with heroin. That night, Charlie and Sayid manage to
reclaim Aaron, and bring him safely back to Claire.
In Season 2, Mr. Eko reveals to Claire the contents of the Virgin Mary
statue, creating a rift between her and Charlie. Charlie takes Eko to
the beechcraft where he found them, and the two decide to burn the
plane and its contents. However, Charlie secretly keeps a stash hidden
in the jungle.[12] Later, he begins experiencing surreal dreams, in
which Aaron is in peril. He seeks out Locke, who is convinced Charlie
is back on heroin and takes his stash, then Eko, who says Aaron may
need to be baptized. Subsequently, Charlie kidnaps Aaron and attempts
to baptize him. When caught, Locke assaults him. As retribution for
Locke embarrassing him, Charlie aids Sawyer in conning Jack and Locke
out of the Hatch’s guns and heroin by assaulting Sun.
Later, Sayid tells Charlie about a prisoner in the Hatch, “Henry Gale”.
They, along with Ana-Lucia Cortez, attempt to find the balloon that
Henry allegedly crashed in. When the three return to the Hatch, they
reveal Henry to be an impostor. After this, Charlie begins helping Eko
build a church, but is angered when, Eko abandons its construction. He
finds a box of vaccine, and gives it to Claire for herself and Aaron,
beginning to renew their friendship. In Sawyer’s tent, Charlie
discovers the remaining Virgin Mary statues, and throws them in the
ocean(unknowing that Locke sees this). Eko seeks his help in finding
the dynamite from the Black Rock ship. Charlie brings him to it, and he
and Eko go to the Hatch, with Eko intending to blow open the blast
door. After a explosion, Charlie barely escapes the Hatch as it
implodes.
After the Hatch’s implosion, Charlie helps Locke standing guard while
Locke communes with the island and helping him rescue Eko from a polar
bear’s cave. After
Eko’s
death, Desmond saves Claire from drowning. Desmond tells Charlie that
he was not saving Claire, but him, and that eventually he is going to
die. When Claire hatches a plan to get the survivors rescued, Charlie
is reluctant to participate after Desmond tells him it would lead to
his death. Claire learns of Charlie’s fate and
declares that she hasn’t given up on him.
He joins Desmond, Hurley and Jin on a hike into the jungle and find a
parachutist named Naomi Dorrit, who crashed on the island. Upon return,
Charlie informs Sayid of Naomi's presence. When Jack announces his plan
to foil the others and contact the outside world, Charlie volunteers to
swim down to the Looking Glass station and switch off a device blocking
transmissions to and from the island. Desmond accompanies him. Down
there, just as he is able to make contact with Penelope Widmore,
Mikhail uses a grenade to destroy the porthole of the room, flooding it
and drowning Charlie. To spare Desmond he locks the door, and warns him
of Naomi’s deception by writing “NOT PENNY’S BOAT” on his hand.
After leaving the island, Hurley sees a vision of the deceased Charlie
in a store and flees in terror. While in a police interrogation room
for speeding, Charlie again appears to Hurley, who thinks the room is
flooding. After this, Hurley is incarcerated in a mental facility. One
day, another patient alerts him to Charlie’s presence, and he and
Hurley sit and talk. Charlie tells Hurley the people remaining on the
island need him, and that he has to return, but disappears when Hurley
closes his eyes and counts to five.[23] In “Something Nice Back Home”,
Hurley conveys to Jack a message from Charlie: “You’re not supposed to
raise him”.
Development
After appearing in The Lord of the Rings, Dominic Monaghan was offered
many fantasy-based roles, like elves and pixies. He was keen to portray
a different role, so he wanted a contemporary part that had layers and
an edge. Originally Charlie was an older rocker that has been a big hit
in the 1980s but now had a heroin addiction. After the producers
enjoyed Monaghan’s audition where he read Sawyer’s lines, they rewrote
the part to make him a young has-been.
In a DVD commentary for “The Moth”, Monaghan said that he felt
Charlie's black hoodie is some sort of "security blanket" that he hides
underneath and uses when he feels "lost."
DriveSHAFT was the fictional band in ’’Lost’’ formed by Charlie and his
older brother Liam. The band was named after the duo’s
great-grandfather “Dexter Stratton”; thus the DS initials of the group.
In a Season One DVD Featurette, “Backstage with Driveshaft”, Dominic
Monaghan cites them as a direct influence on the fictional band:
“ What I think Charlie gets confused with is this idea that being on
TRL a couple of times in America and maybe being in the Top 20 and
having a little run of things over the summer, he thought they were
turning into the new Radiohead or the new Oasis or the new Verve. ”
In a Season One DVD Featurette named “Backstage with Driveshaft”,
Dominic Monaghan says that:
“ I think Charlie thinks that his band is a little bit more important
than they actually are. He's under the impression that his first album
was kind of like Oasis’ first album. Y'know, critically acclaimed,
didn't sell big numbers, but y'know, in the industry, people gave it
respect. ”
