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Lost Rose Henderson Biography
Rose Henderson is a recurring fictional character on the ABC television
series Lost played by L. Scott Caldwell. Rose and Bernard Nadler (Sam
Anderson) marry, despite Rose dying of cancer. When Bernard visits the
restroom during the journey home from their honeymoon, the plane splits
in half, with the two halves crashing on different parts of an island
in the South Pacific. Rose remains adamant that her husband is still
alive, and is later proved right. She decides she does not want to
leave the Island, believing it has cured her of her disease.
Much of Rose's story prior to the plane crash was based on the events
of Caldwell's life; she married her husband even though he was dying.
Due to her other acting commitments, the writers found it difficult to
fit Rose into season three. Critics reacted positively when she finally
returned in the penultimate episode "Greatest Hits".
Arc
Prior to the crash
Rose Henderson meets her husband Bernard Nadler when her car becomes
stuck in a snowbank one night. After dating for five months, Bernard
proposes to her, which prompts Rose to reveal she is sick with an
illness that went into remission but has now returned; she only has a
year left to live. The two marry regardless, and on their honeymoon
in Australia,
Bernard takes Rose to a faith healer named Isaac. Despite her initial
protests, she agrees to see him. Isaac tells Rose that he cannot help
her, because the place where she can be healed is somewhere else.
Regardless, Rose tells Bernard that she has been, in order to stop him
from wasting any more of the time that they had left together. A brief
flashback during "Pilot: Part 1" shows Rose alone the plane journey
home, after Bernard leaves to use one of the restrooms. Whilst he is
away, the plane suddenly hits turbulence, and splits apart in midair,
with the fuselage and tail-section landing at opposite ends of an
island.
After the crash
Upon impact, Rose lies unconscious on the beach, but is eventually
revived by Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox). When the survivors hear the
monster that night, she notes that it sounds familiar.During the first
few days on the Island, Rose is in a state of shock, and keeps herself
away from the other survivors, attracting the attention of Jack. While
Jack believes that Bernard is dead, Rose is adamant that he is still
alive. After Claire Littleton (Emilie de Ravin) is kidnapped by the
Island's original inhabitants (known as Others), Rose comforts Charlie
Pace (Dominic Monaghan), who believes it is his fault. She encourages him to not lose hope, and prays for him.Several weeks later, in second season episode "Everybody Hates Hugo",
Hurley (Jorge Garcia) takes her into a bunker
which the survivors have discovered, known as the hatch. Rose helps him
keep stock of the food pantry's inventory, and also talks him out of
blowing up the food altogether.[6] Later, Rose is finally reunited with
Bernard when he returns with the tail-section survivors in "Collision". In "S.O.S.",
Bernard concocts a plan to create a giant S.O.S. sign on the beach, but
Rose discourages him from spreading false hope among the survivors, and
refuses to take part. She confesses that Isaac did not heal her, but
the Island now has, so she fears her illness will return should she
leave the Island. Near the end of season three, in "Greatest Hits",
Jack announces his plan to prevent the Others from kidnapping anyone
else, so Rose and Bernard assist in by the targeted shelters with wire
from the wreckage. Rose grows concerned when Bernard volunteers to stay
behind and detonate the dynamite. She reluctantly allows him to
take part, but grows angry at Jack when the plan backfires later that
night.[9] Regardless, she presses on with the remaining survivors to
the radio tower, and watches as Jack contacts a nearby freighter that
Naomi Dorrit (Marsha Thomason) has came from. In the season four
premiere "The Beginning of the End", the survivors reunite in the
jungle, where Locke (Terry O'Quinn) proposes they hide from the freight
crew, believing them to be dangerous. Rose refuses to accompany him,
having witnessed him killing Naomi, and instead follows Jack.
She helps in preparing a table for when Jack requires an urgent
operation, but comments that people are not supposed to get sick on the
Island. She is still on the Island when Ben Linus (Michael
Emerson), the leader of the Others, causes it to disappear and move to
a new location.. She remained on the beach with Bernard and about
18 other survivors (including Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, Daniel Farraday,
and Charlotte) when after one of the time flash shunts, their beach is
attacked by the Others circa 1954. She 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. In a deleted scene from the
second season, it was revealed that Rose had a daughter, but she
"passed". The canonicity of this scene has not been addressed. The
producers had difficulty finding the right sound for the monster to
make, and eventually settled on the receipt printer from a New York
City taxi, which is why Rose, from The Bronx, New York, finds it
familiar.
L. Scott Caldwell's husband was going through health problems during
the shooting of the first season, which was the inspiration for Rose's
flashbacks in "S.O.S.". Following this episode, Caldwell did not
think Rose's healing had anything to do with the Island and stated "If
she is cured, it's because she's willed it herself". After "S.O.S.",
Rose does not appear again until twenty-five episodes later, in the
third season's "Greatest Hits". The writers cited Caldwell and Sam
Anderson'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.
After the pilot, Rose was considered for being added as a regular,
which can be seen in several of the early cast promo pictures that
included Rose and sometimes leave out Claire, but was ultimately left
as a recurring guest star.
Reception
Christ Carabott from IGN found the conversation where Rose insists
Bernard is alive "touching". TV Guide's Matt Roush called Caldwell
"terrific", and hoped the producers would "find some use for her
again".C. K. Sample III, of AOL's TV Squad, liked "S.O.S." because it
showed "two characters' back stories which we've all been longing to
see", comparing their relationship to that of Jack and Kate (Evangeline
Lilly), and finding Rose's meeting with Isaac "particularly
interesting". Lost producer Leonard Dick called Rose and Bernard
"much-beloved characters", and thought they did an "excellent job" in "S.O.S.".
Rick Porter from Zap2it was pleased when Rose returned with her
husband, in "Greatest Hits". After this reappearance, Patrick Day from
the Los Angeles Times hoped Rose would featured more often, saying "If
they brought these two back ... just to kill them, it will be
anti-climactic". Entertainment Weekly's Jeff Jensen called their return
a "sight-for-sore-eyes". Rose's line from the third season finale, "If
you say 'live together, die alone' to me, Jack, I'm going to punch you
in your face", won the E! Tater Top Award for "Best Line". Erin Martell
from AOL's TV Squad thought Rose's role in "Something Nice Back Home"
was "awesome", because she asked all the questions fans have been
asking.
