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Lost Daniel Faraday

Prof. Daniel Faraday, often referred to as Dan or simply by his surname, Faraday, is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Jeremy Davies. Faraday was introduced in the season 4 premiere, and is part of the team aboard the Kahana. Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse called Daniel Faraday "an obvious shout-out to Michael Faraday, scientist and physicist".Faraday was originally planned to be a recurring role.

Prior to arrival on the island

After the events of LaFleur, Daniel along with Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, and Jin are shunted thru time and stranded sometime in 1974. Sawyer is able to bluff the Dharma Initiative of this time into giving his "crew" jobs/positions within the Dharma Initiative on the island. Daniel would end up assisting the group in the construction of the Orchid Station. This appears to have taken place in the late 1970's. Presumably, much of the information about the Dharma Initiative that Daniel would end up compiling in his notebook was taken during this period of time. Daniel would also have some contact with a very young Charlotte Lewis during this time as well. How Daniel transited from this period to the future/present has yet to be revealed.

By the early to mid 1990's, Daniel was working as a physicist at The Queen's College, Oxford via a research grant that was funded completely by Charles Widmore. During his tenure, Desmond Hume was trapped in a time traveling loop and was directed by Daniel in 2004 to make contact with him in 1996. During this encounter, Daniel helped Desmond by telling him that he would die if he did not find a constant - a familiar entity which is a part of Desmond's life in the past and future. He mentioned that he had done things that were 'frowned upon', namely his time altering experiments. From here, Daniel began peripherally researching everything he could in order to be ready for this event, knowing now that consciousness time travel was indeed possible; by the end of the episode, Daniel was even shown to have prepared that Desmond would be his "constant" in case anything went wrong on the island, and also had somehow obtained and put in his notebook, the entire Secondary Protocol and knew that they had been activated by the time There's No Place Like Home aired. In the season 5 premiere, Daniel reveals his notebook has a lot of information about many of the known (and possibly unknown) Dharma Stations on the island.

At some point after his encounter with Desmond, Daniel attempts to do a still unknown experiment upon a willing human subject. The experiment fails, resulting in this woman being put in a coma. Faraday is expelled from Oxford. Charles Widmore was able to keep the entire incident quickly and quietly being dismissed, with Widmore paying for the comatose woman's medical expenses, and Oxford quietly removed all references to Faraday ever being at the university.

While in Essex, Massachusetts, Daniel watched a news report covering the discovery of the apparent derelict Oceanic Flight 815 in the depths of the Sunda Trench close to Indonesia. When asked why he was crying by his caretaker/housekeeper, he replied that he didn’t know.

He was soon after recruited into a covert team alongside Charlotte Lewis, Miles Straume and Frank Lapidus; organized by the enigmatic Matthew Abaddon and led by Naomi Dorrit, who described Daniel as a "head case". Their mission was to travel to the island, to disable the Dharma Initiative Station: THE TEMPEST, and to confront Ben Linus for an as of yet unexplained reason.

After the team was assembled they departed for the island in a helicopter which was struck by lightning. Daniel was the first to parachute off the chopper after being pushed by Miles.

After arrival on the island

Daniel first arrives on the island on December 23, 2004 after the crash survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 contact him and his crew on the freighter. A helicopter sent to fly to the island spots Jack and Kate in the jungle beside the nose of the plane and immediately dispatches a parachutist at low altitude. The parachutist introduces himself as Daniel Faraday to Jack and Kate and tells them he's here to rescue them.

Jack and Kate notice Daniel's restlessness but agree to help him find his team. As they voyage through the jungle Jack spots a container with gas masks inside. Becoming more and more curious, he asks why Daniel has a gun and receives the response that rescuing the crash survivors is not the freighter's primary objective. Their conversation is interrupted by a bleeping on the sat-phone revealing Miles' position at the island's cove. Upon arriving there an argument breaks out with Miles pointing a gun at Jack. Daniel tells Miles to calm down and the situation is resolved by agreeing to take him and Miles to Naomi's body.

Once there, Daniel makes an interesting observation about the light scattering on the island strangely. Jack tells Daniel and Miles to put away their guns because Sayid and Juliet are surrounding them with weapons. Jack's group is given the upper hand and the guns are taken from the parachutists. Soon after, the sat-phone picks up what seems to be Charlotte's position on the island. Daniel and Miles call her name but instead they find Vincent running through the jungle with Charlotte's tracker. Jack tells them that Locke has her.

A flare shot into the sky brings the group to Frank's position and the landing site of the helicopter. Daniel's thought of taking the late Naomi on-board the chopper is objected by Frank and Miles, saying it's unnecessary weight. Moments later, Miles is surprised to hear from Frank that Juliet's name was absent from the Flight 815 manifest. His "primary objective" is revealed as confronting Benjamin Linus.

Daniel stays back at the landing site while Miles, Kate and Sayid venture towards the barracks. He uses the sat-phone to contact Regina and conduct an experiment in which a payload is to be fired to his position. It eventually arrives 31 minutes after it is expected, causing Daniel to describe the situation as "not good." Daniel is offered a ride on the helicopter back to the freighter but he decides to stay on the island. He advises Frank to stay on the exact same bearing they were on when they approached the island.

Jack and Juliet escort Daniel and Charlotte back to the campsite along the beach. While there, they are contacted by Sayid (who has finally arrived safely on the freighter) and are informed about Desmond who believes he is bouncing from 1996 to 2004 constantly. Over the sat-phone, Daniel assists Desmond by telling him to travel to Oxford University the next time he bounces into the past so that he can seek help from Daniel in 1996. The advice Daniel gives Desmond in 1996 subsequently saves Desmond's life in 2004. (Refer to Prior to arrival on the island). Later that day, Daniel is flicking through his diary and comes across a note saying "If anything goes wrong, Desmond Hume will be my constant"., indicating that Daniel was prepared for the contingency of himself suffering from Temporal Displacement himself.

Daniel and Charlotte secretly leave the beach to carry out an unknown mission. Jin tells Jack he saw them leave earlier, causing Jack to become frustrated. He asks Jin why he didn't mention this to him earlier, but is confused and replies "You said...they are friends?" Juliet claims they are heading for the power station of the island known as The Tempest after receiving a message from Ben via Harper. Daniel is later seen with Charlotte in the jungle reading a very vague and incomplete map with "UNKNOWN?" written multiple times on it. After getting their bearings Daniel points and says "It's that way". He then looks distressed by the journey ahead and tells Charlotte "What happens if I...well...if I can't do it?", but Charlotte assures him that he can "do this". They are about to head off again when Kate happens upon them on the way back to the beach after leaving the barracks. Charlotte claims they left the others at the beach because their sat-phone is dead and they came to find new batteries in their luggage that was thrown from the helicopter. Kate sees Daniel's phone has power and is suspicious. She asks to see their bag which actually contains biohazard suits. Charlotte pistol whips her in the back of the head knocking her out, much to Daniel's dismay.

Juliet arrives at The Tempest ahead of Jack to find Daniel in a biohazard suit typing frantically at a computer terminal. Juliet then confronts Daniel with a gun, and he states "Juliet, what are you doing here?", clearly concerned that she is putting herself in danger by being in the facility without protection. Juliet pulls his mask off and tells him, "If you want to release the gas you'll die with the rest of them". Daniel then claims he's not trying to kill anyone, but instead wants to render the gas inert, to make it safe. Charlotte then attacks Juliet and they fight frenetically while Daniel types away. The countdown continues during this time. Charlotte tells Juliet that they're stopping Ben from using the gas to kill people on the island, and they're aware that he's used it before. The pressure indicator then returns from red back into the green area. Daniel states, "That..that was a close one".

Back at the beach, Daniel is visited by Sun who asks him if he and his team have come to the island to rescue everybody. Daniel anxiously replies that it's not his decision and Sun, disappointed, leaves his presence. Later on, a body washes ashore and Daniel identifies it as being the doctor from his freighter. To discover what had occurred, Daniel uses Morse code to contact the ship and ask what happened to the doctor. The freighter replies saying, "What are you talking about? Doctor is fine". Daniel lies about the response and tells Jack that the freighter is sending the helicopters for them in the morning. Bernard, who can also understand Morse code, reveals that Daniel is lying about the message, causing Jack to become frustrated with Daniel and ask him if he's really here to rescue them, to which Daniel regretfully responds, "No."

The following morning, Jack's sickness grows worse and it becomes vital for his appendix to be removed. To do so, Juliet entrusts Daniel to gather necessary instruments from the medical station alongside Charlotte and Sun; but the "trust" is reinforced by Juliet's sending Jin along, telling him to shoot Daniel or Charlotte in the leg if they try to escape. When they arrive at the Staff, Sun remarks that Daniel likes Charlotte. Daniel successfully obtains all required instruments and gets them back to Juliet who performs the operation thus saving Jack's life. Around this time, Daniel realizes that the Secondary Protocol has been activated by Widmore, and tells Charlotte that they "have to get off the Island NOW!".

When Sayid arrives to take survivors back to the Kahana, Daniel informs him that Jack has gone to follow the helicopter. Daniel agrees to start ferrying people to the boat via the Zodiac raft while Sayid finds Jack. He takes the first load (including Sun and Aaron) to the boat. He returns to warn Charlotte and Miles that they have to get off the island with the next group, but both of them opt to stay, though Charlotte gives him a kiss on the cheek before he departs. Daniel and the second load of survivors are caught midway between the Kahana and the island when the former explodes and the latter is "moved" by Benjamin Linus. The season 5 premiere episode reveals that the Zodiac craft was close enough to the island to be taken with it.

Once back on the Island, Daniel meets up with the remaining survivors and explains to them that the Island has begun skipping through time at random intervals. He has Sawyer lead himself, Juliet, Charlotte and Locke to the Hatch in order to establish the date by which man-made landmarks are there. Once there, he steals away from the main group and lures Desmond out of the hatch, telling him that the survivors are in danger and that Desmond must remember to find Faraday's mother once he is off the Island.

Daniel and the others are captured by a group of the others in the 1950's. One of the others looks at Daniel and says, "You just couldn't stay away, could you?" Daniel, Charlotte, and Miles are taken to the camp led by Richard Alpert. Once there, Daniel tells Richard that he is the only person who can help them disarm a U.S. Nuclear bomb on the island. He assures Richard that he is trust worthy because he loves Charlotte. Faraday is led to the bomb, where he discovers it must be buried because of a crack in the shell. Before he can bury the bomb, the other girl is ambushed by Sawyer and Juliet and a time flash occurs.

Following these events, Daniel remains with Charlotte when she collapses. Amidst Charlotte's nonsense, she admits to Daniel that when she was a girl, a "big scary man" came and told her to leave the island. With fear, she realizes the man might have been Daniel himself. Charlotte then dies in a Daniel's arms as he mourns. Daniel later reveals to the others of Charlotte's death and whilst the group are stuck in the 1970's they stay in the barracks with the DHARMA Initiative and he sees a young girl with bright red hair who he believes to be the younger Charlotte.

After the arrival of Jack, Kate, and Hurley in 1977, Sawyer is queried by the survivors as to whether Faraday is with the DHARMA Initiative as well. "Not anymore," says Sawyer.

Casting

Jeremy Davies was cast as Daniel because he is one of the writer-producers' favorite character actors, and they think that his "transformative quality [and] the tremendous intelligence that seems to emanate from him … seemed perfect for the part." When Davies met costume designer Roland Sanchez, he was wearing a thin black tie. Sanchez merged this "cool, edgy look" with his idea for the character's clothes: a "nerdy" loosely woven dress shirt from J.Crew.