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Lost Juliet Burke
Dr. Juliet Burke (née Carlson), is
a fictional character, one of the main characters on the ABC
television series Lost. She is played by Elizabeth Mitchell. Her
character was introduced in the third season premiere. She is named
after the titular character from
William Shakespeare's play
Romeo
and Juliet.
Character's background
Prior to arrival on the island
Before coming to the island, Dr. Juliet Burke lived in Miami near
her sister Rachel's apartment. Juliet was working for her ex-husband
Edmund Burke as a fertility scientist at Miami Central University.
While there, Edmund bullied an acquiescent Juliet and flaunted his
sexual conquests. Despite her docile nature, Juliet, alluding to her
ends justify the means philosophy, was performing unauthorized
experiments on her sister, Rachel. Rachel's reproductive system had
been ravaged by chemotherapy, rendering her sterile. Juliet was
attempting to restore her fertility.
In 2001 she was approached and offered a job with Mittelos
Bioscience. Alleging her ex-husband would never allow her to leave,
Juliet jokingly asserted that she would not be able to accept the
job offer unless he were hit by a bus. When Juliet returned home,
her sister revealed to her that she was pregnant, prompting Juliet
to locate and inform Edmund. After receiving the news, Edmund
stepped off the sidewalk and onto the street, only to be hit by a
bus. Edmund died from the injuries, and the representative from the
company who had interviewed her earlier, Richard Alpert, showed up
at the morgue with Ethan Rom. They expressed their condolences and
again asked her to join their company. Juliet accepted. Soon after
this, Rachel's cancer went into remission.
Upon arriving for her new career at Mittelos, Juliet became
surprised at the amount of secrecy involved — not even knowing the
location of where she would work. Juliet then entered a van and was
driven to an airfield, where Richard Alpert gave her orange juice
that he admitted was filled with tranquilizer. Sensing reservation
on Juliet's part, Richard revealed that her expertise as a fertility
specialist — especially her miraculous treatment of her sister — was
the reason for her recruitment, promising that there were things on
the island that she could only dream about. Persuaded, Juliet drank
the juice and quickly fell unconscious.
On the island, prior to the crash
Juliet awakened aboard the Others' submarine, strapped down for
safety. She was freed by Ethan and then disembarked to the island
where she met Ben. A week after she arrived on the island, in
mid-September 2001, she began therapy with the Others' resident
psychologist, Dr. Harper Stanhope. Their first discussion was cut
short when Ben presented her with a newly furnished house in the
Barracks. Juliet was very appreciative, but protested that she was
only going to be on the island for six months. Ben brushed off this
fact. Later, in the Staff, she met Goodwin, who was attempting to
find ointment for a chemical burn on his arm. It later became
apparent that Goodwin was Harper's estranged husband.
For the next three years, she treated pregnant mothers per Ben's
orders, but with uniformly fatal results. At some point she also
began an affair with Goodwin. Harper later found out about their
relationship, and confronted Juliet in one of their sessions.
However, instead of being angry at Juliet, she offered her a
warning. If their relationship did not end, then there will be
consequences, not from her, but from Ben. It was then made clear
that Ben has a crush on Juliet.
Later she was discouraged by the lack of results in her work, but
was forced to remain on the island "until her work is done." Juliet
sought to return to her sister Rachel, but Ben revealed that her
cancer had returned — she would be dead before Juliet arrived.
However, he promised that if Juliet stayed, he would cure Rachel's
cancer. She accepted this, but became suspicious of Ben when she
discovered his spinal tumor on an x-ray. She then confronted him,
upset over his deception about no one on the island getting cancer.
She tearfully asked to go home to her dying sister — whom she
believed was never going to be cured — but Ben refused to let her
go, creating hostility.
The next day, a distraught Juliet prepared to host a book club when
she was visited by Amelia. Just as she was about to show her the
contents of a hidden envelope, the rest of the book club arrived.
While discussing Carrie, Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on the island;
Juliet and the rest of the Others witnessed the plane breaking up in
the air.
Following the crash
Immediately after the crash, Ben sends Ethan and Goodwin to
investigate the crash and infiltrate any survivors. After exchanging
a meaningful look with Harper, it becomes apparent to Juliet that
Ben sent Goodwin in order to get him out of the way. Ben then takes
Juliet with him to see Mikhail at the Flame, who opens a live
satellite connection to North America, where her seemingly healthy
sister is shown playing with her now two-year-old son, Julien.
Juliet breaks down crying and begs Ben to let her return home, but
again Ben refuses.
Several weeks later, Ben invites Juliet to his house, under the
pretense of having a dinner party, however, it turns out to be a
date. Juliet asks Ben about Goodwin, and Ben attempts to sow discord
between the two by implying that Goodwin is interested in a
relationship with Ana-Lucia Cortez. Several days later, Ben leads
Juliet into the woods and they eventually come upon Goodwin's
impaled corpse. Juliet is deeply distressed, and accuses Ben of
wanting Goodwin to die. Ben does not deny this, and Juliet asks why
he wanted Goodwin to die. Ben becomes upset, telling her that she
should know why. He goes on to state that it is because "You're
mine." His attitude then abruptly changes, and he informs Juliet
that she should take as much time as she needs with the corpse, and
leaves her alone, even more distressed and upset.
Later, Juliet and Ben enter the Pearl station, where they watch Jack
from one of the monitors. Juliet mentions that she thinks Jack is
cute. She soon questions Ben's motives for the planned kidnapping of
Jack, to which he reveals his methods of persuasion. They leave
shortly after, leaving behind a radio, which is picked up by Paulo.
When Michael is in captivity, Juliet visits him and informs him that
the Others have granted him a boat to leave the island. She also
comments on how Walt is "special." Later, Juliet tells Ben how
dangerous Walt is becoming when he does something in "Room 23". Ben
tells Juliet that he's only a child, but Juliet then takes Ben to a
pile of dead birds and tells him that no child would do that.
Season 3
Juliet is assigned to interrogate a captured Jack in the underwater
section of the Hydra station. At first, Jack refuses to cooperate,
almost flooding the room, but Juliet manages to break through to
him. She mostly brings him his food, but when she is called in to
operate on Colleen, she soon seeks Jack's help. Colleen dies, and
Juliet attends the funeral, where Ben asks her why she showed Jack
his x-rays. When she is told to convince Jack to operate on Ben, she
plays Jack a video of her holding up cue-cards, telling Jack to
"accidentally" kill Ben during surgery. When a desperate Jack holds
Ben hostage during surgery and angrily reveals Juliet's plan, she
claims Jack is bluffing. Ben wakes up during surgery and bargains
with her to help Kate and Sawyer escape in exchange for her freedom
off the island. She finds them held at gunpoint by Pickett, and
kills him on the spot. She is then tried for her crime, but via a
deal made by Jack, is spared execution by Ben. Instead, she is
marked on her lower back and treated by Jack before returning to the
barracks.
Since returning, and after the capture of Kate and Sayid, Ben
instructs her to infiltrate the survivors' camp in order to gain
information on Kate, as well as other potentially pregnant women.
She is then handcuffed to Kate and placed in the jungle, where she
pretends to have been gassed and abandoned with her. However, after
being chased by the "Monster", Juliet unlocks the handcuffs, and
shuts out the "Monster" using the sonar panel fence. The two return
to camp, where Juliet frees Sayid. She migrates with the survivors
soon after, under the protection of Jack. However, en route to
retrieving medication for Claire, she narrowly avoids an
interrogation from Sayid and Sawyer, and manages to help Claire.
Juliet also takes Sun to the Staff station upon learning of her
pregnancy, and uses the equipment to perform a scan on her fetus;
she confirms that she conceived on the island, and informs her that
she has until her second trimester, in roughly two months. Soon
after, Juliet confesses to Jack about her purpose for being in the
camp.
Later, Kate informs Jack and Juliet of Naomi's arrival, prompting
them to leave abruptly. They find Rousseau in the jungle and form a
plan. When they return, they discover that Sawyer has played
Juliet's dictophone to the camp, revealing the notes she made on
Sun's pregnancy. She then reveals that the Others intend on invading
the camp and abducting the pregnant women. Juliet and Jack lead the
camp into the jungle to demonstrate their plan to defeat the Others.
However, when Karl arrives to warn them of their immediate arrival,
Juliet discloses information on the Looking Glass station, used for
blocking outgoing signals, before heading off to the radio tower
with the majority of the camp. After witnessing Sayid's plan
backfire, Juliet gives Jack a kiss before parting and joins Sawyer
in his rescue effort on the beach. After Hurley runs over one of the
surviving Others with the van, Juliet corners Tom while Sawyer
unexpectedly shoots him in cold blood.
Season 4
In the season premiere, Juliet along with Sayid, Sawyer, Bernard and
Jin, question Desmond about the warning Charlie had given before he
died. However Hurley interrupts and questions Desmond of Charlie's
whereabouts and Desmond tells them all that Charlie had died leaving
the castaways devastated. Juliet is later present when Jack
confronts Locke for the killing of Naomi and when the survivors
split into two groups. Some survivors such as Sawyer, Hurley and
Claire go with Locke to the barracks because they believe that the
people arriving at the Island will not rescue them. However, the
majority including Juliet remain with Jack in hopes of getting
rescued. Juliet, along with Sayid, disarm Daniel and Miles who had
Jack and Kate at gunpoint. Later, Frank figures out Juliet was not
on the plane and asks her where Ben is.
When Faraday and Charlotte disappear without note from the camp,
Juliet and Jack run into the jungle in search for the newcomers.
Juliet is confronted by Harper — her former therapist — and ordered
to kill Faraday and Charlotte, accused by Ben of heading to The
Tempest chemical station, to kill everyone on the island. Juliet and
Jack find Kate on their road to The Tempest, but as Jack treats Kate
who was tied up and knocked unconscious by Charlotte, Juliet
vanishes and pursues the two freighter people on her own. She finds
them executing their mission in the station, and takes Faraday at
gun point, just until Charlotte attacks her. When it turns out they
are securing the station to prevent Ben from killing everyone on the
island, she leaves them alone. Upon reuniting outside — and
discussing the threat posed by a possessive Ben — Juliet and Jack
share a kiss.
Once it was revealed that Jack was suffering from appendicitis,
Juliet operates on him. Following the operation, Juliet reveals to
Kate that they kissed and that the kiss was only for Jack to prove
to himself that he didn't have feelings for someone else. Once Kate
leaves, Juliet tells Jack that she knows he is awake and that he has
overheard the conversation.
Later, when Daniel is evacuating people to the Kahana by Zodiac,
Juliet chooses to stay behind until everyone is safe. Later, Sawyer
emerges from the ocean and encounters her on the beach, drinking a
bottle of rum. He asks her what she is celebrating, and she replies
that she is not celebrating, and motions to a billow of smoke over
the ocean. Sawyer then asks "Is that our boat?", and Juliet replies
"It was." Moments later, she disappears along with the rest of the
island and its inhabitants when it's moved to its new location.
Season 5
After The Flash
Immediately after the movement of the island, Juliet and Sawyer both
noticed that the Kahana had disappeared completely, though it had
been quite visible moments before. After questioning where the
helicopter could be, Juliet and Sawyer were interrupted by a frantic
Rose and Bernard, who informed them that the beach camp had
disappeared, which was later attributed by Daniel Faraday to time
travel to the past. When Daniel asked where a nearby landmark was,
Juliet suggested the Swan. Upon arrival at the remains of the
imploded hatch, Juliet questioned whether they could change history,
which Daniel insisted would never work, due to course-correction.
After traveling through time once again, they discovered that the
hatch before them was intact at that point in time, but Juliet
decided to return to the beach with the rest of the survivors. When
the group return that night however the castaways are attacked by
flaming arrows which fly into the camp killing a few survivors.
Juliet and Sawyer are amongst those who manage to escape and as they
head to the creek to meet survivors they are attacked by three men
who demand to know why they are on their Island. The man in charge
tells his men to cut of Juliet's hand in order to show Sawyer how
serious he was - however before they can do two of the men are
knocked out and the third killed by a knife. The mystery rescuer
turns out to be Locke.
Whilst questioning the two men Juliet discovers that they are others
because they spoke Latin to each other which Juliet as an other
herself had to learn. Juliet manages to convince one of the men to
take them back to her camp and she uses her knowledge of Richard
Alpert in order to persaude him - however the other man breaks his
friends neck and escapes from Sawyer, Juliet and Locke. Later on
Juliet and Sawyer rescue Daniel, Charlotte and Miles who are being
held captive by the others. There is another flash and Charlotte
falls to the ground after bleeding from the nose. Juliet questions
Daniel as to why Charlotte is suffering from the flashes. After
Charlotte comes around the group decide to head for the Orchid
Station in order for Locke to try and find a way off the Island to
bring the people who left back and to stop the violent shifts
through time. When they arrive on the beach they discover the camp
is back but abadoned and they discover two rowing boats on the shore
and they decide to use it to get to the Orchid quicker. However
whilst out at sea they are shot at from behind, Juliet manages to
shoot one of the attackers but then there is a flash and the
attackers disappear and they are in the middle of a storm at sea and
they swim back to shore and they discover Jin who is alive after
being believed dead and he joins the group as they head for the
station.
The group then encounter more flashes as they begin to get worse and
Juliet, Miles and Sawyer all get nose bleeds and headaches but it
all becomes too much for Charlotte who once again, passes out.
Daniel decides to stay behind with Charlotte as Juliet, Locke,
Sawyer, Jin and Miles continue on. Locke enters the underground
station through a well but there is another flash and the well
disappears. Sawyer attempts to find a way to help Locke but Juliet
tells Sawyer that he is on his own. The group then noticed a giant
statue looming in the distance and as Locke turned the wheel beneath
the well, they experienced a flash, transporting them to 1974.
The group headed back to find Daniel and Charlotte, but found Daniel
alone. He explained Charlotte had died and not travelled through
time with them, and Juliet caringly consoled him as he cried.
Lacking a better plan, Sawyer suggested returning to the beach.
While Miles argued against this plan, Juliet backed Sawyer up and so
the group agreed. While walking, Sawyer thanked Juliet for backing
him up, to which she replied "You should thank me, it was a stupid
idea." Along the way they heard gunshots, and moving to investigate
encountered Amy being held captive by two Others. When the Others
refused to surrender, and attacked Sawyer, Juliet shot and killed
one of them, and Sawyer the other. Taking Amy back to the Barracks,
she was captured along with Sawyer, Miles, Jin, and Daniel, and
taken into Dharma Initiative custody. When Horace Goodspeed offered
to send them back to the mainland either the next day or in two
weeks Juliet initially intended to leave immediately. Despite the
fact that her old life no longer existed, she reasoned she had been
trying to get off the Island for three years and even though she had
nothing to go back to, this wasn't a reason not go to. Sawyer
managed to convince her to stay two more weeks, to see if they could
locate any of their people, and she agreed.
For undisclosed reasons, two weeks turns into three years. In 1977
Juliet was working for the DHARMA Initiative as a mechanic. When Amy
went into labor, Sawyer convinced Juliet to deliver the baby, which
turned out, to her joy, to be the first successful birth she had
ever attended on the Island. At some point during the intervening
three years, Juliet has become romantically involved with Sawyer and
after the birth of Amy's son the two share a celebratory dinner
followed by lovemaking. The next morning Sawyer left abruptly after
receiving a phone call from Jin.
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