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The Others are a group of fictional
characters who inhabit the island in the American television series
Lost; most of whom serve as the antagonists to the series' main
characters. According to Sayid Jarrah, there are at least 50 living in
the Barracks. Wizard magazine rated them the 98th greatest villains of
all time.
In the storyline, the term "the Others" was coined by Danielle Rousseau
and adopted by the survivors of Flight 815 to describe the often
antagonistic group of island dwellers seen as "the enemy," who had been
already living on the island for many years, long before the existence
of the Dharma Initiative on the island in the 1970s and the 2004 crash
of Flight 815. The Others do not appear to have a name for their group
themselves, though the man that they take orders from, Benjamin Linus,
has described them as "the good guys." Linus appears to take orders
from Jacob, although he is the only Other who has seen or met Jacob.
While the Dharma Initiative referred to a group of island natives as
"hostiles" or "natives", this term (as well as Rousseau's use of "the
others") actually refers to a group of people different from 'the
Others' as known in the present day, having lived on the island far
into the past. The present day Others have been mostly recruited from
the outside world and it is not known what happened to the natives of
the island (though at least one is now one of 'the Others').
The Others are mysterious and secretive, refusing to explain themselves
to the crash survivors, while still killing, terrorizing and kidnapping
them for unknown purposes. This has resulted in a long-running conflict
between the two groups. Recently, however, they have been portrayed as
less antagonistic, since both sides wanted to defend themselves from
the freighter people. John Locke is appointed the new leader of the
Others after Ben was banished from the Island by using the Orchid.
During the course of the show, over a dozen survivors of Crash 815 have
been taken by the Others, and have not appeared to be abused or harmed.
Most of these came from the Tail Section, where Goodwin was able to
complete his 'list'. Their standing relative to the rest of the Others
has not been revealed. It has never been revealed who Ethan was
planning on putting on his list.
Appearance and motives
In their early dealings with the crash survivors, the Others took on
the guise of primitive but cunning jungle-dwellers, at least while on
the Island- the seemingly immortal Richard Alpert has been able to
travel to the United States since the 1950s, and seems to have formed
Mittelos Laboratories by no later then the early 1970's, where he
attempted to recruit John Locke while he was in High School as well as
eventually recruiting Dr. Juliet Burke. Since their victory over the
DHARMA Initiative, the group became comparatively technologically
advanced and for a time acquired means of regular contact with the
outside world by submarine and live televisual link.
At some point, in the early 1970's, a truce of some kind was struck
between the Other's and the Dharma Initative. A set of protocols were
emplaced for dealings that did happen.
The Others are difficult to track; they leave hardly any footprints and
their trail is almost impossible to follow. Their appearance is
sometimes heralded by strange, barely audible whispering. It has been
confirmed that the whispering is not necessarily something that is
connected to the Others. In some of their early appearances, the Others
exhibited what could be extraordinary strength, speed, and stealth.
The exact motives of the Others remain unclear, though from the point
of view of the Flight 815 survivors, their interactions have regularly
appeared malevolent and manipulative. They have kidnapped children,
including Walt Lloyd, tail section survivors Zach and Emma, as well as
Danielle Rousseau's infant daughter Alex, whom Ben brought up as his
own daughter. The reasons for this are connected to the fact that the
Others have not been able to successfully give birth on the island, as
the mother is always killed by her immune system reacting against the
baby for an unknown reason. At least some members of the group visit
other parts of the world and experienced outside lifestyles, cultures,
and belief systems and still choose to remain on the island for a
reason that has not yet been explained. At times, some Others appear to
be quite willing to sacrifice a lot for their cause, such as when Bea
Klugh encouraged Mikhail to kill her rather than be held hostage. The
group are seen to be interested in those who are regarded as being
"special" on the island, Walt for example, who sometimes appeared in
places he couldn't have been, and John Locke, who regained the use of
his legs despite being previously paralyzed from the waist down.
A major part of the Others' modus operandi is a "list". When Flight 815
first occurred, Ben ordered both Goodwin and Ethan to infiltrate the
survivors and have lists ready within 3 days. By the first night, the
Others apparently were able to kidnap at least 3 people as well as the
attempted kidnapping of Mr. Eko, who killed the two Others assigned
that duty. During this time, Ben ordered Mikhail to conduct full
background checks on everyone on Flight 815 using the Flame's stations
computers (and presumably, whatever sources they have in the real
world), claiming "he wanted to know everything about them". Over a week
later, the Others returned, this time with a list of 9 specific people
that they were to kidnap, that was written by Goodwin. It was later
revealed that Jacob had something to do with this final list, and that
Goodwin was lobbying "almost too hard" to have Ana-Lucia Cortez
included in this list.
Since that time, several of these Flight 815 survivors have been seen
amongst the Others by Locke, Jack Shephard, and Kate Austen during
their time with the Others (although none of the main section survivors
ever actually knew they were tail section survivors). These survivors
do not appear to have been harmed, seem to have complete freedom to
move around, and have not asked for any help from the other 815
survivors, nor have they attempted to escape in their contact with the
main characters. It has never been revealed how far Ethan was into
making his list, or whom he was planning on putting on his list prior
to his being exposed as not being on the plane.
The question of why some members of Flight 815 have been taken and not
others, has generally been answered cryptically. Goodwyn tells
Ana-Lucia that people that were brought to them were brought "To a
better life" and are "happier now". He also stated that one of the tail
section survivors was "not a good person". That was echoed by Ethan
when he had Claire at the Staff station, claiming that the Others were
"Good People", a statement that Ben used when he attacked Ana-Lucia in
a rage for killing "Those good people". Mikhail said that the survivors
were "Flawed....too scared" to become Others. In Season 4, Ben claimed
that the Survivors in the barracks "Are not meant to be with us".
Exactly what qualifies one to be considered by the Others has yet to be
revealed.
Both via mobisode and in his appearance in the Season 2 episode Three
Minutes, Walt claims to have been subjected to some manner of testing
by the Others, and it was implied that it was not pleasant for Walt.
Whether this was the result of whatever 'indoctrination process' that
was apparently done to other Flight 815 survivors that are now with the
Others is unknown. On several occasions, the Others have claimed that
Walt was "Very special" by Tom, and Benjamin Linus claimed while
captured and being held at the Hatch, that "They would never give back
Walt", by the end of Season 2, Benjamin Linus claimed that they had
"Gotten a lot more then they bargained for" in Walt, and was cited as a
reason to let him go.
Those who are members of the Others have either been recruited, as in
the case of Juliet Burke, or joined the group having been on the island
already (by choice or by kidnapping). Some of the Others appear to be
part of the mysterious forces on the island, where as those that have
been recruited do not. A number of adult survivors from both the tail
section and fuselage were kidnapped. During their encounters with the
crash survivors, the Others have killed, or attempted to kill, several
survivors. There have been frequent references in each group where a
person from the other group is referred to as "one of them". The
hostility between the two groups has continued, leading to a battle at
the survivors' beach camp which saw many Others killed and injured by
the survivors, breaking their control over the island.[3]
The end of season 4 saw the return of the Others, led by Richard
Alpert, who took Kate and Sayid hostage in There's No Place Like Home
Part 1. In Part 2 & 3, after Ben was forced to leave the island by
moving it, Locke became the new leader for the Others.
In the season 5 episode Jughead, it is revealed that the Others are
trained to speak Latin and use it to communicate in the presence of
outsiders.
In a conversation between Locke and Christian Shepherd, Christian
seemed to suggest that the desires/commands of Jacob or the Island are
not necessarily connected to the Others, and that Richard may have a
different agenda than The Island/Jacob does.
Residence
In the beginning of season 3, the
Others were revealed to be living in a rather pleasant suburban-like
village of houses, complete with furniture, indoor plumbing and even
electricity. The Others have many conveniences of modern living, such
as ovens, relatively new books, and CD players. The village even has a
book club. According to blueprints in DHARMA Initiative operations
manuals at The Flame, the name of the village is "The Barracks", and
was originally constructed by DHARMA to house its employees. The Others
took over the Barracks after the so-called "Purge" resulting in the
destruction of DHARMA. The Barracks are surrounded by a sonic defense
perimeter capable of generating a sonic pulse directed at any intruder,
including the Monster, which cannot penetrate it.
Since the Purge, the Others have occupied or utilized many of the
DHARMA Initiative's research stations. Most notable was the Staff,
where the operating theatre was used to try to deliver babies of the
Others' pregnant women. The Pearl was used to monitor the crash
survivors in the Swan station, while the Hydra was used to house the
captured Jack, Kate and Sawyer while Ben forced Jack to operate on his
tumour. Mikhail Bakunin was based for a period of time in the Flame,
which allowed contact with the outside world, while the Looking Glass
housed another two Others who maintained the jamming of transmissions
off of the island.
In addition, the Others had branched all over the world recruiting
members, from Kiev, where Mikhail was recruited, to Canada, where
Bonnie and Greta were supposed to have been re-located, and to Miami
where Juliet was recruited. Season 5 introduces other members of the
Others working in capacities that are still unknown. Included in this
number are a woman living in L.A. who moonlights as a butcher, to whom
Ben entrusts Locke's remains, and another woman living in L.A., Ms.
Hawking, previously shown in a flashback with Desmond, who seems to
operate a secret base somehow connected with the Island.
Season 5 showed another of the Others' domains, "The Temple". At the
end of Season 3, Ben Linus orders Richard to take the Others there. The
"Temple" is apparently about a day and a half journey at a forced march
pace from the Barracks, per Ben's instructions to Rousseau, his
daughter Alexandra, and her boyfriend Karl. The Temple is apparently
not something that they talk about regularly - despite being raised her
entire life by the Others, Alex had no clue the Temple existed until
the Season 4 episode Meet Kevin Johnson, when Ben revealed its
existence to her. The Others remain at the Temple throughout the events
of Season 4 until its ending, when Richard leads a large party of
Others back to help defeat the Freighter mercenary team. In the Season
5 episode This Place is Death, a time-travelling Jin meets up with
Danielle Rousseau and her crew back in 1988 when they first arrive on
the island. During this encounter, the Smoke Monster attacks Rousseau's
science crew, killing one of them and dragging another off into the
Temple. The Temple seemed to be very old, with unknown hieroglyphs
inscribed on the wall, with a large crack or hole that descends into
the Temple. What exactly was inside the Temple was not shown on the
episode. The episode did confirm the Smoke Monster's "Security System"
status for the Temple, although its overall relationship with the
Others remains to be revealed.
Alex
Alexandra is Rousseau's daughter who is kidnapped by the Others sixteen
years prior to the crash of Flight 815 and raised by Ben. Alex aids the
crash survivors in various escapes and eventually defects at the end of
season three. She dates Karl, but Ben tries to keep them apart because
she would die if she becomes pregnant. She is executed by Keamy.
Richard
Alpert
Dr. Richard Alpert is Ben's advisor who is seemingly ageless. In
flashbacks spanning fifty years, including being present for Locke's
birth in 1956, associating with Ben to purge the Dharma Initiative in
1992, and recruiting Juliet to the Others, he always appears to be the
same age as he is in 2004. In the fourth season, Richard leads the
surviving Others to a place referred to as "The Temple". He is shown to
come into contact with John Locke several times during the latter's
early life. Juliet has said that Richard has always been on the Island
and, when questioned about how old he is, cryptically asserts that he
is "old."
Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin is one of the Others and has lost one of his eyes. He
lives and works at the Flame Dharma station. Locke, Sayid and Kate find
him and take him hostage. He manages to escape and later sets off a
hand grenade, which kills both himself and Charlie at the Looking Glass
Dharma station.
Karl Blake
A young Other, Karl is Alex's boyfriend. In an attempt to prevent Karl
from impregnating Alex, Ben imprisons him until he is rescued by Kate
and Sawyer. Later, he joins the plane crash survivors and is killed by
the mercenaries from the Kahana in season four.
Bea Klugh
Beatrice Klugh visits Michael during his forced stay with the Others
and is present when they capture Jack, Kate and Sawyer. In season
three, at the Dharma Flame station, she is found by Sayid, Locke and
Kate and has Mikhail kill her to prevent her from being the survivors'
prisoner.
Benjamin Linus
Ben is the manipulative leader of the Others. He is captured by the
survivors and is held hostage in a hatch that Boone and Locke found.
However Michael releases him in return for the safe passage of himself
and his son, Walt, back home. In the finale of the 4th season he is
forced to leave the Island after he "moves" it.
Jacob
Jacob is the Others' highest authority. With the exception of Ben, the
Others do not have regular contact with him. Jacob lives in a cabin
that seemingly moves and is invisible to some people. At first, Locke
can only hear Jacob and not see him, although he later sees and talks
to Christian Shephard inside the cabin.
Danny Pickett
Danny Pickett is a violent member of the Others who supervises Kate and
Sawyer while they are imprisoned. He is married to another Other named
Colleen until Sun kills her. Enraged, Pickett takes his anger out on
Sawyer, and tries to kill Sawyer until Juliet intervenes and kills
Pickett.
Ethan Rom
Dr. Ethan Rom poses as a fuselage survivor until he is exposed by
Hurley, at which point he kidnaps Claire and Charlie. He unsuccessfully
attempts to murder Charlie and takes Claire to the Staff Dharma
station, where he performs tests on her unborn child and implants a
device that can cause her to become sick. Charlie kills Ethan in
"Homecoming".
Goodwin Stanhope
Goodwin Stanhope is married to the Others' therapist, Harper Stanhope.
He has an affair with Juliet, which dismays Ben because he is in love
with Juliet. Partially out of jealousy, Ben sends Goodwin on a mission
to infiltrate the tail section survivors. When Goodwin's identity is
discovered by Ana Lucia, she confronts and kills him.
Tom
Tom, aka "Mr Friendly," wears a fake beard when acting as a liaison to
the crash survivors until they kidnap Jack, Kate and Sawyer. He
recruits Michael to spy on the boat Kahana. He's shot and killed by
Sawyer.
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