| “ | That island's mine, Benjamin. It always was. It will be again. | „ |
| ~ Widmore threatening Ben. |
Charles Widmore is one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside Benjamin Linus) of the ABC show Lost.
He is a corrupt executive and the former leader of the Others, who sends a squad of mercenaries to invade the island and kill anyone in their way in order to take it back for himself.
He was played by Alan Dale, who also played Masaru Sera in Yakuza, King George in Once Upon a Time, and Henry Lawson in Mass Effect. His 17-year old self was played by Tom Connolly and his 40-year old self was played by David S. Lee.
History[]
As a teenager on the island, he was a sadistic member of the Others. When he meets a time-travelling John Locke and Juliet Burke, he and another Other hold Juliet hostage and threaten to cut off her hand, but Locke intervenes and forces Widmore to take him to meet Richard, which he reluctantly does.
In the 1970s he has become a high-ranking member of the Others, and is displeased when a critically wounded Ben Linus is brought to the Others for help. Despite Ben being a child Widmore insists that they let him die, but Richard says Jacob wanted him saved. He's later involved in the Others' mass murder of the DHARMA Initiative in which Ben defected to the Others. He later sends Ben to kill Danielle Rousseau but Ben spares her upon seeing she has a baby, but as Danielle is insane Ben takes her child, Alex, with him. Widmore is angry and tells Ben to kill the baby, but he refuses and raises her as his own daughter. Widmore is later exiled from the island by Ben for routinely breaking "the rules" and regularly leaving the island for personal business. As he leaves he threatens Ben that he'll be back and that one day Ben will lose Alex.
After leaving the island he becomes the head of Widmore Industries and devotes his resources to finding the island again. He's also displeased when Desmond Hume and his daughter Penny fall in love. When Desmond asks him permission to marry Penny, Widmore tells Desmond that he's not worthy of drinking his whiskey and could never be worthy of Penny. This shatters Desmond's self-esteem and he breaks up with Penny. Widmore later reveals that he's intercepted all the letters Desmond has been writing to Penny and tries to buy him off to stay away from her, and when Desmond refuses Widmore denies him access to Penny. Desmond later decides to take part in a sailing race around the world Widmore is sponsoring to prove that he's worthy of Penny, but is shipwrecked and lands on the island and is stranded there for the next three years.
After the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, Widmore plants fake wreckage in the ocean with hundreds of exhumed bodies inside, as he doesn't want anyone to find where the island is. Upon finding the island's coordinates, he hires a freighter crew including a squad of mercenaries led by Martin Keamy, telling them to invade the island, remove Ben and kill any survivors. Despite having agreed with Ben to not directly harm each other or their families, he tells Keamy to use whatever means necessary to capture Ben, and Keamy murders Alex in front of Ben when he refuses to surrender, which shocks Ben as it means Widmore "changed the rules." However the Others and survivors team up to kill the freighter mercenaries, and Ben then moves the island so Widmore can't find it.
After the Oceanic Six are rescued, Widmore keeps tabs on them and apparently sent an assassin, Ishmael Bakir, to murder Sayid's wife Nadia. Ben takes advantage of this to manipulate Sayid into killing a number of Widmore's men, and visits Widmore himself to blame him for Alex's death, threatening to kill his daughter Penny in return, but is ultimately unable to go through with this. Widmore is also revealed to be the father of Daniel Faraday, and sent him to the island fully aware he was fated to be killed by his own mother after time-travelling to the past.
He later returns to the island claiming Jacob "showed him the error of his ways" and claims to be an ally against the Man in Black. He also kidnaps Desmond and brings him back to the island as a "last resort" in case the Man in Black kills Jacob's candidates. However he eventually betrays his deal with the survivors and orders a mortar attack on them, before locking the survivors in cages, claiming it's for their own good. When the Man in Black breaks them out, Widmore's men fire on them and Kate is shot, but the survivors return fire and kill most of Widmore's team. Widmore later has the Aira plane rigged with C-4 to stop the Man in Black using it to leave the island, boasting to Ben that he's still ahead of him. In revenge for Alex's death, Ben tells the Man in Black where Widmore is hiding and when Widmore agrees to give the Man in Black critical information in exchange for Penny's safety, Ben shoots him dead, saying he doesn't get to save his daughter.
External Links[]
- Charles Widmore on the Lostpedia Wiki
- Charles Widmore on the Wikipedia
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