| “ | You bring her here. If you don't, I'm going to kill one of them. And then, if you don't bring her back before sundown tomorrow, I'll kill another, and another, and another. One every day. And Charlie, I'll kill you last. | „ |
| ~ Last spoken words. |
Ethan Rom is the main antagonist in Season 1 of the ABC television series, Lost.
He was portrayed by William Mapother as an adult, who also portrayed Richard Strout in In the Bedroom, Delroy Baker in Justified, and Parasite in Supergirl. He was portrayed by Devon Gearhart as a boy.
Biography[]
Ethan was born on the island in 1977 to Horace and Amy Goodspeed of the Dharma Initiative. At age eleven in 1988, Ethan had officially joined the Others and assisted Benjamin Linus in kidnapping baby Alex from Danielle Rousseau. Ethan claims to have lived in Ontario, Canada for some time but this was part of his alibi to the Flight 815 survivors. Ethan worked as a surgeon for the Others. Prior to the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, Ethan encounters a time traveling John Locke the day the drug smugglers' plane crash landed on the island. Ethan shoots him in the leg and nearly kills John before a time jump moves John forward in time. Ethan doesn't seem to recall the encounter in the present. Around three years before the crash, he travels from the island to Florida by submarine to recruit Juliet Burke, with the help of Richard Alpert. Ethan's wife dies in childbirth and his baby also does not survive.
Ethan was working on Juliet's plumbing when Oceanic Flight 815 crashes on the island. Ben tells Ethan go to the fuselage, pretend to be a survivor and make a list in three days. He takes blood samples to determine if Claire is encountering pregnancy issues and goes on hunting trips with Locke. When Hurley asks information of Ethan for a census, Ethan lies and that he is from Ontario, Canada. Knowing that he will be exposed before he can complete a list of the survivors, which actually happened when Hurley compared the census to the Flight manifest, Ethan kidnaps Charlie and the pregnant Claire for scientific research. Ethan finds the survivors' leader, Jack, following him and beats him up. He warns Jack that he will kill either Claire or Charlie if Jack continues to follow him. Charlie is later found hanging from a tree, and Jack is able to resuscitate him.
Ethan examines Claire in a Dharma Initiative station called The Staff. He asks her questions about her pregnancy and injects her with Juliet's serum. Ethan inserts a remote-activated implant that is later used to trigger nausea and bleeding. He drugs her and tries to convince her to give up her child to him and the Others, stating that they are "good people". During this segment, Ethan is accosted by Tom, who is visibly upset with Ethan for failing to complete his list, which seems to be very important to the Others. As Ethan is preparing to perform a Caesarean section on Claire, Alex frees her, and Ethan leads an unsuccessful search party.
Having lost Claire, Ethan attempts to get her back by telling Charlie he will kill one survivor for each night Claire is not returned to him. Scott Jackson is killed the next morning. The survivors assume he was killed by Ethan. The next day, Claire offers to use herself as bait to lure Ethan out of the jungle. When Ethan arrives to take Claire, Locke, Jack, Kate, Sayid, and Sawyer run in and tackle him down. Before they are able to extract any answers from him, Charlie shoots Ethan six times, killing him.
Trivia[]
- Ethan Rom is an anagram of Other Man, a reference to the fact that he is an Other.
- Nathan, a member of the Tailies, said he was from Canada and has a name ending in "-than" like Ethan. This makes the audience, like the other Tailies, believe that he is an Other who wasn't on the plane. This, however, was proven to be a red herring when Nathan was killed by Goodwin Stanhope, the real Other.
External Links[]
- Ethan Rom on the Lostpedia Wiki
- Ethan Rom on the Wikipedia
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