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The Dharma Initiative, also written DHARMA (Department of Heuristics and Research on Material Applications[1]), is a fictional research project featured in the television series Lost. It is introduced in the second season episode "Orientation". In 2008, the Dharmainitiative[2] website was launched.

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[edit] Background

The Dharma Initiative and its origins are first explored in the episode "Orientation" by an orientation film in the Swan Station. Pierre Chang (François Chau), under the pseudonym of Dr. Marvin Candle, explains that the project began in 1970, created by two doctoral candidates from the University of Michigan, Gerald and Karen DeGroot (Michael Gilday and Courtney Lavigne), and was funded by Alvar Hanso (Ian Patrick Williams) of the Hanso Foundation. They imagined a "large-scale communal research compound", where scientists and free thinkers from around the globe could research meteorology, psychology, parapsychology, zoology, electromagnetism, and a sixth discipline that the film begins to identify as "utopian social-" before being cut off.[3]

The "Lost Experience", an alternate reality game which took place in 2006, revealed that the objective of the Dharma Initiative was to alter any of the six factors of the Valenzetti Equation, an equation which "predicts the exact number of years and months until humanity extinguishes itself," to allow humans to exist for longer by changing their doomsday. These factors are represented as numbers in the Valenzetti Equation and are also the numbers frequently mentioned in the show: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42.[4]

Both the Swan Station orientation film, as well as revisions of the map on the blast door in the station, suggest that there was some sort of "incident" that took place on the Island at some point, ostensibly before the time the Swan Station's film was made in 1980. In the edit of the film (found in the Arrow Station by Mr. Eko), Dr. Candle insists that the computer at the Swan Station not be used for any other purpose, specifically to communicate with other stations, and indicates it had something to do with the incident and the need to prevent another one. It remains to be revealed just what this "incident" was.

After the incident, according to notations on the blast door map, the Dharma Initiative's facilities on the Island seemed to fall into disrepair. The blast door map has many annotations about destroyed access tunnels, a breakdown in the Cerberus Security System and mentions facilities being abandoned or destroyed via other 'incidents' or 'accidents' specifically happening on Dec 7 1987, October 28 1984 and another in 1985. By the time Rousseau and her freighter crew shipwrecked on the Island, in 1988, many of the facilities on the Island have been abandoned including the radio tower. At no point did the Dharma Initiative attempt a search and rescue for Danielle or her crew, even during the 4 years between Danielle putting her message on a continuous loop and the time of the Purge.

When the Dharma Initiative arrived on the Island, they fought with the Island's natives, known to them as the Hostiles and to the survivors of Flight 815 as the "Others".[5] The "Hostiles" had been living on the Island long before the Initiative arrived.[6]. The Arrow Station was eventually given a mission to observe and formulate strategies to counter the Hostiles. At some point in the 1970's, a truce of some kind was brokered between the Hostiles. This conflict ended in 1992,[7] when one member of the Dharma Initiative, Ben Linus (Michael Emerson), joined the Hostiles and helped kill the remaining members using poison gas,[5] an event which became known as "The Purge".[8] The bodies were buried in a mass grave.[5]

In 2001 Kelvin Inman, a man who found Desmond adrift on the beach, was supposedly still working for the Dharma Initiative in the Swan station.[9] Lost producer Carlton Cuse confirms in a podcast that Kelvin was indeed a member of the Dharma Initiative.[citation needed] In the "Lost Experience", an actor portraying fictional Hanso Foundation executive Hugh McIntyre appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live,[10] where he stated that the Foundation had stopped funding the Dharma Initiative in 1987.[11] However, in season 2, an air drop of supplies arrived for the Swan station. As an airdop would require a cargo plane, pilots, parachutes, a loadmaster and the supplies themselves, this would suggest someone is still providing funding for its activities. Furthermore, the Dharma Initiative insignia can be seen on the Secondary Protocol's mission orders that mercenary commander Martin Keamy accesses in the Freighter's safe, suggesting that the Dharma Initiative continues, in some way, to the present day.

At the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con, a new ARG began with a booth recruiting new members to the Initiative. At the Lost panel, Hans van Eeghen, a Dharma executive, revealed that the results from the booth were "abysmal," and a few people had been selected to view a video that had been sent from thirty years in the past.[12] In the video, Pierre Chang said that the work on the Island is valid, and it is essential that the Dharma Initiative is restarted.[13] Following this a website was launched, which allowed users to join the Dharma Initiative.

In the 1970's, the episodes LaFleur and He's Our You seemed to indicate that mathematician Horace Goodspeed seemed to be "in charge" of Dharma Initiative operations on the Island. Key decisions that needed to be made on the Island were taken by a committee, which seemed to include all Department Heads, including Flame Station Head Radzinski and Security Head LaFleur (the name Sawyer was posing under). At one point during a meeting, Radzinski threatens to "call Ann Arbor" to override a key decision by Goodspeed and go over his head on it, indicating that the University of Michigan at least in the 70's had operation say over the Dharma Initiative.

[edit] Research stations

A Bagua

The Dharma Initiative placed nine (known) research stations around the Island, which take the form of hidden, underground facilities or bunkers. One (the first built) is in California. After Oceanic Flight 815 crashes on the Island in September 2004, the survivors encounter several of these stations. The first to be discovered is "The Swan" which they refer to informally as "the hatch". Ten additional stations have since been visited over the series, each with its own particular logo associated with it: an octagon, similar to the bagua design, with a differing symbol at the center.

The Swan Station's Blast Door claims that there was, at one time, an underground tunnel network that connected many of the stations. Notations on the map suggest that the tunnels started falling into disrepair in the early 1980s, around the time the alleged "incident" occurred.

[edit] Station 2: The Arrow

The Arrow station is first seen in "The Other 48 Days". In "Because You Left", a flashback shows Chang doing the initial recording for the orientation film, where he explains that it is a station for monitoring "the Hostiles" and formulating strategies to combat them. He is interrupted before he can finish. In "The Man Behind the Curtain", flashbacks of the Dharma Initiative in operation on the Island show one of the members, Horace Goodspeed (Doug Hutchison), wearing a jumpsuit bearing the Arrow station logo with "mathematician" written below it.[5] When rediscovered in 2004, the word "quarantine" appears on the inside of the station's door.[14] . In LaFleur, when it seems conflict with the Hostiles/Others is immenent, Horace gives the order to notify the Arrow and to "Prepare the Ordinance", suggesting some sort of weapon system was also kept at the Arrow.

When the tail section survivors come across it in "The Other 48 Days", it has apparently been converted into a storage room.[15] Within, they find part of the Swan station's orientation film hidden inside a Bible, a radio, and a glass eye.[14] Producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof stated on a podcast that each object is significant, and not randomly chosen.[15] In "Live Together, Die Alone", Inman stated that it was Radzinski that made the edit to the Swan station film. How the film made it to the Arrow station (which is at least three days away) has not yet been revealed.

[edit] Station 3: The Swan

Dharma food, bearing the Swan logo

The Swan is a laboratory used by the Dharma Initiative for research on electromagnetism.[3] According to the feature "Access Granted" on the third season Blu-ray, Dharma drilled into the earth and hit an area containing a large electromagnetic buildup, which their drilling released. The Swan was built over this area to act as a cork. Dharma then came up with a scheme to "dam" the leak but with the drawback that the field built up behind the dam and would eventually break it. A failsafe key could be used to permanently "seal" the leak.[16]

On the station's orientation film, Doctor Marvin Candle explains that an "incident" occurred early in the station's experiments, and implies that unauthorized usage of the station's computer terminal had something to do with it. This event caused a consistent build-up of electromagnetic energy, which resulted in a change of the station's focus: a two-member crew, replaced every 540 days, were instructed to enter a numeric code into a microcomputer terminal every 108 minutes. The station is equipped with a split-flap display timer, which is interfaced to a microcomputer terminal and connected to an alarm system.[3]

The station is stocked with food, a record player with a collection of old LPs, a small library, an armory, a shower, and bunk beds. There is also a brand new washer/dryer and one of the books in the library is "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy, published in 1998. It is almost entirely underground, except for an entrance shaft and a concealed door. The station also has several internal blast doors, with a map in invisible ink on one of them.[17] This map is very old, and has been worked on by, at a minimum, Kelvin Inman and Radzinski. Analysis of the map suggests no less than five unique handwriting styles, and thus five different contributors. The map has direct revision dates on it, and as well as the obvious map entry, also seems to serve as some sort of history to happenings on the island, as there are many annotations that seem to suggest the writers were attempting to locate and ascertain the status of many stations on the Island. Kelvin Inman is seen writing in the lower right hand part of the map in "Live Together, Die Alone", near a revision dated for 6.26.2002.

In flashbacks in "Live Together, Die Alone", Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick) shipwrecks on the Island in 2001 and is taken to the Swan station. Here Kelvin Inman explains about entering the numeric code then pushing the button to save the world. In September 2004, Kelvin and Desmond get into a fight, resulting in Kelvin's death. Desmond enters the numbers too late, resulting in an electromagnetic build-up, which causes the crash of Oceanic Flight 815.[9] Two of the survivors, Locke (Terry O'Quinn) and Boone (Ian Somerhalder), discover the Swan accidentally.[18] Locke manages to successfully open it in the first season finale "Exodus".[19] Inside they find Desmond,[20] who flees after they break the computer.[3] The survivors manage to fix the computer, and begin pushing the button every 108 minutes.[3]

After discovering the Pearl orientation film, Locke believes pushing the button is a psychological test, and with Desmond's help decides to find out what will happen if the button is not pushed.[21] The data Locke collected from the Pearl convinces Desmond that the station is real, but Locke breaks the computer so he can't stop the countdown. This causes all the metal objects in the Swan to fly about, and the ground begins to shake. Realizing the importance of the button, Desmond turns the failsafe key. The sky turns violet temporarily, and the Swan is destroyed.[9] The electromagnetic burst released by the destruction of the Swan Station renders the island momentarily visible to the outside world. The energy signature is detected by a monitoring station under the control of Penelope Widmore, which reported to her that they had "found the island."

[edit] The Incident Room

In the video game Lost: Via Domus, the Incident Room is revealed to be on the other side of the concrete wall in the Swan. The room was accessed by a tunnel and a large locked door. The room contains a large reactor and other severely-damaged equipment. The reactor is tilted to one side and discharging electricity as well as coolant fluid. It has the appearance of two large electromagnetic coils suspended over an excavation hole into the Island. The Incident Room has its own computer much like the Swan's. This section of the Swan appeared on the blast door map as a blocked off section of the station ("Lockdown"), but was never seen in the show itself.

The Incident Room has been mentioned several times in Lost. Desmond mentioned that there was a magnetic reactor behind the concrete wall. When Sayid first visited the Swan he tried to find a way past the concrete wall, but it was just too thick to get through. Sayid told Jack that "The last time I heard of concrete being poured over everything in this way was Chernobyl," ("Everybody Hates Hugo").

The look and design for the "Incident Room" came from never before seen blueprints given to the developers by the Lost crew for the game. Although the game has been stated to be non-canon, the designs are the creators' intended layout for the blocked sections of the Swan station.

[edit] Station 4: The Flame

The Flame is the Dharma Initiative's communication station. It uses sonar and satellite technologies to communicate with the outside world and other stations on the Island, and can also be used to order food deliveries. Unlike the other stations, the Flame is not an underground bunker, but rather a wood-frame bungalow with a large satellite dish on the roof. Inside the station is a living area, a kitchen, and a computer room. Below the building is a large basement containing supplies, including a library of Dharma Initiative operations manuals.[8] The facility also boasts several gardens, as well as chickens roaming the area.

On the day Oceanic Flight 815 crashes on the Island, Mikhail Bakunin (Andrew Divoff) uses the station to access news feeds to gather information about the survivors. At Ben's request he alters one of the feeds to allow Juliet to see her sister and nephew alive and well off the Island.[22] At some point after this, communication off the Island is no longer possible, as the Looking Glass is blocking all signals.[23] In "Enter 77", Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly), Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews), and Locke discover the station. Locke uses the computer to send a message saying the Hostiles have invaded the station, and by doing so he intentionally destroys it by causing the C4 lining the basement to go off.[8]. In the episode's LaFleur and He's Our You, it is revealed that future Swan Station member Radzinski is stationed at the Flame by 1977 and he is designing via model the Swan Station.

[edit] Station 5: The Pearl

The Pearl is where the Dharma Initiative studied psychology. It primarily serves as a monitoring station, to which surveillance feeds from the other stations are sent. Its orientation film asserts that the Swan is a psychological experiment, and that the purpose of those stationed in the Pearl is to monitor the participants in that station. The station consists of a three-by-three bank of television sets, two chairs with writing surfaces, and a computer hooked to a printer. A pneumatic tube is installed in the room, which the orientation film states is used to transport notebooks to another Dharma location. According to the orientation film, two-person teams, working eight-hour shifts over a three-week period, were to watch the video displays and take notes on their observations. Every action, regardless of how subtle, were to be recorded into notebooks by the Pearl's team members.[21]

After Oceanic Flight 815 crashes on the Island, Nikki and Paulo (Kiele Sanchez and Rodrigo Santoro) are the first survivors to encounter the Pearl, while searching for diamonds.[24] Several weeks later, Locke and Mr. Eko (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) enter the Pearl and watch the orientation video. Locke believes this means pushing the button in the Swan is a psychological test, and resolves to discover what will happen if it is not pushed.[21] However, Desmond postulates in "Live Together, Die Alone" that the Pearl participants were the true test subjects without knowing it. Also in that episode, some of the survivors discover that the pneumatic tube goes nowhere, dumping all of the notebooks in an open field on the Island.[9] During season three, some of the survivors visit the Pearl in hope of finding a way to communicate with the Others, only to discover that the station is only capable of receiving data, not sending it.[25]

[edit] Station 6: The Orchid

Introduced in the three-part finale of the fourth season, "There's No Place Like Home", the Orchid station appears at first to be an abandoned greenhouse. Hidden below the greenhouse is a second level of the station, a furnished laboratory similar to the Swan station. The Orchid features a small chamber adjacent to an exotic matter anomaly, which can be used to warp time and space. An outtake from the orientation film was shown at the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con, where Pierre Chang explains that, contrary to Dharma's statements that the station was for botanical research, the station is used for researching a "Casimir effect" exhibited by the Island.[26] The producers have confirmed that the video is canon, and holds relevance to the show itself.[27]

Hidden behind the chamber is a further level of the Orchid which consists of pillars and stones with unknown hieroglyphs that have been seen in a few other places on the Island, and ends with a room consisting of a giant frozen wheel built horizontally into the wall.[28] As shown in "This Place is Death", the chamber was in place well before the construction of the Orchid. A well was connected to it at one point before the Orchid was built, but the chamber itself predates it. Ben and Locke enter the station and Ben travels to this room, where he turns the wheel. As he pushes it, the gap containing the wheel glows and the Island vanishes. Ben is transported to the Sahara desert as a consequence of using it.[29] As a result of turning the wheel, the survivors of Flight 815 and the freighter crew members begin to jump randomly through time. When Locke returns to the wheel in "This Place is Death", it is shown to be bouncing erratically and still glowing, indicating that Ben did not push it far enough (Christian Shepard comments that it "slipped off its axis.") Locke finishes the job, transporting himself off the Island to the same place Ben ended up. The time jumps also stop, leaving the survivors in the 1970s.

In a flashback in "Because You Left", Dr. Chang is called to investigate an incident at the Orchid. A construction worker is shown bleeding from his eyes and mouth, and six drill bits have been melted drilling into the future site of the chamber. Scans of the wall reveal the presence of another chamber with a wheel behind it. Chang refuses to use explosives to clear the wall, since it might release a limitless energy source. He believes that they will be able to control time if the energy can be harnessed properly. During this flashback, the Daniel Faraday of the present is shown to be working as a member of the construction crew for the Orchid, having been stranded in the past along with the other survivors by the time jumps caused by turning the wheel.

[edit] Station ?: The Hydra

The Hydra is a zoological research station located on a small island roughly two miles off-shore from the main island. It is described as being about twice the size of Alcatraz Island. The Hydra facility has cages outside the station in the jungle, where it is implied that polar bears used to be kept. An underwater complex was once used as an aquarium, which housed sharks and dolphins.[30] The facility also features living and research quarters.

At the start of season three, Jack, Kate, and Sawyer are held captive on the Hydra island by the Others. Kate and Sawyer are forced to build a runway, until they manage to escape.[31] In season two, a shark has the Dharma symbol branded on its tail. a leather collar bearing the Dharma Hydra symbol is found near a polar bear skeleton in the Tunisian desert.[32] In the fifth season, Ajira Airways Flight 316 makes a crash landing on the Hydra island, landing on the runway built by the Others.

[edit] Station ?: The Staff

The Staff is a medical research station, later designed to house pregnant women who were taken there to give birth and/or die.[33] It consists of a long corridor, at the end of which is an operating room, as well as a nursery and a locker room.[34] Hidden inside one of the lockers is a switch that unlocks a hidden vault that contains medical equipment and nursery furniture.[33] There is also another hidden room, where the Others take women who have become pregnant on the Island to die.[33]

After Claire Littleton (Emilie de Ravin) is kidnapped by the Others in season one, she is taken to the Staff station. Here she has a drug administered to her fetus. A renegade Other, Alex (Tania Raymonde), helps Claire to escape when she learns that they are planning to steal Claire's baby. When it is found by Claire and Kate later on, Kate discovers costumes, a fake beard, and some theatrical glue in the Staff locker room.[34] In season three, Sun-Hwa Kwon (Yunjin Kim) and Juliet Burke (Elizabeth Mitchell) visit the Staff station to perform an ultrasound to discover when Sun's baby was conceived.[33]

[edit] Station ?: The Looking Glass

The Looking Glass is located on the sea-bed at approximately 60 feet (18m) depth, some 600 feet (182m) from the beach. The station is used to jam communications going to and from the Island. The station receives power from the cable that Sayid discovered in the episode "Solitary". The station's logo is a rabbit, a reference to the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland (the sequel to which is Through the Looking-Glass). Its logo can be seen in the episode "Greatest Hits" when Charlie swims down to it. The Others were under the impression that the station was flooded. Only Ben knew that the station was still in operation and there were people working there.

In the season three finale, "Through The Looking Glass", Charlie Pace discovers that the rescue boat linked to Naomi, the parachute woman, was not set out by Desmond Hume's ex-girlfriend Penny Widmore. Charlie locks the door to the control room when Mikhail shatters the porthole window, subsequently flooding the room. This prevents Desmond from getting to Charlie, thereby fulfilling Desmond's latest "premonition" (Charlie was meant to drown in the control room after disabling the jamming equipment). He quickly writes "Not Penny's Boat" on his hand and shows Desmond through the glass on the door.

[edit] Station ?: The Tempest

The Tempest is a chemical weapons development station on the Island, first seen in the episode "The Other Woman". It is used to control the release of poisonous gases over the Island. Every day before his death, Goodwin would travel to The Tempest to press a button to prevent deadly gases from escaping. However, Ana Lucia killed him, so the gases built up. That is supposedly why Daniel and Charlotte travelled to The Tempest in "The Other Woman". They said they needed to press the button to save everyone, although they may have wanted to disable the station's gases to prevent Benjamin Linus from using the Tempest as a weapon of last resort against the Island's enemies.

[edit] Station 1: The Lamp Post

The Lamp Post is the only known off-island DHARMA station. It is located in Los Angeles under a church, built on top of a pocket of electromagnetic energy similar to that on the island. It is called the Lamp Post as a tribute to the lamp post which has become a symbol of the Chronicles of Narnia Series. It signifies the comings and goings between two worlds. This station was used by the DHARMA initiative to find the island. As the island is constantly moving, the researchers developed an equation to predict where the island would be in the future, thereby providing a window of opportunity to reach it. A large pendulum (resembling a Foucault Pendulum) hangs from the ceiling making chalk marks on a map on the floor beneath. Many computers surround the pendulum, along with a panel on the wall that marks latitude and longitude. Eloise Hawking is currently in charge of the station, and uses it to help the Oceanic 6 return to the island with the assistance of Ben Linus.

The inside of the station first appears in the second episode of season five, "The Lie", though no explanation of its purpose (or that it is, in fact, a DHARMA station) is revealed until the following episode, "316". The station's logo includes the traditional DHARMA octagon-shape with a picture of what appears to be a lamp post emitting light to either side, one of many references in the show to C.S. Lewis's classic novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. This picture can also refer to the pendulum within the station, due to the pointed tip in the picture.

[edit] Appearances in Lost

Station First seen in First visit (onscreen) Last seen in Name given in
Station 1: The Lamp Post "The Lie" (5.02) "316" (5.06) "316" (5.06) "316" (5.06)
Station 2: The Arrow "Everybody Hates Hugo" (2.04) "The Other 48 Days" (2.07) "The Other 48 Days" (2.07) "Lockdown" (2.17)
Station 3: The Swan "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues" (1.11) "Man of Science, Man of Faith" (2.01) "The Little Prince" (5.04) "Orientation" (2.03)
Station 4: The Flame "The Cost of Living" (3.05) "Enter 77" (3.11) "Namaste" (5.09) "Lockdown" (2.17)
Station 5: The Pearl "?" (2.21) "Exposé" (3.14) "Exposé" (3.14) "?" (2.21)
Station 6: The Orchid Comic Con orientation film and "There's No Place Like Home" (4.14) "There's No Place Like Home" (4.14) "This Place is Death" (5.05) Comic Con orientation film
Station ?: The Staff "Maternity Leave" (2.15) "Maternity Leave" (2.15) "Something Nice Back Home" (4.10) "Lockdown" (2.17)
Station ?: The Hydra "A Tale of Two Cities" (3.01) "A Tale of Two Cities" (3.01) "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham" (5.07) "A Tale of Two Cities" (3.01)
Station ?: The Looking Glass "Greatest Hits" (3.21) "Greatest Hits" (3.21) "Through the Looking Glass" (3.22) "Greatest Hits" (3.21)
Station ?: The Tempest "The Other Woman" (4.06) "The Other Woman" (4.06) "The Other Woman" (4.06) "The Other Woman" (4.06)

[edit] In popular culture

A Dharma-related Easter Egg in Half-Life 2: Episode 2.
A Dharma logo in Cloverfield.

In Half-Life 2: Episode Two, players can find an easter egg in the sixth chapter, "Our Mutual Fiend". In Uriah's lab, there is an inaccessible room containing a computer terminal with the numbers shown on the screen and a Dharma-style octagon with a pine tree symbol for the White Forest base on the wall. The room was inserted at the request of Gabe Newell, who promised to insert a reference to Lost in response to Half-Life references in Lost's first season.

In a scene of the U.S. version of The Office episode "Initiation," Dwight asks Ryan "What is the DHARMA initiative?" This can be seen on the season 3 DVD. He also asks this question to the character Andy in a deleted scene in the third season finale.

In the 2008 movie Cloverfield, which was produced by J.J. Abrams and the team that made Lost, a slight variation on the Dharma Initiative logo can briefly be seen in the opening of the movie. It is during the introduction of the film which states where the "video" about to be shown came from. It is only visible for a few frames on the lower right side of screen. It looks almost identical to the Pearl station logo.

At the end of the 90th issue of Ultimate X-men, a sign can be seen in the background advertising Oceanic Airlines. The sign reads: "Oceanic AIRLINES Taking you places you never imagined." On the bottom left of the page, there is a surprised citizen with a T-shirt bearing the band name "Driveshaft" on the back of it. On the panel before that, the building in the background reads "Widmore Industries".

In the Sholazar Basin area of Northrend in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion for World of Warcraft, a hatch is in the middle of an island(Coordinates 38/37) in a lake. If the player highlights the window of the hatch, the numbers "5 9 16 17 24 43" appear, each number being one higher than the actual Lost numbers.

[edit] References

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Lost
Production
Main characters
Ana Lucia • Ben • Boone • Charlie • Charlotte • Claire • Desmond • Faraday • Hurley • Jack • Jin • Juliet
Kate • Libby • Locke • Michael • Miles • Mr. Eko • Nikki and Paulo • Sawyer • Sayid • Shannon • Sun • Walt
Supporting characters
Alex • Bernard • Christian • Ethan • Keamy • Richard • Rose • Rousseau • Tom
Groups
Dharma Initiative • Hanso Foundation • Oceanic Airlines • The Others
Miscellaneous
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