Lost
Character Profile
Ben Linus
Flash Forwards

These flash forwards are presented in the order that they were viewed on the show. In parenthesis are numbers corresponding to the order that they flash forwards would appear chronologically for Ben’s life off the island.

Episode 4.03: The Economist
(6) Sayid is in a room while Ben looks at his wound. Ben tells Sayid that he was stupid to care for Elsa. “These people don’t deserve your sympathies. Need I remind you what they did the last time you thought with your heart instead of your gun?” Sayid says that Ben used it to recruit him into killing. Ben says, “You want to protect your friends or not, Sayid? I have another name for you.” Read more

Thanks to MPmom at the Fuselage for bringing up these connections between John Locke and Ben Linus!!

John

• Mother is Emily L.(Locke)
• Born early (3 months)
• Father issues - dad hates him
• Mother called out “Call him John!” as he was taken from the hospital room after she gave birth
• Meets Horace Goodspeed in a dream, who directs John how to find the cabin
• Kills his father to prove himself to The Others

Ben

• Mother is Emily L. (Linus)
• Born early (2 months
• Father issues, dad hates him
• Mother called out “Call him Benjamin” just before she dies
• Father meets Horace Goodspeed on the road, who later tells him about the island and Dharma
• Kills his father to prove himself to The Others

Lost
Character Profile
Ben Linus

Actor: Michael Emerson

On the Island: Ben was brought to the island as a child when his father came to work for Dharma.

Profession: Dharma employee. Later Ben was the leader of the Others

Prior to the Crash:

Ben was born prematurely while his father and mother were hiking in a forest in Oregon. His mother died during labor and her last words were to name the child, “Benjamin.”

Ben came to the island as a boy when his father, Roger, got a job working for Dharma. Ben’s father was an alcoholic who paid hardly any attention to Ben while he was a child, often forgetting his birthday.

Ben saw the Hostiles attack Dharma and that night he saw his mother outside.

Ben met another child, Annie, on the island. Annie became his friend and gave him a birthday present, a doll carved to be her. She also carved a doll to represent Ben. She kept the Ben doll and Ben kept the Annie doll. That night Ben wet home where his father was passed out on the couch. Roger woke and began saying that Ben killed his mother on his birthday. Ben ran off to the fence. His mother was there again but she told him it was not time yet.

Later Ben ran away from home and met Richard Alpert. After Ben said he wanted to join the Hostiles, Richard told him that it might be possible, but he had to be patient.
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