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Connection to the Island

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• This website lists Ben as being born in the early '60s and Charlotte as born in '79. Charlotte could be Ben's child with Annie.
• Charlotte is the daughter of Annie and Ben. Ben was born in the early 1960s, Charlotte was born in 1979. Ben and Annie were around 17 or 18 when they accidentally got pregnant. Widmore took Annie off the island and Annie gave birth to Charlotte and two other girls in the future. This is why Ben adopted Alex, he felt like he was missing a daughter. This is also why he didn't want Alex and her boyfriend to get too close, he didn't want her to accidentally get pregnant and leave the island or die.
• There are others on the island that don't age normally, such as Alpert.
  • Charlotte is British and Annie had an American accent.
    • Plenty of people who move to another country as a young person end up adopting a native accent since one's accent develops more through the influence of peers and school than parents at home. There is also the possibility that she was raised by people other than her parents, who could have died in the purge.
• Charlotte is Ben's "man" on the boat (as well as Michael, he didn't know about her), originally she is part of the Dharma and the only way she could get back to island is if she did something for Ben so she could get on the freighter. When she gets on the island Ben knew that she was wearing a bulletproof vest so he made few shots pretending like he is trying to kill her to really distant himself from her in the eyes of Survivors.
• If the birthday Ben gave us is correct (1979) and she started school when she was 5 years old, following the normal path of education (K-12, 4 years of undergrad, 4 years (more, even) of graduate school), Charlotte would graduate with her Ph.D in 2005. So, either she is still in school (making Ben wrong about her having already gotten her Ph.D), or she skipped some grades in the middle somewhere. Or, it's just a production folly.
  • She went through the British University system (3 years Undergrad, 3 Years Postgrad), and so would have achieved her Ph.D in 2003
    • Not only that, but the British school system is different from the US. They go to what we would classify as grade school from 5 to 16, then A Levels after that for two years, then university.
    • Charlotte is the oldest of 3 sisters, but according to the information on this site, Libby is a good 12 years older than Charlotte. So the dates don't work. But for sure Libby is a close relative of someone we've seen, and we haven't learned her last name to hide this fact.
  • Both Charlotte Malkin's and Charlotte Lewis's accents are very broad, particularly the australian accent of Charlotte Malkin so this could be unlikely and they look quite different too.
  • This would work because she hasn't been there yet as she told Daniel that she was still looking for where she was born.
• She's the baby heard crying in the DHARMA booth video, seeing as how she's roughly 30 years old.
  • Except that Chang refers to taking "him" outside.

Role in the Naomi's group

• Charlotte is "special." She is associated with Abaddon, who found Locke and may be tasked with finding special people. When Abaddon defended his choices of Lapidus, Miles, Charlotte and Daniel to Naomi, he was insistent that these people be part of the mission. Like Locke, these people may have premonitions of their future. Charlotte may have had a premonition of the island, and understands that this is what Miles is referring to when he talks about her trying to find the island. Their premonitions may have made finding the island possible, and this was the reason Abaddon chose them.
• Charlotte is wearing a bullet-proof vest when Ben shoots her because Naomi used the secret phase, "Tell my sister I love her" as a precaution.
  • Ben was not present when Naomi referred to her sister.
• She is Naomi's sister. The secret phrase was for when a gun was held to your head. This was not the case. Naomi was said not to have a sister in order to maintain authority and to protect her sister in case of capture.
  • Having a "gun held to you head" is a euphemism, not actually requiring a gun pointed at the head.
• Was the second in command, and now that Naomi is dead, she was the leader of the Freighter Three. However, toward the end of "", Daniel seemed to be in the ascent. Eventually, with Daniel missing and Naomi dead, the Freighter group was no longer an entity.
  • She is the only one to whom a degrading nickname is not assigned by Naomi, showing respect.
  • None of the three men are shown to be good candidates for leaders. Daniel is scatterbrained, Miles is overly aggressive and self-serving, and Frank is considered a drunk--and may have only been hired as a pilot (whose only motive has to do with the fact that his buddy died flying Oceanic 815 instead of him).
  • Has practical field experience. Her flashback sets her up like an Indiana Jones/Lara Croft type scientist.
  • She is clever, as shown by her ability to sound convincing that she's not there to harm them, even when it is obvious that that is what Locke's group thinks.
    • Locke's group may, however, be wrong. Charlotte could be a "good person" caught up in Matthew Abaddon's grand scheme through her own curiosity, and may have genuinely believed that the plan was to rescue the survivors.
• She is actually Abaddon's boss, and is running everything - she is the Woman Behind the Curtain. This could also tie in with her being Ben's Annie and would help explain why Naomi didn't say anything degrading about her when talking to Abaddon.
• She is going to be very active in the study of the Island powers to bring in and send out things (e.g. the polar bears or Anthony Cooper).
• Charlotte was chosen by Abaddon to give her expertise on the island ruins and the Temple Inhabitants social structure. The producers have mentioned in podcasts that they did not make a big distinction between archeology and cultural anthropology in terms of the actual discipline divide in academia so we should assume she has expertise in both ancient ruins/languages and modern social organization. She will play a significant role in future episodes that deal with the Temple site on the island and will be able to understand and translate the ruin symbols.

Possible Allusions

• Charlotte Staples Lewis's name is very close to that of Clive Staples (C.S.) Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia. This is another hint that the island may be located in another dimension. Charlotte made her entry to the island by cutting her parachute cords and landing in a pool. This is similar to a scene in the novel The Magician's Nephew, in which entry to the other world of Narnia is gained by swimming through a magical pool of water.
  • C.S. Lewis wrote the book Prince Caspian, which tells the story of four people coming back to a faraway place they have been before--but is now changed from what it once was because time in that realm goes faster than it does in the 'real world'. They are summoned back by the call of someone in that land, step through time/space to return, and they work with the inhabitants to restore it. The four people on the helicopter may have all been on the island before. If this is true it's likely that they are connected with DHARMA- the island has changed because Ben let "the hostiles" take over, and now they're working to restore it by finding Ben.
    • Or everyone on the helicopter is connected to a certain group of people:
      • Daniel Faraday is a scientist, a likely connection to the DHARMA Initiative.
      • Charlotte Lewis is a anthropologist, and a likely candidate for a natives connection, or with the Hostiles
      • Frank Lapidus is a part of Oceanic Airlines, a clear connection to the Losties
      • Miles Straume is their connection to the people on The Black Rock or other possibly...
  • Additionally, in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the children travel to an alternate dimension and live for years--only to return to their old world and find that very little time has passed.