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Intentions

• We have seen Juliet ask Ben to leave the Island several times, and this is the primary reason Jack gives for why he trusts her. However, this "truth" also seemed to be exploited by Ben (and Juliet) to gain the trust of the Losties. When Juliet is handcuffed to Kate and "punished" by the Others, these actions play off of her real or ficticious "outsider status" among the Others and build her credibility with the Losties so she can infiltrate their ranks and pass on information about them to Ben. However, it is unclear whether Juliet has any true allegiance to anyone beyond herself - siding with whoever gets her the best chance of leaving the island.

Actions

• What Juliet meant when she said that she's not used to death, was that unlike Jack who is a surgeon and deals with death on a daily basis, she was a fertility specialist who dealt with birth. Despite the deaths of all the women she has treated on the island, she still cannot get used to the idea of seeing someone die. Although she shot Picket three times with little remorse because she perceived him to be a threat, she was appalled when Sawyer shot Tom because Tom had been disarmed and was "helpless."
• Juliet was hesitant to help the survivors until Sun trusted her with her secrets. After that, Juliet decided to help them because she knows that if Sun stays on the island during her pregnancy, she will die.
• She is there to find a way for the Others to procreate, evidenced by their interest in children (such as baby Alex, Claire's baby Aaron, and Walt) and the lack of children at the Barracks, as well as Richard Alpert recruiting her to research a patient with an abnormal womb in "Not in Portland".
• She was present in the Staff station when Claire was being held.
  • She was preparing to "cut out" the baby from Claire's womb, as Alex told Claire in "Maternity Leave".
  • She was not actually planning to perform a Cesarean section (at least, as a first resort), but was going to try to save Claire just as with the past pregnancies.
    • She is not a surgeon, so it's very unlikely that she would be able to "cut out" the baby from Claire's womb.
      • Although not general surgeons, OBs are qualified to perform Ceseareans and other reproduction-related surgery.
• She has been trained in basic combat and weapons, as she shot Danny, knocked out Jack, and overpowered Kate with a martial arts move.
  • All the others receive combat training to protect the island in case of an attack its part of their initiation course.
• She has long since passed caring about the group hierarchy of the Others; all she wants, more than anything, is to escape from the Island.
  • In Tale of two Cities and The Cost of Living Juliet comments on free will and how it has disappeared on the Island.
  • Her desperation to escape from the Island has unhinged her. This explains her coldness and unpredictability.
  • She is cold and doesn't trust anyone because on the island all the people she has trusted have betrayed her or died. Her agenda is to get off the island at any cost.
    • She chose to be the last one off the island.
• Juliet is working to fix the fertilization problems of the women of the island.
• She may have been threatened by Ben with Rachel again—he may have forced her to try to be a mole against her will.
  • She may have her own plan within this—to go along with Ben's wishes, but actually work against him.

Ben and Juliet

• Juliet really hates Ben, that is confirmed by the end of "D.O.C.". But it is not clear if she is actually sympathetic to the Losties, or merely interested in leaving the island herself.
  • The fact that she waited to put herself on a rescue raft until last may imply that she is in fact concerned about the other Losties.
• Juliet may have secretly been attempting to lead a revolt against Ben. This may have been the purpose of the book club meeting that Ben was not invited to.
  • Ben let Goodwin die because he interfered with his plans, he's treating Juliet like his property and forces her to stay on the island. She had a lot of reasons to hate him even before the whole losties story. Now she just hates him even more.
  • She really cares about the Losties but she's being forced to go along with the Others or she'll never get off the island.
• Juliet ultimately wanted to save everyone by having Ben be killed by Jack. Assuming that Jacob resides somewhere on the mainland (or at least off of the island), killing Ben would effectively release Jacob's grasp on the Others and give them free access to the submarine. In this respect, Juliet could very well have rescued everyone, assuming that Jacob doesn't have some kind of failsafe in place for just this kind of situation (he more than likely does).
  • Juliet never meant to kill Ben. She knew from her interactions with Jack that he would never let a patient die. She simply wanted to gain his trust so that she could leave the island with him if the surgery was successful.
• Juliet's favorite book is Carrie. In the book, the principal of Carrie's school is named Henry Grayle. The fact that Juliet likes the book so much could be an allusion to her relationship with Ben, or how she identifies with Carrie. Carrie is an outcast in her "society" (high school), led by Henry Grayle. Juliet is something of an outcast in her society, which is led by "Henry Gale".

Juliet's video tape

See main article at: Juliet's tape/Theories

Name references

• Juliet's name may contain a number of allusions to the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
  • Like Juliet in the play, Juliet will fall in love with a man in an enemy clan (for example, Jack).
  • Moreover, Juliet could be the second love interest after the first was frustrated—Kate being akin to Rosaline, Romeo's first love interest.
    • Ben could also reference Paris; Juliet was supposed to marry Paris in the play and Ben brought Juliet to the island because he wanted her to be his.
  • In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet's mother became pregnant several times after she had Juliet. However, all these pregnancies ended in the child's death. This possibly explains why Juliet is a fertility doctor, and the difficulty for women on the island to maintain a healthy pregnancy.
• If the theory about Juliet leading the Hanso-loyal Others is true, then perhaps the "enemy clan" is the Mittelwerk-loyal Others, and Juliet and Ben's relationship united the two factions.
• Perhaps through some unexplained event in time, Jack and Juliet are Adam and Eve.
• Burke may be a reference to philosopher Edmund Burke, who wrote "Reflections on the Revolution in France".