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This page will remain named "Henry Gale" until the real identity of Henry is disclosed

  • Portrayed by Michael Emerson
  • This is the given name of the man Sayid tortures in One of Them.
  • Henry Gale is not his real name, as revealed in Lockdown
    • In the grave where Jennifer Gale, his wife, was supposedly buried, was the corpse of an African-American man, with a Minnesota drivers license.
    • The name on the license was Henry Gale.
  • May be one of The Others
  • Henry Gale is also the name of Dorothy's uncle in the Wizard of Oz.
  • Seems to be good at manipulating people

BEFORE THE CRASH

(All this information is dependent on his telling his interrogators the truth.)

  • Claims he and his wife (he called her Jennifer, maiden name is Murphy) arrived by balloon.
  • Balloon stats, according to Gale:
    • 140 feet high, 60 feet wide
    • 550,000 cubic feet of helium
    • 100,000 cubic feet of hot air
    • Yellow smiley face on top
  • Went to University of Minnesota, where he met his wife
  • He is rich
  • Sold his non-metallic mining company
  • A fan of Stephen King.

This information has proved to be lies (except for liking Stephen King), possibly true about the real Henry Gale, a black man found where the imposter's "wife" was supposedly buried.

ON THE ISLAND

  • Captured by Danielle Rousseau, who also shoots him with a crossbow bolt.
  • Tortured by Sayid who suspects he is one of The Others.
  • Says he had a wife but doesn't wear a ring on his finger.
  • Said his wife died of a fever three weeks prior to One of Them. Possibly the sickness?
  • Claims to have buried his wife near the balloon.
  • When pressed for specific, evocative details of burying his wife, Gale unexpectedly expresses an intuitive empathy, asking Sayid if someone he was close to had died.
  • Says he lived in a cave for four (one of the Numbers) months -- a two day walk to where he was captured.
  • His story of what happened to him is very similar to what happened to Adam and Eve 50 years ago.
  • Henry can hear what goes on outside the gun vault where he is being held making him aware of anything that has occured in the room outside either through the door (which is hard to believe considering that it is a reinforced steel vault door) or through the air ducts, in the same way Kate was able to hear Desmond, Jack and Locke. However, he does not make an effort to draw attention when Mr. Eko came to the hatch. Even though Henry can hear what goes on outside the vault, Jack and Locke were unable to hear much of Ana Lucia's interrogation of Gale inside the vault.
  • Eko asks Gale for forgiveness for killing two of The Others his first night on the island. Eko apparantly believes Gale is one of the others.
  • Has begun an attempt to turn his captors against one another, namely Locke and Jack. He did this by giving Locke the feeling that Jack "calls the shots" and he is just playing along. Locke got angry enough about this to throw hatch inventory around, which might have caused Henry to smile (although the visual of Henry gave an unclear reaction).
  • Someone on the island refers to him as "my brother" in the Diary on the ABC website.
  • Draws a map to the balloon for Ana Lucia. Seemed hesitant to do so, for some reason.
  • We'll see the balloon in Lockdown, but it's not clear whether it's Henry's balloon or if he had just known that a balloon was on the island, and even if it was his, it still wouldn't prove that he is or isn't an Other. (Click for photo of the balloon).
  • Informs Jack and Locke that he gave Ana Lucia the map. Once they confirm that neither of them knew of the map, Henry seemingly antagonizes them by describing how vulnerable their fighting amongst themselves has caused them to be.
  • May be taunting them by saying how he would have sent Ana Lucia, Sayid and Charlie off into a desolate area and into a trap, if he was an Other.
  • Has stolen the identity of a man named Henry Gale
  • During the Canadian preview of next week's episode after Lockdown, Sayid threatens the fake Henry Gale with a gun. Henry yells "He'll kill me if I tell!" Sayid replies with "I'll kill you if you don't." Henry again yells "I'm not a bad person!" Perhaps this means The Others are being coerced into doing something they don't necessairly agree with by Him? -- This was shown in the US preview too, but you'd miss it if you blinked.

THE REAL HENRY GALE

Henry Gale MN License

The real Henry Gale's Minnesota Driver's License

  • Sayid digs up "supposed" body of Gale's wife at balloon crash grave site, but finds it to be a male bearing a Minnesota driver's license (apparently found during a search of the body by Sayid). License ID photo is of a Afro-American male.
HENRY GALE
815 WALNUT RIDGE ROAD
WAYZATA, MN 55391
Licence #   M152-996-431-000

Interesting facts about the license

  • It is an old version of the Minnesota license (the new version does not use the coding described below and went into production December 15, 2005). The old license uses a system where the first group of 4 characters are Soundex code for the surname of the driver, the second group of 3 are a code for the first name, the third group of 3 are a code for the middle initial. For Henry (no middle) Gale, this should be G400-303-000 (not M152-996-431). The last 3 digits are a coded month and day of birth and should never be 000.
  • The top line of a real license has boxes with various codes and dates. They should be from left to right:
[EYE COLOR][HEIGHT][WEIGHT][SEX][CLASS][ISSUED][EXPIRES MMDDYY]
[  BROWN? ][ 6-00?][ 220? ][ M ][ A1  ][  C4  ][      03      ]
  • The license shown by Sayid has the same boxes but the first 3 are not clear and the expires date is only 2 digits.
  • Under these boxes on the real license is a box with date of birth MMDDYYYY in red.
  • The license shown by Sayid shows a date MMDDYY but it is unclear. However, next to Henry's signature you can see 8/11/64 written in ink.
  • 55391 is a zip code in Wayzata, MN which is a suburb of Minneapolis.
  • Although there is no Walnut Ridge Road in Wayzata, MN, there is a Gale Road in Woodland, MN, which shares the 55391 zip code. A Google map search of 55391 will reveal Gale Road on the peninsula south of Wayzata on Lake Minnetonka.

Theories

  • Killed and used as an escape plan in case one of the others were ever captured.
  • The body may be one of the missing Tailenders, but Hurley should be able to verify this against the passenger manifest that was recovered in season one.

THEORIES

  • Henry Gale is an Other
    • He is able to draw a detailed and accurate map to the balloon with the losties beach camp as the starting point even though he was taken into the hatch while unconscious and has not been out since.
    • He was able to quickly memorize and rapidly repeat The_Numbers when Locke told them to him, as if he already knew them and wasn't memorizing them for the first time.
  • Henry Gale is Thomas's brother / Aaron's uncle. Supporting clues:
    • The actors portraying Thomas and Henry have markedly similar features (albeit different accents).
    • Henry's name is a reference to Dorothy's uncle in the Wizard of Oz.
    • Locke gives him The Brothers Karamazov to read, a tale of patricide and fraternal conflict (see Appearance of Literary Works).
    • "Thomas" comes from the Greek word "twin."
    • A Lost tie-in novel, "Bad Twin", is set to be published in May (around sweeps time). According to the publisher's description[1], the book is about a private detective looking into "the disappearance of one of a pair of twins, adult scions of a rich but tragedy-prone family." We know that Henry Gale is wealthy; perhaps he was looking for Thomas? Even more speculative, could their father be Alvar Hanso?
    • The mural in the bunker is similar to Thomas's artwork, suggesting a connection to the island.
    • Perhaps the show's writers are delaying the revelation of Henry's presence to Claire, who perhaps met him and could recognize him, until a later episode.
    • In the diary at the official Lost website, the fictitious author (who apparently lives among the plane survivors) refers to Henry as his "brother."
  • We know that the writers have used pseudonyms for characters sent from the others to infiltrate the Flight 815 camps. The Oceanic Air website used the anagram "other man" in a puzzle to identify Ethan Rom. Could Henry Gale also be an anagram? Here are a few examples of what the anagram could be:
    • Anagram of his name... Angry Heel
    • General Hy
    • Gen. Harley
  • Anagram of 'Henry Gale Minnesota'
    • See an Other man lying
    • See another man lying (variation of above anagram)
    • Insanely Hatemonger
  • Gale has attempted to start a feud between Locke and Jack by telling Locke he appears to be in Jack's shadow. Later, Locke got angry enough to throw hatch inventory around just outside the armory where Gale is being held.
  • Gale is the "he" that Zeke refers to when arguing with Ethan about the list. (Along this line, the Oz reference may be a hint that Gale is "the man behind the curtain".)
  • Henry Gale is an evil genius and the leader of the Others, which Mr. Eko somehow seems to sense as he apologizes to Gale for killing two others on his first night on the island.
  • Gale is an Other in training.
  • Henry Gale is Alvar Hanso. He looks a lot like the shadowy figure in the training video. Also the Hanso foundation is know to be involved in life extension. So while Alvar Hanso should be a lot older than Henry Gale, he may have been life extended. This might explain why he is so smart and good at manipulating Locke and Jack.
  • Gale is an Other, but he was taken and forced to join them against his will like Alex, Walt and some of the tail-enders. He seems willing to help and possibly defect to the castaways-- but only if they offer complete protection 'no matter what'.
  • May not have actually known who was buried in the grave. Told to use HG as a cover story. He seemed shocked that there was a man named Henry Gale buried in the grave.
  • Henry Gale is in fact Kelvin.
  • The real Henry Gale was indeed his "wife", in other words, his lover, in an emotional sense.
  • Could still be telling the truth, the grave and drivers license planted to discredit him. The preview for "Dave" however would seem to indicate that he is an Other.
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