Maggie Grace as Shannon Rutherford
BEFORE THE CRASH
- Daddy's girl, age 20
- Ballet Instructor
- Mother died when she was young.
- Father got married to her step mother when she was eight.
- Step Mother, Sabrina Carlyle, cut her off after father's death when she was 18.
- Got a prestigeous internship in New York, but couldn't go because neither Boone nor Sabrina would give her some of her Dad's inheritence to fly across the country.
- Spent a year in Paris, France watching a kid named Laurent and drinking. Most likely this is the au pair job that was offered to her friend Nora in the ballet studio.
- Conned money out of her stepmom by faking abusive relationships in an attempt to get the money that was owed to her.
- Was possibly married, or this was a lie created by Boone at the jail in Sydney.
- Seduced her stepbrother Boone after her last boyfriend ran off with her cash
- Father, Adam Rutherford, killed in car accident where Sarah was the other driver, because Jack chose to save her instead.
ON THE ISLAND
- Refused to build camp at first, believing they'd be rescued
- Went on a jungle trek to proove to Boone that she wasn't useless.
- Translated cryptic French distress signal
- Suffered an asthma attack that threatened her life
- Helped Sayid translate the French writing on the maps he took from Danielle
- Fell for Sayid while helping with the maps
- Took Boone's death hard, blamed Locke for the death
- Watching Walt's dog Vincent for him while he was on the rescue raft
- Fell for Sayid but turned away when he refused to kill Locke in revenge for Boone, but they rekindle their relationship in Exodus.
- Sees visions of Walt in the jungle, where he speaks backwards to her.
- Is the second to know about the raft being destroyed, because Claire told her.
- Moves in with Sayid.
- Is determined to find Walt in the jungle.
- Sayid tells her that he believes in her and he loves her five seconds before she is murdered.
- Was accidentally murdered by Ana-Lucia Cortez.