- Played by Josh Holloway
BEFORE THE CRASH
- As a child, he watched his parents die in a murder/suicide after they were swindled out of their life savings by Sawyer, a confidence man who seduced his mother
- Became a con man himself and adopted the name and methods of the man he holds responsible for his parents' deaths
- Keeps a letter that he wrote as a child and hopes to one day deliver to the original Sawyer
- Obsessed with hunting down the original Sawyer for revenge
- Tricked into killing a man he thought was the original Sawyer, but was actually only a debtor to his informant
- Encountered Jack's father, Christian Shephard, in an Australian bar
- Deported from Australia for head-butting the Minister of Agriculture in a bar fight
- Seen in an Austrailian police station where Boone was trying to file a complaint
- While talking to fellow con Gordy in a diner, Sawyer is served by Kate's mom
ON THE ISLAND
- Hoards useful, salvageable goods to use as currency for trading
- Was thought to have Shannon's asthma medicine, which he did not
- Stubbornly allowed Sayid to torture him for information
- In Kate's words, he "wants to be hated" (i.e., he is filled with self-loathing over what he has become - a con man)
- Is the second member in his group to hear the whispers (see Sayid, Shannon)
- Carrying on a hot and heavy flirtation with Kate
- Bought his way onto raft with hoarded supplies
- Before leaving on the raft tells Jack about his encounter with Jack's father
- Shot by Walt's kidnappers, the Others during an incident on the raft
- Captured by the Tailenders after making it back to the island with Michael
- Fell unconcious when the Tailenders were walking back to the main camp, and was carried the rest of the way in a stretcher made by Michael and Mr. Eko
- Carries a note he wrote to Sawyer as a child, after the death of his parents
- See's Kate's horse
- Calls "Mr Friendly" Zeke, a name no one else has used at the end of The Hunting Party
- Convinces Charlie in taking part in his "Long Con", a plot to gain control of the guns from the Hatch
- The only one who knows the location of the guns
- Has a extreme hate for noisy tree frogs
- Kills a tree frog
- Knows about Hurley's stash of food