Richard Alpert
From LOST
| Richard Alpert | ||||
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| Name | Richard Alpert | |||
| Gender | Male | |||
| Country | Unknown | |||
| Occupation | One of The Others | |||
| Episode(s) | Not in Portland, The Man from Tallahassee, One of Us, The Brig, The Man Behind the Curtain, Greatest Hits, Through the Looking Glass, Cabin Fever, There's No Place Like Home - Part 1,There's No Place Like Home - Part 2, Because You Left | |||
| Played By | Nestor Carbonell | |||
Richard is a member of The Others, the native inhabitants of the island, living on it before the DHARMA Initiative came. The group he belongs to is dubbed the 'hostiles' by the DHARMA Initiative.
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[edit] On-Island Life
[edit] Season 5 (1954)
Alpert was leading some of the Others at this time period (Richard claimed he answers to someone else but did not specify whom that was) when a US military detachment of 18 soldiers landed on the island with a hydrogen bomb. Alpert asked the troops to leave the island peacefully; when they refused, Alpert was "forced" to kill them. Upon being asked by Daniel who told him to kill the troops, Alpert merely hinted that someone higher in his chain of command gave the order. The Others capture Faraday, Miles and Charlotte in the jungle after the third "skip" through time to 1954. (Jughead)
Alpert is under the mistaken impression that the three were sent by the military to retrieve the bomb, a misconception Faraday goes along with in order to gain access to the bomb and repair a crack in the casing. Alpert reluctantly allows Faraday to see the bomb after Faraday professes his love for Charlotte as a way of proving he does not intend to detonate the bomb. A short time later, a member of the Others who had encountered Juliet, Sawyer and Locke in the jungle arrives and informs Alpert of their presence. (Jughead)
Locke enters the camp shortly afterwards and asks to speak to Alpert to continue a conversation the two will have in the future. Alpert is initially distrustful of Locke until Locke claims Jacob, the Others' leader, sent him, and gives Alpert a compass that Alpert himself gave Locke in the future. Alpert then unknowingly reveals to Locke that the name of the young Other is Charles Widmore, the man who will send a freighter with violent mercenaries to the island in 50 years, but Locke keeps quiet about this knowledge and asks for information on how to leave the island. He tells a reluctant Alpert that if he is suspicious of Locke's claims of time travel, Alpert should visit Locke's birthplace in two years for proof. The island then jumps through time again before Alpert can tell Locke how to leave the island.(Jughead)
[edit] Off-Island Life
[edit] Season 4 (1956-1972)
Richard Alpert is seen by John Locke's grandmother on the first day that John is allowed to be removed from the incubator. Richard and John meet 5 years later, Alpert claiming to represent a school for children deemed to be special. Alpert administered a test to John, presenting him with several items, asking him which of the items already belonged to him. John "incorrectly" chose the knife, and Alpert hurriedly rushed out the door. Eleven years later, Alpert once again attempted to recruit John, contacting his high school science teacher, Mr. Gellert, informing him of a Mittelos summer camp; however, Locke refused the offer. (Cabin Fever)
[edit] On-Island Life
[edit] Season 3 (1973)
Around the mid-1970s, Alpert encountered a young Benjamin Linus as a child in the jungle. In this appearance, Alpert was wearing dirty clothes with long, unkempt hair. Ben expressed a desire to run away from his father, a member of the scientific research group called the DHARMA Initiative, and join the Others. Alpert realized Ben was special when Ben said he saw his deceased mother in the jungle. Alpert said that Ben could eventually join him, but it would take patience. (The Man Behind the Curtain)
[edit] Season 5 (1974-1977)
In 1974, Richard would enter the DHARMA Initiative's Barracks facility and demand from Horace Goodspeed, the whereabouts of two members of the Hostile's that he believed were killed by the DHARMA Initiative. Richard at first is very aggressive in his demeanor, but that changes after he talks with Sawyer who semi-bluffs Richard with the previous encounter he had with Locke back in the 1950's. (LaFleur)
[edit] Season 3 (1992)
As an adult on December 19, 1992, Ben sabotages the Initiative, allowing the native inhabitants to attack by shutting down the ultrasonic fence surrounding the Barracks. After Ben kills his father, he heads back to the Barracks, where Richard and the other natives have arrived, as all of the true members of the DHARMA Initiative lay dead from a poison gas attack. (The Man Behind the Curtain)
[edit] Off-Island Life
[edit] Season 3 (2001)
Richard Alpert appears as a recruiter for a Mittelos BioScience, a fertility research facility in Portland, Oregon attempting to recruit Juliet Burke. Alpert attempts to convince Juliet to take a position at Mittelos, but she refuses, joking that she could only accept his offer if her ex-husband Edmund were "hit by a bus." Soon after, Edmund is fatally struck by a bus, and mere seconds after Juliet has identified Edmund's body, Alpert appears in the morgue with Ethan Rom to press his case yet again. Alpert denies responsibility for Edmund's death, but admits that his company's facility is "not exactly in Portland." (Not in Portland)
[edit] On-Island Life
[edit] Season 3 (2004)
Ben asks him to "fetch the man from Tallahassee" for Locke to see. He is present when Locke is shown the imprisoned man, who turns out to be Locke's father Anthony Cooper. (The Man from Tallahassee)
After Locke refuses to kill his father at Ben's request, Richard approaches Locke and explains to him that Ben knew he would not kill his father, and was just trying to embarrass him in front of the Others. Alpert claims that Ben is jealous of Locke because of Locke's recovery from paralysis and questions Ben's leadership, saying that Ben is wasting time with his work on pregnant women and that Locke's healing is an example of other, more important reasons they are working on the island. He tells Locke his father has to go and suggests Locke get Sawyer to do it, since Sawyer also has a connection to Cooper (Alpert gives Locke a file on Sawyer, which reveals Cooper to be the man who conned Sawyer's mother, precipitating Sawyer's parents' murder-suicide). (The Brig)
Richard's discontent with Ben festers, as he warns Ben that the Others are suspicious of him and could misconstrue his departure to meet with Jack's coalition of refugees. Ben orders Richard to escort the remaining members left to the Temple. Though his conversations with Mikhail and Tom were not shown in any particular detail, both characters shared a similar skepticism of Ben and his motives, although Mikhail ultimately remained loyal and carried out Ben's orders to kill Charlie, Greta, and Bonnie in the Looking Glass station. (Greatest Hits) / (Through the Looking Glass)
[edit] Season 4 (2004)
Richard, and the remaining members of the Others traveling with him, encounter Kate and Sayid in the jungle, confiscate their weapons, and take them prisoner. (There's No Place Like Home - Part 1)
Alpert next reappeared to "capture" Kate and Sayid while the two were in the jungle looking for Jack and Sawyer. However, their capture was really part of a plan to rescue Ben from Martin Keamy, which was successful. Alpert shot Keamy several times in the ensuing rescue, but Keamy survived due to a bulletproof vest. Ben then ventured to a DHARMA station called the Orchid and "moved" the island by turning a large wheel; this action caused the island to begin skipping through time like a broken record. (There's No Place Like Home - Part 2)
[edit] Season 5 (Post-2007)
Alpert found a wounded Locke in the jungle and treated him, giving Locke the compass that Locke would give Alpert himself in 1954, and telling Locke that the only way to save the island was to get the Oceanic Six, six survivors who left the island, to return. When Locke asked how he could do this, Alpert responded that Locke would have to die. (Because You Left)
