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Sawyer	LE-pokolieden	2007.10.02. 19:58
James Ford, better known by the alias "Sawyer", is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Josh Holloway. Sawyer is portrayed as a conniving, overly sarcastic flirt who keeps stashes of washed ashore items. His flashbacks typically depict a more sensitive side to him. Sawyer was born in Jasper, Alabama in 1969 as James Ford. At a young age, James' parents were conned by a man under the alias of "Sawyer"; as a result, his father killed both his mother and himself. James claims to have dropped out of high school, but has a "high school transcript." James vows to avenge his parents' deaths by searching for the original Sawyer, but finds himself in financial difficulty; he adopts the profession and alias of the man responsible for his parents' death, and uses his looks and charm to seduce women and divide families. His favorite con would be to wake up next to his victim and pretend to be late for an important meeting; as he rushes to get ready, his briefcase will spill open, revealing large bundles of fake cash that the woman "wasn't supposed to see," and uses her interest as a means of getting her or her rich spouse to invest in a large, but fake, business deal. On one occasion, he carries out this con up until he sees that the targeted couple has a child, and bails on the deal in order to spare the child the same torment that he went through. On another occasion, Sawyer carries out the same con on a divorced woman named Cassidy; however, she sees through his con the moment the briefcase falls open, mentioning that she didn't get a large settlement from the divorce. Instead, she asks him to teach her his profession. After learning a few basic tricks, Sawyer is soon asked by Cassidy to pull off a "long con," revealing that she actually received $600,000 from her ex-husband. While visiting the diner of Kate's mother, Sawyer is forced to resume his con on Cassidy, even when he considers stopping. Sawyer returns to Cassidy and tells her to run, giving her a bag full of money. He reveals that he knew about her settlement and that a car is waiting outside; he will be killed if he doesn't bring the money to the car. As Cassidy takes off with the bag of fake money, Sawyer enters the house with the real money and deposits it for his partner to collect. Cassidy presses charges against Sawyer for conning her, and is sent to prison. Cassidy visits him and informs him that she has since given birth to a girl named Clementine. While in prison, Sawyer befriends a man named Munson, who was sentenced for a white-collar crime. He cons him into revealing where Munson hid the money that he stole; as a result, Sawyer's sentence is cut short, and the money he receives is deposited in an anonymous bank account for Clementine by his request. Later, as Sawyer is seducing another woman, his partner informs him of the whereabouts of the original Sawyer who conned his parents. Sawyer travels to Australia to confront the man, and shoots him. Before he dies, Sawyer realizes that his partner had conned him into killing someone who owed money to an important person. Sawyer also encounters and drinks with Christian Shephard at a bar. While still in Australia, Sawyer is arrested, at the same station visited by Boone, for assaulting Warren Truss during a bar fight. As a result, Sawyer is deported from Australia and banned from returning; he leaves on board Oceanic Flight 815, his seat number being 15D. Season One Sawyer's "hut" Sawyer's "hut" Upon landing on the island, Sawyer almost instantly clashes with the other survivors. He initially accuses Sayid of being the terrorist that caused the crash. Despite this, he joins him, along with Kate, Charlie, Boone and Shannon on a hike to send out a distress signal. Upon returning, Sawyer searches the plane wreck for anything and everything he can find and keeps them for himself, causing the other survivors to bargain with him for items. He and Jack clash over the attention of Kate on regular intervals. After Jack is caught in a cave-in, Sawyer locates Kate in the jungle and eventually informs her. When Shannon experiences asthma attacks, Sawyer is immediately under suspicion of possessing her inhalers after Boone sees him with one of his belongings. After being interrogated by Sayid, he tells Kate that he doesn't have them, causing an enraged Sayid to stab him in the arm. He is then confronted by Kate regarding his selfish actions, and tells him to change his ways by cooperating more with the survivors, to which he reluctantly carries out. In the jungle, Sawyer and Kate discover a case, carried on the plane by the Marshall, and the two constantly fight over its ownership, until Jack hides it in the jungle. Soon after, Sawyer becomes constantly harrassed by a boar, and seeks Kate's help in finding it. Upon cornering it, however, Sawyer decides to let it go. After learning about Michael's plan to build a raft, Sawyer asks for a place on board, to which he is granted. However, after it becomes burned (later revealed to be Walt), Sawyer and Michael blame Jin, and Sawyer takes him to the beach to be beaten. Once the matter is solved, Sawyer experiences headaches and, after consulting Jack, is prescribed reading glasses, made from pairs found in the wreckage. His voice also calms the new-born of survivor Claire. The day before the raft sets sail, Sawyer and Kate clash once more, this time over his place on the raft. While Kate placed a good argument, Sawyer revealed her past life as a criminal to the survivors, securing his space on the raft. The next day, Sawyer, Michael, Walt and Jin set sail on the raft. When a piece of the raft breaks off, Sawyer is the first in the water to retrieve and re-attach it. He also begins reading through the survivors' personal messages, which are kept in a bottle. That night, they encounter a small boat and begin celebrating their rescue. However, they soon reveal themselves as the Others, and demand they hand over Walt. Sawyer is shot in the shoulder before the raft is destroyed by the Others, who leave with Walt. Season Two Sawyer and Michael are stranded at sea with the wreckage of the raft. Sawyer removes the bullet from his shoulder prior to arriving back on the island, encountering the tail section survivors from the plane and being thrown into a pit. Once the mishap is cleared, Sawyer, Michael and Jin are released and forced into leading them to the fuselage camp. Throughout the journey, Sawyer constantly clashes with leader Ana Lucia, until he passes out from his bullet wound. He is then carried via hand-made stretcher until the death of Shannon, where he is carried by Mr. Eko into the hatch. He is cared for by Kate, until her father, Wayne, is channeled through Sawyer. Upon recovering, Sawyer reluctantly must seek Jack's medical expertise on a regular basis. On one such occasion, Sawyer releases Jack and Locke from the armory after Michael locks them in to search for Walt alone. Sawyer agrees to join them as they follow, only to encounter the Others. After revealing to have Kate held hostage, Sawyer, Jack and Locke reluctantly hand over their guns for her safety. Unlike Jack, Sawyer sympathizes with Kate's actions. Soon after, Sawyer sets up a long con, with the help of Charlie, in order to gain possession of the camp's entire firearms and medicine, using Sun as a victim of a faked abduction attempt. Upon succeeding this feat, Sawyer is challenged by Jack to a game of poker with the medicine as the prize, to which Sawyer loses. Sawyer later gives Sun a pregnancy test upon request, and proceeds to inform Bernard and Jin about her suspected pregnancy. Sawyer also uses his possession of the medicine to his advantage, and mocks Hurley when he admits to seeing things, only for his tirade to backfire. He also refuses to help Bernard create an S.O.S. sign on the beach. He is soon confronted by Ana Lucia, demanding she give him a gun. She seduces him, and steals his own gun from him. Upon learning of this, Sawyer, along with Jack, Locke and Kate, heads for the hatch, where they discover Michael and Libby critically injured and Ana Lucia already dead. Michael asks Sawyer to go with him to the Others' camp, to which he agrees. After the funeral of Ana Lucia and Libby, Sawyer joins Michael, Jack, Kate and Hurley on the trek, where they are suddenly ambushed by the Others, tied up and taken to a pier. While Michael (along with Walt) leave the island, and Hurley released, Sawyer is taken away by the Others, along with Jack and Kate. Season Three Sawyer wakes to find himself locked in a cage, with Karl opposite in the same scenario. After a failed escape attempt, Karl is soon replaced with Kate, and the two are forced to work for the Others, under the watchful eye of Pickett, to which he takes an instant disliking to Sawyer. After planning against the Others, Ben cons Sawyer into thinking he has a rigged pacemaker that will kill him if his pulse reaches a certain rate, in a successful attempt to stop him leaving the island. Ben shows Sawyer that they are on a separate island from their own. After the death of Colleen, Pickett takes his anger out on Sawyer to the point of attempting to kill him in front of Kate. Sawyer is spared when Jack radios him and informs him of Ben's condition. Sawyer overpowers Pickett, locks him in the cage and escapes with Kate. They encounter Alex, who gives them her boat in exchange for rescuing a brainwashed Karl from his cell. Just as they are about to leave, Pickett holds them all at gunpoint on the beach. Juliet kills Pickett and allows Sawyer, Kate and Karl to leave. Upon arriving on the main island, Sawyer decides to release Karl. He and Kate are still at odds over Jack's well-being, and Sawyer refuses to go back for him. Upon returning to the beach, Sawyer helps Hurley with the van discovered in the jungle, along with Jin and Charlie. Later, he challenges Hurley to a game of ping-pong, with his stash as the prize. Since Sawyer loses the game, his forfeit is to refrain from using nicknames when addressing his fellow survivors, to which he struggles with greatly. The next day, he involves himself in the apparent deaths of, in his opinion, unfamiliar survivors Nikki and Paulo, to which he is initially accused of killing them when he discovers the diamonds that Nikki buried prior to her paralysis. Sawyer and Hurley bury the two, ignoring the fact that Nikki has since opened her eyes at the last minute. Minutes later, Hurley tricks Sawyer into serving as the camp's new leader. That night, Sawyer welcomes the return of Jack, Kate and Sayid, but scorns Juliet's presence. He and Sayid follow Juliet into the jungle to interrogate her, until he is reminded that Claire's life is at stake, to which they let her go. Later, Sawyer is lured into the jungle by Locke, who leads him to the Black Rock. Once there, Sawyer is locked in a room with Anthony Cooper. During their heated conversation, Anthony reveals that he is the man responsible for his parents' deaths. After an insult too far, Sawyer strangles Anthony to death with the chains he is bound to. Locke then frees him and tells Sawyer that Juliet is serving as a mole for the Others, handing him her dictophone. Sawyer returns to the beach to inform Sayid and Kate. The camp hold a group meeting regarding their trust in Jack and Juliet, to which they walk in on. After learning about their true intentions, Sawyer prepares to leave the beach and head to the radio tower, when Karl arrives and warns them of the Others' imminent arrival later that night. The next day, after witnessing the backfire of their own plan, Sawyer and Juliet return to the beach, where Sayid, Jin and Bernard are held hostage. After Hurley arrives and kills one of the three Others, Sawyer shoots and kills Tom in cold blood. Sawyer claims that it was payback for kidnapping Walt, and he didn't believe Tom's initial surrender. Sawyer's quick wit and sarcasm rely heavily on popular culture, giving nicknames to many of his fellow castaways. While his nicknames for female characters, such as Sunshine, Freckles, Mamacita, Betty, Dimples and so on, are generally endearments, his nicknames for men are usually derogatory. He calls several of the men on the island "Hoss" and generally calls Hurley by names that indicate his weight, such as "Stay-Puft", "Jabba", "Lardo", "Avalanche" and most recently "Jumbotron" and "International House of Pancakes". During the period where he was forbidden from using nicknames, Sawyer still managed to insult Hurley's weight - when Charlie and Hurley are looking after Aaron, Sawyer quips, "Well, if it ain't three men and a baby. I counted Hurley twice." He has also called Sayid, "Al Jazeera", referring to the middle-eastern news broadcasting company. The nickname he uses most often is the affectionate "Freckles" for Kate. Sawyer refers to Sun as Tokyo Rose, which could be viewed as derogatory because Sun and Jin are both from Korea - it could be an honest mistake that Sawyer thinks they are from Japan yet he has already proved to Jack that he knows his geography when he makes a reference to Thailand. He also refers to Jin as "Mr. Miyagi" in one episode, a reference to Karate Kid. Many references are made to Star Wars, for example calling Michael and Jin "Han" and "Chewie". Several nicknames have been compiled in one of the extras of the season 2 DVD, entitled The World According to Sawyer. # The character of Sawyer was originally meant to be a slick, suit-wearing city con man from Buffalo, New York. However, when Josh Holloway forgot a line at his audition and (ad-libbing) subsequently kicked a chair across the room in frustration and loudly swore, the writers liked the edge he brought to the Sawyer character and decided to write Sawyer as more of a Southern, edgy con man instead.[1] # Matthew Fox originally auditioned for the parts of both Jack and Sawyer. Jorge Garcia and Dominic Monaghan read Sawyer sides when they came in to audition because there was no existing script for their characters. Tov�bb…

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