Post by Jack on Dec 16, 2006 4:22:30 GMT -5
James Ford:
OUTSIDE
Born in 1969, James Ford is originally from Tennessee, and carries himself with swaggering confidence. At the age of eight, James' parents were swindled out of their life savings by a man known as Sawyer, who slept with James' mother. James ultimately witnessed his father murder his mother, and finally turn the gun on himself in despair. James wrote a letter to the con man, hoping to deliver it to him personally. It is unknown who took custody of James after this; seeing as the only relative of his we know of was his uncle, who died of a brain tumor.
Having dropped out of school in the ninth grade, James became a confidence man himself at the age of 19. A time came when James owed some men $6,000. He attempts to use the same confidence trick as his nemesis in order to obtain the money needed. Finally, Ford adopts the name of the man responsible for the death of his parents. He was persistent in tracking down the original Sawyer in order to have his vengeance, and to give him the letter he wrote as a child. Despite his vendetta against Sawyer, James has become the very man he has been hunting.
Sawyer later employed his earlier con on a woman named Jessica and her husband, David. James tried to swindle the couple out of $160,000. However, after looking into the eyes of his marks' son, Sawyer abruptly decides to call off the deal. He also had a relationship with Mary Jo, the woman who read out Hurley's lottery numbers.
Sawyer would later take on a woman named Cassidy as an apprentice, but this was actually part of a con to steal a small fortune from her. He seemed genuinely fond of Cassidy, and for a while appeared reluctant to go through with the scam. However his partner in the con forced his hand by threatened Cass's life. It is unclear whether he actually loved her or not, yet he stole the money anyway. In response to this betrayal, Cassidy gave Sawyer up to the authorities, and he received a prison sentence of approximately 7 years. About nine months into his sentence, he was visited by Cassidy, who claimed that she had given birth to a daughter called Clementine, and that Sawyer was the father. In betraying a fellow prisoner, Munson, Sawyer managed to bargain away the last six years of his sentence with the authorities by telling them where Munson had hidden stolen money. Sawyer was also given a "commission" for his part in the con, and asked for it to be placed in Clementine's name, and in a way that she could never know who had given her the money.
Along with a partner, Hibbs, Sawyer participated in the Tampa Job, which by accounts did not turn out well for him. Hibbs later approached Sawyer, saying he was trying to make up for his part in the botched job. He told Sawyer that the original Sawyer was in fact named Frank Duckett, and that he lived in Sydney, Australia. Blinded by his rage, Sawyer traveled to Oceana in search of Duckett. While there, Sawyer visited a bar and met with Christian Shephard. Christian told Sawyer about the situation with his son, Jack, and encouraged him to finish the business he had intended to do. With this in mind, Sawyer finally meets Duckett. However, upon shooting him, he realizes Duckett is not the real Sawyer. Hibbs has once again tricked Sawyer, making him a common mercenary after Duckett had offended Hibbs previously. Duckett reveals his innocence to Sawyer and makes the ambiguous statement: "It'll come back around..." with his dying breaths. Reeling from the reality that he has murdered an innocent man, Sawyer runs.
Sawyer was later arrested for head butting the Australian Minister of Agriculture in a bar fight, and is ordered to be deported back to America on Oceanic Flight 815, with the words that he can never return to Australia again.
Sawyer is left-handed, he writes and shoots with his left hand.
SEASON ONE
After crashing on the island, Sawyer's drifter instincts took over, with him hoarding anything salvageable from the wreckage that he could possibly use as currency. This included stealing from the luggage compartments, as well as the wallets or belonging of the corpses in the fuselage, giving him a shady reputation to the rest of the survivors. However, Sawyer soon got bored of keeping to himself, and accompanied the group of survivors heading for higher ground (in order to use the radio transmitter). It was here that he first got to know Kate well, and also showed everyone that he was a bad element in the survivors' group, shooting a polar bear and revealing that he had stolen a firearm from the US Marshal.
Sawyer's stubborn and cocky attitude was epitomized soon after the crash, when Shannon, Jack, and the rest of the group were convinced that he had stolen the young woman's asthma inhaler. His refusal to explicitly tell them the truth led to Jack and Sayid torturing him, only to learn that Sawyer never had the medicine in the first place, instead letting everyone jump to their conclusions about his bad nature.
Kate and Sawyer's relationship soon becomes more intense, after Kate finds the letter Sawyer wrote as a boy to the man who conned his parents. In addition, whilst hunting a boar that ransacked Sawyer's tent, the pair play a notable game of "I never", in which Sawyer admits a number of both significant and trivial points about his past. The following day, the two find the boar they had been hunting, but at the last moment Sawyer decides to spare the animal's life, as it reminds him of the man he killed in Sydney. The same day, the two also hear whispers in the jungle, supporting Sayid's account of a similar experience, and suggesting that they may not be alone on the island.
Sawyer furthermore showed an odd passion for reading literature on the island, but soon after began experiencing headaches. Coming to his aid, Jack realized he was farsighted, and gave him a pair of glasses welded together to match his prescription. Though the two seemed to be helping each other, both Sawyer and Jack still had an ongoing rivalry, particularly around Kate, who both seemed to have an interest in.
When Michael built his raft to attempt to find rescue, Sawyer bought his way on board, using his essential stolen supplies. However, Kate attempted to steal "his spot", and in retaliation Sawyer exposes that Kate is a fugitive to the entire group, causing a strong level of animosity between the two. Before leaving on the raft, Sawyer also tells Jack that he had actually met his father in Sydney before he died, which seemed to mend some of the rivalry between the two men. Whilst on the raft, Sawyer witnessed the attack by the Others, and when trying to stop them from taking Walt, was shot in the shoulder, knocking him overboard. As he scrambles in the water, the raft is destroyed by a Molotov.
SEASON TWO
Whilst Jin seemingly vanishes, Sawyer and Michael manage to grab onto the raft's wreckage. During their time adrift, Sawyer saves Michael with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation (but never tells him), and later pulls the bullet out of his arm with his bare hand. Sawyer and Michael are slowly pulled back to the island by the tides (and upon this realization, Sawyer quips "Home sweet home"). Here, they find their missing friend, but discover he is being chased by a group of unknown individuals. Soon, however, it becomes apparent that they are actually fellow survivors from the tail section of the passenger plane and the group lead the new arrivals to their current home in the Arrow station. As the group trek across the island back to the main camp, Sawyer's condition due to the gunshot wound worsens, prompting the islanders to build a stretcher to carry him on.
Back at camp, Sawyer was angered at Jack, who stole some of his supplies. He warned Jack about taking his things, but when Jack ignored him, the con man hatched a plan to exact his vengeance. With the help of Charlie, Sawyer staged an elaborate plan where he managed to deceive everyone in the group that firstly the Others were attacking, and second that Jack and Ana-Lucia were preparing to hand out guns for an army. The deception allowed Sawyer a chance to steal all the guns and medicine housed in the Swan station armory, objects he knew that under his control would infuriate Jack. However, Jack managed to get the medicine back after both defeating and humiliating Sawyer in a game of poker.
Sawyer also gave up a number of his guns to fellow survivors. For instance, he gave Kate a gun to take with her on her trip to find the medical station. In addition, Ana-Lucia also managed to steal a gun from Sawyer, right after the two had sex in the jungle. This led to Michael using the gun to shoot both Ana and Libby, leading to Sawyer feeling remorse over their loss, as well as giving up the location of the rest of his guns and medicine to Jack, as Libby was in need of the heroin for pain relief.
Among the names on the list of people Michael was instructed to bring to the Others was Sawyer, and he was convinced to join Michael and the others on their mission to find Walt. As they traveled, however, they were ambushed and taken to the Pala Ferry by the Others. With Hurley allowed to go free, the love triangle of Jack, Kate and Sawyer were kidnapped by the mysterious indigenous group.
SEASON THREE
A day later, Sawyer awoke in a cage at the Hydra station with his arm bandaged. Here, he and Kate were made to work in a rock quarry. During this time, Sawyer decided to rebel against his captors, and passionately kissed Kate before suffering at the hands of Pickett and his group of Others. Whilst Sawyer maintains this was done to test the Others as a group, a connection between himself and Kate is clearly visible. As the two discuss their options and escape plans, unbeknownst to them they are being monitored remotely by Ben and the Others.
Sawyer plans an escape by using the electric shock from the behavioral conditioning device in his cage to shock the next person that comes for him. Ben is the one to come, but Sawyer's plan fails because they turned off the electricity, likely because his plan was heard over the monitor. He is beaten and taken into the station where the Others inject something into his heart. When he wakes up, Ben informs him that he's been outfitted with a pacemaker that will explode his heart if his heart rate goes too high, so now they know that he'll behave. He is told that if he tells Kate what has happened, they'll do the same thing to her.
Sawyer's drastic change in behavior causes Kate to worry. Pickett comes into his cage beating him severely because of Colleen's death. He demands of Kate if he loves Sawyer, and continues to bloody his face until she finally breaks down and exclaims that she does. Kate learns she can escape her cage, so Sawyer tells her to run and save herself if she really loves him. She says that she only claimed to love him so Pickett would stop hitting him, and she climbs back in her cage.
Later, Ben and some Others take Sawyer on a hike in order to show him something. On the way, Ben reveals that nothing has been done to Sawyer's heart, that it was a ruse to trick him. Ben says that the only way to gain the respect of a con man is to con him, and claims to be much better at conning than Sawyer. At the top of the mountain, Ben shows Sawyer that they are on an island separate from the island on which their plane crashed -- so there is nowhere to run.
From this point on, Sawyer seems to lose his fighting spirit -- Kate wakes to find him listlessly throwing rocks at the food button in his cage. Meanwhile, Pickett is looking for the slightest reason to kill him, to avenge the death of Colleen (even though Sawyer had nothing to do with it). Unbeknownst to Sawyer, Pickett will kill him if Kate is unable to convince Jack to perform surgery on Ben. Kate becomes desperate and breaks the lock on Sawyer's cage, urging him to run. He doesn't go anywhere, explaining to Kate that they are about two miles offshore from their island...but he wanted her to keep believing they had a chance. At this, she kisses him and the two make love inside his cage.
Afterward, Sawyer asks Kate if she only said she loved him to stop Pickett's beating. She responds by kissing him again and nestling into his arms, at which he smiles and says, "I love you too." However, Pickett and an accomplice arrive with guns, to carry out Sawyer's execution.
Sawyer fights Pickett at first, but backs off when he sees the accomplice hold one of Kate's arms behind her back, pushing her up against the bars and holding a gun to her head. Even though she urges him to fight, he steps out of the cage with Pickett and is forced to his knees. Pickett says he wants Kate to watch, Sawyer tells Kate to close her eyes. Pickett aims the gun at Sawyer's head and says, "This is for Colleen," when Tom calls on the radio and interrupts him.
OUTSIDE
Born in 1969, James Ford is originally from Tennessee, and carries himself with swaggering confidence. At the age of eight, James' parents were swindled out of their life savings by a man known as Sawyer, who slept with James' mother. James ultimately witnessed his father murder his mother, and finally turn the gun on himself in despair. James wrote a letter to the con man, hoping to deliver it to him personally. It is unknown who took custody of James after this; seeing as the only relative of his we know of was his uncle, who died of a brain tumor.
Having dropped out of school in the ninth grade, James became a confidence man himself at the age of 19. A time came when James owed some men $6,000. He attempts to use the same confidence trick as his nemesis in order to obtain the money needed. Finally, Ford adopts the name of the man responsible for the death of his parents. He was persistent in tracking down the original Sawyer in order to have his vengeance, and to give him the letter he wrote as a child. Despite his vendetta against Sawyer, James has become the very man he has been hunting.
Sawyer later employed his earlier con on a woman named Jessica and her husband, David. James tried to swindle the couple out of $160,000. However, after looking into the eyes of his marks' son, Sawyer abruptly decides to call off the deal. He also had a relationship with Mary Jo, the woman who read out Hurley's lottery numbers.
Sawyer would later take on a woman named Cassidy as an apprentice, but this was actually part of a con to steal a small fortune from her. He seemed genuinely fond of Cassidy, and for a while appeared reluctant to go through with the scam. However his partner in the con forced his hand by threatened Cass's life. It is unclear whether he actually loved her or not, yet he stole the money anyway. In response to this betrayal, Cassidy gave Sawyer up to the authorities, and he received a prison sentence of approximately 7 years. About nine months into his sentence, he was visited by Cassidy, who claimed that she had given birth to a daughter called Clementine, and that Sawyer was the father. In betraying a fellow prisoner, Munson, Sawyer managed to bargain away the last six years of his sentence with the authorities by telling them where Munson had hidden stolen money. Sawyer was also given a "commission" for his part in the con, and asked for it to be placed in Clementine's name, and in a way that she could never know who had given her the money.
Along with a partner, Hibbs, Sawyer participated in the Tampa Job, which by accounts did not turn out well for him. Hibbs later approached Sawyer, saying he was trying to make up for his part in the botched job. He told Sawyer that the original Sawyer was in fact named Frank Duckett, and that he lived in Sydney, Australia. Blinded by his rage, Sawyer traveled to Oceana in search of Duckett. While there, Sawyer visited a bar and met with Christian Shephard. Christian told Sawyer about the situation with his son, Jack, and encouraged him to finish the business he had intended to do. With this in mind, Sawyer finally meets Duckett. However, upon shooting him, he realizes Duckett is not the real Sawyer. Hibbs has once again tricked Sawyer, making him a common mercenary after Duckett had offended Hibbs previously. Duckett reveals his innocence to Sawyer and makes the ambiguous statement: "It'll come back around..." with his dying breaths. Reeling from the reality that he has murdered an innocent man, Sawyer runs.
Sawyer was later arrested for head butting the Australian Minister of Agriculture in a bar fight, and is ordered to be deported back to America on Oceanic Flight 815, with the words that he can never return to Australia again.
Sawyer is left-handed, he writes and shoots with his left hand.
SEASON ONE
After crashing on the island, Sawyer's drifter instincts took over, with him hoarding anything salvageable from the wreckage that he could possibly use as currency. This included stealing from the luggage compartments, as well as the wallets or belonging of the corpses in the fuselage, giving him a shady reputation to the rest of the survivors. However, Sawyer soon got bored of keeping to himself, and accompanied the group of survivors heading for higher ground (in order to use the radio transmitter). It was here that he first got to know Kate well, and also showed everyone that he was a bad element in the survivors' group, shooting a polar bear and revealing that he had stolen a firearm from the US Marshal.
Sawyer's stubborn and cocky attitude was epitomized soon after the crash, when Shannon, Jack, and the rest of the group were convinced that he had stolen the young woman's asthma inhaler. His refusal to explicitly tell them the truth led to Jack and Sayid torturing him, only to learn that Sawyer never had the medicine in the first place, instead letting everyone jump to their conclusions about his bad nature.
Kate and Sawyer's relationship soon becomes more intense, after Kate finds the letter Sawyer wrote as a boy to the man who conned his parents. In addition, whilst hunting a boar that ransacked Sawyer's tent, the pair play a notable game of "I never", in which Sawyer admits a number of both significant and trivial points about his past. The following day, the two find the boar they had been hunting, but at the last moment Sawyer decides to spare the animal's life, as it reminds him of the man he killed in Sydney. The same day, the two also hear whispers in the jungle, supporting Sayid's account of a similar experience, and suggesting that they may not be alone on the island.
Sawyer furthermore showed an odd passion for reading literature on the island, but soon after began experiencing headaches. Coming to his aid, Jack realized he was farsighted, and gave him a pair of glasses welded together to match his prescription. Though the two seemed to be helping each other, both Sawyer and Jack still had an ongoing rivalry, particularly around Kate, who both seemed to have an interest in.
When Michael built his raft to attempt to find rescue, Sawyer bought his way on board, using his essential stolen supplies. However, Kate attempted to steal "his spot", and in retaliation Sawyer exposes that Kate is a fugitive to the entire group, causing a strong level of animosity between the two. Before leaving on the raft, Sawyer also tells Jack that he had actually met his father in Sydney before he died, which seemed to mend some of the rivalry between the two men. Whilst on the raft, Sawyer witnessed the attack by the Others, and when trying to stop them from taking Walt, was shot in the shoulder, knocking him overboard. As he scrambles in the water, the raft is destroyed by a Molotov.
SEASON TWO
Whilst Jin seemingly vanishes, Sawyer and Michael manage to grab onto the raft's wreckage. During their time adrift, Sawyer saves Michael with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation (but never tells him), and later pulls the bullet out of his arm with his bare hand. Sawyer and Michael are slowly pulled back to the island by the tides (and upon this realization, Sawyer quips "Home sweet home"). Here, they find their missing friend, but discover he is being chased by a group of unknown individuals. Soon, however, it becomes apparent that they are actually fellow survivors from the tail section of the passenger plane and the group lead the new arrivals to their current home in the Arrow station. As the group trek across the island back to the main camp, Sawyer's condition due to the gunshot wound worsens, prompting the islanders to build a stretcher to carry him on.
Back at camp, Sawyer was angered at Jack, who stole some of his supplies. He warned Jack about taking his things, but when Jack ignored him, the con man hatched a plan to exact his vengeance. With the help of Charlie, Sawyer staged an elaborate plan where he managed to deceive everyone in the group that firstly the Others were attacking, and second that Jack and Ana-Lucia were preparing to hand out guns for an army. The deception allowed Sawyer a chance to steal all the guns and medicine housed in the Swan station armory, objects he knew that under his control would infuriate Jack. However, Jack managed to get the medicine back after both defeating and humiliating Sawyer in a game of poker.
Sawyer also gave up a number of his guns to fellow survivors. For instance, he gave Kate a gun to take with her on her trip to find the medical station. In addition, Ana-Lucia also managed to steal a gun from Sawyer, right after the two had sex in the jungle. This led to Michael using the gun to shoot both Ana and Libby, leading to Sawyer feeling remorse over their loss, as well as giving up the location of the rest of his guns and medicine to Jack, as Libby was in need of the heroin for pain relief.
Among the names on the list of people Michael was instructed to bring to the Others was Sawyer, and he was convinced to join Michael and the others on their mission to find Walt. As they traveled, however, they were ambushed and taken to the Pala Ferry by the Others. With Hurley allowed to go free, the love triangle of Jack, Kate and Sawyer were kidnapped by the mysterious indigenous group.
SEASON THREE
A day later, Sawyer awoke in a cage at the Hydra station with his arm bandaged. Here, he and Kate were made to work in a rock quarry. During this time, Sawyer decided to rebel against his captors, and passionately kissed Kate before suffering at the hands of Pickett and his group of Others. Whilst Sawyer maintains this was done to test the Others as a group, a connection between himself and Kate is clearly visible. As the two discuss their options and escape plans, unbeknownst to them they are being monitored remotely by Ben and the Others.
Sawyer plans an escape by using the electric shock from the behavioral conditioning device in his cage to shock the next person that comes for him. Ben is the one to come, but Sawyer's plan fails because they turned off the electricity, likely because his plan was heard over the monitor. He is beaten and taken into the station where the Others inject something into his heart. When he wakes up, Ben informs him that he's been outfitted with a pacemaker that will explode his heart if his heart rate goes too high, so now they know that he'll behave. He is told that if he tells Kate what has happened, they'll do the same thing to her.
Sawyer's drastic change in behavior causes Kate to worry. Pickett comes into his cage beating him severely because of Colleen's death. He demands of Kate if he loves Sawyer, and continues to bloody his face until she finally breaks down and exclaims that she does. Kate learns she can escape her cage, so Sawyer tells her to run and save herself if she really loves him. She says that she only claimed to love him so Pickett would stop hitting him, and she climbs back in her cage.
Later, Ben and some Others take Sawyer on a hike in order to show him something. On the way, Ben reveals that nothing has been done to Sawyer's heart, that it was a ruse to trick him. Ben says that the only way to gain the respect of a con man is to con him, and claims to be much better at conning than Sawyer. At the top of the mountain, Ben shows Sawyer that they are on an island separate from the island on which their plane crashed -- so there is nowhere to run.
From this point on, Sawyer seems to lose his fighting spirit -- Kate wakes to find him listlessly throwing rocks at the food button in his cage. Meanwhile, Pickett is looking for the slightest reason to kill him, to avenge the death of Colleen (even though Sawyer had nothing to do with it). Unbeknownst to Sawyer, Pickett will kill him if Kate is unable to convince Jack to perform surgery on Ben. Kate becomes desperate and breaks the lock on Sawyer's cage, urging him to run. He doesn't go anywhere, explaining to Kate that they are about two miles offshore from their island...but he wanted her to keep believing they had a chance. At this, she kisses him and the two make love inside his cage.
Afterward, Sawyer asks Kate if she only said she loved him to stop Pickett's beating. She responds by kissing him again and nestling into his arms, at which he smiles and says, "I love you too." However, Pickett and an accomplice arrive with guns, to carry out Sawyer's execution.
Sawyer fights Pickett at first, but backs off when he sees the accomplice hold one of Kate's arms behind her back, pushing her up against the bars and holding a gun to her head. Even though she urges him to fight, he steps out of the cage with Pickett and is forced to his knees. Pickett says he wants Kate to watch, Sawyer tells Kate to close her eyes. Pickett aims the gun at Sawyer's head and says, "This is for Colleen," when Tom calls on the radio and interrupts him.