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Thursday, 19 July 2007 |
Ana Lucia Cortez
What you need to know:
Ana-Lucia is an LAPD officer who was shot in the line of duty. In s1-ep23, “Exodus: Part 1”, find out that Ana Lucia meets Jack in an airport bar before boarding Flight 815 in the Sydney airport and the two flirted. During this encounter she confirmed she was sitting in seat 42F in the tail section of the plane. They agree to meet for a drink on the plane, but miss that opportunity when the plane breaks apart in mid-air and crashed on the island.
Ana becomes the de facto leader of the Tailies, along with Mr. Eko, who works as her “muscle.” The group does not fare as well as the survivors on the other side of the island due to a lack of people and supplies. Also, without a doctor who is more able to help with the crash survivors’ injuries, many of the injured tail-section survivors die within a week of the crash.
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A few years before boarding flight 815, Ana worked as a Los Angeles police officer. It is revealed that she has conflicts with her captain, who is also her mother, but that she doesn’t ask for any special treatment and, prior to her suspension, got on well with all of her workmates.
Ana-Lucia was. While investigating the scene of a burglary, she encounters a man who – claiming it was a mistake – tells her he is a student. The man says he was reaching for his ID, but instead pulls out a gun and shoots her four times. In s2-ep8, “Collision”, we learn that she was pregnant at the time and (we assume) she lost the baby as a result. Ana-Lucia spends the next several months recovering and in therapy; during this time her boyfriend Danny leaves her.
Upon her return to work four months later, she becomes noticeably harsh with a man at a domestic disturbance, indicating that her recovery isn’t complete. She resumed work, but is still suffering psychologically from the traumatic event. At the station, a man is brought in whose fingerprints match those at the burglary. Ana-Lucia maintains that it isn’t the man who shot her, even though he has confessed to the crime. He is released, and Ana later tracks him down at a bar; when he leaves, she follows him outside. After getting his attention, she tells him that she was pregnant when he shot her and shoots him in the parking lot six times, killing him in cold blood.
Ana survives the crash in the tail section of the plane, which lands in the ocean just off the beach on a separate part of the island than the middle section. Ana quickly becomes a leader of the tail section group. On the first day they are stranded, she takes a liking to two children, Zack and Emma. Ana promises them that she will reunite them with their parents, and becomes relatively friendly with Goodwin, an assumed fellow survivor who claims past service in the Peace Corps.
The first night, the Others attack the camp, taking the three strongest members of their group. They attempt to take Eko, but he manages to kill two of them and escape. Two weeks later, on night 12, the Others attack the camp again and abduct nine of the survivors, including Zack and Emma. After killing one of the Others in the second attack, Ana discovers a piece of paper with the names of all the kidnapped, along with their descriptions, and an old US ARMY knife.
After the abduction, the Tailies decide to take refuge in the jungle. As they move away from the beach, Ana becomes highly suspicious of Nathan, noting that she had not seen him on the plane, and wondering about his long absences from camp. Ana begins to suspect Nathan is not one of the survivors - but a spy belonging to the Others. She digs a pit and throws him in, intending to get the truth out of him one way or another. The other Tailies express doubt about this course of action, but do nothing to oppose Ana.
Four nights later, when the Tailies are sleeping, Goodwin frees Nathan, but before Nathan can flee, Goodwin breaks his neck, killing him, revealing himself to be in league with the Others. The next morning, Ana decides it’s time to leave and find a new camp - thinking the attackers had freed Nathan during the night.
The group finds their way to what appears to be another Dharma station, perhaps the Arrow Station. Inside, they find a box containing a radio, blanket, Holy Bible, and a glass eye. There, Ana finally realizes that Goodwin is the plant.
Ana and Goodwin hike up a mountain to test the radio. She then confronts Goodwin with the fact that he had emerged from the jungle just 10 minutes after the plane crash, but with completely dry clothes. Goodwin tells Ana that the children are safe and that those who were on the list were kidnapped because they were “good people”. Goodwin attacks Ana, who after a physical struggle, is able to impale him through the chest with a wooden stake, killing him.
Whether as a result of her actions that indirectly led to Nathan’s death, or having had to kill Goodwin, Ana sobs with grief. Eko, speaking for the first time since the night he was nearly abducted, tells her everything will be all right. She asks him why it took him forty days to speak; he asks her why it took her forty days to cry.
On day 41, Bernard makes radio contact with Boone - but is forced to turn the radio off by Ana, who thinks the attackers are using the radio to locate them.
On day 45, the survivors encounter Sawyer, Michael, and Jin, after they have unsuccessfully attempted to escape the island via a raft, which the Others have destroyed, and have also shot Sawyer in the shoulder. At first the two groups take each other to be the Others, and after the Tailies place the three rafters in the pit, Ana talks to the middle section survivors and finds out who they are, what they are doing, and she also discovers Sawyer is armed with a 9mm.
She then sucker-punches Sawyer, takes his gun, and calls to the captors that she is ready to come up. Ana was playing the part of another prisoner in order to retrieve information about their captives. After determining that Jin, Michael and Sawyer are telling the truth, Ana decides to let them out and takes them to the Arrow Station.
Eventually, the Tailies, beginning to trust the three, decide to let them lead them to their camp on the other side of the island. Along the way, Sawyer becomes ill due to an infection from his gunshot wound, and the insistence on carrying him to camp leads to increased tension with Ana. As they move the wounded Sawyer on a stretcher through the jungle, Cindy disappears. By the time the group is within range of the camp, they hear the telltale whispers associated with the Others, and panic. Ana draws her gun, and as Shannon emerges from the jungle after seeing images of Michael’s son Walt, Ana shoots her. Shannon dies in the arms of Sayid.
Shannon’s lover, Sayid, initially goes after Ana, but is tackled by Eko and, after a scuffle, Sayid is knocked unconscious and disarmed. Ana picks up Sayid’s gun, and uses it to subdue him. Ana-Lucia, believing Sayid will not stop until he has revenge on her for Shannon’s death, has him tied to a tree, and Ana’s fellow Tailies, Eko, Bernard and Libby, increasingly find their loyalty to Ana tested as a result
Ultimately, Eko decides to carry the ailing Sawyer to his camp, and Michael, Jin, Libby and Bernard eventually decide to follow, leaving the restrained Sayid alone with Ana. The two slowly begin to bare their souls to one another. Sayid realizes Ana does not have a plan, but merely her guilt, and reveals to her his own past misdeeds, including his torture of fellow Iraqis during his time in the Republican Guard. By the end of the episode, she unties him and tells him to kill her. He tells her that it wouldn’t do her any good, as they are both already dead inside.
Eventually, Ana and her group join the beach camp.
Ana Lucia does not attend Shannon’s funeral, though Eko explains to her that most of the survivors understand that the girl’s death was an accident. Jack tries to reconnect with Ana Lucia, and the two share a bottle of tequila on the beach. In the days following, however, Ana-Lucia continues to live separately from the other survivors, until Jack, in s2-ep11, “The Hunting Party”, asks her to help build an army to fight the Others.
Interesting Things to Know:
The name Ana is a form of Anna; which means “gracious” in Hebrew. Lucia means “light” in Italian. There is a Sea of Cortez.
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