On the island:
After the tail section of the plane crashes in "The
Other 48 Days", Ana unofficially becomes the leader
of the survivors. The group does not fare as well as the
group on the other side of the island due to a lack of people
and supplies (in the form of luggage, to which the "tailies"
did not have access, since the tail section crashed into
the ocean). 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.
On the first day they are stranded, Ana takes a liking
to two children. She 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 the Others attack the camp again and abduct
nine of the survivors, including the two children. After
killing one of the Others, Ana discovers a piece of paper
with the names of all the kidnapped, along with their descriptions.
After the abduction, the Tailies decide to take refuge
in the jungle. During the course of the trek, Ana becomes
highly suspicious of Nathan, noting that she had not seen
him on the plane, and wondering about his long absences
from camp. By the time they set up a new camp in the jungle,
complete with a pit they dug as a jail cell, Ana accuses
Nathan of being in league with those who abducted the other
survivors (the Others), and places him into the pit. The
other survivors express doubt about this course of action,
but do nothing to oppose Ana. One night, when the others
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.
Goodwin is able to abscond with Nathan's body, giving the
impression that he has escaped and fled. However, Goodwin's
cover is blown when Ana confronts him 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.
Subsequently, 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 (whom they
have not yet met), is also placed in the pit posing as another
captive, in order to learn more about the three men. After
taking Sawyer's gun away from him, Ana reveals her true
allegiance, and leaves the pit.
Eventually, the Tailies, beginning to trust the three,
decide to let them lead them to their camp on the other
side of the island. During their journey, Sawyer falls unconscious
as a result of his wound's infection, and the insistence
on carrying him to camp leads to increased tension with
Ana. By the time the group is within range of the camp,
they hear the telltale whispers associated with the Others,
and as Sawyer, Michael and Jin's campmate, Shannon emerge
from the jungle after seeing images of Michael's son Walt,
Ana shoots her in the abdomen, killing her. Shannon's lover,
Sayid, happens on the scene immediately afterward, and (as
continued in the episode Collision), Sayid quickly pulls
his gun on Ana. Mr. Eko stops him and, after a scuffle,
Sayid is knocked unconscious. 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.
She 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 "The Hunting
Party", asks her to help build an army to fight the
Others.
In "Two For The Road", Ana is attacked by Henry
Gale when she tries to interrogate him. When Jack, Locke,
and Kate leave Ana in the hatch with Henry later on, she
tries to shoot him, but can't. Instead, Michael enters the
hatch and tells her he will do it, if she gives him the
combination and the gun, which Ana does. Instead, Michael
shoots Ana in the chest and kills her.
Before the crash:
Ana-Lucia was 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. 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. It is later revealed that she was pregnant at the
time.
Ana-Lucia spends the next several months recovering and
in therapy; during this time her boyfriend Danny leaves
her.
On her return to the force she becomes noticeably harsh
with a man at a domestic disturbance, indicating that her
recovery isn't complete. 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. After he is released, she
follows him to a bar; when he leaves, she follows him outside.
After getting his attention, she tells him that she was
pregnant when he shot her, after which she shoots him six
times: three shots at range, three point blank, killing
him.
At this point Ana gets a job as security at the airport,
where she meets Jack's father, who convinces her to travel
to Australia with her as "protection" while he
takes care of some things down under. She agrees - and after
Jack's father has an encounter with a woman during their
trip, they decide to go their seperate ways.
Prior to boarding Flight 815, Ana-Lucia meets and flirts
with Jack himself at a bar at Sydney airport in the episode
"Exodus: Part 1". The pair arranges to get together
during the flight, with Ana-Lucia revealing that she is
seated in the back of the plane, seat 42F (42 is one of
the sequence of numbers in Lost). |
