On the island:
Boone quickly became the protégé of John
Locke, having initially followed him to hunt for Charlie
and Claire after they are kidnapped by Ethan Rom. Locke
and Boone then discover and dig up the metal hatch to a
mysterious pod. Locke swears Boone to secrecy, claiming
that the others are not ready to know about the hatch, and
instructs Boone to tell them they were "hunting for
boar." Locke is also instrumental in changing Boone's
perception of his relationship with his step-sister.
In "Deus Ex Machina", Locke has a vision-dream,
in which Boone repeats the phrase, "Theresa falls up
the stairs; Theresa falls down the stairs." Boone reveals
that Theresa was his nanny as a child, upon whom he took
out his frustration at the absence of his mother. She fell
to her death down the stairs in his house while responding
to his summons. The same dream (which Locke took to be a
'sign' from the island) leads the two to discover a heroin
runner's Beechcraft stuck high up in the tree canopy. Boone
climbs up into the aircraft and finds a working radio in
the cockpit, which he uses to transmit a Mayday signal.
He receives a response to his message, which causes him
to stay in the aircraft longer than is safe. This act causes
the aircraft to unbalance and crash nose-first into the
ground, collapsing one of Boone's lungs as well as crushing
parts of his lower body.
In "The Other 48 Days", it is revealed that the
response Boone receives is actually from the Tail-End survivors,
but that Boone's transmission was dismissed by Ana-Lucia
as a ploy from the Others. Boone dies in "Do No Harm"
of the injuries he sustains in the fall.
Before the crash:
In the flashback in "Abandoned", Boone surprises
Shannon by appearing at her father's funeral. After the
funeral, he offers her a drink and asks her where her "Marky
Mark" poster is. Her age at the time is 18. When Shannon
asks Boone if she can stay with him in New York, he tells
her that he is moving back to L.A. He tries to help Shannon
with her money problems by giving her money, but she does
not accept. Prior to the ill-fated plane flight, Boone Carlyle
is the chief operating officer of his mother's wedding business.
He is also the step-brother of Shannon, with whom he is
secretly in love. Shannon is aware of Boone's feelings for
her, and uses that knowledge to manipulate him into giving
her money and attention. She accomplishes this by pretending
to need rescuing from her abusive boyfriends so that Boone
will "rescue" her and pay her boyfriends to leave
her. Boone and Shannon board Oceanic Flight 815 following
another such incident in Australia. Just before their flight,
Shannon arrives at Boone's hotel room, intoxicated, and
seduces Boone into sleeping with her. |
