Danielle Rousseau is a French woman who has
been on the island for approximately 16 years, and put out
the distress signal that Sayid found. She traps Sayid thinking
that he is one of The Others, and holds him prisoner. When
he inists that he does not know anything about her missing
daughter, Alex, she electrocutes him. While holding Sayid
prisoner, she tells him how she came to the island. Danielle
was on a science expedition, which included several people
including her husband Robert. Her science team was armed
with rifles. When her team got infected she killed her whole
team, in order to make sure that when they got rescued others
did not get infected. She estimates the island is at least
three days away from Tahiti.
Sayid and Danielle hear a boar outside of her camp, which
she calls a security system. While she is out hunting it,
Sayid steals her maps and notes about the island, grabs
her other rifle, and escapes back to the other survivors.
Before letting Sayid go, she tells him that her companions
started to become sick, so she killed them one by one. She
then gave birth to a daughter, Alex, and shortly afterwards
a plume of black smoke appeared and The Others kidnapped
Alex. After seeing that the papers Sayid stole contain the
numbers, Hurley searches for Danielle. She tells him that
the numbers were being broadcast on the radio, and she knows
nothing about them.
After another plume appears in the distance, Danielle warns
the survivors that the Others are coming. While everyone
prepares for the Others' arrival, she kidnaps Claire's baby,
Aaron. Sayid and Charlie pursue her and find her with the
baby near the source of the black smoke, planning to exchange
Aaron for her own child, Alex; however, she did not find
the Others there. Sayid and Charlie return Aaron to Claire.
Some weeks later, Danielle finds Sayid and takes him to
a trap she set. A man, Henry Gale, is inside, whom she claims
is an Other. When Henry tries to escape, Danielle wounds
him with an arrow.
Danielle arrives at camp one night to warn Claire that
Aaron is sick. The next day she helps Kate and Claire search
for a Dharma station. Claire remembers that after she escaped
from the station when she was pregnant Danielle helped her
get back to her camp. |
