On the island:
Sayid is initially accused by Sawyer of being a terrorist
who crashed the plane. He proves himself instrumental by
repairing the transceiver recovered from the cockpit and
receiving the looped distress signal recorded by Rousseau.
Sayid comes close to triangulating the signal, but Locke
knocks Sayid out before he is successful. Sayid tortures
Sawyer for information on Shannon's asthma medicine. During
a struggle he stabs Sawyer with a knife. Sayid feels guilty
and leaves to explore the island. Shortly afterwards, he
is captured by Rousseau.
Sayid grows closer to Shannon when she helps him translate
Rousseau's notes. After Boone's death, Shannon asks Sayid
to kill Locke. Sayid refuses to do so, and also stops Shannon
from using one of Jack's guns to kill Locke. This leads
to an apparent cooling of their relationship. Eventually,
Sayid and Shannon consummate their relationship. Shortly
after, Shannon is accidentally shot and killed by Ana-Lucia,
who proceeds to tie him to a tree. She later lets him go
after Sayid sympathizes with her.
Sayid digs Shannon's grave and attends her funeral, which
he leaves early. Hurley asks Sayid to fix the tail-sectioners'
radio. He does and it picks up the song "Moonlight
Serenade" by Glenn Miller.
Rousseau captures Henry Gale and gives him to Sayid, claiming
he is an Other. Sayid interrogates him, and Henry constantly
denies it. Unconvinced, Sayid begins beating him. Jack stops
the interrogation. Later, Ana manages to get a map from
Gale to the supposed location of his balloon and wife's
grave - and she enlists Sayid and Charlie to search for
it. When they find them, Sayid digs the grave up and discovers
the body of a man with Henry Gale ID buried in it.
Sayid is the first one to recognize Michael as being comprimised
by the "others". While Michael takes Jack, Sawyer,
Kate, and Hurley back to the Others' camp to find Walt,
Sayid helms a mission with Sun and Jin to ambush them via
the sea, in Desmond's sailboat. Sayid makes it to the camp,
but Michael has taken them elsewhere.
Before the crash:
Sayid served as a communications officer in the Iraqi Republican
Guard. During the Gulf War, Sayid's base is captured by
the Americans. As the only Iraqi among his squad who speaks
English, the Americans use Sayid to ask his superior officer,
Tariq, about a missing US pilot. After learning that Tariq
ordered a Sarin gas attack on his village, Sayid is given
a box filled with torture tools given to him by the US,
which he uses to successfully interrogate Tariq about the
location of the pilot. When the Gulf War ends with Saddam
still in power, Sayid is released by the US and goes back
into the Iraqi Republican Guard. He swears he will never
torture again.
Sayid continues his military service using his knowledge
of torture. However, his loyalty is shattered when he is
ordered to torture his childhood friend, Nadia. When she
is set to be executed, Sayid helps her to escape by killing
his commanding officer and shooting himself in the leg to
make it look like she escaped on her own.
After the Gulf War, he leaves the Republican Guard, and
decides to track down Nadia. He is picked up in England
by members of ASIS and the CIA who have been following his
movements. They offer him a deal: if Sayid can infiltrate
a terrorist cell in Sydney whose members he is familiar
with, and uncover 300 pounds (136 kg) of stolen C-4, then
the intelligence agency will tell him where Nadia is.
Sayid is tasked with convincing Essam, his college roommate
from Cairo University, to go through with being a suicide
bomber so the intelligence officers can take possession
of the missing explosives. Sayid warns Essam at the last
moment to give him time to escape, but Essam becomes distraught
that his supposed friend has deceived him over a woman,
and kills himself. Sayid is released with a plane ticket
to Los Angeles to look for Nadia, who they tell him is living
in Irvine, but he asks for a flight for the next day, so
that he can arrange a proper Muslim burial for Essam's body.
He's then given a ticket on Oceanic flight 815. |
