Lost

Roles

• James Ford
• Tom Sawyer

About this piece

Sawyer kills the con man who caused his parents' death

Summary

The survivors of a plane crash are stranded in a mysterious, remote tropical island in the South Pacific. Among the survivors there is Jack, a doctor, Charlie, a rock star, Sayid, an Iraqi military man, Locke, a mysterious man who used to be paralyzed before the crash but is miraculously cured after the crash and Sawyer, a con man. The series alternates present events with flashbacks of the background stories of the characters. As the series progresses we learn the island is populated by other people, "the others", who use it as a base for research and experiments. They also happen to have files for every single person who was on the plane. In Sawyer's flashback story we learn his real name was James Ford and was a con man. His parents were killed after they were conned by a mysterious "Tom Sawyer". Since then he has adopted his name and has been on a mission to find him and kill him. In John Locke's flashback story we learn that the very same "Tom Sawyer" was his father, who abandoned him when he was a kid. Later he approached him and conned Locked into giving him his kidney. He also threw him out of a window and that's how Locke got paralized. When Locke meets "the others", they tell him they have his father as prisoner and ask Locke to kill him. Locke tricks Sawyer into coming with him to the place where his father is prisoner, then locks him in the room with him. Sawyer finds out that the man tied on a chair is the con man that caused his parents' death and kills him.

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