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Summary

Biography

Prior to the Crash of Oceanic Flight 815

Bernard is a dentist. He met Rose when freeing her car from a snowbank, and proposed five months later at Niagara Falls after more than fifty years of bachelorhood. At that time, Rose revealed that she was sick with an illness that had gone into remission but which has now recurred; she only has a year left to live. The two marry regardless and on their honeymoon, Bernard surprised her by taking her to a faith healer named Issac in Australia. Rose grew very upset, as she had long since accepted her fate, but agreed to see the man, and afterwards falsely told Bernard that she had been cured. During the flight home, Bernard went to use the bathroom at the rear of the plane. When the plane began to plummet, Bernard quickly got out of the bathroom and found a seat nearby. The tail section soon broke off and Bernard was sucked out the back of the plane.

Bernard’s fingers swell at flight altitude, so he gives his ring to Rose to carry during plane trips.

On the Island

Bernard, still buckled to his seat, was flung away from the rest of the tail-section survivors. His seat landed 30 feet up, perched in a tree. He spotted Goodwin, an Other, walking below him and called for help. Goodwin, needing to protect his cover, pretended he was another survivor and got help for Bernard. Ana-Lucia talked Bernard into unbuckling his seatbelt and grabbing a branch to climb down.

Bernard was very worried about Rose after he couldn’t find her or her body anywhere on the beach. As the tail-section survivors were kidnapped by the Others over the following weeks, Bernard found himself among the few remaining. When working with a recently discovered radio, Bernard heard a man’s voice come through, saying he was one of the survivors from Flight 815. Bernard replied that his group were the survivors, but the transmission ended when Ana-Lucia turned off the radio, believing it to be a trick by the Others. The voice was Boone, using the radio from the crashed beechcraft plane.

When Bernard learned that there was a second group of crash survivors, he asked Michael and Sawyer about Rose. He was very happy to learn she was alive and well. In Collision, Bernard is reunited with Rose when the remaining tail-section survivors arrive on the beach.

Their relationship grew strained when Bernard undertook a project to build a giant SOS sign on the beach, which Rose refused to support. Angry at this apparent betrayal, he antagonized all the people willing to help him until he was left to build the sign on his own. At this point Rose apologized to him, and confessed that Issac had not cured her. She went on to say that her illness had vanished once the plane crashed, and Bernard realized that she was afraid it will return if they leave. He agreed to stay on the island with her, giving up his attempts to escape.

One unexplained bit of speculation about Bernard is based on info found on the Lost Season One DVD. In one of the expanded scenes, the plane’s pilot tells Claire that his mother left a man named “Bernard” to re-marry, and that “Bernard” later went on to become quite wealthy. Bernard as we have seen him on the show seems to have some degree of wealth from his dental practice, although his marital history before marrying Rose has not been revealed. Speculation exists over whether or not the pilot’s mother’s “Bernard” and Rose’s Bernard are the same man. [Note to writer of this summary: Bernard was a bachelor before he married Rose. He revealed this when he proposed to her.

Connections

Bernard	And	Description
Bernard	Rose Nadler	Husband/Wife

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