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Biography

Prior to Oceanic Flight 815

We see a young Charlie going down a flight of stairs and it’s Christmas morning. His brother Liam is already hard at work ripping open his presents. But while Liam continues to unwrap gift after gift, Charlie finds nothing at all for him. That is until his mother leads him over to a brand new piano. Charlie is thrilled, but before he can even begin to enjoy the gift, he learns it comes with a price.

The former bass player and principal song-writer for the UK band Drive Shaft from Manchester, England, Charlie is originally very hesitant to capitalize on the band’s growing success. The tribulations and temptations of the rock-star lifestyle weigh heavily on him, even as his band gains notoriety. In the end, however, he is convinced by his brother, Liam, to participate in the band’s future, Liam explaining that the band needs Charlie because “he is the band.” Nonetheless, Charlie only agrees after eliciting a promise from Liam that, if they ever felt it was too much, they would just walk away.

As Drive Shaft becomes a world-famous band, Charlie notices that his brother Liam is becoming both more self-destructive in his addictions and more controlling of the band. Just after a live performance, the situation boils over when Charlie tells Liam that the time has come to walk away. When Liam storms off shouting that he is the band now, Charlie realizes that he has probably let it all go too far. Alone in the dressing room and blinded by the pain of the current situation, Charlie turns to Liam’s heroin stash.

Charlie was with Karen when she gave birth to his brother’s daughter Megan, named after Charlie and Liam’s mother. He had to lie to Karen about where Liam was. His drug problem is at its worst point. One day, while visiting his daughter, Liam drops her, causing her mother to kick Liam out. Drive Shaft then does a diaper commercial featuring their song. They do very badly, with the result that they are fired from the job. Charlie begins writing music again on his piano, as he wants Drive Shaft to make a comeback. However, he comes home one day to find that his piano is missing. Liam tells Charlie that he sold it to buy a plane ticket to Sydney, where his daughter and her mother are, and where he intends to enroll in a rehab clinic so he can be a good father.

With the band gone, Charlie has to resort to theft to feed his heroin addiction. After a failed relationship with a wealthy woman named Lucy, whom he actually wants to rob, Charlie turns to his brother to try to reunite the band for a new eight-week tour, opening for another band. He flies to Australia to get his brother (who is now married, clean, and settled down) on board. Unlike Charlie, however, Liam cannot be swayed by the promise of a return to the rock-star lifestyle. Moreover, when Liam understands that Charlie is still addicted to heroin, he tries to get Charlie to remain in Sydney and enter a treatment program. Angry with Liam and blaming him for getting him hooked on heroin, Charlie storms off, saying he has a plane to catch.

The night before the flight, he meets a female fan in a bar and goes on a heroin binge with her in his hotel room. In the morning, he attempts to hide the remaining heroin from her, causing her to attack him in an attempt to take it from him. On board the airplane, he attempts to cram his acoustic guitar into a clothes closet. He has brought his remaining heroin aboard the plane and attempts to use some of it during the flight, going to the forward lavatory near the cockpit for privacy. When the turbulence begins, he drops the stash and it remains in the lavatory, until later on the island when he accompanies Jack and Kate on their initial expedition to locate the nose of the plane. While Jack and Kate talk to the pilot in the cockpit, Charlie retrieves his stash and continues to use it periodically until some time later, when Locke helps him quit.

On the island

Since coming to the island, Charlie is involved in several major trials. He deals with withdrawal from his addiction after burning his remaining stash in “The Moth.” Then he and Claire are kidnapped by Ethan, and he nearly dies when Ethan blindfolds and hangs him from a tree. He is nearly comatose with shock after this incident, only managing to say “They only wanted Claire.” Rose eventually helps him deal with his feelings. After Claire’s escape, Ethan comes to him with a threat of killing the remaining survivors one by one until Claire is brought to him. When Ethan makes good on his promise by killing Scott Jackson, the core survivors plan to capture him. In the ensuing fight with Ethan, Charlie takes matters into his own hands and shoots Ethan in “Homecoming”, claiming that it had to be done because he would never stop coming after them.

In “Exodus”, Rousseau kidnaps Claire’s child. While pursuing her, Charlie follows Sayid to the plane where Boone was mortally injured. Not knowing that Charlie is a recovering addict, Sayid casually mentions the plane’s cargo of heroin hidden within religious statuettes. Charlie has taken at least five of the Virgin Mary statues from the plane. He was very protective of them. In “Adrift”, Claire finds the Virgin Mary Statue in Charlie’s bag and asks where it came from. He says he found it in the jungle, but does not mention that it contains heroin.

After other characters open the hatch, Charlie feels he is left in the dark about all the secrets on the island, so he follows Locke in hopes of getting some answers, which Locke gives to him. Hurley gives peanut butter to Charlie and he gives it to Claire. Claire also mentions to Locke that Charlie has a Virgin Mary Statue. Locke is surprised because he thought Charlie was over his habit. After Charlie makes a comment that Claire has a lot to learn about being a mother and is being “irresponsible”, Locke says that that is an odd thing for a heroin addict to say. Charlie retorts that he is a recovering addict.

In The 23rd Psalm Charlie tells Eko that his brother helped him start using heroin and he tried to stop his brother from using. Claire kicks Charlie out after suspecting that he is using again. Charlie begins collecting the statues in a discreet location in the jungle.

In Fire + Water Charlie has a series of dreams that lead him to believe that Aaron is in danger. He talks to Eko, who suggests that Aaron may need to be baptized. Later, Locke finds Charlie at his stash with a statue in his hands. Locke confiscates the drugs and tells Charlie that he has lost the privilege of being trusted. That evening Charlie starts a fire as a distraction, steals Aaron from Claire, and runs to the ocean. Claire sees Charlie and runs after him screaming. Charlie claims he is trying to baptize the baby, but is soon surrounded. He hands the baby back to Locke, who gives him to Claire. Locke then punches him in the face repeatedly. Charlie is left laying in the surf, reeling, while the others leave. In the morning Jack stitches Charlie’s face, and Charlie admits that he’s the one who started the fire, but says that he was not using heroin.

In The Long Con Charlie helps Sawyer with his con to get all of the guns that were locked in the hatch by abducting Sun. After Sawyer has taken control of the island, he offers him one of the Virgin Mary statues. Charlie does not accept it, and retorts that he would have stolen one if he had wanted to. He says he only participated in Sawyer’s con in order to humiliate Locke for what Locke did to him.

Although Charlie is looked upon in a different light by his fellow survivors since taking Aaron, Sayid still treats him the same, mainly because he remembers that Charlie was almost killed by Ethan. He even feels comfortable enough to bring Charlie along on the search for “Henry Gale’s” balloon. Charlie assists Mr. Eko with his building project, even though, initially, Mr. Eko doesn’t tell him that they are building a church.

Charlie eventually attempts to mend his relationship with Claire. He finds vaccine in the hatch and offers it to Claire so Aaron can be inoculated. She is grateful, and even holds Charlie’s hand during Libby’s funeral. Unfortunately, Eko decides to discontinue building the church, believing the hatch and the button to be something greater. Charlie is angry with Eko’s decision, so he attempts to continue construction by himself (with poor results). Vincent the dog then brings him, to Charlie’s disbelief, another Virgin Mary statue. He follows Vincent to Sawyer’s uncovered stash of statues, but Charlie decides to throw all of them into the ocean. Locke witnesses this.

In Live Together, Die Alone, Eko emerges from the hatch to ask for Charlie’s help. Locke and Desmond kicked him out of the hatch, and they plan to not push the button. Although Charlie is upset with Eko for abandoning him and the church, Eko convinces him something terrible will happen if the button is not pushed. Charlie leads Eko to the remaining dynamite that was used to open the hatch in the first place. As Charlie watches Eko put the dynamite in place on the steel door that has sealed him out, he attempts to talk Locke into opening up, but to no avail. The dynamite is lit, and it explodes as Charlie runs for cover, sending him flying.

Charlie wakes up later with a loud ringing in his ears. Eko is still unconscious, so Charlie tries to wake him up. Meanwhile, the electromagnetic force in the hatch spirals out of control due to the button not being pushed. Charlie begins to carry Eko out, but the task is very dangerous due to metal objects now flying through the air. As the hatch doors open again, Eko wakes up and tells Charlie to escape.

What happened to the hatch afterwards is unknown. Charlie escaped somehow with minor injuries, including some apparent hearing damage. He did not realize that Locke, Eko, and Desmond were still missing, though is suprised that Locke and Eko have not yet returned. That night, Claire and Charlie kiss.

Trivia

* Charlie was originally intended to be cast as a forty-one-year-old rock star who had fallen from the public eye, but the casting staff liked Dominic Monaghan's audition for Sawyer so much that he was given the role of Charlie.
* The character of Charlie and his brother in the band Drive Shaft are modeled after the Gallagher Brothers (Liam and Noel) of the band Oasis.
* The actor Dominic Monaghan who plays Charlie fell in love on the island and is now dating the actress Evangeline Lilly who portrays Kate.

Top theories referencing Charlie

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The Valenzetti Equation, Course Correction, and Jack’s Fatefull Mistake	WhiteRbbtad	21	27	+25
Desmond killed Charlie	ProfOzone	87	51	+23
About Claire….and how she’s dead	Marius	29	30	+20
“You can’t change the future”	jazprof	23	28	+20
My theory on theories and the creators of lost	holy1se	27	17	+15

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