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Summary

Biography

Prior to Oceanic Flight 815

Born in 1968 as the son of a great Iraqi hero, Sayid served as a communications officer in the Iraqi Republican Guard. During the Gulf War (when Sayid was 23), 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 by an American commander named Joe Inman, which Sayid 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.

Sometime 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.

Presumably the agents were telling the truth about Nadia’s location, as she is later seen living in Los Angeles in one of Locke’s flashbacks.

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 Airline Marshall’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 a man named 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, but Sayid still believes that Henry is an Other. Along with Charlie he joins Ana-Lucia in her search for Henry’s balloon. He is eager to find out if it even exists, because he blames the Others for Shannon’s death and wants to take his vengeance out on Henry. The three discover the balloon, as well as the grave of Henry’s wife, but Sayid is still unconvinced. He digs up the grave and discovers a dead man inside. An ID card on the man reveals him to actually be the true Henry Gale, suggesting that the “Henry Gale” in the hatch is indeed an Other, using the dead man’s name as a temporary alias when he was caught by Rousseau. After this reveleation, in a heated exchange with “Henry,” Sayid almost shoots him, but Ana-Lucia hits his arm so the bullet misses.

When Michael returns in “Three Minutes”, Sayid is enlisted by Sawyer to join the attack on the Others’ camp. However, Michael adamantly and angrily refuses Sayid’s help, and later privately asks Sayid not to intervene. Sayid reluctantly backs out, but becomes suspicious as to why Michael does not want a former soldier like Sayid joining the attack. He tells Jack that Michael may have been “compromised” and that he may be luring them into a trap, possibly as a deal to get Walt back. He keeps this a secret between him and Jack, not wanting Michael to think that anyone suspects him. In Live Together, Die Alone, Sayid plots with Jack to sail ahead to the Others’ camp (along with Jin and Sun) and help fight by using Desmond’s sailboat. On the way there, they sail past a giant foot of a destroyed statue, which Sayid notices only has four toes.

Sayid arrives at the Others’ camp and no one is there. He discovers what appears to be a hatch, but it is just doors on the side of the rocks; the entire camp is a decoy. He sets off a signal fire for Jack to know his location anyway, as per the plan. But Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley and Michael are taken by the others and never meet Sayid. The last time Sayid is seen in the episode, he is back on the sailboat with Sun and Jin as the white light engulfs the island.

Trivia

His hometown of Tikrit is also the birthplace of arguably the two most known Iraqis, Saladin (Turkish) and Saddam Hussein.

Top theories referencing Sayid

Title	Author	Cmnts	Votes	Rating
Oceanic 6 were ‘not’ on flight 815	fivestades	61	83	+57
Flash forwards- counting down	Austin108	17	25	+21
My theory on theories and the creators of lost	holy1se	27	17	+15
THE ORCHID VIDEO - How it Explains Nearly EVERYTHING	Andrelus	26	22	+12

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