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Summary

Biography

Prior to Oceanic Flight 815

Shannon’s father, Adam Rutherford, died in a car accident caused by Jack’s future wife. Her step-mother, Sabrina, tells Shannon that her father didn’t have a will, so she will receive none of his money. Shannon asks for money to help her to move to New York where she received an internship at Martha Graham Dance Company, but Sabrina refuses. When step-brother Boone attempts to give her money, Shannon turns him down.

Shannon has lived in various places around the world, including France, Australia, and the United States. Because of her step-mother’s exclusion of her from the family money, Shannon cons Boone into giving her large sums of money, frequently through his “buying out” of her abusive boyfriends. It was one such con which brought both of them to Australia, and the reason they were on Oceanic Flight 815. However, Shannon’s Australian boyfriend steals the money from her, leaving her no choice but to go back to Boone. The night before Oceanic Flight 815, Shannon seduces and sleeps with her step-brother, Boone.

Shannon was once married, but got divorced. Who the man was, or what made them divorce, is unknown. It may never be known, at least not in detail, now that she and her brother are both dead.

On the island

Since coming to the island, Shannon does her best to keep everyone at arm’s length, frequently behaving selfishly. However, her knowledge of French allows her to translate Rousseau’s distress signal for the benefit of other survivors. In addition, Sayid breaks through to her while attempting to decode French words on Rousseau’s maps, and they begin developing a romantic relationship. However, Shannon blames John Locke for Boone’s death, and when Sayid refuses to kill Locke for her and interferes with her own attempt to kill Locke, their relationship takes a turn for the worse. Young Walt gives her his dog when he leaves on the raft, so that she can talk to (and bond with) Vincent and work out her grief. Shannon and Sayid later rekindle their relationship. After all this, Shannon lost some of her selfishness and became kinder. She also became more involved in the mysteries of the island.

After the “Others” attack the rafters and kidnap Walt, Shannon begins seeing visions of the young boy dripping wet and speaking backwards. The other survivors do not believe her when she tells them that she saw Walt.

When she tells Sayid in Abandoned, he believes she has just had a nightmare, until he follows her into the woods and sees Walt too. As Shannon runs through the jungle, Ana-Lucia Cortez mistakes her for one of the Others and shoots her in the abdomen. She dies in Sayid’s arms, and is buried next to her brother in What Kate Did.

Top theories referencing Shannon

Title	Author	Cmnts	Votes	Rating
My theory on theories and the creators of lost	holy1se	27	17	+15
Group 1 - Greater Good - Sayid: A Man For All Seasons	Arthur	33	12	+10
“Moving the island” (Not really a theory)	X	6	10	+8
The power of Water	Villordsutch	12	12	+8
My first theories!!! (concerning michael and mr.eko)	Lost_and_Found	17	10	+8

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