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Michael DawsonPlayed by: Harold Perrineau Jr.
Since Walt and Michael were basically strangers to each other, and both had just had their lives disrupted, their relationship started out rocky. Locke found and gave Vincent the dog to Michael so he could be the one to bring Vincent to his son. Michael found a $20,000 watch in the wreckage, not knowing it was in Jin's safekeeping, so Jin attacked him for it. Sun revealed to Michael that she spoke English and why Jin attacked him, so Michael gave Jin the watch back. But they still didn't like each other. When Michael caught Locke teaching Walt how to throw a knife, Michael's patience ran out and he decided to start building a raft to take Walt off the island. When Walt still tried to spend time with Locke, Michael got angry and threw the Spanish comic book (with a polar bear in it) into the fire. Walt ran off, and Locke helped Michael track him, and together they rescued Walt from a polar bear. Sawyer bought a spot on Michael's raft by giving him a coil of wire. Michael continued with the raft until it was burned down. Since he had gotten into an argument with Jin earlier over how he treated his wife, Michael suspected Jin of burning the raft down, and when Sawyer brought Jin to the beach, Michael started beating him up until Sun shouted "STOP IT!" in English in front of everybody. Sun told them that Jin didn't set the fire, and in fact was the first one who tried to put the fire out. Realizing that his wife didn't trust him, Jin left her at the caves and went to the beach where he started helping Michael build a second raft, in exchange for the last spot on it. As the second attempt at making a raft was nearing completion, Michael fell ill after drinking from a water bottle spiked with a minor toxin. Walt confessed to Michael that he was the one who burned down the raft because he didn’t want to leave the island. Michael offered to stay on the island with Walt, but he said that they had to leave. Walt and Michael sailed off on the raft. When Sawyer dove into the water to retrieve the rudder, Michael found the gun Sawyer was carrying. When night fell at sea, the radar picked up a blip. Michael fired the flare gun and a small boat approached. They were not friendly. They were the Others. The leader, "Mr. Friendly" insisted that Walt had to come with them. There was a brief struggle, and Walt was taken by the Others, and they threw a bomb that caused major damage to the raft.
Season TwoAfter Walt was taken, a hysterical Michael almost drowned swimming after the Others' boat. Angry at himself for taking Walt from the relative safety of the camp, he lashed out angrily at Sawyer, blaming him for attracting the Others with a flare. Michael shot a shark that was going after Sawyer, and told Sawyer that he blamed himself for Walt’s kidnapping. He swore that he’d get Walt back. Sawyer and Michael drifted back to the island and found Jin. They were all taken prisoner by the tail survivors, then once the tail survivors realized that their captives were on Flight 815 as well, they were taken to the Arrow bunker. The tail survivors decided to hike across the island and reunite with the fuselage survivors. When gathering supplies, Libby told Michael that they came from inland. Michael immediately set off into the jungle in hopes of finding the Others and getting Walt back. When Jin and Eko caught up with him, they convinced Michael that this was not going to work. He went back with them. Michael overheard Sawyer say that he thinks that Michael doesn't care about anyone or anything except his kid, and later Sawyer told Michael that if Michael was the injured one that he would leave him behind. But in spite of that, Michael made a crude stretcher to carry Sawyer in when his wound made him pass out. When Ana-Lucia decided to resolve the crisis created when she killed Shannon, she sent Michael back to the survivors with her ransom demands. Michael found Sun's garden and told her that Jin was OK. She led him to the Swan bunker. After Jack and Eko went to find Ana-Lucia, Michael returned to the beach where Vincent greeted him. At the same time when Locke and Eko saw the film that warned them not to use the computer to communicate with anyone, Michael was examining the wiring of the computer when it gave a new chime. He looked at it and someone had sent a message to him. He said his name was Michael and asked who it was. The response was "Dad?" Michael thought it was Walt communicating with him, but he didn't tell anyone about the messages. Michael started getting shooting lessons from Locke, while continuing to secretly communicate with the mystery person on the computer. He was getting some instructions from the mystery messenger. Jack came in mid message-session, but when he looked at the computer, no messages were visible. After Michael got a final set of instructions on the computer, he asked Locke to open the gun vault so he could borrow a gun for shooting practice. After Locke did that, Michael hit him on the head and took a rifle. When Jack found Locke, Michael forced him into the Vault. He told Jack that he was going after his son. Jack tried to talk him out of it, offering to go with him, but Michael was insistent on going now, and going alone. Jack didn't think he was going to shoot him and called his bluff, but instead Michael threatened to shoot the computer. Michael told Jack that he had no idea what the computer was. Michael took off into the jungle heading due north, instead of east to near where where the tail section survivors were taken by the Others. Locke, Jack and Sawyer followed, and at one point they heard 7 shots. Locke found 3 casings from Michael's rifle, which might indicate that he only fired three times and someone else fired four times. The Others Jack encountered didn't seem concerned about Michael and told Jack that Michael would never find them. Twelve days after Michael took off into the jungle, he emerged in front of an astonished Kate and Jack in the clearing where Mr. Friendly warned Jack. He collapsed, and Kate and Jack took him back to the Swan bunker. He woke up after several hours, and told Jack, Kate, Locke and Ana-Lucia a story. He had gone back to the spot where the tailies had camped, and followed the coast. He spotted an Other and followed him back to a tent village. The Others were all in pretty bad shape and ate dried fish. He didn't see Walt, the missing stewardess Cindy, or any children. However, two Others with guns were guarding a hatch to another bunker. Michael said that he thought the Oceanic survivors could prevail. When he and Ana-Lucia were left in the bunker, Ana-Lucia told him that she couldn't bring herself to kill Henry Gale. Michael offered to kill Gale for her, so Ana-Lucia gave him the gun and combination. Michael told Ana-Lucia that he was sorry, then shot her once in the chest, killing her. Libby heard the noise and came into the room, startling Michael, who reflexively shot her twice. Michael released Henry Gale, and shot himself in the arm. Henry Gale likely took the gun. Michael stumbled out of the main entrance of the Swan just as Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Locke were getting back. He told a disjointed story about Henry Gale escaping and shooting him. What Michael hadn't told the Oceanic survivors was that he had actually been captured by the Others almost immediately. The shots were fired when Michael came upon a large party of them, who likely were looking for Michael. Mr. Friendly ensnared Michael in a bolo. Michael was a witness when a hooded Kate was brought in. Mr. Friendly warned him to be quiet and had him gagged. The young girl who helped Claire escape was referred to as "Alex". She asked Michael about Claire and Claire's baby. Two days later, the group arrived at a tent village on the north shore of the island, beneath a strange landmark - a rock wall with a square hole in it. Possibly the remains of an old building. The description of the village that Michael gave Jack was accurate. Michael was turned over to someone called "Miss Klugh". She kept him tied up in one of the tents and asked him questions about Walt for the next eight days. At that time, Michael demanded once again to see Walt. Miss Klugh told Michael that he would get three minutes to see Walt. She brought him in. Walt said that they make him take tests, and that the Others are pretending. Walt begged his father to help him, and said that he loved him before he was taken away. Miss Klugh offered Michael a deal: free the prisoner the Oceanic survivors have captured, and bring only Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and Hurley back to this camp, and Michael and Walt would go free. Michael, now a broken man, agreed. After the bodies of his victims were carried out, Michael started cleaning up the blood. Eko came in. Michael asked Eko if he beleived in hell. Eko told him that when he was a priest in England, he heard a confession from a young boy that he beat his dog to death with a shovel because it had bitten his baby sister on the cheek. The boy asked if he would go to hell. Eko told the boy that god would forgive him. But the boy didn't care about forgiveness, and was more worried that the dog would be waiting for him in hell. Michael went into the jungle and threw up. Jack found him and Michael told him his plan: Only he, Jack, Sawyer, Kate and Hurley must come with him to get Walt back. Everyone was surprised to see Michael back on the beach. When Michael learned that Sawyer had invited Sayid to come, Michael was angry and told Sayid not to come. Hurley didn't want to go at first, but at the funeral for Libby and Ana-Lucia, he turned to Michael and said that he was going to go. Before they set off on Michael's hike to get Walt back, Kate warned the group that the Others might be pretending, with the fake beards they wear. Michael insisted they weren't pretending. In the jungle, a large bird startled the group, and Michael tried to shoot it, only to find out that his gun wasn't loaded. Jack said that he must have forgotten to load it, and gave Michael a full clip, but Michael started to worry that Jack might suspect him. After Sawyer shot one of the Others who were following them, the group wanted to turn back, fearing the second one would escape and warn of the Oceanic survivors apprach. Jack said that they'd already been warned and confronted Michael, intimidated by Jack's anger, Michael confessed to letting Henry Gale out, and to the murders of Ana-Lucia and Libby. He said that he did it because he thought it was the only way to get his sone back, and he said he would do it again. The group was disgusted, but continued on anyway. Michael lead them to a clearing deep inland where the Others ambushed the group and captured Sawyer, Hurley, Kate and Jack. Michael went with them to Pala Ferry dock. Henry Gale drove a boat up to the dock. He told Michael that he wasn't happy with the deal Miss Klugh had made with him, but he said he got more then they bargained for when they got Walt, so he would abide by the terms of the deal. He gave Michael the boat and told him to steer to compass heading 325 to find rescue. Michael asked Henry how he knew he wouldn't tell civilization about the island. Henry said that it was irrleevant since he doubted that anyone would be able to find the island. He also noted that because of what Michael did to get his son back, he was unlikely to tell anyone. Michael found Walt on the boat, and they left the island. Trivia: Sawyer in (EX3) says that Michael has the
patience of a saint because if Walt talked to him the way he did to
Michael he would have shown him the back of his hand (probably same as
his upbringing) a long time ago.
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