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Sayid Jarrah

Naveen Andrews as Sayid
First appearance "Pilot, Part 1"
Centric
episode(s)		 "Solitary"
"The Greater Good"
"One of Them"
"Enter 77"
"The Economist"
"There's No Place Like Home"
"He's Our You"[1]
Information
Name Sayid Jarrah
Age 39
Former
residence		 Tikrit, Iraq
Portrayed by Naveen Andrews

Sayid Hassan Jarrah (Arabic: سعيد حسّان جراح ‎ Sa‘īd Ḥassān Jarrāḥ) is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost, played by Naveen Andrews.

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[edit] Character biography

[edit] Prior to the crash

The son of an Iraqi war hero from the Iran–Iraq War, Sayid served as a communications officer in the Iraqi Republican Guard and is a skilled radio and mechanical engineer. During the Gulf War, Sayid's base was captured by the Americans. Since he is the only Iraqi in his squad to speak English, he is forced to ask his superior officer about a missing U.S. pilot. When Sayid learns of a planned attack on his home village, his head capturer, Kelvin Inman gives him a box of torturing tools, and forces Sayid to use them to gain the desired information of the missing pilot, who he learns was executed earlier. At the end of the Gulf War, with Saddam still in power, Sayid is released back into the Republican Guard. Inman tells him that he now has a valuable gift of being able to gain information, but Sayid swears that he will never torture again. However, he later, through unknown circumstances, becomes a torturer for that Guard. At one point, he learns that the subject of his latest interrogation is to be his childhood friend Nadia. Sayid falls in love with her, and she provides the impetus for Sayid to begin his road to redemption, and he does not torture her. However, he learns that she will soon be executed, and he helps her escape by shooting his commanding officer and shooting himself in the leg, making it look as though Nadia was responsible.

Some time after, Sayid leaves the Republican Guard in order to track down Nadia. He eventually travels to Paris, where he works as a chef. Some time later, Sayid is taken prisoner and locked in the pantry. A person named Sami recognizes Sayid as the man who tortured his wife with boiling oil, and attempts to beat a confession out of him. Sayid denies ever meeting his wife; when Sami's wife, Amira, confronts him, Sayid finally admits to torturing her, and tearfully apologizes to her. Sayid is forgiven, and Amira tells Sami that Sayid is not the man who tortured her after all; Sayid is released soon after. Later, Sayid travels to England, where he is picked up by the ASIS and the CIA. They admit to have been following Sayid's movements, and make him a deal: if Sayid can infiltrate a terrorist cell in Sydney, whose members he is familiar with, and uncover stolen C-4, then they will tell him where Nadia is.

Sayid accepts, and is dropped off in Australia, where he meets with his former college roommate, Essam, from Cairo University. Sayid convinces Essam to become a suicide bomber in order for the intelligence to take possession of the stolen explosives. However, at the very last moment, Sayid admits to Essam that he is working with the CIA, and attempts to allow his friend to escape; Essam realizes that Sayid has deceived him over a woman, and kills himself. Sayid is given tickets to Los Angeles, departing that day, but he insists on giving Essam a proper Muslim funeral, and asks to catch a flight the next day instead; he is then given tickets for Oceanic Flight 815. At the airport the next day, Sayid asks Shannon to watch his bag while he enters a gift shop, but she turns him over to the authorities. Sayid is promptly released, and allowed to board the doomed flight.

[edit] After the crash

[edit] Season 1

Sayid fixes the transceiver recovered from the cockpit, and leads a group into the jungle in order to send out a distress signal. However, he instead picks up a looping message (recorded by Rousseau).[2] Later, he, Kate and Boone try to triangulate the signal in order to locate its origin. However, his efforts are thwarted by Locke, who knocks him out.[3] When Shannon suffers from a near-fatal asthma attack, Sayid brutally interrogates Sawyer in an attempt to recover Shannon's medication.[4] Having again broken his promise to never torture again, Sayid leaves the beach in order to explore the island, by following the beach. In the jungle, he is snagged in a booby-trap by Rousseau. Danielle tells Sayid she was part of a science team, and they crashed on the island. She identifies the Others as the carriers of a sickness that her companions caught. Sayid doesn’t believe her, and leaves.[5]

Upon returning, he seeks Shannon's help with translating the maps that he stole from Danielle. Upon doing so, the two bond and eventually form a relationship.[6] One day, Sayid and Shannon are informed of Boone's death.[7] Locke asks for Shannon's forgiveness, but Shannon confronts Locke in the jungle. Left with no choice, Sayid tackles Shannon just as she fires a gun. That night, Sayid tells Locke to take him to the hatch.[8] Rousseau arrives on the beach one morning with news that the Others are coming to abduct a child.[9] Later, he learns that Claire's baby, Aaron, had been kidnapped by Rousseau. Sayid surmises that Rousseau intends to attempt an exchange of Claire's baby for her own child, Alex, with the "Others". Sayid and Charlie find Rousseau's hiding place, and Rousseau returns the baby.[10]

[edit] Season 2

Shannon tells Sayid that she has seen Walt in the jungle several times, but he suggests she was having a dream. Shannon tells him she's going to find Walt. After an argument between the couple, Sayid tells Shannon that he loves her and will never leave her. Then they see Walt, and Shannon dashes after him. He then witnesses Ana Lucia shooting Shannon who dies in his arms.[11] Ana Lucia ties him up and interrogates him. She then frees Sayid, drops her weapon, and dares Sayid to take his revenge, but he refuses.[12] Some time later, Danielle takes Sayid to a man she captured, who is in a net hanging from a tree, suspecting to be an Other. The man identifies himself as Henry Gale, saying he crashed in a hot-air balloon on the island about four months ago. Ignoring Danielle's warning, Sayid frees the man. Sayid brings Henry Gale to the hatch and tells Locke about him. Sayid asks Locke to change the combination in the hatch, so he can find out more by torturing Henry in a secure room. Saying he is lying, Sayid beats Henry until being stopped by Jack.[13]

One day, while working on building a table for the beach with Charlie, Ana Lucia approaches him with a map to the alleged balloon that crashed in the jungle. The three head off into the jungle and eventually discover Henry Gale's grave, along with the balloon.[14] When he learns of Michael's return, and the deaths of Ana Lucia and Libby, he tells Jack that he suspects Michael has been "compromised", and plans to follow him somehow.[15] Fortunately, Desmond unexpectedly returns with his boat, and Sayid plans on using it. He asks Jin to accompany him, but Sun insists on joining them. They arrive at the Others' camp, and Sayid enters cautiously, only to learn that the camp is merely a decoy.[16]

[edit] Season 3

Sayid plans to lure the Others to the pier, in an attempt to kidnap two of them for interrogation. However, their plan backfires when the Others arrive via the sea and hijack the boat. Sayid and the Kwons make their way back to their camp.[17] Upon returning, Sayid joins a group on a trek to the Pearl station. Once there, Sayid gains brief surveillance footage from another station, where they see an eye patched man.[18] When Kate and Sawyer return, Sayid and Locke join her and Rousseau in rescuing Jack.[19]

The four arrive at the Flame station, where they encounter Mikhail, the man they saw in the surveillance feed of the Pearl. After a big struggle, Mikhail is defeated by Sayid and Kate, who tie him up. Sayid enters the basement of the Flame, and takes some maps of the different stations.[20] The five move along following the maps indications, towards the Barracks, until they come across a sonar panel fencing, where Mikhail collapses. The four later arrive at the Others' barracks, where they watch as Jack bonds with the Others.[21] That night, Sayid and Kate infiltrate the barracks, only to be captured by the Others.[22] He is then gassed the next day, released only when Juliet discovers him. He returns to the beach with Jack, Kate and Juliet.[23]

Sayid attempts to interrogate Juliet on the journey, but she says that if she tells him everything, then he will kill her.[23] Sayid is soon informed of Naomi's presence, and after speaking to her begins to question her; he is soon taken aback when she gives him her satellite phone, having expected her to have no way to contact her boat.[24] The next day, Sayid is taken into the jungle, where Jack and Juliet come clean and reveal their secretive plans to destroy the Others.[25] When Karl warns them of their imminent arrival, Sayid remains on the beach to detonate the dynamite, along with Jin and Bernard. That night, Sayid shoots his target accurately, but ultimately winds up captured by the remaining three Others. Hurley runs over Ryan Pryce using the DHARMA Van which kills him and when the other walks in front of Sayid, Sayid trips him up and snaps his neck with his feet, killing him. He, along with Sawyer, Juliet, Hurley, Jin and Bernard wait at the beach for rescue.[26]

[edit] Season 4

Jack and Locke have a confrontation, and Sayid elects to remain with Jack.[27] He goes out to hunt for more of the people who crashed on the helicopter. Sayid then makes a trade with Locke for Charlotte, who he brings back to Jack and the helicopter. Charlotte then does not want to go home, so Sayid, Desmond, and a dead Naomi get on the helicopter.[28] During the helicopter ride, Sayid witnesses Desmond's time travel. In the boat, Sayid helps Desmond to communicate with his girlfriend in order to stop the travels.[29]

Later, they wait, on deck, to meet with the captain of the freighter, Gault. Gault tells them his employer is Charles Widmore.[30] Later they find Michael Dawson, who tells Sayid that he is a spy.[31] Sayid and Desmond later witness Keamy's furious return to the boat after his failed attempt to capture Ben. Fearing Keamy's intentions, he persuades Gault to give him and Desmond a Zodiac boat to return to the island, hoping to save as many people as possible by moving them from the island to the boat.[32]

Sayid returns to the beach on the freighter's Zodiac. Sayid and Kate go after Jack and Sawyer, who are following a homing beacon left by Lapidus. They are captured by Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell) and the rest of the Others.[33] He and the Others successfully ambush Keamy and his mercenaries by sending Kate out to them, and then getting into a gunfight with them. They then go to the helicopter with Jack, Hurley, Sawyer and Lapidus, but Sawyer leaves them to reduce the weight. They are able to land on the ship, but are quickly informed that the ship is about to explode. They quickly refuel, and pick up Desmond, Sun, and Aaron, before lifting off. On the way back to the island, they see a white light envelop it, before the entire island appears to sink beneath the waves. They drift for several hours, but are eventually rescued by another boat owned by Penelope Widmore. Jack also informs all of them that they will have to lie about their entire experience on the island in order to protect the people still there from Charles Widmore.[34]

[edit] After the island

At a press conference held by Oceanic Airlines Sayid is finally reunited with Nadia, and some time later the two get married.[33] However, his and Nadia's happiness is abruptly cut short when she is killed, and Sayid decides to hold her funeral in their home country. At the funeral, Sayid spots Ben spying on him, who tells Sayid about Nadia's killer, Bakir, to which Sayid carries out his revenge by shooting him repeatedly. Following this event, Sayid eventually begins working for Ben as an assassin, after being informed that Nadia's death was part of a larger plan orchestrated by Charles Widmore.[35]

On one such mission, Sayid travels to Berlin, Germany, where he meets a woman named Elsa. The two bond quickly, but the relationship is cut short when Elsa, who works for one of Sayid's targets, learns about his true intentions, and injures him. Sayid shoots her before.[28] Sayid is later visited by John Locke who asks him to return with him to the Island, but he refuses. In Los Angeles, Sayid kills a man who was staked out in front of the Santa Rosa Mental Hospital, and breaks Hurley out of the mental institution.[34]

[edit] Season 5

Sayid is wounded in a fight at his motel, and Hurley takes him home and has his father get Jack to treat Sayid.[36][37] Upon awakening Sayid refuses to cooperate with Jack and Ben's plan to return everyone to the Island. However, he appears the next day in law enforcement custody on board the plane that crashes on the Island.

Sayid's first appearance on the island takes place in 1977, when he vanished along with Jack, Kate, and Hurley enroute from Los Angeles to Guam on Daijiri Flight 315. He would make his way to where the Dharma Initiative Station THE FLAME was located, where he is captured by a time traveling Jin. He is transported from the Flame to the BARRACKS, where he met a very young Benjamin Linus. Despite attempts by Sawyer to try to expedite his escape, Sayid refuses these overtures, leading to Sayid being chemically interrogated by a shaman-like DHARMA INITIATIVE member. Later, Ben would help stage a fire to give him the cover to help free Sayid in hopes he would take him to the Other's. However, during the escape, Sayid would shoot Ben, leaving him for dead before escaping into the jungle.

Sayid reappears in "Follow the Leader" as Jack, Kate, Richard, Eloise Hawking, a younger Charles Widmore, and an unnamed Other are walking through the jungle. Kate no longer wants to be a part of this mission, but as she is walking away, the Other tells her that he will shoot her if she leaves. Sayid shoots him in the chest, killing him. Right before they make the swim to the bomb, Sayid follows them. Shortly before "The Incident" is about to occur, Sayid and Jack pose as DHARMA employees and attempt to smuggle a core piece of the hydrogen bomb to the Swan Station. However, they are discovered by Roger Linus, and Sayid is shot in the ensuing chaos. Sayid is last seen in the DHARMA van with Hurley and Miles, who says that Sayid will probably die from his wounds.

[edit] Development

Sayid was not in the original draft of the pilot episode, but the producers knew early on that they wanted an international cast. Executive consultant Jeff Pinkner had worked with Naveen Andrews on a short-lived ABC series called “The Beast”, and was keen to have him on Lost. The producers were surprised that Andrews was interested in the role. When they cast him, all Andrews was told, was that Sayid was from Iraq and had been in the army.[38]

[edit] Reception

Chris Carabott of IGN stated that in the episode "The Economist", "Sayid Jarrah is a badass who could give Jack Bauer, James Bond, and Jason Bourne all a run for their money".[39] Faisal Abbas, Media Editor of the London based international Arab daily - Asharq Al-Awsat, considered that Jarrah, along with other 'heroic' Muslim characters (such as Sleeper Cell's Darwyn al-Sayeed) who emerged in American media after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, are proof that Arabs and Muslims have been undertaking more prominent roles within the media since those events. [40] Entertainment Weekly describes "tortured Sayid" as a "captivating minor character".[41]

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