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Juliet Burke
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Dr. Juliet Burke (née Carlson) was a member of the Others that is currently traveling with Jack's group of survivors. During her time with The Others, she lived at the Barracks, but grew increasingly desperate to get off of the Island to visit her dying sister. Indefinately, Ben prolonged her stay on the island because he thought of her as "his". Juliet has a background in reproductive medicine, and acted as the fertiliy doctor for the Others after being recruited by Richard Alpert for Mittelos Bioscience. She left the Others with hopes of leaving the Island with the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815, however she was distrusted by all of them except Jack. Despite the circumstances, Jack and Juliet bonded during their last few days on the island before Jack left and Juliet remained behind after Ben moved the island.
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Before the Crash
Off the Island
Before 2001, Juliet was a fertility doctor working under her ex-husband, Edmund Burke, at the Miami Central University Medical Research Laboratory, a biological research facility in Miami. While working on her research in the labs, she was secretly administering her experimental treatments to her sister, Rachel, who was stricken with cancer. Chemotherapy had left her unable to have children. ("Not in Portland")
One night Juliet sneaks into the laboratory to steal some medicine for her experiment on Rachel. Edmund and a woman named Sherry stumble upon her, and Edmund asks what Juliet is doing. Juliet says she was just correcting a mistake, and Edmund tells her to go home and leave Sherry and himself for apparent romance in the dark. ("Not in Portland")
Juliet attends her meeting with Dr. Alpert from Mittelos Bioscience, who is presenting a slide show about their facilities in Portland, Oregon, in the hope of recruiting her as a head of a team of highly trained people. His pitch of independent funding and research freedom intrigues Juliet, who asks why they are interested in her. Alpert talks about Juliet's research, in which she managed to impregnate a male field mouse, and is clearly impressed with her work. ("Not in Portland")
He asks her to examine a slide of a CT sequence. Juliet assesses that it is a human womb, and judging by the scan, most likely of a barren patient in her 70s. However, she is told that the woman is in fact just 26 years old, and that she could find out why if she worked with them. However, Juliet begins to cry, stating that her ex-husband Edmund would never let her go, jokingly saying that short of his getting hit by a bus, she would not be able to leave the University. Apologizing, she leaves, adding that she is no leader. ("Not in Portland")
Back at home, Juliet tells her sister about the interview and her feelings of failure, but is shocked to learn that she has not failed, and that Rachel is pregnant. Rachel has the box and instructions for a Widmore Home Pregnancy Kit on the table. With the resolve that all she must do now is get healthy again, Rachel and Juliet embrace, and talk about confronting Edmund. ("Not in Portland")
Juliet finds Edmund talking on his cell phone to his mother outside the lab. She tells him that Rachel is pregnant, but refuses to allow collaboration and testing on her sister. As Edmund argues, he steps out into the street and is hit by a bus and killed. ("Not in Portland")
Juliet goes to the morgue to identify Edmund's body and sign paperwork. The doctor leaves her alone, and she starts to cry. She is interrupted by the appearance of Alpert and Ethan Rom. She then begins to think back to her interview with Alpert where she had spoken about Edmund getting hit by a bus. Alpert brushes off the comment, saying that Juliet must still be in shock, and that he doesn't recall her statement. He asks her once more to join Mittelos Bioscience, asking her to just give them six months, in order for her to be able to return to Miami in time for her sister's delivery. Juliet is shocked, and asks how they knew about her sister's pregnancy. Alpert replies that "we're very thorough in our recruitment process". When Juliet asks whether she can bring her sister with her to Portland, Alpert tells her that it may be difficult for her to get her treatment at such a remote facility, as it is in fact "not quite in Portland". ("Not in Portland")
Later, after Juliet hugs Rachel good-bye and tells her that she'll be back to see the baby born, she is asked by Richard Alpert to drink orange juice with tranquilizer to prepare her for the journey to the Mittelos facility. When she hesitates, Alpert tells her that she has a gift and they hired her specifically because they believe that gift is unique. She drinks the orange juice too fast and loses consciousness, later to awake with her hands, waist, and barefeet strapped down after they have arrived at the Island. ("One of Us")
With the Others
After a week on the Island, Juliet spoke with a therapist named Harper about her discomfort at being the center of attention. Harper made a few snippy comments before Tom interrupted the session to tell Juliet that Ben wanted to see her. They left the office and crossed the Barracks to where Ben was waiting to present Juliet with a welcoming gift: her own two bedroom house, fully furnished with a music collection. When Juliet protested, saying she would only be there for six months, Ben told her they just wanted her to feel at home.
Sometime later, Juliet was in her office weeping about the loss of a patient. Goodwin, sporting a burn on his arm, entered and asked Juliet to treat him, claiming he had gotten hurt leaning against a transformer at the power station. While treating the injury, Juliet made snide remarks about Harper, telling Goodwin the therapist didn't like her. When Goodwin told her Harper was his wife, Juliet asked him not to tell her what she had said, in return for which she wouldn't tell anyone his injury was really a chemical burn. ("The Other Woman")
After losing another patient, Sabine, Goodwin tried to comfort Juliet, telling her he would speak to Ben. Later, as she sat on the rocky coastline, Ben approached and told her Sabine had been aware of the risks she was taking when she became pregnant. Juliet said she thought the problems occurred at conception, but the only way to be sure would be to take one of the women off the Island. Ben refused and Juliet said there was nothing more she could do and that it was time for her to go home to her sister, who was due to give birth in three months. Ben informed her that Rachel's cancer had returned and she would be dead before her due date. He pulled medical papers from his bag and showed them to Juliet as proof. Juliet was angry that Ben hadn't told her sooner and Ben offered her a deal. If Juliet would stay on the Island and continue her research, Ben would make sure Jacob cured Rachel's cancer. ("One of Us")
One day, while Juliet discussed the Island's pregnancy problems with Ben, Goodwin came in to offer Juliet a sandwich. When he spotted Ben, he became awkward and offered him one, too. They both declined and Goodwin left. Ben was noticeably jealous and appeared suspicious of Juliet's relationship with Goodwin. Later that day, during a therapy session, Harper confronted Juliet about her affair with Goodwin. When Juliet denied the accusation, Harper told her she had seen them together. Juliet apologized, but Harper said she wasn't concerned about her marriage, but about what Ben would do if he found out. She said Ben was smitten with Juliet because she looked just like "her." ("The Other Woman")
Later, during a private date far from the Barracks, Goodwin told Juliet he wanted to tell Harper about their relationship. When she said she didn't think it was a good idea, Goodwin told her he had been sleeping on the couch for a year, indicating his marriage was already in trouble anyway. Juliet, choosing not to reveal Harper's knowledge of the affair, said she was more worried about how Ben would react. Goodwin asked if it was because of Ben's crush on her and told her everyone knew about it because Ben followed her around "like a puppy." He said he worked with chemicals that could kill everyone on the Island if he flipped the wrong switch and tried to convince her that Ben had enough on his plate without worrying about the two of them. Juliet expressed her lingering concern, but Goodwin laughed dismissively. ("The Other Woman")
One day, while in bed with Goodwin, Juliet told him the next day would be the third anniversary of her arrival on the Island. There was a knock at the door, and Goodwin waited in the bedroom while Juliet got up to receive X-rays from Karl showing that Ben had a tumor. Juliet confronted Ben with the X-rays and accused him of lying about Rachel's health, asking him how he could possibly cure someone else's cancer when he was susceptible to it himself. Ben said he had told her the truth when he said Jacob had cured Rachel. Juliet begged Ben to let her go home, but he refused. ("One of Us")
The next day Juliet, still upset about her argument with Ben, burned herself while making muffins in preparation for the book club meeting. Amelia arrived early and helped her clean up. When Amelia noticed she had been crying, Juliet started to show her the X-rays as explanation. Before she could open the envelope, she was interrupted by the doorbell as the book club members began to arrive. ("The Envelope")
The club discussed Juliet's favorite book, Carrie by Stephen King. Adam, who condescendingly called her Julie, said the book was garbage that Ben wouldn't even read in the bathroom. Juliet joked about the lack of free will on the Island just before the ground began to shake and a loud noise prompted everyone to take cover. When the shaking stopped they all went outside, where they looked up to see Oceanic Flight 815 break apart in the sky. Ben sent Ethan and Goodwin to infiltrate the two crash sites, demanding lists in three days. Goodwin gave Juliet a meaningful look, then ran off to carry out Ben's orders. Harper gazed at Juliet with an expression that suggested she thought Ben was punishing her husband because of Juliet's affair with him. ("A Tale of Two Cities") ("One of Us") ("The Other Woman")
After the Crash
After Goodwin and Ethan had gone, Ben took Juliet to the Flame. Inside, Mikhail sat in front of a stack of TV monitors showing Oceanic Flight 815 taking off and news reports about the missing plane. Mikhail made contact with Richard and one of the monitors switched to a video feed showing a newspaper showing the date. Ben made sure Juliet realized the feed was live, then the camera panned up to show Rachel, her hair grown back, playing with her toddler son, Julian. Juliet was overjoyed to see her sister alive and healthy and cried as she gripped the TV screen. Ben coldly closed the connection and Mikhail shut down the video feed. Juliet begged for a few more minutes and again asked Ben to let her return home. Ben told her she couldn't leave until her research was finished and suggested there might be a pregnant woman on the plane. ("One of Us")
Juliet arrived one night at Ben's house carrying a basket of dinner rolls. Ben, excited to see her, cheerfully answered the door and told her it would just be the two of them. He thanked her for being so good with Zack and Emma, and dismissed Juliet's concerns about their questions about their mother, saying they would eventually stop asking. As Ben cut the ham, Juliet asked how much longer Goodwin's assignment would last. Ben's face hardened and he attempted to make Juliet jealous by telling her Goodwin had become fond of a woman named Ana Lucia. Goodwin was trying to make a case for her to join their society, but Ben said his assignment would end soon. ("The Other Woman")
Some time later, 27 to 44 days after the plane crash, Juliet was reading a file given to her by Mikhail when Ben came to see her. She told him the file contained information about a spinal surgeon who had been on the plane, but Ben seemed uninterested and told Juliet he wanted to show her something. He took her to see Goodwin's body impaled on a wooden stake. He revealed his knowledge about their affair and Juliet accused Ben of sending Goodwin on what he knew was a suicide mission. When she asked him why he did it, Ben told her the reason he was keeping her on the Island was because "you're mine." ("The Other Woman")
Between days 45 and 49, the Others were holding Walt in Room 23 at the Hydra compound after having taken him from the survivors' raft. Walt had done something that disturbed and concerned the Others, and Juliet tried to get Ben to take notice and intervene, their relationship clearly strained as Juliet has begun to hate him more and more. She told him that Walt was dangerous and that perhaps they should bring him back to Michael, but Ben disagreed, saying Walt was only a child. Juliet took Ben outside to show him what Walt had done: a group of dead birds were lying on the stairwell under a window. ("Room 23")
Juliet later accompanied Ben to the Pearl, where the found the door was already open. They used a monitor to view the survivors in the Swan and Ben stated his intentions of exploiting Jack's emotional investments to get him to do surgery on Ben. Upon Juliet's questioning, he said he planned to use Michael to bring Jack to them, along with Kate and Sawyer to be used as leverage. They turned to leave the station, leaving a walkie behind, and Ben told Juliet to have Tom cover the Pearl's hatch with the plane. ("Exposé")
While Michael was being held at the decoy village, Juliet came to see him and told him he could have the boat he requested. She told him Walt was very special and that she was glad he would be able to be with Michael again. She assured Michael that the Others would honor their end of the bargain, and told him about the deal she had made to save her sister. Michael asked why she would bother to save her if she couldn't be with her, and Juliet replied, "Wouldn't you do anything to save Walt?" ("The Deal")
Season 3 (Days 68-91)
Sixty-nine days after the crash, Juliet introduced herself to Jack, who was being held at the Hydra station. She offered him food and tried to build a rapport, but Jack attacked her and forced her out of the cell. He told her to open a hatch door at the end of the hall, but Juliet said they would both die if she did. Ben arrived and confirmed it, but Jack started to open it anyway. Ben ran into another room, locking Juliet out as water flooded the corridor. After helping Jack close the door, she knocked him out and returned him to his cell, where she showed him his file and said she knew a lot about him. When she began to gain Jack's trust, Ben privately congratulated her during a tense conversation. ("A Tale of Two Cities")
Later, at the quarry, Sawyer's insubordination forced Juliet to hold a gun on Kate, leaving Sawyer with the impression that she would have shot Kate, "no problem." Juliet continued to see Jack and a relationship began to form. Jack tried to exploit the situation by suggesting Ben had authority over her, but Juliet said she and Ben made decisions together. ("The Glass Ballerina")
Perhaps influenced by Jack's words, Juliet defied Ben and released Jack long enough to help her save Colleen, who had been shot in the stomach by Sun. Juliet panicked, as she was not a surgeon, and tried to help Jack in vain as Colleen's pulse flatlined. Afterwards, she admitted to Jack that she was actually a fertility doctor and was not used to death. Jack questioned her about X-rays he had seen which suggested a man in his forties needed a spinal operation. Jack surmised that the reason the Others had taken him was to perform the operation. Juliet said nothing. ("Every Man for Himself")
At Colleen's funeral, Ben confronted Juliet about her letting Jack see his X-rays. Juliet said she never told Jack the X-rays were Ben's. Juliet showed Jack a videotape that covertly asked him to "accidentally" kill Ben during surgery, saying he was dangerous and that several of the Others wanted him dead. While the tape played silently, she sang Ben's virtues for the benefit of the video cameras and microphones and told Jack why he should help him. ("The Cost of Living")
The next day, Juliet ordered Kate to go with her to the underwater section of the Hydra to tell Jack if he didn't operate on Ben's tumor, Danny would kill Sawyer. Jack refused, but later, from the monitoring room, saw Kate and Sawyer having sex in the bear cage. He agreed to do the surgery on the condition that Ben get him home afterward. During the operation, Jack slit Ben's kidney sac and made demands of Juliet and the Others, and also made mention of Juliet's request for him to kill Ben. He contacted Kate and told her she and Sawyer had an hour to escape before the Others pursued them. ("I Do")
Juliet called his bluff, saying he wouldn't deliberately let a patient die. She ordered the Others to capture Kate and Sawyer and kill them if necessary. She changed her attitude, however, after a private conversation with Ben, during which he told her she cold go home if she helped the prisoners escape. She found out Alex was helping them and went to call off the Others, but Pickett wouldn't let them go. Juliet shot him before he could kill Kate and Sawyer, then allowed Kate to contact Jack and confirm her safety. Juliet told Alex she had to stay behind, but let Karl go with Kate and Sawyer to the other island. ("Not in Portland")
The Others arrested Juliet for Pickett's murder and put her in a cell in the Hydra. She later visited Jack, who had been moved to Sawyer's old cage, to ask him to take a look at Ben's stitches, but Jack refused. Later, during an interrogation by Isabel, Jack said he had lied about Juliet telling him to kill Ben. Isabel saw through the lie and sentenced Juliet to death at her trial. Jack saved Ben in exchange for Juliet's life, and she was merely marked as punishment for her crime. Jack treated her wound and they later boarded the Others' yacht and accompanied them to the Barracks. ("Stranger in a Strange Land")
Ben, true to his word, made arrangements for Jack and Juliet to leave the Island in the submarine. However, hours before they were set to leave, Locke, Sayid and Kate came to the Barracks to save Jack, and Locke destroyed the submarine with C-4. ("The Man from Tallahassee")
Hours later, Ben and Juliet went over the plan for Juliet to con the survivors into believing she was one of them. She would remain at their camp for one week, gaining their trust by saving Claire's life after Ben activated an implant inside her. The Others gassed the camp and left, and Juliet handcuffed herself to Kate and pretended she had been left behind. After Kate woke up, Juliet tried to gain her sympathy by saying the people she had lived with for three years had deserted her. The women argued, and Juliet told Kate that Jack had seen her and Sawyer on a video monitor and it had broken his heart. Kate attacked her and dislocated Juliet's arm for the fourth time during the struggle. As Juliet writhed on the ground, they heard the Monster and ran for cover. Juliet said she didn't know what it was, but the next day, she repelled the Monster with the sonic barrier. When they had freed Jack and Sayid at the Barracks, Kate and Sayid expressed their reluctance to take Juliet back to their camp, but Jack was adamant that she join them. ("Left Behind")
Upon reaching the beach, Juliet was treated with suspicion by most of the camp, especially Sawyer and Sayid. Feeling ostracized, she sat alone on the beach and didn't speak to anyone except Hurley, who was sent to watch her. In accordance with Ben's plan, Claire became ill and Juliet claimed to recognize her symptoms, explaining the illness was due to withdrawal from medication she herself had developed in an attempt to solve the problem of pregnancy among the Others. She told Jack that Ethan had stashed medical supplies not far from the caves and said that Claire would die soon if she wasn't treated appropriately. ("One of Us")
Juliet left to recover the medical kit (which had actually recently been left by Pryce), but before she could return to Claire she was confronted by Sayid and Sawyer, who wanted answers about who she really was and what the Others were doing on the Island. Juliet, using her background knowledge of them, told them they should not take the moral high ground as their own pasts were quite shady themselves. She asked them how long it had taken after the crash before they told their fellow survivors that Sayid was a torturer and Sawyer was a killer. She said if she wasn't allowed to return, Claire would die and her blood would be on their hands as well. She took the medical kit and returned to the beach where she successfully treated Claire. Jack gave her a tarp and a few blankets and pillows to set up her own tent. He told her that many of the people in the camp were ready to give her the benefit of the doubt. No one had seen through her ruse. ("One of Us")
After a few days, Sun angrily confronted Juliet and asked her what happened to pregnant women on the Island. Juliet told her they all died, and later that night woke Sun and told her there may still be hope for her. She took her to the Staff, telling Sun the last nine pregnant women she had examined were dead, and she wanted to give someone good news for once. She examined Sun, hoping to find she had conceived off the Island, and was devastated to learn otherwise. Sun, however, was happy to know the baby was Jin's and thanked Juliet for giving her good news. ("D.O.C.")
Juliet took Sun outside, then said she had to go back in to make sure their tracks had been covered. Once inside, she opened a locker and picked up a tape recorder. She left a message for Ben telling him Sun was pregnant and that she would have Kate's sample soon. She turned the recorder off before adding, "I hate you." ("D.O.C.")
During a heart to heart talk with Jack, Juliet said his friends' distrust was justified. She told him Ben had sent her to the beach camp to find out which of the women were pregnant so he could send a team to kidnap them. She described seeing Sun's baby on the ultrasound and told Jack she was tired of living Ben's dream. ("Operation: Sleeper")
Later, Kate approached Jack, wanting a private word with him. Juliet started to leave to give them privacy, but Jack insisted she stay. Kate told them a woman had parachuted onto the Island and none of Jack's friends trusted him enough to tell him about it. Juliet told Jack they should tell Kate about Ben's plan, but Jack refused. However, Sawyer came into possession of the tape recorder, and played Juliet's message to Ben for the survivors. Juliet said he could burn her at the stake if he wanted to, but asked him to turn the tape over first. Sawyer did, and Ben's voice was heard detailing his plan to kidnap Sun and any other women who might be pregnant. Jack told the survivors that Juliet had already come clean to him, but he hadn't wanted to say anything until he figured out what to do about it. ("The Brig") ("The Man Behind the Curtain")
Jack and Juliet revealed their plan to blow up the Others with dynamite when they came to take the pregnant women. Sayid wanted to use Naomi's phone to call her boat, but Juliet said the Others were blocking all transmissions off the Island from an underwater station called the Looking Glass. She started toward the radio tower with Jack to turn off Rousseau's distress signal, then split with the group to join Sawyer as he went back to the beach to help Sayid, Bernard and Jin, who had stayed behind to blow up the tents. Hiding at the beach, Juliet and Sawyer tried to formulate a plan, but Hurley took matters into his own hands by driving the DHARMA van out of the jungle and onto the beach, killing Pryce. Sayid then snaps Jason's neck using his feet. Tom tries to grab a gun but Juliet stops him, pointing the gun to his head. Tom surrenders, but Sawyer shoots him anyway. ("Greatest Hits") ("Through the Looking Glass")
Season 4 (Days 91-100)
With Sayid, Bernard and Jin safe at the beach, Juliet began to dig graves for her former comrades. Before she could finish, Desmond arrived at the beach to tell everyone that whoever was coming to the Island could be harmful. Juliet armed herself and traveled with the rest of the group to the radio tower to warn Jack. ("The Beginning of the End")
Hurley fell behind and they stopped a few miles inland at the cockpit to wait for him. Hurley had met Locke in the jungle and brought him along. When Jack showed up with his group, he attacked Locke and the survivors split into two groups, one led by Locke, the other led by Jack. ("The Beginning of the End")
Juliet and Sayid took Jack's group to the beach while Jack and Kate waited for the people from the freighter to arrive. They became anxious while waiting for their return and ventured into the jungle. They came upon Jack and Kate being held hostage by Daniel and Miles. They shot at the men and disarmed them, and the group moved on together. They found Frank Lapidus, the pilot of the freighter's helicopter, and Juliet tended to his wounds. When she introduced herself, Frank realized she was not on Oceanic 815. Miles became aggressive and demanded to know where "he" was. He showed her a picture of Ben and said his team was on the Island to capture him. ("Confirmed Dead")
Sayid found a picture of Desmond in Naomi's backpack and showed it to Jack. Juliet went to the beach, where she retrieved Desmond and brought him back to the helicopter. ("The Economist") When it had taken off, Sayid and Desmond on board, Juliet returned to the beach with Jack, Daniel and Charlotte. Jack spent the day trying in vain to get in touch with the freighter, and when night fell he and Juliet confronted Daniel and Charlotte. Charlotte called an emergency number and Regina told her the helicopter had never arrived on the freighter. ("Eggtown")
The next day, Juliet continued to question Charlotte about the helicopter, but Charlotte said she had no idea what was going on. Juliet pointed out that if she was really in the dark, she should have been worried. Daniel, despite Charlotte's protests, revealed that time was perceived differently on the Island and that the helicopter hadn't really been gone as long as they thought. ("The Constant")
That night, after learning from Jin that Charlotte and Daniel had gone off into the jungle, Jack and Juliet set off to look for them. They split up and Juliet began to hear whispers. She turned around to face Harper, who gave her orders she said came directly from Ben. She said Charlotte and Daniel were going to the Tempest to deploy a gas that would kill everyone on the Island, and it was Juliet's job to kill them. Jack found them and Harper introduced herself as an old friend of Juliet's. The whispers stopped suddenly, and Jack and Juliet turned their backs to look for their source. When they turned back around, Harper was gone. ("The Other Woman")
They continued their search and found Kate, who had been knocked unconscious by Charlotte. While Jack was busy tending to her, Juliet offered to get Kate some water but instead went off on her own to look for Daniel and Charlotte. She arrived at the Tempest and found Daniel inside typing frantically on a computer. He told her he wasn't trying to deploy the gas, but to disable it. Before Juliet could do anything, Charlotte attacked her from behind. The women fought as Daniel worked, and Juliet eventually got the upper hand and recovered her gun. Charlotte desperately told her Ben had used the gas before to kill everyone on the Island, and they were trying to prevent him from using it again. Juliet let Daniel continue, and he finally succeeded in his mission. ("The Other Woman")
Upon leaving the Tempest, Juliet and Charlotte were greeted by Kate and Jack. Juliet defended Charlotte when Kate pulled a gun on her, and Charlotte took Kate inside to show her what had happened. Alone with Jack, Juliet said she was afraid Ben was going to win the war against the freighter team and when he did, Jack would want to be far away from her. When Jack asked why, Juliet told him Ben thought she belonged to him and that he knew how she felt about Jack. Unafraid, Jack kissed her and said Ben knew where to find him. ("The Other Woman")
Juliet found Sun rifling through her medical kit, looking for prenatal vitamins, and told her that all she had to do was ask. Juliet surmised that Sun was going on a trip somewhere because she should still have two weeks worth of medicine left. Upon discovering that Sun was indeed planning to journey with Jin to Locke's group in the Barracks, Juliet urged her to stay, reminding her that not leaving the Island would mean death for her and the baby. When nothing seemed to be working, she broke her confidence with Sun by telling Jin that his wife had an affair with another man, leading Sun to slap her. Her goal of preventing Sun's departure accomplished, Juliet apologized to her, telling her that it was the only way she could ensure that she stay. She admitted that she didn't trust the people from the freighter either, but that they were their only hope. ("Ji Yeon")
A day later, Juliet responded to Bernard's cries for help when a body washed up on shore. After the body was identified as that of the freighter's doctor, Ray, Juliet insisted that Daniel fix the satellite phone. After the truth came out that rescue was never part of their intentions, Juliet was visibly shaken. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
The next day, Jack collapsed because of the pains in his stomach. Juliet diagnosed his stomach pains as appendicitis. Jack and Juliet agreed his appendix required immediate removal, as it was only a matter of time before it ruptured. Following Jack's absence as leader, Juliet took charge of the camp. She required a list of medical appliances for the operation. She put Sun in charge of gathering them from The Staff station; however, Sun only knew the location and not what the utensils looked like. Daniel offered to help identify the equipment. Despite all the distrust surrounding him and Charlotte, Juliet allowed them to go with Sun, so long that Jin was there for protection. Juliet later shaved Jack's stomach for the operation and explained she had knowledge of surgery. Jack seemed reluctant and demanded to be awake during the surgery. He insisted on having Kate present to hold a mirror so he could monitor the procedure. Juliet did not like the idea, but agreed nonetheless. ("Something Nice Back Home")
When Sun and the group came back from the Staff, Juliet started the surgery immediately. Bernard was also present for the surgery to assist Juliet. He numbed the stomach area as Juliet started with the first incision. Kate held the mirror for Jack to see the procedure. After the incision becomes deeper, Jack could not stand the pain, which made Kate upset. Kate was too hysterical, so Juliet ordered her to leave the tent and ordered Bernard to knock out Jack with a chloroform rag. When the operation was finished, Juliet told Kate she could come back in the tent. After she assured Kate that Jack would be fine, Juliet confessed to her the kiss she shared with Jack. Kate looked tearful but Juliet told Kate that Jack was just trying to prove he didn't love someone else (i.e., Kate). Kate appreciated this and thanked Juliet for saving Jack. After Kate left, Juliet told Jack she knew he was awake and he opened his eyes. ("Something Nice Back Home")
That night, Juliet scolded Jack for being up so soon after his surgery. Suddenly, a helicopter was heard. Juliet, like the rest of the camp, was over-joyed to see rescue may now be possible. However, the chopper flew over the camp and dropped a sat phone. Jack picked up the phone and told the group that he thought the people in the chopper wanted them to follow it. ("Cabin Fever")
Juliet implored Jack not to follow the helicopter, reminding him that he just had surgery and needed to recover. Jack told her he had to go; he had made a promise to rescue the survivors. This upset Juliet and she tearfully asked him not to "bleed to death." Juliet was later present on the beach when Sayid arrived on-shore in a raft, informing her that the people on the helicopter were dangerous. When Daniel began to ferry people from the Island to the freighter, Juliet insisted that Sun should be one of the first to escape the Island due to her pregnancy. As the raft sped away from the shore, a hopeful Juliet looked on. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")
After awhile Daniel returned with the raft, ready to transport more survivors to the freighter. Juliet thanked Daniel for helping them and she assisted more survivors into the raft, saying she promised not to leave until everyone else had made it off the Island. Later, when Sawyer swam back to shore after jumping out of the chopper, Juliet was sitting on the beach, drinking DHARMA rum. Sawyer asked her what she's celebrating and she said she wasn't celebrating, prompting Sawyer to look back to the freighter, only to see a smoking wreck. Sawyer and Juliet were both still sitting on the beach when Ben moved the Island ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3").
Trivia
- Juliet was the twenty-first character to ever have a flashback.
- Flight 815 crashed on the third anniversary of Juliet coming to the Island.
- Juliet's episode count so far is 29 (as of "There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3"). Along with Hurley and Jack, she is the character with the most episode appearences during Season 4 at 12.
- Juliet's mobisode count is 4, which makes her one of the three most appearing mobisode characters, together with Jack and Michael with 5.
- Juliet has never met Boone, Shannon, Ana Lucia, Eko, Libby, Nikki or Paulo. However, she has met the rest of the main characters.
- The first few minutes of A Tale of Two Cities showed a flashback that is Juliet-centric; the flashback is more dedicated to show what the Others were doing when Flight 815 broke up in mid-air, but it was shown from Juliet's POV.
- Carlton Cuse comments about Juliet: "I mean, what is her agenda? I mean, she obviously doesn't—she's not necessarily a fully-indoctrinated Other, is she?" (Official Lost Podcast/November 06, 2006)
- Juliet is the name of William Shakespeare's tragic heroine, who has a passionate love affair with Romeo, the son of a rival family. The hatred between the two families triggers a chain of events and misunderstandings. The story concludes when both Juliet and Romeo take their own lives due to complicated and secretive plans gone awry.
- She is often featured bringing prisoners meals; she puts obvious effort into making them "nice."
- She has some type of unarmed combat training, as seen when Jack, Kate, and Charlotte attack her.
- According to the Season 3 DVD, the tank in the Hydra station where Jack was being kept prisoner, was used also for sharks and "Juliet's dolphins".
- Juliet appears in the five episodes which feature the least amount of main-characters (being "A Tale of Two Cities", "Not in Portland" and "Stranger in a Strange Land" with 5 and "The Man from Tallahassee" and "The Constant" with 6) all of which include Juliet.
- In the Season 3 DVD, in the menu of disc 3 the movie that is shown to Jack that tells him to kill Ben is shown. The second last card that she holds up states: "For the record your wife is much prettier than me."
Unanswered questions
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- For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Juliet Burke/Theories
- Was Juliet drugged for her journey to the Island to prevent the possibility of the time dislocation that Desmond and Minkowski experienced?
- What does Juliet's mark mean?
- Does she know more about the Monster than she says?
- How did she dislocate her shoulder 4 times?
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See also
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| Flashback episodes | "Not in Portland" • "One of Us" • "The Other Woman" | |||
| Mobisodes | "The Deal" • "Operation: Sleeper" • "Room 23" • "The Envelope" | |||
| Flashback characters | 26-year-old woman • Airport guard • Richard Alpert • Mikhail Bakunin • Edmund Burke • Julian Carlson • Rachel Carlson • Diana • Tom Friendly • Henrietta • Benjamin Linus • Morgue employee • Ethan Rom • Sabine • Sherry • Goodwin Stanhope • Harper Stanhope | |||
| Items | Tape • Tape recorder • Test Drug • Carrie | |||
| See also: Main Characters | ||||
