Ben's passports
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Ben's passports
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At his home in the Barracks, Benjamin Linus has a number of passports from various countries under different aliases. Amongst the passports are ones for Brazil, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden and Switzerland. Sayid discovered the passports in a drawer in a hidden closet. ("The Economist") Ben used a Canadian passport to check into a hotel in Tunisia. ("The Shape of Things to Come")
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Ben's Swiss passport
- The name on the passport is "Dean Moriarty"
- The passport number is 012153
- The birth date is listed as March 03, 1962
- Place of birth is listed as Zurich
- The date of issue is listed as April 02, 2003
- The expiration date is listed as April 01, 2013
There are a few errors on the passport:
- It is not the design of a real Swiss passport
- Swiss passports are printed in 5 languages (de,fe,it,rm,en)
- There is a typo on the date of issue, it should say 02 AVR/APR 03 and not AVR/PR
- The international code for Switzerland is CHE and not SWI
- Instead of "Place of birth" it should read "Place of origin"
Ben's Canadian passport
Ben used a Canadian passport to check into the hotel in Tunisia. This passport also used the name "Dean Moriarty".
Trivia
- Dean Moriarty was a character in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road.
- Dean Moriarty is the name of Alex Russo's boyfriend in Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place [1]
- Professor Moriarty was the evil genius villain of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's series of Sherlock Holmes novels.
- Arvin Sloane, the main antagonist in J.J. Abrams's Alias, based most of his work out of Zurich.
- Ben's passport ID number is HNSO12153. The same passport ID number is found on Michael's passport.
Production errors
- Ben's Brazilian passport has two spelling errors: first, the country name should read BRASIL instead of BRAZIL, and PASSPORT should read PASSAPORTE.
Unanswered questions
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- For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Ben's passports/Theories
- Why does Ben need so many different passports?
- What has Ben used these passports for in the past?
- Why does the passport say Dean Moriarty, not Benjamin Linus?
- Which passports are real?
- Where did he get them?
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