LaFleur's group

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Sawyer led a group of survivors consisting of several people who were left behind after Ben's moving of the Island, as well as four later arrivals, Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sayid. After being stranded in 1974, Sawyer's group joined the DHARMA Initiative in various capacities, under a con instituted by Sawyer (using the pseudonym "Jim LaFleur"). Three years later they were joined by four members of the Oceanic Six, who vanished from the front section of Ajira Flight 316 in 2008 and appeared in the jungle in 1977. Sawyer quickly updated his con, presenting his friends to the DHARMA Initiative as new recruits, using their own names.

Activities on the Island

Jack awakened in the jungle in 1977, having disappeared from Ajira Airways Flight 316 following a flash of light that overtook the plane. Hearing cries for help, he quickly ran to the waterfall where he rescued a sinking Hurley and awakened an unconscious Kate on the shore. The three were apprehended by Jin, then a security officer for Dharma, and taken to the North Valley to meet with Sawyer. The group, separated for three long years, embrace with mingled joy and bewilderment. ("316")("LaFleur")

Sawyer quickly decided to include the newcomers in his con, by presenting them as new recruits, freshly arrived on the Galaga. Jack became a workman, Kate was assigned to the motor pool, and Hurley served as a chef at the cafeteria. Things soon began to go wrong for the group, when Sayid, who had awakened in the jungle separated from the others, was apprehended by Jin and Radzinsky, the latter of whom forced Jin to treat his friend as a Hostile. ("Namaste") Sayid was imprisoned, on the pretext of having broken the truce between Dharma and the Others; on Sawyer's direction, he preserves this misunderstanding by identifying himself as a Hostile and refusing to talk. He was later taken to Oldham, the Initiative's resident torturer, under whose coercion Sayid admitted all his knowledge of Dharma, including the not-yet-built Swan station, and the eventual destruction of the community. ("He's Our You")

Set free by a young Benjamin Linus, Sayid shot his rescuer in cold blood, and fled into the jungle. Sawyer, Juliet and Kate risked the safety of their group by bringing young Ben into Hostile territory, after Jack refused to save the boy's life. ("He's Our You") ("Whatever Happened, Happened")

Sawyer instructed Miles to erase the security tapes that captured this activity, but he was prevented from doing so by the arrival of Horace, who instructed him to deliver a package to Pierre Chang. Miles undertook this duty with the aid of Hurley, who eventually convinced Miles to make an effort to reach out to Chang, who was in actuality Mile's father. Phil later found the tape and confronted Sawyer with it, before reporting what he had found, only to be knocked unconscious and taken prisoner by Sawyer. ("Some Like It Hoth")

When Daniel Faraday returned to the Island after a long stint as a researcher at Ann Arbor, he began to put in motion a plan to try to change the history of the Island. He revealed to Pierre Chang that he was a time traveler, although Miles denied this. Daniel claims that, by doing this, he is making sure that Chang does what he is supposed to do.

The entire group opperating under Sawyer's con met in his house in order to discuss their future, following Phil's imprisonment. They discussed two options: taking the sub back to the mainland, or starting from "square one" in the jungle again. Jin and Hurley both were against leaving the Island. Daniel and Miles then arrived, and Daniel states that they must find his mother, who is one of the hostiles. Jack and Kate agreed to go with them, while Sawyer, Hurley, Jin, Miles and Juliet would go to the beach and await their arrival. Before they leave, Daniel confronts a young [[Charlotte], admonishing her about the Island and its dangers.

While obtaining firearms at the motor pool, a conflict arose between Jack, Kate and Daniel, and Radzinsky and his men. Radzinsky was shot in the arm, while Faraday was grazed in the neck. The three were eventually able to get away in a Dharma Jeep, and escaped to the fence, where they continued on foot. Daniel then revealed his plan: to use the Others' knowledge of the bomb's whereabouts to blow up the Island, therefore stopping the entire sequence of events which led the survivors to crash on the Island in the first place. He claimed that they could do this, despite the rules of time travel he had previously elaborated on, because they, as human beings with foreknowledge and free will, were "variables".

However, when they arrived The Others' camp, Daniel brandished his gun and demanded to speak to Eloise, who promptly shot him in the back, wounding him fatally. He then realized that Eloise, who was a younger version of his mother, knew that this was happened before she and Widmore conspired to send him to the Island. ("The Variable")

Relationships

The reunion of the members of this group set in motion a number of uncertainties and anxieties regarding relationships. Juliet, who had been in a relationship with Sawyer for an unknown amount of time, grew increasingly paranoid about Kate's renewed presence in Sawyer's life. The fact that he clearly still had feelings for her did not improve matters. Jack, who had previously shown a reciprocated affection to Juliet, found his presence resented when he declared their intentions to rescue Sawyer's group. ("Namaste") ("Whatever Happened, Happened")

Miles, who had spent a good part of his life searching for and resenting his absent father, was forced to confront the fact that he was now living in the same community as the man, whom he knew would soon be fated to die. ("Some Like It Hoth")

Upon Daniel's return to the Island, he and Miles visited Pierre Chang at the Orchid, where the former revealed their nature as time travelers, and the latter's relationship to Chang as son. When Chang asked Miles if this was true, Miles denied it.

After Sawyer kidnapped Phil, a split occurred over whether to try to escape the Dharma Initiative or to try to contact the Others in order to try to fix the Island's timeline. Sawyer opposed this course, but Juliet, annoyed that he had called Kate by his old pet name for her, instead gave her the code to deactivate the sonic fence, thus enabling the course of action which Sawyer had argued against. ("The Variable")

See also

• Sawyer's group