Bill Tan is one of the background middle section survivors of Oceanic Flight 815. His character is not featured on the show or any novel, but is depicted solely in an online journal called 815Survivor, created by Lostpedia user Celebok. Bill is the main character of this story, which is told entirely in the form of the journal written from his point of view.

Contents 1 Before the crash 2 On the Island 2.1 Season 1 (Days 1-44) 2.2 Season 2 (Days 44-67) 2.3 Season 3 (Days 68-91) 2.4 Season 4 (Days 91-100) 2.5 Season 5 (Post Island-Move) 3 Post Island 4 Back on the Island 4.1 Season 5 4.2 Season 6 4.3 As a permanent resident on the Island 5 Trivia 6 What is Bill Writing On? (author's comments) 7 Unreliable Narrator 8 Unanswered questions

Before the crashEdit

Bill mentions very little about his past, other than the fact that he started attending church while in high school and became a committed Christian just before his senior year.

As an adult, Bill lived in Tustin, California and worked as a software engineer for a small company in Orange County. In his spare time, he enjoyed swing dancing, spending time on the internet, and watching TV.

At some point, Bill began attending Harvest Community Church, which eventually became dominated by young married couples with kids, causing him to feel like he didn't fit in as a single person. He stopped attending that church after Easter in 2004. He also had a commitment to reading his Bible every day, but eventually let that go as well. He eventually became a "lone rebel" in his social life, choosing to break off from his regular group of friends in order to do his own thing instead.

In September of 2004, Bill's company sent him on a two-week business trip to Sydney, Australia. After a productive two weeks, he boarded Oceanic Flight 815 to return home.

Bill mentions very little about his family life, but we know that both of his parents are alive and that he normally spends Christmas with them.

On the IslandEdit

Season 1 (Days 1-44)Edit

On the night of the crash, Bill eats an airline meal that Hurley gives him, then later hears the monster in the jungle. The next day, he begins sorting through luggage and begins forming friendships with Steve and Scott, witnesses the fight between Sawyer and Sayid, and accepts a sea urchin from Jin, though he tries to hide his extreme distaste for it. A few days later, he joins Steve, Scott and Tracy to look for food in the jungle, and they bring back some fruit for the rest of the survivors. Bill gains a high respect for Jack when he hears his "live together, die alone" speech.

When some of the survivors move to the caves, Bill reluctantly stays on the beach in order to stay with Steve, Scott, Tracy and Jerome. He is sitting on the beach with Steve, Scott and Jerome when Charlie tells them about Jack getting trapped in the cave-in, then joins them in helping dig Jack out. A few days later, Bill watches a group of survivors play golf. He then joins Steve, Scott and Tracy in moving to the caves. He is woken up two nights in a row by Claire screaming, which causes Dr. Arzt to get suspicious of Bill and the other newcomers to the caves. Nonetheless, Bill joins Arzt in doing a quick search of the area.

While Hurley conducts his census, he mentions to Bill that John Locke also happens to be from Tustin. When Bill mentions that to Locke and describes where in Tustin he lived, Locke says he lived across the freeway from Bill, which is presumably a lie to cover up the fact that Locke is, in fact, the bald man in a wheelchair that Bill remembers seeing around his apartment complex.

Bill helps the other survivors move the beach camp when the tide washes away the fuselage.

Bill is present in the caves when Locke and Boone bring back Claire after finding her in the jungle. After Ethan delivers his threat to kill a survivor every night until he gets Claire back, Bill and Jerome volunteer to take a shift standing guard near the caves. Steve and Scott relieve them at their position later in the night, and Bill goes to sleep. He awakes the next morning to news that Scott is dead and immediately rushes to the beach with Jerome and Tracy to find Scott's dead body. After Scott's funeral, Bill and Steve approach Jack, Locke and Sayid to ask about their next plans, and Locke tells them about their plan to ambush Ethan. (It is at this point that Bill learns about the Halliburton case that they'd found a week earlier.) Bill returns to the caves and waits until Jack comes back and tells him privately that Ethan has been killed.

Scott's death starts to give Bill a renewed sense of importance of his Christian faith, which up until that point he has not talked about in his journal. He starts asking around the camp if anyone has seen a Bible among the wreckage, which leads him to approach Sawyer for the first time since the crash to ask for one. Sawyer blows Bill off, refusing to let him "go all Billy Graham on people."

Bill tries to talk to Tracy about his renewed commitment to living for Jesus Christ, but she doesn't seem interested, and their conversation is interrupted when Jerome comes and announces that Michael's raft has caught on fire. The next day, he begins helping Michael clean up the burned raft wreckage when he witnesses the incident where Sun reveals to Jin and everyone else that she speaks English. Bill later volunteers to help Michael build the second raft.

Bill starts to notice that Tracy seems to be avoiding him and wonders if it's because she now knows that he has strong Christian beliefs and would disapprove of her newly-formed relationship with Steve and the fact that she has a husband and two children back in California. His suspicion is confirmed when Tracy asks him what he thinks about a married woman getting into a relationship with another man. Bill gives Tracy his honest opinion that he thinks it's wrong, but tries to assure Tracy that he won't get in the way of whatever she chooses to do.

Bill arrives at the caves as Jack is treating a badly-injured Boone that Locke has dropped off. As Jack desperately tries to save Boone's life, Bill sits with Jerome and Arzt, and Arzt expresses his skepticism of Bill's religious beliefs. Bill eventually falls asleep unintentionally and wakes up the next morning to find out that Boone has died and that Claire has given birth to Aaron. Bill attends Boone's funeral. He later notices Shannon sitting on the beach by herself, but he doesn't know what to say to her.

Bill continues helping Michael with the raft until it is ready for launch and then helps launch it. He places a note in the message bottle, asking his parents to take care of his apartment lease. Sawyer gives Bill a Bible from his stash just before he leaves on the raft. Bill then returns to the caves with the rest of the survivors for protection against the Others.

Season 2 (Days 44-67)Edit

Bill is in the caves with the rest of the survivors when Jack returns and explains about the hatch that they'd blown open. He becomes curious about the hatch and wonders what's going on after Jack, Kate, Locke, Sayid and Hurley seem to be gone all the next day, but then appreciates it when Hurley throws a feast on the beach with the food from the hatch's pantry.

Bill is one of the last cave residents to move back to the beach. After he does so, Hurley gives Bill a tour of the hatch, along with Jerome, Craig and Richard. Later that night, Bill wakes up to Shannon screaming on the beach. The next day, Bill witnesses the return of Michael, Jin and Sawyer along with the four remaining tail section survivors.

Bill decides to go to the hatch to try out the shower in the middle of the day. He says "hi" to Libby on his way there. When arriving at the hatch, he finds Michael alone at the computer (presumably communicating with Walt). After Bill takes a shower, Michael asks him to take over the rest of his shift at the computer to push the button. Bill then spends a few hours alone in the hatch, pushing the button twice, looking around the facility, trying to figure out how the computer works, and listening to Geronimo Jackson. Locke eventually comes in and tells Bill that he will pair him up with Jerome for a regular shift later. (Bill does not mention ever returning to the hatch after this point, but it may just be something he doesn't bother to mention in his journal.)

Bill watches as Charlie steals Aaron to attempt to baptize him on the beach and Locke punches Charlie. The next day, Bill attempts to talk to Charlie about the incident, learns that Mr. Eko is a priest, but Charlie is too defensive to answer any more questions. At that point, Jack rounds up Bill, Jerome, Craig and Richard and introduces them to Ana Lucia and attempts to recruit them for their army. None of the four volunteer, Bill doubting his own ability to be trained as a soldier. Bill is on the beach the following night as Sawyer announces to the camp that he has stolen the guns from the armory.

Bill joins the rest of the survivors in raiding the discovered palette drop. The next day, he begins helping Bernard build the SOS sign and is one of the last to abandon him. Bill then tries to recruit Jerome, Craig and Richard to finish the job with better teamwork, but none of them are interested, so he abandons the idea.

Bill attends the funeral for Ana Lucia and Libby and witnesses Desmond returning on his sailboat. After Michael, Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley leave on their mission to rescue Walt, and Sayid, Jin and Sun leave on the sailboat, Bill and Jerome introduce themselves to Desmond and learn a bit of his story of how he ended up on the island.

Bill is sitting next to his tent on the beach, reading his Bible, when the discharge occurs. After he sees the hatch door land on the beach, he runs over to the hatch and finds the large crater in the ground where the hatch was destroyed and begins to worry about those who are missing.

Season 3 (Days 68-91)Edit

Bill is on the beach when Locke and Charlie return from saving Eko from the polar bear cave. He listens as Locke gives his speech to the camp that he intends to find their missing people. A few days later, he watches Desmond construct his lightning rod and witnesses the lightning strike it, but Bill merely assumes it's a weird coincidence.

Bill is woken up as Eko's tent catches on fire, then notices that Sayid, Jin and Sun have returned, but he decides to go back to sleep. He learns the rest of the details from Hurley and Charlie the next day, including the fact that Locke had invited people to join him in going to the Pearl station that morning, but Bill was apparently busy doing laundry at the time and didn't hear Locke's announcement. This is also when Bill first hears about the Pearl station, as well as the beechcraft that fell on it with Boone inside. Bill does not learn until two days later that Eko is killed on this day. He does not hear about the smoke monster and figures it was a polar bear that killed Eko.

Bill is presumably at the beach camp when Hurley announces the DHARMA van he found in the jungle, but he does not mention it until 17 days later when he actually sees it on the beach after Hurley has used it in the final battle against the Others. At that point, Bill recalls a vague memory of Hurley mentioning a car but Bill not being interested at the time.

Bill witnesses the return of Kate and Sawyer to the beach camp and listens as they recount the details of their week as prisoners of the Others on the Hydra island.

As Bill returns to the beach camp with some coconuts he found in the jungle, he witnesses Hurley beat Sawyer at ping pong and enjoys the fact that Sawyer is not allowed to use nicknames for a week.

Bill attends the funeral for Paulo and Nikki and notes the unusual fact that nobody in the camp really knew them.

Bill enjoys the boar feast thrown by Sawyer, but remains suspicious of Sawyer's motives for his uncharacteristic generosity.

Bill witnesses Jack's return to the beach camp and joins the rest of the survivors in questioning Locke's decision to stay behind with the Others and whether Juliet can be trusted as a new arrival. He is worried as Claire coughs up blood and passes out, and is subsequently relieved after Juliet successfully treats Claire's condition. After Juliet earns the camp's trust, Jack allows her to set up her own tent, but it happens to be located next to Bill's tent, making him uneasy.

Knowing that Hurley had talked with Juliet on the day she arrived, Bill decides to seek out Hurley to ask what sort of impression he'd gotten of Juliet, but unable to find Hurley, he asks Claire if she's seen him. Bill notes that this is his first time having a real conversation with Claire. Claire tells him that Hurley is away on a camping trip with Charlie, Desmond and Jin.

A few days later, Bill is with the rest of the survivors as Naomi is revealed to them, along with the news that the outside world thinks that Flight 815 was found at the bottom of the ocean, and Jack reveals his plan to defend the camp against the Others' imminent attack. The next day, Bill joins the rest of the survivors in tying up wires to detonate the dynamite, but then sees Karl show up with news that the Others are coming a day early. Bill then joins the rest of the survivors in following Jack and Rousseau to the radio tower.

On the way to the radio tower, Bill is walking behind Tracy and sees her slip on a rock, asks her if she's okay, then has a brief friendly conversation with her for the first time in over a month. The survivors later encounter Ben, and this is Bill's first time becoming aware of who Ben is. He is confused as he watches Ben and Jack walk away for five minutes, after which Ben comes back all beaten and bloody and Jack throws him to the ground. When they finally reach the radio tower, Bill is horrified as Locke throws a knife into Naomi's back, but is excited when Jack makes contact with the freighter.

Season 4 (Days 91-100)Edit

As Bill and the other survivors are on their way back from the radio tower to the beach camp, they meet up with the rest of the survivors at the cockpit. After the encounter between Jack and Locke, the survivors split up into Jack's group and Locke's group. Figuring Locke has gone insane, Bill chooses to go with Jack and returns to the beach.

The next day, Bill is sitting on the beach, talking with Desmond about their reasons for going with Jack instead of Locke, when Juliet comes to get Desmond to go back to the helicopter to try to figure out what the people from the freighter are doing on the island. Juliet briefly explains to Bill about the people who parachuted from the helicopter onto the island and that one has been taken prisoner by Locke. That same day, Bill notices the DHARMA van on the beach, and Bernard explains to him that Hurley had used it the previous day to rescue them from the Others.

Bill is present when Jack finally returns and introduces the beach camp to Daniel and Charlotte. He is also aware that Jack has been unable to contact Sayid and Desmond who had left for the freighter the previous day, and is later aware when Jack finally does make contact with them.

With Steve having gone with Locke, Bill takes over Steve's daily duties of bringing water to the trough. He grows more and more frustrated as each day passes with no word of any rescue plans. He also notices that Neil "Frogurt" has been getting more and more annoying over the past month.

Bernard tells Bill about an argument he'd gotten into with Rose, and Bill finds himself unable to relate to Bernard's marriage woes. Bill and Bernard then realize that Bernard and Jin are the only two married men out of all the crash survivors, and Bernard then runs after Jin to try to bond with him. (Presumably this is when Bernard accidentally interrupts Jin and Sun's argument and Jin invites Bernard fishing.) Bill then notices that Kate is unexpectedly back from Locke's camp and asks her about the people there.

Bill sees Ray's body wash up on the beach. The next morning, Bill is with the other beach camp survivors who witness Jack collapse in pain from appendicitus. Bill follows Juliet's instructions for setting up the makeshift operating room for Jack on the beach. The morning after Juliet completes the appendectomy, she informs Bill that the surgery was a success, and Bill has a new-found appreciation for Juliet.

Bill sees the helicopter from the freighter fly over the beach camp and drop the satellite phone on Claire's tent and watches as Jack takes it and follows the tracking signal into the jungle, despite Juliet's protests.

Bill and the other survivors run over as Sayid returns from the freighter on the Zodiac raft, announcing that the people on the helicopter plan to kill all of them. As Daniel leads the effort to take six people at a time on the raft to the freighter, Bill decides to stay behind and be one of the last people to go, because he figures it's better for him to die than an unsaved person. However, Bill is horrified when he sees the freighter explode in the distance, figuring that all those who had gone on the first raft trip had just died. He then notices Sawyer sitting next to Juliet on the beach and is about to go ask him what had happened back at Locke's camp, when the sky lights up as the island moves.

Season 5 (Post Island-Move)Edit

Bill is at the beach camp when the white light engulfs the island and all of the survivors' beach camp structures disappear. As Daniel, Sawyer, Juliet, Charlotte and Miles head to the hatch, Bill stays with the rest of the survivors. When they return, Sawyer updates Bill on events that he witnessed since the mercenary attack on the Barracks. Bill gives Sawyer some words of encouragement, then enlists Craig's help in searching the jungle for food.

Bill and Craig return to the beach camp just as it comes under attack by flaming arrows from the jungle. Bill flees into the jungle with the rest of the survivors and witnesses Craig being struck and killed by an arrow. He continues running and becomes separated from the rest of the group.

The next day, Bill is captured at gunpoint by two of the Others from 1954 who claim that they had recently chased him down a well, even though Bill has no recollection of such an event. While being marched toward the Others' camp, a time flash occurs, causing his captors to disappear. Bill then heads back to the beach camp, where he finds the camp as it appeared two months earlier. After a brief talk with the past version of Sawyer, Bill decides not to risk running into his own past self and leaves the camp. He keeps walking along the beach, running into past versions of Sayid and Shannon, and after another time flash, finds the Others' abandoned camp in 2007, though he has no idea whose camp it is. Tired from hiking all day, Bill decides to take a nap inside one of the tents. However, he is soon woken up by another time flash that places him in a rain storm at night with no shelter, and he decides to walk inland.

After two more time flashes, Bill encounters the two Others that he'd met before, but they don't recognize him this time, and they chase him down the well. He slides down the rope to the bottom, getting a bad case of rope-burn, and walks toward the frozen wheel chamber. The next few moments are vague in Bill's memory, but his actions cause him to get transported to the Tunisian desert.

Post IslandEdit

Bill suddenly finds himself in the Tunisian desert on November 4, 2007, confused as to how he got there and not immediately aware that he's off the island. He sees a destroyed surveillance camera on the ground and wires leading away from it and decides to follow the wires. He is eventually picked up by some men in a jeep and taken to an infirmary to be treated for his rope burns. With nowhere else to go and nobody kicking him out, he spends the night in the infirmary. While there, he finds a copy of the London Daily Tribune from January 14, 2005, with the news story about the Oceanic Six. The next morning, a woman named Sheri Gale, claiming to be a missionary from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, visits the infirmary and meets Bill and informs him that he's in Tunisia and that it's November 2007. Bill pretends to have amnesia in order to not reveal where he came from, and Sheri provides Bill with a hotel room and offers to help him get back to the United States. Three days later, Sheri provides him with official documentation for a new identity with the name Wayne Garlow, along with $2,000 cash and an airline ticket for a flight to Los Angeles leaving the next day.

Upon landing at LAX, Bill picks up the rental car that Sheri's people had reserved for him and finds a cell phone in the car with a note indicating that it's his to use. He then checks into the Motel 6 in Inglewood. The next day, Bill seeks out Jack at St. Sebastian Hospital and finds him in a drunken irritable state and unwilling to talk. Jack tells Bill that Hurley is at the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute. Bill goes to visit Hurley there the next day and learns a great deal of the Oceanic Six true story from him. Bill then decides to support the Oceanic Six cover story and to begin a new life under his new false identity.

After three weeks, Bill finds himself unsatisfied with the life he is able to make for himself when compared to his life before Flight 815. With no verifiable references under his new identity, he is unable to find a job as a software developer, so he takes a data entry job at a box company. He rents a tiny studio apartment in Santa Ana and cannot afford furniture or other luxuries he used to enjoy. He has difficulty making new friends because he doesn't like lying about his life. He comes to realize that his life at this point is worse than living on the Island.

Bill finds out from watching the morning news that Hurley is a fugitive wanted as a triple-murder suspect. After being unable to obtain any information from the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute or track down Jack at St. Sebastian Hospital, Bill hears on the evening news that Hurley has been arrested. He goes to visit Hurley at L.A. County Lockup the next day and, after hearing Hurley recap the events that led him there, deduces that Hurley is crazy and making it all up. After being released from prison the next day, Hurley calls Bill's cell phone and tells him about the flight from L.A. to Guam which "some dude" had said would take them back to the Island and offers to buy Bill a ticket for that flight. Bill thinks the whole idea is ridiculous and declines the offer at first, until Hurley makes it a round-trip ticket to ease Bill's fear of being unable to afford the trip home from Guam. Bill decides to go for it the next day and heads to the airport.

Bill is surprised to find Jack, Kate, Sayid and Sun boarding Ajira Airways Flight 316 along with Hurley. He manages to board the plane and find his seat in the coach section without being seen by any of them, possibly with the exception of Sayid. Bill is then even more surprised to see Sheri Gale board the plane. She explains to Bill that she and her brother Sean are headed to Guam to meet up with members of her missionary organization. Through the opening in the curtain, Bill then sees Ben board the plane, which prompts him to decide not to approach his friends in first class throughout the rest of the flight. Later, Bill uses the lavatory in the back of the plane and gets stuck behind the food service cart as the plane suddenly experiences heavy turbulence that knocks him off his feet.

Back on the IslandEdit

Season 5Edit

After Ajira Flight 316 crashes on the Hydra Island, Bill helps Sheri Gale attend to her brother Sean who has broken his leg in the crash. He then helps the other survivors find food and firewood. The other survivors start to become impressed with Bill's survival skills, and Bill appreciates being back on the Island. Later that night, when Roxanne brings "John Locke" to the beach camp, Bill doesn't trust him and decides to avoid being seen by him for as long as he can. Two days later, Bill hears from other survivors that Ben has shot Caesar and left with Locke in one of the outrigger canoes to go to the main island.

As Sheri spends time observing Bill's behavior on the island, particularly his unexplained survival skills and his apparent fear of Ben, she begins to give Bill suspicious looks, as though she suspects he's hiding something. Sheri, meanwhile, seems eager to go explore the main island, despite having to look after Sean.

When Ilana and her group knock out Frank and load him and the large crate into the canoe, Sheri tries to plead with Ilana to let her go with them to the main island, but Ilana refuses after Sheri fails to answer the "shadow of the statue" question. Bill convinces Sheri to back off. After Ilana's group leaves in the canoe, the rest of the survivors begin to look to Bill as their new leader, and Bill figures that these people are now his current responsibility and his new purpose.

Season 6Edit

Bill wakes up early in the morning and finds himself on an outrigger canoe en route to the main island with Sheri and Sean Gale, who had drugged him with chloroform overnight. They reveal to Bill that they had been tracking his moves and phone conversations back in Los Angeles, and that they need his help. They dock the canoe at the Barracks, where Bill finds the decomposing bodies of Jerome, Tracy and Doug. Sheri and Sean reveal that their father is Henry Gale and that they've been searching for him ever since he disappeared in his hot-air balloon which was sponsored by Charles Widmore. After exchanging information, the three of them decide to get back in the canoe and paddle along the coast to look for Bill's people at the old beach camp.

While rowing along the island's coast, they find the lighthouse, and Sheri decides to stop and get a close look at it, simply because she's fascinated by ancient lighthouses, but they don't attempt to go inside when they find that the door is jammed. They continue along the coast and find the decoy village and decide to spend the night there.

The next day, Bill, Sheri and Sean continue rowing along the coast until they reach the four-toed statue and see the Others standing on the beach next to it, so they beach the canoe and climb up to a ridge where they can watch from a safe distance through binoculars. Bill sees that Sun, Ilana and Frank are among them. Bill, Sheri and Sean watch as Ben and "Locke" exit the statue, and Locke (the Man in Black) knocks out Richard and carries him off into the jungle. As Sun, Frank, Ilana and Ben start to carry the tarp containing the body of the real John Locke (whom Bill doesn't see), Bill, Sheri and Sean decide to go down and ask Ben about Henry Gale. Ben tells them that Henry did crash his balloon on the island and was killed in the crash, and draws a map to the balloon and grave site. The three then follow Ben's map.

They come across the well next to the Orchid station, and Bill recognizes it as the same well that he had climbed into during the time flashes which had caused him to leave the island, except that it is now filled in with dirt and rocks. Bill realizes that the only way he knows how to leave the island no longer exists. The three eventually find Henry's balloon and grave site, and Sheri and Sean are able to finally have a proper memorial for their father.

The next day, Sheri and Sean follow Bill as they make their way toward the beach camp in hopes of finding survivors of Oceanic 815 there. On the way, they find the Pearl, the Temple Wall, the Black Rock, and the waterfall. Bill begins to theorize that maybe the Others originally came from the Dharma Initiative and stayed on the Island to finish studying the unique properties of the Island. Sheri tells Bill a bit about her father while Sean listens to his iPod until the battery dies. They reach the beach camp, only to find it deserted, but they stop there for the night, and Bill tells Sheri some stories of his experiences among the Oceanic survivors.

After spending a night at the beach camp and gathering some supplies, the three set out on foot toward the four-toed statue to retrieve the canoe that they'd left there, finding the cable along the way, only to find that the canoe is no longer there. They spend the night at the decoy village again. Bill starts to realize that he might want to get to know Sheri and Sean on a more personal level if he's going to be stuck with them for a while. They come to the Lighthouse again and see that the door has now been kicked open, so they go inside and find the shattered mirror at the top, which Bill concludes was destroyed by teenage vandals (unaware that it was really Jack). Bill also sees the names on the dial, but he doesn't think anything of it and doesn't take the time to read all of the names.

The three eventually make camp and get captured by the Others who are part of the Man in Black's group, and the Man in Black, in Locke's form, welcomes them into the group and reunites Bill with Sawyer and Kate. Sawyer and Kate bring Bill up to speed on everything that they've witnessed, including the fact that the man posing as Locke is the smoke monster, which Bill has a hard time comprehending. While Bill is contemplating whether or not he wants to leave the Island with the Man in Black's group, he witnesses the arrival of Hurley, Jack, Sun and Frank to the camp, and Hurley briefly explains to Bill that they need to stop the Man in Black from leaving the Island.

Bill witnesses Zoe approach the Man in Black and radio the warning missile that explodes near the camp. He joins the Man in Black as they prepare to head to Hydra Island, but doesn't notice when Jack, Hurley, Sun, Claire and Frank secretly sneak off from the group, until they are already gone. Bill, Sheri and Sean then decide to sneak away from the group by themselves, with the intention of finding their own way to Hydra Island in order to confront Charles Widmore about the death of Sheri and Sean's father. They head to the Barracks, where Sheri spends the rest of the afternoon teaching Bill how to shoot a gun.

The three take an outrigger canoe to Hydra Island early in the morning and park the canoe on the beach near another canoe that has an Ajira water bottle inside. As they approach the Hydra station, Widmore's men outnumber and surround them, and Widmore comes out of the building and orders his men to throw the three of them in the cages. However, Sheri manages to grab one of the guards' guns, allowing the three to escape and make a run for the canoe and paddle back toward the main island. Four of Widmore's men pursue them in the other canoe. Bill decides to head back to the old beach camp because he remembers a hiding place that he'd previously discovered about half a mile inland in the middle of a corn field. The three successfully hide there for a few hours until Widmore's men give up and leave. They return to the beach camp to find that both of the outrigger canoes are gone. After Sean throws a temper tantrum, Bill gives him some words of encouragement about the situation and quotes Deuteronomy 32:35. With no other ideas in mind, the three spend the rest of the day and that night at the beach camp.

The next morning, Bill and Sheri decide to start exploring the Island to search for a possible way off. Along with Sean, they begin by walking away from the beach camp in the opposite direction from the statue. After a few hours, they find the Others' beach camp which is occupied by seven Others who had survived Widmore's mortar attack on the Man in Black. Bill learns that all seven of them also happened to be from the tail section of Oceanic Flight 815. They are Cindy, Zack, Emma, Nancy, Jim, Eli, and Mark. They let Bill, Sheri and Sean stay at their camp for the night. Cindy tells Bill that when they arrived the previous day, Zack had seen Bill sleeping in one of the tents and was gone by the time Cindy looked, and Bill realizes that Zack had seen the previous instance of Bill who was experiencing the time flashes.

The entire group experiences the Island's massive tremors that (unknown to any of them) result from Desmond removing the stone from the Heart of the Island, and they flee inland as the beach starts to break apart. They settle on the mesa to wait out the tremors and the rain storm, terrified, not knowing what is happening to the Island. In the midst of their fears, Bill ends up briefly sharing his Christian beliefs with the rest of them, specifically what he believes about salvation through Jesus Christ and how to get to heaven. Bill prays the sinner's prayer, and Sean, Nancy, and possibly Zack and Emma, accept Jesus Christ into their hearts, just as the rain stops. Shortly after the tremors finally stop, they see the Ajira plane fly overhead and away from the Island, and Bill wonders who was on it.

The group decides to head to the survivors' old beach camp, but before they reach it, they run into Hurley, Ben, and Desmond, who update Bill on everything they experienced in the last few days, including the deaths of Sayid, Jin, Sun, and Jack, as well as Jack saving the Island and killing the Man in Black. They also inform the group that the beach camp has been destroyed, so they all head to the Temple. That night, Ben offers everyone a choice to either stay or leave the Island, and that for those who want to leave, he and Hurley would lead them to the means to do so (which is never explained). Bill realizes that he can make more of a difference on the Island than in the real world, especially to help answer Nancy and Mark's questions about Christianity, and decides to stay. Desmond, Sean, Jim and Eli decide to leave. Bill is surprised when Sheri decides to stay to help Bill with his new mission.

After Desmond, Sean, Jim and Eli leave with Hurley and Ben to find their way to leave the Island, Cindy, Nancy and Mark begin their mission of searching for the rest of the surviving Others, leaving Bill and Sheri to look after Zack and Emma. Bill reflects on the amazing circumstances since the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 that led him to this point, and he looks forward to his new life on the Island.

As a permanent resident on the IslandEdit

Three months after deciding to stay on the Island, Bill marries Sheri, and the two of them spend the next year building a cabin for themselves in the jungle near the Temple. They then move into the cabin together, and the two of them begin leading weekly Bible studies, consisting of Nancy, Mark, Zack and Emma.

At one point, during Bill's third year on the Island, Hurley and Ben leave the Island for a special mission and leave Bill and Sheri temporarily in charge until they return. Bill is aware that Ben is shutting down the DHARMA Logistics Warehouse and that Ben and Hurley are bringing back a special person to the Island, but they haven't told Bill who it is. Bill overall is glad to be living on the Island and believes that the Island has made him a much better person than he would've been otherwise.

TriviaEdit

• Bill has technically met all of the main characters except Richard, whom he has only seen from a distance. He is never formally introduced to Miles, but he knows who he is by name. He only knows Frank as the pilot of Ajira Flight 316. He never mentions interacting with Boone, Walt, Eko, Paulo, Nikki, Daniel, Miles, or Charlotte, though he mentions all of them at some point in his journal. His only interaction with Shannon is during a time flash.
• The main character that Bill mentions the most is Jack. The main character that he talks to the most is Hurley, most of which takes place off the Island. (The main character that Bill talks to the most on the Island is Locke.)
• Bill has never seen the Man in Black in smoke monster form, and only mentions hearing the monster once, on the first night. He has met the monster in the form of Locke, but is unaware that this is not the real Locke, until Sawyer informs him 8 days later.
• Bill's first mention of a polar bear is on Day 68, when Eko is injured by one, but he does not sound surprised at the existence of polar bears on the island, which suggests that he has possibly heard about the polar bears before but just never bothered to mention it in his journal at the time.
• The only DHARMA stations Bill has visited are the Swan, the Hydra, and the Pearl. He has heard about the Staff and the Looking Glass. He sees the outside of the Orchid station in 2007 and visits the frozen wheel chamber underneath it in 1954 before the station has been built.
• Nicknames given to Bill by Sawyer include "Sulu", "Island Preacher", "Tribianni", "Billy Graham" and "Bible Boy".
• Bill shares the same birthday as Carmen Reyes, the day after the crash.
• Bill has never mentioned Vincent in his journal.
• Despite mentioning the Bible several times (e.g. obtaining one, reading it, or intending to read it), the only Bible verse that Bill ever quotes in his journal is Deuteronomy 32:35. [1]
• Although it is never explicitly stated, Bill's decision to let Widmore's men chase him in outrigger canoes from Hydra Island to the beach camp sets up the exact circumstances necessary for the outrigger chase to take place (two canoes abandoned at the dilapidated beach camp with an Ajira water bottle inside one of them), and Bill later returns to the beach camp to find both canoes gone, without ever having seen who actually took the canoes. Bill later learns that the previous instance of himself experiencing the time flashes was seen sleeping in the Others' tent at around this same time. The outrigger chase took place during that same time flash.
• Sheri Gale, Sean Gale, and Mark are the only named characters in Bill's journal that do not exist anywhere else in the Lost universe; i.e. they are the only other characters besides Bill himself who were created by the author of 815Survivor. Mark is the main character in the spinoff journal 815Tailie.

What is Bill Writing On? (author's comments)Edit

The question of what Bill is writing his journal on, or even if it's anything physical or tangible, is something I decided early on would remain ambiguous. I didn't want to deal with questions like whether he would physically be able to write on something in each situation or why he would carry a notepad and pen everywhere no matter what or whether he ever runs out of ink or who's even reading it later on. Therefore, I purposely never established what he's actually writing on. As far as I'm concerned, these are just his thoughts at each of these particular moments and the words he would write down if he had the means to do so. Basically, you might think of it as a transcript of him talking to himself or the thoughts going through his head.

Unreliable NarratorEdit

While many of the main characters are notorious for keeping secrets, Bill is more often the recipient of misinformation, either by intentional deception of other characters or a lack of exposure to factual information. As such, Bill can be classified as an unreliable narrator in his journal entries.

The following are examples of incorrect information that Bill records in his journal, compared with the truth as revealed on the show (not including misinformation that he eventually corrects in later entries):

• Incorrect statement: Jack shot Edward Mars with a handgun. (September 24, 2004)
• Truth: Sawyer shot Mars, but punctured his lung instead of killing him. Mars dies soon afterwards. ("Tabula Rasa")

• Incorrect statement: The people who were trying to find a radio signal on higher ground came back unsuccessful. (September 24, 2004)
• Truth: They were successful at getting a signal, but it ended up being Danielle Rousseau's automated distress signal. ("Pilot, Part 2")

• Incorrect statement: Locke and Boone have been actively searching for clues that might lead to Claire's whereabouts. (October 9, 2004)
• Truth: They have been investigating the hatch they discovered. ("All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues"), ("Hearts and Minds")

• Incorrect statement: We never figured out who poisoned Michael. (November 3, 2004)
• Truth: Jack figured out that Sun did it, attempting to poison Jin instead. ("Born to Run")

• Incorrect statement: Shannon woke up screaming in the middle of the night because of a dream. (November 7, 2004)
• Truth: She saw a vision of Walt in her tent. ("Abandoned")

• Incorrect statement: Michael took a shift at the computer to take his mind off of Walt being missing. (November 10, 2004)
• Truth: Michael was using the computer to communicate with Walt. ("The 23rd Psalm")

• Incorrect statement: Sun got attacked by the Others. (November 17, 2004)
• Truth: Sun got attacked by Charlie, as part of Sawyer's con to get the guns from the hatch. ("The Long Con")

• Incorrect statement: The last few days have been pretty uneventful. (November 22, 2004)
• Truth: Although the above statement is subjective, over the last few days, some of the survivors have been keeping Ben (still going by "Henry Gale") locked up in the hatch after Sayid brought him in and tortured him, Claire and Kate discovered the Staff station, Sun found out she was pregnant, a few other survivors found Henry Gale's balloon, a lockdown occurred in the hatch which crushed Locke's leg, and Locke saw the blast door map. Most people would not consider these things "uneventful". ("One of Them"), ("Maternity Leave"), ("The Whole Truth"), ("Lockdown")

• Incorrect statement: One of the Others shot and killed Ana Lucia and Libby, then shot Michael in the shoulder. Michael plans to lead a small handful of armed people to confront the Others. (November 25, 2004)
• Truth: Michael shot and killed Ana Lucia and Libby, then shot himself in the shoulder. He plans to lead Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley into the Others' trap. ("Two for the Road"), ("Three Minutes")

• Incorrect statement: Desmond built a lightning rod next to Claire's tent as an experiment, and by a weird coincidence, lightning struck the rod shortly afterwards. (November 30, 2004)
• Truth: Desmond built the lightning rod because he foresaw lightning striking Claire's tent and killing Charlie. ("Every Man for Himself"), ("Flashes Before Your Eyes")

• Incorrect statement: Mr. Eko was killed by some animal, possibly a polar bear. (December 4, 2004)
• Truth: Mr. Eko was killed by the smoke monster. ("The Cost of Living")

• Incorrect statement: Claire's illness was a known disease on the island for which Juliet had developed a cure. (December 15, 2004)
• Truth: Claire's illness was caused by an implant that the Others had placed inside of her and purposely activated so that Juliet could appear to save her life and earn the survivors' trust. ("One of Us")

• Incorrect statement: Claire is still at Locke's camp. (December 29, 2004)
• Truth: By this time, Claire has left the barracks with Sawyer and Miles to head back toward the beach camp. It is on this night that Locke finds Claire with Christian Shephard inside Jacob's cabin. ("The Shape of Things to Come"), ("Cabin Fever")

• Incorrect statement: The memory of "an ancient-looking horizontal wheel attached to the cave wall and moving around erratically" was just a dream. (November 4, 2007)
• Truth: The frozen wheel really did exist at the bottom of the well where Bill was, and it has been known to transport people to Tunisia, just as Bill was. ("This Place Is Death"), ("The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham")

• Incorrect statement: Hurley is crazy, and his account of the recent events that happened to him -- strange men stalking him, Sayid showing up to rescue him, Ben showing up at his house to bring him back to the Island -- are all delusions in Hurley's head. (December 11, 2007)
• Truth: The events that Hurley described really did happen. ("Because You Left"), ("The Lie")

• Incorrect statement: The Others originally came from the Dharma Initiative and stayed on the Island after their projects officially ended in order to continue their experiments. (December 20, 2007)
• Truth: The Others lived on the Island long before the Dharma Initiative arrived and eventually killed the Dharma members in the Purge. ("The Man Behind the Curtain")

• Incorrect statement: The hole in the ground under the ancient wall probably didn't lead anywhere. (December 20, 2007)
• Truth: The hole would've led to either the Temple or the chamber underneath. In fact, at that particular moment, Kate, Sayid, Claire, and Miles were at the Temple. (Jack and Hurley had left the Temple that morning, and the Temple massacre would happen later that evening.) ("Dead Is Dead"), ("LA X, Part 2"), ("Sundown")

• Incorrect statement: The mirror at the top of the lighthouse was broken by teenage vandals. (December 22, 2007)
• Truth: Jack broke the mirror. ("Lighthouse")

• Incorrect statement: The names on the lighthouse dial were either the names of the people who built the lighthouse or the names of people on ships who were guided in by it. (December 22, 2007)
• Truth: They are the names of past and present candidates to replace Jacob. ("The Substitute"), ("Lighthouse")

Unanswered questionsEdit

• What exactly did Bill do inside the frozen wheel chamber that transported him off the island?
• Was Bill working at the same box company that John Locke worked at?
• Was Bill ever a candidate? Was his name on the cave wall and/or the lighthouse dial?