How do you hide the fact that your TV show that is actually a video game? And how can you hide it all in plain sight?

The answer is by creating the character of Sawyer and then some absolutely brilliant writing. By having Sawyer give nicknames to everyone he comes in contact with, the viewers are so busy laughing over Sawyer's nicknames that they miss the fact that all of the characters are constantly making statements about themselves and each other, and about the particular role that each character occupies at that specific point in the game. Listen to Sawyer set up the Roles concept in S1E2.

The pure genius of the show is that it can be viewed by the majority of the audience for its entertainment value without them even suspecting that there is something more complex to the show. Understanding that LOST is a game will not ruin it for you when you watch the show. It hasn't for me. It has just made me more in awe of the creative geniuses behind the show.

So how did I discover that LOST is a Video Game? By compiling huge lists of facts and quotes (an addiction that seemed useless at times) and then looking at the lists over and over again to try and determine what was hidden within plain sight.

"It's all in the details" Sawyer S2E13

To get through all of the information here, I suggest that you might want to spend a good amount of time on the Game Roles section. It explains what the game roles are and which of the LOSTies has been in each role at various times.

The Another Life and the Good vs. Bad sections below provide some of the supporting statements where the characters identify their roles, or the roles of other characters. You might want to just skim over the lists in those sections as they are quite long.

Then visit Playing to understand the structure of the game, and more importantly, how the game is played.

Game Roles

To understand how the game is played, it is very important to understand that there are designated 'good' and 'bad' roles that the LOSTies and the support characters play. I have also added a category for Extraordinary Roles to identify those roles to which the characters seem to aspire to the most.

Don't miss this Season 3 Teaser Clip (.wmv file) where the main characters identify their roles when they crashed. It asks the question, "But here on the island, who will I be?"   The Channel 4 UK Promo (.wmv file) is also a good one.

I have done my best to identify these roles, to name them where appropriate and to indicate whether they are 'good' or 'bad'. To see specific examples of the episodes in which the LOST characters have adopted these roles just click on them, or you can just scroll down through the list below.

S3E3 is one episode in particular that is a fantastic example of identifying game roles. At least 18 game roles are clearly identified in this episode. There is a detailed discussion of this under Season 3/Level 3 on the Playing page.

Accountant- a good role
S1E17 Sawyer says "Folks down on the beach might a been doctors and accountants a month ago, but its Lord of the Flies now"
S1E18 Hurley's accountant
S2E4 Hurley and Rose taking inventory

Arsonist- a bad role (also see Saboteur)
S1E24 Kate uses the dynamite to blow up the monster
S2E10 Eko burns the drug plane
S2E12 Charlie sets a brush fire
S2E22 Michael burns the list from The Others
S3E3 Locke makes a flame shooter out of a can of hair spray and a torch to repel the polar bear
S3E5 Yemi sets fire to Eko's tent
S3E5 Danny Pickett sets fire to Colleen's funeral pyre
S3E19 Danielle takes a box of dynamite from the Black Rock
S3E20 A fire is started in Jacob's cabin when the lantern that Ben/Fake Henry places on the table falls to the floor
S3E21 Danielle blows up the trees
S3E21 Jack and Juliet stack dynamite with Danielle
S3E22 Sayid shoots the dynamite and explodes one of the marked tents
S3E22 Bernard shoots the dynamite and explodes the second tent
S4E4 The bailiff reads the charges against Kate "..Fraud (Con Man), Arson (Arsonist), Assault on a Federal Officer (Terrorist), Assault with a Deadly Weapon (Terrorist), Grand Larceny(Criminal) , Grand Left Auto(Criminal) and Murder in the 1st degree (Murderer)
S4E9 Keamy's man shoots an RPG at Claire's house and blows it up (#1, #2, #3)
S4E11 Keamy says that he is going to torch the island
S4E12 Keamy and his men, Sawyer tells Jack "Because is he is with those animals who just blew up half of New Otherton, you don't want to tussle with them
S4E12 Desmond discovers Keamy's bomb made out of bricks of C4

Artist- a good role
S1E9 Michael Dawson
S1E10 Claire's ex-boyfriend Thomas
S1E17 Michael tells Walt about drawing
S2E5 Sun studied art history
S2E19 Locke tries to recreate the blast door map
S2E23 Kelvin & Radzinski- Map on blast door
S2 DVD Desmond is the Mural Artist bonus feature
S3E1 The man that Sarah is speaking with outside the school is carrying an artist's watercolor art pad
S3E8 Desmond is a set decorator
S3E8 The photographer
S3E8 There are paint containers visible on the shelf in Ben's room
S3E22 Ted Worden who finds the suicide victim. There is a translation of the obituary of the man in the coffin that is posted all over the internet. It claims that the obituary says "The body of Jeremy Betham of New York was found shortly after 4 am in the 4300 block of Grand Avenue. Ted Worden, a doorman at the Tower Lofts complex, heard loud noises coming from the victim's loft. Concerned for tenant's safety, he entered the loft and found the body hanging from a beam in the living room. According to Jamie Ortiz, a police spokesperson, the incident was deemed a suicide after medical tests. Betham (sic) is survived by one teenaged son. Memorial services will be held at the Hoffs-Drawlar Funeral Home tomorrow evening."
S3E22 One of the names on the funeral parlor is Drawlar
S4E1 Hurley paints a picture of an igloo and an Eskimo fishing and is also obviously the artist who created the drawing/mural on the chalk board
S4E10 Aaron's artwork is on the refrigerator
S4E11 Locke drew a picture of the smoke monster as a child

Ballerina- a good role
S1E9 Danielle's Music Box
S1E20 Sarah says she wants to dance at her wedding
S2E6 Shannon, Nora and the ballet class
S3E2 The title of the episode is "The Glass Ballerina" and it refers to the statue that Sun breaks
S3E17 Charlie says "Perhaps we could fit Superman with a pair of Kryptonite ballet slippers"

Box Man- a good role
S1E18 Hurley owns a box company
S1E4 Locke, Randy and GL12 work for a box company
S2E1, S2E23 and S2E24 Desmond calls Locke "Box Man"
S3E13 Ben/Fake Henry calls Locke the "Box Man" several times
S3E18 Jin wandering through apartment as Sun asks him how it looks and he replies "Lots of boxes"
S3E18 Sun unpacking boxes and says "Let me just finish this box"
S3E19 Ben/Fake Henry tells Locke "You're still crippled by the memories of the man you used to be before you came to this island" and "as long as he's still breathing you'll still be that same sad pathetic man who was kicked off his walkabout tour"
S3E22 Locke is paralyzed again and can't move his legs when he is in the ditch
S4E6 Looks like this episode has a machine as the box man
S4E11 Locke is back to being crippled and in a wheel chair

Chuckleheads- a good role
S1E10 Claire worked at the Fish & Fry
S2E4 Hurley and Johnny work at Mr. Clucks
S2E4 Starla calls Hurley and Johnny "chuckleheads"
S2E18 Sawyer says he "has enough food now to open a chain of mini-marts"
S3E10 Randy Nation and the rest of Hurley's employees at Mr. Cluck's
S3E10 Mr. Tron and Lady Tron used to work at Bennigan's
S3E11 Sayid working in the restaurant
S3E11 Sami tells Sayid about Amira "She's in charge of the kitchen"
S3E14 Paolo is Howard Zuckerman's chef
S3E15 Sawyer cooks the boar
S3E16 Hurley cooks the oatmeal
S3E19 Charlie packs up food to bring to the tent that Naomi is in
S4E1 The convenience store clerk
S4E2 The woman who asks "Dan how do you want your eggs?"
S4E6 Ben cooks a ham for Juliet
S4E7 Charlotte makes herself some breakfast
S4E7 Jin makes himself some breakfast
S4E7 Jin makes dinner for Sun
S4E10 Jack makes coffee
S4E11 Locke tells Hurley about the Dharma Initiative "There must have been about 100 of them living on the island , manning the stations (Man of Faith), building those homes (Construction Worker), making all of that Ranch Dressing (Chuckleheads) that you like"
S4E11 Hurley shares his Apollo bar with Ben
S4E12 Hurley drives up in a beat up old brown car and has a bag of Chicken from Mr. Cluck's

Con Man- a bad role, they lie quite frequently
S1E1 Sawyer
S1E16 Hibbs
S1E8 Sawyer takes his name from a Con Man
S1E12 Kate cons the bank manager and Jason
S1E13 Shannon and her boyfriend Bryan
S1E19 Anthony Cooper
S1E19 Emily Locke
S1E22 Kate tries to take Joanna's passport on the raft
S1E23 Sawyer gets arrested and Calderwood calls him a con man
S2E8 Jason Elder (Mc Cormack)
S2E13 Gordy
S2E13 Cassidy
S2E13 Sawyer, Cassidy & Gordy
S2E17 Ben/Fake Henry Gale takes the real Henry Gale's name
S2E21 Caldwell, the forger
S2E20 Libby lies to Hurley about knowing him
S2E21 Richard Malkin admits that he is a fraud
S2E24 Zeke (Tom/Mr. Friendly) wears a fake beard
S3E1 Sawyer
S3E3 Eddie cons Locke
S3E4 Sawyer cons Munson
S3E4 Munson ripped off the government for $10 million dollars
S3E4 Ben/Fake Henry cons Sawyer
S3E6 Kate cons her husband, Kevin Callis
S3E7 Sawyer, Kate and Alex try to con Aldo
S3E9 Achara gets an envelop of money from the Thai man
S3E10 David Reyes brings Hurley to Madam Psychic to try to con him
S3E11 Hurley cons Sawyer into playing ping pong
S3E13 Anthony Cooper runs a con game on Mrs. Talbot
S3E13 Ben/Fake Henry cons Locke into blowing up the Galaga and Locke tells him "You don't have to pretend to be disappointed anymore. We both know you wanted it to happen. That's why you left the C4 in Sayid's bag because you wanted me to make it happen."
S3E14 LaShade and his sidekick con Corvette, Crystal and Autumn
S3E14 Nikki and Paolo con Howard Zuckerman
S3E14 Paolo cons Nikki into thinking he hasn't found the bag
S3E14 Nikki cons Paolo into thinking she believes him
S3E14 Nikki cons Ethan about what she and Paolo are looking for
S3E14 Nikki cons Arzt into drawing the map
S3E14 Sawyer cons Hurley when he lies about knowing Nikki
S3E15 Cassidy is running the jewelry con game that Sawyer taught her
S3E15 Cassidy tries to con everyone into thinking she is Kate and then that she is a bible salesman
S3E15 Cassidy spills the chili on Diane to get her to go to the bathroom
S3E15 Hurley cons Sawyer into becoming the Leader
S3E15 Juliet cons Kate about the key and the monster and later says "I thought that maybe if I could make you think that we were in it together maybe I wouldn't get left behind again"
S3E16 Ben/Fake Henry cons Juliet
S3E16 Juliet admits to Jack that she conned Kate about the handcuffs
S3E16 Juliet is cons Ben/Fake Henry
S3E16 Richard Alpert cons Juliet
S3E16 Sawyer
S3E18 Jin's mother leaves him with Mr. Kwon, who is not sure if he is Jin's father
S3E18 Juliet sneaks up to Sun in the middle of the night and covers Sun's mouth so she will not scream and convinces Sun to go to the Medical Hatch
S3E18 Juliet lies to Sun and tells her she is going back to check to see that she didn't miss anything and is actually going back to leave Ben/Fake Henry a message on the tape recorder. Also, Juliet told Sun that the plane crash was 90 days ago and yet, when she leaves the message for Ben/Fake Henry she says that it is 6:00am on Saturday morning which would make it Day 88. She is conning either Sun or Ben/Fake Henry about the real date.
S3E19 Ben/Fake Henry tries to con Locke into believing that he (Locke) was responsible for bringing Anthony Cooper to the island
S3E19 Hurley and Jin con Sawyer when he finds them outside the tent where Naomi is
S3E19 Locke cons Sawyer about taking Ben/Fake Henry prisoner
S3E19 Charlie cons Jack about what they did on their camping trip
S3E19 Locke tells Sawyer that the file that the Others have on him includes "All the con jobs that you were arrested for"
S3E19 Sawyer tells Locke about Ben conning him "I already been conned by Ben once. Maybe you heard about it, bunny with a number painted on it?"
S3E19 Anthony Cooper- tells Sawyer about Locke "I conned him into giving one of his kidneys"
S3E20 Locke cons Ben by implying that he is the person who killed Anthony Cooper
S3E20 Ben/Fake Henry lies to Locke and says he was born on the island
S3E20 Juliet explains that she told Jack about Ben/Fake Henry's plan and that she is fact conning Ben
S3E21 Charlie lies to Hurley and tells him he can't come because "You won't fit in the boat"
S3E22 When Mikhail Bakunin/Patchy says to Ben/Fake Henry on the radio "You told us the Looking Glass was inoperable, flooded" and Ben replies "I lied"
S3E22 Jack lies to Sarah when she asks if he is drinking again
S3E22 Jack is conned into thinking that Sayid, Jin and Bernard are dead
S3E22 Juliet lies about knowing where there is a hidden stash of guns then says to Sawyer "I lied"
S3E22 Ben/Fake Henry tells Jack about Naomi "She's not who she says she is" and "She's a representative of some people who have been trying to find this island. She's one of the bad guys"
S3E22 Sawyer tells Hurley he didn't believe Tom/Mr. Friendly when he said "I give up"
S3E22 Jack tells Kate "I'm sick... of lying"
S4E1 Hurley lies to Big Mike, Ana Lucia's ex-partner, when he says "Sorry, I never met her"
S4E1 Jack lies to Minkowski about Naomi getting firewood
S4E1 Desmond tells the group that Naomi lied about herself and the BOATies "That woman, she lied. The people on the boat aren't who they say they are"
S4E1 Matthew Abbadon claims that he is a lawyer for Oceanic
S4E1 Kate hugs Jack and steals the satellite phone
S4E1 Jack tells Minkowski that Naomi is collecting firewood
S4E1 Naomi lies to Minkowski
S4E2 Kate tells Jack "Naomi covered for us. They don't know what Locke did to her"
S4E2 Juliet says to Sayid about Ben, "Because he's a liar"
S4E2 Miles fakes an injury to get Jack & Kate to approach him
S4E2 Miles steals the stash of money he finds and cons Mrs. Gardner
S4E2 Ben calls Sawyer "a low life scam artist"
S4E2 Ben say he has a "man on the boat"
S4E3 Sayid arranges to meet Elsa in a restaurant in Berlin
S4E3 "Whatever their real agenda is, they're not sharing it" said about Miles, Daniel, Charlotte and Frank
S4E3 Hurley cons Sayid & Kate into believing his story
S4E3 Sayid is conned by Elsa who knew that he was after her boss
S4E3 Locke tells Sayid "Ben says he has a spy on the boat"
S4E3 Sayid discovers that Ben has many passports in his hidden closet, the name on his Swiss passport is Dean Moriarty
S4E4 Ben's spy on the boat
S4E4 The bailiff reads the charges against Kate "..Fraud (Con Man), Arson (Arsonist), Assault on a Federal Officer (Terrorist), Assault with a Deadly Weapon (Terrorist), Grand Larceny(Criminal) , Grand Left Auto(Criminal) and Murder in the 1st degree (Murderer)
S4E4 Sawyer cons Locke about Kate
S4E4 Jack lies on the witness stand
S4E4 Hurley asks Kate "You just Scooby Dooed me, didn't you?" when she cons him into telling her where Miles is
S4E4 Miles tells Ben "So now I found you and I can tell him exactly where you are or I can lie and tell him you're already dead for $3.2 million dollars"
S4E6 Goodwin lies to Juliet about how he hurt his arm
S4E6 Charlotte lies about the satellite phone not working because it "ran out of juice"
S4E6 Daniel lies to Kate and says his bag is filled with "...just batteries"
S4E6 Goodwin is sent off to meet up with the Tailies and Ethan is sent to meet up with the LOSTies
S4E6 Juliet cons Jack when she says she'll get Kate water and instead she takes off for the Tempest
S4E6 Ben cons Locke
S4E6 Ben cons Juliet about Goodwin being back soon and also about Goodwin having feelings for Ana Lucia
S4E6 Ben/Harper conned Juliet into thinking that Daniel and Charlotte needed to be killed
S4E7 Kate tells Sun that Juliet lied about the "poison gas factory"
S4E7 The person that Captain Gault says "obviously staged" the fake wreckage of Flight 815, implying that it was Ben
S4E8 Michael
S4E8 Miles tells Michael "Don't worry, 80% of the people on this boat are lying about something"
S4E9 Ben checks into the hotel in Tozeur, Tunisia using the fake Dean Moriarty passport/identity
S4E9 Ben arrives in an SUV marked "Press" and pretends to be a photographer
S4E9 Ben smirks as he walks away from Sayid after he kills Ishmael Bakir, indicating he manipulated Sayid
S4E9 Daniel lies to the LOSTies about what the Morse Code message from the BOATies says
S4E9 Locke accuses Ben of having lied about not knowing what the smoke monster is
S4E9 Ben cons the doorman at Widmore's building in London, while holding his black jack behind his back
S4E10 Daniel and Charlotte, when Bernard tells Jack "These people are lying to us", and Jack replies that "I know they're lying"
S4E10 Kate lies to Jack and says she was talking to Noreen on the phone, "one of the Mom's from the park"
S4E10 Jack fakes that he is asleep when Juliet is talking to Kate about Jack and Juliet kissing
S4E10 Charlotte lies to Jin about being able to speak Korean
S4E11 Richard Alpert lies about why he is testing Locke
S4E11 Ben lies about killing the Dharma people when he says "I didn't kill them"
S4E11 Captain Gault lies to Omar so he will leave Sayid and Desmond with Gault
S4E11 Frank Lapidus lies to Keamy and says he is bringing Michael down to the engine room
S4E11 Gault says he'll lie to Keamy if he notices the Zodiac missing
S4E12 The Oceanic 6 all lie about the fate of the rest of the survivors of Oceanic 815
S4E12 Ben says "I wasn't being entirely truthful" and Locke replies "When are you ever entirely truthful"

Construction Worker- a good role, builds things
S1E7 Michael says he worked in construction for 8 years
S1E9 Hurley builds the golf course
S1E9 Michael says he was in construction
S1E14 Michael talks about building the water filtration system
S1E14 Michael is building a raft
S1E17, S1E18, S1E19 Michael and Jin build the second raft
S1E17 Shannon and Sayid build Shannon a shelter
S1E18 Locke and Claire build the cradle
S1E19 Locke builds the trebuchet
S2E10 Hurley helped Libby with a tarp
S2E12 Jack helps Ana Lucia with her tarp
S2E18 Eko and Charlie are building a church
S2E19 Bernard tries to build the SOS
S2E21 Eko is building the church
S2E22 Charlie tells Claire "We're building a church"
S3E3 Locke builds the sweat lodge
S3E4 Charlie says "I was building a church before Eko exploded"
S3E4 Desmond builds the lightning rod
S3E8 Desmond is painting the apartment
S3E9 Kate builds a campfire
S3E10 Roger is a Work Man - Sawyer says "Looks like those Dharma freaks were building some sort of dirt road"
S3E11 Hurley, Charlie, Jin, Sun, Nikki, Paolo and other LOSTies help rebuild the Ping Pong table
S3E12 Kate, Danielle, Locke and Sayid build the bridge over the Perimeter Fence pylon with a tree
S3E16 Juliet constructs her tent
S3E17 Jack asks Juliet "Are you a doctor or a carpenter?" as she is hammering a box
S3E18 Sun helps Kate fix her tent
S3E19 Locke helps Cindy put up her tent
S4E4 Jack tells the courtroom that Kate "...made shelter"
S4E6 Juliet and Sun fix Juliet's shelter
S4E9 Ben, Locke, Sawyer and Hurley build a wall of furniture to keep Keamy and his men out of the house
S4E11 Horace Goodspeed tells Locke he is "building a place" for his wife and later Locke says "The cabin, he was building it' when he finds the blueprints and map with the cabin on it
S4E11 Locke tells Hurley about the Dharma Initiative "There must have been about 100 of them living on the island , manning the stations (Man of Faith), building those homes (Construction Worker), making all of that Ranch Dressing (Chuckleheads) that you like"

Coward- a bad role
S1E2 Charlie says "Every trek needs a coward"
S2E23 Widmore says to Desmond "...because you're a coward"
S3E8 Charlie says to Desmond "I know a coward when I see one"
S3E8 Penny says to Desmond "Have the decency to admit that you're doing this because you're a coward" when he breaks up with her
S3E17 Desmond says "Because I am a coward"
S4E5 Charles Widmore tells Desmond "Fortunately, your cowardice won out instead"

Cowboy- a good role
S1E8 Sawyer calls Jack "cowboy"
S1E16 Christian Shephard calls Sawyer "cowboy"
S1E22 Sawyer says "Mike is gonna cowboy up"
S2E6 Ana Lucia talking about Sawyer says "You're doing all this to get the cowboy back faster"
S2E6 Ana Lucia talking about Sawyer says "You're doing this to get the cowboy back"
S3E9 Sawyer tells Karl he punched him in the arm "So you'd cowboy up"
S3E13 Locke sits by a dinner tray with pictures on it, there is a picture of a Cowboy Boot near Locke and there is a picture of a Sheriff's badge near Peter Talbot as he questions Locke
S3E15 Kate wears a hat that says "Cowboy Up"
S4E3 Sawyer talks about Charlotte's team "Which means her posse's gonna come expecting a gun fight"
S4E11 Locke is wearing a cowboy shirt

Crazy- a good role. Crazy yes, but harmless
S1E1 Locke says "Jack thinks I'm crazy doesn't he?"
S1E12 Sayid says Danielle's "mind is gone"
S1E13 Charlie says "Locke? The guy's a freak of nature. Highly disturbed."
S1E18 Lenny Sims
S1E18 Hurley
S1E19 Emily Locke
S1E23Arzt calls Danielle "Madam Nutso"
S1E24 Charlie says Rousseau is "Certifiable"
S1E23 Jack says about Danielle “I mean, she's not playing with a full deck.”
S1E23 Charlie says about Danielle "She's insane"
S1E24 Hurley says"You think I'm crazy" and "A while ago I was in this kinda psyche ward."
S2E15 Jack says "Rousseau's crazy"
S2E18 Sawyer says to Hurley "You're crazy"
S2E18 Hurley, Libby and Lenny in Santa Rosa
S3E8 Hurley uses his finger to circle his temple and indicate to Charlie that Desmond is crazy and Donovan asks Desmond "Are you insane?"
S3E8 Penny tells Desmond that if for some reason her father is "...too daft to see how brilliant you are"
S3E8 Sawyer asks Kate "Have you lost your mind?"
S3E10 Hurley mentions Lenny and "the institution"
S3E10 Hurley says "I'm not crazy" several times during the episode
S3E10 Sawyer asks Hurley "Are you nuts?"
S3E10 Charlie says that this is where Hurley should tell him "don't be daft, he's a nutter" referring to Desmond
S3E11 Hurley says about ping pong "and I played a lot at the instit..., this place I hung out at for a while"
S3E14 Arzt goes on a rant about "The pigs walking"
S3E14 Paolo asks Nikki "Are you out of your mind?"
S3E17 Charlie says to Hurley "You're insane mate"
S3E18 Charlie tells Desmond "You're out of your mind"
S3E20 Locke says "You're crazy" to Ben/Fake Henry
S3E21 Simon Pace says to young Charlie "Don't be daft, jump in"
S3E22 Charlie refers to Mikhail Bakunin/Patchy as "the one-eyed maniac"
S4E1 Hurley winds up back in Santa Rosa Mental Hospital
S4E1 Jack describes Locke and his attempt to kill Naomi when he says "Because he's crazy"
S4E2 Naomi refers to Dan as a "head case" when Matthew Abbadon lays out the pictures
S4E3 Miles describes the LOSTies to Frank "One of these yahoos took Charlotte prisoner"
S4E5 Desmond says "If I told you, you'd think I was crazy" and Billy replies "I already know you're crazy"
S4E5 Minkowski says "I probably could have fixed it, but then I went nuts"
S4E5 Minkowski says "Brandon started acting crazy"
S4E5 Desmond begs Penny "I'm not crazy Penny, you have to believe me, you have to trust me"
S4E7 Captain Gault says "some of my crew have been dealing with what might best be described as a heightened sense of cabin fever"
S4E8 Lapidus asks Michael "You know those nuts that think that the moon landing was fake..."
S4E8 Minkowski says to Michael "What are you going Jack Nicholson on us?"
S4E9 Ben tells Keamy "She's not my daughter "I stole her as a baby from an insane woman"
S4E9 Sawyer calls Locke and Ben "wackos" and asks Locke "Have you lost your mind?" and calls him "You crazy son of a bitch"
S4E10 Jack tells Kate about Hurley "He's crazy"
S4E11 Locke tells Hurley "You're here because you can see the cabin and that makes you special" and Hurley replies "I think we can see it because we're the craziest"
S4E11 Captain Gault tells Keamy about the sickness and strange behaviors including Regina and suggests that maybe Keamy has it too
S4E11 Omar says "Crazy Huh?" about the Morse Code message sent by Faraday
S4E12 Hurley refers to Keamy and his men as "Psychos with guns"

Criminal- a bad role
S1E22 Sawyer calls Kate a convict
S1E2 Sawyer says "I'm the criminal, you're the terrorist. We can all play a part. Who do you want to be?"
S1E22 Sawyer says to Michael "Oh, I'm a criminal huh? I poisoned you cause I'm a criminal?"
S1E22 Sawyer says to Kate "Tell him who the criminal is"
S3E3 Eddie asks Locke "What d'ya do? Rob a Bank?" Locke replies "Fraid so"
S3E19 Locke tells Sawyer that the file that the Others have on Sawyer contains his criminal record
S3E21 Charlie saves Nadia from the mugger
S4E4 The bailiff reads the charges against Kate "..Fraud (Con Man), Arson (Arsonist), Assault on a Federal Officer (Terrorist), Assault with a Deadly Weapon (Terrorist), Grand Larceny(Criminal) , Grand Left Auto(Criminal) and Murder in the 1st degree (Murderer)
S4E4 Kate tells Sawyer about Miles "I want you to help me bust him out"
S4E5 The Black Rock log "was discovered among the artifacts of pirates"
S4E6 Goodwin is stealing gauze
S4E7 Sun steals drugs
S4E9 Widmore accuses Ben of having taken the island from him "I know that everything you have, you took from me"
S4E10 Miles is told by Sawyer that he has a restraining order

Daddy- a bad role
S1E1 Jack's father
S1E6 Michael says "and now, I gotta be his daddy"
S1E10 Claire has Daddy issues
S1E10 Thomas walks out on pregnant Claire
S1E11 Title is "All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues"
S1E13 Detective
S1E16 Sawyer's father kills himself
S1E17 Mr. Paik
S1E19, S2E17 Anthony Cooper treats Locke horribly
S1E24 Michael wants his mother to take care of Walt
S2E6 Charlie is angry that Locke is caring for Aaron and Claire says "It's like we're playing Mom & Dad to this baby, but I don't remember marrying him"
S2E9 Wayne Jansen, Kate's real father
S2E9 Sam Austen leaves Kate at the mercy of Wayne Jansen
S2E11 Michael says "I am going after my son and nobody is going to stop me"
S2E12 Locke and Charlie fight for the role of Daddy
S2E12 Charlie's father is pictured dismembering dolls
S2E15 Mr. Paik
S2E20 Christian Shephard tries to push in the door to see his daughter
S2E22, S2E23 and S2E24 Michael says"I have to get my son back" and he decides to work with The Others to get Walt back
S2E23 Charles Widmore, Penny's father
S3E2 Mr. Paik
S3E3 Eddie's "dad is a drunk"
S3E4 Sawyer is a daddy (Clementine Phillips)
S3E6 Mr. Callis, Kevin Callis' father, Kate's father-in-law
S3E7 Ben as Alex's father
S3E8 Charles Widmore
S3E8 Desmond mentions his father
S3E9 Jack discusses his father with Achara and says "He wasn't exactly the kite flying type"
S3E9 Isabel says to Alex "Why don't you check on your father?"
S3E10 David Reyes comes back because of Hurley's money
S3E12 Christian Shephard tells Claire "I'm your father"
S3E13 Alex calls Ben/Fake Henry "Dad"
S3E13 Locke calls Anthony Cooper "Dad"
S3E15 Kate tells Cassidy about her step father beating her mother
S3E17 Jack tells Juliet "My father taught me how to drink"
S3E18 Mr. Paik
S3E19 Anthony Cooper tells Sawyer "It means that bald-headed bastard outside the door is my son"
S3E20 Roger Linus, Ben/Fake Henry's father
S3E20 Juliet's tape is played revealing the fact that Sun is pregnant and that Jin is the father
S3E21 Simon Pace
S3E21 Jin
S3E21 Liam tells Charlie that the ring has to stay in the family and Charlie leaves it for Aaron in his crib
S3E22 Jeremy Betham, the man in the coffin. There is a translation of the obituary of the man in the coffin that is posted all over the internet. It claims that the obituary says "The body of Jeremy Betham of New York was found shortly after 4 am in the 4300 block of Grand Avenue. Ted Worden, a doorman at the Tower Lofts complex, heard loud noises coming from the victim's loft. Concerned for tenants' safety, he entered the loft and found the body hanging from a beam in the living room. According to Jamie Ortiz, a police spokesperson, the incident was deemed a suicide after medical tests. Betham (sic) is survived by one teenaged son. Memorial services will be held at the Hoffs-Drawlar Funeral Home tomorrow evening."
S4E1 Ben refers to Alex as "...my daughter"
S4E2 Ben says to Karl ""If you're gonna sleep with my daughter.."
S4E3 Jack asks Frank "Did the Red Sox really win the series?" and Frank replies "Hey don't get me started on that. My dad's from the Bronx, I bleed Yankee blue"
S4E4 Jin says "you mean our baby" to Sun
S4E4 Wayne Jansen, Kate's lawyer says to Kate that you "... confessed to your mother that you killed your father"
S4E5 Charles Widmore
S4E6 Tom and Juliet's dads. Tom tells Juliet about Harper "She'll have you crying about your daddy" and "I'm speaking from personal experience"
S4E7 Jin
S4E7 The Ambassador's daughter gives birth to a baby boy
S4E7 Jin mentions Mr. Paik
S4E8 Ben
S4E8 Michael says to his mother "Please Ma, he's my son"
S4E9 Alex calls Ben "Daddy" and Ben later tells Locke "I'd like to say goodbye to my daughter"
S4E9 Ben tells Widmore "I'm going to kill your daughter Penelope"
S4E10 Christian Shephard and Jack
S4E10 Claire wakes up and sees Christian Shephard holding Aaron and calls him Dad
S4E10 Jin tells Sun "I will get you and our baby off this island"
S4E11 The father of Emily Locke's baby
S4E11 Christian Shephard
S4E12 David Reyes
S4E12 Mr. Paik
S4E12 Jin

Dead- a neutral role, a dead person can't do either good or bad to anyone
S1E1 Christian Shephard
S1E1 Fuselage victims
S1E2 Pilot
S1E2 Edward Mars, the Marshall
S1E3 "I don't want to know Kate. It doesn't matter, Kate, who we were, what we did before this, before the crash. It doesn't really. Three days ago we all died. We should be able to start over."
S1E6 Adam & Eve
S1E9 Danielle killed members of her science team
S1E11 Charlie is dead after Ethan hangs him in a tree and Jack brings him back to life
S1E15 Ethan killed by Charlie
S1E15 Scott
S1E16 Druckett
S1E16 Mr. & Mrs. Ford
S1E20 Christian Shephard kills a patient while drunk
S1E20 Boone
S1E23 Hurley says "I thought you were dead" to Arzt
S2E2 Ana Lucia says "he's already dead" about Sawyer
S2E6 Ana Lucia again says "he's already dead" about Sawyer
S2E6 Shannon
S2E7 Bernard says he thinks the man in the tree with him is dead
S2E7 Nathan
S2E7 Goodwin
S2E8 Ana Lucia's unborn baby killed by Jason
S2E8 Jason
S2E8 Ana Lucia says "I'm already dead" to Sayid
S2E8 Ana Lucia says "I feel dead" to Sayid
S2E8 Sayid replies to Ana Lucia "We're both already dead"
S2E10 Eko kills as a child and he also kills the Moroccan drug dealers
S2E10 Yemi
S2E11 Jack says about Bissoni "He died"
S2E16 Henry says "It doesn't matter what I do. I'm already dead"
S2E18 Hurley killed two people in the deck collapse
S2E18 Fake Henry says about the Real Henry Gale "He was dead already"
S2E18 and S2E20 Fake Henry says "I'm already dead"
S2E21 Ana Lucia
S2E21 Libby
S2E23 Kate kills an Other
S2E24 Kelvin Inman
S3E2 Jae Lee
S3E3 Eddie says "Mom's dead"
S3E3 Small child's skeleton in the bear cave
S3E4 Colleen
S3E5 Woman selling the Virgin Mary statues
S3E5 Eko kills Emeka and his men
S3E5 Eko
S3E7 Danny Pickett killed by Juliet
S3E7 Edmund Burke killed by a bus
S3E8 The man in the red sneakers
S3E9 Sawyer tells Kate that she slept with him "because you thought I was a dead man"
S3E10 Roger the skeleton
S3E10 The guy who jumped off Mike Cowan's roof
S3E10 Tricia Tanaka and the Camera Dude
S3E11 Sawyer says "...stuff you all decided to have yourselves a little party with while you thought I was dead"
S3E11 When Sayid asks Mikhail Bakunin/Patchy "What happened to the Dharma Initiative?", he replies "They're all dead, of course"
S3E11 Ms. Klugh is killed by Mikhail Bakunin/Patchy
S312 Carole Littleton is on life support and Dr. Woodruff says "These machines are sustaining her life"
S3E13 Peter Talbot is killed by Anthony Cooper
S3E14 Corvette is killed by LaShade (The Cobra)
S3E13 Alex tells Sayid "My mother is dead"
S3E14 Hurley tells Sawyer "Dude, Nikki's dead"
S3E14 Paolo is found "dead" by Jin, Hurley and Sawyer
S3E14 Paolo discovers the dead bodies in the water
S3E16 Sabine, the pregnant Other dies in the OR
S3E17 Desmond sees a flash of Charlie being shot by an arrow and dying
S3E17 Hurley says about the satellite phone "Crap, it's dead"
S3E18 Sun tells the Jin's mother that "His parents are dead" and Jin tells Sun his father died when Jin was in the army
S3E18 Juliet tells Sun what happens to pregnant women on the island"They die. They all die"
S3E18 Mikhail Bakunin/Patchy says "As your friend pointed out, I already died once this week"
S3E18 Mr. Kwon told Jin that his father died as a baby
S3E18 Sun says to Juliet "If what you said is true, I'm already dead"
S3E18 Naomi tells Hurley that "they found the plane. There were no survivors. They were all dead"
S3E19 Naomi tells Sayid that the bodies from Flight 815 were found in the wreckage of the plane and Sayid says "Well, obviously we're not all dead"
S3E19 Skeletons on the Black Rock
S3E19 Anthony Cooper says "John Locke, my dead son" and "He's dead because the plane he was flying on crashed in the Pacific" and Sawyer responds "So we're dead?"
S3E20 Emily Linus
S3E20 Horace Goodspeed, Roger Linus and the Dharma people killed in the purge
S3E21 Desmond tells Charlie that he will die by drowning
S3E21 Megan Pace must be dead since Liam says about giving Charlie the ring "Mom would have wanted it this way"
S3E22 All 10 of the Others who came to the beach to kidnap the pregnant women including Tom/Mr. Friendly and Ryan
S3E22 The man who is in the coffin. Jack has the obituary. There is a translation of the obituary that is posted all over the internet. It claims that the obituary says "The body of Jeremy Betham of New York was found shortly after 4 am in the 4300 block of Grand Avenue. Ted Worden, a doorman at the Tower Lofts complex, heard loud noises coming from the victim's loft. Concerned for tenants' safety, he entered the loft and found the body hanging from a beam in the living room. According to Jamie Ortiz, a police spokesperson, the incident was deemed a suicide after medical tests. Betham (sic) is survived by one teenaged son. Memorial services will be held at the Hoffs-Drawlar Funeral Home tomorrow evening."
S3E22 Bonnie and Greta
S3E22 Sawyer shoots and kills Tom/Mr. Friendly and says "That's for taking the kid off the raft"
S4E1 Naomi dies from the knife wound she got from Locke in S3E22
S4E1 Charlie is dead and says to Hurley "I am dead, but I'm also here"
S4E1 Christian Shephard
S4E2 Naomi
S4E2 Mrs. Gardner's grandson
S4E2 Hurley says that most of the Tailies are "pretty much all dead now"
S4E2 The body of the dead pilot reported to be Seth Norris in the news story
S4E3 Naomi
S4E3 Sayid shoots and kills Mr. Avellino
S4E4 Wayne Jansen, Kate's lawyer says to Kate that you "... confessed to your mother that you killed your father"
S4E4 Diane Jansen tells Kate "Because it all changed when I thought you were dead"
S4E4 Lawyer tells Kate "We got killed in the opening, I had to do this"
S4E5 Eloise dies of a brain aneurysm, with a bloody nose
S4E5 Brandon is "in a body bag" according to Minkowski
S4E5 Minkowski dies with a bloody nose
S4E5 Sayid says "...the power source went dead"
S4E6 Henrietta dies in childbirth
S4E6 Charlotte says the batteries are dead
S4E6 Goodwin
S4E7 Jin, Hurley and Sun visit his grave
S4E7 Regina
S4E7 The 324 dead bodies on the faked wreckage of Flight 815
S4E8 The bodies dug up fro the cemetery in Thailand
S4E8 Libby
S4E8 Karl
S4E9 Dr. Ray
S4E9 Two men approach Ben in the Sahara Desert and Ben kills at least one of them , the second man may only be knocked out
S4E9 Nadia was killed in LA, Ben tells Sayid that it was Ishmael Bakir who killed her
S4E9 Ishmael Bakir is killed by Sayid in Iraq
S4E9 Doug, Jerome and the woman LOSTie killed by Keamy and his men
S4E9 Alex tells Ben that Keamy and his men killed Karl and her mother
S4E9 Alex is shot in the back of the head by Keamy
S4E10 Danielle and Karl are found by Miles
S4E10 Hurley tells Jack "Cause we're all dead. All of us. The Oceanic 6, we're all dead"
S4E11 Horace Goodspeed tells Locke "That's probably because I've been dead for 12 years"
S4E11 The Dharma people in the pit
S4E11 Frank Lapidus tells Captain Gault that "Mayhew just died"
S4e11 Keamy slits Dr. Ray's throat and throws him overboard
S4E11 Keamy shoots and kills Captain Gault
S4E11 Christian Shephard is in Jacob's cabin
S4E12 The Oceanic 6 claim that every one else on Flight 815 died
S4E12 In the version of this episode shown just before the Season Finale (S4E13) there was a scene added during the Press Conference where Jack identifies Boone, Libby and Charlie as having survived the crash of Flight 815 but as having died on the island. He says that Boone died of massive internal injuries, Libby didn't make it past the first week and that Charlie drowned shortly before they got off the island
S4E12 Sun accuses Mr. Paik of being responsible for Jin's death
S4E12 Christian Shephard , a memorial service is held for him
S4E13 The three unknown LOSTies (There is a woman in an orange shirt, a dark haired woman in a lavender colored shirt and the guy in the checkered shirt) that took the first raft to the Kahana in S4E12 are most likely dead as a result of the explosion on the Kahana

Doctor- a good role, is involved in treating injuries or illnesses
S1E1 Jack and Christian Shephard
S1E1 Jack and Boone perform CPR on Rose
S1E15 Jack treats Claire when she gets back from being kidnapped by Ethan
S1E17 Sawyer calls Jack "Doc"
S1E20 Jack cures Sarah and she toasts him "To Jack, my hero"
S1E20 Jack treats Boone
S1E22 Arzt says "Because I'm a doctor and you're a hillbilly"
S1E22 Dr. Tom Brennan
S1E23 Jack, Sawyer calls him "Doc"
S1 DVD Jack says "I'm the heroic doctor"
S2E3 Dr. Marvin Candle, Swan Orientation film
S2E16 Dr. Kim, Sun's fertility doctor
S2E18 Dr. Brooks, Hurley's doctor
S2E5 Eko tends to Jin's wound with aloe
S2E21 Dr. Ian McVey, the undertaker
S2E21 Dr. Mark Wickman, Pearl Orientation video
S2E7 Libby says she dropped out of med school as she treats Donald's broken leg
S2E8 Jack says "I'm the doctor"
S2E11 Jack treats Locke after Michael knocks him out
S2E11 Christian Shephard
S2E14 Jack doctors Fake Henry Gale
S2E15 Ethan
S2E17 Jack examines Aaron and Libby asks Jack "Doctor still in? I was grabbing for muscles in the tide pool and pissed off a sea urchin"
S2E18 Jack doctors Locke's legs
S2E19 Bernard is a dentist
S2E21Kate rushes to look at Ana Lucia and pronounces her dead and then puts pressure on her wound as Jack leaves the room to change roles to leader
S3E1 Jack
S3E4 Juliet is a fertility doctor
S3E4 Jack says "I'm a spinal surgeon"
S3E5 Jack questions Ben/Fake Henry about the tumor
S3E5 Dr. Mark Wickman, in the Pearl Orientation video
S3E6 Juliet
S3E6 Jack
S3E7 Jack, Juliet, Edmund Burke, Ethan and Richard Alpert
S3E9 The Other in scrubs getting ready to inject Ben/Fake Henry
S3E9 Ben/Fake Henry tells Jack "We had an excellent surgeon, his name was Ethan"
S3E9 The boy on the beach addresses Jack as "Doctor Jack"
S3E9 Jack says "You need a doctor Ben"
S3E10 Sawyer refers to Jack as "doc" when he tells Hurley that Jack isn't back yet
S3E11 As Mikhail Bakunin/Patchy removes the bullet from Sayid's arm, Sayid asks him "You've had experience treating gunshot wounds?" and he replies "I had experience with field medicine in the Soviet Army"
S3E12 Dr. Woodruff introduces himself as a neurosurgeon, the ER doctor and Christian Shephard
S3E13 Ryan Pryce tells Jack "Step back doc"
S3E14 Jack is shown doctoring Claire in Nikki's flashback
S3E16 Juliet and Ethan
S3E17 Jack and Desmond as they discuss the first aid kit and Desmond taping ankles
S3E17 The first aid kit is visible on Desmond when he convinces Charlie to go with him
S3E18 Jack asks Sun how her pregnancy is progressing
S3E18 Desmond treats Naomi and says "I'm saving her" to Mikhail Bakunin/Patchy
S3E18 Kate tells Sun about Juliet "She was their fertility doctor"
S3E18 Patchy drives a syringe into Naomi's lung to help her breathe
S3E19 Hurley thinks that Jack should check Naomi's wound
S3E20 There is a doctor giving injections to the new people that are arriving on the island
S3E20 Kate says she told Jack about Naomi "Because he's a doctor"
S3E20 Juliet discusses Sun's ultrasound
S3E22 Bernard says "I'm a dentist, not Rambo"
S3E22 Doctor who gives Jack his stitches
S3E22 Dr. Rob Hamil, the new Chief of Surgery says to Jack "I'm sorry, I'm Dr. Hamil, Rob" and "Dr. Shephard, the hero twice over"
S3E22 Dr. Hamil tells Jack that "Gary Nadler is doing the surgery at 6:00am"
S3E22 Additional doctors are seen in the hospital
S4E1 Sawyer says about Jack "We gotta call the doc"
S4E1 Jack is back doing surgery when he visits Hurley at Santa Rosa
S4E2 Jack approaches Miles and leans over to treat Miles' injury and Ben refers to Jack as a "1st class surgeon"
S4E2 Juliet tends to Frank's head injury
S4E3 Ben treats Sayid's gun shot wound and is located in a veterinarian's office with dogs in cages
S4E4 Jack is announced in the court room as Dr. Jack Shephard
S4E4 Diane Jansen tells Kate "My doctor's have given me 6 mths to live for the last 4 years"
S4E5 Charlotte calls Jack "Doctor"
S4E6 Harper addresses Juliet as "Dr. Burke"
S4E6 Goodwin says "You're Burke right? The baby doctor"
S4E6 Jack works on Kate's head injury
S4E6 Juliet tells Ben that Jack is a spinal surgeon
S4E6 Jack examines Juliet's head injury
S4E7 Jack asks Sun how she is feeling
S4E7 Juliet says to Sun "You are my patient"
S4E7 Dr. Bae who delivers Ji Yeon
S4E7 Dr. Ray says "I'm a doctor"
S4E9 When Jack is helping himself to some antibiotics (amoxicillin) Kate asks him 'Got a prescription for that?" and he replies "Yeah, I wrote it myself"
S4E9 When Dr. Ray's body is found, Jack asks Daniel "Do you know who this is?" and Daniel replies "He's the doctor"
S4E10 Juliet removes Jack's appendix
S4E10 Daniel says he has performed some animal autopsies
S4E10 Juliet says "Shouldn't it be someone with medical experience? Bernard is a Dentist" and Bernard gives Jack the lidocaine injections
S4E10 Dr. Erika Stevenson
S4E10 Dr. Gardez- name on sign in the lobby of St. Sebastian Hospital
S4E11 The ER Doctor who delivers John Locke and Dr. Miller is being paged in the hospital
S4E11 Dr. Alpert
S4E11 Dr. Ray says "But I'm the doctor"
S4E11 Juliet says to Jack "Doctors make the worst patients"
S4E12 Juliet says to Jack "You can't be serious, you just had surgery"
S4E12 Sawyer says to Jack, "I'm sorry Doc, maybe this is Deja Vu"

Dog Walker- a good role
S1E1 Walt is Vincent's owner
S1E3 Locke finds Vincent
S1E23 Walt leaves Shannon in charge of Vincent
S2E1 Shannon loses Vincent
S2E3 Hurley plays fetch with Vincent
S2E5 Shannon, Sun and Hurley care for Vincent
S2E6 Shannon uses Vincent to track Walt
S2E8 Michael takes over Vincent when he returns to the LOSTies
Ana Lucia feeds Vincent after Michael leaves S2E11
S2E19 Sawyer feeds Vincent
S3E10 Sawyer, Hurley, Jin and Charlie have Vincent with them
S3E21 Hurley has Vincent on a leash
S3E22 Hurley has Vincent on a leash as they leave the beach and he is also seen later on walking Vincent
S3E22 When Hurley leaves, another LOSTie takes over as Dog Walker
S4E1 One of the LOSTies is walking Vincent
S4E2 Hurley has Vincent on a leash
S4E5 Penny and small dog ornament on the tree on the coffee table (near her left thigh)
S4E6 Jin is petting Vincent and then has him on a leash when they go out to look for Daniel and Charlotte
S4E9 Bernard is walking Vincent when Vincent starts barking at the body in the waves

Drug Dealers- a bad role
S2E10 Eko, Goldie, the Morrocan Drug Dealers, and thugs
S3E3 Jan, Mike and the rest of the commune
S3E5 Emeka and his men
S4E2 Mrs. Gardner's grandson appears to have been dealing drugs

Evil (Step) Mother- a bad role
S1E10 Claire says her mother would disown her for being pregnant
S1E10 Claire decides to give the baby up for adoption
S1E19 Emily Locke tricks Locke into giving Anthony Cooper his kidney
S1E20 Claire tries to fight her labor
S1E22 Diane Jansen when she screams for help
S1E24 Claire has problems taking care of Aaron
S2E6 Sabrina Carlyle, the ultimate Evil Stepmother
S2E6 Claire is having problems taking care of the baby
S2E8 Ana Lucia tells Jason she was pregnant just before she kills him
S2E9 The Marshall tells Kate "Your Momma gave you up"
S3E7 Edmund Burke's mother when he speaks to her on the phone and says "Because you're insufferable and you're mean"
S3E8 Claire doesn't get back when she said she would to feed the baby
S3E12 Aunt Lindsey chastises Claire for leaving the hospital to take a shower
S3E15 Diane tells Kate "If I ever see you again, the 1st thing I will do is yell for help"
S3E18 Jin's mother tells Sun "I gave birth to him but that does not make me his mother"
S4E4 Kate reminds her mother that she screamed for help and called the police the last time Kate came to see her.
S4E10 Kate refers to Aaron as "My son" and Jack yells at her "Your son? You're not even related to him"
S4E11 Mrs. Locke
S4E11 Claire is Jacob's cabin and doesn't seem to be bothered that she doesn't know where Aaron is

Farmer- a good role