Charlie Pace
| Charlie Pace | |
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 Dominic Monaghan as Charlie Pace |
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| First appearance | "Pilot: Part 1" |
| Last appearance | "Through the Looking Glass" |
| Centric episodes | "The Moth" "Homecoming" "[[Fire + Water]]" "Greatest Hits" |
| Information | |
| Name | Charlie Pace |
| Former residence | Manchester, England, UK |
| Profession | Rock musician |
| Portrayed by | Dominic Monaghan |
Charlie Hieronymus Pace is a fictional character present in the first three seasons on the ABC television series Lost played by Dominic Monaghan. He is loosely modeled after Larry Underwood from Stephen King's The Stand.[1]
Fictional character biography
Prior to the crash
Charlie is a musician from Manchester, England. As a child, his love for music was rewarded with a piano for Christmas ("[[Fire + Water]]"). During a family trip to Butlins, Charlie first learns to swim at a young age, after being encouraged by his father ("Greatest Hits"). At one time he played guitar on the streets, and was seen playing Oasis's "Wonderwall", and was passed by Desmond ("Flashes Before Your Eyes"). In the same episode, his middle name was revealed to be Hieronymus. Shortly after it rains, Charlie begins heading home when he witnesses a mugging in an alley. He fights off the mugger and returns the woman her man-purse. The woman, revealed to be Sayid's love interest Nadia, tells him that he is a hero, and thanks him ("Greatest Hits").
He later became the bass player and principal song-writer for Drive Shaft, a rock band he formed with his brother Liam. Charlie is initially very hesitant to capitalize on Drive Shaft's growing success, but is ultimately convinced by Liam to participate in the band's future after Liam explains that Charlie "is the band". Charlie elicits a promise from Liam that they would dissolve the band if they ever felt it was too much ("The Moth"). After the release of their self-titled debut, the band find it difficult and painful to seek the gigs they deserve, and while they car breaks down during heavy showers, Charlie threatens to leave, only to hear "You All Everybody" being played on the radio for the first time ("Greatest Hits"). Also, when he and Liam celebrate Christmas in Finland, Liam gives Charlie his Drive Shaft ring — a family heirloom handed down to the first-born of each generation. The band's name was created using the initials on this ring, belonging to a relative of theirs.
Drive Shaft's fame increases, and Charlie notices that Liam is becoming more controlling of the band and more self-destructive in his addiction. Shortly before a concert, Charlie calls Liam on his promise to end the band, but Liam storms off shouting that "he" is the band now. Alone in the dressing room and pained by the realization that he has let things go too far, Charlie turns to Liam's heroin stash ("The Moth"). Drive Shaft's success eventually fades and the band is reduced to starring in a diaper commercial in which they are dressed as babies and dance to their hit song, "You All Everybody". However, Liam invariably gets them fired because of his behavior. Charlie begins writing new songs in an effort to have the band make a comeback. However, he comes home one day to find that his piano is missing. Liam tells Charlie that he sold it to buy a plane ticket to Sydney, where Liam's daughter and her mother have moved, and where he intends to enroll in a rehab clinic ("[[Fire + Water]]").
With the band gone, Charlie resorts to theft to support his heroin addiction. He romances a wealthy woman named Lucy in an attempt to rob her, but develops sincere feelings for her. Her father gets him a job selling copiers. Their relationship fails when Lucy discovers Charlie's original intentions ("Homecoming"). Charlie finds an opportunity for Drive Shaft to embark on an eight-week tour opening for another band, and flies to Australia to convince Liam to join the band's reunion. Liam, now married, clean, and settled down, refuses to return to a rock-star lifestyle. Liam tries to get Charlie to remain in Sydney and enter a drug treatment program, but Charlie angrily storms off ("The Moth").
In "Exodus: Part 2", Charlie wakes up in a hotel room, with another woman in bed with
him. Trying not to wake her, he frantically searches through the massive pile of clothes and garbage for his heroin stash. Just
before he leaves, the woman wakes up and catches him trying to leave with the heroin. The two struggle, and eventually she storms
out of the room, leaving Charlie with the heroin. Charlie, in a hurry, catches the elevator, but is delayed when
After the crash
Season one
Charlie lands with the fuselage section survivors, and is first seen wandering through the wreckage, in an apparent state of shock. That night, he encounters Claire, and hands her his blanket. The next day, Charlie heads into the jungle with Jack and Kate to search for the cockpit. Upon discovering it, Charlie heads straight for the toilet to retrieve his stash of heroin. After a close call with the "Monster", Charlie returns to the beach with Kate and Jack, along with the salvaged radio transceiver. Charlie then joins Sayid and Kate on a hike to transmit a distress signal, where he and the rest of the group discover a distress call that has looped for the past 16 years. Days after returning, Charlie again joins Jack and Kate, as well as Locke, on a search for fresh water. After stumbling across the caves, Charlie and Locke remain behind. Locke learns of Charlie's heroin addiction, and decides to help him.
Charlie is reunited with his guitar, but hands over his heroin stash to Locke in exchange. After Jack brings back a handful of survivors to the caves, Charlie grows angry at him when he begins to feel a burden. After yelling at him, Jack is caught in the ensuing cave in. Charlie brings help from the beach, but begs Locke to give him back his heroin. Later, Charlie rescues Jack and, upon receiving his heroin, throws it in the fire. Upon ridding himself of his addiction, he eventually persuades Claire to move in to the caves. However, she soon changes her mind, despite Charlie's pleas, until she experiences contractions. Charlie asks Ethan to get Jack, but instead he kidnaps the two of them. Charlie is later found hanging from a tree, but Jack manages to revive him. Charlie withdraws himself from the other survivors' activities, until Rose breaks through to him. Up until Claire's return, Charlie busies himself in finding her diary.
Soon after her return, Charlie is threatened by Ethan to bring her back to him, or risk having the other survivors killed one
by one. He informs Jack and Locke, but their plan to patrol the perimeter of the camp backfires. When Claire is used as bait to
lure Ethan, Charlie shoots and kills him with the gun that Jack dropped in the jungle. Charlie's immediate behavior concerns
Season two
Charlie grows curious when Hurley emerges from the hatch, and begins questioning him. Unsatisfied with his response, Charlie asks Locke instead, and learns of the hatch's food pantry. Charlie asks Hurley for peanut butter to give to Claire, but is angry when he refuses. Locke suspects that Charlie is still taking heroin when Claire talks about the Virgin Mary statues. It is only after Mr. Eko smashes one in front of her that Charlie's addiction is exposed. Charlie takes Eko to the beech craft, encountering the "Monster" on the way, and decides to burn the statues and the beech craft. Upon returning, Claire refuses to let Charlie near her and Aaron. Soon after, Charlie begins having surreal dreams of Aaron in danger, and tries to warn Claire. He turns to Eko, who suggests baptizing the baby. One night, he starts a fire to distract the beach while he takes Aaron. He is soon caught by Claire, and is beaten by Locke.
Following the humiliation, Charlie agrees to help
Charlie finds some vaccine, and decides to give it to Claire. At the funeral of Ana Lucia and Libby, Claire clasps his hand as a sign of reconciliation. He is soon confronted by Eko, who asks him for some dynamite needed to blow open the blast doors in the hatch. Charlie reluctantly agrees, still harboring feelings over Eko abandoning the church, and takes him to the Black Rock. Charlie gives Locke a forewarning of Eko's actions before clearing the explosion. Charlie manages to escape the hatch just before it implodes. He returns to the beach with temporary hearing impairment. That night, he and Claire kiss, rekindling their relationship.
Season three
When Locke returns to the beach unable to speak, he asks Charlie to stand guard while he builds a sweat lodge, to which Charlie reluctantly agrees. Charlie decides to join Locke to search for the missing Eko, passing the crater left behind from the hatch implosion. After encountering Hurley, they find Eko in a polar bear cave, to which Charlie refuses to enter. He and Locke eventually rescue Eko and bring him back to the beach. Later, Charlie grows wary over Desmond after he asks Claire to move her shelter, and even more so after he saves the two of them from electrocution via lightning strike later that day. He and Hurley device a plan to get him drunk in order to get an explanation from him. Charlie yells at Desmond when he starts walking away, only for him to reveal soon after of visions of Charlie's imminent death.
Upon hearing this, Charlie sinks into a state of depression. It is only after Hurley convinces him to help him start a van in the jungle that Charlie's spirits are lifted. He treats Claire to a surprise picnic on the beach, only for Desmond to talk him out of it. He refuses to support Claire in a rescue attempt at first, but Claire reassures him that he won't die, and the two release a gull with a message attached to its foot. Charlie then becomes involved in the apparent deaths of survivors Nikki and Paulo. During the investigation, he confesses to Sun about the staged kidnap attempt. When Jack, Kate and Sayid return with Juliet in tow, Charlie becomes wary of letting her help a critically ill Claire, but eventually allows her to. Later, Charlie joins Desmond, Hurley and Jin on a hike into the jungle to rescue a fallen parachutist. On the way, he narrowly avoids death once again, and yells at Desmond. The four discover Naomi hanging from a tree, and cut her loose.
When Mikhail arrives at the scene, Charlie refuses to let him help, but his decision is overruled by Desmond. Upon returning Naomi to the beach, Charlie informs Sayid, but neglects to tell Jack. The next day, Charlie realizes that Desmond experienced a vision en route to Jack and Juliet's demonstration, and learns that Charlie must die in order to secure Claire and Aaron's rescue. Charlie accepts his fate and writes up a list of his top five highlights of his life, as a final gift to Claire. He volunteers to swim to the Looking Glass station, and says goodbye to Claire, Aaron and Hurley. When Desmond offers to take his place, he knocks him out and swims down to the hatch, where he is then taken prisoner by the two resident Others. Shortly after Mikhail and Desmond arrive, Charlie disables the jamming device. He then makes contact with Penny Widmore, who appears clueless regarding Naomi and her boat. Noticing Mikhail outside the porthole window with a grenade, Charlie locks himself in the room and drowns after the windows smashes, causing the room to flood. This was predicted by Desmond a few episodes ago. Before drowning, he manages to inform Desmond that the boat Naomi came from has nothing to do with Penny and makes the sign of the cross.
DriveShaft
Fictional band DriveShaft was formed in Manchester by brothers Charlie and Liam Pace. The band experienced explosive chart success after their song "You All Everybody" became a hit in both the United Kingdom and the United States. The brothers' struggle with heroin addiction eventually leads them to go their separate ways. After a hiatus, Charlie arranges to reunite the band for an eight week tour, opening for the band "Meat Coat" in the US. Unfortunately, Liam is now living in Australia with his wife and daughter. Charlie travels to see him, to try to persuade his brother to join the comeback tour, saying, "they won't book DriveShaft without you." When Liam proclaims he does not want to come back, an angry Charlie runs off to catch a flight to Los Angeles presumably to start the tour anyway. On October 4, 2006, DriveShaft re-merged as SPIN.com's Artist of the Day.[2]
In "Everybody Hates Hugo", Hurley classifies DriveShaft as a "one-hit wonder" and Hurley's friend also refers to them as "SuckShaft" while shopping at a music store.
In "House of the Rising Sun", Locke mentions that DriveShaft's two albums are named DriveShaft and Oil Change.
During the fourth season of another J.J. Abram's produced television show on ABC, Alias, "You All Everybody" is heard playing in the background at main character Eric Weiss' birthday party.
A recurring joke in the first series would be for Charlie to hint about being in DriveShaft, assuming everyone to know who he was, but for nobody to realize who DriveShaft were (the exceptions being Kate, whose friend back home loved the band, and Locke, who turns out to be a devoted fan and owner of both their albums). In the episode "Greatest Hits", Charlie finally accepts that they only had "their moment in the sun", but is overjoyed to realize that with his "death", the band had finally become famous.
Death
Even before Charlie was told of his inevitable fate, Charlie had brushes with death. These include:
- Surviving the plane crash (and to a lesser extent, the flaming debris).
- Escaping the Monster in the jungle.
- Surviving a cave-in and subsequent tunnel collapse.
- Being hanged by Ethan, only surviving due to Jack's refusal to let him go.
- Nearly falling from an unsteady makeshift bridge.
- Almost being shot by Rousseau.
- Surviving rocks being dropped on his head through one of Rousseau's traps.
- Though it did not actually confront him, Charlie escaped being attacked by the Monster with Eko. (He scaled a tree and watched Eko stare at it while hanging from a branch.)
- Managing to avoid a dynamite explosion in the hatch.
- Escaping the hatch seconds before it imploded.
- Riding the VW with Hurley and having the engine starting just before hitting the rocks.
Predictions of Charlie's Death
- Charlie is hit by lightning and electrocuted in Claire's tent. Desmond makes a lightning rod, sparing him.
- Charlie drowns trying to save Claire from the same fate. Desmond dives in and saves her instead. (It's theorized both Charlie AND Claire would have drowned the first time since he was unable to save her.)
- Charlie falls from a large rock into the water, snapping his neck, while looking for a seagull for Claire. Desmond finds the bird for Claire.
- Shot in the throat by one of Rousseau's traps. The second time around, Desmond intervenes seconds before it impales Charlie.
References
- ^ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1562722,00.html
- ^ DriveShaft at www.spin.com
External links
| Lost | |
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| Production: | DVD releases • Episode list • Music • Season 1 • Season 2 • Season 3 • Season 4 |
| Main characters: | Ana Lucia • Ben • Boone • Charlie •
Claire • Desmond • Kate • Libby • Locke • Michael • Mr. Eko • |
| Supporting characters: | Alex • Bernard • Christian • Ethan • Nikki & Paulo • Rose • Rousseau • Tom |
| Groups: | Dharma Initiative • Hanso Foundation • Oceanic Airlines • The Others |
| Miscellaneous: | Lost Experience • Mythology • Video game |
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