The Actor: Frank Torres
Introduction: Gary Troup was a middle section survivor of Flight 815. He is the author of mystery novel
Bad Twin and the controversial
The Valenzetti Equation. Troup can be seen in the opening sequence of the Pilot episode being sucked into a turbine causing the engine to explode, killing him.
Who He Is: The man who was sucked into the turbine.
Hails From: New York.
Who He was Before: Author of the book
Bad Twin. Status: Dead.
Beforethe Island: On Sept. 16, 2004Gary
Troup appeared on the fictional tv show
Book Talk. To see excerpts from the interview of Gary Troup on
Book Talk click
here
On the Island: Gary Troup was seen briefly in
"Pilot Part 1". He walked by the turbine of the plane while it was running.
Locke shouted at him to get away from it, but it was too late. He was sucked into it and blew up the turbine, which killed him. He was seen getting sucked into the turbine again in
"Expose" in the view of
Nikki and
Paulo. He was in love with
Cindy Chandler.
Books By Gary Troup: Gary Troup has made two books,
Bad Twin and
The Valenzetti Equation. The Valenzetti Equation talks about the equation and the mathematician Enzo Valenzetti. The book is out of print, and every single copy was bought by
the Hanso Foundation.
For information about
Bad Twin click on the name of the book, or the picture to the left.