James “Sawyer” Ford

The Actor: Josh Holloway

Hails from: Knoxville, Tennessee

Age: 35

Flashback Episodes: "Confidence Man", "Outlaws", "The Long Con", "Every Man For Himself"

Appears in Boone's flashback in "Hearts and Minds". Appears in Ana-Lucia's flashback in "Two for the Road".

Who he was before: Conman

Who he is now: Scavenger, trader, sometimes enforcer. Love interest of Kate.

Why he was in Australia: To kill the man he blames for his parents’ deaths, and whose name he took in his own life of crime; instead he was tricked into murdering an innocent man.

Daddy issues: Sawyer's father killed his mother and then himself after a con man (the original "Sawyer" and Locke's father) cleaned out their bank account; eight-year-old James was hiding under the bed, while the original "Sawyer" shot himself on top of it. Our Sawyer took on the name and made it his life's goal to track down and kill the original Sawyer.

Connections Before The Island: Ana Lucia, Christian Shephard, Boone, Kate's mother

Romantic entanglements:
Pre-island: Seduced and conned women for a living; fell for a mark named Cassidy, whom he still betrayed (Cassidy later helped Kate reconnect with her mother). Later found out that he has a child with Cassidy, named Clementine. He had money put into a trust fund for her, after he conned a fellow inmate to help out the warden. Doing that also allowed him to get out of prison early.

On the island: Has romantic relationship with Kate, whom he first blackmailed into kissing him in one of Lost’s most rewound moments. During "The Glass Ballerina," Sawyer checks out Kate while forced to do manual labor, and later kisses her to incite the wrath of the others, and to find out if the Others could fight. He and Kate had sex in the episode "I Do", where they declared their love for each other. They also had sex in "Catch 22." They have had several cute moments, and sweet dialogue.
Also frequently rewound: sex with Ana Lucia (initiated by her need for a gun) in "Two for the Road".

Big secret:

• Sawyer’s not his real name; it is James Ford.
• He has a daughter named Clementine Phillips that he set up a trust fund for. (Kate knows about his daughter from when she met Cassidy but does not know that he is the child's father.)

Weakness(es): Children. The only time he couldn't carry through with a con was when he saw the son of a "mark" reminding him of his own past. Sawyer was a child when his Dad killed his Mom and then committed suicide. Another weakness is Kate, he tried to keep her hope alive by not telling her they were trapped on a little island with the Others. He also worried about her while she was gone to save Jack.

Sawyer-isms: Sawyer has an uncanny way of picking fitting nicknames for other people in his life. Often, these nicknames are literary references dredged from the dozens of books and magazines that Sawyer scavenged from the wreckage of Oceanic 815. For a complete list of his pet names for the Losties, Tailies and Others, click here.

Questions:
Q: Is it possible that Sawyer's daughter was talked about because he and Kate will have a child?
A: It's a possibility.