The castaways’ secret dossiers

NAME: Michael
ROLE: Daddy dearest.
SPECIAL POWERS: Artist by trade. Also, can make ancient computers spring to life and miraculously dial up his missing son. We don’t know of more powers, but hey, Walt had to inherit the backwards-talking animal-conjuring from one of his folks.
DEEP DARK SECRET: He really wanted Walt all along, but hid it to make the boy’s mother and stepdad look better.
TOOL OF CHOICE: Ancient Apple hybrid.
GOOD OR EVIL? Good, but capable of being clouded and led off-course by his anguish over his son.
PREDICTIONS: Was he really chatting, or was that computer conversation just his fantasy? If he was chatting, was it really Walt? Can you say “led into a trap”?

NAME: Walt
ROLE: If this were "The Wizard of Oz," he'd be the Wizard. We think.
SPECIAL POWERS: Indeterminate, but significant enough for Sea Captain Zeke and posse to have absconded with him.
DEEP DARK SECRET: Plays a mean game of backgammon. Also might have inadvertently hastened his mom's death — with his mind.
ANIMAL OF CHOICE: Polar bear. And Vincent, of course.
GOOD OR EVIL? Good, but probably capable of more evil than he knows — like that kid on the "It's a Good Life" episode of "The Twilight Zone."
PREDICTIONS: Here's a safe one — we predict we'll see Walt again before season's end. Even money also says he's going to be the key to the showdown with the Others. But what's gonna happen to Vincent?

NAME: Sawyer
ROLE: Island con man and all-around slice of beefcake.
SPECIAL POWERS: Invites torture for no apparent reason, invents nicknames — some better than others. (“Zeke” rocks, but “Freckles” is a bit twee.)
DEEP DARK SECRET: Killed a man in Oz and got the wrong guy. Not quite as catchy as “Killed a man in Reno just to watch him die,” but you get the picture.
ANIMAL OF CHOICE: There’s a boar out there with a vendetta against him.
GOOD OR EVIL? Ironically, for as evil as he started out sounding, he’s probably good.
PREDICTIONS: He and the Dread Pirate Zeke will meet again, as promised, and it ain’t lookin’ good for ol’ Zeke.

NAME: Kate
ROLE: International Woman of Mystery.
SPECIAL POWERS: Jealousy.
DEEP DARK SECRET: Murdered her stepdad. Except her stepdad was her real dad. Didn't quite escape the intercontinentally long arm of the law.
ANIMAL OF CHOICE: The black horse that won't go away.
GOOD OR EVIL? Good, aside from that whole patricide thing.
PREDICTIONS: Fair money's still on Sawyer to woo Freckles, though that kiss with Jack wasn't just a brief bout of jungle love. But what will Kate do besides serve as the island's temptress-in-residence? If Jack's serious about building a Lostaway army, we hear Ms. Austen's plenty handy with a gun.

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