Charlotte, Ben and Annie’s daughter?
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By JediRedeye
- Charlotte, Ben and Annie’s daughter?
- Created: Jun 9, 2008
- Last updated: Aug 29, 2008
- After episode: 4.13: There’s No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3
- Status: Current
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“She shows an absolute lack of common morality…”
— JediRedeye
Charlotte is the child of Ben and Annie, somewhere along the Lost timeline Annie disappears, whether from death or just leaving the Island, at this point we cannot be sure. We have yet to find out Annie’s fate within Ben’s storyline. What we do know is that she was very special to him. the last time we see her they are children and she gives Ben his carved wood statuette of himself. We know that Ben has kept it for many years. It seems to bring him a good deal of pain from the look on his face when he stares at it. That is the last time we see or hear anything about her. I don’t believe Rousseau is Annie, as a child Annie has no accent, one as thick as Rousseau’s would be from a life of speaking french and she would have it as a child aswell, If anything accents fade after the years not get more pronounced. I believe that Annie’s fate will be revealed in the upcoming season.
Now onto the real part of the theory on how Charlotte is the child of Ben and Annie. We first get introduced to Charlotte at a dig site in Tunisa, where her partner asks her, how many different languages needs to read about flight 815 being found on the bottom of the ocean. Her reply is “how many languages are there?” We know she knows many different languages and she is highly educated, and she knows about the Island or Dharma, as the look on her face, when she finds the collar with the Hydra symbol on it, reads “I knew it”. We know that, from her interaction with the Losties, she can lie like the best and is very deceitful and very distrusting of giving any knowledge to our beloved Losties. Daniel even comments on how her attitude is effecting their situation at the beach camp. As for her physical appearance, she has Annie’s red hair, freckles, and a very fair Irish complection. She seems to have some very distinct eyes, very clear blue, and maybe even a little beady or large very similar to Ben’s. We know she could be his daughter from her intellect, again she is intelligent, full of deception, and possibly the biggest clue is from the episode ” The Other Woman, featuring Juliette’s flashbacks” There is a scene when Charlotte and Daniel are on their way to the Tempest when Kate runs into them. During this encounter Charlotte pulls a gun on Kate, Daniel interveens and say it’s ok it Kate. Charlotte lies with a straight face once again when she tells Kate the story of why they are out there, “they are looking of the dumped gear out of the chopper looking for batteries for the satphone”. Kate realizes the lie and asks to see what’s in the bag Daniel is carrying and what is in it. She finds the gas mask and as she is asking Daniel what they are for Charlotte Clubs her over the head with the pistol. Here is the moment that I feel is the key part that reveals her identity. After she knocks out Kate, she looks at Daniel and says “what?” She shows an absolute lack of common morality as she says it, like she had just killed a mosquito. Very similar to the way we’ve seen Ben react in the past, like when he says “so” when Locke tells him he just killed everyone on the boat. I think these clues tell us who she really is. Miles also comments on she has come back here and has tried to find this place for so long. Charlotte claims to not know what he was talking about. This I believe means 1 of 2 things 1- Annie was pregnant and died in child birth on the Island, possibly before the problem with conception started, possibly Annie was the first case and therefore made Ben so obsessed to fix the problem ie. Juliette. Possibly Charlotte survived like in Locke’s case as a very premature infant, possibly taken from the Island to the outside would to give her a chance at life. 2- They already knew of the problem during pregnancy, and Annie was sent off the Island for her safety and the unborn child. Something along the line of events happened and Ben was told of Annie’s death, whether it was disinformation or the truth, Ben believes her gone. Again, his reasons for trying to find a solution to the pregnancy issue.
I believe these all to be too many coincidences to be nothing at all. We have been shown through all the seasons, so far, how the characters have some type of common ground, common individual they know or have come across( 6 degrees of separation) or as they call it on the show “connections” They haven’t shown us Charlotte’s story as of yet in any flashbacks but when they arrive in the upcoming seasons it will all be revealed. Thanks for taking the time to read this, I hope noone has gone into this yet. I found a bunch of theories about Charlotte and only a couple of comments that call her Ben and Annie’s child.
Key characters
| Short Name | Full Name | Episodes | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte | Charlotte Lewis | 4.2 | 48 |
Key episodes
| # | Title | Aired | Central character | Theories |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.6 | The Other Woman | 3-6-2008 | Juliet | 47 |
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Ok. So in “Confirmed Dead” Ben tries to shoot and kill his own daughter????
And don’t try to say that he may not know it is his daughter. Ben knows everything. If he can find out the backgrounds of everyone on flight 815 AND the backgrounds of everyone on the freighter, he surely would have known that Charlotte was his daughter.
Irocz28 he would not know if he was told Annie and his child died. If this information was being held from him by the DI/Jacob or whoever was up the food chain when Ben was a young man , then no he would not know of her. Ben states to Hurley that he wasn’t the one to make the decision to kill the DI during the purge, that it was their leader.He did know everything about Charlotte where she was from, parents and siblings, where she went to college. This info is always provided for Ben he doesn’t find the info himself, it was Mikhail when he was alive, but there has to be “others” off the Island providing info as well, as in the video tape he show Locke about widmore. So I guess in Confirmed Dead he does try to shoot and kill his daughter. Ben does not know everything, he is not Omnipotent, he just has one hell of a research team.
Well, it seems you are “assuming” a lot of stuff to make your theory fit. But who knows? Maybe you’re right. We’ll see.
it’s all assumption bro thats why it called a theory
hey, I do really agree with every word you said dude… and if, by any coincidance, she doesnt happen to be her daughter, she is certainly someone special and very important… well seen ;) +1
I so agree. But you left out the possibility that she was conceived off the island, and born on it, just like Aaron. Didn’t Miles say something about… “weren’t you still looking for where you were born?”
Ahh…I will have to say, good thoughts my man! Definitely a +1. However, this theory (like most) has no true evidence. Sure, Charlotte and Ben may have similar characteristics and may have other things on their minds then what they express, but we know nothing about Annie having a daughter. Honestly, we know nothing about what had happened between little Ben first meeting Richard and the Purge. It’s a chance that Ben and Annie may have had a relationship and what not, that’s why I definitely like it. Hopefully we’ll find out more information about Ben and Charlotte in the next season…=D
I really like your theory. However as Iroc said….Ben did get detailed info on everyone on that freighter…so it is odd that he would not be able to figure out who she was. But yes, anything is possible and I agree that there are so many connections I would not be surprised if indeed she was his daughter. What came to mind as I was reading this was ,,,could this be the reason why he took Alex from her mother and claimed her as his own…..could it be because he was somewhat mourning the loss of the daughter he would have had with Annie???? Interesting.
I like this theory. +1. What if Ben knows she’s his daughter and knew she was wearing a bullet proof vest. Huh? All part of the plan. He would have known what the freighters were armed with from his buddy Michael.
This could shed some light on an interesting connection between Ben and Charlotte… how about this: with all the crazy possibilities of time travel and alternate identies, let’s drop the offspring thought and go right to the source… could Charlotte be Annie? Don’t know if anyone has made that connection there.
Thanks for the feed back. kissmy- I think that quote is referring to the fact she was born there but taken as an infant, KooKoo- I think it is exactly the reason he took Alex as a child
I also think we will find out Annie died in childbirth, and tat is why Ben is so obsessed with the pregnancy issue. Harper also tells Juliette that “you look just like her” now we don’t know who her is but I think we are going to find out it is the grown up Annie she is referring to.
I think Ben would know she was his daughter & therefore this is extremely unlikely.
I agree, and like the link between Charlottes “what?” and Ben’s “So”. You are quite right, these guys may well share the same blood. However it does poo poo my idea that Ben became manipulative on the island, as opposed to being intrinsically so. But who cares about my thoughts. lol : ) I’d also like to flip the idea that Ben knew about his own daugher on its head. I believe he did, AND he still shot her. I believe this, because I think he knew it wouldn’t kill her (body armour protection) and further disassociates himself from her…and her in particular. In fact apart from good ‘ol Frank, Ben never met any of the other “specially selected team”, did he? +1 - keep ‘em coming.
I for one thought early on that Charlotte might be Ben’s daughter, but If Charlotte is Ben’s daughter, it seems odd that he would be willing to leave the island without any concern for her, after all she could have been one of those on the freighter when it was blown up, you know, the people on the freighter that he didn’t have any concern for when he killed Keamy.
LittleBen,
Ben has met Miles and Naomi as well. I think the only member of the “specially selected team” he did NOT meet is Daniel.
If she is his daughter - You’ve also got to consider that maybe Ben blames Charlotte for the death of Annie (childbirth) just like his own father blamed him for killing his mother. That’s why Ben shot her, hoping to get revenge sort of like he did with Keamy for killing Alex. He didn’t care at the point, but afterward, he seemed to mind just a tad.