 It was shown in "Live Together, Die Alone" before she ends up on the island, she meets Desmond (played by Henry Ian Cusick) at a café.There, she tells him that she is from Newport Beach, California, and when she learns about his intention to join a sailing race, she decides to donate her sailboat "Elizabeth", a gift given to her and named after her by her late husband David.She also stayed in the Santa Rosa Mental Institution, a place whose patients include Hurley (Jorge Garcia), as well as Emily Locke, John Locke's (Terry O'Quinn) mother.