fictional character abc television series lost played introduced season premiere physicist suffers short term memory loss possibly experiments team aboard freighter offshore island time series plays important role sharing knowledge time travel time traveling shot killed unaware son cast role tremendous intelligence writer producers favorite character actors davies critically praised performance critics generally disappointed character death season named best arc background daniel born raised daniel hiding identity father pushing develop scientific mind social life casual pursuits graduating university_of_oxford girlfriend daniel offered million grant industrialist 1990s daniel started working physicist oxford controversial experiments including sending subject consciousness time initial tests lab rats resulted deaths led abandonment studies tenure daniel encountered suffering temporal displacement trapping daniel helped ground consciousness telling find constant time frames decided penny encounter profound effect daniel legitimacy time displacement theories prompted resume abandoned experiments daniel eventually performed similar experiments ended suffering temporal displacement eventually fell coma temporary periods funds continuing care provided result fate oxford fired daniel quietly removed references having university point daniel performed experiment resulting long term memory damage essex massachusetts daniel saw news report covering discovery apparent wreckage oceanic flight depths trench approached daniel informing trench wreckage hoax urged island said heal plight daniel reluctant convinced daniel recruited covert team alongside organized led mission travel island find current leader disable initiative station called contained poisonous gases season arrives island helicopter december setting foot island memory problem slowly encounters survivors oceanic flight believed dead world large island starts conducting experiment island unique passage time reuniting charlotte initiative station potential source poison gas later corpse freighter doctor ashore confronts forced confess freighter arrived sent island rescue survivors time daniel realizes secondary protocol detailing whereabouts activated necessitating immediate departure island begins ferry survivors freighter charlotte miles choose remain island daniel survivors caught midway island blows island moved season ben causes island charlotte remaining survivors begin travel time survivors sent past swan initiative station telling find daniel mother island jumping past group captured mistake military personnel forced disable hydrogen bomb labelled time period confesses love charlotte telling bury bomb survivors experience time jump time jumps cause charlotte experience double vision eventually collapses dies charlotte tells remembers living island child recognizes man told return left island quinn stops time jumps remaining survivors stranded group barracks false join initiative despite option board submarine real world survivors stay island hope return time knew scientist leaves island joins headquarters michigan daniel arrives island sets stop construction swan station drilling hits electromagnetic energy pocket ultimately results crash flight plans detonate hydrogen bomb destroy unstable electromagnetic energy pushing button save world flight crash putting plan action daniel visits young charlotte telling return island leaves daniel travels camp jack lily obtain bomb breaks camp threatens shoot shot mother daniel dies tells son sent island despite knowing die oceanic flight crash island different background daniel allowed pursue passion music trained physics trying persuade stop pursuing approaches shares theory timeline altered tells recently saw red haired woman strongly felt knew loved daniel states encounter series notes journal mathematician identified advanced quantum mechanics topic knows daniel shows notes world experiencing correct path tells half sister find later meets charlotte benefit concert realize daniel takes stage play charlotte watches crowd later implied aware living convinces let live rest allowed live life wanted past allowed spend time son development landed island season producers began plan boat came wanted new characters interested finding island personal reasons casting freighter folk nickname lost producers use refer daniel charlotte miles frank fake names scenes temporarily assigned limit leak initial casting daniel referred brilliant mathematician russell cast daniel writer producers favorite character actors think quality tremendous intelligence perfect producers constructed role davies based performances davies met costume designer wearing thin black tie merged cool edgy look idea character clothes loosely woven dress shirt davies reportedly took crash course physics understand character better called obvious shout scientist physicist originally planned recurring role reception worried new characters received fans unhappy reaction new characters introduced season following introduction confirmed dead characters received new_york_post citing reason improved ratings ign described daniel new characters freighter great exciting liked introduction new characters freighter got flashback little time island end episode felt true handle like individuals buddytv called perfect introduction guide liked introduction praised actors performances entertainment_weekly liked fascinating new characters brought mind blowing new possibilities exciting new theory fodder critics praised davies performance appearance beach deemed performance primetime emmy award alan_sepinwall star-ledger claimed davies performance outstanding huffington_post said daniel favorite characters wrote davies presents awkward mannerisms later review commented huge fan davies course couple years thanks performance said variable revealed different daniel true nature physicist good evil decided decent guy barring experimenting girlfriend running away brain turned thing past lost confused big earnest eyes decided forgive episode showed dynamic heart daniel vulnerability like broken beings man issues week dove inside dynamic daniel mother growing believed davies acting high point episode reviewer claimed loved sort explanation daniel changed mind changing past thought work daniel think possible rush took care explain critics expressed shock death felt daniel said shooting daniel end stunning claimed internal character piece variable great ending daniel submitted episode constant behalf primetime emmy award outstanding supporting actor drama series
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