| Ana-Lucía Cortez |

Michelle Rodriguez as Ana-Lucía |
| First appearance |
"Exodus: Part 1" |
| Last appearance |
N/A |
| Flashback episodes |
"Collision" |
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| Statistics |
| Name |
Ana-Lucia Cortez |
| Age |
Unknown |
| Place of origin |
Los Angeles, California |
| Profession |
LAPD officer |
| Reason for trip |
Unknown |
| Portrayed by |
Michelle Rodriguez |
|
Ana-Lucía Cortez is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by
Michelle Rodriguez.
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details
follow.
Biography
Prior to Oceanic Flight 815
Ana-Lucia was a Los Angeles police officer. It is revealed that she has conflicts with her captain, who is also her mother,
but that she doesn't ask for any special treatment and, prior to her suspension, got on well with all of her workmates. While
investigating the scene of a burglary, she encounters a man who – claiming it was a mistake – tells her he is a student. The man
says he was reaching for his ID, but instead pulls out a gun and shoots her four times. It is later revealed that she was
pregnant at the time.
Ana-Lucia spends the next several months recovering and in therapy; during this time her boyfriend Danny leaves her.
On her return to the force she becomes noticeably harsh with a man at a domestic disturbance, indicating that her recovery
isn't complete. At the station, a man is brought in whose fingerprints match those at the burglary. Ana-Lucia maintains that it
isn't the man who shot her, even though he has confessed to the crime. After he is released, she follows him to a bar; when he
leaves, she follows him outside. After getting his attention, she tells him that she was pregnant when he shot her, after which
she shoots him six times: three shots at range, three point blank, killing him.
Prior to boarding Flight 815, Ana-Lucia meets and flirts with Jack Shephard at a bar at
Sydney airport in the episode
"Exodus: Part 1". The pair arranges to get together during the flight, with
Ana-Lucia revealing that she is seated in the back of the plane, seat 42F (42 is one of the sequence of numbers in Lost).
On the island
After the tail section of the plane crashes in "The Other 48 Days", Ana
unofficially becomes the leader of the survivors. The group does not fare as well as the group on the other side of the island
due to a lack of people and supplies (in the form of luggage, to which the "tailies" did not have access, since the tail section
crashed into the ocean). Also, without a doctor who is more able to help with the crash survivors' injuries, many of the injured
tail-section survivors die within a week of the crash.
On the first day they are stranded, Ana takes a liking to two children. She promises them that she will reunite them with
their parents, and becomes relatively friendly with Goodwin, an assumed fellow
survivor who claims past service in the Peace Corps.
The first night, the Others attack the camp, taking the three strongest members of
their group. They attempt to take Eko, but he manages to kill two of them and escape. Two weeks
later the Others attack the camp again and abduct nine of the survivors, including the two
children. After killing one of the Others, Ana discovers a piece of paper with the names of all the kidnapped, along with their
descriptions.
After the abduction, the Tailies decide to take refuge in the jungle. During the course of the trek, Ana becomes highly
suspicious of Nathan, noting that she had not seen him on the plane, and wondering about his long absences from camp. By the time
they set up a new camp in the jungle, complete with a pit they dug as a jail cell, Ana accuses Nathan of being in league with
those who abducted the other survivors (the Others), and places him into the pit. The other survivors express doubt about this
course of action, but do nothing to oppose Ana. One night, when the others are sleeping, Goodwin frees Nathan, but before Nathan
can flee, Goodwin breaks his neck, killing him, revealing himself to be in league with the Others.
Goodwin is able to abscond with Nathan's body, giving the impression that he has escaped and fled. However, Goodwin's cover is
blown when Ana confronts him with the fact that he had emerged from the jungle just 10 minutes after the plane crash, but with
completely dry clothes. Goodwin tells Ana that the children are safe and that those who were on the list were kidnapped because
they were "good people". Goodwin attacks Ana, who after a physical struggle, is able to impale him through the chest with a
wooden stake, killing him. Whether as a result of her actions that indirectly led to Nathan's death, or having had to kill
Goodwin, Ana sobs with grief. Eko, speaking for the first time since the night he was nearly abducted, tells her everything will
be all right. She asks him why it took him forty days to speak; he asks her why it took her forty days to cry.
Subsequently, the survivors encounter Sawyer, Michael, and Jin, after they have unsuccessfully attempted to
escape the island via a raft, which the Others have destroyed, and have also shot Sawyer in the shoulder. At first the two groups
take each other to be the Others, and after the Tailies place the three rafters in the pit, Ana (whom they have not yet met), is
also placed in the pit posing as another captive, in order to learn more about the three men. After taking Sawyer's gun away from
him, Ana reveals her true allegiance, and leaves the pit.
Eventually, the Tailies, beginning to trust the three, decide to let them lead them to their camp on the other side of the
island. During their journey, Sawyer falls unconscious as a result of his wound's infection, and the insistence on carrying him
to camp leads to increased tension with Ana. By the time the group is within range of the camp, they hear the telltale whispers
associated with the Others, and as Sawyer, Michael and Jin's campmate, Shannon emerge
from the jungle after seeing images of Michael's son Walt, Ana shoots her in the abdomen,
killing her. Shannon's lover, Sayid, happens on the scene immediately afterward, and (as
continued in the episode Collision), Sayid quickly pulls his gun on Ana. Mr.
Eko stops him and, after a scuffle, Sayid is knocked unconscious. Ana-Lucia, believing Sayid will not stop until he has revenge
on her for Shannon's death, has him tied to a tree, and Ana's fellow Tailies, Eko, Bernard and Libby, increasingly find their
loyalty to Ana tested as a result. Ultimately, Eko decides to carry the ailing Sawyer to his camp, and Michael, Jin, Libby and
Bernard eventually decide to follow, leaving the restrained Sayid alone with Ana. The two slowly begin to bare their souls to one
another. Sayid realizes Ana does not have a plan, but merely her guilt, and reveals to her his own past misdeeds, including his
torture of fellow Iraqis during his time in the Republican Guard. By the end of the episode, she unties him and tells him to kill
her. He tells her that it wouldn't do her any good, as they are both already dead inside.
She does not attend Shannon's funeral, though Eko explains to her that most of the survivors understand that the girl's death
was an accident. Jack tries to reconnect with Ana-Lucia, and the two share a bottle of tequila
on the beach. In the days following, however, Ana-Lucia continues to live separately from the other survivors (one exception
being the dog Vincent, who she takes care of due to his previous owners, Michael, Walt and Shannon, being absent), until Jack, in
"The Hunting Party", asks her to help build an army to fight the Others.
Later, Locke tells Ana-Lucia about Henry Gale, and asks her to interrogate him. Ana-Lucia is surprisingly sympathetic to Henry and tells him that she wants to
believe that he is not an Other, since she feels guilty about mistaking Nathan for one. She asks Henry to draw her a map to his
crashed balloon, hoping that finding the balloon will prove he is not an Other. Sayid and Charlie join her on the trek. While
looking for Henry's balloon, Ana-Lucia says that she is sorry for Shannon's death, but Sayid holds no ill will towards her,
blaming the Others instead.
| Lost |
| Episodes: Season 1 | Season 2 | Airdates |
| Characters |
Ana-Lucia | Boone | Charlie | Claire
Eko | Hurley | Jack | Jin | Kate |
Libby | Locke
Michael | Sawyer |
Sayid | Shannon | Sun | Walt
Secondary Characters | Flashback Characters
|
| Organizations/Groups |
Oceanic Airlines | The DHARMA Initiative
The Hanso Foundation | The Others |
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