ABOUT KATE AUSTEN
Katherine "Kate" Austen is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost, played by Evangeline Lilly.
The cryptic Kate is not quite the innocent figure she initially seems to be. Although the details of her original crime are unclear, Kate has now admitted to the other survivors that she is a fugitive from justice. Prior to the flight, Kate was involved in an elaborate bank robbery in New Mexico, in which she presented herself to the bank manager as an innocent bystander, while she was actually romantically linked with the bank robbers' supposed leader. Posing as a "Maggie Ryan" applying for a loan, Kate was rounded up by the robbers as one of the hostages.
When another hostage overpowered a robber, Kate grabbed one of their guns, but she immediately claimed not to be able to use it. The lead robber then took Kate into a back room, and after a quick kiss, hit her to continue the ruse. The robber brought in the bank manager and claimed he would kill the seemingly innocent Kate, unless the vault were opened. Thinking he was saving her life, the bank manager complied. In the vault, the robber revealed that Kate had actually planned and organized the whole operation. Appearing intent on shooting the manager, the robber was stopped by Kate, who instead shot the leader in the leg, then forced the manager to open a safety-deposit box. Inside was a single item: a small toy airplane.
Sometime later, Kate turned up in Australia as a fugitive. Using the name Annie and claiming to be Canadian, she arrived at the house of an Outback farmer, who, in exchange for help around his farm, offered her a wage and a home. Months later, in the middle of the night Kate attempted to sneak out of the house. The farmer caught her and insisted he drive her to the train station the next morning.
On the road, their truck was followed by a US Marshal. The farmer had seen Kate's picture on a wanted poster at the post office and turned her in for the cash reward. Kate grabbed the wheel and drove off the road, rolling the truck. Despite being free to escape, Kate pulled the injured farmer away from the wreck, giving the Marshal time to capture her.
On board Flight 815, she was in handcuffs, sitting next to the Marshal. Just prior to the crash, she asked the Marshal a favor, which she later claimed was to make sure the farmer receives the reward for turning her in. As the plane began to break apart, the Marshal was injured. Kate stole the keys to her handcuffs, but made sure to apply the Marshal's oxygen mask before putting on her own.
ABOUT CLAIRE LITTLETON
Claire Littleton is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Emilie de Ravin.
Claire Littleton is the only native Australian main character. She was pregnant at the time of the crash, and gave birth on the Island. She became pregnant out of wedlock and intended to give the child up for adoption after the baby's father walked out on her after her first trimester. Her plans to give the baby up were foiled by her own guilt but also by a psychic who kept hounding Claire about her child, telling her she must raise the child herself "or else." When she refused to listen to his insistent demands, the psychic appeared to recant and told her he found a couple in Los Angeles for the baby, and even arranged the flight for her. After the crash, Claire believed that she may have been set up, that the psychic knew of the airplane's disaster.
Despite being friendly, Claire is usually avoided and ignored by the other castaway's because of her pregnant condition. Only Charlie has come to approach Claire on frequent occasions and eventually the two have become very deep friends...with romance a big possibility.
She was kidnapped by Ethan Rom, but wandered back to the castaway's two weeks later, still pregnant but with no memory of anything after the crash.
She gave birth to a baby boy, later named Aaron, in the middle of the jungle. Kate had to deliver the baby, because Jack was in the middle of trying to save Boone's life. Claire has trouble trusting others with her baby because of the warnings that the psychic had given her about the baby as being special. Yet Charlie continues to remain ever present to help Claire with her baby when she needs it.
Claire is always seen wearing a necklace with the Chinese symbol ? (ai) which means "love".
It seems that Claire is beginning to get her memory back. After Danielle asked to hold her baby, she sees scratches on Danielle's arm and had a flashback of when she was attacked.
[Wikipedia|LostMedia.com]