I’m not sure what you mean by she “named” him, Andreas, could you explain that? As the plot went (so Sawyer says), he named himself after the original confidence man that ruined his life, made his dad kill his mom and then commit suicide. Since it wasn’t the guy who ran the shrimp stand, that man has yet to be introduced, and there’s been a lot of speculation that it is one of the fathers of the other characters, including possibly Locke’s fake dad (the swindler who gets him to give up a kidney). I think that jury is still out.

But it remains an interesting theme. Think about how many characters we know have had serious unresolved “father issues” so far:

Jack - alcoholic dad never gave him credit because of his idealism, then gets turned in by his son and never forgives him before dying

Kate - dad in the army, missing from her life, allows her and her mom to get abused by stepdad (who she eventually kills)

Locke - real dad never introduced, lifelong search to find him due to a void in his life; finally finds someone he thinks is him, and he was just there to steal his organs and abandon him

Sawyer - dad is abusive, and then kills his mom out of jealousy and then himself

Sun - dad is a mob boss who, unbeknownst to her, is making her husband into a criminal and murderer and tearing their marriage apart

Jin - ashamed of his own father and roots from a small fishing village, has only recently reconciled with this

Walt - parents divorced at young age, and is only just getting to know him after years of losing touch, obvious friction from Michael’s strict parenting styles

…and those are just the stories we know about so far. Charlie appears to also have a father story there, and appeared to have been close with his mother while being scared of his father in flashback episodes, though they never explain why.

I couldn’t come up with a good name for the post so I whent with something that sounded interesting. I will try to be more descriptive in the future.

The “father issues” are very interesting and I believe they have a deeper meaning to the story. Personally I feel that it is quite possible, if not even probable, that the man who stole Locke’s kidney is the original Sawyer. But that does not rule out that he actually is Locke’s real father too, which I believe he is.

I thought Kate’s real father was the man she killed and that the army officer was her step dad, who nevertheless treated Kate very much like if she was his own daughter. Maybe I’m wrong. Can someone confirm or deny?

On whether Locke’s father and Kate’s “father” were their biological dads… you may be right and I goofed on that one. Haven’t seen those episodes in a while, doing it from memory, which as we all know from the show, can play tricks on us! I am pretty sure you are right on both, maybe someone else can comment here.

yeah kate’s real dad is the army dude, Sam Austen. And Locke’s real dad is that ghuy who stole his kidney, based on what his mother who helped out on the con said in the hospital[/quo

im doing this from memory but havent people called sawyer “sawyer” in flashbacks?

i think they have

I am new to this! I have a theory, and am not sure if it’s been discussed. All of the survivors are in an institution, Locke is the Doctor. All of this is happening in their minds in a group study at the hospital. Far fetched, huh?

I hope it is not ! I hate this kind of story! I want real story and real action… Not doing all this searchs for nothing!

I agree with all others, hardly anyone, except Jack, was introduced on-screen. I am assuming that the writers expecting us to understand that they probably introduced eachother while not in a scene. Because obviously the character’s must have live’s off of the screen (i.e when they are filming Kate and Sawyer that does not mean that Jack and Hurley and Charlie no longer exist, that just means they are not being filmed), therefore we are to assume that they intruced eachother when we have not seen.

Is Kate’s Dad also the on that was in the hatch with Desmond?

Nope, the man in the hatch, Kelvin, is not Kate’s father. Kate killed her real father and her adoptive father served in Iraq with Kelvin.

In Season 1, I seem to recall Sawyer hinting several times that he knew something Kate’s background. But then maybe that was because he had observed her “in custody” while on the plane.

I don’t know if I buy that all these people are really in an institution, but I think they are all connected somehow, and they were all brought to the island for a reason.

I think that all that we are seeing with Kate and Sawyer (and Im a skater so this particulary fascinates me) is the ULTIMATE long con on her part.

As Duckett told Sawyer…

” It’ll all come back around.”