Character
Juliet Burke
Juliet Burke in Lost (2004), played by Elizabeth Mitchell.
Juliet Burke turns up in Lost's third season looking impossibly ordinary — hosting a book club, baking bread — before the show reveals she's an Other, embedded among Ben's people on the island. A fertility doctor, she's clinical, watchful, and hard to read: is she a captor, a prisoner, or something in between?
The writing withholds her loyalties for as long as it can stand to, and Elizabeth Mitchell makes the ambiguity feel lived-in rather than gimmicky — her stillness reads as competence one scene and grief the next. She arrives fully formed, giving Lost a character whose allegiance you have to earn the truth about, not just wait for a twist to hand you.
After the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, Juliet was sent as a mole to the survivors' camp. However, she betrayed the Others and chose to stay with the survivors. Jack and Juliet became very close, until Jack and five others escaped on the helicopter from the Kahana. After the Oceanic 6 left, Juliet, along with Sawyer, Locke, Jin, Daniel, Miles, and Charlotte, began to randomly skip through time.
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