Cortez, Ana-Lucia

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Resided in: Los Angeles
Occupation: Former Police Officer
Reason for Travel: Was on return trip from acting as bodyguard
Flight Seat #: 42F

A few years ago, Ana worked as a Los Angeles police officer. She was shot in the line of duty while pregnant, which caused her to lose her baby. The father of the baby, Danny, left her soon after the incident. After four months of counseling (by Matthew Reed), she resumed work with her partner Big Mike, but was still suffering psychologically from the traumatic event.

Her mother, Captain Cortez, was also a cop, and her boss at that station; they very frequently didn't see eye to eye.  When Jason, the man that shot her was captured, she refused to ID him. He was released, and Ana later tracked him down at a bar, and shot him in the parking lot six times.

Shortly thereafter, her mother suspected the murder, and urged her to get help.  Ana decided to quit her job as a police officer, and began working in airport security.  Christian Shephard met her at an airport bar and struck up conversation with her, saying that he recognized her as "the wand girl."  He convinced her to go to Australia with him as his bodyguard.  Because she was looking to get away anyway, Ana went along, but was disappointed by the "job," which mostly entailed watching him get drunk, and one night, accosting an ex-lover.  She left him and told her mother she was coming home to the States before getting on Flight 815.

Ana-Lucia met and flirted with Jack in an airport bar before boarding Flight 815. They agreed to meet for a drink on the plane, but missed that opportunity when the plane broke apart in mid-air and crashed on the island.

Ana survives the crash in the tail section of the plane, which lands in the ocean just off the beach on a separate part of the island than the middle section. Ana quickly becomes a leader of the tail section group. The first night they are on the island, they are attacked at night and three people are taken away - and Eko kills two attackers. On night 12, they are attacked again, and nine more are taken. In the second attack, Ana kills one of the attackers and finds a list of names and an old US Army knife.

As they move away from the beach, Ana begins to suspect Nathan is not one of the survivors - but a plant belonging to the group of attackers. She digs a pit and throws him in, intending to get the truth out of him one way or another. After a few days, Goodwin helps Nathan out of the pit at night, and then kills him. The next morning, Ana decides it's time to leave and find a new camp - thinking the attackers had freed Nathan during the night.

The group then finds the Arrow Station. Inside, they find a box containing a radio, blanket, Holy Bible, and a glass eye. Ana and Goodwin hike up a mountain to test the radio. There, Ana finally realizes that Goodwin is the spy. They fight briefly, and Ana kills Goodwin by impaling him with a pointed spear.

On day 41, Bernard makes radio contact with Boone - but is forced to turn the radio off by Ana, who thinks it is a trick, and the Others are using the radio to locate them.

On day 45, Jin, Michael and Sawyer come ashore and are captured by the tail section group; each group suspects the other group to mean them harm and to be working for the Others. Ana is thrown into the pit with Jin, Sawyer and Michael, pretending to be a fellow captive. Ana talks to the middle section survivors and finds out who they are, what they are doing, and she also discovers Sawyer is armed with a 9mm. She then sucker-punches Sawyer, takes his gun, and calls to the captors that she is ready to come up.  After determining that Jin, Michael and Sawyer are telling the truth, Ana decides to let them out and takes them to the Arrow Station. The group decides to hike to the middle section groups camp in order to join forces.

Along the way, Sawyer becomes ill due to an infection from his gunshout wound; Ana wants to leave him behind to keep him from slowing them down, but Michael and others build a stretcher. As they move the wounded Sawyer through the jungle, Cindy disappears. The group hears whispers all around, and panick. Ana in the confusion draws her gun, and ends up shooting Shannon, who dies in the arms of Sayid.

Sayid initially goes after Ana, but is tackled and disarmed by Eko. Ana picks up Sayid's gun, and uses it to subdue him. She ties him to a tree until they work through the situation.

Eventually, Ana and her group join the middle section camp, and for the most part, mellows out from her aggressive ways.  She was the one who got The Prisoner to draw a map to the hot air balloon, and joined Sayid and Charlie for the expedition to find it.

Later, the the Prisoner when he is held captive in the armory, tells Ana of Goodwin:  "He kept saying you were misunderstood... how he thought you were worthy, and that he could change you. But he was wrong. And it cost him his life."

One day, the Prisoner attacks her and nearly strangles her to death.  She decides to get revenge, and sleeps with Sawyer to distract him and steal his gun, which she plans on using it to kill The Prisoner with.  However, she later tells Michael (newly returned from running away to find Walt) that she couldn't go through with it.  Michael says that he will do it, and believing him, she hands him the gun.  Michael betrays her and turns the gun on her instead, and shoots her dead.  Her death was a means to an ends for him, part of his plan to release The Prisoner and betray his friends, as he was told by the Others that this was the only option to getting Walt back.