Rom, Ethan

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AKA: Other Man
Resided in: Ontario (?)
Occupation: Unknown
Reason for Travel: N/A
Flight Seat #: N/A
Island Camp: N/A

Ethan was originally a medical researcher who worked with Mittelos Bioscience. He went with Richard Alpert to recruit Juliet for their company from another lab in Miami.

Ethan then becomes the mysterious islander who integrates himself into the group of middle section survivors, hunting with Locke and participating in Hurley's census (Hurley briefly mistook him for Lance). He abducts Claire and Charlie, hanging Charlie in a tree.

Ethan drugs Claire and pretends to be her doctor.  He injects some medication in her abdomen, claiming that it is "vaccine for the baby".  He is working with the Others and is chastised by Tom for not having completed the List prior to bringing back Claire (Ethan blames this on their having found the manifest, and "outing" him).  Ethan pretends to be helping Claire and shows her around the Staff Station, including the nursery, where there is a crib and plane mobile already set up.  He spends time with her alone, and tells her that she should trust them with the baby because they "are a good family," but that she will have to "go away" afterwards because there isn't enough vaccine for both her and the baby.

After Claire escapes, Ethan shows up at camp again and threatens Charlie, telling him he will kill one of the survivors every day until Claire is returned. The next day, Scott is found dead and the survivors band together to go after Ethan. When they capture him, Charlie shoots Ethan several times, killing him dead.

It appears Ethan is to the middle section group what Goodwin was to the tail group, but it is still unclear what affiliation Ethan and Goodwin have to one another or where they fall in the heirarchy of the Others.