Rousseau, Danielle

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AKA: French Chick, French Lady
Resided in: Unknown
Occupation: Part of a Science Team
Reason for Travel: On a research expedition, examining the numbers transmission
Flight Seat #: N/A

Danielle was part of a science team that was on an expedition in 1988 when they visited the island to examine the source of the Numbers transmission. At that time, she was seven months pregnant with Alex. After being on the island a couple of months, a "sickness" overcame her team and she was forced to kill them all, including her husband Robert and crewmates Montan and Brennan.

Around this same time, she changed the transmission of the numbers to transmit a distress recording she made. After she gave birth, the Others kidnapped Alex, and she has been missing ever since.

Danielle has been on the island for 16 years, and has adapted in order to stay alive. She has become an expert at making traps, hiding, hunting and tracking.

When Sayid leaves the survivors, he is captured by Danielle. Although she originally intends to torture him out of fear he is an Other, she starts to trust him after hearing his story.  The two form a bond after he fixes her music box, which Robert gave her.  Sayid feels pity for her because he think she has gone crazy from being alone for so long.

Later, Hurley seeks out Danielle to find out about the Numbers he saw scribbled on one of her maps. 

After Claire was kidnapped, Danielle helped her escape the Others (and Claire was too drugged to understand it was for her own good).

Danielle hears the Others whispering in the woods, and seeks out the survivors to inform them that the Others are coming, and they can either run, hide or die. She agrees to help Jack recover dynamite from the Black Rock in order to blow open the hatch in hopes of hiding the survivors inside. After she leads them to the dynamite, she returns to the camp, and confronts Claire. Claire sees the scratches on Danielle's arm, and remembers that she was the one that scratched her, but can't recall why. Danielle takes Aaron from Claire and disappears. Sayid and Charlie track her down, and find her at the source of the column of smoke with Aaron. Danielle thought she could trade Aaron for her own child, Alex. However, it becomes apparent to Danielle that the Others weren't after Aaron, but Walt.

She later helps Claire and Kate find their way to the Staff Station.  Claire then starts to remember that Danielle once helped her.  Danielles tells her that she hopes her baby isn't sick, but that if he is, she hopes she knows "what she must do."

Danielle also traps the Prisoner "Henry" and does not believe his story about being Henry Gale from Minnesota.  She calls him a liar, and shoots him in the shoulder with a crossbow when he tries to escape.  She then turns him in to Sayid for interrogation, saying not to trust him (turns out to be correct).