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| {{Infobox Lost character| | |||
| Title=Rousseau| | |||
| Image=]<br>] as Rousseau| | |||
| First= {{ep|1.09}} | | |||
| Last=<!--last appearance no optional for characters who have actually had a last appearance-->|| | |||
| Firstflash={{none}}| | |||
| Flashback1=<!--W:MOS Episodes are in quotations only, not italics -->| | |||
| Lastflash="''N/A''"| | |||
| Name=Danielle Rousseau| | |||
| Age=30s or 40s| | |||
| Status=| | |||
| Place=France, The Island| | |||
| Profession=Scientist| | |||
| Actor=]| | |||
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| '''Danielle Rousseau''', often referred to as "'''Rousseau'''" or "'''the French woman"''', is a ] on the ] television series '']'' played by ]. She is a recurring on-island character who has appeared periodically throughout seasons one through three. | |||
| ==Fictional character biography== | |||
| ===Prior to shipwrecking=== | |||
| Danielle Rousseau, a French woman who has lived on the island for 16 years, crash landed with her science team while investigating a mysterious signal they picked up at sea. | |||
| ===On the island, before the crash=== | |||
| At the time, of the crash, Rousseau was pregnant, and gave birth to a baby girl she named Alex, but she was abducted by ] soon after. The rest of her team died in an area she referred to as "the dark territory," including Montand, who lost his arm, and Robert, her lover whom she killed because he had "the sickness." She changed the radio tower's signal from repeating the Numbers (]) to a distress signal that the survivors heard in "]." | |||
| ===After the crash=== | |||
| Rousseau's first appearance is in "]" as a recording of the distress signal that is translated by ]. She appears onscreen, however, in "]," having captured ], who had left camp to explore. She tortures him with electricity and learns of his past. After initially refusing to let him go, she finally does so, warning him to watch the other survivors carefully. | |||
| Flashbacks in "]" revealed that Rousseau had found a destitute ] in the jungle. The Others were approaching her, and Claire was calling out to them; however, to protect her, Rousseau hit her with the butt of her rifle and brought her back to camp. | |||
| She reappears in "]" when ] finds the numbers written on some of the documents Sayid had taken from her bunker. She shoots at him, but when she stops, Hurley asks her what the numbers mean. She agrees that they are cursed, as they had brought both of them to the island. | |||
| In "]," Rousseau warns the survivors that the others are coming, and proceeds to lead ], ], ], Hurley, and Dr. Arzt to the Black Rock, an abandoned slave ship that contained dynamite she had used for her own bunkers. After reaching the ship, she returned, only to steal the newborn son of ] in hopes of trading him for her own Alex that had been taken 16 years earlier. After Sayid and ] negotiated with her, she gave the baby back. | |||
| Sayid then sees Rousseau in "]" having captured a man who claimed his name was "]," whom she thought to be an other. After he attempted to escape, Rousseau shot him in the back with an arrow, not intending to kill him. Henry was then taken in by Sayid to be questioned. | |||
| In "Maternity Leave," Claire begins to get her memory back, and she approaches Rousseau with Kate to return to the bunker of her memories. She leads Claire and Kate to the place where she had found her, and Claire finds the Staff medical station. Claire, who is unable to find medicine that she had been looking for, angrily asks Rousseau where the medicine is, but she regains the memory of Rousseau saving her. The three women return to the survivors' camp. However, Claire tells Rousseau that a teenage girl had helped her escape, a girl who is later revealed to be Alex Rousseau. | |||
| At the end of "]," Kate finds Rousseau, and tells her that a girl who she believes to be Alex Rousseau had helped her escape when she was imprisoned by the Others. However, Kate wants her knowledge of the island, thus she leads Kate, Sayid, and Locke to where the Others' camp is located. | |||
| On their expedition, Locke, Sayid, Kate, and Rousseau find the Flame station in "]," but she says that she does not wish to go with them inside because she does not wish to encounter one of the Others. She is seen with the survivors and Mikhail Bakunin, the resident of the Flame, at the end of the episode. | |||
| ==Trivia== | |||
| * Danielle Rousseau is named after the French philosopher ]. | |||
| * Mira Furlan is actually of eastern European descent, thus she does not speak with a French accent. | |||
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