Charlie Pace

Charlie Pace is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Dominic Monaghan.

Biography

Prior to Oceanic Flight 815

Charlie is a musician from Manchester, England. He is the former bass player and principal song-writer for DriveSHAFT, a rock band he formed with his brother Liam. Charlie is originally very hesitant to capitalize on DriveSHAFT's growing success, but is ultimately convinced by Liam to participate in the band's future, after Liam explains that Charlie "is the band." Charlie elicits a promise from Liam that they would dissolve the band if they ever felt it was too much. DriveSHAFT's fame increases, and Charlie notices that Liam is becoming more controlling of the band and more self-destructive in his addiction. Shortly before a concert, Charlie calls Liam on his promise to end the band, but Liam storms off shouting that he is the band now. Alone in the dressing room and pained by the realization that he has let things go too far, Charlie turns to Liam's heroin stash (“The Moth”).

DriveSHAFT’s success eventually fades and the band is reduced to incorporating its hit song, “You All Everybody,” for a diaper commercial. Charlie begins writing new songs in an effort to have the band make a comeback. However, he comes home one day to find that his piano is missing. Liam tells Charlie that he sold it to buy a plane ticket to Sydney, where Liam’s daughter and her mother have moved, and where he intends to enroll in a rehab clinic (“Fire + Water”).

With the band gone, Charlie resorts to theft to support his heroin addiction. He romances a wealthy woman named Lucy in an attempt to rob her, but develops sincere feelings for her. Their relationship fails when Lucy discovers Charlie’s original intentions (“Homecoming”). Charlie finds an opportunity for DriveSHAFT to embark on an eight-week tour opening for another band, and flies to Australia to convince Liam to join the band’s reunion. Liam, now married, clean, and settled down, declines the return to a rock-star lifestyle. Liam tries to get Charlie to remain in Sydney and enter a drug treatment program, but Charlie angrily storms off (“The Moth”).

On the island

Charlie maintains a friendly, enthusiastic attitude during his early days on the island. He joins many exploration parties and survival initiatives, often out of a desire to avoid exclusion and be seen as useful. He prods several fellow survivors into recognizing his celebrity status with mixed results. In “Pilot,” Charlie accompanies Jack and Kate on a mission to find the plane’s cockpit and transceiver. At the wreckage site of the plane’s front section, he discreetly recovers his heroin stash from the forward lavatory where, during the flight, he is shown attempting to dispose of it moments before the plane loses control. Thus, Charlie is able to continue his drug use on the island.

Locke discovers Charlie’s addiction and convinces Charlie to forfeit his stash by reuniting Charlie with his guitar (“House of the Rising Sun”). In “The Moth,” Charlie suffers withdrawal and demands that Locke return his heroin. Locke is unintimidated, but agrees to return the stash if Charlie considers the consequences and asks for it three times. When Jack is trapped by some collapsed rock in one of the caves, Charlie is able to crawl through the rubble and find an escape. He makes his third request for the heroin and tosses the remaining stash in the fire.

Charlie develops a fondness for the pregnant Claire and encourages her to move to the caves (“Confidence Man”). Charlie and Claire are abducted by Ethan, and nearly dies when he is blindfolded and left hanging from a tree (“All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues”). After Claire returns to the camp, Ethan comes to Charlie with a threat of killing the remaining survivors one by one until Claire is brought to him. The survivors devise a plan to capture and interrogate Ethan, but, in the ensuing fight, Charlie kills Ethan with four gunshots to the chest (“Homecoming”).

After Claire gives birth to Aaron, Charlie develops a nurturing relationship for mother and child (“The Greater Good”). In "Exodus," Rousseau kidnaps Aaron, and Charlie and Sayid follow her. Charlie is injured by one of Danielle’s traps but the two eventually find Danielle and recover the child. While tracking Danielle, the two pass the Beechcraft plane (where Boone is mortally injured in “Deus Ex Machina”) and Sayid casually notes the plane's cargo of heroin hidden within Virgin Mary statues. Later, one of the statues is seen in Charlie’s bag.

When the food stores of the hatch are distributed to the survivors, Charlie relishes the opportunity to provide Claire the peanut butter she craves (“Everybody Hates Hugo”). When Claire discovers Charlie’s Virgin Mary statue, he explains that he found it in the jungle but does not mention the heroin. Charlie’s deception is revealed after Claire tells Locke and later Eko about the statue. Charlie insists that he is not using the heroin but Claire bids him to leave and stay away from her (“The 23rd Psalm”).

In “Fire + Water,” Locke discovers a cache of Virgin Mary statues that Charlie has hidden in the jungle and confiscates them. Charlie has a series of dreams leading him to believe that Aaron is in danger. He talks to Eko, who suggests that Aaron may need to be baptized. Charlie has another dream and wakes to find that he is at the water’s edge holding Aaron. Claire reclaims her child, slaps Charlie, and angrily returns to camp. That evening Charlie starts a fire as a distraction, steals Aaron, and runs to the ocean. When Charlie is discovered he explains that he is trying to baptize the baby. Charlie hands Aaron to Locke, who, after returning Aaron to Claire, punches Charlie in the face. Charlie is utterly dejected seeing his credibility damaged and his place in Claire’s life replaced by Locke.

In “The Long Con,” Charlie attempts to abduct Sun as part of an elaborate scheme concocted by Sawyer to steal the survivors’ supplies. Sawyer offers Charlie one of the Virgin Mary statues as payment, but Charlie refuses, saying that he only did it to humiliate Locke.

Charlie joins Sayid and Ana Lucia in the search for "Henry Gale's" balloon (“The Whole Truth”). Charlie develops a bond with Eko based on their mutual religious beliefs and assists him with a project to build a church (“Dave”). He attempts to mend his relationship with Claire by giving her a vaccine from the hatch so Aaron can be inoculated. When Eko abandons construction of the church, Charlie continues alone (with poor results). Vincent the dog leads Charlie to Sawyer’s stash of supplies. Charlie removes the Virgin Mary statues from the stash and hurls them into the ocean (“Three Minutes”).

In Live Together, Die Alone, Charlie agrees to help Eko reenter the hatch after being locked out by Locke and Desmond. Charlie provides Eko with dynamite but becomes worried as he watches Eko arrange the dynamite beside the hatch’s blast door and light the fuse. The explosion throws Charlie back and leaves a ringing in his ears. Charlie struggles to help an injured Eko leave the hatch amid the system failure of the hatch computer, but eventually escapes alone. He returns to camp unaware of the fates of the others in the hatch. As night falls, Charlie and Claire rekindle their relationship and kiss.

DriveSHAFT

DriveSHAFT was formed in Manchester, England by brothers Charlie and Liam Pace. The band experienced explosive chart success after their song "You All Everybody" became a hit in both the United Kingdom and the United States. The brothers' struggle with heroin addiction eventually leads them to go their separate ways. After a hiatus, Charlie arranges to reunite the band for an eight week tour, opening for the band "Meat Coat" in the US. Unfortunately, Liam is now living in Australia with a family. Charlie travels to see him, to try to persuade his brother to join the comeback tour, saying, "they won't book Drive Shaft without you." When Liam proclaims he does not want to come back, an angry Charlie runs off to catch a flight to Los Angeles presumably to start the tour anyway.

"Their" website (which is not affiliated in any way with ABC) is at http://www.driveshaftband.com

Trivia

Charlie was originally intended to be cast as a forty-one-year-old rock star who had fallen from the public eye, but the casting staff liked Dominic Monaghan's audition for Sawyer so much that he was given the role of Charlie.
The characters of Charlie and his brother in the band DriveSHAFT are modeled after the Gallagher Brothers (Liam and Noel) of the band Oasis.

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Biography

Prior to Oceanic Flight 815

On the island

DriveSHAFT

Trivia