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Daniel Faraday
Played by Jeremy DaviesKahana Crew
A brilliant but fragile physicist from Oxford who arrives on the freighter. His understanding of time and the Island's electromagnetic properties becomes crucial. Jeremy Davies brings a twitchy, heartbreaking vulnerability to the role.
Notable Quotes
“Whatever happened, happened.”
“You can't change the past. Can't do it. Doesn't work.”
“I'm gonna make sure that your plane never crashes on this Island.”
Trivia
- Daniel Faraday is named after Michael Faraday, the pioneering English physicist who discovered electromagnetic induction.
- Jeremy Davies based his performance partly on his own natural nervousness, which the producers found perfect for a traumatized physicist.
- Daniel's journal, filled with his research and containing the note "If anything goes wrong, Desmond Hume will be my constant," became a key prop in the mythology.