Ben Linus:
Benjamin "Ben" Linus is a fictional character portrayed by Michael Emerson on the ABC television series Lost. Ben is the leader of a group of island natives called the Others. He organizes the capture of some of the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815, which crashes on the Island on September 22, 2004. He convinces Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox), a doctor from the plane crash, to operate on him, then allows another survivor, John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), to join the Others. When a freighter is discovered not far from the Island, he, Locke, and some of the other crash survivors hide in the Others' village called the Barracks, believing the people on the freighter to be dangerous. Ben eventually leaves the Island, and makes Locke the new leader of the Others.
Originally cast for three guest appearances in the second season, Emerson's role was expanded to the of leader of the Others and he became a regular cast member from the third season onward. Ben's perfected ability to lie and manipulate has lead to speculation of his true motives. Emerson's portrayal of Ben has garnered many positive reviews and resulted in a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Drama Series in both 2007 and 2008.
[edit] Prior to the crash
A young Ben arrives on the island.
Flashbacks during "The Man Behind the Curtain" show Benjamin Linus being born in the U.S. to Roger (Jon Gries) and Emily Linus (Carrie Preston); Emily dies after giving birth. When Ben is young, he and his father move to the Island, after his dad is offered a job working for the Dharma Initiative. On the Island, Ben begins to see visions of his mother, while Roger starts drinking heavily and verbally abusing him. Ben develops a hatred for the Dharma Initiative and one day runs away from the Dharma village. He comes across Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell), one of the Island natives known to the Initiative as the "Hostiles", in the jungle, who accepts Ben's request to join his group.[1] Many years later, the "Hostiles" kidnap Alex (Tania Raymonde), a child born to a woman shipwrecked on the Island, when she is one week old.[2] Four years after this, Ben kills his father with poison gas, then discovers every Dharma Initiative member dead, also from poison gas. He joins the "Hostiles" and eventually assumes a leadership role, as he is the only one who can interact with their real leader, Jacob, and communicate his will to the group,[1] and becomes Alex's adoptive father.[3] Two days before the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, Ben discovers that he has a spinal tumor. After witnessing the crash, he sends Goodwin (Brett Cullen) to investigate in order to remove Ben's competition for the affections of Juliet Burke (Elizabeth Mitchell), a woman recruited to the island three years previously in order to help the Others with their fertility problems.[4]
[edit] After the crash
Shown in a flashback of "Exposé", seven weeks after the plane crash, Ben and Juliet enter a Dharma Initiative work station, the Pearl, and watch Jack on a of the monitor. Ben tells Juliet that he will convince Jack to perform surgery on him.[5] After Goodwin is killed, he shows Juliet the corpse, so she knows that she is Ben's and will be on the Island forever.[4] Ben makes his first appearance in the season two episode "One of Them", where he is caught in a trap set by Alex's mother, Danielle Rousseau (Mira Furlan). He pretends to be Henry Gale, a man that crashed on the island while traveling via hot air balloon. Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews), a former member of the Republican Guard, breaks him loose and takes him to the hatch, where he is held captive, interrogated, and tortured by Sayid.[6] While Ben is there, he tries to turn Locke and Jack against each other.[7] Ben is exposed as a fraud when the body of the real Henry Gale is found.[8] Michael Dawson (Harold Perrineau), a crash survivor whose son has been kidnapped by the Others, later sets Ben free.[8] When Michael successfully brings Jack, Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly) and James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway) to the pier, Ben gives him a boat and describes the Others (the term the survivors use for Ben's group) as the "good guys".[9] Ben and the Others then takes Jack, Kate and Sawyer to a smaller island nearby.[10]
In the beginning of season three, Ben gives Juliet the task of interrogating Jack, while Kate and Sawyer are kept in cages.[11] He admits to Jack about having a tumor on his spine, and asks him to remove it in order for him to leave the Island. During the surgery he wakes up, where Jack refuses to finish until Kate and Sawyer are safely away from the Others.[12] After they escape, Ben's operation is finished.[13] He returns to the Barracks with the rest of the Others, and Jack in tow.[14] When Locke comes to rescue Jack, he and Ben have a confrontation, which results in Ben taking Locke to a "magic box", where Locke's father, Anthony Cooper (Kevin Tighe), is held captive.[3] Ben offers Locke the opportunity to join the Others, but only if he kills Cooper.[15] Locke returns a few days later with Cooper's corpse, so Ben takes him to meet Jacob. When Ben discovers Locke can hear Jacob, he shoots Locke, and leaves him for dead.[1] He returns to the Others' camp, and tells Richard, now his second-in-command, to lead the remaining Others to the Temple. Ben takes Alex with him as he attempts to prevent Jack from sending a radio message to a nearby freighter. He reunites Alex with her mother, and claims that if Jack contacts the freighter, every single person on the Island will die. Ben is beaten and taken hostage, and forced to watch as the freighter is contacted.[16]
In the first episode of season four "The Beginning of the End", the survivors divide into two groups, those who believe the people from the freighter to be dangerous, Ben among them, join Locke and head to the Barracks.[17] After Ben confesses the freighter crew has come to capture him, Miles Straume (Ken Leung), a medium from the freighter, makes a deal with Ben, asking for $3.2 million dollars in exchange for Miles telling Charles Widmore (Alan Dale), the man who sent the freighter so he could exploit the Island, that Ben is dead. Ben agrees to Miles' terms when he begins to get angry, insisting that Ben not treat him like he is "one of them", directed at Kate, claiming he "knows exactly what [Ben] is".[18] Later, Ben urges Alex, and her boyfriend and mother, to travel to the Temple, for protection from the people on the freighter, but on the way the group is ambushed by mercenaries from the freighter, who take Alex as a hostage.[19] In "The Shape of Things to Come", Martin Keamy (Kevin Durand), the leader of the mercenaries, threatens to shoot Alex if Ben does not come forward, Ben staunchly denies any attachment to her, which results in her execution. Ben claims Widmore has "changed the rules", then summons the smoke monster to attack the mercenaries. He leaves with Locke and Hurley (Jorge Garcia) to communicate with Jacob.[20] Locke enters Jacob's cabin alone, and returns stating they need to move the Island.[21] They go to the Orchid, a Dharma station that will be able to move the Island. Ben sends Locke out to become the new leader of the Others, then enters a secret level of the Orchid. He turns a large frozen wheel in the wall, which causes the Island to disappear from the ocean.[22] Ben vanishes and is transported to the Sahara Desert.[20]
[edit] After the Island
The flashforwards in "The Shape of Things to Come" show that after Ben arrives in the Sahara Desert, he travels to a hotel and discovers it is ten months ahead of when he left the Island.[20] Ben finds Sayid at the funeral of his wife Nadia (Andrea Gabriel), and recruits Sayid as his personal assassin.[20] Ben infiltrates Charles Widmore's penthouse apartment in London and tells Widmore he intends to have his daughter Penelope (Sonya Walger) murdered as revenge for the death of Alex.[20] Three years later, Ben visits Jack in a funeral home that houses the body of John Locke. Ben tells Jack that he will help him return to the Island, but the only way to get back to the Island is if everyone who had left it returns; therefore, that includes bringing the body of Locke with them.[22]
[edit] Personality
"That's what my father does - he manipulates people. He makes you think it's your idea but it's his."
—Alex in "The Man From Tallahassee" |
Ben has an impeccable ability to lie and manipulate the people around him, even when he is at a physical disadvantage.[23] He claims to have been born on the Island,[11] leading to him being thought of as a miracle by the Others, as pregnant women die on the island;[24] but later confesses to Locke that he was lying.[1] He unsuccessfully tries to convince the survivors that he is Henry Gale,[25] although succeeds in manipulating Locke to turn against Jack whilst held prisoner under this guise.[26] While he claims he will not sacrifice innocent life in order to accomplish his goals,[19] he has been shown to do quite the opposite. In the third season finale, Ben is informed by Tom (M. C. Gainey), an Other, that they have captured three of the crash survivors: Sayid, Bernard Nadler (Sam Anderson), and Jin-Soo Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim). When Tom tells Ben they are unwilling to reveal any information about the rest of the survivors, Ben quickly replies "Shoot Kwon... You want them to answer questions, kill Kwon - do it now".[16] Conversely Ben refuses to allow his spy on the freighter to destroy it long before it reaches the Island, as he would not kill anyone that "did not deserve to die".[19] Furthermore, when Locke confronts Ben about causing the freighter to explode, Ben coldly replies, "So?"[22]
"I have full sympathy [for Ben]. I believe he has a mission and an agenda that he hasn’t shared with us yet. The survival of the earth may depend on Ben’s work, so it justifies his ruthless behavior. Maybe I’m just fantasizing or deluding myself."
—Actor Michael Emerson, who plays Ben[27] |
Ben's unclear motives have led to speculation of whether he is a good or bad person. Ben Rawson-Jones from Digital Spy describes Ben as a "supposed villian", pondering "Could he really have been the good guy all along" following the fourth season episode "The Shape of Things to Come".[28] Actor Michael Emerson suspects where Ben's loyalties lie will always be ambiguous, making this a "wonderful role".[29] He is rarely shown losing control of his emotions, but when he does, it is done in a big and childish way.[30] Emerson explains "He's cold because any trace of warmth makes him vulnerable to his enemies".[31] Ben is also known for his commitment to the island and doing whatever is necessary to protect it.[32] He has no qualms with Locke attempting to kill Naomi (Marsha Thomason) after she begins to call the freighter.[16] He undertakes the risky and unpredictable step of moving the Island to prevent the freighter crew, and thus Charles Widmore, from finding it.[22] He always has a plan and is described by Kevin Thompson from The Palm Beach Post as a "know-it-all",[33] which another reviewer thinks is because "[Ben] talks quietly, in a menacingly measured drawl… with lots of pauses and emphases".[34]
[edit] Development
Michael Emerson was cast on the show following winning an Emmy in The Practice
After American actor Michael Emerson had won an Emmy award for his guest appearance as a serial killer on The Practice in 2001,[31] the Lost producers were keen to cast Emerson in the role of Ben, then known as "Henry Gale", as they liked his work on The Practice and thought he fit the character well.[35] He was originally contracted to appear in just three episodes of Lost,[36] making his first appearance midway through the second season, in episode "One of Them". The producers were so impressed by him that they contracted him for a further five episodes, citing the scene at the end of "The Whole Truth" where Ben asks for milk as the moment they knew he was a "keeper".[31] He was then made a part of the regular cast from the third season.[37] Had Emerson not worked out during his initial appearances a different actor would have been cast for the leader of the Others, but it was always intended that the survivors would have the leader right under their noses and not realise it.[36] During one episode of the Official Lost Podcast, the producers stated they always knew Ben would be the "Big Bad".[38] Emerson had no idea of his character's importance during his second season recurring role. He was told nothing about Ben's backstory and would only receive scripts at the last minute.[39] He enjoys how the ambiguity of Ben's motives allows him to "paint it the way [he] please[s]".[29] Sterling Beaumon was cast to play Ben in the flashbacks of episode "The Man Behind the Curtain".[1] Emerson's wife Carrie Preston was cast as Ben's mother following Emerson telling people at parties that she was desperate for a part on the show.[39]
Refering to the scene in the third season where Ben seemingly fits Sawyer with a lethal pacemaker, Emerson comments "Sadistic may be the word, but he doesn't seem to take much relish in it. He's just sort of detached, he looks at it coldly. I sometimes feel like everything to him is a sort of scientific experiment and he is interested in a dispassionate way in how the experiment runs its course. I think some day if we ever find out what his parentage is, that his parents were people of science".[40] Elizabeth Mitchell, who plays Juliet, did not think it was a "huge surprise for Juliet that Ben had feelings for [Juliet], but I still think it was... it was horrifying under the circumstances". She also thought "[Juliet has] this kind of wonderful mind, and I think that Ben probably has a tremendous respect for that. It's not because Juliet is so enticing, it’s just the fact that she’s got this amazing mind, she has this amazing, you know, intelligence, and I think that's what intrigues him, that’s what draws him into her".[30] During season four the producers deliberately left it ambiguous as to whether Ben was a part of the Oceanic 6 (six survivors of the plane crash that make it off the Island) after he appeared in one of Sayid's flashforwards.[41] One reviewer described Ben as shifting from "scum to anti-hero" over the fourth season.[42]
[edit] Reception
[edit] Critical reception
During the beginning of season three, Chris Carabott from IGN described Ben as "one of the best "villains" on television", due to his "eerie manner" and "methodical delivery".[43] Later in the season Carabott had a problem with Ben being so deceptive, as "anything he imparts must be taken with a grain of salt".[44] Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly also noted this, saying "I don't trust Ben. I have no idea when he's lying and when he's telling the truth. The only thing I'm reasonably sure of is that everything he says is for the purpose of impacting a character — and the audience".[45] Ben's father issues revealed towards the end of season three are described as "not the most original Lost character trait by any means but it is the thrust behind Ben's development into the genocidal maniac he eventually becomes".[46] Following the penultimate episode of the season, Carabott stated "Even with his limited screen time, Michael Emerson's performance shines through and we hope that he survives the events of the finale because we love seeing his character every week."[47] Erin Martell from TV Squad picked the Others as one of her season three highlights, partly due to the development of Ben, adding "I cannot even picture the final three seasons without Ben".[48] Martell also gave six reasons to look forward to season four, one of which was Ben Linus.[49]
Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly praised Emerson's acting in the beginning of season four, calling him "a genius in [the] role".[50] Alan Sepinwall from The Star-Ledger worried that "the actor is so good and the character so popular that he's kept alive even though it makes all the heroes look like idiots".[51] Following "Confirmed Dead", Entertainment Weekly's Jeff Jensen felt "Isn't the whole business of Ben manipulating Locke with the promise of Island secrets getting just a little bit old?"[52] SyFy Portal's Dan Compora said that "The more I hate Ben, the more I realize that Michael Emerson is just a very fine actor doing his job".[23] Don Williams of BuddyTV said "consider my mind blown again", refering to the flashforward in "The Economist" where it is revealed that Sayid is working for Ben.[53] Oscar Dahl of BuddyTV called Emerson an acting "god".[54] Chris Carabott from IGN found one of the best moments of "Eggtown", was the power struggle between Locke and Ben, because "Their scenes together are amongst the best in the series and the one that opens "Eggtown" is a perfect display of how well Michael Emerson and Terry O'Quinn work together. O'Quinn captures Locke's uncertainty perfectly in the opening scene and it's always fun to watch Ben prey on any weakness of character."[55] Kevin Thompson of The Palm Beach Post wrote that "with those big ol' eyes of his, [Emerson] could always say more with a lengthy stare than he could with twenty pages of dialogue.… [He has], once again, proved why he has become Lost's star as well as its heart and soul.… an Emmy should belong to [him]."[33] Jennifer Godwin of E! wrote that "no one has ever done better work humanizing a supervillain."[56] Matt Roush of TV Guide puts Ben in "The Shape of Things to Come" in the top 20 moments of the week, stating "Michael Emerson on Lost. It doesn’t get better than that".[57] Ben Rawson-Jones of Digital Spy describes Emerson's performance as "fantastic", with "many layers of intrigue and humanity".[28] John Kubicek of BuddyTV also found his performance "fantastic", adding "he nailed it".[58] Critic Kelly Woo, from TV Squad, placed him on second on her list of "Seven new characters that worked", ranking just below Desmond Hume, also from Lost.[59]
[edit] Awards
In 2006, Michael Emerson was nominated for the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - TV Series, Miniseries or TV Film, but lost out to Ugly Betty's Tony Plana.[60] Following the third season in 2007, Emerson was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Program, losing to Masi Oka from Heroes.[61] He was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Drama Series but lost out to fellow Lost cast member Terry O'Quinn (Locke).[62] Later in the year, he was nominated for Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - TV Series, Miniseries or TV film again, this time losing to David Zayas from Dexter.[63] Emerson won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Program, beating fellow Lost actors Terry O'Quinn and Josh Holloway (Sawyer).[64] Emerson was also nominated for the Teen Choice Award for Best Villian.[65] In 2008, Emerson was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards, but lost to Damages' Željko Ivanek.[66]
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