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Danielle Rousseau
Mira Furlan as Rousseau
First appearance	"Solitary"
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Name	Danielle Rousseau
Age	40s
Profession	Scientist
Portrayed by	Mira Furlan

Danielle Rousseau, often referred to as "the French woman" and "the French Chick", is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Mira Furlan. She is a recurring on-island character who has appeared periodically throughout seasons one through three.

Contents 1 Fictional character biography 1.1 On the island, before the crash of Oceanic 815 1.2 After the crash 2 Trivia 3 References

When she and her crew shipwrecked on their route from Tahiti, there were six total who survived, including a pregnant Danielle. The rest of her team eventually died in an area she referred to as "the dark territory," including Montand, who lost his arm, Brennan, who "took the keys", and Robert, her lover whom she killed because he had "the sickness". Danielle eventually gave birth to a baby girl she named Alex. Alex was then abducted by The Others soon after. She changed the radio tower's transmission from repeating The Numbers (4 8 15 16 23 42) to a repeating distress signal that the survivors heard in "Pilot (Part 2)."

Rousseau's first appearance is in "Pilot (Part 2)" as a recording of the distress signal that is translated by Shannon. She appears onscreen, however, in "Solitary," having captured Sayid, 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 "Maternity Leave" revealed that Rousseau had found a destitute Claire 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 "Numbers" when Hurley 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 "Exodus: Parts 1 and 2," Rousseau warns the survivors that the others are coming, and proceeds to lead Jack, Kate, Locke, 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 Claire in hopes of trading him for her own Alex that had been taken 16 years earlier. After Sayid and Charlie negotiated with her, she gave the baby back.

Sayid then sees Rousseau in "One of Them" having captured a man who claimed his name was "Henry Gale," 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 "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead," 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 "Enter 77," 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.

In the episode Par Avion Kate asks Rousseau why she never asks questions about Alex, Rousseau tells her that she does not want to know, as Alex probably doesn't even know who she is and won't remember her. Rousseau then witnesses Mikhail's death when Locke pushes him through the Others' security system.

In the episode The Man from Tallahassee Rousseau is separated from Kate, Sayid and Locke before they were discovered by the Others. Danielle Rousseau is then seen spotting Alex from the bushes walking away from Locke after he was done holding her hostage.

• Danielle was the voice that was heard in the distress signal on the island that was found by Sayid, Shannon, Kate, Boone, Charlie and Sawyer.
• In the episode The Man from Tallahassee Danielle watches her daughter (Alexandra) through the trees and is able to catch a glimpse of her, though the two do not have time to reunite.

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