Sayid Hassan Jarrah (Arabic:سعيد جراح) was a middle section survivor of Oceanic Flight 815 and a former Iraqi Republican Guard torturer. A courageous man and a competent leader, Sayid maintained a conservative manner which reflected strength and spirituality.
Sayid spent much of his adult life searching for his love, Nadia, and trying to atone for his past. On the Island, his skills and leadership played a key role in his group’s survival. Sayid worked to find the source of a distress signal and met the woman who sent it out. He developed a relationship withShannon, another survivor, and was devastated by her accidental death. Sayid proved very useful in the survivors’ fight against the Others, first interrogating one who they trapped and later helping Kate and Locke rescue Jack.
Sayid was one of the six who escaped the Island. He reunited with Nadia, but when a hit-and-run driver killed her, Sayid joined Benjamin Linus as a hitman against Widmore to avenge her death. Afterward, he did charity work in the Dominican Republic, but Ilana forced him aboard Ajira Airways Flight 316, returning him to the Island. Sayid found himself in 1977, where the DHARMA Initiative captured him, believing him a Hostile. He escaped and unsuccessfully tried to kill young Ben, whose father then shot him. After he returned to 2007, he died, but the Man in Black resurrected him and recruited him to his side. After this, Sayid lived in the Man in Black’s group in an almost blank state. After speaking with Desmond, he broke out of this state, and was later redeemed when he sacrificed himself aboard Widmore’s submarine, exploding while carrying the Man in Black’s bomb.
In the flash-sideways, he was reunited with his island lover, Shannon Rutherford and along with their friends, they moved on.
- Sayid was the seventh character to ever have a flashback.
- Sayid was the third character to ever have a flash-forward.
- Sayid’s episode count is 96 (as of „The End„). He was killed on his 95th appearance.
- Sayid has met all of the main characters except Pierre.
- Sayid is one of the seven characters to have a flashback, a flash-forward and a flash-sideways episode centered around them. The other six are Hurley, Sun, Kate, Sawyer, Ben and Jack.
- Sayid was the fifteenth main character to die.
- Sayid was the first main character of the Oceanic Six to die.
- Sayid was also the first main character to die in the season that was on Oceanic Flight 815 and was a main character since Season 1.
- Sayid also was the first main character not seen at the crash site to die.
- Sayid is the third main character to die in an explosion, after Michael, and Ilana.
- Sayid is one of the five main characters not seen at the crash site of Oceanic 815‘s middle section, along with Kate Austen, James „Sawyer“ Ford, Sun-Hwa Kwon and Walt Lloyd.
- All of Sayid’s love interests over the course of the show have ended up dying (Nadia, Shannon, Elsa and Ilana).
- In almost all of his appearances on island Sayid wears an undershirt.
- The name Sayyid is an Arabic honorific for a descendant of the prophet Muhammad. However, Sayyid and Sayid have greater pronunciation and written differences in Arabic. While Sayyid(سيّد) means a master or one of the prophet descendant, Sayid (also pronounced Sa’eed – سعيد) is an adjective in Arabic means simply a happy person.
- Sayid’s surname, Jarrah (Arabic: جراح), originally meaning a ‘cutter’ or a ‘wounder’ in traditional Arabic, is currently the typical Arabic translation for the word ‘Surgeon’.
- Eucalyptus marginata (Jarrah) is a very durable Australian hardwood, once used to make roads in England.
- The names Sayid / Said may be a link to Palestinian-American literary theorist, critic. and philosopher Edward W. Said (Arabic:إدوارد وديع سعيد). Among other books on related topics, Edward W. Said wrote Orientalism; a book that reflects on colonization and how the colonizers of a new land start to call the original habitants „the Other“.
- That name similarity may have played in a part in Sawyer assuming Sayid was the one in handcuffs and was a terrorist, who was to blame for the crash. („Pilot, Part 2„)
- Three of the six Sayid-centric episodes (not counting the multi-flash finales) have been followed by a Claire-centric episode.
- Sayid is considered by many Lost fans to be the most level-headed Survivor, and is highly regarded for being the best at judging characters.[2]
- Sayid can be seen on the TV in the background of the U.S. Army Office where Kate’s father works in the episode „What Kate Did„.
- Sayid was the first member of the middle section group to hear the whispers (see Sawyer, Shannon, Charlie).
- The name of Sayid’s father, Hassan; Sayid’s date of birth; and location of his birth were all obtained from his passport details as seen via the Oceanic Air Website.
- Sayid now knows that Sawyer killed a man in Australia.
- In the post-hatch timeline, Sayid is seen using a compass in season 3, apparently unaffected by any island magnetism.
- Sayid appears to have been shot more than any other survivor. He has been shot four separate times; once in a flashback, by himself, once on the Island in the present, by Mikhail Bakunin, once in the future, by Elsa and once on the Island in the past, by Roger Linus.
- He was also shot with a tranquilizer dart.
- Has been mistaken for an Other/Hostile more than once. Danielle Rousseau captures him, thinking he is an Other, Mikhail pretends to think he is an Other when he first encounters him, andRadzinsky thinks he is a Hostile when he is in the past.
- Sayid is one of 22 main characters to have their names appear in a soundtrack title.
- Last words: „Because it’s going to be you, Jack“
- Witnesses of his death: Jack, Sawyer, Hurley, Kate, Jin, Sun, Frank
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