He traveled to London to find Eloise and was then attacked by Ben, who shot Desmond and attempted to shoot Penny. Desmond is completely unable to find peace and security - even after getting off the island and starting a family. Perhaps Desmond's biggest flaw is his complete inability to find peace or contentment. He jumps from job to job and place to place, and his endless place-hopping eventually led him to the military.
After Desmond breaks up with Penny, he enters the Royal Scots Regiment and climbs the ladder to lance-corporal. Unfortunately, even this prosperous career opportunity ended in disaster when he proved unreliable, was thrown in a military garrison and was dishonorably discharged. A major barrier between Desmond and Penny is Desmond's economic standing.
It's clearly established that Desmond is poor and unemployed, which is one of the reasons that Charles Widmore Penny's father condescends and looks down upon Desmond. His economic status crushes his confidence and self-worth, and it eventually leads to deep feelings of inferiority and insecurity.
These oppressive feelings result in Desmond breaking up with Penny, as he feels as though he isn't "good enough" for her. Everything leads back to Charles Widmore. Like any prospective son-in-law, Desmond wishes to be viewed upon by Charles in a positive light. He even goes to Charles to ask for Penny's hand in marriage - a "noble gesture" as Charles says that proves Desmond's respect for his future father-in-law. Unfortunately, Charles has nothing but contempt for Desmond.
While he's kind enough to offer Desmond a job in his company, he isn't shy about voicing his hatred for Desmond and how worthless he finds him as a person. Desmond breaks up Penny, even though it's clear that it destroys him to do so.
He doesn't necessarily want to break up with her, and he clearly still adores her. It's just that his recent talk with Charles Widmore had planted some particularly nasty thoughts within his head, and it led him into thinking that he wasn't good enough for Penny. He calls it off in one of the series' saddest and most tragic scenes and does what he does best - he runs away to something else.
In this case, it's the military. Desmond breaking up with Penny leads to some widespread and complex repercussions. Daniel Farraday's plan worked. When Juliet set off that bomb in , everyone's lives reset. To quote a line uttered many times throughout the series, the island wasn't done with him yet. So Charles Widmore drugged his son in law and brought him back to run a fun experiment on him. Desmond, you see, is special. He has an awesome Scottish accent.
Oh: He's also capable of surviving high blasts of electromagnetic radiation. Not that the gift doesn't have funky side effects: Ever since Desmond hit the fail-safe button when the hatch exploded waaaaay back in the season two finale, he's had these flashes. He knew Charlie was going to die. And he was able to mentally "travel" to his own alternative, non-island universe. Widmore somehow knows all this.
And as part of his grand plan to take hold of the island and save its inhabitants, he wants to make sure Desmond can still withstand the radiation. Zoe clamps up the electricity and — bam! Suddenly, the guy is in a dapper suit getting off Oceanic and flirting with Claire at baggage claim. Claire isn't that important here. Charlie is. When we last saw Mr. Pace, he was being hauled off the plane for drug confiscation.
Conveniently, he gets bailed out by Desmond. The reason: Charles Widmore, wants the Driveshaft singer to play at his wife's benefit, and he wants Desmond to make sure it happens.
By the way, the scene in Widmore's L. There was a scale too shades of Jacob and Man in Black. Learning that Penny had moved and changed her phone number, he met with Charles Widmore in London to get new contact information for her. Charles relented, giving Desmond Penny's address, confident that Penny would reject Desmond once and for all.
Desmond took 2 days leave from the Royal Scots to visit Penny, explaining to her that he needed her new phone number but that he wouldn't call her for eight years.
Confused and upset, Penny reluctantly gave Desmond the number. Desmond left Penny's house to return to the Royal Scots smiling contentedly, knowing that in the future he will have made a connection with her, saving his life.
Desmond managed to reach the rank of a lance-corporal before being dishonorably discharged and serving time in the Southway Garrison military prison for failing to "follow orders". His exact offense is still unknown. At his release, Desmond reclaimed his belongings, including his copy of Charles Dickens 's Our Mutual Friend ; the book he chose to be the last thing he read before he died, and thus did not check it in prison, to "avoid temptation.
A frantically crazed Desmond pleads Penny for her new number. While he was in the Army, Desmond did a six-month detail disarming munitions, a skill he would later have to put into use on the freighter. Libby offers Desmond a sailboat. Outside the Garrison, Charles Widmore waited for Desmond's release. Widmore revealed that he had intercepted all of the letters that Desmond had sent to Penelope from prison.
Widmore then attempted to bribe Desmond into keeping away from his daughter. Widmore felt certain Desmond would agree to the arrangement, since he believed Desmond to be a coward. Desmond, however, declined, and entered himself in a world sailing race sponsored by Widmore in order to prove his worth. Desmond then traveled to America, where the race was set to begin.
He arrived, however, short of money and a sailboat. During their conversation, Desmond confided in her his shortcomings for joining the race. Libby then surprisingly revealed her ownership of a boat, the Elizabeth , which had belonged to her late husband David. Upon her insistence, Desmond eventually accepted Libby's offer of the boat, promising to win the race "for love".
Desmond talks to Penelope for the last time, before entering the race. As Desmond prepared to train by running stairs at an L. Penny asked him if he had read his beloved book yet, and inquired as to why he did not write to her. To evade her questions, Desmond confronted Penny with his knowledge that she is getting married, adding that he will be back in a year, after winning her father's race, and he hoped Penny would wait for him. Penny believed his choice to enter the race was just another example of cowardice.
Desmond insisted that he is running to get his honor back. Moments later, Desmond met Jack Shephard , while training at the same stadium. During their short conversation, Desmond suggested that Jack is running the stadium stairs because of frustration having to do with a woman. Jack confided in Desmond about his patient, Sarah , whom Jack had no hope of fixing. Desmond pointed to the possibility of miracles. Sarah 's subsequent unexpected healing suggests that possibly Desmond was right. Whilst racing across the Pacific, Desmond's boat was hit by a strong storm, during which Desmond wrapped his book in plastic, before getting knocked unconscious and falling off the deck.
Soon after, he washed up on the Island 's shore. Desmond watching the Swan Orientation film, after moving to The Swan. The half-conscious Desmond was dragged from the beach into the Swan , by a man in a biohazard suit who later identified himself as Kelvin Inman. Inside the Swan, Kelvin tells Desmond that the outside environment is contaminated by a mysterious sickness , to which Desmond may have been exposed. Kelvin forcibly inoculated Desmond with a vaccine labeled with the Numbers.
Kelvin instructed Desmond to inject himself with it every 9 days. Desmond learned the "push the button" routine, and watched the Swan Orientation film repeatedly, which raised many questions in his head, most of which remained unanswered by Kelvin. After two years, Kelvin showed Desmond how to initiate the lockdown sequence, which Kelvin used to complete the invisible blast door map started by his previous Swan partner, Radzinsky. One night later, while drunk underneath the Swan's computer room, Kelvin revealed to Desmond the nature of the Incident , and the function of the fail-safe key, which he carried at all times but was never able to find the courage to use.
Desmond had lived in the station for three years, while Kelvin continually left the Hatch in his suit, under the pretense of analyzing the outside environment. A hostile Desmond confronts Daniel Faraday on the Island. At an unclear point in the timeline, a group of survivors congregated at the rear door of the Swan.
After the group received no response and left for the beach Daniel remained and continued to knock on the Swan 's rear door until Desmond, dressed in a biohazard suit and wielding a rifle, angrily burst out. Desmond appeared not to recognise Daniel , and asked whether Daniel was his "replacement", much like Kelvin thought when he found Desmond.
Daniel told a confused Desmond that he was "uniquely, and miraculously special", and that he was the only one who could save them. Daniel instructed Desmond to seek out his mother at Oxford in the event that the helicopter made it safely off the island. After this, Daniel disappeared in front of him. However, it is yet not clear why Desmond remembered this years later, around , but this may be linked to the fact that, in linear "real time" this event happened after Desmond left the Island.
Desmond, moments after stopping the electromagnetic anomaly from exploding. Kelvin never allowed Desmond to take a turn analyzing the environment. However, on the day of Flight 's crash , Desmond noticed that Kelvin's suit was ripped, yet he continued his trips, leading Desmond to wonder if the sickness was a lie Kelvin made up to keep him in the hatch entering the numbers.
Desmond had his first adventure in the jungle when he subsequently followed Kelvin. Desmond saw Kelvin taking off the biohazard suit before marching toward the cove.
At the cove, Desmond found his sailboat , apparently repaired by Kelvin, with which Kelvin seemed to be plotting his escape from the Island. Desmond confronted Kelvin, after realizing the charade to which he was subjected, and in the struggle that followed, he accidentally slammed Kelvin's head against a rock, resulting in Kelvin's immediate death. After grabbing Kelvin's fail-safe key , Desmond ran back to the Swan , where he found the countdown timer had reached zero, and system failure messages were flowing across the computer screen.
Desmond eventually managed to stop the system failure, although, unbeknown to him, his actions inadvertently released the electromagnetic charge that had built up during his absence from the Swan, which caused Oceanic Flight to break up in mid-air and crash on the Island. Desmond learns that he isn't alone on the Island.
With Kelvin dead, Desmond was now on his own, and he spent the next 40 days in the Swan in complete solitude, carrying on the duty of pushing the button all by himself. In a moment of despair, Desmond contemplated ending his life.
Sitting down with a gun in his hand, Desmond questioned whether anything in his world is real. He moved to open his Dickens' novel, when a letter fell out of it: a hidden letter from Penelope, in which she encouraged Desmond to never give up, emphasizing her love and her decision to always wait for him.
In a fit of rage, Desmond started to sabotage the Swan 's contents, when he suddenly heard pounding on the Hatch above. Turning on the bright light, Desmond looked up as the traumatized Locke peered down in return, causing both men to regain their hope. Desmond recognizes Jack as the man he met in Los Angeles. After blowing open the Hatch and entering the Swan , Locke and Kate confronted the suspicious Desmond, who held them both at gunpoint. After Locke led Desmond into believing that Kate was more dangerous of the two, Desmond locked Kate in the pantry.
However, this gave Kate a chance to escape through the ventilation system, to later intervene with Desmond's holding of Locke, and Jack who joined them, consequently resulting in Desmond's accidental shooting of the Swan's computer. After failing to fix it, Desmond decided to flee the station, claiming that everyone will die soon, but was followed by Jack. Upon their confrontation, Desmond recalled his off-Island encounter of Jack, and asked him about Sarah, before repeating the Numbers to Jack in case the computer was ever fixed.
Desmond apparently set off on the sailboat in an attempt to escape the Island. His attempt, however, was unsuccessful, and after two weeks the boat sailed back toward the Island.
When the boat emerged to the survivors , Jack, Sayid and Sawyer swam to it, only to find Desmond inside, who by then believed the Island to be the last thing left from a long-lost world. Desmond turns the fail safe key, triggering the discharge. Desmond was then approached by Sayid, who asked for his help in his plan of sailing to the Others ' camp , but he refused. Desmond was sought out later by Locke, who brought him the Orientation video from the Pearl , debunking his whole conception of the Swan's function.
Desmond then agreed to join Locke on his mission, to let the Swan's countdown end once and for all, without interference, and see what would happen. In their attempt, they locked Eko out of the computer room, using Desmond's experience in triggering the lockdown. After reading the log, Desmond then connected the date of the plane crash to the earlier system failure he witnessed, leading him to conclude that he may have unintentionally caused the crash.
Desmond then decided that the button must be pushed, but Locke , however, intervened and destroyed the computer. With no other resolution, Desmond felt compelled to use the fail-safe key, and thus descended to the Swan's passageways to turn on the switch. With the words "I love you Penny," Desmond turned the key after making the sign of the cross , causing the discharge , and the unavoidable implosion of the Swan.
Desmond after waking up when his mind traveled back to After turning the fail-safe key in present Island time, Desmond's consciousness re-entered his 's self.
He arrived at the time after falling off the ladder, while painting his flat. When Penelope tried to heal him, he thought that everything about the future had been a dream. Later that day, while preparing to go to the Widmore's Industries, he noticed his clock marked "", and these numbers were familiar to him.
Penelope said that if he didn't get the job, that wouldn't be the end of the world. That phrase disturbed Desmond, and when hearing a beep that was like the one in the Swan, he was even more disturbed. However, it turned out to be the microwave, and Penelope asked what happened to him. Before the meeting with Charles Widmore , he heard that a delivery man had a package for eight - fifteen.
He noticed the numbers, and a flash of future events came momentarly to his mind. Desmond recognizes Charlie from the Island. After talking with Widmore, he offered him a job in the administrative department, but Desmond revealed that the real reason he came was to ask not for a job , but for Widmore's permission to marry his daughter, Penelope.
Widmore expressed his unfavorable opinion of Desmond, impressing upon him his valuation of Desmond as worth less than his MacCutcheon whisky. Desmond left, crestfallen and angered, but when he saw a singing Charlie Pace performing on a London street corner just outside, he recognized him, and he said that all those events had happened before.
Charlie didn't believe him, and when it started to rain, everybody on the street left, thinking he was crazy. Desmond went to see Donovan. He was skeptical of Desmond's theory that he could be time-traveling, and asked him to predict what would happen next.
Desmond foretold the outcome of a televised soccer game, only to be proven wrong. Later that night, he arrived in his flat and Penelope said she loved him. She said that they would celebrate their love the next day. Hawking reveals to Desmond she knows about his fate. The next day, he went to the jewelry shop to buy a ring. This time, however, he wanted to buy it, but Ms. Hawking , the jewelry store clerk, revealed that Desmond was not supposed to buy the ring, that he was supposed to have second thoughts and abandon Penny.
She further claimed to know that Desmond's future would involve going to the Island and pushing the button in the Swan. She imparted some of her understanding about how the universe "course-corrects" to prevent people from straying too far from their fate.
Desmond stayed in shock, and she asked him to go with her. During her discussion with Desmond, she predicted the imminent death of a nearby man. Hawking claimed to be unable to ultimately prevent the death of the man, explaining that "the universe has a way of course correcting," meaning that if she saved him from that death, he would simply die another way soon after. Desmond kept the ring anyway, determined not to succumb to fate. He later met Penelope near the River Thames and they had their picture taken in front of a marina backdrop.
He told Penelope this, and she stormed off with mixed emotions of anger and sadness. In the end, Desmond made the decision predicted by Mrs. Hawking , and threw the ring into the Thames.
Drowning his sorrows at a pub that night, Desmond realized that he was a day off in his prediction of the outcome of the soccer match. He heard the song, " Make Your Own Kind Of Music ", and then he watched the same goal in the television, as in the original events.
Knowing that he could change his fate, he prepared to leave the bar. However, Jimmy Lennon stormed into the bar, carrying a cricket bat and looking for the bartender. Desmond, knowing that the bartender would be hit, tried to prevent the altercation from happening the way he remembered it, but was hit with the cricket bat, sending his consciousness back into the future.
Desmond, returning to the present, comes across the imploded hatch. Desmond woke up, lying completely naked in the middle of the jungle with blood stains on his chest and body.
As his memory returned, he realized that the Island and the events that had happened there were indeed real, and he began to cry and beg for another chance to change events in the past , to no avail.
He recollected himself and began to run around looking for help, and, unbeknown to him, ran past Locke, who was also waking up after the Swan implosion. He eventually found Hurley , who was on his way back to the beach after his encounter with the Others at the Pala Ferry. On their way back, Desmond revealed his first premonition , while attempting to comfort Hurley over his worries about his captured group. To calm him, Desmond commented on Locke's intentions to go after them, and referred to Locke's yet-to-happen "speech.
Desmond looks on as a lightning storm begins. Later, Desmond approached Claire , in an attempt to persuade her to move down the beach, to allow him to fix her roof, but Charlie intervened. At his failure to convince them, Desmond borrowed a golf club from Paulo , which he used in constructing a lightning rod that he placed very close to the tent.
Shortly after, the camp was caught up in a sudden storm , when a bolt of lightning struck the recently built lightning rod , on its way to the tent, leaving Charlie in shock, similar to that previously experienced by Hurley. Desmond and Locke were later joined by Sayid , in a meeting to discuss a rescue plan for Jack and his group. Desmond explained to Sayid that the stations equipment could be used as well in communication, and thus they required Sayid's technological skills in helping them search for a station where Jack could be possibly be held captive.
The three head to the Pearl , joined by Paulo and Nikki , where Desmond helped Sayid in patching the monitors with available feeds from other stations, leading to the temporal appearance of the mysterious one-eyed man on one of the screens. Moments after, Desmond heard the Monster 's familiar sound, and hurried above with the rest, to witness the last moments of the dying Eko , where he was then left with Paulo and Nikki while Sayid accompanied Locke back to camp to get shovels for the burial.
Desmond performs CPR on an unconscious Claire. When Charlie and Hurley met up with them, Desmond suddenly rushed to the beach and dragged a drowning Claire ashore and resuscitated her. Charlie became suspicious and Hurley aided him in getting Desmond drunk on MacCutcheon whisky, so that he would divulge his secret.
Charlie and Desmond got into a fight after Desmond was called a coward by Charlie. He jumped and strangled Charlie, claiming that Charlie would not want to know what happened to him when he turned the fail-safe key.
After the fight was stopped by Hurley, Desmond apologized, and was carried by Charlie back to his tent. Then, Desmond revealed that when he turned the fail-safe key, his life flashed before his eyes, but after, the flashes didn't stop.
He has been getting precognitive visions , but they were to save Charlie, not Claire, and he is afraid that there are only so many times he can cheat fate before it catches up with Charlie, and causes his death. Later, he prevented Charlie and Claire from catching migrating seagulls , foreseeing that Charlie would die attempting to do so.
He then caught one himself before being confronted by Claire and eventually telling her his secret. Desmond later witnessed Nikki and Sawyer arguing, and told Hurley about it later while he was investigating Nikki and Paulo's apparent deaths.
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