Henry Gale, we hardly knew ye. The rescued “hot air balloonist” was as quick to earn the 815-ers’ sympathy as he was to betray them, infiltrating their world before eventually revealing himself to be the leader of the mysterious Others.

Arriving midway through Season 2, Michael Emerson’s mercurial character wound up appearing in half of the island mystery’s 121 episodes.

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