Eloise Hawking

Eloise Hawking is a fictional character on ABC's television show Lost. She is played primarily by Fionnula Flanagan, but her young self is played by Alexandra Krosney and Alice Evans portrays Hawking as a middle aged woman. Hawking currently runs the Dharma Initiative station the Lamp Post. She was once in a relationship with Charles Widmore and the two of them are the respective parents of Daniel Faraday.

As an Other
As an Other, Eloise Hawking was first seen in 1954, in "Jughead when a time traveling Jack Shepard, Kate Austen, James "Sawyer" Ford, Hugo "Hurley" Reyes, Juliet Burke, Miles Straume, Charlotte Lewis and Daniel Faraday run across the others of that time period. They discover that they have a hydrogen bomb on the island, and Daniel tells Hawking that they must bury the bomb. Reluctantly, Hawking and the others agree.

However, in 1977, in "The Variable (Lost)|The Variable]]" when that same group, (except for Charlotte, who dies later from trauma due to excessive time shifting), have settled in that time and are working for the Dharma Initiative, Daniel decides that he must detonate the bomb, to rid the island of the people from the Dharma Initiative who were drilling for a volatile substance that would need to be contained within a hatch, that one day Desmond Hume would fail to monitor properly, which would cause Oceanic Flight 815 to crash on the island. When Daniel goes to the others to ask where the bomb is, he points a gun at Richard demanding information. Hawking then appears, and shoots and kills Daniel. However, before Daniel dies from the bullet wound, he says to Hawking that he is her son, and gives her his notebook with a note from her in it as proof. As a result, in Follow the Leader Hawking tells Jack, Kate and Sayid, where the bomb is, and allows the three of them who were with Daniel to carry out his mission.

Off the Island
For a currently unknown reason, between 1977 and the early 2000s, Hawking gets off the island. We first meet her in "Flashes Before Your Eyes," when Desmond tries to buy a ring from her to propose to Penny Widmore, (daughter of Charles Widmore), but she refuses to give him the ring, telling him that it is not his destiny to marry Penny, rather, he is supposed to go to the island. Desmond and Hawking meet again when in "Because You Left," Desmond wakes up from a dream, which he believes was really a memory, involving a time traveling Daniel telling him to go and find her. In "This Place is Death," Desmond meets Hawking and some members the Oceanic 6 at the Dharma Initiative station the Lamp Post, which tells where the constantly moving island will be at a given time, and how to get to it. The Oceanic 6 are trying to get back to the island, but Desmond wants no part in it.

In "The Variable (Lost)|The Variable]]," we find out the relationship between Hawking and Daniel. Hawking insisted that Daniel devote all of his focus to his career in science and mathematics, with no distractions, believing it is his one and only destiny. She also, for an unknown reason, sacrifices Daniel by sending him to the island, knowing her past self would kill him.