As my fellow die-hard LOST fans, I suspect that you all remember the episode "The Other 48 Days", in which the tail section survivors are given a formal introduction and their experiences from the day of the crash leading up to the current timeline of the show (at that time, 48 days in) were revealed.

As I hope you all remember, Ana-Lucia's foil for the better half of this episode was a man named Nathan. A person who in general came off as a shifty type of guy, always dodging questions that might give up information about himself and so forth, Nathan was not exactly the trustworthy type. This is what led Ana-Lucia to throwing him in the tiger cage and trying to starve the truth out of him.

What I'm wondering is, who exactly was Nathan? He said he was from Canada and on a business trip, but he stayed behind to do some sightseeing. Unfortunately for Nathan, LOST has a long history of using Canada as a background for liars: Ethan Rom said he was from Ontario, Ben used a Canadian passport when he was traveling post-Donkey Wheel, and Locke's fake ID ('Jeremy Bentham') was also Canadian. I suspect that this is because Canadians, when traveling, have an easier time slipping under the radar than others because of our nations' reputation, but regardless...

Was Nathan telling the truth, or was he lying? Who is he? Obviously the writers are not likely going to revisit this, because they don't have the time and it's a minor part of the story. But I feel that there's still a lot of unanswered questions about this man. Obviously he was not an Other, or Goodwin probably wouldn't have killed him... but who was he?

Speculate away. I'm interested in hearing -- or, rather, reading -- what other viewers think.

o i luv talkin about nathan. as i said b4 i still believe nathan was an EX other. i think he did "something" that got him kicked out of the "otherhood" i guess u can say lol. n i think that "something" was giving up info to widmore. that video tape ben shows locke of widmore beating up an other "who had the misfortune of getting caught" looked a lot like nathan. n goodwin n even says he wasn't a good person...y wasn't he a good person...cuz he betrayed the others possibly.

yea i doubt that they will explain this too but its still nice 2 leave some things a mystery so we the viewers can come up with our own ideas of it. i mean once lost is over we wont have anything to talk about if they answered EVERYTHING!

did anyone think that he could possibly be a statue person like Ilana?

what makes you think that there wasnt statue people on 815?

did anyone think that he could possibly be a statue person like Ilana?

what makes you think that there wasnt statue people on 815?

statue person? i get what u mean but who r these "statue people" r they the eygptians that wrote the hyroglphics, or what? n y do u think he wasn't a good person?

I think he means people batting with Illana's team, as their catchphrase is apparently, "What lies in the shadow of the statue?"

As far as not being a good person... it seems that about half of the 815ers were absolutely terrible people in their off-Island lives. Look at Ana-Lucia, Eko, and Sawyer for perfect examples of what I mean. Murderers, thieves, drug addicts... some of these people were the real dregs of society.

ok ana wasn't that bad, i mean this guy shot her n killed her kid! i have 2 say i would go n hunt the ass hole down n kill him myself. thatz only a mother's scorn! perfectlyyyy natural! any mother would want the man who killed her kid dead.
eko didn't really have much of a choice. either kill an old man or watch his brother b killed. what would u of done? i mean im an only child but i have 2 baby cousins. if sum1 told me shoot this old lady or imma kill 1 of ur cousins i wouldn't even hesitate 2 shoot the old lady-just like eko didn't hesitate
sawyer i agree i dont really like sawyer as it is so yea he's a jerk lol (sorry joyce)

but a lot of them had reasons understandable n 4giveable reasons 4 being who they were off the island. some of them like sawyer, charlie, shannon should of known better.