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Cindy Chandler

Portrayed by Kimberley Joseph

First Appearance

"Pilot, Part 1"

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Centric episode(s)

"The Other 48 Days"

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Cindy Chandler

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Status

Alive

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Origin

Sydney, Australia

Profession

Oceanic Airlines Flight Attendant

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...working as a flight attendant with Oceanic

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Season(s)

S1 - S2 - S3 - MP - S4

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Cindy Chandler is an Oceanic Airlines flight attendant. She was in the tail section of Flight 815 when it crashed. She went missing during the Tailies' journey across the Island to join the beach camp and appears to be living with the Others along with the other captured people.

During her time with the Others, she has acted as the caretaker of Zack and Emma, two children who also survived the Flight 815 crash.

1 Before the crash
2 On the Island
3 The Lost Experience and Bad Twin
4 Trivia
5 Unanswered questions

Before the crash

Cindy appears to be of Australian origin. Prior to the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, Cindy had a short conversation with Jack, and gave him extra vodka. Minutes later, she noticed Charlie's odd behavior, and chased him down the fuselage to the toilets, where he hid moments before the plane began to experience turbulence. Cindy made it back to the tail end of the plane just before Oceanic Flight 815 broke in half and crashed into the sea near the mysterious Island.

On the Island

Season 1 (Days 1-44)

Cindy emerges from the water after the crash

After the crash, Cindy, like many others, helped the wounded get to shore. She told the other survivors the plane had been a thousand miles off course before it crashed, and asked some of them to build a fire to signal any search planes. Eko asked Cindy to watch over the children, Emma and Zack, and Cindy acted as their primary caretaker before they were taken by The Others on Day 12.

Cindy claimed to have a talent at recognizing faces and suggested Nathan had not been on the plane, prompting Ana Lucia to throw him in a pit and interrogate him. After his disappearance, the group moved into the jungle and found a bunker, and they decided to live there. One day, while fishing in the ocean, Cindy and Libby found Jin and pulled him out of the ocean. The group tied him to a tree, but he broke free and tried to escape just as Michael and Sawyer washed ashore. All three of them were put into the tiger pit Ana Lucia had built. ("The Other 48 Days")

Libby and Cindy pull Jin out of the water

Season 2 (Days 44-48)

Ana Lucia determined that Sawyer, Jin, and Michael really were on the plane, and the group decided to travel across the Island to the beach camp. ("Everybody Hates Hugo")

The tailies inside the Arrow the safe place away from the Others.

Sawyer became ill during the journey, and while the Tailies attempted to move him up a steep hill in an improvised stretcher, Cindy unexpectedly disappeared. She was last seen passing Libby a stick halfway up the slope, but by the time the group got to the top of the hill and realized she was gone, there was no sign of her. ("...And Found") ("Abandoned")

Season 3 (Days 74-88)

About a month later, as Jack was being held in one of the animal cages at the Hydra, he woke up to see Cindy standing with a group of strangers looking at him. He recognized her from the plane and asked her how she had ended up with the Others. Cindy told him it was "not that simple," and Jack became angry. He asked her what she was doing there and she said she was there "to watch." Emma whispered in Cindy's ear and Cindy said Emma wanted to know how Ana Lucia was doing. Jack, remembering Ana Lucia's tragic death, shouted that if she had something to watch that she should go watch it. Abashed, Cindy led the group away from the cages. She later attended Juliet's trial. ("Stranger in a Strange Land")

Cindy with Emma in the cages area. ("Stranger in a Strange Land")

Later, on the main Island, Cindy left the The Barracks with the rest of the Others. Locke helped her assemble her tent on their first night at the ruins and she thanked him. She told him not to mind the stares he was getting from some of the others; they were just excited he was finally there with them, as they had been waiting for him for a long time. She later watched with Zack and Emma as Locke refused to kill his father, who was tied to a mysterious pillar. ("The Brig")

The Lost Experience and Bad Twin

Cindy was also featured in The Lost Experience, in which she was the unrequited love of Gary Troup, who dedicated his novel Bad Twin to "Cindy, my highest flying angel". He was reportedly "completely smitten" with her. In an interview, Troup commented that she was the girl who had changed his mind about marriage. Cindy was given a role in Troup's book, as main protagonist Paul Artisan speaks to a flight attendant named Cindy while on an Oceanic Airlines flight to Sydney.

This relationship does not appear to be canon, as it has never been mentioned in the show itself (Cindy, for example, has never tried to find out if he survived).

Trivia

Cindy was credited as "Flight Attendant #1" in "Pilot, Part 1" and "Pilot, Part 2".
Cindy has appeared in 10 episodes so far.
Cindy was supposed to be the crew member whose body Shannon cried over in the Pilot. This was scrapped when the writers needed a crew member to tell the tailies they were flying off course before the crash. They chose to allow Cindy to be that crew member.
Cindy's last name is Chandler. A chandler is a person who makes and sells candles. Dr. Marvin Candle/Mark Wickman/Edgar Halliwax appears in the Dharma orientation films/videos.

Unanswered questions

Unanswered questions
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For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Cindy Chandler/Theories

What did she mean by "We're here to watch"?
What happened to her when she was taken, and why?
Did Cindy ever try to get away from the Others?
Does she know that Gary Troup was on Oceanic Flight 815 and that he died?
If Cindy moved to the front of the plane to follow Charlie, why did she land in the water with the tail section?
Why was she taken by the Others after they already had everyone on their list?

	Flight 815	v • t • e

Oceanic 6

Aaron • Hurley • Jack • Kate • Sayid • Sun

Other Prominent Living Survivors

Bernard • Claire • Jin • Locke • Michael • Rose • Sawyer • Walt

Supporting Survivors

Craig • Gas Man • Lance • N.D. Survivor • Neil • Richard • Sexy Blue Striped Shirt Girl • Sullivan • Tourniquet Man • Tracy • Woman (Pilot, Part 1) • Vincent

Non-survivor characters who have joined the survivors

Rousseau • Alex • Karl • Desmond • Juliet • Daniel • Charlotte • Miles

Living characters who have joined The Others

Cindy • Emma • Zach • Nancy • Eli • Jim • Male Tailie • Blond guy • Curly-haired guy • German tailender

Deceased Survivors

Ana Lucia • Joanna • Blonde Casualty • Boone • Charlie • Donald • Doug • Mars • Eko • Gary • Jerome • Arzt • Libby • Nathan • Nikki • Paulo• Scott • Norris • Shannon • Steve

Expanded Universe Survivors and Deuterocanonical Survivors

Dexter • Elliott • Faith • Sonya • George • Janelle • Jeff • Larry • Beady Eyes • Lisa• BJ • Chris • Jake • Robert • Sally

People who died in the crash

Michelle • JD • Male flight attendant • Hunter • Co-pilot • Steve and Kristen • Judith Martha Wexler • Emmanuel Rafael Ortiz • Harold Wollstein • Millicent Louise D'Agostino • Pam • Jason Ward • Steve Dobson