The Staff

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The Staff is a DHARMA Initiative station. It appears to be a medical station. The Others seem to have infrequently used the station for the treatment of their pregnant women. Claire was taken here after being abducted by Ethan. After her escape, the Others stored all equipment of value in the vault and closed down the station. The station was later revisited by Claire, along with Kate and Rousseau (see list of station explorers). ("Maternity Leave") Later, Juliet went there with Sun to run pregnancy-related tests. ("D.O.C.")

The station's name and location are noted on the blast door map; it appears to be located in the western portion of the Island. No Staff-specific orientation film has been found, and unlike the Swan and the Arrow stations, there is no "quarantine" warning on any of the doors of the station.

Contents 1 DHARMA Initiative 2 The Others 3 The Station 3.1 Main entrance 3.2 Corridor 3.3 Operating theater 3.4 Nursery 3.5 Locker room 3.6 Vault 3.7 Found in the Staff 4 Name 5 The Staff on the blast door map 6 Notable Visitors 7 Unanswered questions

DHARMA Initiative

In "The Man Behind the Curtain", a Staff member is seen applying vaccines to people arriving on the Island. Also, it is visible that medical kits available on other stations are also provided by Staff station. ("Enter 77")

The Others

When Sun asked Juliet "what is this place?" in reference to the Staff, she stated that it was the place where the Others brought their pregnant women to die. ("D.O.C.")

The Station

Main entrance

The doors of the station (on which The Staff DHARMA Logo is visible) were covered with a plastic sheet and camouflaged with leaves and branches when discovered. From the doors, stairs lead down to the Staff's corridor. By the stairs is also a small locker with working flashlights. ("Maternity Leave")

Corridor

A total of seven doors are present in the Staff's corridor: a double door leading to the examination room, two doors leading to the nursery, a door leading to the locker room, two doors facing each other leading to unknown rooms and finally a door labeled "Escape Hatch". It is unknown where the door labeled "Escape Hatch" leads to, or indeed if it really is an escape hatch. Also after the station's abandonment the corridor's ceiling appeared severely damaged. Kate used what appears to be a circuit breaker to restore power when searching the Staff with Claire. ("Maternity Leave")

Operating theater

One of the rooms in the Staff was used as an operating theater. Before Flight 815 crashed, the Others, including Juliet, Ethan, and Goodwin, performed surgery on a pregnant woman named Sabine. ("One of Us")

In this room, the abducted Claire was given pre-natal care by Ethan. She was also injected with an unknown substance labeled CR 481516-23 42. Later the room appeared to be in preparation for surgery, presumably the induced childbirth of Aaron. Among the equipment visible was an Acoustic Imaging 5200 ultrasound scanner, which was first marketed in 1992. There was also a cupboard containing a large quantity of the CR 481516-23 42 bottles. The valuable contents were moved to storage in the vault after the Others left the station. ("Maternity Leave")

Nursery

Another room in the Staff was facilitated as a nursery; Claire was kept here during her captivity. It seems this was to be the place where Aaron would spend his early years. It was partly stripped along with the rest of the Staff station with the contents stored in the vault, but traces of the removed wall decoration are still to be seen, indicating the long-time use of this room as a nursery. ("Maternity Leave")

Among the furniture visible was a cradle that had a mobile with Oceanic airplanes hanging from it. The plane mobile played the song "Catch a Falling Star", which Claire requested be sung to the baby after his adoption. The cradle in the nursery was the same cradle that Claire saw in her dream in "Raised by Another", in which she searched for her baby, but only uncovered heavy bloodstains. Also visible was a picture of a boat on the wall resembling the boat used in Walt's abduction. ("Maternity Leave")

Locker room

One of the rooms to the left in the Staff contains at least two rows of double tier and one row of single tier lockers all of which all have the Staff Logo emblazoned on the exteriors. ("Maternity Leave")

Kate examined one of these lockers and discovered disguises worn by the Others, including the wool cap Tom wore when he kidnapped Walt. Among the contents of the locker was also a brown leather case, containing an old DHARMA pharmaceutical bottle labeled Theatrical Glue and presumably one of the fake beards worn by Tom. ("Maternity Leave")

Another vault-like chamber can be accessed from the locker room. Juliet used a tape recorder hidden in the locker room to communicate with Ben during her time living with the survivors.("D.O.C.")

Vault

Behind one of the walls of the station locker room is a vault-like chamber. The chamber has a door estimated at about a foot thick and is secured by a series of solid metal cylinders each several inches in diameter. The chamber is accessed by throwing a large switch hidden in one of the lockers in front of the door. The room has electric lighting and a sink providing running water.

When Juliet led Sun into the vault, it contained all of the medical equipment and nursery furniture seen during Claire's time at the Staff. Sun questions why the chamber is hidden but Juliet tells her not to worry about it, but upon being pressured Juliet admits the room was where the women were brought to die.("D.O.C.")

Found in the Staff

• Fake beard (found with theatrical glue and ragged clothing)
• Plane mobile
• RX-1 GND

Name

• The names of the stations may be related to Apollo from Greek mythology. For this station, the Caduceus staff originally belonged to Apollo who eventually traded it to Hermes.

The Staff on the blast door map

On the blast door map you can clearly see the Staff. You can also see a notation calling the staff "Caduceus" which is the name for the staff intertwined with the snakes. Another notation speculates that the Staff was abandoned in 1985 after the AH/MDG incident, or because of the failure of the Cerberus system. There is also a notation saying "but could be #6", but it is unknown if this notation refers to the Staff. ("Lockdown").

Notable Visitors

Picture	Name	Status	Reason for Visit
	Juliet	Alive	Studied the Others' fertility issues, later took Sun to run pregnancy tests.
	Ethan	Dead	Has been involved with at least one surgery relating to unresolved pregnancies and he took Claire here to study her.
	Goodwin	Dead	Has been involved with at least one surgery relating to unresolved pregnancies.
	Sabine	Dead	Was taken here to save her from dying from pregnancy.
	Claire	Alive	Was taken to this station by Ethan of his own accord to conduct tests about her pregnancy. Claire then re-discovered this station, along with her memory, a few weeks later.
	Tom	Dead	Visited Ethan whilst he privately held Claire in the Staff.
	Alex	Dead	Helped Claire escape.
	Kate	Alive	Accompanied Claire on her journey to find where she was taken by Ethan, where she found the theatrical glue and fake beard which was vital in planting doubt in whether the Others were really hillbillies.
	Danielle	Dead	Accompanied Claire on her journey to find where she was taken by Ethan, where she was hoping to find evidence that her daughter is alive.
	Sun	Alive	Visited there with Juliet to run pregnancy tests. Came back later with Jin, Charlotte and Daniel to get medical supplies for Jack's operation.
	Jin	Alive	Went there with Sun, Daniel and Charlotte to get medical supplies for Jack's operation.
	Daniel	Alive	Went there with Sun, Jin and Charlotte to get medical supplies for Jack's operation.
	Charlotte	Alive	Went there with Sun, Jin and Daniel to get medical supplies for Jack's operation.

Unanswered questions

Unanswered questions
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For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: The Staff/Theories

• Where do the two doors facing each other go to?
• Where does the Escape Hatch door go to?

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