Lost - Your Mother's An Other?!
As a young boy, Daniel Faraday is not only academically inclined, he's also a gifted musician. His mother, Eloise Hawking, being a beast from Hell, makes him give up music to concentrate solely on his "gifts," because she knows sod-all about child development or the effect of music on the mathematical area of the brain. And as a young man, when Dan graduates Oxford, his mother, Eloise Hawking, being a beast from Hell, expects him to give up women and concentrate solely on his "gifts," because although lovely, she has a shriveled-up prune for a heart. Of course, his current squeeze is Theresa, his lab assistant whose brain he'll eventually break, so maybe Ma Faraday has a point. As an adult, after Daniel breaks his own brain (the first time), Charles Widmore, who funded the Theresa-breaking research at Oxford, recruits him for his expedition to Craphole. He promises the young man, who is weeping over the tragedy of Oceanic Flight 815, that going to the island will heal him. Daniel's mother, being a beast from Hell, later encourages her son to take the trip.
During Daniel's first time on the island, before he lost his love Charlotte to the magical hemorrhagic jetlag that seems to kill those who return to Craphole, he tracked down Desmond Hume and told him to find his mother, the beast from Hell, and enlist her help. And then Dan got stuck in 1977. And then he left the island on the sub, but came back, still to 1977, which is now. He gets everyone's knickers in a twist -- particularly Jack's -- when he tells him that Eloise was wrong, and Jack et al were never supposed to be there. Oh, and he freaks out Miles when he tells Dr. Chang that Miles is his son and that there's going to be an "incident" at the Swan. Chang, unsurprisingly, doesn't believe him, since he changed the kid's diapers, just that morning.
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