In 2001, Richard approached Juliet Burke in Miami. This meek fertility doctor was still under the watchful eye of her ex-husband, Edmund, as she conducted experiments in the hopes of impregnating her barren sister, Rachel. Ben sent Richard to recruit Juliet in the name of Mittelos Bioscience in his attempts to find the reason and cure for pregnant woman dying on the island. Alpert's assistant referred to him as "Dr. Alpert;" however. Juliet addressed him as "Mr. Alpert," suggesting that he might hold a Ph.D. but not be a doctor of medicine. Juliet declined after a cheerful slideshow about the...

The first mate of the Black Rock

* Magnus Hanso is described as a ship owner who loved to go to sea. The blast door map references that Hanso lies buried on the Island. The natural assumption of command によって a first mate in the event of the death of a ship's captain. Richard Alpert's preeminence among the Island's original Inhabitants
* Richard is a senior member, but not the leader, of the Island's original inhabitants. When the crew of the Black Rock and others aboard found themselves, without warning, stranded well inland on the Island, a period of uncertainty that could have led to mutiny...