Penny Widmore

Most Prominent Island Connection:

Desmond

Relationship:

Girlfriend

Other Known Connections:

None

Episode Appearances:

• Episode 2x23, Live Together, Die Alone
  Penny's father had kept Desmond's letters from her while Desmond was in prison. Once he's out, Penny finds him and Desmond tells her that he is joining a race around the world.

  After Desmond turns the key in the hatch, two men in a bunker surrounded by snow detect something on their computer and call Penny to tell her.

• Episode 3x8, Flashes Before Your Eyes
  Desmond seems to go back in time to when he and Penny were together.

  She wants Desmond to work for her father, but doesn't seem too upset when he doesn't get the job. She loves Desmond, but he leaves her, saying that she deserves better, which breaks her heart.

• Episode 3x17, Catch 22
  In flashbacks, Desmond remembers meeting Penny shortly after he was fired from the monastery.
• Episode 3x22, Through the Looking Glass
  After Charlie turns off the jamming mechanism in The Looking Glass, Penny comes on the screen. She asks where he is and notices that he calls for Desmond. She asks if Desmond is okay. Charlie asks if she's on the boat, but she doesn't know about a boat and doesn't know who Naomi is.

Episode Appearances:

• Episode 4x5, The Constant
  Desmond finds Penny in 1996, but she wants nothing to do with him. He finally convinces her to give him her phone number and in 2004 calls her. She's waiting for his call and tells him she's been searching for him for three years. They say they love each other and will both try to get back to each other.

• Episode 4x13, There's No Place Like Home Part 2
  Penny's search boat finds the Oceanic Six plus Desmond and Frank on a life raft. Penny and Desmond are reunited and Desmond asks how she found him. She says from the phone call because she has a tracking station.

  Desmond stays with Penny as the Oceanic Six paddle away.

• Episode 5x1, Because You Left
  Desmond wakes from what Penny thinks is a dream about the island, but Desmond tells her it was a memory and they are going to Oxford.

• Episode 5x3, Jughead
  Penny gives birth to her and Desmond's son, Charlie.

  A couple years later, Penny doesn't want Desmond to go to Oxford. She is afraid that her father will find them. Desmond promises that he'll get everything taken care of today and then they will be done with it forever.

  He comes back that night and says that Daniel's mother is dead. She knows he's lying and he admits that his mother is in L.A. Penny says that she and Charlie will go with Desmond to find Daniel's mother.

• Episode 5x12, Dead is Dead
  In flashbacks, Ben remembers the talk he had with Charles as Charles was being exiled from the island. Ben claims the reason Charles is being sent away is that he had a child with an outsider off the island.

  Many years later, Ben remembers going to Desmond's boat. He sees Penny on the boat. As he's walking toward the boat, he pulls out a gun. He walks by Desmond and Desmond asks what he's doing there. He shoots Desmond, and Penny starts yelling for Desmond from the boat. Ben tells her not to say another word as he has the gun trained on her.

  Little Charlie comes out and Penny tells him to get back inside. When Ben sees Charlie, he lowers his gun. Desmond tackles him from behind, beats him, and throws him the water.

• Episode 5x14, The Variable
  Penny goes to the hospital with Desmond after he was shot by Ben. She has Charlie and Eloise comes over and starts talking about Charlie. Penny asks if she knows her and Eloise says she knows Desmond and that she is Daniel Faraday's mother. Eloise apologizes for Desmond getting shot and tells Penny that Desmond was a casualty of something bigger than any of them.

Portrayed by: Sonya Walger