Sayid Jarrah

Sayid Jarrah
Lost character
Naveen Andrews as Sayid Jarrah
First appearance	"Pilot, Part 1"
Last appearance	"The End"
Portrayed by	Naveen Andrews
Centric episode(s)	"Solitary" "The Greater Good" "One of Them" "Enter 77" "The Economist" "There's No Place Like Home, Part 1 & 3" "The Incident, Part 1" "He's Our You" "LA X, Part 1 & 2" "Sundown" "The Last Recruit" "The End"
Information
Full name	Sayid Hassan Jarrah
Spouse(s)	Noor "Nadia" Abed Jaseem
Relatives	Omer Jarrah (brother)
Former residence	Tikrit, Iraq

Sayid Hassan Jarrah (Arabic: سَعِيد حَسَّان جَرَّاح‎‎, Sa‘īd Ḥassān Jarrāḥ) is a fictional character from the ABC show Lost portrayed by Naveen Andrews.

Sayid originally served as a communications officer in Iraq's Special Republican Guard and was a skilled radio and mechanical engineer. Sayid later served as a coercive interrogator for the Guard. At one point while in this capacity, he was ordered to interrogate an insurgent prisoner who turned out to be his childhood friend, Nadia. During her captivity, they fell in love, and in their talks she provided the impetus for what would become Sayid's road to redemption. Unlike his other prisoners, he did not torture her, and, when he was ordered to execute her for noncompliance, he instead facilitated her escape.

Later, in England, Sayid is picked up by ASIS and the CIA. They make him a deal: if Sayid can infiltrate a terrorist cell in Sydney, whose members he is familiar with, and uncover stolen C-4, then they will tell him where Nadia is.

Sayid accepts, and is dropped off in Australia, where he meets with his former college roommate, Essam, from Cairo University. Sayid convinces Essam to become a suicide bomber in order for the intelligence to take possession of the stolen explosives. At the last moment, however, Sayid admits that he is working with the CIA, and attempts to allow his friend to escape; Essam realizes that Sayid has deceived him over a woman, and kills himself. The CIA tell Sayid the whereabouts of Nadia and he is given a plane ticket to LA. However, he demands to recover the body of Essam, which will require him to stay one more day. Instead he is given a ticket for Oceanic Flight 815.