Naveen Andrews’s character in the Lost series is critically acclaimed. He plays the role of Sayid Hassan Jarrah in the series, who worked as a communication officer in the Iraqi Republican Guard. He is a torturer for the guard and at one interrogation finds out that the victim is his child hood friend Nadia. Then he falls in love with her and vows that he would never torture anyone thereafter. But soon he finds out that Nadia would be executed and helps her to escape. He then leaves to Paris and works as a chef there for some time before being picked up the CIA.
In Sydney
The CIA has a deal with him to help them crack a terrorist network based in Sydney for exchange of information about Nadia. Sayid accepts and sets off to Australia, where he runs across his former college mate at Cairo University, Essam. Sayid traps Essam into becoming a suicide bomber to get information on the explosives he possesses. But at the last moment he tells Essam that he is with the CIA and lets him escape. Essam on learning that Sayid had cheated on him for a woman kills himself.
Aftermath
Meanwhile CIA informs Sayid that Nadia is at Los Angeles and asks him to board a flight to LA. But Sayid asks for the handover of Essam’s body and leaves a day later in Oceanic Flight 815. In between are his struggles with violence in the jungle and in the aftermath he travels to Los Angeles and meets Nadia. But he feels he is not suitable for her and marries her to his brother Omer. The character Sayid was not planned in the draft but was introduced at the behest of executive consultant Jeff Pinker who worked with Naveen Andrews in the Beast.
