Spoiled Daddy’s girl gets killed on Lost
Frazier Moore

NEW YORK—It would seem to be lights out for Shannon on “Lost.” The spoiled Daddy’s girl was apparently killed off Wednesday night as the ABC thriller made good on its promise to eliminate one of its characters.
Hyped by the network as the episode that “people will be talking about all year long,” it had indeed spurred lots of chatter even before it aired. Despite mighty efforts by the series’ producers to keep secret the victim’s identity beforehand, bloggers and other “Lost” sleuths seized on Shannon Rutherford weeks ago as the castaway most likely to be “lost forever.”
Even so, the episode put forward another possible candidate: fellow refugee Sawyer (Josh Holloway). Feverish and weakened from a bullet wound, he fell into unconsciousness during a grueling hike through the jungle interior. It seemed he was a goner. Or just a red herring? At last sighting, he was being carried on a makeshift stretcher by others in his party. His condition seemed grave. “Lost” can be a tease.
But by all indications short of a death certificate, the bell tolled for Shannon. Pushing through the thick jungle growth in frantic pursuit of Walt (Malcolm David Kelley), the vanished child whose image keeps haunting her, Shannon was mistaken for one of the demonic Others and shot by trigger-happy Ana Lucia (Michelle Rodriguez).