Richard Alpert (Lost)

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Richard Franklin Alpert is a fictional character played by Néstor Carbonell in the American ABC television series Lost. Alpert is introduced in the third season, specifically in a flashback of the character Juliet Burke (Elizabeth Mitchell), where he claims to be a doctor for a bioscience company called Mittelos Bioscience; he is later revealed to be a member of a native island faction called the Others, where he plays a role in the group's hierarchy that has been compared to that of the Panchen Lama in Buddhism by the series' producers. A major mystery behind his character was his agelessness; from the third through fifth seasons, Alpert appears both in the present day and in several flashbacks dating to the 1950s, 70s and 80s; in all the different time periods, Richard always appears to be a man in his mid-40s, not having appeared to have aged at all. The nature of his agelessness and his true age is revealed in the season six episode "Ab Aeterno"; in the 1860s, Alpert was a prisoner...

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