{{Infobox Character
=Roger Linus
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="Dr Linus"
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=Roger Linus
=Roger Workman
=December 19 (1987 or 1992)
=Inhaled poisonous gas by Ben
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=United States
=Workman, DHARMA Initiative
=''Emily Linus'' - Wife Benjamin Linus - Son ''Alex'' - Adoptive Granddaughter
=Deceased
=Jon Gries
=Character appearances=Character appearances}}
'''Roger Linus''' was the father of Benjamin Linus, whom he regularly abused, both verbally and possibly physically, and berated as a child. He was occupations as a DHARMA Initiative "Workman," and his DHARMA jumpsuit featured the Swan station DHARMA logos. He was Life and death by Ben during the Purge. Hurley later found his skeletal corpse in 2004 in the DHARMA van.
==Off the Island==
===1964===
{{I=3x20 RogerAndEmily.jpg=right=200=Roger holds a dying Emily Linus in his arms. {{crossref}}}}
On December 19th, 1964, Roger and his wife, Emily Linus, went on a hike in a forest near Portland Oregon. At the time, Emily was seven-months pregnancies with, presumably, their first and only child. For an unknown reason, she went into labor early into the hike. Roger delivered the baby, picked up Emily and the baby, and ran for help. They reached the side of a busy road and Roger managed to stop a Horace Goodspeed for help. Sadly, it was too late for Emily and she died in his arms. With her dying words, she asked Roger to name the baby "Benjamin". {{crossref}}
==On the Island==
===1973===
{{I=Roger3x20.jpg=left=200=Roger arrives on the Island. {{crossref}}}}
In 1973, Roger took a job with the DHARMA Initiative, courtesy of the same couple that was present when his wife died. He and Ben, who was 8 years old at the time, came to the Island on a submarine and were enthusiastically greeted. When Opal assigned Roger the entry-level position of "Work Man," he expressed his dismay and stormed-out of the processing center with Ben. At first, Roger tried to coax Horace Goodspeed into getting him a better job, but he soon seemed to resign himself to his fate and started drinking heavily. He eventually, and irrationally, came to blame Ben for the death of Emily Linus and Roger's failures in life. {{crossref}}
===1977===
In 1977, Roger was assigned to mop up the cell where Sayid Jarrah was being held captive. He mocked Sayid for letting himself be captured by DHARMA and promised that Oldham's interrogation would cut him down to size. When Ben entered with another sandwich for Sayid, whom he believed was one of the Hostiles, Roger furiously slammed him against the bars, not believing his lie that the sandwich was actually for Roger himself. He yelled at Ben to leave, then left himself. After this encounter, it seems that Roger physically beat Ben due to his broken glasses, bruised eyes, and bruised face. {{crossref}}
{{I=Rogerjanitor.jpg=right=200=An abusive Roger torments a captive Sayid. {{crossref}}}}
In the aftermath of Sayid's escape, Roger befriended Kate as the two worked to extract the DHARMA van from one of the bungalows and discussed the jobs they were given when they were recruited. As they were there he witnessed Jin arriving with an injured Ben. While Juliet and the other medical personnel worked on Ben, Roger waited anxiously outside, where he learned from Sawyer that Ben had stolen his keys and used them to free Sayid. Later, as Kate donated blood to help save Ben, Roger confessed that when Ben was born, he thought he would be "the greatest dad in the world", but he knew he was not. He said he was trying to do what he thought Ben's mother would have wanted. {{crossref}}
{{I=5x16 HostileRoger.jpg=left=200=A hostile Roger aims his gun at Sayid. {{crossref}}}}
After Ben was taken from the infirmary, Roger became furious and reacted by getting drunk. Kate approached him to reassure him that Ben would be fine because she had a good feeling about it. Roger, however, took this in a different way and became suspicious, claiming that Kate was involved in Ben's disappearance. When Roger asked Jack if Kate could be involved, Jack stated that Kate was his friend, and she would not harm Ben. However, Roger remained suspicious. {{crossref}}
The next day, as the DHARMA Initiative was being evacuated and an emergency protocol was being established, Roger spotted Sayid and Jack on the Barracks lawn. Sayid tried to tell Roger that he was carrying a dangerous Jughead (bomb), but without listening Roger quickly shot him in the stomach. Roger was forced to take cover when Jack began firing his weapon in retaliation. {{crossref}} Sayid would later die (albeit temporarily) because of this injury. {{crossref}}
===1987 or 1992===
{{I=Rogerdies.jpg=right=200=Roger dies at the hands of his Ben, during the Purge. {{crossref}}}}
Roger remained a workman for 10 more years, until his death on December 19 in the year of The Purge. On that day, Ben, who by then was also a workman, accompanied his father on a delivery errand to the DHARMA Initiative stations around the Island. Since it was Ben's birthday, the two stopped on the Mesa to drink beer and take-in the view. Unbeknownst to Roger, Ben had allied himself with the Hostiles, and as part of the Purge, Ben Life_and_death his father with toxic gas. Ben did not bother to dispose of the body, instead opting to leave it to decompose ingloriously in the DHARMA van. {{crossref}}
==Post-death==
{{I=3X10 RogerIsFound.jpg=left=200=Roger's skeletons body, as found with the DHARMA van {{crossref}}}}
Over sixteen years later, Vincent brought Roger's severed arm to Hurley. This led to Hurley's discovery of the DHARMA van, the keys of which were clutched by the arm. During the process of pulling Roger's corpse from the wreckage, the corpse's head also fell off the body. Sawyernicknames Roger's remains "wikipediaSkeletor". {{crossref}} It's likely the survivors buried Roger's remains, rather than leaving them out in the jungle.
===Flash sideways===
{{I=Alt-roger.jpg=right=200=Roger Linus in the afterlife. {{crossref}}}}
Roger Linus joined the DHARMA Initiative and traveled to the Island alongside Ben, though they left at some point prior to the Island's destruction. Decades later, Roger was severely sick, and depended on oxygen tanks to survive. He lived in California with Ben, who was a high school teacher. The two had an amicable relationship, though Roger said he would've liked to stay on the Island, believing Ben would've had a better life there. {{crossref}}
==Trivia==
*Roger appeared in 7 episodes.
* Roger's jumpsuit has the logo of the Swan station on it in Season 3, yet in Season 5 his jumpsuit bears the main DHARMA logo.
**It's likely that the Swan logo was a production error, and the wardrobe department corrected it in the 5th season.
* Roger's son, Ben, and the man whom Roger shot for shooting Ben, Sayid, were both healed at the Temple, without Roger ever knowing it.
* Out of all the main characters. Roger has met Ben, Sayid, Hurley, Sawyer, Jack, Kate, Juliet, Miles and Jin.
**He may have also met Daniel.
**It's also likely Roger met Charlotte as they were living at the Barracks at the same time.
**It's also likely that he met Richard at some point during the relationship between DHARMA and the Others.
* Roger appears as a mummified corpse on-screen before any appearances as a living character.
*Witnesses of death Ben
*Last words "Ben?"
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== Style ==
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* Please stop adding that "rough English" in; that's not an accurate translation of that phrase. Online translators such as Babelfish frequently give incorrect translations because they take things out of context. --{{UserPandoraX/sig}} 1657, 23 February 2007 (PST)