"Desmond David Hume is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost portrayed by Henry Ian Cusick. Desmond's name is a tribute to David Hume, the famous empiricist philosopher. Desmond was not a passenger of Flight 815. He had been stranded on the island three years prior to the crash as the result of a shipwreck."@en . . . . "Desmond Hume"@en . "Desmond David Hume"@en . . "\"Man of Science, Man of Faith\"" . .