Lost Blog

Note: this is a look back at earlier episodes to give a general review and to write about the mysteries as they unfold.

Character Episode: Hurley

Quick Recap On Flashback:
Hurley is sat at home eating a bucket of chicken and flicking through the TV channels. He comes accross the lottery draw and takes out his lottery ticket, with his numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42, to compare numbers. It turns out, the numbers he used were the numbers that came out, and Hurley had won the lottery! Understandably, Hurley passes out from the shock!

Later, Hurley is being questioned by TV reporters and press about his lottery win and what he plans on doing with the money. His grandpa Tito is stood by him and Hurley declares that he’s going to give his grandpa a nice retirement present but suddenly his grandpa has a heart attack and dies.

A while later Hurley is driving his mother somewhere and he discusses all the bad things that have happened since he won the lottery and how he thinks he’s cursed. His mother tells him there is no such thing as curses. As Hurley pulls up to a huge house, he asks his mother to wear a blind fold so that what he is going to show her can be a surprise. As she gets out of the car she can’t see where she’s going and ends up breaking her ankle on the kirb. As this is happening the house is on fire, and as Hurley rings 911 for the fire brigade, some policemen come and arrest Hurley for being a drug dealer! (Which was a mistake).

Later, Hurley is having a meeting with his financial advisor who tells Hurley that every one of his stocks is up, his interest in orange futures skyrocketed after the tropical storms hit Florida, and that he is now the majority shareholder in a box company in Tustin. While he’s there, someone falls out of a window in a room above them. Hurley tells his financial advisor that he thinks the money is cursed, but when he asks Hurley how he came up with the numbers, Hurley begins to realise that it isn’t the money that’s cursed, it is the numbers.

Hurley goes to see a guy called Leonard who is in a mental hospital. Leonard seems to be mumbling something but it isn’t quite clear what until Hurley asks him where he got the numbers from: Leonard is mumbling the numbers over and over again. When Hurley tells Leonard he used the numbers to play the lottery, Leonard seems panicked. He tells Hurley he shouldn’t have done that and now he’s “opened the box”. Leonard needs to be taken away because he’s so worked up, but manages to tell Hurley to find a guy called Sam Toomey who lives in Australia.

Hurley goes all the way to Australia and finds where Sam Toomey lives. Unfortunately, after arriving at the house, he learns that Sam is no longer alive. Instead, he speaks with Sam’s wife, Martha. He asks her about the numbers and she tells Hurley how Sam and Leonard had heard the numbers at a listening station in the South Pacific 16 years earlier, and had used the numbers in a competition to guess how many beans there were in a jar. Turns out that the number was exact, right to the last bean, and he won a lot of money.

Unfortunately, afterwards, they were on the way home and they were in a car accident. Martha lost a leg, but Sam was completely fine. Ever since a lot of bad things happened to them, and Sam would always blame it on the numbers. Hurley explains that he thinks he’s under the same curse, only to be told by Martha that there was no curse and that “you make your own luck”.

Quick Recap On Island:
Jack speaks with Michael about the raft and Michael tells him that they need a battery. Jack goes to Sayid and asks if he can take him to see Roussaeu, because she had some batteries, and maybe they could get one from her. Hurley is there, and when Sayid refuses to help he shoves a load of Roussaeu’s papers at them. Hurley takes a quick look and notices the same numbers he’d use to win the lottery written on there over and over again.

That night, Hurley goes to Sayids tent to get the papers he’d seen earlier, only Sayid wakes up to find him there. Hurley asks Sayid about the numbers but Sayid doesn’t seem to know much, saying that he thought they might be coordinates. With that, Hurley ups and leaves.

Early the next morning Hurley is packing away some water for a walk, when Charlie comes over and asks him what he’s doing. He seems to be acting suspiciously, and when Charlie offers to come with him on his walk, Hurley tells him he needs some alone time.

Later, Sayid notices some of Roussaeu’s papers are missing and has a go at Jack for getting Hurley to do his dirty work. When it becomes clear that Jack had nothing to do with it, they ask Charlie if he’s seen him. Charlie says he saw him earlier “acting like a loon”, and then Jack and Sayid both realise he’s gone after Roussaeu. They decide to after him.

A while later, Hurley finds the cable that Sayid had found when he first discovered Roussaeu, and follows it into the jungle. Sayid, Jack, and Charlie have caught up by now and notice that Hurley is standing on a trap. When Hurley says he can make it off it, everyone warns him not to, but he does it anyway. When asked what he’s doing, Hurley says he’s trying to get a battery.

Later, they come accross a bridge that doesn’t look very safe, but Hurley volunteers to cross it. Everyone tries to pursuade him not to, but Hurley is a man on a mission and doesn’t listen to them. When Hurley crosses safely, Charlie gives it a go, only it collapses when he’s almost accross. Luckily he manages to grab hold of the side and pull himself up.

When Jack and Sayid tell them to wait while they find another way round, Hurley tells them that it’s ok. Charlie doesn’t look so enthusiastic and tells Hurley he’s acting like a maniac.

When Hurley and Charlie are walking through the jungle they realise they’re being shot at. Both of them run away but end up going in different directions. Hurley falls over and when he gets himself up he runs into Roussaeu. Hurley gets out the paper with the numbers on it and asks her what they mean.

She explains that her and her team heard those numbers 16 years ago whilst in their boat, and they decided to change course to investigate. It was those numbers what brought her to the island, and she tells Hurley that they must be cursed if they brought them both to the island. Hurley looks relieved and is happy that someone agrees with him, and ends up giving Roussaeu a big hug.

When Charlie catches up with Jack and Sayid he explains what happened, but when they decide to go and find Hurley, he turns up with a battery in hand. They all look at each other slightly baffled.

That night, at the beach, Charlie tells Hurley about his heroin addiction in the hope that Hurley will tell him why he acted the way he did today. When Hurley told him he was worth $156 million, Charlie just thought he was joking and walked off annoyed.

At the hatch, it is revealed that the same 6 numbers Hurley used are on it.*

*Another shocking Lost moment!

Things we learn:

• Hurley won the lottery using the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42. He got the numbers from Leonard Simms who heard them 16 years ago at a listening post with Sam Toomey. Also, 16 years ago, Roussaeu and her team heard the same transmission, and after changing course to investigate they ended up on that very island. The numbers also appear on the Hatch that Locke and Boone discovered.

Connections

• The box company in Tustin that Hurley is a majority shareholder in could possibly be the same box company that John Locke worked for.