LOST Season 1: Ep.18 - "Numbers"

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SYNOPSIS - its surprises me that Hurley's story doesn't get introduced till episode 18 when most of the crew got two full episodes already. I guess Hurley's story was designed to cross over what was actually happening on the island. also Hurley is probably, other than Locke, who is connected with the island in a huge way. Rousseau map drawing and scrambled writing which Sayid possessed revealed a set of six numbers "4,8,15,16,23 and 42". as we find out these six numbers were actually the lottery numbers of a jackpot worth $157 mill that Hurley won back in America. after winning the jackpot a series of strange things started happening to everybody around Hurley. first his grandfather 'Tito' gets a heart attack and during his funeral a thunder strikes and kills the priest with it. then Hurley decides to surprise his mother to a new house but when he gets there his mother's ankle gets broken, house gets into fire and he gets arrested in front of his house. talk about back luck. Hurley doesn't believe this is just matter of luck but more about curses. after digging further he figures out that the numbers he used to win the lottery actually came from a nut house which Hurley was admitted once (Q - why was Hurley in a nut house). His crazy friend Leonard used to repeat the same six set of number over and over again and when Hurley got out he used the numbers. after telling Leonard of what Hurley had done, Leonard starts to go even crazier and denounces what Hurley did. so Hurley further investigates and finds out Leonard's friend who lives in Australia. when he arrives in Australia he finds out that Leonard's friend killed himself four years ago. well him and Leonard used to work for the Navy and had a post in the pacific. one day they heard a radio call repeating the same six set of number over and over. so Leonard's friend used these numbers once and got rich and right after began to experience the same curse Hurley is going through.

back on the island Hurley uses the excuse of looking for Rousseau to get the battery so he can figure out how she got those numbers. when he finds her she reveals that she had intercepted the same set of number and decided to investigate when their boat crashed and landed on this island. they set to investigate further when they found out a radio tower but her crew got the sickness and died. so in someways the same number also destroyed her life too and Hurley feels a sense of acknowledgement of what he had been going through for the past several years. when the episode is about to end, the camera starts to zoom into the hatch Locke and Boone have been working on and when it gets close the same six numbers are revealed.

CHARACTERS

• Locke always finds a way of making people happy or in someways change their thinking forever. in this episode he gets Claire to help him with something and get her to talking again. when he finally completes whatever he was making, it became clear to Claire that he was making a cradle for her baby. maybe Locke did to get some info about the others or maybe he just did it so Claire can feel home again.
• Charlie and Hurley get close to each other when Charlie comes out and tells Hurley about his biggest secret in order to learn more about Hurley. when Hurley tells him that he is worth $157 million back home, Charlie dismisses him and walks away thinking Hurley is pulling his leg.
• Michael and Jin seem to get to know each other more after working on the boat. there hopes of finding a ship near by is made possible with the battery Hurley got from Rousseau. well see if the plan actually goes through.

MYSTERY VAULT

• where is this island?
• how did the plane crash?
• what is that creature in the woods with strange noises?
• where did the polar bear come from?
• why hasn't anybody picked up the Danielle's distress signal for 16 years?
• where did Jack's father body disappear to?
• where did the male and female skeletons came from and what does the black and white pebbles attached with the bodies mean?
• who are the "others"?
• what is a hatch doing in a middle of a jungle and what does it contain?
• where did Ethan come from?
• why was the radio tower repeating "4,8,15,16,23 and 42" and what does it has to do with the hatch?

MYSTERIES RESOLVED

• none of our mysterious have been resolved yet.