Hugo "Hurley" Reyes

Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
Lost character
Jorge Garcia as Hugo "Hurley" Reyes
First appearance	"Pilot"
Last appearance	"The New Man in Charge"
Portrayed by	Jorge Garcia
Centric episode(s)	"Numbers" "Everybody Hates Hugo" "Dave" "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead" "The Beginning of the End" "There's No Place Like Home (Parts 1, 2 & 3)" "The Lie" "Everybody Loves Hugo"
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Occupation	Fast food cashier Protector of the Island Millionaire (flash-sideways)
Relatives	David Reyes (father) Carmen Reyes (mother) Diego Reyes (brother)
Former residence	Los Angeles, California, United States

Hugo "Hurley" Reyes is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Jorge Garcia. For most of the show's run, Hurley served as the show's comic relief, but occasionally, and most notably in the final season, he was shown in a more serious light. He takes over as the Island's protector from Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) then takes Benjamin Linus (Michael Emerson) as his adviser, the same way Jacob (Mark Pellegrino) took Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell).

His storylines mostly involved his mental illness, his belief that his lottery win is a curse to those around him, his relationship to The Numbers, and his short-lived relationship with Libby (Cynthia Watros).

Hurley is involved in an accident in which a deck collapses as he steps onto it, killing two people. Even though there were too many people on the deck prior to his arrival, Hurley feels great guilt. He sinks into a depressive state, so his mother (Lillian Hurst) enters him into a psychiatric institution. There he creates an imaginary friend called Dave (Evan Handler), and meets Leonard Simms (Ron Bottitta), a patient who keeps mumbling the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42. Hurley's condition eventually improves; he leaves the institution and he resumes his job at a fast-food restaurant. He uses the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42 in the lottery, and wins the jackpot of $114m. Hurley begins experiencing constant bad luck, and as his net worth increases, so does his bad luck. Hurley suspects the numbers he used to win the lottery are cursed, so he visits the institution again to speak with Leonard. He tells Hurley the man who could explain the mystery of the numbers, Sam Toomey, lives in Australia. Before Hurley can travel to Australia, his father (Cheech Marin) returns to the family. He convinces Hurley to go to a psychic to cure his curse, but Hurley discovers his father has paid the psychic to lie. Once in Australia, Hurley visits Sam Toomey's wife (Jayne Taini), who reveals that Sam was driven to suicide to escape his constant bad luck. Halfway through the return flight, the plane hits turbulence, splits in mid-air, and crashes on an island in the South Pacific.