Numbers (Lost)
| "Numbers" | |
|---|---|
| Lost episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 18 |
| Directed by | Dan Attias |
| Written by |
David Fury Brent Fletcher |
| Production code | 116 |
| Original air date | March 2, 2005 |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Mira Furlan as Danielle Rousseau |
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Mira Furlan as Danielle Rousseau
Lillian Hurst as Carmen Reyes
Jayne Taini as Martha Toomey
Ron Marasco as Ken Halperin
Ron Bottitta as Leonard Simms
Dann Seki as Dr. Curtis
Michael Adamschick as Lottery official
Archie Ahuna as Tito Reyes
Derrick Bulatao as Diego Reyes
Joy Minaai as Reporter
Brittany Perrineau as Mary Jo
Maya Pruett as Nurse
"Numbers" is the 18th episode of the first season of Lost. The episode was directed by Dan Attias and written by Brent Fletcher and David Fury. It first aired on March 2, 2005, on ABC. The character of Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia) is featured in the episode's flashbacks.
In flashbacks, Hurley wins the lottery, and over the ensuing weeks, everyone around him seems to suffer increasingly bad luck. Hurley's grandfather dies of a heart attack, the priest officiating the burial is struck by lightning, Hurley's brother's wife walks out, his mother breaks her ankle while the house Hurley bought her goes up in flames, and Hurley himself is falsely arrested. He then visits a mental asylum where he apparently had resided for a time, to talk to another patient, Leonard Simms, who keeps repeating to Hurley the numbers he used to win the lottery. When Hurley tells him that he used the numbers, Lenny panics and shouts, "The numbers are bad! You gotta get away from them!". As the hospital staff drag him away, Leonard calls out the name of Sam Toomey in Kalgoorlie, Australia. Hurley travels there and learns that Toomey had died four years earlier. However, Toomey's widow relates a story of how Toomey and Leonard had served together in the U.S. Navy, being stationed at a listening post in the Pacific, monitoring longwave radio transmissions. Most of what they heard was static, but at one point 16 years earlier (which coincides with the time that Rousseau was stranded on the island and one of the cursed numbers), Toomey picked up a signal of a human voice repeating the numbers over and over. After using the numbers to win a 50,000 AUD at a fair in Kalgoorlie, Toomey experienced a steady stream of bad luck until he finally committed suicide by shotgun. Sam's widow tells Hurley that the numbers are not connected to anyone's luck.
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