Let's talk about
LOST. Numbers.
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Waves are
crashing.
Jin {Handcuff. Holding a group of long
wires/twine} is trying to
communicate to Hurley to hold the
bamboo together so he can tie it.
Hurley
misunderstands him thinking he wants to make
snowballs.
Michael interjects, "He wants you to hold the
bamboo tighter..
.I think." {
Come on, he understands Jin.}
Jack walks over to see how things are 'coming', "As long as nobody
sabotages this one as well huh?"
Michael assures him he has people
standing guard 24/7, "Nobody gets near this
with or without intent to burn."
Michael mentions to Jack the
chances of a passing ship spotting this raft out there are pretty slim, they could use something to send out a
distress call to
any ships that might be close, "Like an
S O S."
Jack will ask Sayid but even if he can
make something like that he's not gonna have anything to
power it with.
Hurley-"Didn't Sayid say that
crazy French chick had
batteries?"
Sayid, "Absolutely not!"
Jack isn't asking Sayid to go, he'll do it.
Sayid- "No you won't."
Upset Sayid asks them, "Do you really think that she would
give up something she needs for survival to a total stranger?"
All Jack is asking his
how to find her. Sayid explains he was brought
unconscious to her camp, when he
escaped he was
disoriented, "I
don't know how to find her."
Hurley-"
Don't know, dude, or
don't want to?"
This annoys Sayid.
Jack says Sayid has her
maps and her
papers and he
thought they were pointing to something.
Sayid-"Well I was
wrong."
Jack suggests maybe they're
pointing to her.
Sayid grabs up the papers in
anger, "I don't even know what these papers mean! For all I know they can be the
ravings of her disturbed mind!
Song lyrics mixed with equations!"
He hands the papers off to Hurley.
Sayid shows Jack a
map, "If this
map is pointing to her then you should know she
resides here in this area. She gave it
a name,
Territoire Fonce. Shannon
translated it. It means
Dark Territory. Does that
sound like a place you'd like to visit?"
Jack-"So you won't help."
Sayid didn't say that; he'll
build the
distress beacon but he suggests they
find another
power source. He feels there must be something in the cockpit. Jack says they're not going to the cockpit.
All the while Hurley is starring at the numbers on the small sheets of lined notepaper.
Channels are being
switched on the
TV.
It's Hugo sitting on the couch eating some
chicken from a
Mr. Clucks bucket. His mother calls from the kitchen that she hopes he isn't
watching those g-string mujeres again. While Hurley's mom wants him living there, he wants his
privacy respected. {
Channels show dancing, exercising, hockey, cop chase}
Hurley lands on the
channel to watch the
Mega Lotto drawing. His
religious mother comes in complaining, "
Look at you...It's Saturday night, a
grown up man sitting at
home watching TV. You should go out and try to find a nice woman.
Hurley-"I'll get right on that."
Mom wants him to
eat better because he's gaining weight. Annoyed Hurley watches Mary Jo, the Lotto girl, display the winning balls.
The
Mega Number is
42, "And that makes
tonight's Mega Lotto Jackpot drawing, 4 8 15 16 23 with the Mega Number 42."
The winner has
won a near
record Jackpot. {Jack.lol}
The TV announcer is heard saying, "That's right, Mary Jo, because this is the
16th week
without a winner."
Hurley
faints. {
Crashing/Smashing glass can be heard.}
Sayid is
sleeping while Hurley is sitting there
watching him.
Sayid stirs.
Hurley-"Hi. You
awake?"
Sayid-"
I was just wondering that myself." {
Well, are you or aren't you?}
Hurley is there with the
maps and
papers that the
French lady wrote. Sayid wants to know what Hurley wants since it's the middle of the night.
Hurley- "I
couldn't sleep. And I got
curious. You and Shannon...you guys have been
trying to figure out some of
this stuff and...I was wondering, what...you know...you guys
figured out...about
this stuff."
Sayid's still laying there, "
What stuff?"
Hurley's curious about the numbers she wrote down
a bunch of times, "Got any
idea what it means?"
Sayid thought
at one time they may be
coordinates of some kind.
Hurley- "
Coordinates...yeah. When you
first found her, the
French chick, you said you saw a
wire or
something in the beach and you
followed it and it
led you to her."
Sayid
corrects him, "No.
It led me in to a trap she set."
Hurley assumes the place is probably close. Sayid asks why he's so suddenly interested in Rousseau.
Hurley says he's not, "I'm just making
conversation, dude.
Sorry if it's a bad time."
Hurley puts the
maps and
papers back and says goodnight.
Walking from the tent we see Hurley
hid one of the large papers under his shirt.
Camera flashing {
Boom mics, video cameras}:
Hurley and his family are in the middle of a large
press conference.
News/media are there to inquire about his
winning the Lotto.
KSVU 8 asks how he
came up with the
winning numbers, "Any
significance?"
Hurley says they kind a came to him. Another reporter wants him to introduce his
family. Hurley introduces his bashful beauty mom, Carmen. Then introduces his very excited
brother Diego and his wife Lisa.
Diego-"Yeah! We're
rich!"
Hurley tells the press to ignore him, "He's an idiot."
Hurley really wants them to
meet the greatest guy he knows, his grandpa Tito. Grandpa Tito's
worked three jobs for
52 years. He's 70 years old and the closest he's been to a
vacation is when they put a
pacemaker in him
four years ago. The first thing Hurley's gonna do with the money is finally
give him the rest he's earned, "That's all it's about for me.
To be able to do things for the people I care about. Cause I really put my
family through a lot recently and umm...well this way I can
make it up to them. You know, maybe even buy my mom
a new house. Maybe after uh, my grandpa
comes back from his
cruise he can...get to do some of the things we've always wanted too."
Grandpa Tito grabs his left arm and collapses. {
You can hear the camera's continue flashing.}
{
Flash Whoosh}
At the cave Hurley fills up
water bottles.
Charlie walks over, "Hey, man."
Hurley is
startled, "
What?! I'm not doing anything."
Charlie- "What?"
Hurley-"What?"
Charlie's just saying good morning. He asks if Hurley's
going anywhere. Hurley is loading the bottles of water into his backpack, "Well, yeah. I just thought I might
take a walk. Uh...maybe
scope out some new
fishing area."
Charlie wants him to
hang on; he'd like to "
come with."
Hurley tells him he could really use some
alone time right now. He lifts the pack and the pack
opens up spilling the bottles on to the ground. Hurley puts them back in and tells Charlie, "
I'm a big guy...I get
dehydrated easy."
Charlie seems baffled by Hurley's behavior.
Waves crash:
Claire sits on the beach. Locke calls for her; he's wondering if she's
free to
help him with a little
project. "I'm
building something, I could use an extra pair of hands."
Claire is nearly
nine months
pregnant; she can barely waddle over the beach.
Locke-"Can you
hold a
saw?"
Yeah, she can.
Locke-"
Can you move your hand back and forth like this?" {
He makes a sawing motion.}
She "possibly" can.
Perfect. He
holds out both hands to help her up.
Claire asks, "So
what exactly are we building?"
Locke doesn't answer.
At the cave Sayid angrily asks Jack where the
map is, "I told you
it won't help you find her. Jack tells him to
slow down; he
doesn't have the map.
Sayid- "What makes this worse is you won't even
do your own dirty work.
You get Hurley to do it for you!...He was in my tent last night
quizzing me about Rousseau, about numbers she
wrote, how I came
to find her."
Jack doesn't know anything about this. Jack asks
firewood carrying Charlie if he's
seen Hurley.
Charlie- "A couple of hours ago. He was heading out for
a walk.
Acting like a loon, I might say."
Concerned Sayid realizes Hurley's going after her. Jack's disappointed.
"
When are you gonna be back?" Shannon asks Sayid.
Sayid feels they can
catch up to him before nightfall, "Why? You
worried about me?"
Shannon- "So what if I am?"
Jack yells over asking Sayid if
he's ready. Sayid takes his backpack and tenderly touches Shannon's face, "I'll be fine."
Hurley treks across the beach {Rap tune plays}
{
Flash Whoosh}
The rap tune continues playing
loudly.
Well off Hurley drives a
yellow Hummer H2. His mom is the passenger.
The tune continues playing and mom says
loudly, "Hugo
turn that noise down!"
Hugo
turns down the volume,"Sorry."
Mom wants to know where he's taking her; she
doesn't like surprises.
Hugo thinks she'll like this one; she
deserves something good since Grandpa and that at the
funeral Father Agular got
struck by lightning in that
freak storm, and Diego
moving back home after Lisa left him for that
waitress. Hugo feels that ever since we
won the lottery they've had
bad luck like the
money is cursed; although these
Catholics don't believe in curses.
Approaching the surprise for his mom, Hugo has her
blindfold herself with a
red bandanna. They pull up to the curb and Hugo carefully helps
blindfolded mom out the hummer. Mom asks why she has to wear this, she
can't see anything.
He tells her to
take off her blindfold and
take a look at her new dream house.
Mom slips on the curb and
hurts her ankle. Mrs. Ryes
removes her blind fold, {
He told her she can take off her blindfold} and as she's
crying out in pain then she
smells smoke. There is a
fire in an upstairs room of the
new home.
Hugo calls 911 and before he can finish dialing,
two cop cars pull up and draw their guns on him. "
Drop the phone!
Move away from the vehicle!"
Hugo tries to tell them
it's the house.
As Hugo's getting
cuffed he says to him mom who is
blessing herself, "
No such thing as curses, huh, ma?"
The mustached cop tells Hugo he has the right
to remain silent....
Hurley comes upon a thick
power cord in the sand. It runs from the water into the jungle. He picks it up and calls out for the
French chick. {
It's not a telephone! Is it?}
Hurley keeps hold of the
power cord and follows it into the jungle.
{
Flash Whoosh}
"I would think you'd be
happy, every one of your
stocks is up. Your interest in
orange futures skyrocketed after those
tropical storms hit Florida.
And you are now the
majority share holder for a
box company in
Tustin."
Hugo
looks out the window to the street
below. He is in the office of his
financial advisor/accountant. His
advisor feels a
box company is a lucrative business. "
Everybody needs boxes."
Which reminds him Hugo's
sneaker factory in
Canada was
destroyed in a
fire last month. Hugo's not
surprised.
The
advisor thinks Hugo may have
read about it, "
8 something people
died. But the
good news is we over
insured it. It's gonna wield you a windfall of cash. And when we add in the
generous settlement from the
L.A.P.D. for your
false arrest you almost
doubled your
net worth in a few short months. I still can't
imagine how the police
mistook you for a
drug dealer."
Hugo blurts out, "
Bad Luck."
The
advisor informs him he's not the first
lottery winner to feel the money brought him nothing but trouble, "
It's all in your head."
Hugo wonders if this guy
doesn't believe in jinx's/curses. The
advisor only
believes in numbers. By the way, the advisor wants to know
where he got the numbers from, "Somebody's
birthday?
Phone number?"
Hugo-"Nothing. It's just something that I...."
A
light bulb goes on; he has an
epiphany, "It's not the money. It's the numbers.
The numbers are
cursed."
The advisor doesn't buy it.
Hugo-"Dude.
Don't look at me like that, I'm not crazy. This is
real..."
Just as the advisor is telling him there's
no such thing as a curse, a man is
falling past their window. {Scream.}
{
Flash Whoosh}
Michael in his
orange shirt bangs away on building the
raft. This
noise is hurting Sawyer's head.
Sawyer is
reading A Wrinkle in Time.
Sawyer yells sarcastically over to Michael, "You wanna
hit that a little harder?!"
Michael-"Oh I'm sorry. Is my
building a raft to get us rescued bothering you?"
At the moment it is. Walt asks Sawyer why he isn't
helping.
Sawyer tells
Short Round he's
helping by
keeping watch for
arsonists. Michael feels Walt's got a point; he could
pitch in, "
Seeing as you already
bought your ticket."
Just then one of the tied together bundles of
bamboo loosens and the
bamboo sticks tumble. Jin starts yelling at Michael in
Korean. The two men yell at each other. {
I still feel they understand each other.} Annoyed Sawyer leaves.
Sun watches the
two men yell from further down the beach. She shares with Kate she feels he's
never going to speak to her again. Kate feels he just
needs time. Sun knows she's
humiliated him.
Sun asks Kate, "
When the raft sails, do you think he's going to leave with them?"
Kate doesn't know.
Hurley continues to use the
power cord as
a guide into the jungle. The
buzzing sound of
flies makes him look up to find there is a dead
hanging boar that has been
captured by a trap.
Hurley continues on.
He steps on something with a
slight metal sound. As he's about to take another step Sayid yells to him, "
Don't move!" He's standing on a
pressure trigger.
Sayid-, "If you take your
weight off it, it will release that. {
The other spiked end of the trap. Wow! It's like Indiana Jones!} They need
to find something to replace his
weight on the
trigger.
Hurley asks if he can
drop the wire.
Charlie suggests they find a big rock.
Hurley
drops the wire and
nothing happens. The guys still insist, "
Don't move!"
But Hurley feels he can make it, "I
can get out of the way. I'm spry."
The guys start to freak out with Hurley's intention to make a move off the
trigger.
Hurley jumps off the
trigger and the
spiked weapon misses him!
Charlie yells at Hurley, "
What the bloody hells wrong with you?!"
Nothing is
wrong with him. {
Hurley believed he can cross it unharmed and he did! He has the power!}
Jack asks him what he's doing out here. Hurley reveals he came to get a
battery.
As if Jack
doesn't buy that he asks, "Seriously...what's going on?"
Hurley- "Nada. You guys coming?"
Sayid concedes that they all want to go, but he'll take
the lead.
Sayid grabs hold of the
power cord.
Charlie feels that's an excellent notion.
{
Flash Whoosh}
"Lenny. His
name is Lenny...or Leonard"
Hurley is at the
psychiatric admissions counter of
Santa Rosa Mental Instit.... Hugo doesn't know Lenny's last name but he just needs
to talk to him for
five minutes. Hugo
watches a
janitor climb a very wobbly ladder.
The nurse can't look anything up
without the man's name.
"How many Leonard's are here?"
Hugo wants her to
type it in and look it up, "I
mean the guy's been here for like...ever.
He knows me."
The nurse tells him their
records are
private.
Hugo yells out to the
wobbly dude on the
ladder, "Do not do that right now!
Leave the bulb for
another time, man!"
Hugo starts to raise his voice to the nurse about needing
five minutes with Lenny as a
doctor recognizes Hugo.
Hugo-"Oh, hey
Doc."
The doctor says its
good to see him and asks
what he's doing back here.
In the
rec room the doctor mentions to Hugo he doesn't
remember he and Leonard
being that close.
Hugo-"We
hung."
The doctor will leave the
gentlemen to it then and he wishes Hugo
good luck.
Lenny sits at a table alone
dropping the
markers into the
filthy Connect 4 game.
He is
repeatedly mumbling something unclear in cadence.
Hugo walks up to the
oblivious twitching Lenny, "Hey, Lenny.
Remember me?"
Lenny does not deviate from his
obsessive repeating.
Hugo says, "Hugo."
{A voice can be heard "Hurley" although it does not sound like Hugo and we don't see this coming from Hurley's mouth.}
Hurley asks Lenny, "I gotta know...
What do the numbers mean?"
Now Lenny's mumble
becomes clear, "
4-8-15-16-23-42" {
Note smoke detector over the door}
Hurley drops a red marker into the game and asks Lenny where he got the numbers and
is that why he's here.
{
Lenny's black cord for his glasses looks more like a wire.
BTW, in a mental hospital they would not allow patients to have anything they could hurt someone or themselves with.}
Hugo continues, "Did they do something to you? Cause
I think they did something to me.
I think they turned me into a jinx. Bad
news to everyone around me. And when I tell people I think
I'm the cause they, they
look at me like I'm
nuts. They don't
believe me. But I know...ever since
I won the lottery with those numbers."
This statement
snaps Lenny out of his
repeating world.
Lenny speaks! "You used those
numbers to
play the lottery?"
Lenny freaks out, "You shouldn't have done that. {
He grabs his head}
You've opened the box! You shouldn't have used the numbers!...
It doesn't stop!...You gotta get away from those numbers! You gotta get
far, far away!
Do you hear me?!
Don't you understand?! You gotta get away from them or it
won't stop!"
An orderly tries to restrain the freaked out patient, but Hugo
wants answers.
Lenny
grabs at his head again. Hugo asks
where he got the numbers.
Lenny
happens to be coherent enough to clearly inform Hugo that he got them from Sam Toomey. Sam
heard them in
Kagoorlie, in a town where they
used to work in
Australia.
Lenny is dragged out of the room by the orderly.
"
It stops here. It goes into the
ground. This poses somewhat of
a problem."
Sayid shows the guys where the
wire disappears.
Charlie has something the guys
need to see. He
leads them to their
next obstacle; the rickety narrow
bridge that is their connecting path to the other side.
They are very high up.
Jack says to Sayid, "You never mentioned anything about a
bridge."
Sayid
never saw this before.
Jack notes there's no way she could have
built this
all by herself.
Sayid-"No. But her
team could have. "
Charlie-"Or
Ethan's team." {
HUH?! WTF?!! WOW!}
Hurley starts to make his way across the
shitty bridge, "
Relax. I'm just gonna
check it out. You guys should
stay here."
Jack's freaking out "Hurley!
Get back here!"
Hurley-"Dudes!
Chill!" {lol. hear the crow.} Carefully, he makes it across. The guys are relieved. If Hurley can do it so can Charlie; he heads across. {Charlie's wearing his
black and white Vans.} As he approaches the finish line the
bridge breaks but
Charlie makes it to the other side.
Exhilarated Charlie is okay.
Jack yells over to them to stay put; he and Sayid will find a way around and we'll meet you there. Screw that!
Calm Hurley tells them to stay because there's a
path right here... Charlie snaps and yells at Hurley to shut up and listen to Jack to "Stay put!
You're acting like a bloody lunatic!
{
Flash Whoosh}
Crow caws.
A house sits in the middle of
nowhere.
Five knocks on the door, an Australian woman answers, "If this weren't in the
middle of nowhere, I'd say
you were lost."
This is
Sam Toomey's wife,
Martha Toomey. Sam's been
dead for
four years.
Hurley shares with Martha that Sam
worked with a guy he knows,
Leonard Simms. Martha mentions they
served together in the U.S. Navy. {
File cabinet, ship, binoculars.}
Martha serves
tea, "How is Leonard? Still in the
service?"
Hugo says
he's retired. He goes on to say that Lenny told him about Sam
hearing something. Martha's annoyed he's talking about
the numbers. She reveals that Sam and Lennard were
stationed at a listening post monitoring long wave transmissions over the Pacific. It was a
boring job and Sam hated it, "Nothing to do but
listen to static...night after night. Till one night 'bout
16 years ago, there's
something in the static.
A voice comes through. A
voice repeating those numbers over and over again. {
This makes Hugo jolt like he's listening to a scary story.} A couple of days later we're at the fair in
Kalgoorlie and some wally there got this
jar, must have been big as a pony. And its filled to the rim with
beans. Fella is
offering 50 grand to anyone able to guess how many
beans are in that
jar within
10. {Sam used the numbers} The answer was exact, to the
bean. Men had been running the same
scam for
40 years. Nobody'd ever come close, so we
won the money. On the way
home, a
pickup truck blows a tire on the highway,
hits us
head on. Lost my leg that night." {
What about Sam?}
Barely a scratch. Most people would consider themselves
lucky...but not him, he was never the same after that. {Martha presents a
blue scrapbook.} He started keeping a
record. Anything terrible that happened to anyone around us, he
believed it's all because he used those numbers. He
moved us out here in the middle of nowhere,
hoping it would stop."
Hugo asks if they ever found a way to
make it stop.
Yep he did.
Martha shares that Sam put a shotgun in his
mouth and
pulled the trigger.
Martha-"
What is it you're looking for, Mr. Reyes?"
Hugo grudgingly admits he used the numbers
to win the
lottery, "And now I think I'm under the same
curse." {
To win the lottery, not, and I won the lottery. hmmm}
Martha-"
Curse?! There's no curse...You think I'd still have my leg if Sam hadn't have picked the right number of
beans? You think that
floods wouldn't have happened? That
homes couldn't have burned down? That people wouldn't have
died?!"
{
Does she have insight to Hugo's experiences?}
Hugo- "Well...yeah."
Martha tells him
you make your own luck,
"Don't blame it on the damn numbers. You're looking for an excuse that doesn't exist."
{
Flash Whoosh}
Locke is working on his
building project. {
White smoke billows from the fire}. Claire is
sawing away on a branch, she asks, "
It's a trap, right? For
catching animals?
Locke asks her to pass the
cup; he's
made glue that he claims he made from
rendered animal fat.
Claire-"You
made glue?...Wow!You should have one of those shows where you uh,
fix up houses for people."
Smiling Locke doesn't think so.
Claire thanks him for giving her something to do, "I'm tired of
trying to remember what happened to me out there."
Locke asks how her
memory is coming.
Claire-"
Bits and pieces here and there.
Nothing that makes any real sense."
Locke feels maybe
he can help because
he's good at putting bits and pieces together."
The both share a smile.
Sayid and Jack carefully try to find their way to Hurley and Charlie.
Sayid stops at an area he feels is
familiar,"
We're close."
Jack asks how he knows, "I thought she
lived underground."
Jack takes a step and
trips a wire causing an
explosion.
Charlie and Hurley
hear it.
Hurley looks up and around curiously.
In the
exploded pit, Jack comments, "Some
security system. Someone
trips a wire and the
whole place blows up."
Apparently there's
nothing there, no batteries, nothing. Jack
doesn't get it but Sayid feels she
knew that
one day he'd come back and bring others. So she
abandoned this place, booby
trapped it and
moved on.
Jack wonders,
"Moved on where?"
In the jungle Hurley calls out for Jack and Sayid.
Charlie asks, "
Do you even know where we're going?"
Hurley feels "The blast
sounded like it came from this way,
I think."
Charlie-
"You don't know!"
What does Charlie want from Hurley?
Charlie wants to know "what we're doing in the
middle of nowhere. And don't tell me it's because of some stinking
batteries.
One minute you're happy go lucky good time Hurley, the next you're Colonel bloody Kurtz. It just
doesn't make any sense.
It's not you."
Hurley-"Dude,
you don't know me."
Irate Charlie feels all this time on the Island and Hurley's
not told him anything about himself. Hurley indicates
they all have "
personal stuff."
Pissed Charlie tells him not to
change the subject, "
We're lost out here. Jack and Sayid could be
hurt if not
blown to bits all because you're
acting like some bloody nutter."
Hurley is not
crazy and he
has his "reasons for everyth..."
Charlie presses him for the reasons because he feels he has a
right to know.
Hurley spills it to Charlie, "
About a year ago..." His story is interrupted by a shot fired near them!
{NOTE: As Hurley is going to reveal what happened a year ago, and you see his mouth actually mouths something. The words cannot be heard because of the perfectly times shot of the rifle.}
They don't freak out.
Hurley-"Is someone shooting at us?"
Another shot is fired and the boys run in
opposite directions.
Hurley runs, falls down, and when he gets back up he is face to face with Danielle and her rifle. "You must be the
French chick."
Danielle-"
Who are you?"
Hurley with his hands up replies, "Hurley...Sayid...that guy you
tortured...he...a...."
Danielle-"You were on the
plane."
He reaches in to his pocket and says he's getting
her notes. He presents her the small note paper and want her to tell him
why she wrote this, "Tell me
what these numbers mean, Please."
Armed Danielle doesn't know.
This aggravates Hurley, "
What? You don't know. Okay,
that thing in the woods...maybe its a
monster. Maybe... it's a... pissed off giraffe. I don't know!
The fact that no one is even looking for us...yeah, that's weird. But
I just go along with it...
Cause I'm along for the ride. Good ol fun time Hurley! Well guess what? NOW!
I WANT SOME FRIGGIN ANSWERS!"
Danielle lowers her weapon and begins to tell the story, "Our
ship picked up a transmission, a voice repeating those numbers.
Changed course to
investigate. After we s
hip wrecked my
team continued to search for the
transmission source. It was weeks before we
found the
radio tower."
Hurley asks if the
radio tower is on
"this Island."
Yes,
up by the
Black Rock.
Danielle- "Some of us
continued to search for the meaning of those
numbers while we
waiting for rescue. But then the
sickness came. When my
team was
gone I went back..
.up to the tower...and
changed the transmission."
Hurley-"That
distress signal we heard."
Yes.
Hurley wants to know if she found out anything about the numbers, "Do you know
where they got their power?"
Danielle-"
Power?"
Hurley-"They bring
bad stuff to everyone around you. They're
cursed.
You know that, right? The numbers...are
cursed."
Danielle recalls
the numbers are what brought her here, "
As it appears, they brought you. Since that time I've
lost everything. Everyone I cared about. So yes, I supposed you're right..
.they are cursed."
Hurley is relieved, "Thank you. Thank you.
You have no idea how long I've been waiting...
for someone to agree with me. Thank you. Oh god, Thank you. Thank you."
He gives her a big hug.
Jack tells Sayid they need to find Hurley and Charlie and get out of this jungle, "
I just hate that we're going home empty handed." {Home?!}
Sayid is piling up Danielle's lair wreckage. {
Burning.}
Sayid
finds a scrap of
Nadia's photo.
Charlie runs out of the woods announcing someone shot at them.
Sayid- "Rousseau."
Jack asks where Hurley is.
Charlie- "I don't know.
He was right behind me and then he just... he just wasn't." {Hmmm.}
Sayid offers to
find him but Jack says
they'll all go.
Out of nowhere there's Hurley, "Go where?"
Freaked out Charlie asked what the hell happened to him. Hurley takes a large
battery out of his pack and hands it to Jack,
"Need a battery."
They're a bit surprised.
Hurley tells Sayid,
"She says hey." {
How much time could have passed?}
Night on the beach the
four men return. Jack pats Michael on the shoulder.
Sayid hands the battery off to Michael.
In the dark jungle while still working on his project by campfire,
Locke asks Claire if she thought of a name yet.
Claire- "
Huh?"
Locke- "For the baby."
Claire-"Haven't really thought about it. I was gonna give
it away. You know...for
adoption." {
Watch Locke}
Locke acknowledges it must have been a
difficult decision.
Claire- "Yeah. Well.
Doesn't matter now...
.It's my birthday today."
Locke's curious, "Why haven't you told anyone?"
Claire says she's
pregnant, single and
on an Island in the middle of nowhere. "
Doesn't really matter that it's my
birthday does it?"
Locke guesses not, "Well at least your
birthdays will be
close together. You and your baby and that's
good luck."
That's what he thinks.
Claire-
"Do you believe in that...luck?"
Locke says believes in a lot of things.
He's finished the project.
Claire still doesn't know what it is, "
OK. I give up. What is it?"
Locke turns it over and
reveals its identity; a
rocking cradle.
Claire smiles, "It's a
cradle."
Locke-"
Happy birthday, Claire."
Claire thanks him.
Night on the beach:
Hurley is drying is shirt over the camp fire. Charlie comes over and jokes about Hurley cooking his shirt in place of
scarce food.
Hurley- "When you find a
Laundromat let me know."
Charlie sits down next to him and mentions about
before in the jungle, "
before we became
target practice, you were going to tell me what
inspired this little quest."
Hurley tells that his
bad luck may have
crashed the
plane.
Charlie tells him "Don't be daft, how could you possibly..."
Hurley goes on to share with him that "
before we came here a lot of
bad stuff used to happen whenever I was around."
Charlie questions, like
bad luck?
Hurley feels that's a
mellow way of describing it.
Charlie tries to reason with him by telling him bad things just happen, "
You think you're the only one with baggage? You know what I was doing when the plane went
down? I was snorting
heroin in the
toilet. I was such a
junkie I couldn't even take a
plane ride without having a
fix. I suppose that was
your fault as well."
Hurley doesn't answer.
Charlie asks, "So how about it?"
Hurley-"What?"
Charlie just told him the
biggest secret in his life, "I thought you'd want to reciprocate."
After a long pause Hurley tells him that
back home, "I'm
worth156 million dollars."
Charlie, feeling as if
he's bullshitting says,"Fine. Don't tell me."
Charlie feels he
bared his soul and all he gets are
bloody jokes.
Insulted Charlie walks off.
The camera zooms in to show us
4 - 8 - 15 - 16 - 23 - 42 on the HATCH.
Numbers is a great episode!
Hurley's along for the ride. Hmmm...Very, very interesting.
"Hearing and Listening". The Lostie's have to learn to truly open their eyes, but to also listen.
We need to really observe and listen to everything too. Are voices and sounds "bleeding through" wires, static or their sleeping minds? Is Hurley "hearing" something that the rest of the Lostie's aren't?
Hurley's curiosity about the numbers shows me that his role and part in the "Island's" story is very important. Hurley is in search of the meaning of the numbers two times, in two environments {on "Island" and off "Island".} It seems to me that Hurley may be realizing that something is being "done to him". He also feels he's the cause of pain to the people around him.
Let's not forget the importance of the "power cord" here. There were a lot of subliminal visuals to a power cord and wires all through the episode. I can't help but wonder not about the power cord that runs into the jungle and disappears in to the ground, but where is the power and the power cord is originating from? How far away is its source? If there is power going to and from this "Island", then how can it be an "Island".
Is it possible the power cord/wire is hinting to something else getting powered or connected?
Maybe it is possible the "power" is a metaphor for the "power" they themselves posses to make change; positive thinking or even wishful thinking/believing.
Things to Note...Questions to ask...
* Crazy. Disoriented. Disturbed mind. Loon. Lunatic. Nut. Nutter. Psychiatric. Santa Rosa.
* Unconscious. Sleep. Dream. Awake. Head. Voices.
* Laundromat-washing-cleansing
* Heart. Pacemaker. Heart attack.
* Remember. Don't remember. Memory. Familiar.
* Game. Lotto. Hockey. Connect Four. Scam.
* Teams. Danielle's team- Ethan's team. Are they two additional teams or are they on the same team?
* Move. Don't move.Take the lead.
* Maps. Papers.
* Numbers. Wires. Battery. Power source. Power cord. Transmission. Static. Net.
* Dark Territory. Radio Tower. The Cave. Australia. Canada. Los Angeles.Florida
* Languages. Korean. French. Spanish. Numbers. Translate.
* Curse. Blessing. Good Luck. Bad Luck. Jinx. Believe.
* Blindfold=can't see. Glasses=can see. Disappear.
* Family. Mother, Grandpa, Father, Brother.
* What is real and what is not. What is happening in their heads/minds while sleeping? Or is it a
metaphor for them just to wake up already.
* When Hugo introduced his mom and brother, I don't know why but their two names jumped out at me as
Carmen San
diego. lol.
* Again, did Danielle carry unconscious Sayid through the jungle and across this bridge all by herself? Yeah, that's what I'm sayin!! Did Danielle have these batteries on her? Her place got blown up, did she take Hurley to her new place?
* "That thing in the woods..." Hmmmm. Hurley, Charlie, Jack, Sayid and Claire and are all in the woods at this point....Aren't they? But it is Locke that is the "woodsman" to me.
* Claire seems disconnected from the "baby".
* Locke tells Claire he "
believes in a lot of things." Yet in
White Rabbit he tells Jack "I’m not a real big
believer in
magic."
* Connections to Locke.
* Box. Boxes. Casket/coffin?
* Diego translates to James.
* People die/dying.
* Perception.
Vocabulary and Research...
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Hummer H2 has room for six passengers (including driver).
- Song by Smashing Pumpkins on the album Siamese Dream.
- A hum is a sound made by singing a wordless tone with the mouth completely closed, forcing the sound to emerge from the nose. A hum has a particular timbre, usually monotone or with slightly varying tones.
- A person who is bored makes an ostentatious show of humming to indicate their impatience.Humming can also be used to show feelings of emptiness.
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Mains hum-electric or electromagnetic phenomenon that causes a low frequency(50 or 60 Hz) audible signal.
- Humvee, a military vehicle
- The Hum is a generic name for a series of phenomena involving a persistent and invasive low-frequency humming noise not audible to all people.
- A hum can be caused by Tinnitus. Tinnitus is also a side-effect of some medications.
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OM-(OHM): The tone: make a humming or droning sound. The syllable is taken to consist of three phonemes, a, u and m, variously symbolizing the Three Vedas or the Hindu Trimurtior the three stages of life (
birth, life and death)
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Carmen San diego refers to a media franchise of educational computer and video games, television programs, books and other media featuring a thieving villianess of the same name. It uses detective work and teaches geography, history, English and math. These all featured silly humor and especially a distinctive style of word play with extensive use of puns, rhymes and alliteration.
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Sim-Any simulation game.
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The Sims: a strategic life simulation computer game. The Sims focuses entirely on the lives of virtual people called Sims, placing the player in control of their virtual "world" and their daily activities, such as sleeping, eating, reading, and bathing. Although players are encouraged to make their own characters, they can choose certain pre-made characters.
- Subscriber Identity Modul or SIM card, a device used to store information in mobile phones.
-SIM-is a Solid Immersion Mirror for Heat assisted magnetic recording.
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Numbers game, or policy racket, is an illegal lottery played mostly in poor neighborhoods in U.S. cities.A scam.
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Number codes are used in
computing.
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In Simulation-brain communications: If one were to effectively communicate with the brain, a code or sequence must be created/discovered to send information between the part of our brain that hears and talks.
♦ WAV a file format.
* There are many kinds of
waves. A wave is a disturbance that propagates through space and time, usually with transference of energy. Ocean waves, Seismic waves, sine wave, gravitational waves, inertial waves, radio waves,wavelengths, brain waves. and more.
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Nowhere: 1). The state of nonexistence or seeming nonexistence. 2). Being or leading nowhere; pointless. 3). In or at no place; not anywhere.
Numbers gives us a hint to be careful of a Con/Scam.
I love the line Martha says to Hugo-"Don't blame it on the damn numbers. You're looking for an excuse that doesn't exist."
I feel like the whole experience with Martha was very out of place and meant only for Hurley. You need to go back listen/read carefully to all of her dialogue with him as it's very important.
There is definitely a blurring of what we see on "Island" and off "Island". Things seem very integrated.
John Locke, what a guy, making gifts for Claire and her unborn baby.
Don't ignore Claire's first perceptive response to the overturned cradle...Trap! Indeed it is.
They literally and emotionally are in the middle of ...........
N O W H E R E
Love to all who are "LOST"™
Don't forget to keep your eye out for the second version of the Lotto Ticket!
Disclaimer: I never claim to know everything about the show and my thoughts by no means make me right! The things I share here are my views and/or opinions. I don't claim to catch every single detail either! You all know I hate spoilers! And I stand clear of reading certain sites as to not take me off my own course of research. The one thing I don't need to do here is rehash all of the obvious clues from an episode; we all know what they are. Understood? Let the fun begin! I'll only note things that I know come up as clues later, but need to be noted when they first show up and things I find that will be of importance.
