"Numbers" is the eighteenth 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 att...
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"Numbers" is the eighteenth 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, his 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 Sims, who keeps repeating the numbers to Hurley. When Hurley tells him that he used the numbers in the lottery, 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,...
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