Number 2: ‘Numbers’ (Season 1, Episode 18)
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42. This episode is what hooked many fans on Lost back in Season 1. It’s one of the show’s most compelling riddles. The show never fully explains the meaning behind the numbers, other than that they corresponded to each of Jacob’s potential “candidates” to inherit the Island.
In this episode, we learned that the reason Hurley was in Australia was because he was looking for the origin of the numbers. After using them to win the lottery, he came to believe that they were cursed, and that he’s the reason that Ocean flight 815 crashed on the Island.
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