Number 12: ‘Ab Aeterno’ (Season 6, Episode 8)
After seeing so much of Richard throughout the series, we finally got an explanation for why he never ages in Season 6, and it’s quite satisfying. We love it when Lost transports us to another world.
With a flashback to the 1800s, we learn that Richard is really Ricardo, a poor working man from the Canary Islands who is jailed after killing a man who refused to give him the medicine he needed to save his dying wife. He ends up aboard the Black Rock, which crashes on the island. There, he meets the Man in Black and becomes immortal, which is why he hasn’t seemed to age a day, nearly 200 years later.
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