1.18 Numbers

1. Hurley wins the lottery with the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42. From Lostpedia
2. His grandfather, Tito, has a heart attack.
3. The priest, Father Aguillar, at his grandfather's funeral is struck by lightning.
4. His brother, Diego, moves back home after his wife leaves him for a waitress.
5. Hurley's mom, Carmen, breaks her ankle when the house he buys her burns down.
6. He gets arrested for being a drug dealer when he is not.
7. Hurley asks Sayid about the numbers on Rousseau's notations. "I thought at one time, they might be coordinates of some kind." Sayid tells him. From Lostpedia
8. Hurley goes to find Rousseau to ask about the numbers on her notations and her a battery so Michael can use it to transmit on the raft.
9. He finds the cable on the beach that led Sayid to one of Rousseau's traps. From Lostpedia
10. His financial advisor tells him that his interest in Orange Future skyrocketed after tropical storms hit Florida.
11. Hurley is a majority share-holder for a box company in Tustin.
12. The sneaker factory in Canada that Hurley owns was destroyed in a fire and 8 people died.
13. While in his financial adviser's office, a man jumps out of the building and passes the window.
14. Hurley goes to a mental institution, Santa Rosa, to see Leonard. He is playing connect four. From Lost Hatch
15. "You've opened the box. It doesn't stop. You have to get away from those numbers, far away." Leonard tells Hurley after he confesses that he used the numbers to win the lottery.
16. Leonard Simms got the numbers from Sam Toomey, when they worked in Kalgoorlie, Australia.
17. Charlie almost dies going across the bridge.
18. Hurley goes to Australia to find Sam. He talks to his wife instead. She says Sam's been dead for 4 years.
19. Sam Toomey and Leonard Simms worked together in the US Navy, stationed at a listening post, monitoring long wave transmissions out of the Pacific.
20. Sam and Leonard listening to nothing but static until one night, 16 years ago, they heard a voice repeating the numbers over and over.
21. Sam used the numbers to guess how many beans were in a jar and won.
22. After he used the numbers, a truck hit them head-on, his wife lost her leg, but Sam didn't have a scratch on him.
23. Sam then kept a record of all the terrible things that happened after he used the numbers because he believes they are the reason.
24. Sam put a shotgun in his mouth and killed himself, his wife says.
25. "You make your own luck." Martha
26. Hurley starts to tell Charlie about the lottery and the numbers, but then Rousseau starts shooting at them.
27. Hurley finds Rousseau and asks her about the numbers. From Lostpedia
28. "Our ship picked up a transmission, a voice repeating the numbers, changed course to investigate it. We ship-wrecked, my team continued to search for the transmission source. It was weeks before we found the radio tower, up by the Black Rock. Some of us continued to search for the meaning of those numbers, while we waited for rescue, but then the sickness came. When my team was gone, I went back up to the tower and changed the transmission." Rousseau
29. Hurley tells Rousseau that the numbers are cursed, she agrees.
30. Claire helps Locke, tells him about giving up the baby, that it's her birthday. He makes a cradle.
31. Charlie tells Hurley he was a drug addict. Hurley finally tells Charlie his story, that he's worth $156,000,000. Charlie doesn't believe him.
32. The numbers that Leonard gave Hurley are on the hatch. From Lostpedia

Questions:

1. They find a bridge. How did it get there?
2. If Rousseau and her team found the radio tower earlier, then why didn't they change the transmission then? Why didn't they do it to get rescued?
3. What are the numbers? What do they mean?
4. Was Leonard talking to Hurley the first time he speaks?
5. Did Leonard and Sam work for Dharma? Were they in the hatch?
6. If Sam was from Australia, how did he work for the United States Military?
7. Are the numbers the coordinates of the island?
8. Rousseau's bunker was cleared before it exploded. Where did she go?
9. Who sent out the transmission of the numbers?

Favorites:

1. "It's Jesus! He wants to know what color car you want!" Carmen Reyes
2. Locke asking Claire to help him with a project.
3. "He was acting like a loon a might add." Charlie
4. Hurley walking on the beach with the rap music.
5. "You wanna hit that a little harder?" Sawyer reading A Wrinkle In Time. From Lost Hatch
6. "I can get out of the way, I'm spry." Hurley
7. "Dude, do not do that right now. Leave the bulb for another time, man." Hurley
8. "If he can do it.." Charlie, about wanting to cross the bridge after Hurley. From Lostpedia
9. "If you weren't in the middle of nowhere, I'd say you were lost." Martha Toomey
10. "Hurley, will you shut up and listen to Jack? He said stay put. You're acting like a bloody lunatic!" Charlie
11. "What do I want? I want 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 and the next you're Colonel-bloody-Kurtz!" Charlie
12. "That thing in the woods, maybe it's a monster, maybe it's a pissed off giraffe..." Hurley
13. Hurley hugging Rousseau when she agrees with him about the numbers.
14. Hurley hands Sayid the battery. "She says hey."
15. "I know food's scarce, but your shirt?" Charlie
16. "I bare my soul, and all I get is bloody jokes!" Charlie

Notes:

1. The lottery girl is the same woman from Sawyer's flashback in the hotel room, Mary Jo. She is also Harold Perrineau's wife.
2. On the television when Hurley wins the lottery, Carlton Cuse is the guy who says there hasn't been a winner for 16 weeks.
3. We can assume that since Hurley owns a box company in Tustin, it is also the box company that Locke works at.
4. We find out the the wire from the beach goes into the ground.
5. When Sam Toomey heard the transmission 16 years ago, it was around the same time that Rousseau heard them.