Stealing is a Sin
Episode 3x5, The Cost of Living - Flashback Scene 1Young Eko breaks into the food storage shed and gets some crackers for Yemi. He is caught by a nun who takes him into the church and tells him to confess.
Eko looks at the legs under the curtain of the Father holding a bible. The nun tells him to go and confess that he has stolen. He says that Yemi was hungry and she says that doesn't matter, stealing is a sin.
Yemi grabs Eko's hand.
The Cross
Episode 2x10, The 23rd Psalm - Flashback Scene 1A group of children play soccer in a Nigerian village. A truck full of thugs drives into the village, as Young Eko looks on. The thugs get out of the truck and go for the children. A priest comes out of the church and says, "Don't take anymore of the children!" One of the thugs knocks the priest to the ground with the butt of his rifle.
One of the thugs gets an old man and forces him to his knees. The leader takes a gun from his holster and gives it to Eko's younger brother, Yemi. He puts Yemi in front of the old man and says, "Shoot him. Now!"
Yemi can't shoot and Eko runs over and takes the gun from Yemi and shoots the old man.
The thugs seem happy by this and ask his name. "Eko," he says.
"Look at Mr. Eko," one of the thugs says. "No hesitation. A born killer." He puts his arm around Eko and leads him to the truck. He rips the cross from Eko's neck. "You won't need that anymore."
Yemi picks up the cross.
A Favor
Episode 2x10, The 23rd Psalm - Flashback Scene 2A car pulls up to a village and two thugs get out, as well as an adult Eko. Inside the building Eko sits across from two Moroccans.
Eko opens a bag and tastes the heroin. He says he will give them 50 for the favor. One of the Moroccans says, "A favor?"
Eko says, "You have a large quantity of heroin in a country that has no poppies and no market for its sale. Your drugs are of no value here, so you must get them out. The borders are all guarded by the military, so you must fly. But as I'm sure you are aware, the only private planes currently allowed into the air are either U.N. aid or the Catholic missionaries. And so you have come to me for a favor. I will buy your heroin for 50.
The Moroccan's stand and one says, "Is it true what they say about you, that you have no soul?"
With one swipe of his knife, Eko kills both men. A boy in the background drops something and Eko's men point a gun at him. Eko says no to his men and to the boy he says, "Tell your friends that Mr. Eko let you live."
Virgin Mary Statues
Episode 2x10, The 23rd Psalm - Flashback Scene 3Eko returns to the village of his childhood. A woman is in front of the church selling Virgin Mary statues. She says that the statue money will buy polio vaccine for the village.
Eko walks into the church and his brother, Yemi, asks what he's doing there. "I have come to give my confession."
Yemi is happy to see Eko, but he says, "For confession to mean something, you must have a penitent heart."
"You and your guilt, Yemi," Eko says. "I've only done what I needed to do to survive. How is that a sin?"
Yemi says, "You may live far from here, but that doesn't mean I haven't heard of who you are and what you have done."
Eko reaches inside Yemi's shirt and pulls out the cross. "Have you forgotten how you got that cross, brother? The day they took me? Is what I did that day a sin? Or is it forgiven because it was you that was saved?
"Why are you here, Eko?"
"I have come to help you. I have some merchandise that I need to get out of the country. I would like to use one of your church relief flights to transport it."
"Merchandise?" Yemi says. "You mean drugs."
"It is not my normal business, Yemi. We are moving the drugs out of Nigeria so that they cannot be used by our people. And the money, you'll have all the money to buy your vaccine. God has given us this opportunity. We should not turn our back on it."
"God did not bring you here, Eko. Your own greed did. I will always love you, but I will not help you. It's good to see you again, brother." Yemi walks out.
