Dave Doesn't Exist
Episode 2x18, Dave - Flashback 3Hurley sits with Dr. Brooks in his office. He's reading from a piece of paper, "I like that I have a good relationship with my mom. I like making my Grandpa Tito laugh. I like chicken."
Dr. Brooks asks how it felt to write that and if it was difficult.
Hurley says, "Kind of. I messed up some spelling."
"Well I noticed you didn't say anything about the way you look," Dr. Brooks says. "Are you comfortable with your appearance?"
"It's not like - I can't really do anything about it, right?" Hurley stops and looks at the ceiling. He has difficulty saying, "If I wasn't so fat, they never would have died." His eyes well up with tears.
Dr. Brooks leans forward and says, "There were 23 people on that deck. It was meant to hold eight. And it would have collapsed whether you would have walked out there or not."
"Yeah, but I did walk out there," Hurley says. "And it did collapse. I killed them."
"It was an accident."
"But it was my fault."
"After those people died," Dr. Brooks says, "you were in a practically catatonic state. You stopped talking, you stopped going out. But you never stopped eating. That's how you punish yourself."
"Dave's right about you," Hurley says. "You're a quack."
"Dave doesn't want you to lose weight, does he?"
"Dave cares about me. He's my friend."
Dr. Brooks gets up and goes over to a file. "I'm going to show you something that may upset you. This is the photo that I took for the bulletin board." He hands it to Hurley.
Hurley stares at the photo in shock. Dr. Brooks says, "Dave isn't your friend, Hugo, because Dave doesn't exist."
The photo shows Hurley with his arm around nothing but air.
Later, Hurley sleeps in his bed and Dave wakes him up. Hurley seems a little scared of him. "Hey, wake up, dude," Dave says.
"You're a hallucination," Hurley says. Dave slaps him. "Ow," Hurley says. "Maybe I just imagined you slapped me." Dave slaps him again.
"We can do this all night," Dave says.
"Dr. Brooks showed me the picture from the rec room. My arm was around, like, nothingness."
Dave explains it was Kinko's or Photoshop.
Hurley follows Dave out of the room, down the hall, and into another room. Dave says that Hurley has the keys because he took them off of Brooks' desk earlier. Hurley looks surprised, but pulls the keys from his pocket.
Dave laughs and encourages Hurley to unlock the window.
They open the window and Dave says he tastes freedom. "You know what tastes better than freedom? Cheeseburgers." Dave jumps out.
Hurley says, "I don't think I can do this. I'm sorry. You're not real. You're just trying to get me to run away and get cheeseburgers because I want cheeseburgers. You don't want me to get better, you don't want me to change. You just want me to stay fat. You wouldn't care if I ate myself to death."
Dave says, "If you don't come with me right now, you will never get out of here."
"Bye, Dave." Hurley shuts the window.
The Winning Lotto Numbers
Episode 1x18, Numbers and Episode 2x4, Everybody Hates Hugo - Flashback 1Hurley is on the couch in his mother's house eating from a bucket of chicken and flipping through the TV channels. His mother yells from the kitchen, asking what he's watching. "Look, Mom, we've talked about this," he says. "You want me living here, you've got to respect my privacy."
"Look at you," she says. "It's Saturday night. A grown-up man sitting at home watching TV. You should go out, try to find yourself a nice woman."
"Yeah, I'll get right on that," Hurley says as he relaxes back into the couch.
The Lotto girl on the TV says, "with Mega number 42. And that make's tonight's Mega Lotto jackpot 4 8 15 16 23." Hurley stands up as the Lotto girl says, "With the Mega number 42. Whoever has those numbers has won, or will share in, a near record jackpot."
This is the 16th week with no winner, which is why the jackpot is so huge. Hurley faints, breaking the coffee table.
Mom's Call From Jesus
Episode 2x4, Everybody Hates Hugo - Flashback Scene 2Hurley's mother runs in and slaps his face to wake him up after he had passed out and broken the table. He claims that he slipped, but she wonders if it's his heart. She tells him he needs to change his life. "Maybe if you pray everyday," she says, "Jesus Christ will come down from heaven, take 200 pounds, and bring you a decent woman and a new car."
Hurley says, "Maybe I don't want to change. Maybe I like my life."
The phone rings and Hurley's mom says, "Oh, that must be Jesus." After talking for a moment she says to Hurley, "Yes, it is Jesus. He wants to know what color car you want."
Hurley Quits
Episode 2x4, Everybody Hates Hugo - Flashback 3Hurley, in his Mr. Cluck's uniform, is behind the counter at work, looking at his winning lotto ticket. His friend, Johnny, who also works there, asks if he's okay. Hurley's boss calls him in and accuses him of eating chicken and giving away too many napkins. The boss rants about the business not being made of money and Hurley not being made of money and if he was he wouldn't want to work there.
Hurley says, "Dude, I quit."
Out in the parking lot, Hurley hyperventilates and breathes into a Mr. Clucks paper bag. Johnny comes out and says that he quit too. Their boss Randy is, "losing his brain in there," Johnny says.
