Leonard
Episode 1x18, Numbers - Flashback 5Hurley is at a hospital. "Lenny. His name is Lenny, or Leonard."
"But you don't know his last name," the nurse says.
Hurley says that he just needs to talk to him for five minutes. He notices a guy on a ladder changing a light bulb. "Dude, do not do that right now! Leave the bulb for another time, man." The man looks scared and leaves.
A doctor comes out and says, "Hugo?"
"Oh, hey, Doc."
Hurley walks with the doctor into the common room of the mental institution. "I don't remember you and Leonard being that close."
"Yeah, well, we hung," Hurley says and the doctor leaves him alone with Lenny, who keeps repeating 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42.
Hurley talks to him for a bit, then asks what the numbers mean. Lenny continues to recite the numbers. Hurley goes on to say that he thinks the numbers are cursed and did they do something to Lenny to get him in here? Lenny continues his chanting until Hurley says that he's been cursed ever since he used the numbers to win the lottery.
Lenny says, "You used those numbers to play the lottery?"
Hurley says he did and Lenny says, "Well, you shouldn't have done that. You've opened the box." Lenny gets more agitated and says, "It doesn't stop. You've got to get away from those numbers." Lenny is so upset that an orderly comes to take him away.
As Lenny is taken away, Hurley asks where he got those numbers. Lenny got them from Sam Toomey from Kalgoorlie, Australia.
Tricia Tanaka Dies
Episode 3x10, Tricia Tanaka is Dead - Flashback 2In front of Mr. Clucks, a news woman speaks into a microphone. "It's everyone's fantasy, winning the lottery, untold millions falling into your lap. What would you do with all that money? Well one such lucky winner recently bought a chicken shack."
Hurley stands on one side of the woman, looking very uncomfortable. Randy stands on the other side. "I'm Tricia Tanaka with Hugo Reyes. So, Hugo, I think the question on everyone's mind is, why did you buy Mr. Clucks?"
"Uh, I like chicken."
Tricia has a forced smile. "Also with us is Hugo's former boss and now employee, Randy Nations." Randy smiles.
"That's probably every working stiff's fantasy," Tricia says, "isn't it Mr. Reyes?" She puts the microphone in front of him and he shrugs. She looks at the camera man. "Okay, well Hugo, tell us what else you've done since you got on your lucky streak."
"Actually, I've kind of had some bad luck, too. My Grandpa Tito died of a heart attack, and the first house I bought my mom burned down, my friend Johnny ran off with my girlfriend, Starla. Oh and this guy jumped off my accountant's roof-"
"Cut," Tricia says, "what the hell was that? It's a puff piece Mr. Reyes, do you know what that is?"
"Yeah," Hurley says. "Sorry, Tricia Tanaka."
"Do you mind if we go inside and shoot some B roll?"
Hurley's eyes get big. "Oh, I don't know."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Randy says, "of course you can. He's just superstitious. You know, the ribbon isn't cut yet."
"Okay, let's go," Tricia says to her camera man. "God, I hate this! I always get the stupid stories." They go inside.
"Hey, you sure it's okay?" Hurley walks over to where Randy is unloading boxes from a Mr. Clucks van.
"Yeah, relax," Randy says.
"The safety guards are on the fryers?"
"Those fryers are stone cold. We don't even start cooking until tomorrow."
"Do you hear something?" Hurley says.
Inside, Tricia Tanaka is saying, "And then pan through. . ." She hears a whistling sound.
Outside, Hurley and Randy look to the sky. A meteor hits Mr. Clucks and debris goes everywhere. Covered in dust, Hurley looks at what is left of Mr. Clucks.
Hurley's Dad
Episode 3x10, Tricia Tanaka is Dead - Flashback 3Hurley, still covered with dust from Mr. Clucks, enters a large mansion.
"Hugo, is that you, Hugo?" his mother yells. She comes down the stairs. "What happened?"
"Tricia Tanaka's dead," he says.
"What?"
"Mr. Clucks got hit by a meteor, or an asteroid, I don't know the difference, but it's gone."
"That's crazy."
"It's not crazy. It's the lottery money. It's cursed, and now Tricia Tanaka's dead, and her camera dude, and it's all my fault."
Carmen slaps Hurley. "It was an accident."
"It's not an accident. It is a curse. There's only one way to stop it. I have to go to Australia."
"Again with Australia?"
"That's where the numbers came from. Lenny, in the institution, he told me."
"Hugo, wait, I can prove to you you're not cursed."
Hugo's father walks in, he's well dressed and holding a drink. "Hey, Hugo."
Carmen says, "After 17 years, your father has returned."
Hurley's dad laughs. "Your mom wasn't kidding about those candy bars. Just kidding."
