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His previous experience with sudden privilege makes him fearful of what this food distribution task will mean to his standing with the other survivors. He is prepared to blow up the bunker's pantry with the unused pack of dynamite from the Black Rock, but [[Rose]] talks him out of it. He decides instead to hand the food out freely to whomever asks for it, pointing out to Jack there is no feasible way to ration it. |
His previous experience with sudden privilege makes him fearful of what this food distribution task will mean to his standing with the other survivors. He is prepared to blow up the bunker's pantry with the unused pack of dynamite from the Black Rock, but [[Rose]] talks him out of it. He decides instead to hand the food out freely to whomever asks for it, pointing out to Jack there is no feasible way to ration it. |
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Hurley thinks he has a chance for a romantic relationship with Libby in the episode ''[[The Hunting Party]]''. Hurley becomes closer to Libby while doing laundry with her in ''[[Fire ± Water|Fire + Water]]'', and although he has the feeling that he knows her from somewhere else, he does not remember that she was a patient in the same mental hospital as him. Although Libby claims it is because Hurley stepped on her foot when he rushed onto Flight 815 in ''[[Exodus: Parts 2 and 3|Exodus: Part 2]]'', this explanation seems unlikely since Hurley was in the midsection and Libby was seated in the tail section of the plane. |
Hurley thinks he has a chance for a romantic relationship with Libby in the episode ''[[The Hunting Party]]''. Hurley becomes closer to Libby while doing laundry with her in ''[[Fire ± Water|Fire + Water]]'', and although he has the feeling that he knows her from somewhere else, he does not remember that she was a patient in the same mental hospital as him. Although Libby claims it is because Hurley stepped on her foot when he rushed onto Flight 815 in ''[[Exodus: Parts 2 and 3|Exodus: Part 2]]'', this explanation seems unlikely since Hurley was in the midsection and Libby was seated in the tail section of the plane. |
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Revision as of 15:47, 10 December 2006
Hugo "Hurley" Reyes is one of the middle section survivors of Oceanic Flight 815.
Before the crash
Hurley is a Latino from the Los Angeles area. Before the crash, Hurley was involved in an accident where a deck that he and 23 other people were standing on collapsed, leaving two people dead. Believing his weight was the cause of the deck's collapse (even though the deck was only weight-rated to hold 8 people), Hurley felt tremendous guilt and went into a catatonic state, doing nothing except eating constantly. When he snapped out of it, his mother admitted him to the Santa Rosa Mental Institute (where, unbeknownst to him, Libby was also a patient) where he was treated for post-traumatic-stress syndrome with mild schizophrenia. John Locke's biological mother also attended the same mental health hospital as Hurley and Libby, at one point in her life.
Hurley at Santa Rosa Mental Institute.
In the mental hospital, Hurley's doctor — Dr. Brooks — attempts to ease Hurley's guilt, explaining that the deck was built to only hold eight people, so Hurley's presence was a moot point — the deck would have collapsed whether he was there or not.
Hurley also meets Dave, a man who seems to be the only normal person in the place, although he advises Hurley to eat all he wants and ignore Brook's orders to diet and to take his prescribed clonazepam, which Hurley follows. Eventually, Brooks takes a picture of Dave and Hurley. When he shows the picture to Hurley, only Hurley is there — Dave does not exist at all. He is only a figment of Hurley's imagination, the part of Hurley's mind that does not want him to get better, and wants him to eat to ease his guilt. Despite Hurley realizing that Dave is an imaginary friend — albeit a very real one that even slaps him - he almost escapes the mental hospital with Dave's urging. At the last minute, Hurley refuses to leave because he wants to get better, rejecting Dave. This was a breakthrough in Hurley's recovery, and he was released from the mental hospital soon after.
Hurley gets his old job back, working under Randy at Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack, and moves back in with his mother. One day, he becomes extremely wealthy, winning a $116-million lottery using numbers that were always muttered by a former fellow psychiatric patient named Leonard. The day after the winning draw, Hurley quits his job and spends the day with his friend Johnny; he hopes their carefree ways will continue despite his sudden wealth, but Johnny is clearly shaken by the revelation. Afterwards, people around Hurley are afflicted by misfortunes: his grandfather suddenly dies during an interview with news crews; lightning strikes the priest at the funeral; his brother loses his wife to another woman; his mother breaks her ankle while getting out of the car to see the new home Hurley has bought for her; the house then catches fire; he is falsely arrested after being mistaken for a drug dealer; and his previous place of employment (Mr. Cluck's Chicken Shack) is smashed by a meteorite.
Hurley, realizing that he won the lottery
Hurley, however, continues to experience incredibly good luck and his acquisitions continue to accumulate: over-insurance on a sneaker company he owns pays off when a fire consumes the factory and causes several deaths; his false arrest results in a hefty settlement; and he acquires ownership of a box company in Tustin, California, which Locke worked at. By the time of the crash, his net worth is $156 million. Despite this, Hurley eventually comes to believe that the lottery numbers he used — 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 — were cursed.
When Hurley returns to the hospital to discover the origin of "the numbers," the patient he acquired them from, Leonard, reveals that he heard them when working with a naval officer named Sam Toomey. The two of them had heard the numbers when monitoring radio signals from the Pacific Ocean.
Determined, Hurley then travels to Australia and checks into a hotel (room 2342) where Charlie is also staying, and tracks down Toomey to his home in the outback, only to find out from his wife that he had also thought the numbers were cursed, and killed himself to finally escape them. Hurley is on Flight 815 while returning from this visit, despite many incidents that almost cause him to miss the flight (including having to purchase an additional ticket "for a man of his size"), because he does not want to miss his mother's birthday (which is noted to be September 23rd). Hurley now believes that the crash of Flight 815 was his fault.
The nickname "Hurley" has a long history, according to him, which has not yet been explained.
Further information
- Brought a comic book on the plane.
- Had a crush on a girl named Starla who worked at a nearby music store
- In ... In Translation he appears on TV, during a Jin flashback, when Jin delivers a message from his boss, Mr. Paik, to the Secretary.
- In a deleted scene on the season 2 DVD it is revealed he had a pet pot-bellied pig named Chester.
On the island
Season 1
Viewers are first introduced to Hurley just after the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 when he is assigned, by Jack, to watch over the very pregnant Claire who in turn is suffering from stress related contractions. Once the initial chaos of the crash subsides, Hurley takes to the task of collecting and distributing food from the airplane and food for Hurley is a common recurring theme.
He is often seen, in the beginning, listening to his CD player and refers to nearly everyone as "Dude". He also is evidently an avid backgammon player as he tells Walt that he placed 17th in a tournament, even though he lost $20,000 to him (which was later said to be $83,000).
Since landing on the island, Hurley quickly bonds with Jack and Charlie, and manages to sustain fairly strong relationships with everyone else, probably due to his apparent friendliness and straightforwardness. However, he opens up to very few people on the island. He reveals his secret — he is worth millions of dollars — only to Charlie, Walt, Jack, and Libby (if deleted scenes are considered canon). Although Charlie and Walt treat his revelation as a joke, Jack gives little reaction. Hurley appears to be happy-go-lucky and often provides comic relief, which in turn raises the spirits of the survivors. He is very active on the island, creating a golf course to ease people's tensions; taking the census that reveals that Ethan was not on the flight; heading into the jungle to find Rousseau after noting the numbers were written on maps given by her to Sayid; and ultimately recovering a battery for Sayid to use for the raft's radar.
Hurley accompanies Danielle, Jack, Locke, Kate, and Arzt into the jungle in the season finale of Season 1. With Arzt's demise, Hurley again assumes the blame for everyone else's misfortune. After returning to the hatch, Hurley discovers that the serial number on the hatch matches the numbers he played in the lottery, and he unsuccessfully tries to keep Locke from blowing the hatch open.
Season 2
Hurley informs Jack about his final decision.
Once Desmond abandons the underground bunker to the castaways, Hurley is assigned the job of inventory in the supply closet where, in Everybody Hates Hugo, he experiences a dream in which he is told by Jin that he is speaking Korean and though he does not realize it, Walt is pictured as missing on the milk carton that he drinks from.
His previous experience with sudden privilege makes him fearful of what this food distribution task will mean to his standing with the other survivors. He is prepared to blow up the bunker's pantry with the unused pack of dynamite from the Black Rock, but Rose talks him out of it. He decides instead to hand the food out freely to whomever asks for it, pointing out to Jack there is no feasible way to ration it.
Hurley doing the laundry with Libby
Hurley thinks he has a chance for a romantic relationship with Libby in the episode The Hunting Party. Hurley becomes closer to Libby while doing laundry with her in Fire + Water, and although he has the feeling that he knows her from somewhere else, he does not remember that she was a patient in the same mental hospital as him. Although Libby claims it is because Hurley stepped on her foot when he rushed onto Flight 815 in Exodus: Part 2, this explanation seems unlikely since Hurley was in the midsection and Libby was seated in the tail section of the plane.
Sawyer discovers Hurley's stash of food
In One of Them, we find out that Hurley has a secret stash of food from the hatch. Sawyer catches him with the food and blackmails him into finding the tree frog that is bothering him, (Hurley unsuccessfully attempts to talk Sawyer out of killing the frog). He tells Sawyer that even if he reveals his secret, he is aware that he is fat and that he has always been that way. He also says that even though he has stolen food, his popularity means that people are more likely to believe him than Sawyer. Hurley is also discovered eating from his secret stash of food by Sun in The Whole Truth.
In Dave, Hurley destroys his secret stash of food, wanting to diet with Libby's help. This is put to the test when there is a sudden delivery of new food supplies from an unknown source. On top of that, Hurley starts seeing Dave again, which may be possibly related to his running out of clonazepam. He tells Hurley that his recovery from the mental hospital never happened, and life on the island is all a figment of his imagination. According to Dave, he indeed does exist in real life, and after refusing to escape with him, Hurley went into another and more severe catatonic state, which Dave claims Hurley is still in today. He uses examples to back his claim up: Leonard's "numbers" appear everywhere, Hurley hasn't lost any weight, he won the lottery, and an attractive woman like Libby is actually interested in him.
Libby kisses Hurley.
Dave says he has suddenly appeared in Hurley's mind because Hurley subconsciously wants to "wake up." Dave suggests that Hurley commit suicide by jumping off a cliff to "wake up." However, Libby stops Hurley just in time and assures him that everything is really happening, supporting the claim by demonstrating that he doesn't know everything that happened to the survivors on the other side of the island. She then kisses him as further evidence.
Hurley and Libby then begin a romantic relationship, which is unfortunately short-lived. While in the hatch to get some blankets, which Hurley forgot to bring along on a romantic picnic, Libby is shot by Michael. She is mortally wounded, and Hurley is by Libby's side as she dies soon afterwards. He tearfully tells her that he is sorry about forgetting the blankets.
The Others send Hurley with a message.
Hurley digs Libby's grave and Kate digs Ana-Lucia's. Michael asks Hurley to join him for the attack on the Others' camp, but Hurley is too sad to do so. This angers Michael, who - unbeknownst to Hurley - was told to bring him (along with Jack, Kate, and Sawyer) to the Others in order to get Walt back. During the funeral, as Hurley gives a eulogy for Libby, he becomes angry over her death and tells Michael that he will join him after all.
In Live Together, Die Alone, Hurley goes with Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and Michael to confront the Others. On the way, a large, green flying creature briefly swoops over the group, and Hurley hears what he believes to be the creature shrieking his name. Michael leads the group into an ambush, where the Others knock out Sawyer with a dart to the neck. Before he is also shot, Jack tells everyone to run. In response, Hurley puts his arms over his head and freezes. It is possible that Hurley was not shot, since he apparently did not try to resist or escape. The Others bring their captives to a dock, bound and gagged. After Michael is reunited with Walt, Ms. Klugh frees Hurley, telling him to go back to his beach. She says that his job is to tell everyone else that they must never come to the other side of the island. Hurley asks about his friends, and Benjamin Linus replies that they will be staying with the Others now. Hurley clearly doesn't want to go, but Jack nods, signaling that it's all right for him to leave, which he reluctantly does. It is worth noting that he quite possibly overheard Ben telling Michael that a bearing of 325 is a way off the island.
Hurley with a knife in his canteen after Locke threw it.
Season 3
While Hurley is wandering back to camp, he comes across a naked Desmond. Desmond asks for a shirt. Hurley gives him a tie-dyed shirt from his backpack and brings him back to camp. Mysteriously, Desmond mentions a speech that Locke will give later on. Hurley is confused by this, but goes on with going back to camp. Hurley listens to Locke's speech, along with everyone else, then looks over confusedly at Desmond, who is throwing rocks in to the ocean.
In Every Man for Himself, Hurley is making a fruit salad. He asks Desmond if he'd like any, and Desmond refuses. Hurley begins to leave, but Desmond tells him "to wait a minute." Out of nowhere, a lightning storm emerges. The lightning strikes Desmond's lightning rod. Hurley has only one thing to say: "Dude."
Further information
- While running through the airport to reach his gate, several soccer (football) players have white on blue all the numbers (4 8 15 16 23 42) in sequence.
- The "MEGA LOTTO JACKPOT" is 16 letters
- Hugs Rousseau when she agrees that the numbers are indeed bad luck, as that's all they ever brought her
- When hyper-ventilating, he recites the numbers.
- Throws a Feast with the food from The Swan hatch because it wouldn't have lasted more than a few days with forty-plus people, believing it would cause less conflict as well.
- Took the radio Bernard found in the Arrow bunker and gave it to Sayid
- Asks Sawyer for Clonazepam. Sawyer makes a joke out of this and Hurley attacks him.
- Is listed as being one of the four people Ms. Klugh orders Michael to bring to the Others.
- The creature is also seen in Exodus: Part 2, while the group is bringing the dynamite back to blow open the hatch to The Swan.
- Hurley has revealed to three different people on the island his wealth in the outside world. Charlie mocked it; Libby believed it (at least in deleted scenes), and Jack was only interested in the mental institution part of the story.
- It was revealed in a podcast that episode 10 of season 3 is a Hurley centric episode.
Unanswered questions
- Why is his nickname Hurley?
- Who is his father?
- Why did "The Others" specifically want Hurley brought to them, but then let him go back to the camp?
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