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  • Worked with Leonard Simms at a military listening post monitoring long wave radio transmissions in the South Pacific.
  • First heard the numbers one night (16 years prior to the crash) in the static and used them at a fair to win $50,000. On the way home from the fair, he and his wife got into a car crash, where his wife was badly injured (she lost her leg). Toomey blamed that, as well as future unlucky occurences, on the numbers. Those occurences continued until he committed suicide. Toomey's wife didn't believe that the numbers had any power at all.
  • Hurley attempts to track him down, only to find out he's dead.

Theories

  • Leonard and Sam Toomey may have been two of the member's of Danielle's science expedition. Rousseau may think they died on the island, but perhaps she is lying or mistaken. After all, there were 6 in the science expedition party, and only (possibly) 4 are known: Leonard and Sam may be the two unknowns. Since the expedition was lured to the island by hearing the numbers in the radio transmission, this would explain where they learned the numbers in the first place. However, their escape from the island would be a story unto itself.

Trivia

  • His name is an anagram of "MY OSTEOMA": osteoma (Commonwealth spelling) is a 'benign bony outgrowth of membranous bones'.[1]
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