Season 4 Secret Clue 1

Welcome back to the LOST Secret Clue, where we dig deeper to find the clues and secrets you might've missed to fuel your theories! After an extremely extended break, we're hoping you're as excited as we are about the return of LOST, and what an amazing return it was! This week's episode, "The Beginning of the End" was a brilliant kick-off to what promises to be an golden season and, with the amount of mysteries both revealed and fuelled in this episode, I'm sure your head is spinning. A celebrity status reveal, two great character crosses, an unexpected otherwordly meeting and a friend back from the dead...

For the first time ever, instead of the season kicking off with a close-up on an eye, we were witness to a breakneck chase through downtown LA by none other than everyone's favourite cursed millionaire Hurley. After three seasons of a light-hearted, jovial pal it was truly shocking to see the panic in his eyes as he climbed from his Camaro, the only good memory of his father he has. But nothing could have prepared us for his next statement - "Don't you know who I am? I'm one of the Oceanic Six! I'm one of the Oceanic Six!!"

Let's look at the tally - we know from last season's finale that both Jack and Kate made it off the island, and we can now add Hurley. Who could the other three be? The journey appears to have changed their personality to the core - Jack, the former control freak, is in a drug-fuelled freefall into depression, while Kate wanted nothing more than to stay put in the life she'd built. The same can certainly be said for Hurley; while he used to take offence at any questioning of his sanity, he couldn't have checked into the mental institute quicker.

Did you spot who his detective was? None other than Ana-Lucia's former partner Big Mike! That wasn't the only flashback character making an appearance though - if you were watching closely enough, you might've noticed that the man filming Hurley's crash and subsequent arrest by chance was none other than Hurley's former boss/employee Randy Nations! In another particularly cool tidbit hidden for eagle-eyed viewers was the repeated motive of H-O - the Ho-Ho's Hurley noticed Charlie standing next to, the H-O in the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute and Jack's final score during their game of hoops. Why is that important, you ask? H is the 8th letter, while O is the 15th... that's right, 815! Even more interesting? HO is the chemical element Holmium, used in creating man-made magnetic fields...

Hurley's time in the Institute gave us several interesting moments. He painted an igloo which looked an awful lot like a station we've seen previously. He was visited by a mysterious representative of Oceanic Airlines, though I highly doubt he was speaking the truth... Anyone going by the name Matthew Abbadon can't be good news, as Abbadon is the Hebrew word for destroyer. What is Hurley covering up that he was so intent on finding out? Even Jack stopped by to check Hurely wasn't going to blab. Finally, he was visited by his dead friend Charlie who was intent on conveying one and only one message to Hurley - "They need you". Who are "they"? It was written on his hand when he smashed through the glass as the police station, and he couldn't say it enough to Hurley's face. The confusing part about their conversation? Charlie referred to him as Hugo, which he never has... so was it really Charlie? Was he real, a ghost or a shattered piece of Hurley's psyche?

But it was Hurley's on-island adventure that truly left me scratching my head. Last season, Ben was adamant that Jacob is someone who summons you for an audience, rather than you approaching. How is it that Hurley was so effortlessly able to stumble across the shack before forcing it to disappear? Could Hurley's overcoming of his curse have left him with powerful wish-fulfilment powers; could he now control his fate so strongly that anything he doesn't wish to face, he can simply blink it out of existence? He did it to Jacob's shack and to Charlie by simply closing his eyes, focusing and counting to five...

More importantly - why did he see Jack's dead Dad sitting in Jacob's chair? Could Christian be Jacob - or were those a second pair of eyes belonging to someone else entirely?

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