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15

Image from the Jigsaw Puzzles

15 is the third of the Numbers. Below is a list of appearances on the show, by episode chronology.

15 is a fairly common number, and many of the occurrences could be coincidental. See article: apophenia.

Occurrences in the show

# of the Oceanic flight is 815 ("Pilot, Part 1").
# of kilometers to the nearest town from Ray Mullen's farm ("Tabula Rasa").
# minutes after the hour Sun was instructed to walk out of the airport by the decorator ("House of the Rising Sun").
The appointment when Claire wanted to sign the adoption form was at 8:15AM ("Raised by Another").
# of the safe deposit box that Kate robbed is 815 ("Whatever the Case May Be").
# of hours Boone flew to rescue Shannon ("Hearts and Minds").
The copiers that Charlie was trying to sell were model # C-815 ("Homecoming").
# on the whiskey bottle that Sawyer and Christian drink from ("Outlaws").
# of the aisle that has nerf balls in Locke's store (aisle 8 for regular ones, strange that the balls are kept so far apart). ("Deus Ex Machina").
# of years passed between when Kate and Tom Brennan buried the time capsule and the crash of Flight 815; also, it was buried on 8/15 ("Born to Run").
# of Michael and Walt’s room is 815 ("Exodus, Part 1").
# of hours Shannon says she doesn't want to sit next to a crying baby for ("Exodus, Part 1").
# of miles out to sea the raft was when they discovered the blip on the radar ("Exodus, Part 2").

When Jack meets Desmond in the stadium, 15 can be seen in the seat number in the lowest row of seats (lower-right corner, wide-screen version) when Jack starts to run upstairs just before he trips.

# of main characters on the promotional poster.
Adam Rutherford's time of death was recorded in St. Sebastian Hospital at 8:15. ("Man of Science, Man of Faith").
Teresa Cortez's door has "315 Captain" on it. ("Collision")
In Charlie's place, a Drive Shaft "Drive Across America Tour" poster hangs for their concert on 8/15/2000 ("Fire + Water")
Anthony Cooper's safety deposit box was #1516 ("Lockdown").
The Blast Door map in the same episode features the expression "√16. √64. √225" beneath The Flame which evaluates to 4, 8, and 15. ("Lockdown")
According to the driver's license found by Sayid, The Real Henry Gale lived on 815 Walnut Ridge Rd ("Lockdown").
# of people that started helping Bernard build the SOS sign, before numbers dwindled ("S.O.S.").
# on one of the LAPD cars. ("Two for the Road")

'15th Annual Girls of Fiji Pictorial'

Jack's pager had the time 7:15:23 on it ("A Tale of Two Cities").
Jae Lee's hotel room number was 1516 ("The Glass Ballerina").
4:8:15 can be seen carved into Eko's stick upon close examination. ("The Cost of Living")
The issue of Playpen seen in Sawyer's stash featured a '15th Annual Girls of Fiji Pictorial' ("Flashes Before Your Eyes").
The delivery man in Desmond's flashback is looking for room 815 ("Flashes Before Your Eyes").
The photo cart in Desmond's flashback has the number 15 on the side of it ("Flashes Before Your Eyes").

On the orientation video for Station 6 a rabbit is seen with 15 painted on its side. (Orchid orientation film)
The docket number of Kate's trial was 42 23 1615, the last four Numbers in reverse. ("Eggtown")
Desmond awakes in Daniel Faraday's Oxford laboratory and says he was in the future for 5 minutes. Daniel says Desmond was catatonic 75 minutes. The ratio of 5 to 75 is 15.
Ben tells Locke the safe combination: 36 15 28.
Hurley rolls a 15 while playing Risk.
Hurley eats 15-year-old DHARMA Initiative crackers. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")
In the future, Sayid asks a man the time. He is about the say 8:15 when Sayid shoots him.

08/15 and 08/16 are the respective dates of Widmore Twins birth's in Gary Troup's 'Bad Twin' (Bad Twin).
Cliff began his search for Zander on April 15th (4/15) (Bad Twin).

In the Damon Lindelof-written comic book Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk, the Hulk is said to have killed 815 people in a New York rampage.
The number of basic human emotions [according to ] UC Berkley cognitive scientist [Richard S. Lazarus]. Lazarus studied emotional states specifically related to [stress, adaptation and coping strategies].
In Richard Adams' (author of Watership Down) book The Plague Dogs, Snitter was labeled with the number 815 in the Animal Research (Experiments on animals).

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