8
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8 is the second of the Numbers. Below is a list of appearances on the show, by episode chronology.
8 is a very common number, and many of the occurrences could be coincidential. See article: apophenia.
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Occurrences in the show
Season 1
- # of the Oceanic flight is 815 (first mentioned in "Raised by Another") ("Pilot, Part 1").
- # of months pregnant Claire was when the crash happened ("Pilot, Part 1").
- # of times Jack strikes the lock on the cockpit door until it falls open ("Pilot, Part 1").
- # of months since Ray Mullen's wife had died when he met Kate ("Tabula Rasa").
- # of years since Kate was arrested (according to the mug shot, assuming the flight was in 2004) ("Tabula Rasa").
- # of months Locke and Helen (phone) were talking before he asked her to go to Australia with him ("Walkabout").
- # of days Charlie went without his guitar ("House of the Rising Sun").
- # of weeks Drive Shaft was going on tour ("The Moth").
- # of years Michael worked in construction ("The Moth").
- # of years old Sawyer was when his dad committed a murder-suicide and left him an orphan ("Confidence Man").
- The appointment when Claire wanted to sign the adoption form was at 8:15AM ("Raised by Another").
- # of hours Kate would spend in the woods with her father tracking deer ("All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues").
- # of times Jack pounds on Charlie's chest before he starts breathing ("All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues").
- # on Boone's t-shirt (in the form of a Japanese kanji symbol) ("All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues").
- # of safe deposit box that Kate robbed is 815 ("Whatever the Case May Be").
- # of years since Michael got hit by a car; also the number of years he has been writing him since ("Special").
- When Michael meets Walt for the first time in Australia, they are standing in an octagonal room ("Special").
- # of days Claire went missing after Ethan kidnapped her ("Homecoming").
- Sum of numbers Tommy typed into the jukebox ("Homecoming").
- The copiers that Charlie was trying to sell were model # C-815 ("Homecoming").
- # of whiskey shots between Sawyer and Christian Shephard ("Outlaws").
- # of kilometers away that the associate instructs Jin to drive ("...In Translation").
- The news station at Hurley's lotto interview was KSVU-8 ("Numbers").
- The logo of Mega Lotto Jackpot have a hidden 8 ("Numbers")
- # of people that die in Hurley's shoe factory fire, according to Ken Halperin ("Numbers").
- # of aisle has regular balls in Locke's store. (aisle 15 for nerf ones, strange that the balls are kept so far apart). ("Deus Ex Machina").
- # of years old Shannon was when her dad married Boone's mom ("Do No Harm").
- # of beers Jack's best man says he should have before giving the speech ("Do No Harm").
- # of people kneeling in the second row of the mosque ("The Greater Good").
- Kate and Tom Brennan buried the time capsule on 8/15 ("Born to Run").
- # of Michael and Walt’s room is 815 ("Exodus, Part 1").
- # on the Old Scooter Man's hat in the Sydney Airport (who Hurley buys the scooter from for $1600) ("Exodus, Part 1").
Season 2
- Adam Rutherford's time of death was recorded in St. Sebastian Hospital at 8:15. ("Man of Science, Man of Faith")
- The DHARMA logo is octagonal. ("Man of Science, Man of Faith")
- # of months until Sarah's wedding, from the time of the car accident. ("Man of Science, Man of Faith")
- # on a heart rate monitor in St. Sebastian Hospital.("Man of Science, Man of Faith")
- # of people at Michael's injunction to prevent his ex-wife from leaving.("Adrift")
- # of crash survivors that have died at this point when Michael tells Ana Lucia that there are 40 people at their beach. ("Orientation")
- # on one of the gas pumps in Hurley's flashback. ("Everybody Hates Hugo")
- Randy accuses Hurley of eating an 8 piece Mr Cluck's chicken pack without paying in Hurley's flashback. ("Everybody Hates Hugo")
- In Charlie's place, a Drive Shaft "Drive Across America Tour" poster hangs for their concert on 8/15/2000 ("Fire + Water")
- 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 the platform that crashed in the accident involving Hurley was supposed to hold (but 23 were on it, causing it to crash). ("Dave")
- The Pearl is an octagonal room. ("?")
- # of months Desmond has to get ready for his race around the world. ("Live Together, Die Alone")
- Desmond's post code/ zip code while in the Southway garrison is CO8 5WE. ("Live Together, Die Alone")
Season 3
- # of the locker that housed Kate's dress was 841 ("A Tale of Two Cities").
- # of Eddie Colburn's Humboldt County Sheriff's Department ID is: 84023 ("Further Instructions").
- # of Sawyer's prisoner ID is 840 ("Every Man for Himself").
- # of Munson's prisoner ID is 248 in a prison Sawyer is also in. ("Every Man for Himself").
- # painted on the back of a white bunny that Ben shows Sawyer ("Every Man for Himself").
- 4:8:15 can be seen carved into Eko's stick upon close examination. ("The Cost of Living")
- Jack operated on Ben in OP-08 ("I Do").
- After Mr. Eko dies, John Locke sees a scripture "John 3:05" on the prayer stick. 3+5=8 ("I Do").
- The delivery man in is looking for room 815. ("Flashes Before Your Eyes")
- In Phuket Jack wears a pendant shaped like an 8. ("Stranger in a Strange Land")
- Juliet's mark has an eight pointed star on it. ("Stranger in a Strange Land")
- Tricia Tanaka works for Action 8 news. ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead")
- The last digit on the odometer when Claire crashed her car was 8 ("Par Avion").
- # of stories Locke falls after being pushed out of a window by his father. ("The Man from Tallahassee").
- Nikki and Paulo steal 8 million dollars worth in diamonds. ("Exposé")
- The Medusa Spider paralyzes victims for 8 hours. ("Exposé")
- Spiders are one class of very few animals with 8 legs ("Exposé")
- Juliet ties a knot that clearly shapes an 8 ("One of Us")
- Jack and Kate spend tense moments in the jungle, gathering firewood and breaking it into usable pieces, and during their angry silence and the following conversation, they break a total of 8 branches ("One of Us").
- The clock on the Looking Glasslogo shows the time 8:15
- Jack watches Action 8 News to learn about the car crash. ("Through the Looking Glass")
- Mrs. Arlen's son was 8 years old when Jack rescued him from the car crash. ("Through the Looking Glass")
- The day Charlie Pace drowns to save the other survivors. Day 91 (9-1=8)
Season 4
- Jack watched Hurley's chase on Action8News. ("The Beginning of the End")
- The ladybug behind Matthew Abaddon has 8 dots. ("The Beginning of the End")
- The registration of the helicopter is N842M. ("Confirmed Dead")
- Jack says there are 8 survivors of the flight while on the stand at Kate's trial ("Eggtown")
- Desmond goes back in time 8 years to 1996 while experiencing side effects from his travel off the island to the freighter. ("The Constant")
- At the auction for the Black Rock painting, Charles Widmore holds up bidding number 755 which breaks down to 8 (7+5+5=17, 1+7=8) in Pythagorean numerology. ("The Constant")
- # of years between 1996 and 2004, the years Desmond's consciousness travels back and forth in The Constant.
- In ("The Shape of Things to Come") the number 8 appears twice on the number plate of the Taxi that Ben was in when he went to visit Charles Widmore in London. (Incidentally, the car behind the taxi when it stopped has the number 8 on it. In the same episode, Sayid mentions that he waited 8 years to find his wife.
- As Sayid knocks on the window and asks the man who is outside Hurley's Mental Institution , "Do you have the time?" The man is shot before he says the time "8:15." The same three digits as the numbers as the Oceanic Flight 815 that crashed on the Island. ("There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3")
The Lost Experience
- 08/15 and 08/16 are the respective dates of Widmore Twins birth's in Gary Troup's 'Bad Twin' (Bad Twin).
- Gary Troup stated that he went to Australia 8 times for research on his book "Bad Twin".
Outside the show and real life occurrences
- 8 is the sixth number in the Fibonacci sequence, in which every number is the sum of the two numbers before it - 1,1,2,3,5,8,13...
- One of Buddhism's Four Noble Truths is the Eightfold Path.
- In the game of Chess, each side of the squared board has eight files, thus each player starts with eight pawns.
- 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 senses available to normal humans according to Western science
- 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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