Okay! Our beloved Lost is in the first half of the final season, and now some secrets are coming out. The numbers, part of the show’s lore since Season Two, have appeared in repeated forms throughout the entire show from there- The numbers are used to win the lottery, they are to be input so ‘the button’ can be pushed, and add up in some interesting ways. Now, it has been revealed that each ‘candidate’ has their own number, as referenced in both ‘The Numbers Cave” (06×04) and “The Lighthouse” (06×05), both pretty new additions to the storyline, as well as being a part of The Valenzetti Equation. Anyhow, here’s a few little bits of trivium for you:

4 John Locke

8 Hugo Reyes

15 James Ford (Sawyer)

16 Sayid Jarrah

23 Jack Shepard

42 Sun or Jin Kwon

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42 added makes 108, the number of minutes that must pass before the button is pushed… 5×108= 540, the number of days indicated by The Dharma Initiative that crews are to be switched out of the Swan Station. Curious, no?

Also, 108 is the number of the man that is to come to help Jacob. A candidate or a hero? I guess we’ll have to keep watching!