Post by Jack on Dec 16, 2006 4:36:18 GMT -5
Eko:
OUTSIDE
As a child, Eko was very close to his brother Yemi, even stealing food for him. However, he was caught by a nun and was force to "confess his sins". Eko and Yemi were separated when Eko shot an unarmed man at the behest of unidentified Nigerian guerrilla members. He did this to spare his brother from doing so. As a result, Eko was recruited into the guerrilla group instead. When asked his name, he responds "Eko." One of the militia members then refers to him as "Mr. Eko", a nickname which stuck.
Years later, Eko became a leader of a criminal organization. Mr. Eko's business included drug running (primarily out of the country, so the drugs were not used by Nigerians). He came across a large supply of heroin, which he wanted to get out of the country. In the process, he killed two Moroccan drug dealers. Eko realized that the best way to smuggle out the heroin is to take advantage of special laws for UN aid groups or missionaries and priests. Eko returned to his old village, where Yemi is now a priest. Eko asked his brother to help him smuggle the drugs out of the country, making use of the Virgin Mary statues that Yemi's church was selling. Yemi refused. Eko returned a second time, this time with a threat. He asked Yemi to sign papers that would make Eko and his partners Goldie and Olu appear to be priests, or Eko's men will burn the church to the ground. Yemi agreed under this threat.
When the shipment is prepared, Eko and his men assemble at an airstrip dressed as priests, and begin to load a Beechcraft with the statues, which contain the heroin. Yemi came to the airstrip to urge Eko to call off the mission, but the Nigerian Army, alerted by Yemi, arrived to stop Eko. During the crossfire between the military and Eko's men, Yemi was shot. Goldie helped drag Yemi onto the plane; however, he kicked Eko off the plane and back onto the runway, so Eko was left behind. When addressed as a priest by the soldiers, he pretended to be just that.
Eko is taken back to the village and dropped off at his church. Going inside, he finds Yemi's bible, left in the confession box, which holds a photo of him and Eko as children inside. A few moments later, Amina shows up with her son Daniel and asks where Yemi is. Eko informs him he has been called away on urgent business to a village to the south and that he will be replacing him. Amina comments that Yemi was to be leaving for a church in London in a few days, Eko replies that he will take over there as well. Later, while preparing for a service, Eko hears gunfire outside and rushes out. There he meets a militia leader named Emeka who tells him that he had a deal with Yemi regarding the village's semi-annual shipment of vaccinations, wherein he would get 80% and the village would keep the remainder. Eko informed him that he was not afraid of him, so Emeka shot a bystander.
When Eko asked about the deal, he was told by Amina that the vaccines sell for a high price on the black market. Eko then met with a black market dealer in an apparent attempt to get word out to Emeka that he was planning on selling the vaccines. When Emeka arrived at the church with his bodyguards and threatened to cut off Eko's hands for stealing, Eko attacked and killed the three of them, striking down Emeka as he begged for mercy. The villagers boarded up the church as it was no longer sacred and Amina told Eko to start fresh in London and that he would one day pay for his sins. Daniel asks Eko if he was a bad man after he killed the extortionists and Eko did not respond until his confrontation with The Monster in Season Three
At some later point in time, Eko (known as "Father Tunde") served as a priest in an Australian church. He took confession from a man who has actually arrived to provide a passport (listing his name as Oduduwa Ulu with a date of issue of April 16, 2004) so Eko could travel to Los Angeles. He was asked by a senior priest to investigate a reported miracle, the apparent resurrection of a young woman who drowned the day before. Eko visits the undertaker, who plays him the tape of his autopsy procedure. He later visited the home of the woman, Charlotte Malkin, and encounters her father, Richard Malkin, who seeks to explain away the "miracle" as a cover-up of the undertaker's incompetence. Richard is the psychic who told Claire to go on the plane, though he admits to Eko that he is a fraud. At the airport in Sydney, prior to boarding Oceanic Flight 815, Eko encounters Charlotte, who agitates him by saying that she saw his brother, Yemi, when she was "between places," asking her to tell Eko to have faith.
Mr. Eko was in the tail section of the plane. Yoruba, where he is from, was originally called Eko. (So was Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city.)
SEASON ONE/TWO
Mr. Eko survived the tail crash, and helped many people make it back to the shore. The Others attacked the first night, and he was a target. However, Eko killed both of his attackers with a rock. Even though his actions were in self-defense, Eko is saddened by his murdering, and takes a vow of silence for the next forty days, instead carving a stick with biblical references. This stick is later nicknamed "Jesus Stick" by Charlie. One scripture verse reads "Lift up your eyes and look north" (Genesis 13:14), which seems to be connected with the north part of the island. Another verse, John 3:5 seems to clearly fit the theme of baptism in the episode ("Fire and Water").
Eko and the other tail-section survivors lived in The Arrow, where Eko found a hollowed out Bible containing a section of film. Eko single-handedly attacked and captured Jin, Michael, and Sawyer, presumably because he believed they were Others. He often disagreed with Ana-Lucia over the three captives, and eventually Jin and Michael are let go. Michael took off to find Walt, and Eko joined Jin to go find Michael. As the group reunited, Eko carries a dying Sawyer on his back so that Jack can help Sawyer.
Later, Locke and Eko watch the orientation film, and Eko revealed that he has the missing piece. Eko later learned from Claire that Charlie has a statue of the Virgin Mary. Eko confronted Charlie and demanded to be taken to the plane where Charlie found them. While they were wandering through the jungle, Charlie climbed a tree to get look at the surroundings. While Charlie is in the tree, the Monster approached, and Eko, motionless, stared at the black smoke while it confronted him (See gallery below). It then moved on. Eko and Charlie continued into the jungle where they found the plane and the bodies of Yemi, Goldie, and Olu. Eko retrieved a cross pendent from Yemi's body, the same one that the guerrillas removed from Eko when he was a boy. Eko and Charlie set the plane on fire, burning the body of Yemi, and recited The 23rd Psalm. Eko then tells Charlie that he is a priest. Eko is then enlisted to baptize Claire and Aaron.
Mr. Eko had been marking and cutting down trees near the beach for reasons unknown. This carried on for several episodes until Charlie asked why he was marking the trees. In responds, Mr. Eko only said he simply liked them. It was later revealed that he is building a church in memory of Yemi's "defiled" church in Nigeria, for which he has enlisted Charlie's help.
Eko knew about "Henry Gale"'s presence in the Hatch while it was kept secret from other crash survivors. Eko asked to speak to him, and when he did, Eko apologized for killing two of The Others. He cut two tails from his beard and offered them to "Henry" as a symbol of the two men and his repentance.
In ?, Eko had a dream involving Ana-Lucia and his brother Yemi, where both told him to help Locke, and to go to the "question mark"--and to bring along his hatchet. Eko asked Locke to help him find Henry, who had escaped. Later in the jungle, he told Locke that they are really in search of the "question mark." As Yemi had predicted in the vision, Locke refused to tell Eko what the question mark is, so Eko knocked him out with the butt of the hatchet. When Locke awoke, he showed Eko his sketch of the Blast Door Map, and Eko decided that they must find the question mark as shown on the map. Then, they arrived at the Beechcraft.
While lying down, Locke had a dream involving Yemi and Eko climbing the nearby cliff. Locke tells Eko about it, and Eko climbs the cliff only to find nothing but a grass. But when he looks down from the cliff, he sees a question mark is in the ground below. Eko returns to where Locke is, and observes that salt had been put into the ground to keep grass from growing in the question mark shape. They dig under the Beechcraft, which is laying on the dot of the question mark. It reveals another hatch.
They enter the hatch, called the Pearl. It featured a bank of TV monitors that enable the inhabitants to view the other hatches. Eko and Locke saw Jack in The Swan.
They found another orientation film, which said that the jobs of the other hatch members are a "psychological experiment." This information (along with Henry Gale's false claim that he did not push the button and nothing happened) shattered Locke's faith in the Island, while due to Eko's dream, Eko believed that pushing the button had become even more important.
Eko enlists Charlie to help him enter the Swan.He announces that if Locke was not going to continue to push the button, he would.
Eko found notebooks and papers filled with numbers; he decided to bring these objects back from The Pearl because he believed that they were extremely important.
Eko decided to move into The Swan to take over the task of pushing the button. He asked Charlie to bring him his belongings from the beach, having decided to quit working on the church for now (which upset Charlie).
In Live Together, Die Alone, Locke tried to stop Eko from pushing the button. Eko shoots back with Locke's oft-said words: " Do not tell me what I can't do." Eko was inside The Swan during the system failure and when Desmond triggered the failsafe.
SEASON THREE
After the implosion of the Hatch, Eko ended up in a polar bear cave, badly injured. After Locke had a vision in which Boone tells him to "clean up his own mess," John went on a quest to save Eko, since it was his opposition to Eko that caused the disaster at the Swan. Locke tracked the polar bear with Charlie to its cave, torched the bear to save Eko, and took him back to the camp ("Further Instructions").
Eko remains in a feverish coma for two days after being rescued, but wakes to see Yemi standing over him, telling him it is time to confess his sins and that Eko knows where to find him. Yemi then lights Eko's tent on fire with the lighter in his hand. Eko is saved by Charlie and Locke again, but disappears as soon as Charlie takes his eyes off him, after Charlie ignores his whispers about his brother. He heads for the ? and Locke, Nikki, Paulo, and Sayid give chase, finding him on their way at a river, where moments earlier Eko saw The Monster again. After pursuing visions of his brother, several smugglers he had killed, and brief appearances by the smoke monster, Eko comes to the Nigerian plane, where his brother was laid to rest.
However, Eko finds that his brother's body has been removed by unknown people (or forces). Eko sees Yemi once more and chases him into an open field. There, Eko confesses he has not sinned to his brother. Eko states that he did not ask for the life that he was given, but it was given nonetheless. And with it, he did the best he could. Eko also mentions his sacrifice for Yemi when they were young. However, what seems to be Yemi announces he is not Eko's brother. Again, the person who appears like Yemi disappears into the jungle, with Eko in hot pursuit. The Monster then appears and advances threateningly while Eko begins to recite The 23rd Psalm as before. This time, however, it attacks him, beating him into trees and then slamming him into the ground. Locke finds the broken Eko who, before he passes away, whispers into Locke's ears. Sayid asked what Eko’s final words were, to which Locke replies, "We're next."
In I Do, Locke confers with Sayid that too many people have died to bury them in the graveyard, or the title among the losties, Boone Hill. The two return to the camp to get shovels and decide to bury him where they found him. On their way back, they find Eko's Stick. Locke says a short speech around The explorers to The Pearl, and shortly after, he sees the verse Genesis 13:14 Written in all capital letters. It reads: LIFT UP YOUR EYES AND LOOK NORTH. Directly below it was the scripture “John 3:05”. This scripture reads: “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the spirit."
This is the last time we see the survivors at the camp before the break after I Do.
OUTSIDE
As a child, Eko was very close to his brother Yemi, even stealing food for him. However, he was caught by a nun and was force to "confess his sins". Eko and Yemi were separated when Eko shot an unarmed man at the behest of unidentified Nigerian guerrilla members. He did this to spare his brother from doing so. As a result, Eko was recruited into the guerrilla group instead. When asked his name, he responds "Eko." One of the militia members then refers to him as "Mr. Eko", a nickname which stuck.
Years later, Eko became a leader of a criminal organization. Mr. Eko's business included drug running (primarily out of the country, so the drugs were not used by Nigerians). He came across a large supply of heroin, which he wanted to get out of the country. In the process, he killed two Moroccan drug dealers. Eko realized that the best way to smuggle out the heroin is to take advantage of special laws for UN aid groups or missionaries and priests. Eko returned to his old village, where Yemi is now a priest. Eko asked his brother to help him smuggle the drugs out of the country, making use of the Virgin Mary statues that Yemi's church was selling. Yemi refused. Eko returned a second time, this time with a threat. He asked Yemi to sign papers that would make Eko and his partners Goldie and Olu appear to be priests, or Eko's men will burn the church to the ground. Yemi agreed under this threat.
When the shipment is prepared, Eko and his men assemble at an airstrip dressed as priests, and begin to load a Beechcraft with the statues, which contain the heroin. Yemi came to the airstrip to urge Eko to call off the mission, but the Nigerian Army, alerted by Yemi, arrived to stop Eko. During the crossfire between the military and Eko's men, Yemi was shot. Goldie helped drag Yemi onto the plane; however, he kicked Eko off the plane and back onto the runway, so Eko was left behind. When addressed as a priest by the soldiers, he pretended to be just that.
Eko is taken back to the village and dropped off at his church. Going inside, he finds Yemi's bible, left in the confession box, which holds a photo of him and Eko as children inside. A few moments later, Amina shows up with her son Daniel and asks where Yemi is. Eko informs him he has been called away on urgent business to a village to the south and that he will be replacing him. Amina comments that Yemi was to be leaving for a church in London in a few days, Eko replies that he will take over there as well. Later, while preparing for a service, Eko hears gunfire outside and rushes out. There he meets a militia leader named Emeka who tells him that he had a deal with Yemi regarding the village's semi-annual shipment of vaccinations, wherein he would get 80% and the village would keep the remainder. Eko informed him that he was not afraid of him, so Emeka shot a bystander.
When Eko asked about the deal, he was told by Amina that the vaccines sell for a high price on the black market. Eko then met with a black market dealer in an apparent attempt to get word out to Emeka that he was planning on selling the vaccines. When Emeka arrived at the church with his bodyguards and threatened to cut off Eko's hands for stealing, Eko attacked and killed the three of them, striking down Emeka as he begged for mercy. The villagers boarded up the church as it was no longer sacred and Amina told Eko to start fresh in London and that he would one day pay for his sins. Daniel asks Eko if he was a bad man after he killed the extortionists and Eko did not respond until his confrontation with The Monster in Season Three
At some later point in time, Eko (known as "Father Tunde") served as a priest in an Australian church. He took confession from a man who has actually arrived to provide a passport (listing his name as Oduduwa Ulu with a date of issue of April 16, 2004) so Eko could travel to Los Angeles. He was asked by a senior priest to investigate a reported miracle, the apparent resurrection of a young woman who drowned the day before. Eko visits the undertaker, who plays him the tape of his autopsy procedure. He later visited the home of the woman, Charlotte Malkin, and encounters her father, Richard Malkin, who seeks to explain away the "miracle" as a cover-up of the undertaker's incompetence. Richard is the psychic who told Claire to go on the plane, though he admits to Eko that he is a fraud. At the airport in Sydney, prior to boarding Oceanic Flight 815, Eko encounters Charlotte, who agitates him by saying that she saw his brother, Yemi, when she was "between places," asking her to tell Eko to have faith.
Mr. Eko was in the tail section of the plane. Yoruba, where he is from, was originally called Eko. (So was Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city.)
SEASON ONE/TWO
Mr. Eko survived the tail crash, and helped many people make it back to the shore. The Others attacked the first night, and he was a target. However, Eko killed both of his attackers with a rock. Even though his actions were in self-defense, Eko is saddened by his murdering, and takes a vow of silence for the next forty days, instead carving a stick with biblical references. This stick is later nicknamed "Jesus Stick" by Charlie. One scripture verse reads "Lift up your eyes and look north" (Genesis 13:14), which seems to be connected with the north part of the island. Another verse, John 3:5 seems to clearly fit the theme of baptism in the episode ("Fire and Water").
Eko and the other tail-section survivors lived in The Arrow, where Eko found a hollowed out Bible containing a section of film. Eko single-handedly attacked and captured Jin, Michael, and Sawyer, presumably because he believed they were Others. He often disagreed with Ana-Lucia over the three captives, and eventually Jin and Michael are let go. Michael took off to find Walt, and Eko joined Jin to go find Michael. As the group reunited, Eko carries a dying Sawyer on his back so that Jack can help Sawyer.
Later, Locke and Eko watch the orientation film, and Eko revealed that he has the missing piece. Eko later learned from Claire that Charlie has a statue of the Virgin Mary. Eko confronted Charlie and demanded to be taken to the plane where Charlie found them. While they were wandering through the jungle, Charlie climbed a tree to get look at the surroundings. While Charlie is in the tree, the Monster approached, and Eko, motionless, stared at the black smoke while it confronted him (See gallery below). It then moved on. Eko and Charlie continued into the jungle where they found the plane and the bodies of Yemi, Goldie, and Olu. Eko retrieved a cross pendent from Yemi's body, the same one that the guerrillas removed from Eko when he was a boy. Eko and Charlie set the plane on fire, burning the body of Yemi, and recited The 23rd Psalm. Eko then tells Charlie that he is a priest. Eko is then enlisted to baptize Claire and Aaron.
Mr. Eko had been marking and cutting down trees near the beach for reasons unknown. This carried on for several episodes until Charlie asked why he was marking the trees. In responds, Mr. Eko only said he simply liked them. It was later revealed that he is building a church in memory of Yemi's "defiled" church in Nigeria, for which he has enlisted Charlie's help.
Eko knew about "Henry Gale"'s presence in the Hatch while it was kept secret from other crash survivors. Eko asked to speak to him, and when he did, Eko apologized for killing two of The Others. He cut two tails from his beard and offered them to "Henry" as a symbol of the two men and his repentance.
In ?, Eko had a dream involving Ana-Lucia and his brother Yemi, where both told him to help Locke, and to go to the "question mark"--and to bring along his hatchet. Eko asked Locke to help him find Henry, who had escaped. Later in the jungle, he told Locke that they are really in search of the "question mark." As Yemi had predicted in the vision, Locke refused to tell Eko what the question mark is, so Eko knocked him out with the butt of the hatchet. When Locke awoke, he showed Eko his sketch of the Blast Door Map, and Eko decided that they must find the question mark as shown on the map. Then, they arrived at the Beechcraft.
While lying down, Locke had a dream involving Yemi and Eko climbing the nearby cliff. Locke tells Eko about it, and Eko climbs the cliff only to find nothing but a grass. But when he looks down from the cliff, he sees a question mark is in the ground below. Eko returns to where Locke is, and observes that salt had been put into the ground to keep grass from growing in the question mark shape. They dig under the Beechcraft, which is laying on the dot of the question mark. It reveals another hatch.
They enter the hatch, called the Pearl. It featured a bank of TV monitors that enable the inhabitants to view the other hatches. Eko and Locke saw Jack in The Swan.
They found another orientation film, which said that the jobs of the other hatch members are a "psychological experiment." This information (along with Henry Gale's false claim that he did not push the button and nothing happened) shattered Locke's faith in the Island, while due to Eko's dream, Eko believed that pushing the button had become even more important.
Eko enlists Charlie to help him enter the Swan.He announces that if Locke was not going to continue to push the button, he would.
Eko found notebooks and papers filled with numbers; he decided to bring these objects back from The Pearl because he believed that they were extremely important.
Eko decided to move into The Swan to take over the task of pushing the button. He asked Charlie to bring him his belongings from the beach, having decided to quit working on the church for now (which upset Charlie).
In Live Together, Die Alone, Locke tried to stop Eko from pushing the button. Eko shoots back with Locke's oft-said words: " Do not tell me what I can't do." Eko was inside The Swan during the system failure and when Desmond triggered the failsafe.
SEASON THREE
After the implosion of the Hatch, Eko ended up in a polar bear cave, badly injured. After Locke had a vision in which Boone tells him to "clean up his own mess," John went on a quest to save Eko, since it was his opposition to Eko that caused the disaster at the Swan. Locke tracked the polar bear with Charlie to its cave, torched the bear to save Eko, and took him back to the camp ("Further Instructions").
Eko remains in a feverish coma for two days after being rescued, but wakes to see Yemi standing over him, telling him it is time to confess his sins and that Eko knows where to find him. Yemi then lights Eko's tent on fire with the lighter in his hand. Eko is saved by Charlie and Locke again, but disappears as soon as Charlie takes his eyes off him, after Charlie ignores his whispers about his brother. He heads for the ? and Locke, Nikki, Paulo, and Sayid give chase, finding him on their way at a river, where moments earlier Eko saw The Monster again. After pursuing visions of his brother, several smugglers he had killed, and brief appearances by the smoke monster, Eko comes to the Nigerian plane, where his brother was laid to rest.
However, Eko finds that his brother's body has been removed by unknown people (or forces). Eko sees Yemi once more and chases him into an open field. There, Eko confesses he has not sinned to his brother. Eko states that he did not ask for the life that he was given, but it was given nonetheless. And with it, he did the best he could. Eko also mentions his sacrifice for Yemi when they were young. However, what seems to be Yemi announces he is not Eko's brother. Again, the person who appears like Yemi disappears into the jungle, with Eko in hot pursuit. The Monster then appears and advances threateningly while Eko begins to recite The 23rd Psalm as before. This time, however, it attacks him, beating him into trees and then slamming him into the ground. Locke finds the broken Eko who, before he passes away, whispers into Locke's ears. Sayid asked what Eko’s final words were, to which Locke replies, "We're next."
In I Do, Locke confers with Sayid that too many people have died to bury them in the graveyard, or the title among the losties, Boone Hill. The two return to the camp to get shovels and decide to bury him where they found him. On their way back, they find Eko's Stick. Locke says a short speech around The explorers to The Pearl, and shortly after, he sees the verse Genesis 13:14 Written in all capital letters. It reads: LIFT UP YOUR EYES AND LOOK NORTH. Directly below it was the scripture “John 3:05”. This scripture reads: “I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the spirit."
This is the last time we see the survivors at the camp before the break after I Do.
