Season 2, Episode 4: Everybody Hates Hugo

As the episode's title implies, it's an episode about Hurley, who fears that the survivors' fondness for him will evaporate now that he's in charge of the hatch's food pantry. His fear is grounded in the fact that he believed his life and relationships changed after winning the lottery.

MAJOR PLOT POINTS

Hugo has a nightmarish dream about devouring the food at the hatch, a dream that includes Jin and the Mr. Cluck's chicken and in which Hurley speaks Korean. It's all part of his anxiety over inventorying the food and determining how it should be doled out. To help ease his worries, he includes the oft-comforting Rose in the process. And Rose, of course, is still convinced her husband Bernard is alive.

Locke also tells Charlie about the hatch after unsuccessfully laying a thick guilt trip on Hurley in an effort to score peanut butter for Claire. Fed up with the pressure, Hurley decides he will just blow up the food with dynamite, so he doesn't have to worry about it anymore. Instead, Rose talks him out of it and Hurley convinces Jack that the best way to handle it is to simply pass it out to the survivors as a sort of feast. It won't sustain a group of 40 very long after all.

At the beach, Claire finds the bottle with messages that was sent out with the raft. It has washed up on the beach, indicating something could be awry with the raft. She and Shannon decide to show the bottle to Sun, whose husband Jin was on the raft. She opts to bury the bottle in secrecy as an act of mourning.

Unbeknownst to the primary group of survivors, Sawyer, Jin and Michael are still in the pit, but the tail-section survivors interrogate Jin and Michael and decide that thy truly were also on the plane and aren't The Others. From an original group of 23 tailies, only a handful survive now. Among the survivors is Bernard, who asks about his wife Rose.

During the flashback, Hurley wins the lotto jackpot but hesitates to turn in the winning ticket. Aloof as he tries to decide what to do, Hurley is called into his boss' office and yelled at, which prompts him to quit. His buddy also quits. Making the most of their unexpected "day off," the two pal around as Hurley tries to savor the remaining days of his normal life. He even asks out the cute girl and the record store he's had his eye for some time, wanting to be sure she likes him and won't suddenly like him for money.