Mr. Eko quotes from Lost

Mr. Eko

[to Yemi] Have you forgotten how you got that cross, brother -- the day they took me? Is what I did that day a sin? Or is it forgiven because it was you that was saved?

Mr. Eko

[to Yemi] Yemi, I understand that you live in a world where righteousness and evil seem very far apart, but that is not the real world.

Mr. Eko

This cross was worn by my brother, Yemi. Yemi was a great man, a priest, a man of God. And because I betrayed him he was shot and died. He was placed on a plane which took off from an airstrip in Nigeria half a world from here. Then, the plane that I was on crashed on this island. And somehow, here, I found my brother again. I found him in the same plane that took off from Nigeria. In the same plane that lies above us now -- that has concealed this place. And I took this cross from around Yemi's neck and put it back on mine, just as it was on the day I first took another man's life. So let me ask you -- how can you say this is meaningless? I believe the work being done in the Hatch is more important than anything. If you will not continue to push the button, John, I will.

Sawyer

So what's your name anyway?

Mr. Eko

Mistereko.

Sawyer

Mr. Eko

Mr. Eko

(Smiling) Yes.

Sawyer

Whats that like Mister Ed?

Ana Lucia

You've been waiting 40 days to talk?

Mr. Eko

You waited 40 days to cry.

Mr. Eko

What do you want?

Jack Shephard

Excuse me?

Mr. Eko

Peace? Revenge? Justice? And you are going out with all these guns?

Mr. Eko

Hello. I have something I think you should see. If you don't mind, I will begin at the beginning. Long before Christ, the king of Judah was a man named Josiah.

John Locke

Boy, when you say beginning, you mean beginning.

Mr. Eko

At that time the temple where the people worshiped was in ruin. And so the people worshiped idols, false gods. And so the kingdom was in disarray. Josiah, since he was a good king, sent his secretary to the treasury and said: "We must rebuild the temple. Give all of the gold to the workers so that this will be done." But when the secretary returned, he had no gold. And when Josiah asked why this was, the secretary replied, "We found a book." Do you know this story?

John Locke

No, I'm afraid I don't.

Mr. Eko

What the secretary had found was an ancient book -- the Book of Law. You may know it as the Old Testament. And it was with that ancient book, not with the gold, that Josiah rebuilt the temple. On the other side of the island we found a place much like this, and in this place we found a book. [Eko unwraps the book and pushes it toward Locke] I believe what's inside there will be of great value to you.

It is true what they say about you.

Mr. Eko

And what is that?

You have no soul.

Mr. Eko

You are a prisoner because they are being careful. They are being careful because they believe you are lying.

Why would I lie? They think I'm one of these others -- other what?

Mr. Eko

Please, stop talking, Henry. The first night I spent on this island I was dragged into the jungle by 2 men. They never spoke a word to me, nor I to them. I killed these men -- smashed in their head with a stone, felt their blood on my arms. I need you to know how sorry I am for this. I need you to know that I am back on the righteous path now. And that I regret my actions. I ask you for your forgiveness.

Why are you telling me this?

Mr. Eko

Because I needed to tell someone.

Charlie

What are you makin'?

Mr. Eko

Hold that end.

Charlie

Is it a Starbucks?

I know why you're here, friend. But you can save yourself the trouble. What happened here was not a miracle.

Mr. Eko

The doctor that treated your daughter seems to feel differently.

Treated her? He tried to cut her open. He's just trying to cover up his own negligence. He tell you the whole story -- how she supposedly drowned? She fell into a mountain river, her body shut down; she went into hypothermia which made her appear dead.

Mr. Eko

And why is your wife so convinced otherwise?

Because she's a zealot. All of this -- everything she's doing -- is to spite me.

Mr. Eko

Why would she spite you?

Because she knows I'm a fraud. Because I make my living as a psychic. You see, that's what I do. I gather intelligence on people and I exploit it. Everyday I meet people looking for a miracle, desperate to find one. But there are none to be had. Not in this world, anyway.

Michael

I hear you're a priest.

Mr. Eko

Yes.

Michael

I guess you believe in hell, then?

Mr. Eko

For a brief time, I served in a small parish in England. Every Sunday after mass, I would see a young boy waiting at the back of the church. Then one day, the boy confessed to me that he had beaten his dog to death with a shovel. He said the dog had bitten his baby sister on the cheek and he needed to protect her. And he wanted to know whether he would go to hell for this. I told him that God would understand, and that he would be forgiven, as long as he was sorry. But the boy did not care about forgiveness. He was only afraid that if he did go to hell that the dog would be there, waiting for him.

Mr. Eko

Charlie, do you know how they got the Hatch door open?

Charlie Pace

No, but if you hum it, I could probably play it.

John Locke

I saw it once, you know.

Mr. Eko

And what did you see?

John Locke

I saw a very bright light. It was beautiful.

Mr. Eko

That is not what I saw.