Simms, Leonard
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AKA: Lenny
Resided in: SRMHI
Occupation: Retired from US Navy
Reason for Travel: N/A
Flight Seat #: N/A
Hurley spent time as a patient in Santa Rose Mental Health Institute. While he was there, he met Leonard Simms. Lenny constantly repeated a series of Numbers over and over again: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42. When Hurley was released from SRMHI, he decided to use those numbers to play the lottery. After winning big, he fell under what he believed to be a curse. Convinced the numbers were cursed, Hurley set out to find out more about them.
Hurley visited Lenny, who was still in SRMHI. He briefly said hello to Lenny's psychiatrist, Dr. Curtis, and then found Lenny, who appeared to enjoy playing Connect Four. When Hurley told Lenny he used the numbers to play the lottery, Lenny snaps out of his numbers repetition and begins to panick. Lenny tells Hurley he shouldn't have used the numbers, and that he'd opened "the box". As Lenny was being escorted out of the room by security, he told Hurley to get as far away from the numbers as he could. Before he is forced to leave, Lenny told Hurley that he and Sam Toomey first heard the numbers in Kalgoorie, Australia.
Hurley later found out from Sam's widow Martha that Sam and Lenny were stationed with the US Navy at a listening post monitoring long wave transmissions over the Pacific. Usually, all they heard was static, but one day, Sam heard a voice repeating the numbers over and over again. Sam later committed suicide because he believed in the curse of the Numbers, and it is presumed that Lenny's commitment to SRMHI had to do with his obsession over them as well.
