On the island:
Eko survives the crash of the tail section, and is the
first to return to the water to help other survivors to
the shore. When the tail-section survivors are attacked
by The Others during that first night, he is among those
targeted. Unlike three of their other targets, however,
Eko fights back against his attackers and wins, killing
two of them. Disturbed and saddened by his actions, even
though they were done in self-defense, Eko remains silent
for the next 40 days, instead channeling his efforts into
the carving of a stick that he adorns with references to
Biblical passages.
Among the tail-section survivors, Eko simultaneously comes
to be the muscle and the soul of the group. His strength
is well evidenced by his single-handedly incapacitating
Sawyer, Michael and Jin when they are mistaken for the mysterious
attackers. However, he also speaks up in defense of the
trio, frequently disagreeing with the merciless Ana Lucia.
Moreover, Eko is also the first of the tail-section survivors
to support them, as evidenced by his actions when Michael
takes off in search of The Others. Even though he was initially
assaulted by Jin, it is Eko who goes off with Jin to find
Michael.
After the tail-section survivors begin making their way
across the island to join the mid-section survivors, Eko
proves pivotal in helping the two groups come together in
the face of truly terrible circumstances. After Ana-Lucia
shoots and kills Shannon and takes Sayid hostage, Eko, carrying
a dying Sawyer on his back, stands up to a crazed Ana-Lucia.
Then, after arriving at the Station 3 bunker, he meets Locke,
to whom he tells the story of Shannon's shooting. When Jack
hears this, he begins preparing weapons for an assault on
Eko's group. Not wishing to see any more bloodshed, Eko
stops Jack, instead offering to take Jack to the other group
if he promises to bring no guns.
Soon afterward, in Station 3, Eko meets with Locke once
again, who is looking deeper into the mysteries of the bunker.
After Michael, Eko, and Locke watch the Dharma Initiative's
Station 3 orientation film, Eko pulls Locke to the side.
There, Eko shows him an item he'd found in the other bunker:
a hollowed-out Bible, which contains a missing piece of
the orientation film.
Later, Eko learns from Claire that Charlie has been carrying
around a Virgin Mary statue. Surprised and angered, Eko
confronts Charlie about the statue and forces him to bring
Eko to the plane. While wandering through the jungle, while
Charlie is in the trees searching for the plane, the island's
"security system" appears and charges Eko. Undaunted
by the dangerous entity before him, Eko stands his ground
and stares down the "security system," which displays
in its smokey swirls flashes of images from his past. Unshaken
by the encounter, Eko continues on, until he and Charlie
arrive at the plane, the same Beechcraft plane Eko had used
in Nigeria. Inside, Eko finds his brother's body, and, coming
full circle, retrieves the cross pendant that had been thrown
away by the guerrillas when he was taken from his village.
Afterward, he and Charlie set the plane ablaze, as the two
recite the 23rd Psalm. He tells Charlie that he is a priest
putting on the cross.
In the episode Maternity Leave, Eko discovers Henry Gale
and coerces Jack into permitting a meeting between the two
of them. He tells Henry that he is sorry for killing the
men who tried to drag him from the beach. He then proceeds
to cut a set of two tails from his beard and hand them to
Henry.
Eko begins to build a church on the island, which the help
of Charlie, when one night he has a dream about his dead
brother. His brother tells him he needs to seek out John
Locke and help him. He must ask him about the "question
mark", and John will not want to help out freely. This
happens as the Un-Henry Gale escapes, and Eko and John go
hunting for him together.
They stumble upon the plane where Boone died, and Eko climbs
the ridge. When he looks down he notices the ground looks
like a question mark (?) and together they move the plane
and find another Hatch under the dust. This is the Pearl
Hatch, which appears to be a monitoring station. There are
numerous TV sets - all of which appear to have static when
turned on - except for one, which looks in on the Swan hatch.
There is also a printed log of numbers, an orientation
video from the Hanso Foundation, and a pneumatic tube which
whisks John's crudely drawn UV map away. After watching
the orientation video, John begins to loose faith while
Eko seems to have his strengthened.
Before the crash:
Before arriving on the island, Eko was a ruthless warlord
in Nigeria, renowned for his mercilessness and viciousness.
He is drawn into this life at an early age, when guerrillas
raid his village in search of young recruits. Taking an
older man in the village captive, the guerrillas order Eko's
younger brother, Yemi, to kill the man. When he hesitates,
the guerillas threaten to kill Yemi as well, leading Eko
to intervene to save his brother's life. Taking the gun
from Yemi, Eko shoots down the older man. Impressed by his
actions, guerrillas take Eko away, and stop to remove a
pendant bearing a cross from his neck before departing.
Many years later, after he has become leader of a guerrilla
group, Eko acquires a large amount of heroin, which he then
seeks to smuggle out of the country. Realizing that the
most reliable way to smuggle the drugs out of the country
is to take advantage of a privilege given to aid groups
and missionary priests, Eko returns to his old village,
where his younger brother Yemi has become a priest of the
village church. There he asks his brother to aid him in
smuggling the drugs from the country, requesting a large
number of Virgin Mary statues in which to hide the drugs
and the use of his plane. In return, Eko offers a large
sum of money, which Yemi would use to provide vaccines to
the village. Though momentarily tempted, Yemi refuses. Some
time after, Eko returns with a second proposal: sign forged
documents to make Eko and his henchmen appear to be priests,
for which he'll be paid handsomely, or watch as Eko's men
burn down the church. This second time Yemi agrees.
When the shipment is ready to be smuggled from the country,
Eko and his men assemble at an airfield dressed as priests.
While they are loading the plane, a Beechcraft 18, Yemi
arrives to convince Eko not to go through with his plan.
Moments after his arrival, however, the military, having
been warned by Yemi about the impending operation, arrive
to capture Eko and his men. In the ensuing gun battle, Yemi
is wounded in the crossfire. Before the military can stop
them, however, Eko and his henchman attempt to flee in the
plane. After placing Yemi on the plane, the henchman boards
the plane, but then suddenly turns and kicks Eko away from
the door, leaving him to be captured. As the plane pulls
away, the soldiers arrive at Yemi's vehicle. Based on Eko's
clothing, the soldiers mistake him for a priest, and set
him free.
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