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Lost Mr. Eko

Mr. Eko is a fictional character played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje on the ABC television series Lost. He first appeared in the episode "Adrift".

Prior to the crash

Originally from Nigeria, Mr. Eko would always look out for his younger brother, Yemi, and the two lived in a small village. One day, as Eko is playing with the local children, a gang of guerrillas raided the village in search of young recruits. When Yemi refuses to shoot an elderly man, Eko steps in and shoots him himself, sparing Yemi from the same fate. Impressed by his actions, the guerrillas take Eko away with them, where they draw him away from his religious lifestyle and into the criminal life. Eko grows up to be a fearless warlord and a vicious leader of a guerrilla group. Eko returns to his home village and visits Yemi, who has now become the priest of the local church. He asks Yemi to help him smuggle the heroin by giving him a large number of Virgin Mary statues to hide it in, and also the use of the plane. Yemi refuses until Eko threatens that his associates will burn the church down if he doesn't sign documents that allow him and his henchmen to appear as priests.

Eko and his men assemble at the airfield on the day the shipment is ready to be smuggled. However, Yemi has tipped off the military, and tries to convince Eko not to go through with his plans. When the military arrives, however, Yemi is wounded in the ensuing gun battle and kicks Eko off of the plane. Surprisingly, Eko is mistaken for Yemi and released back to his village. Feeling guilty over Yemi's death, Eko assumes his role as the village priest. One day, Eko encounters a gang of guerrillas who made a deal with Yemi: they take 80% of the vaccines delivered to the village in exchange for the village's safety. Soon after, the guerrillas arrive at the church and attempt to cut off Eko's hands. However, Eko fights back and kills them, much to the shock of the village. The church is thus boarded up and Eko is ostracized until he leaves for London.

After leaving England, Eko serves as a priest in Australia, under the name Father Tunde. He is asked by a senior priest to investigate a reported miracle of a young lady who has come back to life after drowning. The father of the girl, Richard Malkin, dismisses the miracle as an act of incompetence by the undertaker. Eko soon prepares to board the doomed flight; shortly after buying a ticket, he encounters the girl whom the investigation is about. She tells Eko that she saw Yemi as she was "between places," and tells him to have faith.

After the crash

Eko lands with the tail-section survivors in the ocean, a short distance from the beach. That night, while the small group falls under attack from the Others, Eko kills two of them whilst resisting a kidnap attempt; feeling guilty, Eko remains mute for the following forty days. Later, Eko manages to beat Jin, Sawyer and Michael unconscious when they arrive on their beach, and haul them into a pit, dug by Ana Lucia.After proving their innocence, and Michael's disappearance prior to leaving the Arrow station, Eko helps Jin find him and bring him back. Later, after the death of Shannon, Eko carries a critically injured Sawyer the rest of the way to the camp.After learning of the orientation video, Eko manages to fit in with the remaining fuselage survivors.

Upon discovering a Virgin Mary statue in Charlie's possession, he demands to be taken to the Beechcraft where it came from, knowing that his brother's body would be there; the two decide to burn the plane, along with all the heroin-filled statues. Soon after, Eko baptizes Aaron and Claire. One afternoon he requests to speak to the man being held in the hatch. Eko confesses to him about killing two people on the first night of the crash and expresses his condolences before leaving. Later, Eko begins building a church down the beach, with the help of Charlie. However, after a dream where both Ana Lucia and Yemi tell him to help Locke, Eko abandons the church and ventures into the jungle with Locke, claiming to hunt down the escaped "Henry Gale." Eko manages to coax Locke into taking him to the '?' he drew on a map, resulting in the discovery of the Pearl station. After watching its orientation video, Eko vows to continue pushing the button in the Swan hatch, despite Locke's protests. The next day, Eko is locked out of the computer room when Locke and Desmond initiate a lockdown. Desperate not to let the timer run out, Eko asks Charlie to take him to the stash of dynamite from the Black Rock. Eko uses it to blow open the blast door but, despite his efforts, is unable to prevent the timer reaching zero and it implodes.

Eko manages to survive the implosion, but is dragged away by a polar bear. He is later rescued by Locke and Charlie, and pulled to safety. Later one night, Eko awakens to find Yemi in his tent, telling him he needs to confess before finding that his tent is on fire. Searching for Yemi, he soon decides to follow Locke, Desmond, Sayid, Nikki and Paulo to the Pearl station. Whilst waiting outside, he sees Yemi again, and follows the apparition to give his confession. Upon learning that it is merely a deception, Eko grows angry and chases Yemi into the jungle, where he confronts the "Monster". After being thrown about by the Monster, Eko is finally thrown to the ground, fatally wounded. He whispers his last words to Locke, "You're next," before dying.In one of the flashforwards in the final episode of the fourth season, Hurley is seen sitting at a table with a chessboard on it across from a seemingly empty seat. Before he leaves, Hurley says "Checkmate, Mr. Eko."