Leonard Simms/Theories

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Dharma Initiative/Island Inhabitant

• Radzinsky is forced to leave the Island and assumes the name Leonard Smalls.
• Leonard is the foreman mentioned in Because You Left, who "started clutching his head". This would add evidence that he at one stage worked for the DHARMA Initiative.
• Leonard and Sam Toomey may have been responsible for manning the Swan; being naval officers may have been a cover story. This would explain how Leonard knows the Numbers (and passes them on to Hurley). It would also explain their lack of sanity, to a degree.
• Leonard worked for the DHARMA Initiative, but one of the experiments went wrong, addling his brains, causing him to be thrown out of the Initiative and into the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute.
• Is actually one of the first savants used to solve the Valenzetti Equation along with Sam. They were eventually released and Sam lied to his wife about this because they thought the DHARMA succeeded and had nothing to worry about.
• He is suffering from Island withdrawal, just like Jack in his flashforwards.
• He isn't insane but people locked him in the institute because they thought he was. He told them of what he saw on The Island, like the Monster, the Stations, the Others and The Island itself and they didn't believe a word of it and just supposed him to be crazy.
• Simms has been to or close to the Island before he went to the mental institution. The Numbers are his constant.
• Simms suffers from the same sickness as Rousseau's team (though they were not apart of it).

The Numbers

• Possibly heard the transmission from the radio tower.
• When Leonard tells Hurley after winning the lottery that he has "opened the box", this is the box which Ben refers to in the man from Tallahassee.

• He was talking about the Hatch, for it was at that point sort of box shaped.
• Leonard's comment could be could be a reference to Pandora's Box.

Santa Rosa

• Leonard is conspicuously absent in the flash-forward scenes set at the asylum in the season four premiere (Beginning of the End), meaning either the actor wasn't available, or something has happened to his character. He may have died or been released since his first appearance in Hurley's flashback.