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General

• Eko is the Yoruba name for the city of Lagos (which is in Lagos State, the old Capital of Nigeria). His name is a symbol of the city. In Yoruba, Eko is symbolic of home, thus his name, Mr. Eko, resonates only with Nigerians who understand its true meaning.
• Adapts to life as a priest when he stays in disguise.
• Eko was killed by the Monster because he failed to atone for or admit to his past sins.
  • Or it could be the opposite, Eko finally atoned for his sins and was ready to die.
• Eko was building a church at the time he was killed by the Monster
• Eko atoned for his past sins, and the Island 'let him go'.
• The writers have said that Eko will reappear, but not necessarily in a flashback episode.
• People have seen 'ghosts' on the Island before. Jack saw his father and Eko saw his brother and Ana Lucia. Ben saw his mother. Therefore, the Monster will return in the form of Eko.
• "Yemi" set his tent alight in order to get him moving, to "kick start" him, so that he would venture out in to the jungle and find the Monster.
• Eko's vision of Yemi in "The Cost of Living" was actually Jacob, who had found Yemi's body and inhabited it.
• The implosion of the hatch sent Eko back in time to the day of Yemi's death, giving him the chance to save his brother. Therefore in The Cost of Living the body could not be found, because Eko had changed the course of time and Yemi was never on the island.

Looking into the Monster

• When Eko looked into the Monster he saw answers to some of the mysteries of the Island. (e.g. lift up your eyes and look north). This is why the Monster killed him because it gave him too much information.
• The Monster's "face" which faces Eko during his first encounter with it is a bearded man which is Jacob.

Final Words

When Eko died and whispered his final words to Locke, he announced them as "we're next". As confirmed in the November 6th podcast, Eko's final words to Locke were "you're next." This provides some ambiguity, though: Eko, in saying, "you're next", may have just been referring to Locke. If Eko meant "you all are next", Locke's interpretation would be correct - it refers to the Losties as a whole, or the group who went on the expedition to the Pearl.

• It is possible, as Hurley suggested, that his last words were referring to Nikki and Paulo who were the next people to die on the Island.
• He could refer to Locke as the next leader of the Others, the next guy who would be Jacob's spokesman, and that was who "the Monster said to Mr. Eko before killing him.
  • Further to this point, Eko could have been the Monster's first choice to do his bidding by overthrowing Ben, and when Eko "didn't work out" so to speak, he made his comment to alert John that he was the Monster's second choice for the job.
• His last words may refer to the Monster's next victim, a.k.a. Nikki she was bitten by the Monster's manifestation of a medusa spider.
• Eko realized that the Island would never forgive him of his past crimes and he knew the Island would never stop until he was dead. So when he said, You're next to John he was saying that Island would focus on him now

• The Spiders are not menifestations, but rather part of the Monster itself, which would support this theory further.
• Eko was referring to John's replacement of Ben as the Island's caretaker.
• "You're next" was not Eko's last words. Locke lied about what he said for a yet to be revealed purpose.