On the island, Claire sees Eko carving scripture into a walking stick and mentions to him that Charlie carries around a Virgin Mary statue all to time. Eko demands to see it and breaks it open showing Claire the heroin inside. Eko demands that Charlie take him to the plane.
Meanwhile, Locke teaches Michael how to shoot a gun and Michael asks Kate to have her shift at the computer (obviously to talk to Walt).
On the way to the plane, Eko and Charlie find a corpse and Eko says that this man saved his life. Charlie gets lost and Eko tells him to climb a tree and get his bearings. While he is in the tree, explosions and black smoke come from the jungle. The smoke heads right towards Eko and confronts him with images of his past. Eko stands his ground until the smoke retreats back into the jungle. Once they find the plane, Eko finds the corpse of his brother Yemi who was a priest and takes the cross necklace off him so he can wear it. When Charlie asks him if he is a priest, Eko says yes and they both recite Psalm 23 from the old testament while they burn the plane and its contents.
When they return to the island, Charlie apologizes to Claire for the heroin but she tells him to stay away from her and her son. Charlie is then seen heading into the forest where he has a stash of virgin Mary's.
Flashbacks:
Nigerian warlords arrive at a small village and try to get a young boy named Yemi to shoot an old man. He hesitates and his older brother Eko takes the gun and shoots the man himself. The warlords are pleased by this and force him to join their group.
Years later, Eko is a powerful warlord. Eko visits the church in his hometown where Yemi has become a priest. Eko asks him for a plane because only missionary aircraft are allowed to leave Nigeria. He wants Yemi to sign ordination papers that would make him and two associates priests so they could fly heroin out of the country. Yemi eventually signs after Eko says that his people will burn the church to the ground if he does not comply. The heroin is hidden in dozens of Virgin Mary statues.
Dressed as priests, Eko and two others are loading the plane when Yemi shows up and tells them not to go. The Nigerian military arrives and shoots a henchmen along with Yemi. Eko puts his brother on the plane, but the pilot stops Eko from getting on. When the military approach, they mistake him for a priest and he goes along with it.
Do you think it was coincidence that Eko's brother's plane crashed on the island?
OK: Nothing about this show is ever coincidence.
SH: Nothing is ever a coincidence, but I don't think the show is going to do a good job incorporating that back in at the end because it appears they add things in just for fun.. *WALT*
What do you think about Eko's past?
OK: I really like his story line. I think it is something very new to the stories of the fuselage survivors. I feel like his story is one of the most in depth and thought out so far.
SH: I think there is a lot left to know about him, but his back story is the most detailed besides Sayid's I think.
Do you think his life would've been different had he not taken the gun?
OK: Of course. Either his brother would've pulled the trigger and they would have taken him, or neither would have shot and I think the gang would have killed them all.
SH: Yes, he would have never got mixed up in the crowd that he did. His life would be completely different.
Do you think finding his brother allowed him closure and forgiveness? Is this why he said he was a priest?
OK: I think Eko refused to move on and finding his brother did allow him the ability to do so. It gave him peace of mind and allowed him to forgive himself.
SH: I think that finding his brother made him face his past and therefore he did get closure. I'm not sure about the whole priest thing though, it confused me.
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