how about the numbers? Danielle R. told Hurley a more specific reason of why her ship crashed on the rocks. They heard, 16 years ago, a transmission that repeated those numbers over and over; the ship changed course to investigate and thus went on the island. She indicated that the message was the one playing on the loop on the radio tower before she changed it to hers. Hurley goes to Australia and learns from Leonard's partner's wife that Leonard and his partner heard the same transmission also 16 years ago.