Lynn Karnoff was a psychic working out of California who met with Hurley and his father to do a tarot card reading. Lynn told Hurley that he had come into a great deal of money, and that bad luck had surrounded him, and stated that darkness surrounded the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42. Lynn said that a curse is like an unwelcome entity that needed to be exorcised in order to be cured of his curse. She told him to remove his clothes and grabbed a large pot and was placing items into the pot. Hurley then stated that she would give him a $1000 if she admitted his father put her up to it. When she initially refused and defender herself, he offered her $10000, and she agreed and admitted that she was put up to it.