Lost Blog

Note: this is a look back at earlier episodes to give a general review and to write about the mysteries as they unfold.

Character Episode: Jack

Quick Recap On Flashback:
A young Jack is being held on the floor as he watches his friend get beat up. He decides to get up and help his friend, but the boy that held him on the floor punches him in the face.

When he gets home he has a conversation with his father, who tells Jack that he shouldn’t have tried to help his friend and that he will never be the hero.

A month or so before the crash, Jack visits his mother who tells him his father is in Australia and she wants him to go there to bring him back. Jack tells her he can’t after what he did but she pursuades him to go.

Whilst in Australia he visits the hotel room his father was staying in and finds that he’s left his wallet behind. Jack wonders whether his father hired a rental car but a hotel worker tells Jack that a car rental company wouldn’t have let his father hire a car in his “condition”.

Later, Jack visits a morgue to identify a body of a man who turns out to be his father.

At the airport on his way back to LA, Jack has a confrontation with a woman at the help desk after she tells him they won’t be able to put his fathers body on the plane just yet, but Jack is distraught and needs to bury his father as soon as possible because he “just want(s) it to be done”.

Quick Recap On Island:
Jack is woken up by Charlie who is panicking as there is a woman out at sea crying for help. Jack quickly swims out to rescue her, but comes accross Boone out at sea also. Jack thinks its Boone who was shouting for help until Boone asks Jack if he rescued her. When Jack gets Boone back to the Island he swims back in an attempt to rescue the woman, but fails.

Later that day Hurley and Charlie inform Jack that they’re running out of water, then Boone confronts Jack and tells him he could have saved the woman. While Boone is shouting at Jack, Jack sees a vision of a man quite a distance away, and instead of staying to listen to Boones concerns, he quickly runs after it.

When he catches up with the vision he is startled to see that it is his father!*

At the beach Claire collapses and when someone attempts to get her some water they realise that someone has stolen the rest of it. Locke, trying not to get everyone in a panic, offers to go into the jungle to look for sources of water.

Jack’s father disappears into the jungle and after his shock Jack follows him. He thinks he sees him and runs after him and ends up falling off the edge of a cliff. Luckily for him he managed to hold onto something, and that John Locke appears at the nick of time to offer a helping hand.

Jack and Locke have a discussion about what Jack is seeing, and Locke tells him that just because what he is seeing is impossible, it doesn’t mean it’s not real. He also tells Jack that he’s looked into the eye of the Island and what he saw was beautiful. After their conversation it is clear that Jack needs to catch up with his father.

On his own now, and in the dark, Jack hears rustling in the trees and follows the sound to an abandoned cave where part of the plane had fallen and landed. He finds the coffin his father was in and opens it to find it empty. Obviously distraught, Jack destroys the coffin.

At the beach, Boone goes up to Claire and offers her some water. It soon becomes apparant that Boone stole the water and is confronted by members of the camp. They soon get into a fight but Boone tries to tell them that he did it for the camp so that they don’t run out - then they’re interupted by Jack who is back from his trek in the jungle.

He gives a speech to the camp and tells them they need to start pulling together and contributing, and that “If we can’t live together, we’re going to die alone.”

*Another one of those OMGWTF moments!

Things we learn:

• Jacks father died in Australia and that is why Jack was there.
• It is Jacks father that Jack has been seeing on the Island.

Mysteries we’ve already seen?

• “Dead” People walking around

Questions?

• Why is Jacks father walking around the Island?

Things worth noting:

• At the beginning of the episode Charlie wakes Jack up to save the person out at sea. Charlie does this because he tells Jack “I don’t swim! I don’t swim!”. But, in the Season 3 finale we know that Charlie can swim because he swims down to the Looking Glass, and in the episode “Greatest Hits” we see a flashback of Charlies father teaching him to swim.

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