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Resided in: Los Angeles
Occupation: Spinal Surgeon at St. Sebastian Hospital
Reason for Travel: Returning to LA with father's body
Flight Seat #: 23B

Jack is a spinal surgeon at St. Sebastian Hosptial which appears to have ties to Los Angeles as well as Boston.  
Jack has a tattoo on his left upper arm that contains the number 5 and chinese characters. This is actually a tattoo the actor (Matthew Fox) has in the real world. The tattoo reads "Eagles high up, cleaving the space" in Chinese, from a famous poem by Mao Zhedong.  In the story, Sawyer thinks he got this while in Phuket, Thailand, where Jack said he learned to play cards.

Jack met Sarah when she was brought in for emergent surgery on a broken back, following a car accident with Adam Rutherford (Jack triaged her injuries first).  After the surgery, he met Desmond as he ran in the stadium, who was training for a race.  Jack confided in this stranger frustration that he would not be able to help Sarah walk again, and Desmond tried to uplift his spirits; the surgery was later found to be a miraculous success.  

He later fell in love with this former patient and proposed to her, sometime after her fiance (Kevin) broke up with her. At their wedding, childhood friend Marc Silverman was Jack's best man.

Jack tried unsuccessfully to perform a second miracle surgery on Angelo Busoni, a man who came from Italy to have his spinal tumor operated on.  After Angelo's death, his daughter (Gabriela) kissed Jack.  Jack revealed this to Sarah, in a moment of guilt.  Sarah revealed that she wanted a divorce because of irreconcilable differences and neglect, and that she was having an affair herself.  

Jack's father, Christian, was a Chief of Neurosurgery at St. Sebastian's and Jack's superior during his residency.  He also struggled with alcoholism and father-son issues.  Christian lost his job after Jack informed a medical board that his father was under the influence of alcohol during surgery, which resulted in the death of a patient. Christian left the country afterwards, and flew to Australia. Jack's mother, Margo, pled with her son to travel to Sydney and find Christian.

In Sydney, Jack learned his father had died of a heart attack. He later had to argue with the airport attendants to get the coffin on board. Jack was in the airport ready to board Flight 815, when he met Ana-Lucia, and they flirted in a bar.  

After the crash, people begin to respect and follow Jack because of his medical skills and air of leadership, but Jack himself is conflicted.  He begins seeing images of his father on the island, which lead him into the jungle.  Jack finds the coffin he checked onto the plane, but it has no body inside.  The image has also led him to inland caves with fresh water.  

Jack emerges as the initially relunctant leader amongst the survivors after his water discovery, and Jack convinces many of the survivors to move into the caves. Others decide to stay at the beach, splitting the survivors into two groups.  These groups later recombine.

After the hatch was opened, Jack spends a large amount of time in the Swan Station with Locke, who he has begun having some ideological conflicts with over the "pushing of the button."  Jack remains a skeptic, a grounded man of science.

He still continues to serve the others with his medical knowledge, and took care of Claire during her pregnancy/birth, Sawyer during his infection and Locke after his leg gets crushed; though he could do little for Edward Mars, Boone, or Libby after they are mortally injured.  Sun also amazes him with her knowledge of herbal medicine when he is shown her garden.

The other survivors frequently look up to him to make group decisions, and to speak at funerals when one of them dies (though Jack appears uncomfortable with the latter).  Before the hatch was opened, he was the only one who had access to the guns, and hung the key to opening the Halliburton case around his neck.

He is romantically linked with Kate, who kissed him, but neither pursue a serious relationship.

He has been involved in the survivors' contacts with the Others.  He met Tom once at "the line" and is forced to disarm in exchange for Kate's safe return.  He also made many decisions involving The Prisoner, and opposed Sayid's idea to torture him.

Jack goes with Kate, Sawyer, Hurley and Michael to get their revenge, and retrieve Walt.  However, the group is betrayed by Michael, and they are ambushed and captured by the Others.  Jack is one of the 4 on their list.  

--Last edited by TheIsland on 2006-07-11 14:29:31 --

I hope Fenry & Co will use the opportunity to beat some sense into Jack, and make him stop making all the ridiculous decisions and pay more attention to things around him...

He needs a good smacking if you ask me. I'm tired of it being the All Jack Show. I hope TPTB phase him into the background more this season. It is supposed to be an ensemble cast, yet Jack is in EVERY SINGLE EPISODE, and almost every important scene. Ugh.

I`m keeping my fingers crossed that Fenry is sick of him too, and leaves him gagged and tied for a while. (I`m also hoping they`ll leave Sawyer gagged and tied-up for a while, but for entirely different reasons )

I don`t know why they`re writing the Jack character so poorly this season - I thought he was better in S1.

There was a lot of talk over at LTV that it had something to do with MF's relationship with one of the big whigs in charge of the show.

I know MF has a lot of influence in the show, but I think TPTB need to realize that allowing him to be in every major plot line is not something that most of the viewing audience wants to see.

I saw a lot of those comments over at the other place too - but mostly seemed to made only by one person - so I wasn`t sure whether to believe it or not. About MF`s relationship with some ABC guy...

I used to like Jack - now I don`t think i`d even mind if they killed him off....

*gasp* They can't kill him off! LOL.

Not only is he nice to look at, but his character wasn't as always as irritating as he is right now. Plus, we need someone other than Charlie to complain about.

Well we know that TPTB read some of the forums so I am optimistic that they will tone it down with Jack next season. But if we endure another season of him like this past one, I may advocate his death too. At many points this season, I would much rather have had Charlie on the screen...

For all we know it's been something they planned... have Jack turn into an annoying "leader" to stage some sort of revolt against him.

Only problem with that would be that he's captured now...

More of an actor comment than a character one -- is anyone planning on seeing "We are Marshall" with Fox AND Matthew McConaughey?  

It looks good - and I mean that literally

WTF Jack?
I already hated you but you seem very happy in your new home with TOM.

Are Jack and Tom the new best friends? I was like "wtf" when I saw that LOL

i cannot explain that beyond brainwashing. but it is so bizarre. there is no rational explanation to it.

Does he need to make some choice, will he feel compelled to make some choice, between the Losties and Juliet now that the exit (his sub) to the real world has been destroyed by Locke??

I dunno.

But he's hawt.

Matthew just finished filiming "Vantage Point" slated to air next fall or early 2008. Its a drama / thriller and he will star opposite of Forrest Whitaker.

Ooooh, Foxy and Forest? Sexy!

hmmm that sounds like a ... er... nice cast

Questions about Jack per Lostpedia:

-Why is Jack seen playing football with the Others?
-Why is Jack seemingly acting different lately?
-Why was Jack (uncharacteristically?) violent with Achara? Why did he need the tattoo so badly?

I dunno, but his forcefulness with her was... er... hawt.

You know what that is a good point. His interaction with her was a bit "un-islandJack" huh?