White Rabbit

White Rabbit's flashbacks once again focuses on Jack.  This time taking his back to his early childhood as well as the last few days before the crash.  We see a young Jack being held at bay by some school bullies while one of them attacks his friend.  He goes home and faces his father who we now know from the flashback that the person Jack is seeing on the island is his father.  Jack's father, Christian, tells his son that he doesn't have what it takes to make the tough decisions.  Decisions like his father has to make.  Christian is the head of surgery in a hospital.  Later, Jack now older, is ordered by his mother to go look for his father who has disappeared.  

 

On the island, Jack dives into the ocean to save someone in the water.  He finds Boone and takes him back to the beach.  Boone asks him if he save the woman Boone had went out after.  Jack sees a woman in the ocean as well.  She drowns and Jack is upset that after six days on the island together he never spoke once to the woman.  Once again he sees his father and goes into the jungle to look for him.  Jack falls and nearly tumbles down a cliff but is able to save himself at the last second by grabbing onto some vines.  While this is going on Claire has passed out in the jungle and when Charlie goes to retrieve some water for her he discovers what little water they have left is gone.  

 

 Fingers begin getting pointed as suspicion mounts as to who stole the water.  Sayid and Kate suggest it was Sawyer but it isn't him.  Meanwhile, Jin is still being a little overbearing towards Sun but he is also being very loving towards her.  While Locke is out looking for water he finds Jack hanging from the vines.  Locke pulls him to safety.  The two speak about Jack thinking he is going crazy.  Locke tells him he isn't going crazy but whatever he is chasing he needs to keep going.  He has to get his "White Rabbit" out of his system so he can be the leader the people need him to be.  Locke also mentions to Jack that the island is special and everything that happened has happened for a reason.

 

 

Christian has gone to Australia and even though Jack doesn't want to go after him, Jack's mother says it is the lease he can do for what he has done.  Uh-Oh!  Jack goes to Australia and goes to his father's hotel room.  It's empty of course except his father has left his wallet behind.  Or perhaps he never had a chance to pick it up before he was taken.  Eventually Jack discovers his father is dead and goes to identify the body.  So it's his father's ghost he is seeing on the island?  Later, Jack is at the airport and he is having issues getting his father's body onto the plane at the paperwork doesn't seem to be in order.  Jack looses his shit and yells at the woman at the desk.  We see Jin and Sun also waiting to check in behind Jack. 

 

 

On the island Jack continues to look for his father.  He finds another bunch of wreckage and in that wreckage he finds his father's coffin.  Jack opens the coffin and it is empty.  Besides the coffin though, Jack finds fresh running spring water.  The survivors back at the beach discover that Boone is the one who stole the water.  A few survivors begin pushing Boone around and just as things are about to get real ugly Jack returns.  He gives them the first speech as a leader.  It is his "Live together.  Die Alone." speech.  Honestly, it's a pretty good one.  God, you have no idea how much it pains me to compliment Jack.  Don't worry though I won't do it a lot.