The Tail Section

Season 1 Episode 05
Title: White Rabbit
Director: Kevin Hooks
Writer:Christian Taylor
FlashBack: Jack

FlashBack:
A young Jack awakes with blood trickling down a cut above the eye. Mark is being held at the fence while older boys are taking their shot at him. All he has to do is lie there and he will be okay. He needs to help his friend so he gets up and it greeted by the fist of one of the bullies.

Beach:
The memory is interrupted by an emergency on the beach. Someone is drowning. While Charlie explains that he can’t swim, Jack jumps in to get her. He swims to a point and dives down pulling out Boone who asks if he got her? Got who? Boone was trying to save someone else. Jack goes back in but realizes there is no way to save her.

Kate is talking to Jack pointing out that he needs rest. As they talk, he sees someone in a suit on the beach. Kate never saw anyone there.

Sawyer is selling off items that he has collected. Shannon is unwilling to pay the price for the sunscreen to which Sawyer responds that he accepts checks.

Hurley and Charlie turn to Jack about the water supplies being low, to which Jack wants nothing to do the responsibility.

FlashBack
Jacks father tells him that he simply doesn;t have what it takes. When Jack fails he internalizes it. When his father fails, he rationalizes it. To his father, Jack is weak because he feels his failures and feels the consequences for getting involved.

Beach:
Boone is all over Jack about saving him. He rejects Jacks authority and states that he knows how to lead as well. After all, he runs his momma’s company. While Boone is still yelping at him, he see the figure we now recognize as his father (with white shoes) in the distance. He walks past Boone and follows this man into the Jungle. When he reaches him, before he can touch him, them man turns around to reveal that he is Jacks father.

Claire faints and Charlie goes to find the water which is now missing, stolen. Locke goes looking for more in the jungle.

FlashBack
Jack in the study looking out a window at his reflection. His moms demand that he go and get his father after because of what he (Jack) has done. His father is in Australia.

Jack continue to runs after the man in the jungle. Birds call and every once in a while he sees the man and commits to run in the new direction.

FlashBack:
The hotel manager does not know where his father is. He has not been to his room in days and his wallet and medication is still in the room. The manager asks him to check with the hospitals.

Jungle:
He gets close and focus on the man, not the ground which causes him to fall down a hill and over a cliff. He catches a vine while going over and it prevents him of falling to his death. Just before he loses his grip, Locke reaches over and pulls Jack up to safety.

A moment with the Jack and Locke. Locke tells Jack what if the hallucinations where trying to tell him something. Locke tells Jack that it is not enough to just lead, a leader needs to know where to lead.

Beach:
Sun has water that Jin traded Sawyer for with a fish. This sends everyone into a fenzy. Charlie does his best to comfort Claire.

FlashBack:
Jack identifies his Dad’s body at the morgue.

Jungle:
Jack wipes his tears by the fire in the jungle. He is alone and hers more sounds. He follow the figure until he finds a coffin

FlashBack:
Jack is at the airport with Jin in the line behind him. He is emotionally explaining that he needs to get his father’s body home and he needs to bury him.

At the Cave:
He takes the nearest blunt object and bludgeons the coffin to pieces.

Beach:
Boone is caught as the water thief. He explains to the very angry mob that he was trying to help, when Jack appears giving hope and direction. After 6 days, no one is coming and it is time for them to live together.