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Christian told Jack, “I was you in my childhood”

— dannyBOONE

I personally don’t think there’s enough evidence to call this a theory, maybe we shall call it a fancy (because thats a fun word).

The idea stems around Christian and his conversation with Jack in a flashback of White Rabbit. The following is from a Lostpedia transcript of that episode: * “A young Jack lies on the ground in fear as a bully threatens him, while his friend, Marc Silverman, is being beaten by another bully. Jack attempts to intervene, resulting in a black eye. Later on, Jack explains the fight to his father, who tells Jack about his day at the hospital over a glass of whiskey on the rocks. Christian says that he’s able to cope with the difficult job of surgeon because he “has what it takes.” He claims that he can make life or death decisions daily, because even when he fails, he can live with the consequences. He concludes that Jack should not “decide,” because if he failed, he wouldn’t “have what it takes”.*

At first glance, this seems like an insult, but reading into it a bit, it seems that Christian is telling Jack that he doesn’t really care about the people he works on and Jack is too empathetic with people and the guilt would destroy him if he failed. Empathy is not a bad thing, but Christian has twisted it into an insult.

I also read on Lostpedia that Christian told Jack, “I was you in my childhood” but couldn’t verify in which episode he said this. My idea (or fancy, teehee!) is that Christian held a role similar to Jack’s on the island. Probably not crash survivors, but perhaps Christian grew up on the Island under DI and the lifestyle didn’t suit him anda few other ‘Initiates.’ But DI felt they were too valuable to leave the experiment and blocked any attempts to ‘escape.’ Or perhaps Ben recruited him and a select few to assist in the Purge (we just didn’t see them on camera). But the idea is that he was on the island, he chaffed under the established rule, and led or participated in some sort of revolt. But the revolt failed miserably, only he escaped. But no one else escaped or perhaps were even killed. (Or he participated in the Purge, which killed the rest of DI.) Either way, Christian was wracked with an incredible amount of guilt. And this led to the alcoholism.

We see in Outlaws that Christian isn’t mean spirited. He truly loves Jack and is proud of him, but why did he treat Jack so poorly? To protect him. He was trying to squash those same qualities and ideals he had in his youth from Jack. He doesn’t want his son to turn out like he has.

Sorry if this is incoherent. I just threw it together while at work. And something completely unrelated, two pennies says Carl’s last name is Jung (or Young or something similar!)

Key characters

Short Name	Full Name	Episodes	Theories
Dr. Christian	Dr. Christian Shephard		352
Jack	Jack Shephard	1.1, 1.5, 2.11, 1.11, 1.16, 1.20, 3.9, 3.22, 3.1, 4.10, 4.12, & 3” href=”/episodes/theres-no-place-home-parts-2-3/”>4.13	1505

Key episodes

#	Title	Aired	Central character	Theories
1.16	Outlaws	2-16-2005	Jack, Kate, Sawyer	69
1.5	White Rabbit	10-20-2004	Jack	147

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