I have a theory on Jack and Sarah that came to me last night. What if Sarah eventually loses the "miracle" in her legs? As we've seen Locke be injured, healed, injured, and then healed again... maybe something along these lines happened with Sarah. What if the Miracle of her being able to walk was like Jack's shower that he referenced... "it didn't take." Sarah makes the toast at the wedding that she's basically marrying Jack because he fixed her and made her to walk again. Well, what if that miracle passed and her injuries came back. She loses the ability to use her legs and thus Jack isn't the hero he thinks he is. Knowing Jack, this would kill him. Here he has this beautiful wife that was healed even when he couldn't heal her. She relapses and is a constant reminder of what he couldn't do to help her. It eventually tears them apart and removes any "faith" left in Jack.


Just a thought... what does everyone think?

Can someone tell me how long ago it was when Jack met Desmond/ Jack performed surgery on Sarah?

knowing this show, and the loop, i'd say 8 years

That would definitely explain why Jack loses his faith, rather than figure Christian drove it from him completely. Nice idea there, Locked Up! :)

Ultimately he leaves her because:

1. She is a constant reminder that he failed her
2. She is a constant reminder that faith and miracles don't/can't happen
3. He can't let go and just accept that some things happen for a reason.

I have a theory on Jack and Sarah that came to me last night. What if Sarah eventually loses the "miracle" in her legs? As we've seen Locke be injured, healed, injured, and then healed again... maybe something along these lines happened with Sarah. What if the Miracle of her being able to walk was like Jack's shower that he referenced... "it didn't take." Sarah makes the toast at the wedding that she's basically marrying Jack because he fixed her and made her to walk again. Well, what if that miracle passed and her injuries came back. She loses the ability to use her legs and thus Jack isn't the hero he thinks he is. Knowing Jack, this would kill him. Here he has this beautiful wife that was healed even when he couldn't heal her. She relapses and is a constant reminder of what he couldn't do to help her. It eventually tears them apart and removes any "faith" left in Jack.


Just a thought... what does everyone think?

The impression that I got was that this episode was about how Jack does not believe in miracles and that maybe he should. He didn't think that she would be able to walk again and yet she was... so it couldn't have been because of what he did that her legs were restored.
So, that's what I think eventually drove a wedge between them, one day he told her the story of how he really didn't even know that her legs would be able to work and then how can you have something as miraculous as that happen to you and not believe in miracles and yet Jack still didn't believe. It's very hard for two people with entirely different belief structures to stay together.

I believe it was 4 years from her accident to their wedding and I would suspect another 4 years from the wedding to the accident.

I believe it was 4 years from her accident to their wedding and I would suspect another 4 years from the wedding to the accident.

From "Do No Harm", Sarah said at the rehearsal dinner that it had been a little over two years since her accident.

Hmmm, damn my memory then.

I think it can be as simple as her ex-fiance coming back to her... twist of fate maybe.

abb08...excellent point!

I have a theory on Jack and Sarah that came to me last night. What if Sarah eventually loses the "miracle" in her legs? As we've seen Locke be injured, healed, injured, and then healed again... maybe something along these lines happened with Sarah. What if the Miracle of her being able to walk was like Jack's shower that he referenced... "it didn't take." Sarah makes the toast at the wedding that she's basically marrying Jack because he fixed her and made her to walk again. Well, what if that miracle passed and her injuries came back. She loses the ability to use her legs and thus Jack isn't the hero he thinks he is. Knowing Jack, this would kill him. Here he has this beautiful wife that was healed even when he couldn't heal her. She relapses and is a constant reminder of what he couldn't do to help her. It eventually tears them apart and removes any "faith" left in Jack.


Just a thought... what does everyone think?

Has it been proven or dis-proven that the patient that Christian killed on the operating table was Sarah and that she was carrying Jack's unborn child?
Scuzzle

Has it been proven or dis-proven that the patient that Christian killed on the operating table was Sarah and that she was carrying Jack's unborn child?
Scuzzle

I seem to recall Jack's father was trying to talk the husband/father of the unborn child out of suing him and the hospital in that episode. It almost certainly wasn't Jack.

It used to be a Law in the US that surgeon's could not operate on there own family members.
Even if Christian had done the operation, Jack would not have been called in to take over for him.