An eye opens. We see a man lying in the jungle. Scared. LOST. Slowly, in pain, he gets up and emerges from the jungle to discover a crash site. He directly goes over and helps as many people as he can. He saves them. He's in control. His name, Jack. Moments later, when things have calmed down, he meets a woman, Kate. who helps him stiching the wound on his back. He tells her a story about fear, and tells her he's a doctor, a spinal surgeon. Jack&Kate continue to grow closer each episode and you can see that he's falling in love with her. In this season we find out who Jack Shephard is and how he gets pushed in the role of a leader without wanting to be there. We discover more about his past and his troubled relationship with his father, Christian Shephard. When he finds the coffin of his father in the caves, Jack starts to see visions of Christian beeing on the island. And tells Kate that his father died in Sydney and as his story continues we learn that Jack blames himself for that. His father always told him that Jack wouldn't be good enough, that he wasn't strong enough to be a leader, to fix things. And Jack believed him. When Boone is dying Jack gives in everything to safe him, he even donates his own blood after hours of surgery, but Boone dies. Jack takes his anger out on Locke who was partly responsable for Boone's death. Locke tells him about the hatch he and Boone found. The season ends with them opening the hatch and looking down in a deep dark whole. ~written by Liesbeth

Jack has always been a man of action; so when he was held in the Hydra by the Others at the beginning of S3, unable to do anything about it, he refused to be a cooperative prisoner; that is until he thought his friends' happiness and lives were at stake. Rather than turn his back he did something inherent to his heart--he sacrificed everything. He put his life on the line, without a shadow of a doubt in his mind that he would be killed for his actions. He did it out of love. Those two words probably best describe Jack's journey throughout Season 3 – love and sacrifice. Love for his people, love for a woman, sacrifice for his friends, and sacrifice for love. He was willing to give up everything if it meant leading the rest of his people to rescue and safety. His selflessness and leadership led his people to what they all believed was rescue. We found however, that in the future Jack was a mess. Broken. Shattered. Empty. Far from the man we knew on the island, but it’s those moments in between the hurt and the pain he was going through when we see that glimmer of hope; when he’s still saving people, still caring for others, feeling for others, still loving, still trying with all his might to do what he believes is right. It’s that light in his eye that lets us know he's still there, that he’ll be back. In the words of Faulkner, he "will not merely endure. He will prevail." ~written by Ashlee