Jate
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Jate is the fan-given name to the romantic relationship between Jack and Kate. Such nicknames for pairings are also more generally known as 'ships (short for "relationships").
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Timeline
Season 1
- 1x01 "Pilot, Part 1" - Jack and Kate meet for the first time; Kate stitches up Jack's injured back and Jack tells Kate a story about overcoming fear. Later that evening, by the fire, they flirt for the first time and formally introduce themselves.
- 1x03 "Tabula Rasa" - Jack finds out about Kate's criminal past and tries to overlook it. But when she asks him to end the Marshal's sufferings by killing him, Jack responds negatively and tells Kate "I am not a murderer." She looks hurt. Later, Kate comes to find Jack, to explain to him why the Marshal was after her. He declines, saying they should all be able to start over.
1x06 "House of the Rising Sun" - Kate flirts with Jack about his tattoos, asking him if he's a "hardcore spinal surgeon." Upon reaching the caves later that day, Jack and Kate see each other shirtless following their encounter with a beehive. Afterwards, as they are trekking through the jungle back to the beach, Kate notices Jack watching her and asks him if he's "checking [her] out." After Jack decides to move everyone to the caves, Kate decides not to accompany him and she stays behind.
- 1x07 "The Moth" - Sawyer tells Kate that Jack is most likely dead in a cave-in; Kate runs to the caves and tries to free him. She is overwhelmed with relief when Jack makes it out and envelops him in a desperate hug, and is shy about the display afterwards.
1x12 "Whatever the Case May Be" - When Jack and Kate dig the Marshal up for the Halliburton's key, Kate grabs his wallet and tries a sleight of hand trick on Jack. He catches her and is obviously disappointed. Later, Jack confronts Kate about the toy airplane and she admits that it belonged to the man she loved and "killed." He doesn't move to console her when she starts crying, though in a later scene, he seems regretful.
- 1x13 "Hearts and Minds" - Kate shows Jack some passion fruit seeds for her and Sun's garden and they banter playfully about the "gross little grayish yellow thingies." He later brings her some guava seeds, calling them, "slimy little bluish black thingies".
- 1x19 "Deus Ex Machina" - Kate goes to the caves to thank Jack for helping out Sawyer with his eyesight problem. He tells her that he "didn't do it for him [Sawyer]."
- 1x21 "The Greater Good" - Kate puts sleeping pills in Jack's juice to force him to slow down after Boone's death; she watches him for a few moments after he falls asleep and is there when he wakes up.
- 1x22 "Born to Run" - Jack asks Kate if she poisoned Michael; Kate is hurt and asks if he thinks she's capable of doing something like that. He says that he doesn't know what she's capable of and she walks away, visibly upset.
- 1x23 "Exodus, Part 1" - Jack secretly switches their backpacks at the Black Rock in order to carry the dynamite himself.
- 1x24 "Exodus, Part 2" - As Locke gets more and more determined to open the Hatch, Jack checks with Kate to make sure that she's got his back, and she affirms that she does.
Season 2
- 2x01 "Man of Science, Man of Faith" - Kate jokes with Jack that the optimism he displayed in his recent speech is uncharacteristic for him. She tells him that he does a great job at taking care of everybody.
- 2x04 "Everybody Hates Hugo" - As she's walking out of the shower, Jack accidentally catches Kate in her towel. Both seem a little embarrassed and have a slightly flirtatious exchange as Kate retrieves her clothes. Jack grins as he watches her leave to get dressed.
- 2x08 "Collision" - Jack gives Kate golf tips. They flirt and she challenges him to a round "to see which one of them is more accurate." Jack hits his ball into the forest and they stumble upon Mr. Eko carrying a badly wounded Sawyer.
- 2x09 "What Kate Did" - Jack approaches Kate in the jungle, and they get into a heated exchange where Kate apologizes, albeit defiantly, for not being 'good enough'. Kate tries to run away, but Jack grabs her by the arm and pulls her into an embrace. She begins to sob and tells him that the Island is driving her nuts. Without warning, she kisses Jack before pulling away, scared with herself.
- 2x13 "The Long Con" - Jack asks Kate who she thinks might be behind Sun's kidnapping and she asks him, "How well do you know Ana Lucia?" Jack shakes his head in dismay and leaves without responding.
- 2x17 "Lockdown" - Kate stops Jack on his way back to the Hatch and asks to tag along as she's in need of a shower, but Jack tells her that the plumbing is busted. She tells him she's glad that he beat Sawyer (in reference to their poker match that afternoon). He offers to walk her back to the beach when a flashing strobe light intercepts their attention .
- 2x19 "S.O.S." - Jack invites Kate on a hike to the 'the line' in hopes of trading Ben for Michael. Kate tells Jack she's flattered he asked her to go on the hike with him. Upon seeing a doll on the ground, Kate accidentally triggers one of Rousseau's traps and both she and Jack get caught in a net.
- 2x19 "S.O.S." - At the line by campfire, Kate says that she's sorry that she kissed him. ("What Kate Did") Jack tells her that he's not sorry.
- 2x24 "Live Together, Die Alone" - At the capsule dump, the Others surprise the team by attacking them with stun darts. He tries to lead Kate away from the attack, but she also gets hit. Upon seeing this, Jack shoots his gun towards wherever he thinks the Others are hiding. He picks up Kate and attempts to run, taking her with him, but he's soon stunned as well and blacks out. Upon rousing, they find themselves on their knees, bound and gagged at Pala Ferry. Jack and Kate exchange slight nods of reassurance and look at one another as the bags are put over their heads.
Season 3
- 3x06 "I Do" - Juliet leads Kate down to the Hydra station, where Jack is being held. Juliet leaves to give them "some privacy," and Jack asks Kate if she's OK. Touching hands through the glass barrier between them, she then tells Jack where she's been and what she's been doing, then pleads with Jack to do Ben's surgery or the Others will kill Sawyer. Jack refuses, and Kate is taken away.
- 3x06 "I Do" - Jack escapes from his cell and sees Kate and Sawyer on the floor of the cage, post-coital, on a surveillance monitor (Kate and Sawyer thought the cameras were not functioning). Ben comes out and Jack tells him he'll do the surgery if Ben promises to help him get off the island.
- 3x07 "Not in Portland" - When Kate and Sawyer make it to safety, Kate retells Jack the story of their first meeting as he continues with Ben's surgery. Jack tells her to promise to never come back for him.
- 3x12 "Par Avion" - Kate asks Rousseau why she hasn't inquired about her daughter at all. Rousseau asks Kate if she cares for Jack, and Kate admits that she does. Rousseau then asks Kate how she would feel if sixteen years went by and she found out Jack was still alive and never knew she cared about him.
- 3x13 "The Man from Tallahassee" - Kate sneaks into Jack's house at the Others' camp to free him. She comes upon him playing a piano and when he sees her, he tells her to get out because they're watching him. Sayid is brought in, and both he and Kate are thrown to the ground.
- 3x13 "The Man from Tallahassee" - Jack visits Kate in the rec room, where she is being contained. They argue about his strange behavior and then he reveals that he's leaving on a submarine to try and get them help. She's shocked and asks why he would trust them, to which he responds "because you told me to." Juliet interrupts, and Jack stands up to leave. He then whispers that he will come back for her and leaves.
"Because I love you" ("Through the Looking Glass")
- 3x15 "Left Behind" - While handcuffed to each other, Juliet tells Kate that her act of sleeping with Sawyer, 'broke his [Jack's] heart.' Kate goes back into his house to get him and finds him lying on the floor. She wakes him up and tells him tearfully that everyone left and that she's sorry for coming back for him and ruining his chances to get off the Island. Jack makes an inquiry about Juliet, which makes Kate stop crying. She asks Jack what they're going to do now and he says, "now we go back."
- 3x17 "Catch-22" - As Kate finishes eating, Jack approaches. He asks if she's got a spoon, so she licks the contents off the one she was using and gives it to him. She says that her excitement for the night was going to be washing the dishes, and he laughs and says goodnight. A few moments later, Kate watches jealously as Jack and Juliet eat together.
- 3x22 "Through the Looking Glass" - Whilst trekking to the radio tower, Jack tells Kate he loves her. In his flashforward, he calls her incessantly. They agree to meet at the airport, a place where they've met in the past. Jack tries to convince her that they must go back to the island. She rejects his pleas and drives away.
Season 4
- 4x01 "The Beginning of the End" - Jack tells Kate to lead the others back to the beach while he, Rousseau and Ben look for Naomi. Kate hugs him, and Jack is unaware that she takes the satellite phone from his back pocket. Later, they meet at the cockpit and remember Charlie just before one of the freighter people falls to the ground in the distance.
- 4x04 "Eggtown" - In her flash forward, Jack testifies at Kate's trial as a character witness. The attorney asks Jack if he loves the defendant, and Jack says no. Later, he catches up with her and tells her that he didn't mean it. She asks if he wants to come back to her house with her. Jack evades saying no, suggesting they maybe go for coffee instead. Kate responds by telling him that until Jack is okay with her "son," Aaron, they won't be going for coffee anytime soon.
- 4x10 "Something Nice Back Home" - In the opening scene, a voice that sounds similar to Kate's rouses him when Juliet's voice alone cannot. He is on the Island, where Jack later insists on having Kate in the surgical tent with him, against Juliet's better judgement. During the surgery, Kate is overwhelmed by Jack's pain and is ordered from the tent, though Juliet allows Kate to come back in once the procedure is finished. While stitching an apparently still-unconscious Jack up, Juliet tells Kate about her and Jack's kiss (Kate is visibly upset) but that it was a means for him to prove he "wasn't in love with someone else" - something she says when she knows Jack is awake to hear her. As seen in Jack's flash forwards: post-rescue and after the Eggtown events, Jack and Kate are an established couple, living together in Kate's house. He asks her to marry him, and she says yes. Old demons manifest themselves in trust issues, culminating in an argument about Kate's comings and goings. Contrary to the usual treatment of this argument, Kate tries to insist that Jack trust her, and not ask her to explain. When a drunk Jack doesn't back down, and Sawyer is mentioned, he loses it, yelling cruel things until Aaron appears in the hallway. In this flash forward, Jack is last seen walking away as Kate cradles her "son" and watches him leave, crying.
Interruptions
Within the Jate fandom, much has been made over the repeated use of exterior forces disrupting potentially romantic and/or endearing scenes between Jack and Kate. Some notable examples being:
- 1x01 "Pilot, Part 1" - Despite their first encounter, in which Kate stitches Jack's wound, their first formal introduction comes after, on the beach. Before the conversation can go further, we hear the monster for the first time.
- 1x06 "House of the Rising Sun" - Jack and Kate run into the caves to escape a broken wasp nest, shedding clothes in the process. Shirtless, they discover Adam and Eve, and two stones (one black, one white) in a sack. Charlie and Locke interrupt their conversation, Charlie toting Kate's t-shirt.
- 1x19 "Deus Ex Machina" - Jack and Kate are flirting casually in the caves, when Kate thanks him for helping Sawyer. Jack responds seriously with "I didn't do it for him." Locke interrupts, carrying an unconscious Boone across his shoulders.
- 2x17 "Lockdown" - Jack offers to walk Kate back to the beach instead of finishing his trek back to the Hatch. Before Kate can answer, she sees a mysterious light blinking in the distance, and she and Jack discover the first food drop.
- 2x19 "S.O.S." - Kate tells Jack that she is sorry for kissing him, to which Jack replies: "I'm not." A pregnant pause follows, and they are able to barely move towards each other before some rustling in the bushes is suddenly heard nearby, and Michael falls to the ground at their feet.
- 3x13 "The Man from Tallahassee" - Kate and Jack are talking in the rec room (part of the Others camp), their first meeting after Kate has had sex with Sawyer, and Jack has seen them on the security cameras. Before Jack can tell her as much, Juliet opens the door, effectively dispelling the tension.
- 4x01 "The Beginning of the End" - Looking into the nose of the plane, Jack and Kate reminisce about Charlie and their trip to the cockpit on the day after the crash. However, this quiet moment of mourning is interrupted quickly thereafter, as sounds of a helicopter start to thunder above their heads.
- 4x09 "The Shape of Things to Come" - Jack and Kate are flirting playfully, then talking seriously about Jack's illness, and about Sayid and Desmond on the freighter, when Bernard is heard shouting about Doc Ray's washed-up corpse, interrupting their conversation.
Unanswered questions
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- For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Jate/Theories
- Why did Kate run away after kissing Jack in the jungle? ("What Kate Did")
- Why didn't Jack want to see Kate with Aaron? ("Eggtown")
- Why did Jack tell Hurley that he wanted nothing to do with Kate after the rescue? ("Something Nice Back Home")
- Jack tells Kate that he was the one that 'saved' her. How? ("Something Nice Back Home")
See also
- Nicknames
- Glossary
- Fan-Made Names
- Kissing
- Sex
- Relationships
- List of videos available on YouTube/Fan-made music videos/Shipper videos
- List of videos available on YouTube/Fan-made parody
External links
- Jate in the Media
- Lost-TV Forums
- Reference Archives Around the Web
- Fan-Made Jate Around the Web
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