Jate
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Jate is the fan-given name to the relationship between Jack and Kate. It is part of the love triangle featuring Jack, Kate and Sawyer. The other half known as Skate. Such portmanteau 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."
- 1x06 "House of the Rising Sun" - When Jack decides to move everyone to the caves, Kate decides not to accompany him, preferring to stay on the beach. Kate says, "I don't want to be Eve" in reference to the Adam and Eve skeletons the two found in the caves. Jack then asks Kate what she did, and she tells him that he already had his chance to know. ("Tabula Rasa") Jack heads off to the caves after telling Kate that she knows where to find him. After he has gone, Kate quietly says, "You know where to find me too."
- 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.
- 1x11 "All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues" - While tracking Charlie and Claire, Jack asks Kate to tell him "something real." Kate tells Jack about her memories of hunting with her father, Sam Austen. "That's real."
- 1x12 "Whatever the Case May Be" - When Jack and Kate dig the Marshal up for the key to the Halliburton case, Kate grabs his wallet and tries a sleight of hand trick on Jack. He realizes the deception and is obviously disappointed. Later, Jack and Kate open the case in the caves. Jack sees that the toy plane is what Kate was after, and he asks her what it is. Kate initially replies that it belong to the man she loved, but Jack does not believe her. Finally Kate yells that it belonged to "the man [she] killed!" Jack seems speechless and doesn't move to console Kate when she starts crying, though in a later scene, he seems regretful.
- 1x13 "Hearts and Minds" - After Kate notices Jack quietly watching her in the jungle, she shows him 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 replies, "I don't know what you're capable of," and she walks away, visibly upset. Later, Sun tells Kate that Jack knows about the poisoning (but not Kate's part in it), and that he is not going to tell anybody. Kate replies, "Yeah, Jack is good at keeping secrets."
- 1x23 "Exodus, Part 1" - Kate asks to go on the mission to the Black Rock "for old times' sake." After the two have a power struggle over Kate's desire to carry some dynamite, Jack secretly switches their backpacks 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. Later, as she is lowered down into the hatch by Locke, Kate uses Jack's technique of counting to five to calm her fear.
- 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, saying "It's alright" repeatedly. 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. As she runs, Jack calls after her: "Kate!"
- 2x11 "The Hunting Party" - Soon after their first kiss and Kate's subsequent fleeing, Kate attempts to join the Michael rescue mission, but Jack denies her in an extremely assertive manner. After reaching "the line," Jack discovers that Kate has been captured by the Others and is forced to hand over the guns in exchange for her safety. Clearly upset, Jack responds coldly when Kate attempts to communicate with him, asking him to "Just talk to [her] for one second." Jack's lack of response creates more distance between the two.
- 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). In response, he offers to walk her back to the beach, saying "the hatch can wait," but 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, and when he says that The Others don't want either of them, Kate replies that they are both "damaged goods." 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") After a pause of silence, Jack replies, "I'm not."
- 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
- 3x02 "The Glass Ballerina" - Kate refuses to do any work until she sees Jack, but is forced to comply when Sawyer is painfully shocked by the violent Pickett.
- 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 and Kate both ask one another "Are you okay?" Touching hands through the glass barrier between them, Kate tells Jack where she's been and what she's been doing, then pleads with Jack to do Ben's surgery. Jack repeatedly looks up at the surveillance camera and asks Kate, "What did they do to you?" Kate reveals that the Others are planning to kill Sawyer if Jack doesn't do the surgery. Jack refuses Kate's pleas, again looking up at the surveillance camera, 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. Ben comes out and Jack tells him he'll do the surgery if Ben promises to help him get off the island. However, Jack purposely puts Ben's life in peril and refuses to save him unless Kate and Sawyer are freed. Kate screams into a walkie talkie that she can't leave without Jack, but he screams back for her to "RUN!"
- 3x07 "Not in Portland" - After Kate and Sawyer make it to safety, Kate begins to cry as she retells Jack the story from their first meeting and he continues with Ben's surgery. Jack asks her to promise never to come back for him.
"So you counted to five." ("Not in Portland")
- 3x12 "Par Avion" - While on the mission to rescue Jack, ("Tricia Tanaka Is Dead") Kate asks Rousseau why she hasn't inquired about her daughter at all. Rousseau asks Kate if she cares for Jack, and Kate replies, "Yes." 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 the room is being monitored. 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 - Kate asking Jack, "What did they do to you?" - 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, hesitates at the door, and leaves.
"Because I love you." ("Through the Looking Glass") - 3x15 "Left Behind" - While the two women are handcuffed to each other, Juliet tells Kate that her act of sleeping with Sawyer, "broke [Jack's] heart." After Juliet rattles off a list of facts she learned from Jack's file and asks Kate "What do you know about him?" Kate smiles slightly and says nothing in reply. Later, Kate finds Jack lying on the floor of a house in the barracks. She wakes him up and tells him tearfully that everyone left and that she's sorry for coming back for him. Jack inquires 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" - On-Island: Whilst trekking to the radio tower, Jack tells Kate he loves her. After Jack's violent confrontation with Ben, Kate cleans Jack's bloody knuckles and asks him what happened. Flashforwards: A heavily-medicated and mentally unstable Jack calls Kate 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" - After excitedly discussing the prospect of finally "going home," Jack and Kate disagree about Naomi's blood trail. 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, where they went on a mission during their first day on the island, and sadly remember the recently deceased Charlie.
- 4x03 "The Economist" - After Sayid denies Jack a place on the mission to the barracks, Kate tells Jack that he now knows how it feels to be her - being told that he can't go along. Jack jokingly replies, "Does that mean I should wait 20 minutes and go anyway?" The two exchange flirtatious smiles, but the conversation turns serious when Jack suggests Kate accompany Sayid to the barracks. Later, when Sayid returns without Kate, Jack looks toward the horizon, disappointed.
- 4x04 "Eggtown" - Flashforwards: Jack testifies at Kate's trial as a character witness. As Jack perjures himself, Kate grows uncomfortable, and finally stops him. The attorney asks Jack if he loves the defendant, and Jack says no. Later, he finds her and tells her that he didn't mean it. She then asks if he wants to come back to her house with her. Jack evades, suggesting they 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.
- 4x06 "The Other Woman" - While in the jungle with Juliet, Jack comes across a wounded Kate on her way back from the barracks. He tells her that it'll be alright and examines her wound. Later, Jack pointedly inquires as to why Kate stayed at the barracks, and they both look troubled as Kate explains that the freighter people know her criminal history.
- 4x10 "Something Nice Back Home" - On-Island: Both Juliet's and Kate's voices are heard calling his name to rouse him in the teaser. Prior to his surgery, Jack insists to Juliet on having Kate present during the procedure, despite Juliet's objections. Jack tells Kate that it won't be the first time she's been his nurse - a reference to Kate stitching Jack's back up during their first meeting. During the surgery, Kate is overwhelmed by Jack's pain and is ordered by Juliet to leave the tent against Jack's wishes. While suturing an apparently still-unconscious Jack, Juliet tells Kate about her and Jack's kiss to Kate's surprise, but Juliet tells her 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. Flashforwards: Sometime soon after Kate's trial, 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 asks Jack to trust her and to 'let it go.' Jack, already drinking and taking clonazepam at this point, doesn't back down. Kate admits that she's doing a favor for Sawyer that "has nothing to do with us." But Jack is still enraged. Kate tells him he must get his act together because she cannot have him in such a state around her 'son.' He walks away from her, much to Kate's unhappiness.
- 4x12 "There's No Place Like Home, Part 1" - On-Island: Jack and Kate decide to trek into the jungle to find the chopper in hopes of finding Desmond and Sayid. During the trek, Kate notices that the area around Jack's sutures are bleeding. Jack tells her that it's natural, and that his body is fighting off a possible infection. Kate jokingly tells him he looks people in the eye when he lies, unlike most people. When Jack decides to go off alone in search of the chopper, Kate worriedly tells him he can't go alone. Flashforwards: At Hurley's birthday party, Kate tells Hurley that Jack is running late and apologizes for him. Sometime later, Kate is seen waiting for Jack say goodbye to his visitors during his father's funeral. She tells him he was good during his speech, and he tells her that he's had a lot of practice, referencing all of the funeral speeches he's given on the island. After Jack learns from Carole Littleton that Claire is his sister, he turns to Kate and Aaron with an extremely disturbed look on his face.
- 4x13 "There's No Place Like Home, Parts 2 & 3" - On-Island: When Jack returns from the Orchid station with Sawyer and Hurley, Kate goes directly to Jack, touches his wound and asks him if he's ok, to which he replies, "I am now." Moments before the freighter explodes, Jack ensures Kate gets on the chopper, telling her, "I'm not leaving without you." Once the O6 arrive at Sumba, Jack goes to Kate, who smiles at him, as they face life after the island. Flashforwards: Kate angrily tells Jack that she is not going back to the island, and slaps him when he mentions that he believed Locke in order to protect Kate and Aaron. She tells Jack not to mention Aaron's name because she still has to explain to him why Jack isn't around anymore. Jack quietly replies that he's sorry, and Kate tearfully drives away.
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.
- 4x10 "Something Nice Back Home" - At the peak of Jack and Kate's argument in their final flash forward of the episode, Aaron shows up in the hallway.
- 4x12 "There's No Place Like Home, Part 1" - After Christian's funeral, Kate and Jack are sharing a moment in the near-deserted church when Carole Littleton interrupts, bearing the devastating news that Claire is Jack's half-sister.
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")
- Did they have any sort of relationship prior to Jack finding out that Aaron was his nephew? ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")
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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