David Shephard è il figlio di Jack Shephard e Juliet Burke nella Timeline parallela. Davida è un pianista talentuoso, e vive con sua madre. Il rapporto con suo padre è molto teso a causa della separazione dei suoi genitori. Nella Timeline originale nè Juliet nè Jack hanno mai avuto un figlio. ("Il faro")
Biografia
David first appeared after Jack's return to Los Angeles, when Jack picked him up at St. Mary's Academy. Back at his apartment, Jack tried to converse with his son, but it ended awkwardly. Finally giving up, he gave David a copy of The Annotated Alice. Later, David opted to stay alone in the apartment while Jack went to visit his mother Margo. Jack asked his mother how she viewed his relationship with David, and she replied that David might just be terrified of him. She noted that David was also visibly upset during Christian (his grandfather)'s funeral.("Il faro")
Upon returning home, Jack found his son gone. He went to his ex-wife's house to see if David was there, but found nobody home. Still, he went inside and into David's room, where he came across sheet music for Chopin's "Fantaisie Impromptu", and pictures of himself and David on the mirror. Jack listened to the two messages on the answering machine. The first was from the Williams Conservatory confirming David's slot at 7:00pm on Friday the 24th. The other was a message from Jack himself, from Sydney. Jack looked at his watch and realized the audition must have been taking place right then. ("Il faro")
Jack arrived at the conservatory, where he saw David playing the piano. A boy commented on how talented David was, while his father told Jack "They are too young to have this kind of pressure,". The boy's father appeared to be Dogen and referred to David's "gift." Afterwards, outside, Jack asked David why he had never told him that he was still playing music, to which David replied that he didn't want "to fail" in his father's eyes. Jack relayed how bad his own father made him feel, and told David he never wanted him to feel that way, that he loved him and that, in his eyes, David could never fail. ("Il faro")
Jack Shephard and David having an awkward conversation. ("Il faro")
A day or two later, David went with his father for the reading of his grandfather's will and testament. There, they were introduced by the lawyer to Claire Littleton, who told them she was Jack's half-sister (and thus David's half-aunt). An emergency at the St. Sebastian Hospital required father and son to leave abruptly, but Jack invited "Aunt Claire" to stay with them. ("L'ultima recluta")
The next morning, David announced that he'd made breakfast for them, and Jack joked that "opening a box of cereal is not making breakfast," indicating a marked improvement in the father/son relationship. David reminded Jack about the benefit concert that night, Claire joined them for breakfast, and an alleged Oceanic Airlines representative, called to say that Christian's casket had been found. ("Quello per cui sono morti")
David was later seen at the hospital where his father and mother Juliet, both worked. He asked who would use Jack's ticket now that Jack had to perform surgery. Jack suggested Claire; David and Juliet agreed. At the concert venue, Juliet had to leave for a hospital emergency, then Claire went into labor and Kate (also at the table), followed, thus leaving David alone. ("La fine") David was never seen again after this.
Meanwhile, at the hospital, John Locke told Jack that he did not have a son, placing doubt on whether David really existed, or was not just a figment of Jack and Juliet's imaginations. ("TBA")
Curiosità
Episode statistics
- David appeared in 4 episodes.
- All of his appearances were in the flash-sideways timeline.
General
- David was one of three characters, along with Eva and Sam Jarrah, known to not exist in the original timeline, or at least not with the parents they have in the sideways.
- Among the main characters, David only met Jack, Juliet, Claire, Ilana, Kate, Charlie, Daniel, Desmond, Christian, and Sawyer.
- David è un fan dei LA Dodgers anziché dei Boston Red Sox come suo padre, Jack, e suo nonno, Christian Shephard, infatti lo vediamo indossare un berretto dei LA Dodgers in una fotografia con Jack. ("Il faro")
- Nella tradizione giudeo-cristiana c'è un pastore (in inglese "shepherd") chiamato David (talentuoso musicista) che era l'unica persona in Giudea abbastanza coraggiosa da combattere il gigante Golia. Riuscendo a sconfiggerlo contro ogni aspettativa, egli divenne re della Giudea. Il più famoso salmo di David, il numero 23 apre con il verso "The Lord is my shepherd" - "Il Signore è il mio pastore".
Episode references
- David and his relationship with his father were foreshadowed in the mobisode, "The Watch", and perhaps in the episode "Something Nice Back Home".
- The piece that David played at the piano competition in "Lighthouse" was the same one that young Daniel Faraday was playing when his mother walked into the room, at the beginning of "The Variable." It was Fantaisie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor by Frédéric Chopin.
- Come mai Jack non ha mai fatto riferimenti a David sull'Isola?