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Did Jack want Samantha physically at all

posted 16 years ago by alucard617
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I know that Jack thinks Samantha is very attractive; breathing heavily whenever he sees her, calling her beutiful, licking photos of her, and getting intimate with Jill who looked just like Samantha. But the last episode with Jack in it seemed like he only wanted Sam for her intelligence and just wanted her to kill with him. I guess he would hope for a physical relationship after he got her killing, but he never seemed interested. So, was Jack's motive with Sam simply to find a true partner in crime with no pyshical relations?

Go out for a night of killing and all the anger goes away until it builds up again

[–] profilergirl 16 years ago

If you listen in the last two episodes with sam and jack. Jack does say he wants her physically, but sex takes away the real meaning of a relationship.

[–] gadrin7 16 years ago

I'd say he wants her soul first, and the rest would follow.

She's waaaay too smart for him though. He has intelligence, she's more of a natural, which you get pretty much from day 1 from her insight.

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[–] dpurdy23 15 years ago

Let me say this clearly so there is no confusion: JACK WAS NOT SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO SAM AT ALL. Shame too. She was a hottie. But in the end,
Sam was a means-to-an-end for Jack. He ultimately wanted to prove that
he was God by getting Sam to kill, not because of anything he did, but
because of the rage that Sam most certainly felt for him. Jack must have
thought Sam hated him, and by attempting to take the one thing Sam loved
the most (Chloe), he thought he could get Sam to tap into that rage and
lash out at 'the system', 'a system' as Jack so adequately pointed out
that was grossly inadequate to properly punish the 'scum of the earth'.
But Jack, as smart as he was, could not comprehend the one force that ultimately binds us all, love. A child can only be manipulated so far,
and in the end Jack didn't win Chloe over because of Chloe's love for her
her mother.

[–] onthemarktexas 14 years ago

I don't think he wanted her physically, at least not on a sexual level. I think his obsession was more like a religious obsession to an extent. He murdered the 2 men she'd been intimate with (Tom and Coop) and seemed to want to possess her like an object but certainly not a sex slave or anything that morbid.

When he had her cornered in the warehouse at the end of "Venom", she yelled at him to take her hand and you could see how upset it was making him. For all his hot air and fancy words, he really was a petchulant child who wanted his way.

[–] ainoarwen 14 years ago

I have to disagree with the previous two members. I do think Jack was interested in Sam sexually; whether or not he would have been able to act on it is another matter. See Jack's phone call to Sam in "The House That Jack Built" where he asks her to "wear something pretty", the times we've seen him kissing photos of her.

(I'm basing my opinion on the first two seasons. What third and fourth season?)