I am chewing on whether Jack's world was turned upside down by the airborne toxic event or Babette's Dylar confession. I'm inclined to think it was the second crisis. The toxic event seemed to be a modern threat the family unit was able to manage, not without casualties but that sort of worked within the grid of fears they'd already set up for themselves.
Or perhaps he already was in crisis mode when the story began?
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I kind of wondered this, myself. Because after Babette's confession, Jack claims to have had the same obsessive fear of death since the ATE, but I hadn't seen much evidence of it before that. It almost seemed like the power of suggestion: Jack knows he's going to die, so when Babette says she's horribly afraid of death, Jack says, "Oh, me too!"
Yeah, good points. I had the same feeling of its being the power of suggestion.
Or maybe the result of Babette's confession was to shake up his faith in the fundamental orderliness and predictability (ATEs be damned) of his life. Babette, his rock-solid partner, went and did something outside the known grid of fears, as Christy brilliantly put it, and that put him more in touch with his raw self, his primal fears.
That could be it. Her confession certainly did throw him for a loop.
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