Shephard's have history on the island.... by Joe D.

I got this idea when I was thinking about Christian/Ray/Jack a while back. This theory hit me when I got to thinking about the appearances of Christian on the island and then thinking about Locke's seeming awakening from the land of the dead.

Okay, bear with me here. Ray and Christian were both on board The Black Rock....along with Richard. All three of them were giving eternal youth. Ray and Christian sided with the Man in Black and this angered Jacob. In the 1950's Ray and Christian were banished from the island and were stripped of their eternal youth....meaning once they left the island, they immediately started aging again. They went to the states where Ray has been thoroughly miserable ever since as seen in 316. Ray just looked completely miserable with his existence. Christian on the other hand tried to move on and he started a family. He had Jack in the late 1960s. Sometime before Claire was born, he started getting bored with his life and wanted to return to the island, so he started taking plane trips across the South Pacific life Jack does later in his life. On one of his trips to Australia, he meets Claire's mother and he starts a relationship with her...and later they produce Claire. Every! thing was fine for a number of year's...until his world was ripped apart by Jack when his son snitched on him for drinking on the job. He went to Sydney essentially to die. Yes, he wanted to see his daughter, but ultimately he wanted to die. Jack went to Australia to bring his father home. Once Flight 815 crashes on the island, the Man in Black resurrects Christian because they are old friends, and he wants Jack's father to help him carry out his mission....mainly helping John Locke do what he needs to do for the loophole to kill Jacob. Jacob wants Jack to be on his side, and that's why he touched Jack during The Incident.

This is my first ever theory submitted to Dark...be easy.