Jack doesn't dignify you're still their kid with a reply. But he does shut the drawer with rather more force than necessary. Because no, he isn't and he never was except in his head.

He keeps wishing that maybe he could be wrong, maybe the memories are based on something real, because they sure as hell feel real even after everything he's heard. But all the evidence points to nope, sorry kid, you really are a motherless freak. Maybe the realness of the memories only go to show what a number they did on his brain.

Oh god what the hell is he going to do when they get to land and he can't find them.





Jack's composed but kind of red-eyed when he joins Sinclair across the room (but if you mention it he will fucking cut you).

"Blueprints," he realises out loud. "There might be a submarine dock on them."

He's taken refuge back in emotional numbness, but this is still a pretty capital find.