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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 232891" data-attributes="member: 23">Episodes Four to Six... continuedAnother surprise for Elizabeth comes when Carolyn asks about moving permanently into the guest cottage. In a nice touch, Elizabeth is pleased and says Carolyn is welcome to live at the house. But Carolyn insists on the cottage and says it’s because she has feelings Jack and wants to explore them there. It’s all characteristically frank and independent. Elizabeth has one comment about the relationship:This makes sense given that her relationship with Jack’s father was explored a little in the Christmas episode, which featured flashbacks to the past for many characters. We even saw Anna as a child, telling Gino she was going to marry him one day.Anna had seen the Carolyn/Jack pairing coming, in part due to misunderstanding his looks:Before their relationship took off, Carolyn had invited him to her place to spend time together and to introduce him to her gay friends (including one Mary Christmas) who she felt might help him understand James. Jack now knows the facts behind James’s breakdown and has reacted with some bias on learning that James is gay.For a while, Carolyn started to wonder if Jack might be gay himself when he runs from them being intimate. And this is where some of his strange behaviour and his covert self-injecting are explained:It's a  frank, blunt and risky subject matter for a background. All of which makes it feel very Australian.Carolyn meets this with complete acceptance and understanding, and Jack is able to be naked with someone for the first time in many years. And as Carolyn points out, this explains why discovering he has a daughter means so very much to him.It’s great to have Carolyn as a regular now. She’s a wonderful addition and can be funny, sweet and poignant. Sometimes all in the same scene.</blockquote>

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