{"id":21009,"date":"2022-07-21T07:08:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T07:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/virgin-river-season-4-episode-1-jack-marks-meeting-explained\/"},"modified":"2022-07-21T07:08:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T07:08:53","slug":"virgin-river-season-4-episode-1-jack-marks-meeting-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/virgin-river-season-4-episode-1-jack-marks-meeting-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Virgin River&#8217; Season 4 Episode 1: Jack &#038; Mark&#8217;s Meeting Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articlebody\">\n<p>it&#8217;s the moment <em>Virgin River<\/em> fans never thought they&#8217;d get to see \u2014 and the moment Jack never <em>wanted<\/em> to see.<span id=\"more-1234853084\"\/><\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline-floating-gallery\">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Now streaming on Netflix, the drama&#8217;s 12-episode fourth season kicks off with Jack strolling alongside a very pregnant Mel, casually exchanging baby name ideas, including Catherine, Indiana and Jack Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Then she goes and says it: \u201cWe also have to consider Mark.\u201d  And not just as a name.  \u201cThe baby might be his, remember?\u201d  Right on cue, in walks Mel&#8217;s dead ex-husband, who acknowledges Jack before greeting Mel with a kiss.<\/p>\n<p>The entire incident turns out to be a figment of Jack&#8217;s imagination, a manifestation of his fear that Mel&#8217;s baby might not be his.  This should be obvious for two reasons: (1) Mark is dead, and (2) There&#8217;s no way Mel would be <em>that <\/em>far along given the pace at which this show crawls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWasn&#8217;t that funny?\u201d  Alexandra Breckenridge tells TVLine of Mel&#8217;s men meeting for the first time.  \u201cIt was funny to movie, too, because [Martin Henderson and Daniel Gillies] have known each other from years and years ago.  But obviously they&#8217;d never worked together on the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andean <em>where <\/em>do they know each other from, you ask?  Funnily enough, Henderson and Gillies previously played romantic rivals in the 2004 movie <em>Bride and Prejudice<\/em>, so this is really nothing new.  Behold:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>But before you start asking yourself questions like \u201cHow would Jack know what Mark looked like?\u201d  just know that it&#8217;s best not to overthink this one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMel has pictures of Mark, so maybe Jack saw one on her computer or something,\u201d Breckenridge theorizes.  \u201cI hadn&#8217;t thought of that, but yeah, he probably wouldn&#8217;t have known what Mark looked like.  That&#8217;s funny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for whether Mel&#8217;s baby is Jack&#8217;s or Mark&#8217;s, the paternity is confirmed by the end of the season.  It&#8217;s a storyline that Breckenridge admits can be \u201crather confusing\u201d once you start digging into the science of it all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMost of the time people have to be on hormones before they can even do that kind of procedure, because it has to be during a certain part in their cycle,\u201d she says.  \u201cSo it&#8217;s very specific.  Is it feasible that she actually got pregnant at this time with Mark&#8217;s baby?  I think the timeline between when she was with Jack and when she had the IVF is <em>very<\/em> close together.  Obviously she was quite fertile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite Jack&#8217;s fears, however, it&#8217;s pretty obvious that Mel is hoping he&#8217;s the father.  As Breckenridge explains, \u201cShe really did not believe that they were getting back together last season.  Mel wouldn&#8217;t have [had the procedure] if she thought there was a shot in hell that she and Jack would be together again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Did you enjoy the Jack-Mark dream as much as we did?  Who are you hoping is the father of Mel&#8217;s baby?  (No spoilers from those who have watched ahead!) <span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>Grade the premiere below, then drop a comment with your thoughts.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><noscript><iframe title=\"Grade the 'Virgin River' Season 4 premiere:\" src=\"https:\/\/poll.fm\/11162857\/embed\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"cs-iframe-embed\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=228932107161302\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it&#8217;s the moment Virgin River fans never thought they&#8217;d get to see \u2014 and the moment Jack never wanted to see. Now streaming on Netflix, the drama&#8217;s 12-episode fourth season kicks off with Jack strolling alongside a very pregnant Mel, casually exchanging baby name ideas, including Catherine, Indiana and Jack Jr. Then she goes and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/virgin-river-season-4-episode-1-jack-marks-meeting-explained\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Virgin River&#8217; Season 4 Episode 1: Jack &#038; Mark&#8217;s Meeting Explained<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9051,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/video-virgin-river-season-4-netflix-release-date-mel-jacks-baby\/","url_meta":{"origin":21009,"position":0},"title":"[VIDEO] &#8216;Virgin River&#8217; Season 4, Netflix Release Date \u2014 Mel &#038; Jack&#8217;s Baby","date":"July 9, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"If your jaw is still on the floor after last season's Virgin River cliffhanger, don't even bother picking it up. 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