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Cass Mastern is Jacks "Cassandra" through their almost parallel lives. Cass sacrifices his friend for the woman he loves only to have her turn against him. Jack is bestowed with knowledge and a respectable heart but is still on a journey for truth and enlightenment. In Jacks quest for discovering his real father Jack replicates the life of Telemachous due to the disbelief in his real father. Judge Irwin has always been portrayed as the fatherly type to Jack, but such a relationship was never confirmed. In retrospect though it is obvious that the Judge suggests his true relationship with Jack as recently as the dinner party where Jack still is oblivious to the situation. When Jack does come to the realization of his father there is utter denial and disbelief because of the now illuminated past of the Judge. Though Jack looked at the Judge as a father figure all his life with such admiration as to say “…I took the Judge as a hero…” Jack feels a new distance and embarrassment by the Judge who still treats him as a son rather than another respectable man. This consistent childness towards Jack coupled with a recently illuminated past peppered with corruption makes Judge Irwin seem like less of a hero and puts Jack in a similar position of Telemachous, where his moral ground is shaken.