"Sometimes, back home, I'd get angry a lot," Jacob admitted, comfortable enough to share this with Claire since he'd known her for almost as long as she'd even been on the island. It was funny, thinking that he'd been here over a year and had friends almost as close as his friends back home.

And closer, in the case of Belle.

"I had to take a good look at myself and try to dial that back so I wasn't hurting the people that loved me. So it's conscious effort, the whole optimism thing, because I don't want to be that angry guy anymore."