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We're never shrunk from a danger or hardship. We've always made it head on. There a good man Black Billy Jack. You're honest, your hard working is the day as long and it can be tender too and I love you for it.

—Clarinda Jack to Black Billy Jack


Clarinda Jack is a secondary character in the 1996 Miniseries Titanic. She is the wife of Black Billy Jack and travelled on the Titanic with her husband, her four children and Aase Ludvigsen as a Third Class passenger.

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"She's a convert, travelling with the group..."

She first appeared on the day of departure with her family and Aase was being led by Simon Doonan to their cabin. Clarinda told Simon that Aase was a convert traveling with her family. She's a very fierce woman and a strong believer in her religion. She warns Simon not to mock them because her husband Black Billy Jack Billy is big enough to take him on, but the latter tries to calm her down.

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Clarinda plays the piano during the Third Class party

She reappeared during the Third Class party, she led a small band, played the piano while the others danced, enjoying the music she played.

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"Say your prayer, Aase, God will keep you from harm...and all the angels too..."

On the night of April 14, before Titanic hit the iceberg, after 11:00 P.M, she and her eldest daughter, Ophelia Jack, and Aase were combing their hair in a Third Class washplace and were getting ready to sleep. Clarinda shares her worries over the lonesome Aase. She has concerns about Aase spending time with Jamie Perse and is afraid that he could be trouble but Aase reminds Clarinda that they are all God's children, like Clarinda herself has said once before. Aase was about to take a shower, when Clarinda and Ophelia, who wished her goodnight Clarinda told her to always say her prayer to keep her from harm.

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"Oh my girl!..."

After the Titanic hit the iceberg, Jamie finds Aase, who is wounded, not knowing that Aase had been raped by Simon Doonan. Clarinda arrives shortly afterwards. She is in disbelief about her condition and immediately points a finger at Jamie, who says he only found her that way and would never hurt her. She then angrily lays the blame on the crew and wishes God's vengance is released upon then. Simon Doonan emerges, and she says she will report this to the captain. Clarinda takes Aase to the Third Class Waiting Room and cleans Aase's wounds.

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Clarinda plays some music to keep the passengers calm

While waiting in a room for the evacuation of passengers, Aase told her that she would never be baptized because she was no longer pure after the horrible thing that happened to her. Clarinda was surprised and said that she would definitely get baptized, stating that it was impossible for God to see her as anything other than a victim. When Irish Bunkmate said that the Third Class Main Gate had not yet opened, her husband told her to play some music to calm the passengers. She agreed and played some music on the piano.

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"Let my wife through! And my children!"

Jamie Perse arrives and tells Clarinda and her children to get ready to get on to the Boat Deck. When they reached the Main Gate, a crewman refused to open the gate without orders, but relented when he saw Aase who was been hurted. But before Clarinda and the children can get through, the gates are closed again. Jamie promises her to find a way to get them out of there.

Unaware that Jamie was already on a lifeboat, the Jacks are still trapped inside the gate. Until finally her husband and Irish Bunkmate broke the gate and rushed to the Boat Deck.

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"Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven..."

At about 02:10 they arrived at the Boat Deck, realizing that all the boats had been launched, Clarinda brought her children to sit on one of the benches and they said the Lord's prayer. The six of them died together.

Trivia[]

  • It is never really stated exactly what denomination of Christianity Aase and the Jack Family have converted to or what their beliefs are; nor does the film explain what religion they were before they converted.

Quotes[]

"My husband here is Black Billy Jack and he's big enough to take you on, and a few more like you. So don't go bullying us because of our relgion. We're no simps."

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