Barb! I love ya! You understand exactly what I see in Jake/Jack there.
Oh, I love the Twist Thanksgiving scene, and I love the way both Jake and Anne play it. (Love that, "Daddy. [Pause] DADDY." It's actually my favorite Lureen scene.) But I had to set some standard for picking an answer.
We could probably have gotten by without seeing Old Man Twist spit into his cup (eeew) but I interpreted that choice as not just what I might have called the
shot of Old Man Twist spitting into his cup, but the whole scene of him telling Ennis about the ranch neighbor, etc., which is essential to the plot.
Maybe "dancing with Lashawn" could have been left out, but I looked at that in light of Jack's line to Ennis about having something going with a ranch foreman's wife.
But the Twist Thanksgiving scene was clearly invented just to balance the uber-essential "Ennis and Alma Thanksgiving confrontation," and I don't think it really does much for the plot. That was the basis for my decision.