After losing Torchwood three, Ianto and his grandson Jack decided to leave Earth. Jack was last seen on an alien bar where the 10th Doctor visited him briefly. No copyright infringement is intended. Captain Jack Harkness The 51st century Jack was born in the 51st century. It starts out as flirtation and a fling, but over time it becomes obvious that Ianto has the ability to make Jack empathetic, kind, and considerate.
Ianto is one of the very few people that Jack is willing to put ahead of himself. In the episode "Children of Earth" Ianto is suddenly killed and Jack spends a time crippled by the grief.
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After he was shot and killed by a Dalek , Jack was revived by Rose Tyler , who at the time was transformed into a nearly omnipotent being. Unable to control her powers, she accidentally turned him into an immortal being. Consequently, the Doctor abandoned him in the year , aboard a space station orbiting a Dalek-devastated Earth. Stranded, the former Time Agent had to use his own devices to catch up to the Doctor.
He thought it likely that he'd find the Ninth Doctor in the early 21st century , since that was Rose's home era. But his vortex manipulator failed to deliver him there due to the damage caused when he was exterminated by the Daleks, missing by more than a century — and going on the fritz immediately thereafter.
This left the immortal no choice but to simply wait from the mid- 19th to the early 21st century to reconnect with the Doctor. During his long wait for the "right Doctor", he experienced what was to him Earth 's history first hand and he even served in a few of the well known conflicts.
He also had many different relationships, some of which produced offspring. For the majority of those years, he also worked for Torchwood Three. After several decades as an informal free-lancer, he eventually became its head in the year Later that decade, he finally met up with the Doctor, although the Time Lord had by this time regenerated and was now travelling with Martha Jones.
At the dawn of the s , the returned to Earth. Although Torchwood was able to repel the threat, their success came at the loss of their physical headquarters and painful personal loss for Jack. He, therefore, disbanded the group and left Earth.
However, he returned during the events of the so-called " Miracle Day ", and a new Torchwood team arose. An important facet of Jack's existence on Earth was its temporal complexity. There were whole decades when multiple versions of Jack existed on Earth. Indeed, during the whole of the 20th century , there were always at least two Jacks on Earth since a younger version was a part of Torchwood Three and an older one was in a grave dug by his brother in ancient Britain.
Javic on Boeshane Peninsula. TV : Adam. He had a younger brother called Gray. On what he would later call the worst day of his life, Javic fled from a host of creatures with Gray and lost him in the confusion when he accidentally let go of his hand. He returned home and found his mother crying over his father's body.
He spent years looking for Gray without success, eventually burying the memory of what happened as well as his happy memories of his father. Javic persuaded his best friend to "join up" with him to fight the creatures. They were captured, and the enemy thought Javic's friend the weaker of the pair and tortured him as a lesson for Javic.
They let Javic go, to bear the guilt of his friend's fate. TV : Captain Jack Harkness. In , Javic won the Rear of the Year award. Info from Month 25 needs to be added.
Javic was the first Boeshane resident to be signed up for the Time Agency , making him a "poster boy" for the area, known as the "Face of Boe". He knew very little about the real Jack, other than basic information such as the date and manner of his death. Jack worked as a Time Agent with John Hart , a partner both professionally and sexually.
They once spent five years trapped in a two-week time loop , becoming the equivalent of a married couple after spending so much time together. Hart admitted to having been "a good wife", closing an argument between the two as to the details of the relationship.
Once, when sentenced to death , Jack ordered four hypervodkas as a last meal and ended up bedding both executioners at the same time. He recalled them as a lovely couple who kept in touch. TV : The Doctor Dances. TV : The Empty Child. His preferred schemes involved collecting payment for items he knew would be destroyed before the buyer could see it. Finding pieces of space junk and directing them to the soon-to-be disaster sites, Jack would sell them to passers-by, then allow the items to be destroyed before the buyers could pick up their merchandise.
Ninth the most common account of the Doctor and Jack's first encounter states that while running a scam involving a Chula ambulance in the London Blitz , Jack spotted Rose Tyler hanging from a barrage balloon. Just as she fell, he rescued her and took her aboard his ship. Deducing she came from the future, and thinking she was a Time Agent, he tried conning her into purchasing the ambulance.
Upon meeting Rose's "companion", the Ninth Doctor , Jack realised that they were just freelancers like he was. The Doctor pointed out that the landing site of the ambulance was where the ground zero of the Empty Child plague started. Jack believed the object was empty space junk, TV : The Empty Child but in fact, the ambulance contained nanogenes.
The nanogenes had not seen a human before; they took the gas mask for the deceased child's face and fused it to him, spreading to other people who touched him, also transforming them into undead creatures with no life signs. Jack teleported the Doctor and Rose to his warship to escape, and they went to the bombsite near the hospital, where they realised the truth.
The ambulance started its emergency protocols, calling the creatures, who had been armed as " Chula warriors", and was ready to "tear the world apart" to find the boy's mother. Jack saves the Ninth Doctor and Rose from the falling bomb. Every patient and soldier at the bombsite converged on the Doctor, Rose and Jack.
The Doctor fixed the nanogenes' mistakes by comparing the DNA of the child and Nancy , who was his mother, restoring the infected zombies to normal. Jack stopped the bomb from hitting the bomb site by placing it in stasis inside his warship and when everyone got to safety, the Doctor destroyed the ambulance, making sure that history said that a bomb hit that location. The Doctor took Rose and Jack to where the planet Excroth should have been but found it was gone. However, Rose was blasted into the Time Vortex but was protected from the time winds by the tachyon inhibitor she found.
Jack tracked Rose down to the Fluren Temporal Bazaar. The Doctor called the attention of the Unon but attracted the Lect who attacked one another, and which subsequently led to the emergency protocol being triggered, dissipating the time bubble protecting Fluren's World. Arnora , mother superior of the Unon, tricked the Doctor into coming to the planet Traxis with Jack, and the Doctor used a temporal stabiliser to seal a time fissure.
In the void, Jack saw what future would come if the Doctor wasn't around and the Unon was in charge of time. Released from the void, Jack and Evja saved the Doctor. After Arnora was killed by the Lect, the Doctor, unable to stop the overloading entropy engine , took as many Unon as he could to another world so they could start again. Visiting the Eye of Orion , Jack, Rose and the Doctor found a giant ziggurat and the Hanging Gardens of Slarvia , which had been destroyed centuries before.
The Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to discover a ship in orbit, which transmatted them on board and brought them face to face with Taggani , the most famous geohacker in history.
They stopped him from using the Doctor's memories to recreate everything lost in the Last Great Time War , and exposed his true identity as an art historian from the Braxiatel Collection before handing him over to the Judoon.
The trio shared numerous adventures together, including encountering Russian special forces and the Novrosk spaceship. Jack later spent a month in Bromley , helping a Neanderthal named Das to fit in with 21st century society. Together, they captured Blon , the sole Slitheen survivor of a prior attack on 10 Downing Street who had become Lord Mayor. TV : Boom Town. Afterwards, they visited Arkannis Major in , where Jack was committed to an asylum for telling fictional stories.
At some point, the Doctor, Rose and Jack went to New Vegas in the 23rd century , where they assisted detective James McNeil to investigate The Whisper , a strange vigilante that had terrorised the city's underworld. This involved Jack working undercover as a reporter for the Daily Galaxy , where he befriended Daisy Hewett , but she later betrayed him to Mafia boss Cyrus Wolfsbane , who kidnapped Jack so that the Doctor would lead him to the Whisper, with Cyrus subsequently killing the Whisper.
Jack found himself on a makeover game show hosted by Trine-E and Zu-Zana. When the android hosts threatened him, he shot them, and improvised a more powerful gun out of their defabricator. Jack met up with the Doctor and an escapee from the deadly games, Lynda Moss , and tracked down Rose. Completely heartbroken, Jack was tempted to shoot the staff behind the games and threatened to kill the guards when they arrested the Doctor and Lynda, only to get arrested himself for breaking in and out of the games.
However, he and the Doctor physically overpowered the guards and set off to stop the deadly "entertainment". Puzzled, the Doctor discovered that the Game Station was unknowingly broadcasting a secondary signal to an empty location of space, which was where all the losers ended up. Disabling the signal, the Doctor was horrified to find two hundred Dalek battleships. Establishing contact, the Doctor learned his old foes had taken Rose hostage, but promised the Daleks that he would rescue her and destroy them for the final time.
TV : Bad Wolf. Returning to the Game Station to prepare for the battle ahead, Jack formed a resistance group consisting of contestants and staff members to fight the Daleks.
Knowing he was fighting a losing battle and would most certainly perish, Jack kissed Rose and the Doctor goodbye. Now the last man fighting, Jack was killed defending the satellite against the Daleks as they attacked the Game Station, and seemingly accepted his death. He was left stranded on the satellite. TV : The Parting of the Ways Rose couldn't control her powers and had brought Jack back to life forever, making him immortal, and as the Doctor claimed, a fixed point in time.
TV : Utopia. Shortly following the Doctor's regeneration going wrong, Rose suggested going back to find Jack, thinking he might be able to help; the Doctor claimed that he was busy rebuilding the Earth, not yet wishing to tell her the truth about what had just happened. TV : Children in Need Special. Somehow making his way to the ravaged Earth, Jack, though recognised as a hero for his fight against the Daleks, chose to live as a recluse in a small cabin located near the ruins of the Black Country Dome.
A year passed, and Jack found himself approached by Silo Crook , an aspiring reporter. Though Jack vehemently wished to be left alone, both shared a suspicion of the Hope Foundation , a charity founded by Vortia Trear ostensibly to take the surviving humans off Earth and give them new, better lives. Sneaking aboard Trear Station , repurposed from the Game Station along with several starliners and a couple of freight ships , Jack reunited with Silo and found that Vortia was part of a rich elite which had always looked out for themselves and intended to exploit those below them.
In the ensuing revolt, Trear was deposed and the station was left falling to Earth , forcing Jack to interact with live cables to land it safely.
Reviving after being electrocuted , Jack reasoned that the universe liked him and saw that an abundance of resources was salvaged from the grounded station, confident that humanity would ultimately rebuild itself.
Eventually, Jack used the vortex manipulator in his Time Agency wrist strap to return to Cardiff , the site of an active space-time rift. Jack knew that the TARDIS could refuel itself using the rift, and therefore attempted to reach there in the early 21st century so that he could find the Doctor again.
However, Jack ended up in , and his vortex manipulator burned out, leaving him stranded. Jack stayed in Cardiff, choosing to continue using the Harkness alias or at least using it when he started working for Torchwood Three. TV : Fragments His third death and resurrection occurred when he was shot in during a fight on Ellis Island.
Jack found that he still aged, but very slowly — he noted that he had a couple of grey hairs in , one hundred and thirty-nine years after arriving in Cardiff TV : Last of the Time Lords — and could recover from any degree of physical harm, including death itself, given a few minutes time. In , Jack went to the music hall performance of Anthony Bradshaw , also known as "the Wonder of ", who could foretell the future through his invisible friend the Lawphoram.
Jack asked him, "how will I die? When Edward Hardiman , Anthony's "uncle", tried to leave the theatre, Jack stopped him, and told him to scram after buying Anthony from a workhouse the previous year.
Jack forced the Lawphoram, a creature from the future which was feeding on Anthony's mind, out of Anthony using the vortex manipulator on Jack's wrist.
He cradled Anthony, promising him he'd be all right. Jack in TV : Fragments. They captured and tortured him to discover why he could not die and what connection he had to the Doctor , who the Torchwood Institute had designated an enemy.
After telling them that the Doctor was a hero who would save them from aliens, Jack was released on the condition that he undertake a mission for Torchwood. Jack was sent to stop a criminal Blowfish , which he returned to Torchwood Three's Hub, only to see it killed by a shot to the head. Disgusted by Torchwood's methods, Jack walked away from the organisation.
He ended up in a bar, where he drowned his sorrows alone until a young cartomancer offered to read him his fortune. She gave a completely accurate prophecy of the Doctor's eventual return to Cardiff years into the future. Left with nothing to do but wait for a full century until his version of the Doctor coincided with his timeline, Jack reconsidered Torchwood's offer and began working for them and awaiting the Doctor's return. Jack continued working for Torchwood for over a hundred years, still pursuing his goal of finding the Doctor in the meantime.
Shortly after this, Jack and the rest of Torchwood infiltrated and destroyed the HMS Hades after it was found to be a lab for experimenting on aliens. The Life-stealer escaped custody and started feeding on the youth of Londoners at the same time Torchwood was being visited by Queen Victoria for her annual inspection of the Institute, resulting in him sharing an adventure with the Queen as she took to pursuing the creature.
After Victoria killed the creature by exploiting its weakness against the elderly, Jack declined her offer to take command of Torchwood London, the position having been left vacant when its previous director was rendered rapidly aged permanently incapacitated, telling her that his place was in Cardiff. Jack went to China during the Boxer Rebellion , where he worked with explosives.
TV : The Blood Line. She ordered him to get rid of it by throwing it into the Rift. In , Jack investigated strange visions at Ravenhall Manor , a Gothic 18th century house. He defeated the creature responsible. In , Jack set up a bank account, the interest of which would lead to a small fortune by On the same day, Miles drowned Alison and turned himself into the police, leaving Jack to face the guilt of his role in their volatile demises.
In , Jack was travelling through Lahore by train with a group of soldiers under his command, when they were killed by Fairies. Some of the soldiers had recently run over and killed one of the Fairies' Chosen Ones. In revenge, the Fairies suffocated the soldiers by forcing rose petals down their throats.
TV : Small Worlds. In , he investigated strange disappearances in Tiger Bay and discovered that the missing sailors were becoming Weevils. He realised that this must have had something to do with Object 1 and finally threw it into the Rift. In , during the Christmas truce , Jack was recovering in a hospital after surviving a bullet to the head.
Jack was present at Gallipoli during the Gallipoli campaign. By this point he was wearing a battered coat which had sustained several holes as a result of gunfire. He was responsible for saving the life of Ata , an Ottoman soldier, while warding off a creature which fed on fear in times of war. While doing so, Jack was killed twice, first from a gunshot inflicted by Ata when he initially approached him, then again by Ottoman forces when they recovered Ata.
In , Gerald Carter and Harriet Derbyshire brought in Tommy Brockless to be put in suspended animation and use him as a key to fix time shifts happening then and in the 21st century. At some point after this, Jack retrieved instructions on what to do with Tommy in a box temporally locked until the Rift met the same conditions as in Jack witnessed Tommy being awakened each year to see if he "still worked". TV : To the Last Man.
In the s , to investigate the Night Travellers , Jack joined a travelling show in which he was billed as "the man who couldn't die". During his stay in Delhi , he had a brief fling with Torchwood India's leader, Eleanor. The two stayed in a room in New York together and had sex.
Comparing Angelo to one of the Doctor's companions , the two went to the warehouse where the parasite was being kept and killed it. As the two tried to escape, however, Jack was killed and Angelo was captured and taken to jail.
Jack is tortured repeatedly. TV : Immortal Sins. The next year , after Angelo got out of jail, Jack returned claiming that he had only been playing dead. Angelo didn't believe Jack, however, and assumed that Jack was the Devil.
Angelo stabbed Jack and was shocked when Jack came back to life. Jack was then chained up and repeatedly killed, since people assumed that his immortality was either a miracle or a blessing. Jack then saw three men come to the room where he was chained, but he never learned who they were.
Angelo decided to help Jack escape, but Jack jumped off of a building and disappeared from Angelo's life. Jack later fought in World War II. The pair became lovers and spent some time in London together.
She wanted to spend the rest of her life with him. Somehow, however, this never happened, and they lost touch with one another. In , Jack was burnt to death whilst trying to save Hugo and other men infected with Invictus. He revived in a room with Norton Folgate , whom he blamed for what happened. Norton eventually won him around and they had a sexual relationship, AUDIO : " Prodromal: Love " also coming up with a plan should Good Thinking ever be used again, inserting a trojan horse into Jack's personal data.
In , the alien race known as the , communicating through radio, set up a deal: Jack, with the involvement of Andrew Staines , Ellen Hunt and Michael Sanders , would deliver to them twelve young orphans as a "gift" at a meeting point in Scotland. In exchange for the children, the unseen aliens would give them a cure for a new strain of an Indonesian flu that the aliens claimed would mutate and kill twenty-five million people. Jack received the assignment specifically because of his immortality, and the perception, as one of the officers later told him, that he "didn't care.
Clement McDonald , however, slipped away from the exchange, and had nightmares about Jack for the rest of his life.
In the s , Jack sported a moustache. Lucia and Jack split up sometime prior to , and at the request of her mother, their daughter was sent into the Witness Protection Program, relocated and given the name of Alice Sangster, presumably arising from her mother's fear of the immortal Captain Jack. The application was approved on 14 February , ; however, Jack eventually rebuilt a relationship with his daughter. Although Jack was a Torchwood agent at the time, he was still considered a freelance operative rather than a full-time employee.
On several occasions during the s , Jack visited the Powell Estate to watch Rose Tyler grow up, but did not approach her to avoid disrupting her timeline. Around Christmas , Jack dropped a truck on the Millennium Bug. On New Year's Day , Jack, now a full-time agent for Torchwood Three, suffered a major emotional blow when one of his colleagues, Alex Hopkins , suffered a nervous breakdown and killed the entire Torchwood Three staff.
Knowing Jack couldn't die, he did not attempt to kill Jack and waited for him to arrive at the Hub before committing suicide. As the only surviving member of Torchwood Three, he spent the next few years recruiting new members. After taking over, Jack found two people the Rift had taken and later returned to Cardiff inside the vaults.
He established an institution for them on Flat Holm Island, and told the carers there that they, and others that came through, were experiments gone wrong. TV : Adrift. Jack disguised as the Sixth Doctor. Over several years Jack rebuilt his decimated organisation. Jack was present in the Hub on 26 March when it was temporarily frozen in a time bubble for a day by Torchwood One's Rajesh Singh so that director Yvonne Hartman could procure a Drahvin scanner from the Hub unhindered.
Yvonne observed the frozen Jack, noting this was the first time they had met, though he was unable to notice her. She commented that his photographs did not do him justice. Understanding that Jack did not work "for Queen and Country", Yvonne regarded him as a liability and "not Torchwood" and would soon after arrange for the new Lord Mayor of Cardiff , Barry Jackson , to inform her when the Doctor appeared in Cardiff, knowing that Jack would not.
Jack later went to observe, from a distance, Owen standing by Katie's grave following her funeral. He was seen by Owen, who angrily rushed towards and attacked him before breaking down in his arms. After Owen calmed down, Jack offered Owen a job with Torchwood Three, so he could save people and find purpose without Katie.
Owen reluctantly accepted. Jack's activities at the time of the Blaidd Drwg incident in Cardiff in September , which involved Jack's younger, mortal self, TV : Boom Town included keeping the entire Torchwood team on lockdown in the Hub, to prevent them from seeing his younger self, and vice versa. By , there was a half dozen of them left. He later told the Tenth Doctor that he did this in the Doctor's honour. During this time, Jack held on to the hope of re-establishing contact with the Doctor, who he believed could help him.
TV : Utopia He kept the hand in a portable container in Torchwood Three's nerve centre, the Hub, and treated it as a prized possession, much to the occasional consternation of his colleagues. The team had been testing the resurrection gauntlet on a series of murders which unknown to Jack were committed by Suzie to make her understand the glove further. At a hospital , he helped capture a Weevil. Police Constable Gwen Cooper began investigating Jack and followed him from the hospital to Torchwood.
He showed her around the Hub, then laced a drink with retcon to make her forget about everything. After Suzie was exposed as a serial murderer, she tried escaping by shooting Jack, but when he revived, she shot herself. Jack recruited Gwen, whose memories had resurfaced, as Torchwood's newest member. Gwen became the only person on the team who knew of Jack's immortality. TV : Everything Changes.
Jack chased after a meteorite containing the sex gas creature, where Gwen had accidentally released it. He tricked the gas creature into leaving Carys Fletcher and entering the Torchwood portable prison cell.
The entity was poisoned by Earth 's atmosphere and died. TV : Day One. As Gwen was a "beat cop", and untrained in firearms, Jack trained her to protect herself. Jack helped Gwen and Owen capture a quantum transducer Bernie Harris had been carrying. He later confiscated the alien artefacts Bernie had been trying to sell.
He failed to prevent the death of Ed Morgan Gwen indirectly foresaw with the transducer. Jack then ordered the transducer locked away. TV : Ghost Machine. Jack and the others managed to bypass the Hub's lockdown and escape, but Ianto rushed back for his girlfriend.
After Lisa had placed her brain inside the body of another human, the rest of the team had no choice but to kill her. Jack re-encountered the same fairies that had killed his men in Lahore. He saw them kill Estelle Cole and he prevented Gwen from stopping Jasmine Pierce , their new Chosen One , from joining their ranks as they could have destroyed the Earth.
His team turned their backs on him after this, angry at his decision. Jack and Ianto worked together against an incursion of Scorchies at the Millennium Centre. Afterwards Ianto confessed he wanted to be more involved in the team and Jack promised to try to help with that.
After slipping to The Doctor that his nickname was once the Face of Boe see video below , viewers were gifted a pretty strong hint Jack will eventually become the huge-headed pickled alien of the same name seen in previous episodes. A character appearing in the adventures of both the Ninth and Tenth Doctors, this giant jarred face is regarded as one of the wisest beings in the universe, somebody so smart he can communicate his philosophical pep talks telepathically.
In fact, the only time we see Boe using his voice is immediately before dying in David Tennant episode Gridlock. Sign in. Back to Main menu What to watch Film news. Get all the latest Doctor Who updates direct to your inbox Thanks! Sign me up!
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