Perhaps the most important one introduced in this run is Captain Jack Harkness, a member of the Time Agency who eventually becomes a recurring companion for the 9th and 10th Doctors. He'll also return to accompany the 13th Doctor for the holiday special. Captain Jack Harkness has been able to return to the series so often due to his immortality, which he gained at the end of the first season. All is well until the satellite is invaded by the Daleks. The team attempts to ward off the Daleks with the help of some of the contestants, but it hits a point where The Doctor has to launch a Delta Wave that fries all life within the area, Daleks and humans alike.
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. The Torchwood team travelled to the Welsh countryside to investigate a series of disappearances, fearing the Rift was expanding.
The Torchwood SUV was stolen by a group of cannibals that harvested travellers once every ten years. The team followed the cannibals to their village. Right as his team were captured, Jack stepped in and incapacitated the cannibals with a shotgun. The cannibals were arrested by the police. TV : Countrycide He asked Ianto how he was coping a few days later, as Tosh had been reporting having nightmares. The Torchwood team discovered a teleporter buried in the ground for two hundred years, alongside a corpse of a soldier with his heart ripped out.
An Arcateenian called Mary threatened Tosh's life, demanding her transporter back. Jack reprogrammed Mary's teleporter as he handed it back and she was teleported straight into the Sun. Jack knew what the Saviour really was and that his race were a slave traders. Ianto then regretted his decision and went to retrieve him from the camp. Afterwards they had a proper talk about what Ianto was going through and began a relationship.
Jack decided to investigate the conspiracy theorist George Wilson who talked about the Committee , as he knew that the Committee actually existed. He posed as an investigator for Plexus Magazine to attend one of Wilson's conferences where he met by accident with Sam Hallett who recognised him. He managed to get an interview from Kate Wilson with her father. He learnt about the different phases that George believed the Committee was arranging.
He then spent his time looking through video footage of George learning more about him. During his research he was contacted by Sam and Jack was forced to watch Sam commit suicide. He went to Wilson to find out why Sam was killed. Jack learnt what Wilson thought he had made it all up, though Jack knew some of it was true. He found out that Kate was a member of the Committee and that they knew all about him. Kate told him that she was feeding enough information to George to make the humans believe the conspiracy and that they were doing this to make the humans complacent.
He then went AWOL from Torchwood for a while to investigate them, leaving a recording for the rest of the team to explain his disappearance. He investigated Neil's crash and traced mysterious things following the accident.
Talking with Neil, he discovered that Eve Trent from Ovid Industries had supplied him with the doppelganger. He told Neil that his actions had cost a lot of people their lives. Neil detailed how he got the robot to take over his operations and his social life, but he started to resent him.
Jack informed Neil that NJ was going rogue and dealing with terrorists. He later met with NJ who tried to seduce him and succeeded. After having sex with NJ he told Neil to shut him down but this didn't work. NJ attacked Jack after this and killed him. After Jack came back to life he managed to destroy NJ, but not before NJ confirmed that he was made by the Committee and that the Committee weren't invading the Earth, they had been invited. While investigating a murder case with Suzie's involvement, Gwen revived Suzie using the resurrection gauntlet, and started having her life drained by the constant link the gauntlet maintained between them.
After shooting her achieved nothing, Jack ordered Tosh to destroy the gauntlet, killing Suzie and saving Gwen's life. When Gwen was investigating the death of Eugene Jones , Jack tried to make her stop but she refused. Jack was later present when Eugene reappeared to save Gwen's life from a speeding car. Jack thanked Gwen for not giving up on Eugene. TV : Random Shoes. At some point in , Jack was kidnapped by the Three Families. Gwen came looking for him and was also captured.
They were transported to Chernobyl , where the Families extracted blood samples from Jack, and used retcon gas to remove his and Gwen's memories of the event.
This event would prove significant later. He befriended John, as he was also a man out of his own time. As John had nothing left to live for, he committed suicide. Unable to convince John to continue living, Jack held his hand as the car fumes overwhelmed John.
TV : Out of Time. Owen chastised Jack for saving him, saying that he felt "totally at peace". TV : Combat. Tosh and Jack investigated music from the s playing from the Ritz. The Rift brought them back to , where they met Jack's namesake. Jack bonded with the real Jack over war stories and inadvertently complicated his relationship with Nancy Floyd.
The two Jacks had a brief romance. The opening of the Rift brought diseases and people across time and space so Jack felt forced to dismiss Owen. Owen later returned and shot Jack; through Bilis Manger 's manipulations, Owen re-opened the Rift to send everything back. Jack resurrected and the rest of his team learnt of his immortality.
After the Rift was opened, Jack was forced to confront Abaddon. Abbadon was destroyed while attempting to leech Jack's life, though the exertion resulted in Jack remaining dead for days, his immortality apparently unable to save him. He was brought back to life after a kiss from Gwen. A short while after his resurrection, Jack noticed the Doctor's hand begin to glow. From inside of the Hub, Jack recognised the sound of the TARDIS materialising, elated, after decades of waiting, by the knowledge that the young cartomancer's prophecy had been fulfilled and that a version of the Doctor he knew was returning to refuel.
By the time the rest of the Torchwood team arrived to investigate the sound, Jack had gone. TV : End of Days. Character pages are not the place for plot summaries. A brief sentence summary per story is all that is needed.
Rushing to where it was parked, he managed to jump onto the ship before it dematerialised, clinging on as it travelled through the time vortex to the year ,,,, The Doctor and Jack had an awkward reunion, owing both to the Doctor's regeneration into his tenth incarnation since they last met and the fact the Ninth Doctor had abandoned him on Satellite Five.
Before long the Doctor admitted that he had run from Jack because his unique nature as a living temporal anomaly made the Time Lord physically uncomfortable when near him — even looking at Jack was an effort. Jack made the happy discovery, though, that Rose had not been killed in the Battle of Canary Wharf as he had believed. They met and helped Professor Yana to repair a spaceship in order to help the last humans in the universe reach Utopia. Jack, Martha and the Doctor in hiding. TV : The Sound of Drums.
After the Doctor fixed Jack's vortex manipulator , the trio used it to escape the Futurekind and travel back to , where they discovered the Master, using the alias "Harold Saxon", had been elected Great Britain 's Prime Minister. He framed them for terrorism, planting explosives in Martha's flat. He also made sure that Jack couldn't get help from his Torchwood team by sending them to the Himalayas "on a wild goose chase".
With nowhere to go, Jack, the Doctor and Martha went on the run. After failing to foil the Master's plot, the Master summoned the Toclafane , whom he ordered to assassinate US President Arthur Winters , attack the Earth, and decimate the population. He then killed Jack and aged the Doctor with his laser screwdriver. TV : The Sound of Drums As the Toclafane began slaughtering the population, Jack, realising they couldn't stop the Master, told Martha to escape using his vortex manipulator.
Being kept prisoner aboard the Valiant for a year , Jack, the Doctor and the Jones family witnessed the Master and the Toclafane devastate Earth's civilisations and reduce the human race to camps of survivors, and suffered at his hands themselves.
Bound in chains aboard the Valiant, the thing that kept Jack going during the year of hell was the thought of getting back to his Torchwood team.
When Martha allowed herself to be taken to the Master, she and the Doctor revealed their plan; using the Archangel Network, the Doctor harnessed the psychic energy of humanity's hope, as Martha had spent a year travelling the world telling humanity about his importance to them.
On the Doctor's orders, Jack destroyed the paradox machine keeping the Toclafane in the present, undoing the entire year; Earth was restored as time resumed for everyone else right after the President was killed, but those on the Valiant retained their memories due to being at the "eye of the storm".
TV : Last of the Time Lords. Jack returned to Torchwood and the team, while they were on a mission, saving the life of a woman being menaced by a Blowfish. He quickly had yet another visit from the past, this time even further back; Jack was reunited with Captain John Hart from his Time Agent days, who had come through the Rift searching for some canisters that had also come through. Captain John told Torchwood that they contained radioactive bombs.
John tricked Jack, pushing him off the top of an office building and taking the canister. Jack caught up with John, but the contents of the canisters were actually components of a bomb that latched onto the DNA of the owner of the canisters' murderer. Jack confused the bomb by injecting John with the DNA of the Torchwood team and safely disposed of it.
Jack then asked John to leave. As he did so, he told Jack that he had found Gray. Torchwood took in Beth Halloran on suspicion over the deaths of two burglars. Jack ordered a mind probe on her, and her true identity, the sleeper agent Keryehla Janees, surfaced. Once Tosh deactivated the link, an advance guard of Cell attacked Cardiff. Jack and Gwen stopped " David " from attacking a stockpile of nuclear warheads.
Before David committed suicide, he told Jack the rest of Cell had already arrived on Earth and factored Torchwood into their plans. Rather than let her sleeper agent form take over, Beth pretended to threaten Gwen and Torchwood killed her. TV : Sleeper. Jack and Ianto tracked a Cell signal to Serenity Plaza and went undercover to track the sleeper agent.
Pretending to be an idyllic couple, Jack went off to work each day returning to the hub, whilst Ianto stayed at home. When Mary thought Jack was attracted to her husband Bob he played along. Once the sleepers had activated, they found their control centre and Jack devised a way to completely wipe out Cell Jack reawakened Tommy Brockless for the last time. Jack gave Tommy a small Rift Manipulator in order to close the time shifts.
Toshiko then projected an image of herself to Tommy to tell him how to use the "key". An alien that could replenish its cells indefinitely was being mutilated there so its meat could be sold. Jack saw Owen mercy kill the creature and felt sorry for it. Torchwood then had its workers retconned and the alien incinerated.
Jack asked Gwen to give Rhys retcon, but she refused. TV : Meat. The memory-altering creature Adam Smith altered Torchwood Three's memories, making them think he had been a team member for years. After doing this, Jack's memories of Gray and his father resurfaced. Jack realised that all the memories of Adam were false and that Adam's files only dated back 48 hours. Torchwood Three took retcon and erased all trace of Adam's existence on file.
Jack invited Martha onto the team to investigate the Pharm , a medical organisation that could cure diseases thought incurable. He ordered Toshiko to close the Pharm down once he learnt of their mistreatment of humans and aliens alike, but the Pharm's manager, Aaron Copley , shot Owen and then Jack shot him.
TV : Reset. Jack and Owen commiserate over immortality. TV : Dead Man Walking. Unwilling to accept the loss of another teammate, Jack tracked down the other resurrection gauntlet and brought back Owen. The attempt, though successful, left Owen unable to digest food, sleep, or enjoy sex. In addition, the glove released an extradimensional alien, Duroc , the embodiment of death.
Owen saved the day by using his new condition to stifle the needs of the entity, but still expressed a deep resentment towards Jack. A regretful Jack was forced to temporarily relieve Owen until he could acclimatise. Jack later had Owen retrieve the Pulse from an ailing Henry Parker.
Owen became medical officer again after Martha had taken over for Owen to acclimatise, and Jack kissed Martha goodbye. TV : A Day in the Death. Gwen was impregnated by a Nostrovite Jack had killed. She decided against postponing her wedding to Rhys. The biological mother, " Carrie ", tried forcibly taking her unborn child from Gwen's womb and Jack was forced to stop the wedding. All the alien technology combined was enough the contact the Doctor.
In the Government destroyed Torchwood three hoping to kill Jack as he was one of the few people that knew of the alien threat. After losing Torchwood three, Ianto and his grandson Jack decided to leave Earth.
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