Captain Jack Harkness

Captain Jack Harkness

Not much is known about the dashing, openly bisexual/omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness' early life. Even the name Jack Harkness is fake. He was born in the 51st century and lived in the Boeshane peninsula (it is never made clear if the Boeshane peninsula is the specific name of a geographic region or a planet). His father's name was Frankl... Show more »
Not much is known about the dashing, openly bisexual/omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness' early life. Even the name Jack Harkness is fake. He was born in the 51st century and lived in the Boeshane peninsula (it is never made clear if the Boeshane peninsula is the specific name of a geographic region or a planet). His father's name was Franklin and he had a younger brother named Gray. His father was probably killed and his brother captured during some sort of alien raid. Some of this may be false memory planted by an alien entity, but to what extent is unknown.As the first from his area to sign up with the Time Agency and an obvious heartthrob, he was nicknamed the face of Boe, possibly indicating that he will eventually become the mysterious alien of the same name (whom the Doctor encounters 5 billion years in the future in The End of the World). Most of Jack's experience with the Time Agency is detailed in the Doctor Who episodes The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances though his former partner with the Agency is introduced in the Torchwood episode Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.During his time in the Time Agency Jack was equipped with various gadgets, such as his sonic blaster and the vortex manipulator wristband he uses to space hop his way between times. A Time Agent's Vortex Manipulator is used by aliens in the Doctor Who episode Human Nature to pursue The Doctor and Martha when they flee in the TARDIS.Jack briefly teams up with the Doctor but after certain events in Bad Wolf Jack is abandoned by the Doctor. Jack attempts to return to 21st century Earth but his vortex manipulator malfunctions landing him on late 19th century Earth. Jack becomes an integral and later leading member of Torchwood - he changes Torchwood's M.O. as an homage to the doctor - while waiting for the Doctor to reappear in Cardiff, Wales, with the TARDIS so that Jack may reunite with him and find out if the Doctor can repair Jack's immortality.After their reunion Jack's immortality is explained to him and revealed to be a permanent and apparently eternal condition. Jack rejoins the TARDIS crew for some time before returning to Torchwood and his current team. He departs the TARDIS on good terms with the Doctor and his current companion Martha Jones.Jack oversees the operation of Torchwood. One day whilst working for the agency, Jack woke up to find two years of his memories missing. In an attempt to seek vengeance, he leaves the Time Agency and becomes a conman, performing the perfect self-cleaning con on Time Agents. Jack's first appearance is in the Doctor Who episode The Empty Child during which Jack uses a stolen Chula warship (actually a medical transport) to lure the TARDIS to 1941 London.He spots the Ninth Doctor's companion Rose Tyler dangling from a barrage balloon during a Blitz air raid, and sends a tractor beam to bring her on board his ship (also Chulan). Jack's guess that Rose is a time agent is confirmed when she recognizes psychic paper, so he attempts to sell her the broken Chula ship. Impressed by Jack's charm and knowledge, she takes him to meet the Doctor.The Doctor, unimpressed by Jack, suspects the con after mysterious things begin to happen with humans mutating into gas-masked creatures calling for their mummy. Jack is rescued by the Doctor and joins the TARDIS crew.Like most of the Ninth and the Tenth Doctor's companions Jack falls in love with the Doctor (though the only companion The Doctor ever responds to is Rose Tyler and even then no real physical or romantic relationship occurs).After a dramatic transformation at the end of the series, Jack next appears as the lead in Torchwood season one.Jack consistently demonstrates ruthless resolve and doesn't hesitate to assume terrible burdens for the greater good. Throughout Torchwood and his appearances in Doctor Who he is often willing to do things that The Doctor balks at and doesn't flinch from inflicting violence on his enemies. Show less «

Captain Jack Harkness movies list

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Annabelle: Creation
2017
IMDb: 7
109 min
Country: United States
Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into ...

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