He used malware to expunge evidence of Torchwood from the Internet, and went to the CIA hard copy records to clear the last of the information. Jack used the alias "Owen Harper" while he gathered more information; he learned that the Miracle had given humans a version of his immortality, once seeing a severed head continue to live but unable to reform or heal. Jack also discovered that on Miracle Day, he lost his immortality, or perhaps just his instant healing ability as he kept minor wounds that normally would have healed in a day for him from the explosion at the CIA Archives.
There, they fought off assassins. Despite planning to investigate the Miracle with Gwen, Matheson extradited them to the United States against their will. Once the pair were forced onto a plane headed for America, Rex confiscated Jack's vortex manipulator and handcuffed him to his seat. Hearing his manipulator beeping, Jack told Rex he had low sodium levels.
Upon arrival at the airport, Rex freed Jack along with Gwen to fight the now corrupt CIA who wished to frame and dispose of them. After Lyn's neck was broken and the guards knocked out, the three boarded the car of Rex's fellow ex-agent, Esther. They left the airport after Jack briefly met the doctor who had saved his life. TV : Rendition.
They began stealing materials needed for operations again, and purchasing necessities with his ATM card, which had a large amount to spend. Soon coming into possession of the phone of Brian Friedkin , the CIA director who had given the orders to eliminate Torchwood, Jack led the team to a warehouse owned by PhiCorp. Inside was a stockpile of painkiller drugs, indicating that they knew "Miracle Day" would happen.
Seemingly out of character, Jack decided to take the night off from his usual persistence in solving a mystery and had a one-night stand with a bartender. The following night, Jack confronted PhiCorp's new public face, Oswald Danes , and got him to admit his true feelings about his crime. Jack realised that Danes wished desperately for death. He was tossed out by Danes' guards, who took the recording he made of his conversation with Oswald. TV : Dead of Night.
Unknown to him, they were followed by an assassin with orders to kill Jack. However, the assassin also gained access, and followed Jack and Gwen there. Inside the building, the assassin tied up Jack and Gwen, and informed them he had been ordered to kill Jack.
However, the assassin was fascinated that Jack was the only mortal man left, and did not want to kill him. After informing Jack that something that he did in the past was involved, the assassin threatened to cut Gwen's throat. Before he could carry out his threat, he was shot in the throat by Rex. This earned Jack's anger as the assassin could have filled in the blanks about the new enemy they were facing.
TV : Escape to LA. After the new categories of life were released and the overflow camps were opened, Gwen returned to Wales to free her father from one and Dr. Vera Juarez came to LA to join Torchwood. Rex, Vera, and Esther decided to infiltrate an overflow camp. As he was recognised easily by anyone working for this new enemy, Jack couldn't go. Learning Oswald Danes was to give a speech at the Miracle Rally , Jack sneaked in and tried persuading Danes to read a speech he wrote, revealing PhiCorp knew of the Miracle beforehand, instead of the speech that Jilly Kitzinger had written.
If Danes read his speech, Jack promised that when the Miracle ended, he would help him die as he desperately wished. Much to his disappointment, Jack watched as Oswald took parts from both speeches to make his own, saying humanity had evolved into ever-lasting angels. TV : The Categories of Life. Jack gained access to Stuart Owens ' email and found out that he was having an extra-marital affair with Janet Tanner and that he planned to transfer her.
Jack met Janet in a bar and persuaded her to help him meet Owens. Janet pretended to have been kidnapped over the phone, while Jack spoke with Stuart in a restaurant. Stuart explained that despite his position in PhiCorp, he did not know anything about the Miracle. He had been trying to find out about it. He also told Jack that something called the Blessing was involved. The police soon arrived and Jack was forced to leave. Jack returned to Torchwood's base and began to investigate the Blessing.
Gwen contacted him using the Eye-5 contact lenses, and Jack recorded Gwen blowing up the modules at the Cowbridge Overflow Camp. He also put Rex's footage of both the San Pedro Overflow Camp and Vera's death online with Gwen's, starting public outrage at the conditions that the injured and ill were enduring; however, as "Torchwood wasn't designed to fight politics," they had no more success than that.
TV : The Middle Men. Gwen received a message on the Torchwood contact lenses, telling her they had Rhys, her mother , and Anwen. She would have to hand over Jack if she wanted to see her family again. Gwen returned to LA, and asked Jack to come outside. Once outside, Gwen stunned Jack and tied him up in the car.
She drove him to where the contact lenses instructed her. Once they arrived at the specified location and a van arrived carrying three people, Rex and Esther revealed that they had followed them. They pointed sniper rifles at the people from the van. Jack was told they wanted to take him to Angelo Colasanto , the only person who knew the true nature of the Miracle. The person who had arranged to have Gwen's family kidnapped was Olivia Colasanto , Angelo's granddaughter.
Olivia took Jack and the rest of the Torchwood team to Angelo's house, where Jack was told Angelo had been able to live to over a hundred years through artificial means, but had aged normally and was in a coma on life support. Angelo had become wealthy thanks to the advice Jack had given him and kept pictures of him from throughout the 20th century. Olivia explained that three families, Ablemarch , Costerdane and Frines , had made a deal to purchase Jack back in for his immortality.
When he escaped, they vowed to find him again, destroying all evidence of their existence to cover their tracks. Jack spoke to Angelo even though he was unconscious, and unplugged Angelo's life support equipment, assuming that he would survive due to the Miracle, and was surprised when Angelo died.
After Shapiro had Gwen deported to Wales, Jack discovered a null field generator under Angelo's bed that cancelled out the morphic field that had caused the Miracle in the first place. Jack didn't want the CIA to obtain the null field technology, so he persuaded Rex and Esther to help him escape with a vital component of the generator.
Unfortunately, Jack was shot soon after he escaped. Esther was forced to go with him, while Rex stayed with the CIA. TV : End of the Road. Jack spent the next two months with Esther, ending up in Scotland. Esther collected his blood, which she believed relevant to the Miracle. Eventually, they were contacted by Gwen, who told them Oswald Danes was in her house and wanted to speak to Jack.
Jack and Esther went to Wales, where Jack retconned a man who was watching Gwen's house before going in. Oswald explained to Jack that he had stolen Jilly Kitzinger 's laptop. He knew what she was doing for the families. Jilly was helping them to mistranslate video from other countries to hide the location of the Blessing. Torchwood realised that there were two Blessings, one in Shanghai , and one in Buenos Aires.
Jack went to Shanghai with Gwen and Oswald. Once they arrived there, his gunshot wound began to hurt more. Gwen helped him change his bandage, and Oswald noticed that Jack's blood was moving by itself. Gwen determined that Jack's blood must be moving towards the Blessing.
TV : The Gathering. With Oswald's help, Jack and Gwen located the Blessing , which was about to be blown up by the Families to bury it forever. They knew that Torchwood had located it. Strapping Oswald to a bomb, the three forced their way into the Blessing. Rex and Esther were captured while trying to infiltrate the Blessing in Buenos Aires.
Jack, despite being from the future and having had experiences with the Doctor, had no idea what the Blessing really was. He believed it to have been on Earth since the beginning. The Blessing seemed to show everybody themselves, but Jack didn't appear significantly affected by seeing all the lives he had lived.
Jack learned that his blood was used to change the Blessing, which ran Earth's morphic field. Jack realised the Blessing changed in self-defence and that his mortal blood could change it back. A family member revealed that mortal blood would need to be put into the Blessing from both ends to reverse the Miracle.
Jack would have no way to do it. Rex, however, had transfused Jack's blood into his own body. The two men were prepared to sacrifice themselves to end the Miracle, but Esther was shot by the Families to prevent this, as ending the Miracle would kill Esther.
The two decided to end the Miracle anyway, and Gwen shot Jack while Rex removed his bandage. Jack appeared to die of the gunshot wound. Oswald decided to stay behind to blow up a family member, and Gwen and Jilly decided to escape.
Jack's immortality returned and he escaped with Gwen as Oswald detonated his bomb. Rex also survived the ordeal, but Esther did not make it. Jack and Gwen react to Rex's immortality. The friends attended Esther's funeral. There, Charlotte Wills exposed herself as the CIA mole that kept the Families informed about actions taken against them and killed Rex before being killed herself.
Rex resurrected, having somehow gained Jack's immortality. After the events of Miracle Day, Jack decided to take a holiday away from humanity, and find solitude by going to Cotter Paluni's World. TV : The Day of the Doctor. Jack was captured by Adam Mitchell and trapped with many other companions of the Doctor in Adam Mitchell's fortress.
After Adam thwarted the Master's plot to destroy the universe at the cost of his life, all the Doctors and their companions oversaw his memorial before taking their leave. Info from Station Zero needs to be added. Jack realised that the Committee was behind the Three Families and, hoping to find out how the Evolved had kept their worlds safe from the Committee, travelled to Peritus IV. He begged the Evolved to help him save Earth and agreed to a controlled experiment of their technology upon humans.
When he learnt of what that entailed, they held him captive and tried to kill him. He had Elunedd call Gwen and later offered the Evolved his mind in return for Rhys, Anwen and the other people whose minds they had swapped being restored. Travelling from the third planet in the Otega system , back to Earth, Jack and the crew of the Ice Maiden were attacked by ninjas on jet-skis who came from a flying saucer. They were joined by St John Colchester and operated from a partially-restored Hub. The three became aware of the presence of an alien race that had taken over the city and Jack set his sights on Tyler Steele to join them due to his skills with computers and investigation.
Jack vetted Tyler whilst investigating 3Sol but refused to let him join after he encouraged Vorsun to kill her human hostages , although he did tell him to continue looking into the aliens. The two of them met Orr , whom Jack drove out of Cardiff to protect the city from the explosive control necklace , and Jack began to feel distanced from "Gwen" when she did not invite him to her mother 's funeral.
At the Hub, he invited Orr to join them. Jack was infected by a parasite after being raped by Duncan. He went on to infect Tyler and Ng and, after the three were given curative worms by Ro-Jedda , Tyler called off their relationship and told Jack to do something about Red Doors. To save Andy and prevent 3Sol from gaining complete control of policing, Jack allied himself with Xander Vaughn of Red Doors, promising to supply them with quantum tech in return for their help in locating Helen White and thwarting Ro-Jedda's plans.
He recruited a number of students to the Red Doors cause and supplied them with flash grenades and the like for the protest. In the end, he reached a compromise with Ro-Jedda. Torchwood turned against him and Yvonne took his place, telling Jack to join Red Doors and put them to a better use.
From the ruins of the intelligence of the Cardiff Bay Intelligent Hotel and Spa , Jack engineered the Meme with the intention of using it to encourage rebellion against the Sorvix. However, Red Doors altered it into instead encouraging violence and revenge. Mr Colchester asked Jack to meet with him and admonished him for his role. Jack tempered Red Doors and directed them solely against the Sorvix and empty buildings. However, he was unable to prevent them from bombing Cardiff Airport and died in the explosion.
With Orr, he decided to bring an end to Red Doors and met with Inspector Bernstein to take them down, although they found that Yvonne and 3Sol already got to them.
He returned to the Hub after warning Cardiff City Hall of the oncoming bomb attack and allowed the Rift to open, splitting Gwen from Ng. He said goodbye to his friend as she left with Rhys. Due to what she did to Gwen, Jack avoided Ng and did not talk to her. He was surprised and confused when Orr transformed into him in Colin 's presence and was convinced by them into rejoining Torchwood as they had reservations about Yvonne. In the mines he was bitten by one of the Maggots and started to glow green.
He discovered with Jo that BOSS was behind it and they the supposed vegan food was actually made from the maggots. He struck a deal with BOSS for the giant maggots and flies to stay in the mines.
Brent Hayden believed that Jack and Orr watched a speech that he made concerning racism and conspiracies and that they planned to destroy him. Brent also imagined that he was a homophobic Yank who used language and phrases from old films. Jack avoided Ng and went to help Colin when a predator shrouded Cardiff in darkness.
His night-vision goggles were broken in St Martin's but he let Colin continue to believe that he was wearing them despite the fact that Colin himself was the one leading them to Ritz Tower. In Flat , Jack told Colin that he thought that he had become mortal again.
Colin kissed Jack, whereupon Mr Colchester appeared and asked Jack what he was doing. Believing Mr Colchester to be a ghost, Jack returned to the Hub unaware that the blue light had latched onto him and was giving waking nightmares to those disconnected from him, namely Yvonne, Tyler and Mr Colchester. Orr later absorbed the light from him and he decided to make an effort with Ng. He protested when Yvonne said that she was going to use the pharadyne projector to bring back Ianto and witnessed when, instead, Norton Folgate appeared.
Jack was on a rooftop when Mr Colchester approached him, telling him to keep away from his husband and asking about resurrection.
Jack believed that he had become immortal again thanks to the Night Sun. After having sex with seven Penashi , Jack found himself in Mr Colchester's body and pretended to be him so as not to ruin Colin's birthday. He took him on a tour of rooftops and to watch the ducks before receiving a text telling him of a reservation at Antonio's.
There, he convinced Mr Colchester that it was in Colin's best interests that he continue pretending to be him, later taking him through Mr Colchester's Rift corridors. When their bodies switched back, Mr Colchester was grateful. Jack, Mr Colchester, Ng and Norton travelled in a submersible to the Sorvix power station to stop it from exploding and destroying western Europe.
He and Norton went to shut the station down, but Norton trapped him in a concentration filter and had him absorb the energy, also admitting that he was working for the Committee. Jack was saved by Ng and he later saved Mr Colchester from drowning. The three were in the submersible when the tsunami hit Cardiff. Jack planned for Torchwood to go back underground and had Andy start working for him as a spy , becoming director of the Disaster Recovery Committee and ostensibly working for the Committee.
Two months after the tsunami hit, Jack planned to expose Yvonne for her role. He attended the inquiry into the response of the emergency services and told Bethan Foster that there was clearly a cover-up, as well as saying that Yvonne was powerful and dangerous. This eventually resulted in Bethan realising that the drinking water contained retcon , replacing it and exposing Yvonne. Jack approached Yvonne outside of the Disaster Recovery Committee building and fled from a security guard with her to a "crappy car" that he said would let them sit unnoticed.
He was shot and killed by a security guard when he tried to stop him from shooting a boy. Andy had him taken away when he did not revive. Andy took Jack's body to a jail cell where he was joined by God.
The two of them left the cell and went to the Hub, leaving Yvonne and Orr in there with the Lens to destroy the Committee and Erebus. Jack saved the two of them on the invisible lift after the Hub began falling apart and went on the run with Ng, Mr Colchester, Orr and Tyler when Andy informed them that they were fugitives. Jack greets Graham O'Brien , mistaking him for the Doctor. TV : Fugitive of the Judoon. In , Jack travelled in a stolen spaceship to warn the Doctor about the Lone Cyberman and what he was searching for.
With the ship's previous owners and defense nanogenes attacking, Jack explained that the Alliance had sent something back through time that the Lone Cyberman was after and that the Thirteenth Doctor must not give the Cyberman what it wanted or risk the fallen Cyber-Empire rising again. Before teleporting away, Jack said that it would be some time before the Doctor saw him again, but he would be there if she needed him.
The Doctor was pleased to hear from her old friend again, TV : Fugitive of the Judoon but was ultimately forced to ignore Jack's warning when the time came due to the circumstances surrounding the event.
Jack later learned that the Doctor had been locked in prison and purposefully got himself arrested for a number of unspecified crimes in order to break her out. After nineteen years, Jack managed to reach the adjoining cell to the Doctor's and drew her attention by knocking four times on the wall.
The next day, Jack revealed himself and used a device the surrounded them in a bubble of frozen time to race himself and the Doctor to a hidden compartment in another cell containing his repaired vortex manipulator. Dodging questions about how he had smuggled it in, Jack teleported them away as the alarms went off. Yaz, Graham and Ryan revealed that they were dealing with a Dalek threat and the group tried to figure it out with Jack explaining his immortality and how the Daleks had once killed him a long time before.
Jack reminisced on his 51st century origins and sympathized with Yaz's fear of the Doctor not coming back based on his own experiences. Jack warned Yaz that being the Doctor's companion , you had no choice in when it stopped, whether you left the Doctor or they left you. However, despite how hard it is to experience traveling with the Doctor and then losing it, Jack told Yaz that it was worth it and to enjoy it while she had it "because the joy is worth the pain.
Opening the door to the facility with his sonic blaster , Jack and Yaz discovered to their horror that the facility was a clone farm growing thousands of cloned Daleks. Jack began planting explosives to blow the facility up as Yaz gathered samples of the Dalek mutants food in the hopes of finding a way to stop them. The two came under attack by Dalek mutants, but Jack managed to kill them with his sonic blaster.
The group was confronted by the Dalek responsible for the creation of the clone farm possessing Leo Rugazzi. The Dalek explained how it connected itself into Robertson's systems and used them create the clone farm and its new race of Daleks, disgusting Jack to learn that they were being fed liquidized humans.
The Dalek revealed that it intended to use Earth as a base to begin a conquest of the universe and utilized ultraviolet light to teleport the Daleks into their Defence Drone shells. Robertson revealed that thousands of drones had been built before the Dalek killed Leo and disappeared. Returning to the TARDIS, the Doctor announced to the others that their only chance was the nuclear option that might backfire upon them. Jack immediately realized what the Doctor meant and warned her that it was a planet-threatening risk.
However, Jack didn't have any better ideas to stop the threat. The Doctor explained that the Daleks were built from the original reconnaissance Dalek and she would give them what they wanted. The Doctor began to send a message through the Time Vortex and Jack told Yaz that she was doing something that you never want to do. The message was received by a Dalek saucer containing Death Squad Daleks with the Doctor revealing that her plan was to bring in more Daleks to deal with the Defence Drones, although they must not know that she was there.
However, they will have to deal with the new Daleks once the Defence Drones are dealt with. In order to stop the Death Squad Daleks, the Doctor asked Jack to blow up their ship which he was only too happy to do and Ryan and Graham volunteered to help. Jack armed the two men with some of his bombs and the Doctor and Yaz ordered them not to detonate until they were sure that all of the Defence Drones were destroyed and until the men were clear of the ship.
Jack teleported the three to the saucer using his vortex manipulator and they began to spread out and plant bombs. However, the ship's internal sensors detect non-Dalek lifeforms onboard and Jack witnesses Robertson betraying them and warning the Daleks about the Doctor.
After witnessing the extermination of the last of Robertson's Daleks, Jack warned the Doctor that Robertson had sold her out to the Daleks. Coming up with a plan to deal with the remainder of the Daleks, the Doctor ordered Jack to stand by for Yaz's signal to teleport out and destroy the ship.
Jack, Ryan and Graham rescued Robertson, but became cornered by Daleks. Yaz gave the signal and after introducing himself, Jack teleported them out as the Daleks fired. Ryan detonated the bombs as they left, destroying the Dalek saucer.
TV : Revolution of the Daleks. Info from Mighty and Despair needs to be added. Jack and Torchwood helped the Human Empire to combat the Enemy. He befriended Jeremiah Bash Henderson and asked him to visit the Torchwood Archive , which had travelled beyond the Empire's space.
The Tenth Doctor speculated another fate; that Jack, being immortal, could well still be alive by the end of the universe in the year ,,,, Shortly before his regeneration began, the Twelfth Doctor dreamt of Jack saying his name. TV : The Doctor Falls. As a member of Torchwood, Jack's likeness was among those assumed by the intuitive hard-light simulations of the Torchwood Archive.
TV : Turn Left. John Hart once created an alternate timeline by marrying Queen Victoria. Jack came to stop him and John shot him, discovering his inability to die. He used Torchwood technology to siphon energy off him, and used it to extend his life. Jack took back what was stolen from him and told John that when he died, the world would return to normal and John would be trapped.
In an alternate timeline created when Rassilon allied with the Cyberiad , the Cybermen used Time Lord resources to conquer all of history. As the group evacuated, Rose fell victim to the Cybermen's techno-virus and was upgraded into a Cyber-Warrior , shooting Jack dead. This sequence of events was later undone by the Twelfth Doctor with the aid of a remorseful Rassilon.
Jack "says hello" to Chantho. Jack Harkness' personality was wilfully enigmatic. He enjoyed his persona of "mysterious time traveller", much of which remained constant in his experiences with Torchwood and the Doctor. Before being cursed with immortality, he was a flippant former con man who loved adventuring with the Doctor and seducing beings throughout the universe.
Jack automatically flirted with most people he met, not caring about their gender or if they were human, alien or even robots. The Doctor often told him to stop and Jack would often reply, "I'm just saying hello".
But as the Doctor pointed out, "For you, that's flirting". Besides being a flirt, Jack was a drinker. He once remarked that on one occasion when he was sentenced to death, he got drunk and ended up in bed with both his executioners. TV : The Parting of the Ways. Despite the fact that he was incapable of dying even if he wanted to, Jack retained a sense of humour, frequently telling jokes and being lively and cheerful.
However, underneath his cheerful demeanour, Jack was unsure if he wanted to die or not. TV : Utopia Living forever or at least as near to forever as a human could live brought him to an existential viewpoint.
While he joked about grey hairs and remained silent about mortality, Jack saw death as the ultimate end of being; there was no afterlife and no one waiting for him from his past lives. Jack expressed annoyance at people in the 21st century being unable to figure out that aliens exist, believing the Sycorax invasion on the Christmas of and the Battle of Canary Wharf were more than enough proof that they did.
Although friendly and flirtatious, Jack could also be ruthless at times and did not hesitate to kill anyone or anything that he felt was a threat. He was also equally unwilling to do anything that could endanger the Torchwood facility. This sometimes got him into trouble with his allies who disapproved of his lack of compassion. An example of this was when he tried to force Ianto Jones to execute his girlfriend Lisa Hallett , who had been turned into a Cyberman , instead of letting someone else do it.
He reasoned that the entire thing was Ianto's responsibility and even threatened to kill them both if he didn't do it, causing Ianto to say "You like to think you're a hero, but you're the biggest monster of all". TV : Cyberwoman Another example of his ruthlessness was when he refused to open the Rift despite it being their best chance to change everything back to normal, even insulting the rest of the team when they attempted it.
This caused Owen Harper to shoot him because he felt that Jack didn't care about what they had lost. TV : End of Days Because of these incidents, the entire team was surprised by Jack's desire to save the Cash Cow , with Gwen Cooper going so far as to imply she thought he didn't have a heart. TV : Meat Indeed, although he could be aggressive, Jack still cared deeply about his allies and was devastated when any of them were killed. Always a vocal, unreliable narrator of his own adventures, Jack was as much of a mystery to the people he met as the countless lives he claimed to have led.
Jack continued to protect himself with an air of mystery. No one he encountered knew his real name or many details about his career or life. He often told anecdotes about his sex life, but no one knew how many were real, however since he was a successful flirt, it is likely a lot of his tales were true.
He rarely told his teammates anything about himself or his past unless the situation demanded it; Gwen even once lamented the fact that they knew almost nothing about him and that he just came and went whenever he felt like it. This was because Jack believed that his past didn't matter and that who he was now was important.
He was shown to greatly dislike being reminded of his past, such as his desperation to remove Captain John Hart from his life as he was a reminder of his past. In contrast to this mysterious nature, Jack could also be brutally honest at times, such as when he bluntly told Beth Halloran that she was a ruthless killing machine and that there was nothing they could do to change that.
Despite being immortal , and so coming back after being killed numerous times, Jack continued to have a fear of death , which he acknowledged during the Gallipoli campaign of World War I. He remained ever uncertain whether his next death would be his last. Though he professed "responsibility" as his motto after the Year That Never Was , the utter devastation Jack experienced in the space of five days over the course of the incident and the deaths of his grandson and Ianto Jones left him wrecked with guilt and grief, unable to remain on Earth.
When he returned to Earth, Jack seemed to be a shadow of his old self because he had lost so many people he cared about, although he had recovered enough to stay on Earth in order to defend it. Jack was haunted by the loss of his younger brother Gray and spent many decades searching for him. He blamed himself for Gray's disappearance because he'd let go of his hand when they were fleeing from aliens during their childhood, describing it as the worst day of his life.
Jack loved his brother deeply and, even after Gray turned against him, Jack told him that he forgave him. However, Gray refused to give him absolution and Jack had no choice but to chloroform him and seal him in the cryo-chambers. John Hart insisted that killing him was the only option, believing that Gray would never recover from the trauma, but Jack refused, believing that there had been enough death.
TV : Adam , Exit Wounds. Jack possessed a deep hatred of the Daleks due to their being responsible for his first death and was only too gleeful at the chance of destroying them. After becoming a companion of the Ninth Doctor , Jack retained a great loyalty to the Doctor as a whole, aiding the Doctor's various incarnations as much as he could. After not having seen the Doctor for a very long time, Jack attempted to warn the Doctor, now in their thirteenth incarnation , about the Lone Cyberman and the Cyberium and told Team TARDIS that if the Doctor ever needed him, he would be there for her.
TV : Fugitive of the Judoon After learning that the Doctor had been imprisoned, Jack purposefully allowed himself to be arrested and imprisoned for 19 years just to break her out and enjoyed aiding the Doctor and her companions in defeating the renewed Dalek threat before going his own way again.
In a private conversation with Yasmin Khan , Jack revealed his understanding of the pain of getting left behind by the Doctor and not knowing if they would ever return or were still alive. Due to his long history with the Doctor, Jack knew better than anyone that companions had no choice when their time ended, whether the companion chose to leave or got left behind in the end.
However, Jack encouraged Yaz to enjoy her time travelling with the Doctor, as he knew that the joy was worth the pain that would inevitably come. Like other men in the 51st century , Jack possessed evolved human pheromones which made him naturally nice-smelling and attractive to others. Ianto thought Jack was wearing aftershave. While using the power of the Time Vortex to restore Jack, Rose couldn't totally control the power she wielded, and she brought him back forever by accident.
As such, he became a singularity in a fixed point of time, an immortal being that the Doctor had trouble even looking at, and even the TARDIS tried to get rid of him. The Doctor said that he was unable to undo Jack's immortality, and Jack was eternal, he would never age past his prime and never truly die.
Since his first resurrection, whenever he did die, he automatically came back to life almost instantly, each time awaking with a very deep gasp of breath as his respiratory system resumed its functions. TV : End of Days , Children of Earth: Day One While not understanding the mechanics of his condition, his just-deceased body is apparently held in stasis while time ran backwards over it, repairing wounds and mending the damage.
PROSE : Bay of the Dead Jack could sense what was done to his body during his brief periods of death, such as when Martha Jones unsuccessfully attempted to resuscitate him using the kiss of life. TV : Utopia Jack viewed this power as a curse as much as a blessing, TV : Everything Changes Jack describes the process of resurrection as being "hauled over broken glass.
Jack could survive heat and radiation which would have burned or vaporised regular humans. TV : Utopia He also didn't need an immune system, as his body never needed to build up any resistance, although this meant he would easily fall ill without his immortality. TV : Rendition His body could infinitely regenerate, allowing him to automatically restore himself to perfect condition. However severe enough trauma could delay his resurrection, such as suffering the pallor of a corpse before returning to full health.
He could even re-grow his whole body; when he was blown up after having a bomb implanted in his stomach, he fully regenerated from just an arm, a shoulder, and part of his head in a bit over twelve hours. His regeneration process began with growing bones, followed by his internal organs, and lastly his flesh and skin. He also retained all his memories and knowledge as well. The process of resurrection could often be very painful, especially in this instance. He regained consciousness before his healing was complete, with his eyes and his flesh yet to regrow, but the ability to feel pain intact, causing Jack to scream for hours on end and hold extreme resentment to those who planted the bomb inside him.
TV : Children of Earth: Day Two Pain appeared to be dependent on the amount of damage to the body, with more pain in cases where foreign objects remained within the wound.
TV : Fragments , Children of Earth: Day Two Asphyxiation in an airless environment would make him die and instantly revive in cycle endlessly if he was never unearthed.
TV : Exit Wounds It is theorized that there is a limit to how much he can regenerate from as after being asked by Ianto what would happen if his body were totally destroyed, Jack merely said "Maybe we ought to try it some time".
PROSE : Bay of the Dead Notably, although Jack quickly recovered from fatal injuries, minor injuries sustained like a cut lip or a black eye will remain and heal at the rate of a normal human. TV : Cyberwoman , Fragments. An interesting side effect, used only once on record, was the ability to heal another being, allowing that person to recover very quickly, although this may have only been possible as the subject was possessed by a gaseous entity that drew life energy from others to sustain itself.
TV : Day One Tosh could not use Mary 's telepathy pendant to read his thoughts, although he could project thoughts to Tosh if he so chose. Tosh likened it to trying to read a dead man, and Jack confirmed that he knew someone was trying to read his mind. TV : Greeks Bearing Gifts. Two Torchwood agents learnt of Jacks immortality and heard him mentioning the Doctor so they captured him. Eventually Torchwood offered Jack his freedom as long as he worked for Torchwood.
Jack spent the next few years rebuilding Torchwood and recruiting new members. 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. Here he meets Rose Tyler who he originally mistakes for a Time Agent and subsequently attempts to make a deal with her after 'entertaining' her on the roof of his ship, tethered to Big Ben.
As events unfold Jack is introduced to the Doctor and he becomes involved with the mysterious case of the Empty Child. Jack soon discovers this is inadvertently his fault, caused by the Chula ambulance he crashed in the city as part of his con. In order to save the Doctor and Rose, Jack stops a German bomb from landing by beaming it on board his ship and holding it in stasis.
The stasis field, however, won't hold and Jack believes he had but minutes to live. Here he first meets Mickey Smith. While there they encountered Margaret Blaine - a Slitheen in human disguise- attempting to set up the Blaidd Drwg nuclear power plant which, if it went ahead, would cause catastrophic destruction. They're split up and inserted into television programmes.
Once being de-robed by a defabricator in a future version of the TV show 'What Not to Wear' Jack converts the machine into a ray gun and tries to find the Doctor after getting dressed again, that is.
Upon finding him they track Rose to a game of 'The Weakest Link' and believe she is killed when they see a droid shoot her and leave a dust pile behind. From the now rediscovered TARDIS, Jack works out that the laser beam they saw from the droid was not in fact a gun but a transmat beam and that she is still alive but elsewhere.
Discovering who is behind the events at the Gamestation Jack and the Doctor are horrified to find a fleet of Dalek ships heading towards them. He takes out a Dalek using his defabricator gun, draining the batteries and rendering it useless. Upon leaving the TARDIS, still protected by the shielding the trio are greeted by the Dalek emperor who tells them of the destruction he plans on Earth.
The three return to Satelive Five and plan to fight. Using the extrapolator Jack protects the top floor of the base so that the Doctor can work while he intends to go down to floor zero to rally people to help in fending off the Daleks. Believing he might die and that he likely won't see either the Doctor or Rose again, he kisses them both goodbye. With a small band of people Jack organises a last defence against the Daleks, ready to go down fighting.
Continuing until he is the last one standing, Jack attempts until the very end to stop the Daleks reaching the Doctor but is ultimately killed. Rose Tyler, having absorbed the time vortex into herself subsequently destroys the Daleks and 'brings life', resurrecting Jack. He wakes alone, finding himself surrounded by the dust of the now destroyed Daleks.
Jack heads back to the Doctor but arrives just in time to hear it de-materialising, leaving him stranded there. Jack arrives here after using his vortex manipulator to travel back to Earth in order to find the Doctor. The manipulator, however, burns out and he finds himself stuck there. First time he realises he can't die. Gets in a fight and gets shot in the heart. Then he wakes up. Resumes his search for the Doctor.
Bases himself in Cardiff knowing that he uses the rift to re-fuel. Catches the attention of Torchwood after being vocal in bars about looking for the Doctor so he can 'fix' him and getting himself into fights seemingly dying several times only to escape it.
Captured by Emily Holyroyd and Alice Guppy and taken to the Torchwood Hub where he is interrogated and persuaded to work for them. He initially accepts but upon seeing their methods, refuses. However after being confronted by a strange fortune telling young girl who gives him the news that 'the century will turn twice' before he finds who he's looking for, he returns to Torchwood and joins them as an uncontracted agent.
Her name is unknown and he is never seen to speak of her. Serving in the army and with a train full of troops that get attacked by faries that kill everyone but him. Later suffers a death via a Mustard Gas attack. Some time in the s he's sent to investigate the Night Travellers and rumours of people disappearing. He joins a travelling show himself and ends up becoming part of the troupe for a while, billed as 'The Man Who Couldn't Did'.
Jack has a fling with 'The Duchess'. Stationed in London during the war, he at some point meets Estelle Cole a few weeks before Christmas at the Astoria ballroom who he forms a relationship with. The pair vowed to be together until they die. Some time in late Jack waves Estelle off at Marylebone station as she leaves to join the land army in the countryside. Some time in they lose contact. When she dies at the hands of a creature Jack goes on a rampage until he kills it.
After her death he takes two weeks off after seeming to be quite dramatically affected by her death. Jack was rumoured to have been in a relationship with Melody. At some point Jack starts a relationship with her. She leaves Torchwood in The application is approved on 14th February and Mellissa Moretti has her name changed to Alice Sangster.
A man he got on well with. In June Jack gives the recepie for the amnesia drug retcon to Torchwood. He tells Jack the deaths were mercy killings as they were unprepared for the future and the storm ahead.
Alex hands power of Torchwood 3 over to Jack, telling him to 'give this place a purpose, before it's too late'. Before Jack is able to stop him, Alex shoots himself in the head, committing suicide. Some time after August Jack regains contact with Estelle Cole, now an old woman after her spotting him outside a pound shop in Newport. He claims to be the son of the Jack she once knew.
They have an on-off friendship. Cardiff suffers an earthquake after the rift is opened. Fearing Gwen has discovered her, Suzie threatens to kill Gwen and shoots Jack in the head. When she sees him wake up from death she commits suicide. Gwen Cooper is recruited to Torchwood. Jack and Gwen have ongoing sexual tension between one another this is never acted upon. During the ordeal the Hub is locked down to prevent the Cyberwoman from getting to the outside world. The team manage to neutralise the threat and the Cyberwoman is killed.
Jack threatens to kill Ianto after him having put the world at danger and betraying them all, but understanding what it can be like to make mistakes for love, he's lenient deeming the death of Lisa punishment enough.
Ianto is suspended from Torchwood for one month, and Jack vows to get to know him better on his return. Jack however, knows better. The faries attack and Estelle is killed before Jack can save her. Jack reveals to Gwen that he and Estelle were once in love. Suzie however drains Gwen's life force and tries to run away. Jack kills Suzie again, once and for all. Around this time, Jack begins a physical relationship with Ianto. Jack is introduced to 'Captain Jack Harkness', the real man whos name he stole.
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