

Jack worked as a Time Agent with John Hart, a partner both professionally and sexually. ( COMIC: Weapons of Past Destruction) He later spent some time living as a Priest in the 17th century, under the alias of "Father Julian Horst". On one of his first missions for the Time Agency, Jack fought the Navigators ( COMIC: World Without End) and went to a black market on Fluren's World to bid on a Monstrom Time Destroyer, but lost it to a pair of Wrightosaur mercenaries, whom he also had a sexual encounter with. He knew very little about the real Jack, other than basic information such as the date and manner of his death. ( TV: Last of the Time Lords) Going undercover during World War II in 1941, Javic assumed the identity of an American volunteer named Captain Jack Harkness, who had died in action the January prior. 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". In 5094, Javic won the Rear of the Year award. They let Javic go, to bear the guilt of his friend's fate. They were captured, and the enemy thought Javic's friend the weaker of the pair and tortured him as a lesson for Javic. Javic persuaded his best friend to "join up" with him to fight the creatures. He spent years looking for Gray without success, eventually burying the memory of what happened as well as his happy memories of his father. He returned home and found his mother crying over his father's body.

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. ( TV: Adam) He was raised on the Boeshane Peninsula ( TV: Last of the Time Lords) where he spent time with his brother and father playing cricket and singing around a campfire. Javic Piotr Thane was born before the year 5094 ( TV: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang) to Franklin and his wife. During the World War II era, Earth had at least one more Jack - the younger "con artist" who first met the Doctor and Rose. 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. There were whole decades when multiple versions of Jack existed on Earth. However, he returned during the events of the so-called " Miracle Day", and a new Torchwood team arose.Īn important facet of Jack's existence on Earth was its temporal complexity. He, therefore, disbanded the group and left 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. 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.Īt the dawn of the 2010s, the 456 returned to Earth. After several decades as an informal free-lancer, he eventually became its head in the year 2000. For the majority of those years, he also worked for Torchwood Three. He also had many different relationships, some of which produced offspring. This left the immortal no choice but to simply wait from the mid- 19th to the early 21st century to reconnect with the Doctor.ĭuring 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. 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. He thought it likely that he'd find the Ninth Doctor in the early 21st century, since that was Rose's home era. Stranded, the former Time Agent had to use his own devices to catch up to the Doctor. Consequently, the Doctor abandoned him in the year 200,100 aboard a space station orbiting a Dalek-devastated Earth. Because of this, the Ninth Doctor saw his companion as a fixed point - a temporal paradox that threatened the TARDIS' proper operation. Unable to control her powers, she accidentally turned him into an immortal being. He was a companion of the Ninth and Tenth Doctors, and an associate of the Sixth and Thirteenth Doctors.Īfter 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. "Captain Jack Harkness" was the alias adopted by Time Agent and con man Javic Piotr Thane ( AUDIO: Month 25, R&J) from the 51st century.
