Jack Harkness
In a recent television appearance, Rippy portrayed the namesake of Jack Harkness of "Torchwood" in the first series' twelfth episode, "Captain Jack Harkness". In the episode, Captain Jack (Rippy) was a young American volunteer serving as an RAF Group Captain stationed in Cardiff. He was in a heterosexual relationship, and was eventually revealed to be attracted to Torchwood's Jack, who after an unfortunate "temporal shift", landed in 1941 during the height of the Cardiff blitz.