Captain Jack Harkness/Synopsis

==Backstory==
Jack was born around the year 5094 under a different name, which he concealed. He grew up in the 51st century in an era when attitudes towards sex differed from those prevalent in the 21st century.
Jack was reared on the Boeshane Peninsula, a sandy, beach-like area. He spent time with his brother Gray and his father, Franklin, playing cricket and singing around campfires. One day, an unknown enemy invaded his homeland and killed many of the inhabitants. His father told Jack to flee with Gray, while he went back for Jack's mother. As they ran, Gray stumbled and Jack let go of his hand. Jack continued to run, thinking Gray was behind him. Jack hid in a bush while the invaders flew overhead. He returned home hoping to find his brother, but found only his dead father and his distraught mother. Jack said it was the worst day of his life. He spent many years searching for his brother unsuccessfully. Jack buried the memory of what happened that day and eventually lost his happier memories of before his father's death.
As a young man, he persuaded a friend to "join up" with him to fight an enemy Jack described only as "horrible." They were captured. The enemy thought Jack's friend the weaker of the pair and tortured him as a lesson for Jack. They let Jack go, to bear the guilt of his friend's fate.
Once, when sentenced to death, he ordered four hypervodkas as a last meal and ended up bedding both executioners at the same time. He recalled them as a lovely couple who kept in touch.
Jack worked as a Time Agent with John Hart, a partner in more than one context. They once spent five years trapped in a two-week time loop, becoming the equivalent of a married couple after spending so much time together. Hart admitted to having been "a good wife", closing an argument between the two as to the details of the relationship. Jack had been 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".
Jack found that the Agency had erased two years of his past memory, which he wanted back. He left the Agency and became a time-travelling con artist, running scams using his knowledge of future events. His preferred schemes involved collecting payment for items he knew would be destroyed before the buyer could see it. Finding pieces of space junk and directing them to the soon-to-be disaster sites, Jack would sell them to passers-by, then allow the items to be destroyed before the buyers could pick up their merchandise. At some point, he acquired a small, sleek Chula spacecraft fitted for human use, which could turn invisible.
==Doctor Who: Series 1==
===Chula scam gone wrong===
In 1941, he assumed the alias of an American volunteer, Captain Jack Harkness, who had died in action the January prior. He knew very little about the real Jack, other than basic information such as the date and manner of his death.
While running a scam involving a Chula ambulance in the London Blitz, he spotted Rose Tyler hanging from a barrage balloon. He rescued her and took her aboard his ship. Deducing she came from the future, and thinking she was a Time Agent, he tried conning her into getting the ambulance. Upon meeting Rose's "companion", the Ninth Doctor, Jack realised that they were just freelancers like he was. The Doctor pointed out that the landing site of the ambulance was where the ground zero of the Empty Child plague started. Jack believed the object was empty space junk, but in fact, the ambulance contained nanogenes. The nanogenes had not seen a human before; they took the gasmask for the deceased child's, Jamie, face and fused it to him, spreading to other people who touched him, also transforming them into undead creatures with no lifesigns.
Jack teleported the Doctor and Rose to his warship to escape, and they went to the bombsite near the hospital, where they realised the truth. The ambulance started its emergency protocols, causing the creatures, who had been armed as "Chulawarriors", and were ready to "tear the world apart" to find the boy's mother.
Every patient and soldier at the bomb site converged on the Doctor, Rose and Jack. The Doctor fixed the nanogenes' mistakes by comparing the DNA of the child and Nancy, who was his mother, restoring the infected zombies to normal. Jack stopped the bomb from hitting the bombsite by placing it in stasis inside his warship and when everyone got to safety, the Doctor destroyed the ambulance, making sure that history said that a bomb hit that location. The Doctor rescued Jack from his Chula warship just before it exploded, taking him aboard the TARDISas his latest companion, to the delight of both Rose, who found Jack attractive, and Jack, who found both Rose and the Doctor attractive.
===Travels with the Ninth Doctor and Rose===
The trio shared numerous adventures together, including an encounter with Russian special forces, in the novel The Deviant Strain, where Jack proved the the Doctor that he could be trusted. In the novel Only Human, Jack, the Doctor and Rose encountered a neanderthal on 21st century Earth, and while the Doctor and Rose went back in time to investigate, Jack was left to look after Das the neanderthal. They spent a month in Bromley, with Jack teaching him to interact in 21st century society. 
In Boom Town, When the TARDIS needed to be refuelled, the three travellers went to 2006 Cardiff so that the TARDIS could refuel via a scar in a rift in Cardiff. Whilst in Cardiff, Jack met Rose's estranged boyfriend, Mickey Smith, and the two had a clash of personalities. Together, they captured Blon, the sole Slitheen survivor of a prior attack on 10 Downing Street and who had become Lord Mayor, preventing her from enacting a plot to destroy Earth. Jack decided to use her extrapolator, which she was planning to use to escape the destruction, to halve the TARDIS's refuelling time. However, later on, the extrapolator began to tear open the rift, just as Blon planned, and after this shceme was thwarted, they took Blon back to Raxacoricofallapatorius. 
Afterwards, in the novel The Stealers of Dreams, Jack and the others visited the a colony planet in the year 2775 where fiction had been outlawed. Jack planned to steimulate the people's imaginations, and along with a tramp told tall tales about his life while on a pub crawl. Said tramp was supposedly Hal Gryden, the head of a pirate station, but when they were arrested, Jack discovered the tramp had gone "fantasy crazy". Jack was taken to the asylum the Big White House, and found the many of the patients were not able to distinguish fantasy from reality. 
In the audiobook Night of the Whisper, the Doctor, Rose and Jack arrived on New Vegas in the 23rd century, where they intended to assist the police department investigate the Whisper, a strange vigilante that had terrorised the city's underworld. This involved Rose working undercover as a nightclub waitress and Jack as a reporter for the Daily Galaxy. Jack befriended Daisy Hewett, but she later betrayed him to Mafia boss Cyrus Wolfsbane, who kidnapped Jack so that the Doctor would lead him to the Whisper, with Cyrus subsequently killing the Whisper.
==== The Parting of the Ways ====
After visiting Kyoto, Japan in 1336, Jack, the Doctor and Rose were abducted by transmat beams, and awoke on the Game Station. Jack found himself on a makeover game show hosted by Trine-E and Zu-Zana. When the android hosts threatened him, he shot them, and improvised a more powerful gun out of their defabricator.
Jack met up with the Doctor and an escapee from the deadly games, Lynda Moss, and tracked down Rose. They raced to save Rose from The Weakest Link hosted by a deadly Anne Droid; they were unsuccessful in preventing the Anne Droid from seemingly killing Rose. Completely heartbroken, Jack was tempted to shoot the staff behind the games and threatened to kill the guards when they arrested the Doctor and Lynda, only to get arrested himself for breaking in and out of the games. However, he and the Doctor physically overpowered the guards and set off to stop the deadly "entertainment".
Taking "hostages" in the control room, Jack found the TARDIS stowed away in an archive room. Using the TARDIS, he discovered the laser that "killed" the games' losers was actually teleporting them across space. Puzzled, the Doctor discovered that the Game Station was unknowingly broadcasting a secondary signal to an empty location of space, which was where all the losers ended up. Disabling the signal, the Doctor was horrified to find 200 Dalek battleships. Establishing contact, the Doctor learned his old foes had taken Rose hostage, but promised the Daleks that he would rescue her and destroy them for the final time.
Jack and the Doctor flew the TARDIS into the Dalek mothership, rescued Rose and discovered the Dalek Emperor was controlling the Game Station and turning the contestants into Daleks. Returning to Satellite 5 to prepare for the battle ahead, Jack formed a resistance group consisting of contestants and staff members to fight the Daleks. Knowing he was fighting a losing battle and would most certainly perish, Jack kissed Rose and the Doctor goodbye. In the ensuring battle, all of the resistance were killed and the Doctor tricked Rose into going home. Now the last man fighting, Jack was killed defending the satellite against the Daleks as they attacked the Game Station, and seemingly accepted his death. He was resurrected by Rose Tyler, while holding the powers of the Time Vortex which turned her into the Bad Wolf, returned to the Game Station, destroying the Daleks and resurrecting Jack. The TARDIS departed before he could rejoin them. Jack was left stranded on the satellite. Rose couldn't control her powers and brought Jack back to life forever, making him immortal, and as the Doctor claimed, a fixed point in time.
===The Year after I Died===
Shortly following the Doctor's regeneration going wrong, Rose suggested going back to find Jack, thinking he might be able to help; the Doctor claimed that he was busy rebuilding the Earth, not yet wishing to tell her the truth about what had just happened.
Somehow making his way to the ravaged Earth, Jack, though recognised as a hero for his fight against the Daleks, chose to live as a recluse in a small cabin located near the ruins of the Black Country Dome. A year passed, and Jack found himself approached by Silo Crook, an aspiring reporter. Though Jack vehemently wished to be left alone, both shared a suspicion of the Hope Foundation, a charity founded by Vortia Trear ostensibly to take the surviving humans off Earth and give them new, better lives. Sneaking aboard Trear Station, repurposed from the Game Station along with several starliners and a couple of freight ships, Jack reunited with Silo and found that Vortia was part of a rich elite which had always looked out for themselves and intended to exploit those below them. In the ensuing revolt, Trear was deposed and the station was left falling to Earth, forcing Jack to interact with live cables to land it safely. Reviving after being electrocuted, Jack reasoned that the universe liked him and saw that an abundance of resources was salvaged from the grounded station, confident that humanity would ultimately rebuild itself.
==Living in the 19th-20th Century==
===19th century===
Eventually, Jack used the vortex manipulator in his Time Agency wrist strap to return to Cardiff, the site of an active space-time rift. Jack knew that the TARDIS could refuel itself using the rift, and therefore attempted to reach there in the early 21st century so that he could find the Doctor again. However, Jack ended up in 1869, and his vortex manipulator burned out, leaving him stranded. Jack stayed in Cardiff, choosing to continue using the Harkness alias (or at least using it when he started working for Torchwood Three). His third death and resurrection occurred when he was shot in 1892 during a fight on Ellis Island. Jack found that he still aged, but very slowly — he noted that he had a couple of grey hairs in 2008, 139 years after arriving in Cardiff — and could recover from any degree of physical harm, including death itself, given a few minutes time.
===Working for Torchwood===
In 1899, Torchwood Cardiff agents Alice Guppy and Emily Holroyd found out about Jack. They captured and tortured him to discover why he could not die and what connection he had to the Doctor, who the Torchwood Institute had designated an enemy. After telling them that the Doctor was a hero who would save them from aliens, Jack was released on the condition that he undertake a mission for Torchwood. Jack was sent to stop a criminal Blowfish, which he returned to Torchwood Three's Hub, only to see it killed by a shot to the head. Disgusted by Torchwood's methods, Jack walked away from the organisation. He ended up in a bar, where he drowned his sorrows alone until a young cartomancer offered to read him his fortune. She gave a completely accurate prophecy of the Doctor's eventual return to Cardiff 100 years into the future. Left with nothing to do but wait for a full century until his version of the Doctor coincided with his timeline, Jack reconsidered Torchwood's offer and began working for them and awaiting the Doctor's return.On 17 May 1899, in the audio The Victorian Age, Jack was temporarily working with the London branch of Torchwood based at the National History Museum when an alien creature escaped and started feeding on the youth of Londoners at the same time Torchwood was visited by Queen Victoria for her annual inspection of the Institute, resulting in him sharing an adventure with the Queen as she took to pursuing the creature. After Victoria killed the creature by exploiting its weakness against the elderly, Jack declined her offer to take command of Torchwood London, the position having been left vacant when its previous director was rendered rapidly aged permanently incapacitated, telling her that his place was in Cardiff.
====20th century====
In 1902, Jack investigated strange visions at Ravenhall Manor, a Gothic 18th century house. He defeated the creature responsible. In 1906, as seen in flashback in the novel The House That Jack Built, Jack began two affairs with a couple called Alison and Miles, and even attended their wedding. On the same day, Miles drowned Alison and turned himself into the police, leaving Jack to face the guilt of his role in their volatile demises. In 1909, as seen in flashback in Small Worlds, Jack was travelling through Lahore by train with a group of soldiers under his command, when they were killed by Fairies. Some of the soldiers had recently run over and killed one of the Fairies' Chosen Ones. In revenge, the Fairies suffocated the soldiers by forcing rose petals down their throats. 
Jack later left Torchwood to fight in World War I. Shortly before the war, as revealed in The Torchwood Archive, he investigated strange disappearances in Tiger Bay. He found out that they were becoming Weevils. He realised that this must have had something to do with Object 1 and threw it into the rift. In the audio What Have I Done?, 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 1918, as seen in flashback in To The Last Man, 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 1918. Jack witnessed Tommy being awakened each year to see if he "still worked".
In the 1920s, to investigate the Night Travellers, Jack joined a travelling show in which he was billed as "the man who couldn't die". In 1924, Jack was sent to shut Torchwood India down. During his stay in Delhi, he had a brief fling with Torchwood India's leader, Eleanor. In 1927, as seen in flashback in Immortal Sins, Jack went to New York City on a mission to stop the Trickster's Brigade from infecting President Roosevelt's brain with a parasite. When he arrived at Ellis Island, Jack met Angelo Colasanto. 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. 
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 2. During the war, he met Estelle Cole, as mentioned in Small Worlds. 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 1965, as seen in flashback in Children of Earth: Day Four, the alien race known as the 456, 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." Left horribly guilty, Jack followed his orders, and delivered the children.
In the 1970s, Jack sported a moustache. He dated Stella Courtney for five weeks. In 1975, Jack and another Torchwood agent, Lucia Moretti, had a daughter, Melissa Moretti, who aged normally. Lucia and Jack split up sometime prior to 1977, 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, 1977; 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 1990s, Jack visited the Powell Estate to watch Rose Tyler grow up, but did not approach her to avoid disrupting her timeline.
==== Leading Torchwood Three ====
On New Year's Day 2000, as seen in flashback in Fragments, 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 as seen in Adrift, 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. Over several years Jack rebuilt his decimated organisation. He headhunted weapons expert Suzie Costello to come to Cardiff to join and later recruited Toshiko Sato from UNIT imprisonment.
Jack met Dr Owen Harper when he dealt with an alien parasite which had inhabited the brain of Owen's fiancée Katie Russell under the guise of a tumour before revealing itself during surgery, with Jack being forced to sedate Owen when he refused to let him recover her body before altering security footage to remove all traces of himself. 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 Boom Town, which involved Jack's younger, mortal self, included keeping the entire Torchwood team on lockdown in the Hub, to prevent them from seeing his younger self, and vice versa. After Torchwood One's old regime was "destroyed" in the Battle of Canary Wharf in Doomsday, Jack rebuilt and changed Torchwood's organisation. By 2008, there was a half dozen of them left. He later told the Tenth Doctor that he did this in the Doctor's honour. He took in Ianto Jones, a survivor of Torchwood One, after some heavy persuasion by Ianto himself.
During this time, Jack held on to the hope of re-establishing contact with the Doctor, who he believed could help him. At some point after Torchwood One destroyed the Sycorax ship in 2006 under orders from Prime Minister Harriet Jones, Jack obtained a severed hand that had fallen from the Sycorax craft and which was identified as having belonged to the Tenth Doctor. 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.
==Torchwood Series 1==
=== Gwen and Ianto ===
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.
As seen in Day One, 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. As Gwen was a "beat cop", and untrained in firearms, Jack trained her to protect herself. In Ghost Machine, 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.
As seen in Cyberwoman, Ianto had hidden the partially-converted Cyberman Lisa Hallett inside the Torchwood Hub. 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. In the audio Broken, Jack asked Ianto how he was after Lisa's death and took him on a weevil hunt.
In Small Worlds, 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. In Countrycide, the Torchwood team travelled to the Welsh countryside to investigate a series of gruesome murders. 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. The cannibals were arrested by the police. 
In Greeks Bearing Gifts, the Torchwood team discovered a teleporter buried in the ground for 200 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. That night, in Broken, Jack went to the pub The Ferret to investigate disappearances and possible Rift activity and encountered Ianto. Despite Ianto’s requests for him to stay away, he followed him when the barmaid Mandy took him to meet the Saviour. Jack knew what the Saviour really was and that his race were a slave traders. Distressed at Mandy’s betrayal, Ianto pushed him into the rift which the Saviour had opened. 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.
=== Investigating the Committee ===
In the audio The Conspiracy, Jack decided to investigate the conspiracy theorist George Wilson who talked about the Committee. 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 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. 
In Uncanny Valley, Jack decided to investigate Neil Redmond in relation to his doppelganger NJ. He was still investigating the Committee by this point and thought that the accident might be due to the Committee. He also investigated Neil's crash. He traced mysterious things following the accident. He discovered that Trent had given him the idea to have a 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 were invited. 
=== Tensions in the team ===
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.
Jack saw John Ellis, Emma-Louise Cowell and Diane Holmes come through the Rift from 1953 Earth. 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.
At some point as seen in the web animation Web of Lies, Jack was kidnapped and Gwen searched for him. The Three Families then captured Gwen and transported them to Chernobyl, where they 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. 
In Combat Jack shut down a Weevil Fight Club, freed the Weevil captive there and saved Owen's life. Owen chastised Jack for saving him, saying that he felt "totally at peace". Tosh and Jack investigated music from the 1940s playing from the Ritz. The Rift brought them back to 1941, 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. Owen opened the Rift with the Rift Manipulator to return Jack and Tosh to the 21st century.
The opening of the Rift brought diseases and people across time and space. Jack was 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.
==Doctor Who Series 3==
===Utopia===
Having heard the TARDIS, Jack left the Hub with the Doctor's hand in a backpack. 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 100,000,000,000,000. 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. During this time, Jack and the Doctor had a heart to heart about the Doctor abandoning him, and they came to an understanding. After Yana became the Master, who regenerated into a new body and took off in the TARDIS with the Doctor's hand still inside, Jack, the Doctor and the Doctor's companion Martha Jones were left stranded at the end of the universe to be killed by the Futurekind.
===The Sound of Drums===
After the Doctor fixed Jack's vortex manipulator, the trio used it to escape the Futurekind and travel back to 2008, 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.
On board the Master's airship, the Valiant, the Doctor discovered his TARDIS had been turned into a paradox machine. 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. As the Toclafane began slaughtering the population, Jack, realising they couldn't stop the Master, told Martha to escape using his vortex manipulator.
=== Last of the Time Lords ===
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".
After the Master's death, the Doctor offered Jack the opportunity to end his long exile on Earth and join him in the TARDIS, but out of loyalty to his Torchwood team, he decided to stay in Cardiff.
==Torchwood Series 2==
==Doctor Who: The Stolen Earth==
After a seeming earthquake, Captain Jack checked outside of the Hub to see if it was caused by the rift, but found that the entire planet Earth had been moved across space. After deciding that whoever was responsible wanted humanity alive, and detecting alien ships, Jack was called by Martha. After discussing UNIT's teleportation experiment, Project Indigo, they heard a message from the alien ship, "Exterminate!". Horrified to discover that the Daleks were responsible, Jack apologised to Gwen and Ianto, as he knew that they were doomed, During the Daleks invasion, Jack was forced to watch as the Daleks took down the Valiant and other military bases, and urged Martha to get out of New York before UNIT's base was taken out. After Martha was given Project Indigo Jack urged her not to use the untested equipment, but she didn't heed his warnings, and he presumed her gone. 
Some time later, with Jack having given up, Harriet Jones, a former Prime Minister, contacted Torchwood and other allies of the Doctor via the Sub-Wave Network, and Jack was delighted that Martha was alive and safe. After many of the Doctor's associates met properly for the first time, with Jack cheekily flirting with Sarah Jane, they discussed their options, with Jack enquiring about Martha's mysterious "Osterhagen Key", which was quickly shut down by Harriet. After Martha said she couldn't call the Doctor, Jack realised the Rift could by used to boost the signal, with Sarah's son Luke suggesting using their supercomputer Mr Smith to aid with the Earth's telecommunications, which impressed him. After Harriet admitted she would be be detected by the Daleks, Jack saluted her. Jack received vital information from Martha that allowed him to reactivate his vortex manipulator, Jack teleported to the Doctor's side just as a Dalek shot him. After destroyed the Dalek, he, Rose and Donna got him in the TARDIS as he began to regenerate.
In Journey's End, after the Doctor's abortive regeneration, Jack boarded the Crucible and surrendered to the Dalek forces. After the TARDIS was supposedly destroyed, he attempted to shoot the Supreme Dalek in anger and was promptly "exterminated". Reviving before his body could be incinerated, he subsequently burrowed into the Crucible and linked up with Sarah Jane Smith, Mickey Smith and Jackie Tyler. He attempted to use Sarah Jane's warp star to bluff the Daleks into calling off the detonation of the reality bomb but was transported to Davros' chamber instead. 
When Donna Noble disabled the Daleks, the Supreme Dalek descended into the vault and destroyed the Magnetron that was bringing the stolen planets back to their rightful positions, leaving Earth behind. Jack blasted the Supreme Dalek again, this time successfully destroying it. The Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor finished off the Daleks, destroying the Crucible. Jack helped pilot the TARDIS as it returned the Earth to its original location. He offered Martha Jones a permanent position with Torchwood, and soon after was joined by Mickey, but not before the Doctor deactivated his vortex manipulator once again, refusing to run the risk of allowing him to travel in time.
==The Torchwood Three==
==Children of Earth==
== Leaving Earth ==
=== The House of the Dead ===
=== One Enchanted Evening ===
As seen in The End of Time, while Jack drowned his sorrows in a bar, the Doctor subly set him up with Midshipman Frame (from Voyage of the Damned), by leaving him a note mentioning his first name, "Alonso", and the two began flirting as the Doctor left. As revealed in the audio drama One Enchanted Evening, their evening was soon interrupted as the space station they were on was attacked by the forces of the giant cannibal beetle Mother Nothing, who sought its diamond engine. Ultimately, with Alonso's assistance, Jack was able to defeat Mother Nothing and resolve the crisis. It was at this point that Jack learnt that Alonso had met the Doctor as well. Left with only a single operable escape pod between the two of them, Jack was knocked out by the midshipman who, unaware of his immortality, sent him out to safety. Awaking in his pod, Jack, presuming Alonso dead, was enraged to know he sacrificed himself in vain only to learn that he had managed to repair a pod for himself and survive. However, Jack and Alonso were separated when a meteor shower sent them on different paths.
==Miracle Day==
== New Torchwood Three ==
===Aliens Among Us===
===God Among Us===
== The Thirteenth Doctor ==
===Doctor Who: Fugitive of the Judoon===
In 2020, Jack travelled in a stolen spaceship to warn the Doctor about the Lone Cyberman. He caught up with Team TARDIS in 21st century Gloucester, but was only able to make contact with Graham, Ryan, and Yaz, and so told them to pass on the warning to the Thirteenth Doctor. With the ship's previous owners and defense nanogenes attacking, Jack explained that a anti Cyberman Alliance had sent something (which later turned out to be the Cyberman AI the Cyberium) 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. 
=== Revolution of the Daleks ===
After learning of the Doctor's imprisonment by the Judoon, Captain Jack got himself arrested, and waited to reach the Doctor. 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. Returning the Doctor to her TARDIS, the two reminisced and Jack was dismayed to learn that the Doctor had to give the Lone Cyberman the Cyberium although she reassured Jack that she "sort of" fixed it. Upon returning to Earth, Jack happily greeted Team TARDIS, cheerily flirting with Graham. 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 joined Yaz in investigating the plant where Robertson's facilities were unknowingly creating Dalek mutants and offered Yaz insight into life with the Doctor. 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."
Jack began planting explosives to blow the facility up as Yaz gathered samples of the Dalek's 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. Shortly thereafter, the Doctor, Ryan, Graham and Robertson arrived in the TARDIS with Jack expressing pleasure at hearing the TARDIS again. The group was confronted by the Dalek responsible for the creation of the clone farm, which revealed 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. 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, but admitted he didn't have any better ideas to stop the threat. Sure enough, the Doctor sent a message into the Time Vortex, with Jack telling Yaz that she was doing something that you never want to do, as it was received by a Dalek Death Squad in hopes they could wipe out the Daleks on Earth. 
While the Doctor's plan succeeded, they needed to stop the Death Squad from conquering Earth. The Doctor asked Jack to blow up their ship which he was only too happy to do along with Ryan and Graham. 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 detected them, and Jack witnesses Robertson warning the Daleks about the Doctor. After witnessing the extermination of the last Defence Drone, Jack warned the Doctor that Robertson had sold her out. Coming up with a plan to deal with the Death Squad, 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, with Ryan detonating the bombs, destroying the Dalek saucer. Returning to the TARDIS, Jack was elated to learn that the plan had worked and that all of the Daleks were destroyed, embracing Yaz as the Doctor confronted Robertson.
After the defeat of the Daleks, Jack departed from the TARDIS again, leaving a message that he was staying on Earth to catch up with Gwen Cooper but promising to call the Doctor. 
===Farewell Sarah Jane===
In this 2020 short audio story, Jack attends the funeral of one of the Doctor's former companions Sarah Jane Smith, saluting her before quietly departing.
== Far Future ==
Due to Captain Jack's immortality, he can live for thousands more years, and his exact future is left uncertain. According to the audio drama The Torchwood Archive, set in the year 4421, Jack is said to still be alive. Countless years in the future, in audio drama Mighty and Despair, a much older Jack would become a hermit on a hidden world, but he would be joined in his exile by the vampires Carla and Persis. 
A comment he made about his nickname from his time as the Time Agency's poster-boy, 'The Face of Boe' - due to him being their first recruit from the Boeshine Peninsula - prompted speculation that he will become the enigmatic ‘Face of Boe’ by the year 5 billion, a mysterious giant head who encountered the Ninth and Tenth Doctors. If the Face and Jack are the same person, Jack will finally die in Gridlock in the year 5 billion and 43, after helping the Tenth Doctor save the last of the human race by sacrificing his energy to release the survivors from a contained motorway that he had sealed them in to protect them from a lethal airborne virus.
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