Mr. Murry

Mr. Murry is a character in the 2003 movie A Wrinkle in Time and in the 2018 remake. He is called Jack in the 2003 movie and Alex in the 2018 movie. He is a brilliant scientist and the father of Meg Murry and Charles Wallace Murry.
==Appearances==
===A Wrinkle in Time (2003)===
At the beginning of the film, Jack tells his daughter Meg to wish upon a star so she can achieve faith that her wishes would come true, to which Meg has a hard time adapting her life in the real world, to which he tells her that nobody hates her despite Meg having trouble adapting to her life, telling her to think patiently and her father says that whenever she needs him, he will be in her heart while listening to him just as her mother tells her to return home. When Meg returns home, she narrates that both of her parents were brilliant scientists while passing through the twins Sandy and Dennys playing foosball together just as Meg explains that she wished that her missing father would come back.
Later, Mr. Murry disappears in the family household just as Charles is instructed by Mrs. Whatsit to show Calvin about Jack where he sees a flashback of Mr. Murry and his daughter at the playground just before the TV becomes static. Mrs. Whatsit appears on the television screen and warns that Meg and Charles must find their missing father before he is gone forever. Mrs. Whatsit brings in Meg and Charles to help find him, as well as bringing in Calvin to join the search for Mr. Murry and arrive at the star-watching rock as Mrs. Whatsit transports the three to Uriel, the third star of the planet Malik.
During a discussion with Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which, it is then shown that Mr. Murry is lost in the planet Camazotz under the troubled dark forces, which is the reason why the three of them sent the children there to find him before he is lost at the hands of darkness. Later when Meg and her friends encounter the Happy Medium inside his cave, he tunes in his crystal ball showing Mr. Murry's wife hoping that her husband would come back as Meg and her group plan to find her missing father at Camazotz and return him back to her family's house.
Later when Meg, Charles, and Calvin arrive at Camazotz via tesseract at Central Central Intelligence, Meg puts on the glasses that Mrs. Who gave and finally finds him to which upon finding him, he doesn't recognize his daughter at first but suddenly remembers that she is her father to which after happily reuniting with him, Meg tells him to put on the glasses she used to which as the two escape. Charles happily reunites with his meeting father just as Calvin approaches Mr. Murry to which the moment is disrupted when It enters. As the Man with Red Eyes enters, he, Meg, and the rest of her allies are then separated from Charles where he commands Charles to avoid trusting the Man's bad influence. However, Charles being put under control by the Man with Red Eyes where he sends Meg stuck in midair just as Calvin tells Jack to put on Mrs. Who's pair of glasses to save Meg from the tyranny of It. Meg attempts to escape with her father and Calvin, but suddenly gets separated from the two where Calvin and Meg's father end up at Ixchel via tesseract.
Arriving at Ixchel, Meg's father finds himself next to his daughter who is being comforted by one of the residential aliens of Ixchel while discussing about Charles Wallace's fate in Camazotz in a plan to rescue him before it is too late to which Meg follows helpful advice from a residential Ixchel alien, Aunt Beast, in a plan to seek anything that is unseen in order to help Meg fulfill her goal.
Later, Mrs. Which, Mrs. Whatsit, and Mrs. Who appear in front of the Mr. Murry, his daughter, and Meg's friend, Calvin where they discuss with the three about the possibility of reuniting Charles back to his family to which it is explained that grace could be the only way to fulfill their mission in defeating It and his powerful forces. After remembering what Mrs. Whatsit said to the three, Mr. Murry tells his daughter that the weaknesses in her mind are doorways to her secret strengths, to be herself in order to cheer her up to which Meg's father shares an embrace with her.
Later after Meg rescues Charles Wallace from the Man with Red Eyes (and It, the being itself), Meg and Charles Wallace return to the real world via tesseract with their father back in the real world where Mr. Murry's wife finally reunites with him. After the three Mrs. Ws praise Meg for her heroism alongside Charles Wallace, Mr. Murry walks alongside his family mingling with each other while listening to Charles Wallace sharing his experience about the adventures he had with Meg and Calvin.
===A Wrinkle in Time (2018)===
At a young age, Meg spends time with her father Alex who explains to his daughter his science experiments to which when Meg's father tells her that it is time for her to meet her new brother Charles Wallace just as her mother shows her what love really issues while her father explains that she can feel love, even if she can't see it as Meg's father explains to her daughter that love “is not gone but enfolded" according to his wife. She then approaches Charles Wallace who teaches her a new word, "exclusive" to which Meg finds out that Charles has trouble sleeping, suggesting him to sleep into her room to which during the conversation, Meg hears an article over the radio headlining the breaking news about father's disappearance week, much to Meg's worry about her father's fate.
 
At school, Charles Wallace and Meg both have a hard time adjusting to school ever since their father has disappeared as Meg is told that she cannot always be using her father's disappearance as an excuse, much to the teachers who gossip about Mr. Murry and Veronica who gave a negative comment about Meg's father.
 
During a conversation with Meg, Calvin, and Charles Wallace, Meg's mother explains to Calvin that her husband was a scientist during a ceremony where Mrs. Murry's husband is present telling the audience about tesseract to which while discussing with them, he explains to them that "to utilize a tesseract, all you need is to tap into the right frequency", telling the audience to use their mind much to the crowd finding Mr. Murry's info false. After the event, Mrs. Murry scolds her husband for being impatient during the presentation, much to his frustration just as his wife explains to him that to he has to actually be great to make the next presentation a success. Alex also appears in a flashback where he is in a laboratory just as he listens to his wife singing just as he notices the love positively effecting his inventions must before he disappears.
Meg finally finds her father using Mrs. Who's glasses just as he reunites with his daughter, happy to see her father back after being gone for four years just as Alex tells his daughter that he was trapped by the It as Meg was trying to bring her father back home while recapping that Charles and Calvin came here to rescue him. After a tearful reunion, Meg guides her father out of the hidden chamber.
Upon exiting, the It controlling Charles Wallace causes Mr. Murry and his daughter to fall onto the ground as Meg's father is worried of what the It did to him. Alex plans to sacrifice himself to save Meg, but the It begins dragging Alex, Meg, and Calvin across a dark corridor just as Meg's father tells his daughter to resist the darkness from the It who begins to envelop Meg in her mind. As the It reveals his true form, Alex suddenly revives his daughter just before the corridor undulates, telling her that the It will destroy him if she doesn't escape right away just before Meg finds herself in a dark space where the It resides. Meg manages to show love to Charles, causing the air to weaken and later disintegrate, undoing all the It and all of his negativity.
After Meg uses the power of tesseract to return home, she reunites with her father emotionally just before returning to her house to meet her mother while Calvin shows Kate that her husband is alive just as Alex and Kate both reunite with each other. Alex recaps to his wife that Meg was the one who saved him from the It just before Meg bids a farewell to Calvin. Charles then approaches his parents who are happy that he is back while Meg thanks the Mrs. Ws for all of their help to her.
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Jack Murry.jpg|Chris Potter as Dr. Jack Murry
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