Jack Harringer

*"You are not supposed to be here..."*WARNING: This article contains major spoilers. If you do not wish to know vital information on plot / character elements in QIA, you may want to avoid reading beyond this warning. We hold no responsibility for any negative effects these facts may have on your enjoyment of the series should you continue.

## Jack Harringer

### Aliases

Jack Cooper (real name)
Captain America ("Death", "Season Two Epilogue")

### Relatives

Jessica Cooper (sister, deceased)
Noah Cunnington (son, thought to be deceased but in fact Carlos Sánchez)

## Physical description

### Hair Colour

Brown

Jack Harringer is a recurring character in QIA. Due to his status as a Natural, his timeline is very different, and mixed-up compared to the other characters.

## Biography

### Background

Jack grew up in Athens, Alabama, where he conned many people when he was young ("Luxembourg").

#### Robert Tunneson

In 2002, he was living with his sister Jessica in an apartment in Harlem. Already aware of his abilities in spite of this being prior to the 2008 Incident, Jack went on a job for a man named Cotter, to retrieve his father's ring from Rome. Unbeknownst to him, he was observed during this job by the London Field Team from the year 2020, based on information given to them by Tereza Porizkova. ("Jack", "Fugitive", "Rome")

After arriving back home after the job, a man named Robert Tunneson showed up at his door, claiming that the item he had taken for Cotter was his property. Jack tried to explain that he had already handed the item over, but Tunneson had Jack tied up anyway while he beat Jessica to death with a baseball bat. Eventually deciding that Jack really was telling the truth, Tunneson left, and Jack swore revenge. ("Jack")

### Luxembourg

Before he met the London Field Team (but after they had met him), Jack was involved in an infraction in Luxembourg, involving him pursuing assassin Aleksander Volkov. He ended up killing Volkov, thereby preventing the infraction, but was almost killed by Tom Burt (in retaliation for him abducting Tunneson in Dubai, although Jack did not know about any of this at this point). He was saved, however, by Sarah Cunnington, who Jumped with him (ironically using skills that Jack would later teach her) to her hotel room. From here he Jumped back to his own timeline and returned to his apartment in Tribeca, New York, where he was confronted by an eyepatch-wearing, sword-wielding Ethan Taylor, who passed him a USB drive and asked him to give it to Enora Gallou in Dubai, when the time was right ("Luxembourg").

It was later revealed that Jack was ordered to kill Volkov because he was being used by Brent Hall, who was monitoring his quantum shifts in 2020 via an implanted tracking device. While it is speculated that Erik Draper gave this order, this is unconfirmed. ("Ted")

Jack would later ask for immunity for his actions in Luxembourg as part of his price for helping the team to apprehend Tunneson in Dubai ("Dubai").

### Enora

Possibly acting on advice from Ethan, Jack met Enora Gallou when she was just six years old, coincidentally (or not?) on the same day as she first met Sarah ("Enora"). However, he later admitted to her that, in his timeline, this was not the first time they had met ("Dubai").

He appeared to Enora again eight years later and gave her a package of information and evidence pointing to Louis White as being responsible for her father's death, as well as a letter warning her about Tom Burt. ("Enora")

In Dubai, Jack gave Enora the USB drive that Ethan had given to him, claiming that he'd been holding onto it for her for a very long time ("Dubai"). It was later revealed that the drive contained evidence suggesting that Tom is a traitor within the London Hub ("Jilani").

### Sarah

Jack was present during the Manchester mission; he offered to buy Sarah a drink shortly before the fight at the Hacienda nightclub. ("Manchester")

Later, in Paris in October 2019, Jack followed Sarah, Tom and Enora into a cafe. However, he quickly fled as soon as he realised that Sarah had recognised him from Manchester. Tom and Sarah pursued him, finally catching up with him on a rooftop, where they interrogated him. Jack claimed that both their meetings had been coincidence; he had been in Manchester pursuing Robert Tunneson on account of him owing Jack a lot of money, and he had recognised her in Paris and had followed them out of curiosity. Tom attempted to arrest him regardless, but before he could, Jack kissed Sarah and then Jumped. ("Paris")

In Dubai, Jack set Sarah on her journey in learning how to exploit her powers as a Natural and to Jump without needing a Hub. Together they Jumped to his apartment on the 106th floor of the Burj Khalifa in the present day and celebrated the dawn of the new year, 2020. Shortly after the midnight celebrations, Jack and Sarah slept together, which led to Sarah becoming pregnant with Jack's child. ("Dubai", "Sides", "Rome")

The following morning, his apartment was raided by a mysterious man, and the two of them jumped - literally, out of the window ("Dubai"). While in mid-air, Jack and Sarah both Jumped back to her hotel room in 2016 ("Milcha").

Shortly after (for him), when Sarah followed him to San Francisco with Robert Tunneson, she convinced him to let her take Tunneson, even after he had told her his reasons for wanting to kill the Reclaimer. This may have damaged their relationship somewhat. ("Jack")

### Robert Tunneson

Jack first appeared during the Manchester mission, although his presence was undetected at the time. He was there waiting for his enemy, Robert Tunneson, but he decided against action after the London Field Team ended up engaging in gunfire with Owen Farley ("Manchester"). Jack later explained his presence in Manchester by claiming that Tunneson owed him money, rather than the truth about his sister ("Paris").

Jack showed up in Dubai, 2016 at the same time as the London Field Team were once again tracking Robert Tunneson. He helped with the arrest of Tunneson, and agreed to further help them with their operation there in return for, among other things, immunity for Luxembourg ("Dubai"). Later, following Sarah and Ethan's successful mission, Jack took Robert Tunneson, who had been in the Field Team's custody, by threatening Sarah at gunpoint, and Jumped with him ("Milcha").

However, he was unaware that he had been tagged with a tracking device during a future return to the mission, and so when he arrived with Tunneson at his destination - San Francisco, 2012 - he was confronted almost immediately by Sarah, who eventually persuaded him to relinquish his chance for revenge and allow her to take Tunneson into custody in order to save Agent Hafiz's life. ("Jack")

### Arrest

Chronologically for Jack (but two months later for the Field Team), as soon as he returned from San Francisco to his home in Tampa, he was arrested for the infraction in Rome, taken back to London in 2020 and sentenced to imprisonment in the Void. However, shortly before his incarceration began, Jack made a deal with Ben Scallon, giving him the means to spend eternity violently beating his nemesis, Robert Tunneson, who was also a resident of the Void. ("Rome")

This was later confirmed by Erik Draper as being a present-day infraction, who sent Sarah to break him out again, in which she succeeded. After recovering with Sarah in the year 2022, Jack left without saying goodbye. ("Unnatural", "Witchfinder")

He later returned to the Void Facility in secret, and murdered Tunneson ("Hall").

### Work with Ethan

During early 2020, Jack was employed by Erik Draper to work alongside Ethan to find Jarrad Foley, a task that included ensuring Foley was murdered in 2011 ("Sides", "Redemption"). During this time, Jack also helped Ethan to 'kill' Denny Franklin in order to extract information from Hall that would help a past version of Sarah; when Ethan stabbed Denny in Copenhagen, 1991, Jack used a quantum shift to grab Denny's body and bring him back to London, 2020, where he recovered from his injuries. ("Redemption")

### Noah

Jack continued to be resistant to having any involvement in Sarah's pregnancy, even after she confronted him about it. In September 2020, Jack was called upon to assist the team in Omagh, Northern Ireland, after Hall took Ted Lambert hostage and demanded the NT-063 weapon be returned in exchange for Ted's life. During this mission, Jack attempted to help but was generally unsuccessful. As a result of her own involvement in the mission, Sarah fell from a helicopter, endangering the life of their unborn child. ("Ted")

Jack immediately Jumped with Sarah to the Princess Grace hospital, where she was looked after and later given the all-clear. However, a few days later, Sarah went into labour and he once again Jumped with her to the hospital, where she gave birth to their son, Noah. Tragically, however, complications arising from her injury in Northern Ireland meant that Noah died very soon after being born. ("Life")

### Nicole

Shortly after Sarah and Ethan voluntarily go into the Void to escape Brent Hall's fervid pursuit, Jack visits Nicole Harris and shows her that he too can Jump. He then tells her he intends to train her in Jumping as well. ("Season Two Epilogue")

### The London Field Team and Carlos

Jack was mentioned to Carlos Sánchez by Arvin Costlemach as being a portent that would indicate Sarah's iminent Ascension upon his return to her life, a fact that made Carlos a little nervous when he temporarily joined the London Field Team to act as a transporter, following the collapse of the three QIA Hubs ("Lorenzo").

Jack helped the team, including Carlos, return from the York 2008 mission ("Lorenzo") and later also joined them on the Glittertind ("Glittertind", "Circle") and Hattuvaara ("Virmayarvi") missions. Jack was instrumental in the latter mission, saving the life of Jouko Mäkinen, attempting the arrest of Rolf Vikander (although he was assassinated by Konstantin Denisov) and executing Laura Mäkinen to maintain the timeline.

During these missions, he began to strike up a friendship with Carlos, and later began secretly transporting him to 2008 to visit his lover Esther Wilson. ("Virmayarvi")

Jack continued acting as a 'taxi' for the team, and even became an unintentional participant in the Black Dolphin mission after getting stuck in the prison with Tom Burt, eventually escaping along with Sacha Bell, Hall, Tom Burt and Aleksander Volkov, after first fighting Konstantin Denisov to the death ("Bell", "Voyna").

After spending two months in the Bahamas recovering from the injuries he had sustained on the mission, Jack returned to escort Enora, Erik and Bell to Washington, where Erik ordered Arnold Kobinsky to give him a clean slate. Later, Jack helped Carlos to get in contact with his real parents, though their investigation resulted in them learning that Carlos had not been abducted by Fran as he believed, but by Claudia Horne and Arvin Costlemach. When Jack later confronted Costlemach, he learned the stunning revelation that Carlos was in fact Noah Cunnington - Jack and Sarah's son. ("Children")

A few days later, after Sarah suffered the brutal attack that gave her the scar she would wear as Fran, Jack decided to tell Sarah the truth about Noah, but during that conversation he came to realise that Carlos was in some kind of trouble. The two of them Jumped to where Jack had left Carlos, in 2008, to find their son dead, apparently by the hand of Brent Hall. While Sarah, distraught and furious, tried to kill Hall and then Jumped after he escaped, Jack was left to bring Carlos' body back to 2023. During the Hiddensee mission, he was drugged by Hafiz to stop him from killing Hall himself, but later learned that Hall was not guilty of that crime - and that Carlos had been murdered by Fran. After a showdown between Sarah and Hall at the London Hub, during which Sarah accidentally killed Zoey Hallett before leaving with Jacob Dorody, Jack - along with Enora - Jumped into the future to try and track her down again. ("Destiny", "Ascension")

### Future Death

At some point in the future, Jack, working for Fran, releases Sarah from her older self's custody, citing that he was doing so "for Noah". He then takes Daniel MacKenzie to Sophie King in Dublin, and then meets with Emil Salastas in Crozet, France - a location close to where the LHC will one day be built. He picks up some documents from Salastas, but they are interrupted by a Pariah, who murders Jack and takes the documents. ("Season One Prologue", "Season One Epilogue", "Fugitive")

## Personality

Jack is perceived as an easy-going womaniser who does not take much seriously, although this is in fact often not the case. For example, he carried a vendetta against Robert Tunneson for years, and even after avenging Jess, he still felt extreme guilt, occasionally re-visiting the scene of her murder by returning to his old apartment building on that same night, inhabiting a different nearby apartment (after first drugging the occupants). ("Virmayarvi")

## Appearances

### Season Two

Notes: 1Unnamed, 2Uncredited, 3Flashbacks

### Season Three

(Credited as Also Starring, from "Glittertind" onwards)

1Uncredited

## Unanswered Questions

* At the point of his releasing Sarah from Fran's custody, was he already aware that he was about to be sent to his death?
	+ Did Fran know this?
* Why (specifically) does Jack despise Hall?

## Trivia

Jack Harringer is the very first person to appear in the *QIA* series, in the Season One Prologue.

It is remarked by Mike Duncan that there are no records or mentions of Jack anywhere, suggesting that he is either from the future, or he is using an alias ("Dubai") - this is later confirmed after his real name, Jack Cooper, is revealed in "Jack".

Jack is a Natural ("Dubai").

Jack owns an apartment on the 106th floor of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, as well as a penthouse flat in Vauxhall, London ("Dubai", "Ted"). The apartment in the Burj Khalifa is leased under the name 'Matthew Williams', which could be a potential alias ("Jilani"). He also owns a ranch in Tampa, Florida, named "Jess' Ranch" (presumably named after his sister).

Ethan claimed in "Redemption" that Jack despises Brent Hall, though he did not specify why.

Jack once Jumped to the top of the Empire State Building to have a 'King Kong moment'. ("Glittertind")

*Jack is portrayed by Colin Gasper in photographic performances.*