Who is jack harkness torchwood

Main episode list K9 and Company. Other media. Real people. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? View source. History Talk 3. Do you like this video? Play Sound. You may be looking for this character's namesake or the television story. Although neither Doctor Who or the now-cancelled Torchwood revealed his fate, we do have other sources that may give us a glimpse into the later life of Captain Jack Harkness, set between Miracle Day and this new reappearance.

One audio adventure even follows a young pre-Time-Agency Jack who crosses path with an older version of himself — and yes, of course the two end up sleeping together. However, most stories see Jack returning to Cardiff and rebuilding Torchwood with its only remaining member, Gwen Cooper. And just like Doctor Who, these later adventures sweep the events of Miracle Day under the rug, with Captain Jack simply continuing his never-ending Torchwood work like nothing ever happened.

Yes for good. After slipping to The Doctor that his nickname was once the Face of Boe see video below , viewers were gifted a pretty strong hint Jack will eventually become the huge-headed pickled alien of the same name seen in previous episodes. A character appearing in the adventures of both the Ninth and Tenth Doctors, this giant jarred face is regarded as one of the wisest beings in the universe, somebody so smart he can communicate his philosophical pep talks telepathically.

In fact, the only time we see Boe using his voice is immediately before dying in David Tennant episode Gridlock. Sign in. Back to Main menu What to watch Film news. Throughout the show, ex-lovers and current lovers show up and Jack is very open about his attraction to men and women.

There is no coming-out drama, self-doubt, or bi erasure. He is just happily bi. He encountered the ghost of Ianto Jones at the house, and the couple finally confessed their love to each other for the first and last time. Ianto refused to let Jack sacrifice himself to seal the Rift and tricked him into leaving. Jack watched as the House of the Dead was destroyed with the ghost of Ianto unable to leave. After saying goodbye to Gwen and Rhys, he used his vortex manipulator which Rhys and Gwen had retrieved from the ruins of Torchwood to signal a nearby cold fusion freighter near the edge of the Sol system and teleported off into space.

Jack in a bar. TV : The End of Time. Some time later, Jack was drowning his sorrows in a bar surrounded by various alien species, when a barman handed him a folded piece of paper which indicated that someone's name was Alonso. Looking up, he saw the Tenth Doctor staring back, before gesturing towards the man approaching the bar.

Seizing the opportunity, Jack addressed Alonso by his first name and told him that he was psychic when asked how he knew him. The Doctor left as Jack continued to flirt with Alonso. Their evening was soon interrupted as the space station they were on was attacked by the forces of Mother Nothing , a giant cannibal beetle that sought its diamond engine.

Ultimately, with Alonso Frame'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. Jack reunites with Gwen. Jack returned to planet Earth when the word "Torchwood" was emailed all around the world, coinciding with the start of the Miracle Day phenomenon. He used malware to expunge evidence of Torchwood from the Internet, and went to the CIA hard copy records to clear the last of the information.

Jack used the alias "Owen Harper" while he gathered more information; he learned that the Miracle had given humans a version of his immortality, once seeing a severed head continue to live but unable to reform or heal.

Jack also discovered that on Miracle Day, he lost his immortality, or perhaps just his instant healing ability as he kept minor wounds that normally would have healed in a day for him from the explosion at the CIA Archives.

There, they fought off assassins. Despite planning to investigate the Miracle with Gwen, Matheson extradited them to the United States against their will. Once the pair were forced onto a plane headed for America, Rex confiscated Jack's vortex manipulator and handcuffed him to his seat.

Hearing his manipulator beeping, Jack told Rex he had low sodium levels. Upon arrival at the airport, Rex freed Jack along with Gwen to fight the now corrupt CIA who wished to frame and dispose of them. After Lyn's neck was broken and the guards knocked out, the three boarded the car of Rex's fellow ex-agent, Esther. They left the airport after Jack briefly met the doctor who had saved his life. TV : Rendition. They began stealing materials needed for operations again, and purchasing necessities with his ATM card, which had a large amount to spend.

Soon coming into possession of the phone of Brian Friedkin , the CIA director who had given the orders to eliminate Torchwood, Jack led the team to a warehouse owned by PhiCorp.

Inside was a stockpile of painkiller drugs, indicating that they knew "Miracle Day" would happen. Seemingly out of character, Jack decided to take the night off from his usual persistence in solving a mystery and had a one-night stand with a bartender. The following night, Jack confronted PhiCorp's new public face, Oswald Danes , and got him to admit his true feelings about his crime. Jack realised that Danes wished desperately for death.

He was tossed out by Danes' guards, who took the recording he made of his conversation with Oswald. TV : Dead of Night. Unknown to him, they were followed by an assassin with orders to kill Jack. However, the assassin also gained access, and followed Jack and Gwen there. Inside the building, the assassin tied up Jack and Gwen, and informed them he had been ordered to kill Jack. However, the assassin was fascinated that Jack was the only mortal man left, and did not want to kill him.

After informing Jack that something that he did in the past was involved, the assassin threatened to cut Gwen's throat. Before he could carry out his threat, he was shot in the throat by Rex. This earned Jack's anger as the assassin could have filled in the blanks about the new enemy they were facing.

TV : Escape to LA. After the new categories of life were released and the overflow camps were opened, Gwen returned to Wales to free her father from one and Dr. Vera Juarez came to LA to join Torchwood. Rex, Vera, and Esther decided to infiltrate an overflow camp. As he was recognised easily by anyone working for this new enemy, Jack couldn't go. Learning Oswald Danes was to give a speech at the Miracle Rally , Jack sneaked in and tried persuading Danes to read a speech he wrote, revealing PhiCorp knew of the Miracle beforehand, instead of the speech that Jilly Kitzinger had written.

If Danes read his speech, Jack promised that when the Miracle ended, he would help him die as he desperately wished. Much to his disappointment, Jack watched as Oswald took parts from both speeches to make his own, saying humanity had evolved into ever-lasting angels. TV : The Categories of Life. Jack gained access to Stuart Owens ' email and found out that he was having an extra-marital affair with Janet Tanner and that he planned to transfer her. Jack met Janet in a bar and persuaded her to help him meet Owens.

Janet pretended to have been kidnapped over the phone, while Jack spoke with Stuart in a restaurant. Stuart explained that despite his position in PhiCorp, he did not know anything about the Miracle.

He had been trying to find out about it. He also told Jack that something called the Blessing was involved. The police soon arrived and Jack was forced to leave. Jack returned to Torchwood's base and began to investigate the Blessing.

Gwen contacted him using the Eye-5 contact lenses, and Jack recorded Gwen blowing up the modules at the Cowbridge Overflow Camp. He also put Rex's footage of both the San Pedro Overflow Camp and Vera's death online with Gwen's, starting public outrage at the conditions that the injured and ill were enduring; however, as "Torchwood wasn't designed to fight politics," they had no more success than that. TV : The Middle Men. Gwen received a message on the Torchwood contact lenses, telling her they had Rhys, her mother , and Anwen.

She would have to hand over Jack if she wanted to see her family again. Gwen returned to LA, and asked Jack to come outside. Once outside, Gwen stunned Jack and tied him up in the car. She drove him to where the contact lenses instructed her. Once they arrived at the specified location and a van arrived carrying three people, Rex and Esther revealed that they had followed them.

They pointed sniper rifles at the people from the van. Jack was told they wanted to take him to Angelo Colasanto , the only person who knew the true nature of the Miracle. The person who had arranged to have Gwen's family kidnapped was Olivia Colasanto , Angelo's granddaughter. Olivia took Jack and the rest of the Torchwood team to Angelo's house, where Jack was told Angelo had been able to live to over a hundred years through artificial means, but had aged normally and was in a coma on life support.

Angelo had become wealthy thanks to the advice Jack had given him and kept pictures of him from throughout the 20th century. Olivia explained that three families, Ablemarch , Costerdane and Frines , had made a deal to purchase Jack back in for his immortality. When he escaped, they vowed to find him again, destroying all evidence of their existence to cover their tracks. Jack spoke to Angelo even though he was unconscious, and unplugged Angelo's life support equipment, assuming that he would survive due to the Miracle, and was surprised when Angelo died.

After Shapiro had Gwen deported to Wales, Jack discovered a null field generator under Angelo's bed that cancelled out the morphic field that had caused the Miracle in the first place. Jack didn't want the CIA to obtain the null field technology, so he persuaded Rex and Esther to help him escape with a vital component of the generator. Unfortunately, Jack was shot soon after he escaped.

Esther was forced to go with him, while Rex stayed with the CIA. TV : End of the Road. Jack spent the next two months with Esther, ending up in Scotland. Esther collected his blood, which she believed relevant to the Miracle. Eventually, they were contacted by Gwen, who told them Oswald Danes was in her house and wanted to speak to Jack. Jack and Esther went to Wales, where Jack retconned a man who was watching Gwen's house before going in.

Oswald explained to Jack that he had stolen Jilly Kitzinger 's laptop. He knew what she was doing for the families. Jilly was helping them to mistranslate video from other countries to hide the location of the Blessing.

Torchwood realised that there were two Blessings, one in Shanghai , and one in Buenos Aires. Jack went to Shanghai with Gwen and Oswald. Once they arrived there, his gunshot wound began to hurt more. Gwen helped him change his bandage, and Oswald noticed that Jack's blood was moving by itself. Gwen determined that Jack's blood must be moving towards the Blessing.

TV : The Gathering. With Oswald's help, Jack and Gwen located the Blessing , which was about to be blown up by the Families to bury it forever.

They knew that Torchwood had located it. Strapping Oswald to a bomb, the three forced their way into the Blessing. Rex and Esther were captured while trying to infiltrate the Blessing in Buenos Aires. Jack, despite being from the future and having had experiences with the Doctor, had no idea what the Blessing really was. He believed it to have been on Earth since the beginning.

The Blessing seemed to show everybody themselves, but Jack didn't appear significantly affected by seeing all the lives he had lived. Jack learned that his blood was used to change the Blessing, which ran Earth's morphic field. Jack realised the Blessing changed in self-defence and that his mortal blood could change it back.

A family member revealed that mortal blood would need to be put into the Blessing from both ends to reverse the Miracle. Jack would have no way to do it.

Rex, however, had transfused Jack's blood into his own body. The two men were prepared to sacrifice themselves to end the Miracle, but Esther was shot by the Families to prevent this, as ending the Miracle would kill Esther. The two decided to end the Miracle anyway, and Gwen shot Jack while Rex removed his bandage. Jack appeared to die of the gunshot wound. Oswald decided to stay behind to blow up a family member, and Gwen and Jilly decided to escape.

Jack's immortality returned and he escaped with Gwen as Oswald detonated his bomb. Rex also survived the ordeal, but Esther did not make it. Jack and Gwen react to Rex's immortality. The friends attended Esther's funeral. There, Charlotte Wills exposed herself as the CIA mole that kept the Families informed about actions taken against them and killed Rex before being killed herself. Rex resurrected, having somehow gained Jack's immortality. After the events of Miracle Day, Jack decided to take a holiday away from humanity, and find solitude by going to Cotter Paluni's World.

TV : The Day of the Doctor. Jack was captured by Adam Mitchell and trapped with many other companions of the Doctor in Adam Mitchell's fortress. After Adam thwarted the Master's plot to destroy the universe at the cost of his life, all the Doctors and their companions oversaw his memorial before taking their leave. Info from Station Zero needs to be added. Jack realised that the Committee was behind the Three Families and, hoping to find out how the Evolved had kept their worlds safe from the Committee, travelled to Peritus IV.

He begged the Evolved to help him save Earth and agreed to a controlled experiment of their technology upon humans. When he learnt of what that entailed, they held him captive and tried to kill him. He had Elunedd call Gwen and later offered the Evolved his mind in return for Rhys, Anwen and the other people whose minds they had swapped being restored. Travelling from the third planet in the Otega system , back to Earth, Jack and the crew of the Ice Maiden were attacked by ninjas on jet-skis who came from a flying saucer.

They were joined by St John Colchester and operated from a partially-restored Hub. The three became aware of the presence of an alien race that had taken over the city and Jack set his sights on Tyler Steele to join them due to his skills with computers and investigation. Jack vetted Tyler whilst investigating 3Sol but refused to let him join after he encouraged Vorsun to kill her human hostages , although he did tell him to continue looking into the aliens.

The two of them met Orr , whom Jack drove out of Cardiff to protect the city from the explosive control necklace , and Jack began to feel distanced from "Gwen" when she did not invite him to her mother 's funeral.

At the Hub, he invited Orr to join them. Jack was infected by a parasite after being raped by Duncan. He went on to infect Tyler and Ng and, after the three were given curative worms by Ro-Jedda , Tyler called off their relationship and told Jack to do something about Red Doors. To save Andy and prevent 3Sol from gaining complete control of policing, Jack allied himself with Xander Vaughn of Red Doors, promising to supply them with quantum tech in return for their help in locating Helen White and thwarting Ro-Jedda's plans.

He recruited a number of students to the Red Doors cause and supplied them with flash grenades and the like for the protest. In the end, he reached a compromise with Ro-Jedda. Torchwood turned against him and Yvonne took his place, telling Jack to join Red Doors and put them to a better use. From the ruins of the intelligence of the Cardiff Bay Intelligent Hotel and Spa , Jack engineered the Meme with the intention of using it to encourage rebellion against the Sorvix.

However, Red Doors altered it into instead encouraging violence and revenge. Mr Colchester asked Jack to meet with him and admonished him for his role. Jack tempered Red Doors and directed them solely against the Sorvix and empty buildings. However, he was unable to prevent them from bombing Cardiff Airport and died in the explosion. With Orr, he decided to bring an end to Red Doors and met with Inspector Bernstein to take them down, although they found that Yvonne and 3Sol already got to them.

He returned to the Hub after warning Cardiff City Hall of the oncoming bomb attack and allowed the Rift to open, splitting Gwen from Ng. He said goodbye to his friend as she left with Rhys. Due to what she did to Gwen, Jack avoided Ng and did not talk to her. He was surprised and confused when Orr transformed into him in Colin 's presence and was convinced by them into rejoining Torchwood as they had reservations about Yvonne.

In the mines he was bitten by one of the Maggots and started to glow green. He discovered with Jo that BOSS was behind it and they the supposed vegan food was actually made from the maggots.

He struck a deal with BOSS for the giant maggots and flies to stay in the mines. Brent Hayden believed that Jack and Orr watched a speech that he made concerning racism and conspiracies and that they planned to destroy him. Brent also imagined that he was a homophobic Yank who used language and phrases from old films.

Jack avoided Ng and went to help Colin when a predator shrouded Cardiff in darkness. His night-vision goggles were broken in St Martin's but he let Colin continue to believe that he was wearing them despite the fact that Colin himself was the one leading them to Ritz Tower. In Flat , Jack told Colin that he thought that he had become mortal again. Colin kissed Jack, whereupon Mr Colchester appeared and asked Jack what he was doing. Believing Mr Colchester to be a ghost, Jack returned to the Hub unaware that the blue light had latched onto him and was giving waking nightmares to those disconnected from him, namely Yvonne, Tyler and Mr Colchester.

Orr later absorbed the light from him and he decided to make an effort with Ng. He protested when Yvonne said that she was going to use the pharadyne projector to bring back Ianto and witnessed when, instead, Norton Folgate appeared. Jack was on a rooftop when Mr Colchester approached him, telling him to keep away from his husband and asking about resurrection. Jack believed that he had become immortal again thanks to the Night Sun.

After having sex with seven Penashi , Jack found himself in Mr Colchester's body and pretended to be him so as not to ruin Colin's birthday. He took him on a tour of rooftops and to watch the ducks before receiving a text telling him of a reservation at Antonio's. There, he convinced Mr Colchester that it was in Colin's best interests that he continue pretending to be him, later taking him through Mr Colchester's Rift corridors. When their bodies switched back, Mr Colchester was grateful.

Jack, Mr Colchester, Ng and Norton travelled in a submersible to the Sorvix power station to stop it from exploding and destroying western Europe. He and Norton went to shut the station down, but Norton trapped him in a concentration filter and had him absorb the energy, also admitting that he was working for the Committee.

Jack was saved by Ng and he later saved Mr Colchester from drowning. The three were in the submersible when the tsunami hit Cardiff.

Jack planned for Torchwood to go back underground and had Andy start working for him as a spy , becoming director of the Disaster Recovery Committee and ostensibly working for the Committee.

Two months after the tsunami hit, Jack planned to expose Yvonne for her role. He attended the inquiry into the response of the emergency services and told Bethan Foster that there was clearly a cover-up, as well as saying that Yvonne was powerful and dangerous.

This eventually resulted in Bethan realising that the drinking water contained retcon , replacing it and exposing Yvonne. Jack approached Yvonne outside of the Disaster Recovery Committee building and fled from a security guard with her to a "crappy car" that he said would let them sit unnoticed. He was shot and killed by a security guard when he tried to stop him from shooting a boy. Andy had him taken away when he did not revive.

Andy took Jack's body to a jail cell where he was joined by God. The two of them left the cell and went to the Hub, leaving Yvonne and Orr in there with the Lens to destroy the Committee and Erebus.

Jack saved the two of them on the invisible lift after the Hub began falling apart and went on the run with Ng, Mr Colchester, Orr and Tyler when Andy informed them that they were fugitives. Jack greets Graham O'Brien , mistaking him for the Doctor. TV : Fugitive of the Judoon. In , Jack travelled in a stolen spaceship to warn the Doctor about the Lone Cyberman and what he was searching for.

With the ship's previous owners and defense nanogenes attacking, Jack explained that the Alliance had sent something 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. The Doctor was pleased to hear from her old friend again, TV : Fugitive of the Judoon but was ultimately forced to ignore Jack's warning when the time came due to the circumstances surrounding the event.

Jack later learned that the Doctor had been locked in prison and purposefully got himself arrested for a number of unspecified crimes in order to break her out. 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. 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 reminisced on his 51st century origins and sympathized with Yaz's fear of the Doctor not coming back based on his own experiences. 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. Opening the door to the facility with his sonic blaster , Jack and Yaz discovered to their horror that the facility was a clone farm growing thousands of cloned Daleks. Jack began planting explosives to blow the facility up as Yaz gathered samples of the Dalek mutants 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. The group was confronted by the Dalek responsible for the creation of the clone farm possessing Leo Rugazzi. The Dalek explained 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.

The Dalek revealed that it intended to use Earth as a base to begin a conquest of the universe and utilized ultraviolet light to teleport the Daleks into their Defence Drone shells. Robertson revealed that thousands of drones had been built before the Dalek killed Leo and disappeared. 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. However, Jack didn't have any better ideas to stop the threat. The Doctor explained that the Daleks were built from the original reconnaissance Dalek and she would give them what they wanted. The Doctor began to send a message through the Time Vortex and Jack told Yaz that she was doing something that you never want to do. The message was received by a Dalek saucer containing Death Squad Daleks with the Doctor revealing that her plan was to bring in more Daleks to deal with the Defence Drones, although they must not know that she was there.

However, they will have to deal with the new Daleks once the Defence Drones are dealt with. In order to stop the Death Squad Daleks, the Doctor asked Jack to blow up their ship which he was only too happy to do and Ryan and Graham volunteered to help. 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 detect non-Dalek lifeforms onboard and Jack witnesses Robertson betraying them and warning the Daleks about the Doctor. After witnessing the extermination of the last of Robertson's Daleks, Jack warned the Doctor that Robertson had sold her out to the Daleks.

Coming up with a plan to deal with the remainder of the Daleks, 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.

Ryan detonated the bombs as they left, destroying the Dalek saucer. TV : Revolution of the Daleks.