Captain Jack

Captain Jack Hakness was a former Time Agent from the 51st Century. During the London Blitz, he came in contact with Rose Tyler and the Ninth Doctor. After dying at the hands of the Daleks, Jack returned to the past finding he was unable to die. Forced to join the Torchwood Institute, he now runs Torchwood 3 in Cardiff, Wales.

Biography
Captain Jack Harkness, real name unknown, was an ex-time agent from the 51st century, who grew up on the Boeshane Peninsula where he was nicknamed the Face of Boe. Discovering that the Time Agency had erased two years from his memory, he quit and became a conman, meeting Rose and the Doctor when he tried to trick them into buying a ‘harmless piece of space junk’. The Doctor was wary of him at first, but quickly grew to rely on his ingenuity and technical know-how. Though he presented a carefully crafted persona – lively, funny, sexy, and arrogant – Jack was a brave and experienced solider, and he led the defense of the Game Station when it was attacked by Daleks in 200,100. Jack knew he would die to buy the Doctor time to defeat the Daleks, and he was the last man standing as they reached their goal. When Rose, filled with the power of the Vortex, brought him back to life, she inadvertently left him unable to die. Sensing this, this Doctor abandoned him, and Jack had to use his Vortex Manipulator to escape to 19th-century Cardiff. Proving his loyalty to the Doctor, Jack waited on Earth for 139 years, joining Torchwood and then, after its destruction in the Battle of Canary Wharf, remodeling it as a tribute to the Doctor.

Having heard the TARDIS, Jack fled from the Hub chasing after the sound. With the Doctor's hand in a backpack, he managed to jump onto the ship before it dematerialized and re-materialized in the year 100,000,000,000,000. (Jack is the only individual known to have withstood a trip through the vortex on the exterior of a TARDIS, thanks to his immortality.) The Doctor and Jack had an awkward reunion. Jack made the happy discovery, though, that Rose Tyler had not been killed in the Battle of Canary Wharf. They met Professor Yana, actually the Master, who regenerated and took off in the TARDIS. The Doctor, Jack and Martha traveled back to 2007 with the aid of Jack's vortex manipulator (part of his Time Agency wrist strap), which the Doctor modified. The newly regenerated Master had gotten elected as Prime Minister. Jack was captured on the Valiant along with the Doctor but gave his vortex manipulator to Martha, allowing her to escape by teleporting to the ground. After being imprisoned within the Valiant for one year, the Doctor and Jack managed to release themselves, and Jack destroyed the Master's Paradox Machine with a machine gun. This resulted in time reverting back one year; only those aboard the Valiant at the time retained any memory of the year's events. After the Master's death, Jack had the opportunity to end his long exile on Earth, however out of loyalty to his team at Torchwood, he decided to stay.

With Captain Jack Harkness in charge, the Cardiff branch of Torchwood had taken a very different path from the London version the Doctor encountered at Canary Wharf. Jack saw its role as preparing to protect the world from the dangers it would meet in the 21st century. By the time the Daleks invaded, he had recruited Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones, who defended the Torchwood Hub from a Dalek attack when Jack used his transmat to join forces with the Doctor. They were able to use the Hub to boost Harriet Jone’s Subwave Network signal to the Doctor, with help from Sarah Jane’s supercomputer Mr. Smith, and later fed power from Torchwood’s Rift Manipulator to the TARDIS as it towed planet Earth back home.

Family

 * Gray - Brother