Torchwood how old is jack

He was brought up around the year on the Boeshane Peninsula, a sandy beach area. He lived with his mother, father and younger brother Gray. When Jack left the Time Agency he became a con-man, it was during this time that he travelled to and took the name of Captain Jack Harkness, a deceased American. Jacks real name is unknown. Jack was unable to control the date so ended up in the year Two Torchwood agents learnt of Jacks immortality and heard him mentioning the Doctor so they captured him.

Jack ordered a mind probe on her, and her true identity, the sleeper agent Keryehla Janees, surfaced. Once Tosh deactivated the link, an advance guard of Cell attacked Cardiff.

Jack and Gwen stopped " David " from attacking a stockpile of nuclear warheads. Before David committed suicide, he told Jack the rest of Cell had already arrived on Earth and factored Torchwood into their plans.

Rather than let her sleeper agent form take over, Beth pretended to threaten Gwen and Torchwood killed her. TV : Sleeper. Jack and Ianto tracked a Cell signal to Serenity Plaza and went undercover to track the sleeper agent. Pretending to be an idyllic couple, Jack went off to work each day returning to the hub, whilst Ianto stayed at home.

When Mary thought Jack was attracted to her husband Bob he played along. Once the sleepers had activated, they found their control centre and Jack devised a way to completely wipe out Cell Jack reawakened Tommy Brockless for the last time. Jack gave Tommy a small Rift Manipulator in order to close the time shifts. Toshiko then projected an image of herself to Tommy to tell him how to use the "key". An alien that could replenish its cells indefinitely was being mutilated there so its meat could be sold.

Jack saw Owen mercy kill the creature and felt sorry for it. Torchwood then had its workers retconned and the alien incinerated. Jack asked Gwen to give Rhys retcon, but she refused. TV : Meat. The memory-altering creature Adam Smith altered Torchwood Three's memories, making them think he had been a team member for years. After doing this, Jack's memories of Gray and his father resurfaced. Jack realised that all the memories of Adam were false and that Adam's files only dated back 48 hours.

Torchwood Three took retcon and erased all trace of Adam's existence on file. Jack invited Martha onto the team to investigate the Pharm , a medical organisation that could cure diseases thought incurable. He ordered Toshiko to close the Pharm down once he learnt of their mistreatment of humans and aliens alike, but the Pharm's manager, Aaron Copley , shot Owen and then Jack shot him.

TV : Reset. Jack and Owen commiserate over immortality. TV : Dead Man Walking. Unwilling to accept the loss of another teammate, Jack tracked down the other resurrection gauntlet and brought back Owen.

The attempt, though successful, left Owen unable to digest food, sleep, or enjoy sex. In addition, the glove released an extradimensional alien, Duroc , the embodiment of death.

Owen saved the day by using his new condition to stifle the needs of the entity, but still expressed a deep resentment towards Jack. A regretful Jack was forced to temporarily relieve Owen until he could acclimatise. Jack later had Owen retrieve the Pulse from an ailing Henry Parker. Owen became medical officer again after Martha had taken over for Owen to acclimatise, and Jack kissed Martha goodbye.

TV : A Day in the Death. Gwen was impregnated by a Nostrovite Jack had killed. She decided against postponing her wedding to Rhys.

The biological mother, " Carrie ", tried forcibly taking her unborn child from Gwen's womb and Jack was forced to stop the wedding. Rhys killed the child that was killing Gwen with the singularity scalpel , while Jack killed the Nostrovite mother. The wedding proceeded and Jack put retcon inside the wedding guests' drinks.

TV : Something Borrowed. Jack, feeling stuck on Earth, met Val Ross and attended some of the lectures at the Church of the Outsiders. However, he turned against them after Davey Russell 's suicide , manipulating Val into spreading footage of his resurrection and turning the Church into a laughing stock.

He also saved Cardiff by telling Andromeda Ross that nobody cared about the message she sent through the Rift. The Night Travellers escaped from a reel of film playing inside the Electro and took the last breaths of people in Cardiff. As more of the Travellers began to leave, Jack captured the Travellers, which were made from the same material as the film, onto a camera and destroyed the negatives by exposing them to light.

Before he was destroyed, the Ghostmaker threw the flask containing the breaths and all but one of the victims died. TV : From Out of the Rain. Jack warned Gwen not to investigate the disappearance of Jonah Bevan , who unknown to Gwen had been taken away by the Rift. Jack explained to Gwen what had happened to those taken to Flat Holm.

Despite his protests, Gwen showed Nikki her ill son and how he screamed for most of each day. Jack's team came under further pressure when Captain John Hart returned, laying bombs within a warehouse in an attempt to kill all of the Torchwood Three team. This failed and Jack found a message from John on his vortex manipulator , which included an appearance by Gray. Shaken, Jack immediately went back to the Hub to confront Captain Hart, leaving the other members of the team to deal with their respective challenges.

On meeting John again, Jack was killed before being chained up and made to listen whilst John explained his predicament. Jack's rogue partner then detonated strategically placed bombs in and around Cardiff, obliterating the city before abducting Jack and taking both of them back through time to Cardiff in 27 AD.

Jack in 27 AD. TV : Exit Wounds. Here, Jack discovered that John was being manipulated by Gray, who marked his return by stabbing Jack in cold blood. Gray then forced John to bury Jack alive, twenty feet beneath what would become Cardiff. Gray, transformed into a merciless, sadistic beast by a lifetime of horrific torture, blamed Jack for letting go of his hand when they were children and wanted Jack to experience a similar, never-ending pain by choking on dirt, thrashing on the edge of life every time he revived, only to die again.

Before burying Jack, John, now finally pushed too far by the awareness of how wrong his actions were, slipped a signet ring into the grave with him, hoping that the signal it emitted could be used to locate Jack.

Stuck in a cycle of death and resurrection for centuries, Jack was discovered by Alice Guppy and Charles Gaskell of Torchwood in , who had picked up the signal of John's ring. Back in the early 20th century, Jack, insistent that he could not be allowed to cross his own timeline for by now two versions of Jack were present — his past self and present self demanded to be placed in cryopreservation for years. Despite being baffled, the two granted him this request.

Jack awoke again inside Torchwood Three concurrent to Gray's mayhem — just in time to prevent Gray from finishing off Toshiko with a bullet. Despite Gray's own unwillingness to absolve him, Jack forgave his brother of his trespasses. Left with no other option, a tearful Jack chloroformed and cryopreserved Gray, refusing to kill him, but the damage had already been done, as Gray had been responsible for the deaths of Owen Harper and Toshiko Sato. Jack and John parted ways on better terms, with John travelling the world of the 21st century, determined to find out why Jack found the time period so interesting.

Torchwood Three continued on, reduced to Jack, Ianto and Gwen. Disappearing from Torchwood for a while, Jack agreed with Jonty to be a surrogate for the next leader of the Yalnix Empire , hoping to make up for the recent deaths by creating a new life.

He started to get very emotional due to the hormones which coursed through his body, but attempted to keep going with his duties for Torchwood including hunting Weevils. Ianto eventually booked him into a spa to wait out the rest of his pregnancy. They later realised that this was due to the influence of Junior. Ianto saved them and Jack was transported to the birthing ship.

He, Ianto and Gwen flew to Switzerland and met up with Martha. They investigated twelve accidents and found a creature that fed on neutrons was responsible.

After receiving 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. TV : The Stolen Earth. Jack is killed by the Supreme Dalek. TV : Journey's End. Subsequently, after the Doctor's abortive regeneration, Jack boarded the Crucible and surrendered to the Dalek forces. 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. 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.

These were confiscated by UNIT and were made top-secret footage. Following a cannibalistic massacre on a yacht in Cardiff Bay , Jack and Ianto found themselves zombie -hunting in Trowbridge.

As Jack captured a zombie, which he nicknamed Mildred , Ianto saved mother-to-be Sarah Thomas , along with her injured husband, Trystan Thomas , who were under attack from a quartet of " zombies ". While putting Mildred in the boot of the SUV, Jack was attacked and knocked unconscious by a zombie which jumped out from beneath the vehicle. He later awoke in the autopsy room, and travelled with Ianto to St Helen's Hospital. There, they met up with Gwen and Rhys, and found that Leet - a Dellacoi - had created the zombies to search for his life-shell and control over the creatures had passed to Oscar Phillips , a coma patient.

As Oscar ran at the hospital window, Jack held Gwen back from saving him. Oscar fell to his death, relinquishing his control over the zombies.

Following Oscar's funeral, Jack went with Gwen to place snowdrops on Oscar's grave. Jack, Ianto, Gwen and Andy Davidson helped a confused girl named Freda who had been sent to by Torchwood representatives in to escape social prejudice against Ghosties.

Jack's past, once again, came back to haunt him when he, Gwen and Ianto began investigating visions at Ravenhall Manor , which Jack had done in He re-encountered the creature that was responsible for creating the visions, and after being reunited with a trapped Gwen and Ianto, he destroyed the house. Investigating an alien energy field, Jack, Gwen and Ianto travelled to Delhi , India , where Jack was surprised to discover that Torchwood India had maintained its existence by using a time store to remain frozen in time.

Horrified at Eleanor's plan to turn the entire Earth back to , Jack destroyed the time store and Torchwood India. Torchwood Three combated a mysterious force that put people into coma-like trances after they answered the phone. She was a woman in her eighties who was fit and at work after being on her deathbed not long before. Carew worked with Fitzroy to destroy all electricity on Earth, but was stopped.

The team defeated the entity possessing him which later entered Carlie Roberts. In , Jack recognised Invictus when he met the infected Luke Palmer. He quantum sealed the Hub to prevent himself from killing Gwen and Ianto, but the latter was still inside. He told Frances Godalming to leave, having already sent Luke into her car, and informed the minister responsible that he would be going to prison. Jack and Ianto played with a dog, Untitled , whilst being observed by Roy.

Jack had kept the medical officer position vacant in the hopes of Martha deciding to join, but ultimately she went freelance instead. Also in September, Jack's past returned to haunt him when the , in need of more subjects for their drug production, once more contacted humanity by using the children of Earth as a collective mouthpiece. The British government , fearing that the secret of the deal would come out, assigned John Frobisher to deal with the situation.

Frobisher, knowing Jack's role as part of the team which had negotiated with the , reluctantly ordered Jack's assassination.

Speculating, incorrectly, that the Hub had special properties which enabled Jack's regenerative abilities, Frobisher insisted on the complete destruction of the Hub, along with Jack, who was already attempting to investigate by seeking to examine his grandson Steven.

The government, through a ruse involving their agent Rupesh Patanjali , killed Jack and planted a bomb inside his body before he revived. When Jack, unsuspecting, returned to the Hub, the bomb detonated, destroying both Jack's body and the Hub, but not before Jack managed to evacuate Gwen and Ianto.

Jack chained up, after the effect of the explosion inside him. A covert ops team conveyed Jack's scattered remains to a holding facility, where he slowly regenerated his body and returned to life. When Frobisher's chief of operations in the task force realised that destroying the Hub had not rendered Jack mortal, she had him encased in concrete. Gwen and Ianto, however, had not been idle, and with the help of Rhys and Ianto's sister Rhiannon , they infiltrated the facility and rescued him.

With Ianto's knowledge of Torchwood One's old infrastructure and a little criminal mischief orchestrated by Gwen, Jack headquartered his team inside a former Torchwood facility.

Gwen arranged for the protection of former victim Clem MacDonald by bringing him to "Hub 2," as Rhys came to call it. Jack himself tracked down Frobisher and warned him to call off the assassination, or the incident would be disclosed. However, Frobisher countered with a new bombshell: Johnson's team had taken Jack's daughter Alice and grandson Steven hostage in order to ensure Jack's silence in the plans to negotiate terms with the TV : Children of Earth: Day Three Jack, Gwen, Ianto and Rhys retaliated by persuading Lois Habiba to collect incriminating evidence against the entire Cabinet regarding the new terms, then threatening full disclosure unless Torchwood was allowed access to the Storming into Thames House to confront the aliens, Jack and Ianto promised a "fight to the death.

Among the victims was Ianto, who died in Jack's arms. A tearful Captain Jack surrendered to the authorities, blaming himself for Ianto's death. He instructed Gwen to have Rhys surrender himself as well, and arranged for the couple to return to Cardiff, with instructions to inform Rhiannon of her brother's death and to see to the needs of her family.

As the world governments began capitulating to the demands of the , and began rounding up children by the millions, Jack found himself sprung from prison by a surprise ally — Agent Johnson, who had become disillusioned and convinced by Alice to take a stand. With the aid of Johnson and Mr Dekker , who had managed to escape the massacre at Thames House, Jack devised a way to defeat the using a reconstitution wave of a similar wavelength to that the had used to kill Clem, using the children as one vast transmitter.

There was one major catch: in order for it to work, the wave needed to be channelled through one child, for whom the force of the transmission would be deadly. Only one child was available to serve as the "transmitter. The plan succeeded, and the were violently ejected from Earth. However, Steven died as a result, and Alice severed all contact with Jack, walking away without speaking a word.

Jack was officially declared dead as a result of the Regulation. TV : The New World. In October , Jack was present in Cardiff when Suzie Costello was resurrected for the second time. He informed Suzie over the phone that he was "coming for her".

He later observed her final death from the top of the Millennium Centre. Jack then went on to travel the world. He did not find it enough to rid himself of his guilt.

After six months he returned to Cardiff to destroy the House of the Dead , believing it would seal the Rift forever. 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. Captain Jack Harkness, the former Time Agent and con man from the 51st century last seen traveling with the Doctor, ventures to early 21st century Cardiff.

There, he becomes a member of Torchwood Institute, a renegade criminal investigation group founded by Queen Victoria to battle hostile extraterrestrial and supernatural threats. The 21st century is when it all changes. Did you know Edit. Trivia "Torchwood" is an anagram of "Doctor Who". When the first series of Doctor Who was being made, television pirates were desperate to acquire the preview tapes.

One of the people in the office had the idea of labeling the tapes with the anagram "Torchwood" rather than "Doctor Who", as a security measure to disguise the tapes when they were delivered from Cardiff to London. Writer Russell T. Davies liked this idea so much that it later inspired him to use it as a title when creating this spin-off series. Quotes Captain Jack Harkness : [voiceover during first season opening] Torchwood: outside the government, beyond the police.

Alternate versions As this series was released in Spain before Doctor Who, the translation modifies some mayor canon facts in order to make them understandable for the audience. No dubbing actors repeated their roles in both series. Some other modifications were also made when Doctor Who was first broadcast in Castilian Spanish. Connections Featured in Screenwipe: Review of the Year User reviews Review.

Top review. A favorite gone bad. I've enjoyed all the spin-offs, including, and maybe especially, Torchwood letters of Doctor Who rearranged, as most people realize. Then along comes and the move to Starz and the U. All the cool stuff is gone; alien jail; alien artifacts idea stolen by Warehouse 13 , Captain Jack's immortality, occasional Dr. Who crossovers, assorted creatures, etc. Each episode was a complete story with a few ongoing tie-ins. Now it's just another soap opera, and an especially bad one at that.

These things just go on and on, sometimes for years, and just fizzle, or just get left in mid-story. Torchwood: Miracle Day has a weak story, a castrated hero and nowhere to go. I hope it goes back to the BBC as soon as possible. FAQ 9.