Captain Jack Harkness

Father, Franklin, killed and brother, Gray, taken by hideous creatures.

Joins the army.

Captured behind enemy lines with his best friend, who is tortured and killed.

Doctor Who 1.09, The Empty Child; 1.10, The Doctor Dances; Torchwood 2.01, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Spends two weeks stuck in a time loop with John. Time within the loop feels like two years. If they weren't already, they become lovers.

Torchwood 2.01, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Represses memories of the day of the attack when he was young.

Leaves the Time Agency after discovering they have taken two years of his memories. Takes to running cons aimed at the Time Agency to try to get them back.

Runs self-cleaning cons.

Crash lands a Chula ambulance as part of a self-cleaning con.

Acting Group Captain Jack Harkness of 133 Squadron is shot down by a Bf 109. His Spitfire catches fire and crashes into the Bristol Channel. Our Jack assumes Group Captain Harkness's identity.

Meets Rose Tyler and the Doctor. Starts travelling with them after his ship is blown up by a German bomb.

Reported AWOL after failing to report for duty. This is the last official record of his existence.

The TARDIS stops to refuel using the Rift. The Doctor uncovers a plot by Margaret Blaine, really an alien in disguise, to melt down a nuclear power station on the Rift.

Brief visit to a hatchery.

An exciting visit.

Taken from the TARDIS with Rose and the Doctor to combat the Daleks. Killed by Daleks and resurrected by Rose. Abandoned by the Doctor, who realises Rose has permanently resurrected him.

Travels to Earth - aiming for the 21st century - to find the Doctor. His vortex manipulator malfunctions and burns out, stranding him in the 19th century.

Dies for the second time, shot through the heart. Is startled to wake up.

Dates Marcel Proust

Makes his way to Cardiff, reasoning that the Doctor will visit the Rift to refuel.

Dies in a bar fight. Captured by Torchwood. Offered the choice of contract work for them or remaining in their custody. Chooses the former. Is told by a fortune teller that he will not meet the Doctor again until the 21st century.

Gets married.

As Captain in the British Army, sees 15 men under his command aspyhxiated by "fairies".

Rejoins the British Army as a Captain.

Torchwood 2.03, To The Last Man; 2.12, Fragments; The Torchwood Archives.

Takes part in the Battle of the Somme.

Takes part in the Battle of Passchendaele.

Only survivor of a mustard gas attack.

Cruises the Kurfurstendamm with Christopher Isherwood.

On a mission from Torchwood, arrives at Ellis Island. Meets and starts an affair with Angelo Colasanto, whom he considers taking along as a sort of companion. During the mission, Jack is killed and Angelo arrested.

Jack returns to New York for Angelo, but Angelo is terrified by his immortality and betrays him to be killed and tortured. Jack abandons him.

Joins a travelling show as "The Man Who Can't Die", investigating the Night Travellers.

Meets and falls head-over-heels in love with 17-year-old Estelle Cole.

Joins the RAF and is posted overseas. Estelle goes to work on the land.

Returns to Cardiff. Does not reunite with Estelle.

Is assigned to the mission of handing over 12 orphans to the 456 in exchange for a flu vaccine to save 25 million people.

Has an affair with Torchwood agent Lucia Moretti, with whom he has a daughter, Melissa, born 5 August 1975.

Lucia puts Melissa into hiding. Melissa takes the name Alice Sangster.

After many years of on-and-off contract work, finally joins Torchwood as a full-time agent.

Lover and fellow Torchwood team member Melody White killed while on a mission with Jack.

Goes to the Powell Estate a couple of times to watch Rose grow up

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Instrumental in the invention of compound B57, aka retcon, the main ingredient of the amnesia pill used by Torchwood.

Jack's grandson, Steven Carter, born.

In a fit of madness brought on by an alien artifact, Torchwood Three leader Alex Hopkins kills his team and then himself, bequeathing Torchwood Three to Jack as "a reward for a century of service".

Makes contact again with Estelle Cole, pretending to be the son of the Jack Harkness she loved.

Recruits Suzie Costello

Recruits Toshiko Sato after she is arrested by UNIT for stealing official secrets.

Recruits Owen Harper after a mopup operation on the death of Owen's fiancée.

Much to Owen and Suzie's annoyance, keeps the team locked safely in their base while the mess with Margaret Blaine takes place. Because crossing your own personal timeline is always a bad idea.

Battle of Canary Wharf destroys the Torchwood Institute in London, with which Jack had previously severed ties. Two Torchwood Three members salvage the ruins. At the time, Jack thinks Rose was killed in the battle.

Meets Ianto Jones, former Torchwood London staff member. Fiercely resists hiring him until they catch a pterodactyl together.

Meets (and retcons) PC Gwen Cooper. Recruits her to replace Suzie Costello.

Torchwood Season 1

Death of Estelle Cole

Starts a relationship with Ianto.

Falls through a time shift with Tosh and spends an evening in 1941 getting to know Captain Harkness of 133 Squadron.

Finds the Doctor and leaves to travel time and space with him.

Meets Martha Jones. Finally has his long-awaited conversation with the Doctor, but doesn't get many answers. Meets the Master.

Arrives in London with the Doctor and Martha to find the Master - Harold Saxon - Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Torchwood team sent to the Himalayas by Harold Saxon.

2007-2008
(The Year that Never Was)

Captured by the Master, who engineers an invasion of Earth by the "toclafane". Held prisoner for a year before the Doctor can defeat the Master. Jack destroys the paradox machine, causing time to reverse to before the invasion.

Gives up the chance to travel with the Doctor and returns to Cardiff.

Torchwood Season 2

John Hart shows up and tries to kill to Torchwood team. Ianto saves the day. John tells Jack he has found Gray.

Meets an alien which survives by manipulating memories. It revives the memory of the day Gray was taken. The team take retcon to destroy the alien, but that memory remains.

The Night Travellers show up in Cardiff, released from an old film. Jack and Ianto are only able to save one of their victims.