Jack Harkness
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Captain Jack Harkness is a fictional character played by John Barrowman in Doctor Who and its spin-off series, Torchwood. The first openly bisexual character in the history of televised Doctor Who episodes, he made his first appearance in The Empty Child. In The Parting of the Ways he died in battle against Daleks, but was resurrected and given immortality by Rose Tyler while she was a vehicle of the energies of the Time vortex.
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[edit] Quotes
- Before we go any further, who the hell orders pizza under the name of "Torchwood"?
- Torchwood : Everything Changes [1.1] (22 October 2006)
- You need to figure out who's side you're on here, because if you don't know, you're not gonna make it out of this alive.
- Torchwood : Cyberwoman [1.4] (5 November 2006)
[edit] Doctor Who
[edit] Boom Town [1.11]
- (4 June 2005)
- Mickey [after Jack, Rose Tyler, Mickey and The Doctor have just exited the TARDIS]: That old lady's staring.
- Jack : [Suggestively to Doctor] Probably wondering what four people were doing in a small box.
- Mickey: [Disdainful look at Jack] What are you captain of? The Innuendo Squad?
[Jack makes a 'Whatever' sign with his fingers]
[edit] Utopia [3.11]
- (16 June 2007)
- Captain Jack: [to Martha] Captain Jack Harkness... and who are you?
- Martha: Martha Jones.
- Captain Jack: Nice to meet you, Martha Jones.
- The Doctor: [Irritated] Oh, don't start!
- Captain Jack: I was only saying "hello"!
- Martha: [flattered] I don't mind.
- Martha: But the thing is, why'd you leave him behind, Doctor?
- The Doctor: [dismissively] I was busy.
- Martha: Is that what happens though, seriously? You just get bored of us one day and disappear?
- Captain Jack: Not if you're blonde.
- Martha: [sarcastically] Oh, she was blonde! Oh, what a surprise!
- The Doctor: [spinning around, irritated] You two, we're at the end of the universe. Okay?! Right at the edge of knowledge itself! And you're busy... [struggling to find the right word] blogging!
[edit] Journey's End [4.13]
- (5 July 2008)
- Jack: [annoyed] Just my luck! I climb through two miles of ventilation shafts, chasing life signs on this thing, and who did I find!? Mickey Mouse!
- Mickey Smith: [coldly] You can talk, Captain Cheesecake!
- [At the moment, the pair laugh and embrace like old friends]
- Jack: Good to see you! And that's "Beefcake"!
- Mickey: And that's enough hugging!
[edit] Torchwood
[edit] Small Worlds [1.5]
- (12 November 2006)
- Jack: She calls them fairies; I don't.
- Gwen: What do you call them?
- Jack: Never really had a proper name.
- Gwen: Why not?
- Jack: Something from the dawn of time, how could you possibly put a name to that?
- Gwen: Are we talking alien?
- Jack: Worse.
- Gwen: How come?
- Jack: Because they're part of us. Part of our world, yet we know nothing about them. So we pretend to know what they look like. We see them as happy, we imagine they have tiny little wings and are bathed in moonlight.
- Gwen: But they're not?
- Jack: No. Think dangerous. Think something you can only half-see, like a glimpse, like something out of the corner of your eye. With a touch of myth, a touch of the spirit world, a touch of reality all jumbled together, old moments and memories that are frozen in amongst it. Like debris, spinning around a ring planet, tossing, turning, whirling... backwards and forwards through time.
- Ianto: I blame it on magic mushrooms.
- Jack: What you do in private is none of our business.
[edit] Quotes about Jack Harkness
- I've kind of made Jack a hero that I would like to have looked up to as a little boy because as a little boy, I knew I was gay but I didn't know what it was. Didn't know who to talk to about it. … I wanted kids to like him, and I wanted women, men, I wanted everyone to like him. But first I wanted people to hate him. I wanted them to think he was arrogant and pushy and too sure of himself. And I wanted them to follow the arc of the change he went through in the final episodes of Doctor Who.
