George W Harris <gharrus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Back in the episode where they went back in time to WW2, the
> established that Captain Jack Harkness was an American flyer
> whose identity Jack assumed after he was killed, but in this
> week's episode on BBCA, he was using that name back in the
> late 1800s.
He was using it even (subjectively) before then. The thing you
have to remember is that he was in the 1800s *after* he'd been
having his adventures with The Doctor and Rose in the future,
where he'd already been using the Captain Jack Harkness alias.
There have been at least four different "versions" of Captain
Jack living in the early 1940s virtually simultaneously. In
the order that Jack subjectively experienced them, they are:
(1) His introduction in the DOCTOR WHO episode "The Empty Child",
where he was in London during the Blitz, looking for the alleged
Chula war****p. He was already calling himself Captain Jack
Harkness at this point.
(2) After he was made immortal by Rose's manipulation of the Time
Vortex, he used his wrist device to travel back to find The Doctor
and Rose, only he overshot and ended up in the late 1800s, at
which point he lived through the entirety of the 20th Century.
(3) When he and Tosh were trans****ted by the Rift back to 1941
Cardiff.
(4) When he was buried alive on the future site of Cardiff in
27 A.D., was dug up by the Victorian Torchwood, and frozen until
2008.
Since he was using the Captain Jack Harkness alias right from
the moment we first met him, we have to assume that he had
been to the 1940s prior to event (1) above, where he learned
about the original Jack Harkness and assumed his identity. Or
that he came across information about the original Harkness
while doing research in his capacity as a Time Agent.
-- jayembee
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