fajrdrako | Torchwood question... (Reply)

This morning

order_of_chaos said to me, in a comment about Captain Jack Harkness, "it always amuses me when he tells the truth and people assume he's joking." I couldn't agree more.

It got me thinking. I could name you any number of times in Torchwood when Jack does exactly that. But at any point since the end of Doctor Who series one, have we seen him telling a lie to one of his team?

Occasionally he lies to an outsider for a purpose. Telling Jack Harkness he's James Harper, for example. With his own team, we see him evading the truth by refusing to answer direct questions, as he does when Toshiko asks him who he was before he became Captain Jack Harkness; we see him answering questions with questions, like when Gwen asks who he last snogged and he said, "Does that include alien life forms?"

There is, of course, the series-spanning use of the name Captain Jack Harkness - but I wouldn't call that a lie any more. I'd say our Jack owns by adoption now. After more than 138 years of using the name, I'd give him squatter's rights.

Am I forgetting something?

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