Not much is known about the dashing, openly bisexual/omnisexual Captain Jack Harkness' early life. Even the name Jack Harkness is a false identity.
Overview
He was born in the 51st century and lived in the Boeshane peninsula (it is never made clear if the Boeshane peninsula is the specific name of a geographic region or a planet). His father's name was Franklin and he had a younger brother named Gray. His father was probably killed and his brother captured during some sort of alien raid. Some of this may be false memory planted by an alien entity, but to what extent is unknown.
As the first from his area to sign up with the Time Agency and an obvious heartthrob, he was nicknamed "the face of Boe," possibly indicating that he will eventually become the mysterious alien of the same name (whom the Doctor encounters 5 billion years in the future in The End of the World). Most of Jack's experience with the Time Agency is detailed in the Doctor Who episodes The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances though his former partner with the Agency is introduced in the Torchwood episode Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.
During his time in the Time Agency Jack was equipped with various gadgets, such as his sonic blaster and the vortex manipulator wristband he uses to "space hop" his way between times. A Time Agent's Vortex Manipulator is used by aliens in the Doctor Who episode Human Nature to pursue The Doctor and Martha when they flee in the TARDIS.
Jack briefly teams up with the Doctor but after certain events in Bad Wolf Jack is abandoned by the Doctor. Jack attempts to return to 21st century Earth but his vortex manipulator malfunctions landing him on late 19th century Earth. Jack becomes an integral and later leading member of Torchwood - he changes Torchwood's M.O. as an homage to the doctor - while waiting for the Doctor to reappear in Cardiff, Wales, with the TARDIS so that Jack may reunite with him and find out if the Doctor can repair Jack's immortality.
After their reunion Jack's immortality is explained to him and revealed to be a permanent and apparently eternal condition. Jack rejoins the TARDIS crew for some time before returning to Torchwood and his current team. He departs the TARDIS on good terms with the Doctor and his current companion Martha Jones.
Jack oversees the operation of Torchwood from then on culminating in the destruction of the Torchwood Institute, the deaths of all members including Jack's lover Ianto Jones. The only survivors are Jack himself and Gwen Cooper.
Gwen and Jack are recruited by a semi-rogue CIA agent and a CIA analyst in the opening of Torchwood Miracle Day. Together the group seek out an answer and resolution to the 'miracle' - the imperfect immortality of the entire human race. At the close of Miracle Day the agent - Rex Matheson, - Gwen Cooper, and Jack are the reconstituted Torchwood Institute and it is implied they will continue to work together in the capacity Torchwood Cardiff once filled.
(Note: Due to the illness of show runner/creator Russel T. Davies' partner future productions in the Torchwood 'verse are on hold).
Detailed Biography
One day whilst working for the agency, Jack woke up to find two years of his memories missing. In an attempt to seek vengeance, he leaves the Time Agency and becomes a conman, performing the "perfect self-cleaning con" on Time Agents. Jack's first appearance is in the Doctor Who episode The Empty Child during which Jack uses a stolen Chula "warship" (actually a medical transport) to lure the TARDIS to 1941 London.
He spots the Ninth Doctor's companion Rose Tyler dangling from a barrage balloon during a Blitz air raid, and sends a tractor beam to bring her on board his ship (also Chulan). Jack's guess that Rose is a time agent is "confirmed" when she recognizes psychic paper, so he attempts to sell her the broken Chula ship. Impressed by Jack's charm and knowledge, she takes him to meet the Doctor.
The Doctor, unimpressed by Jack, suspects the con after mysterious things begin to happen with humans mutating into gas-masked creatures calling for their mummy. Once Jack's plan is revealed to be the cause of the strange happenings in The Doctor Dances, Jack sets about putting it right and diverts a bomb that was about to kill the restored humans, blowing up his own ship in the process. Fortunately, Jack is rescued by the Doctor and joins the TARDIS crew.
Like most of the Ninth and the Tenth Doctor's companions Jack falls in love with the Doctor (though the only companion The Doctor ever responds to is Rose Tyler and even then no real physical or romantic relationship occurs). Because Jack values the Doctor's opinion and views so highly he works to become a better man in The Doctor's eyes by giving up his cons altogether and limiting his violent tendencies. The Doctor renews Jack's hope and courage and strips away some of his selfish self-serving tendencies. It seems likely that Jack was a fairly fresh faced and optimistic Time Agency recruit, who, over time and after being betrayed by the Agency, developed a pragmatic bitter streak, a trait mitigated and possibly eliminated by his time with The Doctor.
When the TARDIS crew is teleported onto satellite 5 a sadistic, reality show studio/satellite in Bad Wolf, Jack fights his way free and reunites with the Doctor and Rose, who are facing the Dalek fleet. While the Doctor and Rose construct a weapon to defeat the fleet, Jack tells the Ninth Doctor "Wish I'd never met you, Doctor, I was much better off as a coward" before leading a suicidal defensive action to stall the Daleks.
In the closing episode The Parting of the Ways Rose, having absorbed the time vortex, resurrects Jack. However, the power overwhelms her and results in Jack becoming immortal. The Doctor saves Rose from the vortex, which is consuming her, by absorbing it himself and regenerating into The Tenth Doctor. The Tenth Doctor is so disturbed by Jack's immortality that he abandons Jack on Satellite 5 without saying goodbye or explaining what has happened to him. Jack initially knows that he somehow survived the assault on Satellite 5 and has been abandoned by Rose and the The Doctor but has absolutely no idea that he is now immortal.
Jack next appears as the lead in Torchwood season one. In the opening episode Everything Changes one of the team -Suzie Costello- is revealed to be a serial killer by Cardiff police officer Gwen Cooper after Cooper overcomes the effects of the memory wiping drug Retcon. Cooper later confronts Costello outside the Torchwood Hub where they are interrupted by Jack. Costello shoots Jack in the forehead then tries to kill Cooper but Jack revives and Costello commits suicide.
Cooper later takes Jack to task for behaving in an inhumane and callous manner regarding the impact of Torchwood and the rift on Cardiff and her citizens. Jack recruits Cooper to provide Torchwood with a human touch and liaise more closely with local police. Jack is attracted to Cooper and interested in her but no physical or outright romantic relationship ever occurs. Jack is also interested in Ianto Jones but nothing concrete develops between them until later in season one.
In Cyberwoman it is revealed that Ianto Jones has been hiding his partially cyber-converted girlfriend in the vault of the Hub while working to heal her. She breaks loose and is eventually killed by Jack (Jack's first shot is followed by a salvo from the rest of the team) but only after Jack's attempt to force Jones to execute her fails.
Jack consistently demonstrates ruthless resolve and doesn't hesitate to assume terrible burdens for the greater good. Throughout Torchwood and his appearances in Doctor Who he is often willing to do things that The Doctor balks at and doesn't flinch from inflicting violence on his enemies. Later in season one of Torchwood he and Toshiko Sato are temporarily trapped in 1941 (where Jack meets and falls in love with the real Captain Jack Harkness, partly because the real Harkness is doomed to die the next day) Owen Harper brings them back - after being wounded by Ianto Jones - by manipulating the rift. Sato later tells Jack that the original Harkness would be proud that Jack is using his name and saving the world. Even though Harper's manipulation of the rift saves both Jack and Sato, Jack viciously condemns him and after Harper protests Jack fires him.
Jack's team turns on him in End of Days following his return from 1941. They open the rift at the urging of their lost loved ones. Harper goes so far as to shoot Jack to the horror of Jones and the others. Later Jack faces a creature released from the rift by their actions and manages to defeat it but is killed in the process and remains dead for several days. After his resurrection he forgives Harper and the others.
This is also the first definitive sign of a deeper relationship with Jones. Jones approaches Jack after Harkness' resurrection with his hand extended as though to shake but Jack kisses him passionately instead.
At some point (likely just before Torchwood season one), Jack retrieves the Doctor's severed hand from the Doctor Who special The Christmas Invasion, which he stores in a jar and uses as a "Doctor-detector". This is seen flashing at the close of End of Days whereon Jack leaves to rejoin The Doctor.
In the Doctor Who season three episode Utopia Jack is seen racing to the TARDIS which is parked outside the Hub refueling, The Doctor attempts to leave Jack behind again, which results in the TARDIS traveling to the end of the universe with Jack clinging to its exterior.
When the Tenth Doctor and his companion Martha Jones exit the TARDIS at the end o fthe universe The Doctor is not at all surprised to see Jack lying dead next to the TARDIS. Martha tries to revive Jack ignoring The Doctor when he says it's not necessary (she later attempts to save Jack with mouth-to-mouth, when Jack revives he asks if someone has been kissing him) Upon Jack's resurrection this exchange occurs:
The Doctor: Captain.
Jack: Good to see you.
The Doctor: And you. Same as ever. Although. Have you had work done?
Jack: You can talk. [Referring to The Doctors regeneration and new appearance.]
The Doctor asks how Jack figured out he was immortal:
Jack: In the end I got the message: I'm the man who can never die. And all that time you knew.
The Doctor: That's why I left you behind. It's not easy, just looking at you, Jack. 'Cause you're wrong.
Jack: Thanks.
The Doctor: You are. I can't help it
The Doctor explains that Rose resurrected Jack after he was killed on Satellite 5 but because she was human she did it wrong and rendered Jack a fixed point in space and time, an immortal (apparently Rose is never aware that she didn't just save Jack but also made him immortal). As to why he left Jack, The Doctor expands on his previous statement with:
The Doctor: I can't help it. I'm a Time Lord. It's instinct; it's in my guts. You're a fixed point in time and space; you're a fact. That's never meant to happen. Even the TARDIS reacted against you, tried to shake you off. Flew all the way to the end of the universe just to get rid of you.
Captain Jack Harkness: So what you're saying is... you're prejudiced?
The Doctor: I never thought of it like that.
Captain Jack Harkness: Shame on you.
Jack explains that after he was left on Satellite 5 he used his vortex manipulator to "space hop" back in time. Unfortunately, it malfunctioned, dropping him in 1869 and then burned out. Jack was forced to live through to the modern age: he fought in several wars, romanced a woman named Estelle (touched on in the Torchwood episode Small Worlds), and occasionally watched over Rose during her childhood in London. He eventually settled along the space/time rift in Cardiff (where he knew the Doctor must someday return to refuel the TARDIS) and joined/was recruited to Torchwood. He was given a choice between joining Torchwood willingly or facing imprisonment (or worse) as a threat to the empire after members of Torchwood discovered his unusual talents and immortality. Over time he managed to assume control of Torchwood 3 and changed its Modus Operandi as a tribute to The Doctor.
After the events of the Doctor Who episodes Utopia andThe Sound of Drums Jack returns to the present day with Martha and The Doctor where he and The Doctor are taken prisoner by the Master for a year. During this time, he misses his team and realizes that he will have to return to commanding Torchwood. In Last of the Timelords The Master is defeated and time is reset. Jack departs the TARDIS, this time on good terms with the Doctor and Martha Jones, and returns to Torchwood. Martha later appears in Torchwood season two for three episodes.
It is difficult to determine just how much time has passed for the Torchwood team when Jack returns in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang as Jack's personal timeline differs considerably from theirs due to the events in Utopia, The Sound of Drums and Last of the Timelords. Although, time is reset to a point before Saxons rise to power, it is possible that Jack took his time returning to the Hub or the Torchwood team was somehow aware of the passage of time regardless of the reset. Additionally the emotionally shattering and stressful events of End of Days set the team up for a closer bond with each other and ideally Jack, a situation crippled by Jack's absence. Whatever the case the team is hostile and resentful of Jack and his secrets when he does return. Jack continues to shut the team out of much of his life and past, however, he does begin a genuine and deeply felt romantic relationship with Ianto Jones. (there are indications of a sexual relationship between them prior to his return, after his return the relationship moves to the forefront)
In Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Jack's Time Agency partner Captain John Hart appears in Cardiff. During their time with the Agency Hart and Jack were caught in a two week time loop within which time stretched for five years, while in the loop he and Jack had an intimate relationship. Hart nearly kills the team, then murders Jack (he is unaware of Jack's immortality) in an attempt to claim property from one of his other murder victims. Instead of the treasure he sought he receives an explosive device that attaches itself to his chest. Hart handcuffs himself to Cooper forcing the team to come up with a solution for the genetically targeted explosive. As Hart steps into a rift opening he tells Jack that he found Gray. Cooper asks Jack who Gray is, Jack dismisses her inquiry.
Hart is highly unstable. He admits he's been to rehab for drink, drugs, murder, and sex. When he murders Jack it appears to be as much out of rage at being forcefully and roundly rejected by Jack as well as to get Jack out of the way. While Hart is absolutely unstable his affection for Jack seems to be genuine. While he deliberately puts Harper, Sato, and Cooper in mortal danger he doesn't actively hurt or endanger Jones. This could be because he recognizes the relationship between Jones and Jack and he fears Jack's reaction if Hart were to deliberately endanger his lover, alternately he could have some strange empathy toward Jones as Hart too loves Jack. It is also possible that it was simply easier for Hart to endanger the others and send Jones to rescue them rather than vice versa.
In Adam a memory manipulating alien escapes from an object deposited by the rift and infiltrates Torchwood as a team member named Adam. While manipulating the team's memories to insert himself in to their lives Adam inadvertently recovers Jack's buried memories of certain events from his childhood. Including the memory of living on the Boeshane Peninsula with his little brother Gray, their father Franklin, and Jack's unnamed mother in the 51st century under threat of invasion from hostile alien creatures. According to these memories when the invasion occurred Jack was charged with his brother's safety. During the panicked flight Jack and Gray were separated. The invaders killed Jack's father and Gray was never found.
Partially due to the recovery of these memories as well as Adam's assault on Jones, Jack realizes Adam's nature. Desperate to survive, Adam interweaves the memory of himself among Jack's fondest memories of his father. In order to kill Adam Jack obliterates those memories.
It is difficult to be objective about Jack's memories of Gray and their father as Adam admits to manipulating at least one of the memories. Considering later events it is possible to determine several facts: an invasion did occur, Gray was taken, and both Gray and Jack blame Jack for Gray's capture.
In Fragments Hart traps the Torchwood team in a collapsed building. Through flashbacks, Jack's entry into and career with Torchwood is explained. Additionally, we learn that in 1999 a member of the then extant Torchwood team - Alex - kills the rest of the team (two corpses are shown). Alex tells Jack that he is now in charge of Torchwood 3 Alex asks Jack to give it some meaning. Alex shoots himself as Jack tries to stop him. Presumably the team Cooper first meets in Everything Changes was created after this incident.
In the following episode Exit Wounds the team splits up to track down incidents of significant rift activity throughout Cardiff while Jack returns to the Hub to track down Hart. Hart ambushes Jack at the Hub, he detonates several explosives around Cardiff crippling the city before dragging Jack into the rift. Jack wakes in an open field and Hart explains the field is Cardiff in A.D. 27. Hart tells Jack and later Cooper that he isn't behind the attacks rather Jack's brother Gray is. Hart has been controlled by Gray via an explosive molecularly bonded to Hart's flesh. Hart found Gray and rehabilitated him on Jack's behalf (possibly hoping to earn Jack's love again) but didn't realize that Gray was dangerously warped by a lifetime of torture. Gray is determined to punish Jack for allowing the invaders to capture him when they were children. Gray buries Jack alive (intending for him to be trapped in a cycle of waking and choking to death on soil for roughly 2000 years) then returns to present day Cardiff to continue his vengeance.
Before burying Jack, Hart tosses a ring in with him - that emits a specific signal that can be tracked - telling Gray it is of sentimental value. Back in present day Cardiff Hart enlists Cooper and Sato to help track the signal, however, Sato is unable to find any sign of such a signal. At the Hub Gray locks Hart, Cooper and Jones in the vault with semi-conscious weevils. Gray then shoots Sato in the gut as she tries to help Harper shut down Cardiff's local nuclear plant. Gray discovers Jack in the Hub sealed in a cryo container. The ring's signal attracted members of Torchwood's interest nearly a hundred years previously they dug Jack up out of curiosity and put him into cryo storage. (They were concerned he would violate his own timeline)
Upon being released from his cryo container Jack immediately tells Gray that he forgives him and demands that Gray forgive Jack. Gray refuses, Jack drugs Gray unconscious. Meanwhile Sato manages to talk Harper through venting the dangerous nuclear fuel. Unfortunately a power surge traps Harper in the area where the fuel will be vented, effectively killing him. Jack, Jones, Cooper, and Hart arrive too late to save Sato who dies in Jack and Cooper's arms.
Jack later puts Gray into a cryo container over Hart's objections. Hart insists that it would be safer to just kill Gray, Jack demurs saying there's been enough death already. Hart points out that when he was burying Jack alive while Gray watched, Jack did not resist, rather, Jack seemed to accept the punishment as his due. Hart kisses Jack on the cheek, offers condolences for his losses, and leaves.
In Children of Earth Jack's known family living in the early twenty-first century are revealed to be Alice, an adult daughter (the child of an Italian member of Torchwood and Jack, it is noted that Alice's mother died of natural causes a 'rarity in Torchwood'), and a juvenile grandson, still in school. This indicates that Jack is fertile and his immortality is not passed on to his children. It also begs the question of what all those 51st century genetics are doing to 21st century humans and how they're impacting human evolution, if at all.
Jack's grandson Steven is not immune to the signal broadcast by the 456 (a largely mysterious alien species), and reports to his "Uncle Jack" that he "talked like an alien... everyone did!" Jack broaches the subject of further interaction with his grandson, but Alice correctly deduces that the timing of Jack's visit matches the onset of alien behavior too closely to be coincidence. Sometime after Jack departs government agents kidnap Steven and Alice and hold them hostage to keep Jack in line.
It is revealed that in the 1960s Jack willingly handed 12 orphans over to the 456 as a gift /bribe on orders from the government. The 456 use the children to produce an intoxicating drug and they have returned to Earth to collect more children. They are threatening invasion or extermination if their demands are not met.
Jack and Jones threaten the 456 with war; in retaliation the 456 release a fast acting virus that kills Jones, Jack, and nearly everyone else in the building. As Jones is dying Jack promises to remember him for the rest of his life, and then succumbs himself. Ultimately, Jack realizes that the only way to defeat the "456" will require Jack sacrificing Steven's life by using the boy's connection to the aliens to channel deadly energy into them. As Alice screams and fights, Jack kills Steven and saves the Earth's children.
In the audio drama Torchwood the Lost Files: House of the Dead Jack and Jones are at Wales' most haunted pub working to prevent a séance that will unleash a malevolent entity.
Jones's father's ghost appears at the pub and taunts Jack, claiming to know all about him from the people he's killed. Mr. Jones tries to convince Ianto and Jack not to seal the rift trapping the dead forever.
Frustrated by Ianto and Jack's determination, Ianto's father finally states that he can't believe that Jack is going to let Ianto die... again. Ianto is, in fact, dead, and has been for six months. The entity Jack is trying to stop has power over the dead and brought back the loved ones of the visitors to the pub to encourage the séance.
Ianto was completely unaware of his fate, he declares it is impossible, he feels real, but realizes his memories are fading. He is furious with Jack for cruelly bringing him back, Jack says that he didn't realize that Ianto would really be himself; he thought the ghost would only look like Ianto. Jack realizes that the entity used Jack's grief against him and literally recreated Ianto.
Ianto accuses Jack of only thinking of himself after Jack states that Ianto died saving the world but then admits that he doesn't know if Ianto had a funeral because he wasn't there. Jack points out that of all the people he's lost the only one to appear at the pub was Ianto. Ianto bitterly thanks Jack for not forgetting him and tells him to go away. When Ianto declares he didn't ask to come back Jack shouts that he didn't either. Jack tells Ianto that coming back knowing the world was empty after Ianto died was horrible and confesses to his plan to end his existence; Jack came to the pub intending to stop the entity but also to commit a sort of suicide by sealing the rift with himself in it. While he cannot die he believes that by being trapped in the pub as the rift is sealed he will cease to exist.
Ianto manages to trick Jack into surviving by appearing to listen to his father's ghost and suggesting that he and Jack attempt to leave the pub but leave the device designed to collapse the rift and stop the entity behind. At the last minute Ianto stays behind with the device declaring that he can't come back. Jack tries to convince him to come but he refuses stating that Jack knows Ianto's place is in the house of the dead. Jack tearfully begs Ianto not to leave him again. Before Ianto's ghost is destroyed/disappears/released (his ultimate fate is never stated) Jack finally tells him that he loves him, Ianto replies that he loves Jack and shouts goodbye.
The sealing of the Cardiff rift in House of the Dead explains how Torchwood Cardiff could cease to exist without all hell breaking loose in Cardiff. It also frees Jack to leave Earth and allows Cooper to go into hiding with her family.
In the Doctor Who special The End of Time: Part Two the Tenth Doctor sees Jack in an alien bar and slips him a note that says, 'His name is Alonso' regarding a man standing next to Jack (Alonso met The Doctor during the special Voyage of the Damned). This is both a goodbye and (potentially) a gesture of forgiveness for Jack's actions regarding the 456.
In The New World episode of Miracle Day it is stated that Cooper and Jack disappeared roughly twelve months previously, in The House of the Dead Jones has been dead for six months, and at the end of Children of Earth Cooper is clearly heavily pregnant and a title card declares that six months have passed. All this suggests that Jack leaves Earth not only after the events of Children of Earth but also immediately after the events of House of the Dead.
While Jack is clearly devastated by the monstrous actions he was forced to take in Children of Earth, Jones's death, Alice's alienation, his lingering guilt and grief over the deaths of Harper and Sato by his brother's hand, and even guilt regarding the death of Suzie Costello, he rarely runs from duty or tragedy. However, the added horror and guilt of Jones's reaction and ultimate fate in The House of the Dead may have been the final push to drive him from Earth.
In Miracle Day episode one The New World the CIA receives a message containing the word Torchwood, Jack uses exotic malware to delete the reference from all systems in a bid to keep Cooper and her family hidden and safe. He also Retcons CIA Analyst Esther Drummond after they both survive an assassination attempt in the CIA archives. Shortly thereafter Jack realizes, with horror, that he has become mortal again as the minor injuries he received in the assassination attempt do not heal. Jack reunites with Cooper during a hectic retreat from her cottage with CIA Agent Rex Matheson in tow. Rex renditions (a term evidently used by the CIA regarding a hostage handover) Cooper and Jack intending to take them to the US. Rhys points out that the whole world is now immortal while Jack is mortal.
In Rendition Rex splits up Cooper's family and hauls Jack and Cooper onto a private flight accompanied by another CIA agent and two flight attendants. Cooper yells at Jack, ostensibly for dragging her into Miracle Day, though she admits she missed him and the excitement of life with him. When she asks Jack where he went after leaving Earth at the end of Children of Earth he only says a long way away. Cooper asks if it helped but he doesn't answer. He also doesn't indicate how long he was away in his personal timeline or how long he had been back on Earth.
During the flight the other agent reports Jack's theory, about a morphic field being used to enact Miracle Day all over Earth simultaneously, to her handlers. They order her to remove Jack; accordingly she slips Jack a fatal dose of arsenic. Rex and Cooper manage to Macgyver a treatment to save Jack's life with the assistance of the flight attendants (Danny and Greta) and phoned instructions from Rex's physician Dr. Vera Juarez.
In Dead of Night after the team hits a low point Jack breaks away from the group and enters a club where he meets and has sex with a bartender. Afterward, drunk, wracked with guilt, and frightened by his new mortality he calls Cooper. They mention how the Miracle could have saved Jones, Harper, and Sato if it had come sooner. Jack drunkenly declares that he and Cooper don't need anyone else but Cooper hangs up on him (possibly inadvertently) to speak with Rhys and their baby daughter.
Jack later confronts murderer and pedophile Oswald Danes over his TV appearances wherein he claims to be sorry for his crime and to have received forgiveness for it. Jack declares that such forgiveness is impossible -likely an oblique reference to Jack's killing of Steven. After Danes admits that he isn't sorry and killing Suzie was the best moment of his life, Jack declares that Danes is awaiting an execution that will never come because of the Miracle.
Jack is later briefly reunited with an ex-lover -though he's comatose with age related health problems - via the man's descendant. His descendant has been working to discover the truth behind the Miracle and provides the new Torchwood team with invaluable information both about the families that seem to be behind the Miracle and a mole within the CIA before she is caught in a vehicle explosion/assassinated (as much as one can be during the Miracle) by the same CIA mole she had just outed.
Throughout the rest of Miracle Day Jack, Cooper, Matheson and Drummond work together along with Dr. Juarez and a handful of others as a de facto 'new' Torchwood to find the secret behind the worldwide failure of death and to combat the forces behind it. In the end Juarez and Drummond are killed while Matheson is rendered immortal like Jack. The source of the Miracle is discovered though not explained and Jack manages to reset mortality and return the world to normal. It is implied that Cooper, Jack, Matheson and Rhys will act as the new Torchwood Institute such as it is.
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