| rdfs:comment | - Jack is able to travel instantaneously to any location where he's needed when it would take an hour or more to travel there by car or plane. His messenger bag, which has the demonstrated ability to produce any weapon or utility that he needs for a given task, is a TARDIS. Jack has never been seen to use his TARDIS to travel back in time or to other planets; it's probable that he was exiled to Earth by the Council, much like the Third Doctor, and his TARDIS is not fully functional. Time Lords have two hearts, which is why he was able to survive cardiac arrest in season 2 and season 4, though his avoiding regeneration those times was baffling. And Jack is a demonstrated polymath with skills in multiple military and intelligence disciplines, and he is able to fly a helicopter and defuse nucle
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| abstract | - Jack is able to travel instantaneously to any location where he's needed when it would take an hour or more to travel there by car or plane. His messenger bag, which has the demonstrated ability to produce any weapon or utility that he needs for a given task, is a TARDIS. Jack has never been seen to use his TARDIS to travel back in time or to other planets; it's probable that he was exiled to Earth by the Council, much like the Third Doctor, and his TARDIS is not fully functional. Time Lords have two hearts, which is why he was able to survive cardiac arrest in season 2 and season 4, though his avoiding regeneration those times was baffling. And Jack is a demonstrated polymath with skills in multiple military and intelligence disciplines, and he is able to fly a helicopter and defuse nuclear weapons - an unlikely combination of skill-sets for an ordinary human, but not so improbable if Bauer's had the equivalent of hundreds of years of education. When Jack arrived on Earth after his exile, CTU took him in and employed his services in exchange for access to the technology he needs to repair his malfunctioning TARDIS and for protection from the Torchwood Institute, which would love to capture and study a live Time Lord. This also explains why Jack keeps coming back to CTU despite being mistreated there - the private sector just doesn't have the resources he needs to make it back to Gallifrey.
* Clearly, Bauer is in fact the Third Doctor, merely from an alternate timeline where the Time Lords instead regenerated him into a younger form, dumped him in the US instead of England, and dropped him about 30-40 years later than they originally planned. This is almost exactly the same plot as the audio play "Sympathy for the Devil", where the Third Doctor is dropped in Hong Kong in 1997, having regenerated into David Warner instead of Jon Pertwee.
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