How Long Has Jack Protected the Doctor From Torchwood?

[crabby_lioness]

Torchwood has been looking for the Doctor since 1897. They didn't find him until 2006, in spite of the Doctor being prominent with U.N.I.T. throughout the 1960s and the 1970s. Why not?

According to the http://www.torchwood.org.uk/html/jack/snaps.shtml Jack appears to have held prominent positions in Torchwood since 1961. Has Jack been fudging Torchwood's records to protect the Doctor for 45 years? Has he been collecting the Doctor's "flotsam and jetsam" and storing them at his office to keep them away from the London branch? Did he set off the "Bad Wolf virus" mentioned in Love & Monsters that protects the data on Rose? It fits Occam's Razor.

If my theory is correct then it's possible that some agents Jack has trained have gone on to work for the home office in London. They could have instructions to look out for their old boss and redirect Doctor-memorabilia his way when they get the chance.

So far we've only seen two episodes. Knowing my luck, something will come up in the third episode that will completely blow this theory out of the water. But until that happens, it's the most elegant, the most logical, and the most romantic explanation. That's a winning combination in my book.

Comments

[boji.livejournal.com]

Of course - drawing on the temporal paradox which might be at work here - I rather like the idea that in some 'original' 51st century timeline he was sent to intercept the Doctor and spy/gather information for Torchwood ended up getting 'rescued' from a scheme that had gone FUBAR, became a companion and had any/all preconceptions about the Doctor utterly turned on their head.

And then, once finding himself way back in the twentieth century set about protecting the Doctor with everything at his disposal and everything he could salvage/scavenge.

It's a love thang

[flynn-boyant.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's an amazing theory! Do you mind if I start speculating on it a bit further here?

Exploring the idea that Jack, being a former time agent and being able to find a reliable means to get back to the past, chose to go back to 1941. (Totally speculation here, as of yet we have no real "canon" information regarding when he returned or how) If he is armed with information concerning Torchwood then it is possible that it was during the World Wars that Torchwood stopped being a pesky annoyance to the Doctor and a possible threat to him. The Torchwood of the Victorian era would not have been able to due much harm to the Doctor but after having time to collect, study and reverse engineer alien technology they now have the means to track and possibly capture the Doctor. Also, Jack himself brought alien technology to 1941 and, perhaps, he realized that his own actions may have allowed Torchwood to get an unfair advantage over the Doctor later on.

So, perhaps the whole being a rogue Time Agent was a con? A cover story for when he met the Doctor? Or maybe he wasn't supposed to meet the Doctor at all. Sort of a don't interfere with events plan of action, until it all went wrong. Of course if he wasn't supposed to meet the Doctor then...(ooh, my head. This is where it starts to get a bit confusing).

Although it does give a whole new meaning to "I wish I had never met you. I was better off as a coward". You could spin that to imply that he knew OF the Doctor and was taught in the agency that the Doctor was anything from a curiousity to an enemy but never someone he was allowed to make contact with. Ooh, here's another thought. Wouldn't it be something if Torchwood had evolved into the Time Agency at some point in history?

My head is kinda of spinning now. It hard to keep it all coherent but it's fun to think about!