Jack Harkness

[Locked to Mat]

Hey, kid. You doing any better?

[Locked to Adrian]

Are you all right? Are you alive? I haven't heard from you in a while.

[Locked to the TARDIS]
[Display iff Time Agent 462O1 is alive]
[Display iff no person other than {Time Agent 462O1 or the TARDIS} has access to a journal in which this entry displays]

I don't know the protocol for this, if there is any, so I'll go directly to the point: I want to query you regarding the existence of an anomalous Fact in this temporal neighborhood. And because this discussion and any proceeding action could prove potentially hazardous to the Doctor and his allies iff they were to become aware of it, I would ask that they not be allowed access to the interchange.

Is this acceptable?

[Locked to Gwen]
[Edited lock: also locked to Mac {{after Gwen's reply}}]

I'm sure Suzie reported to you that I was working at a junk shop, some time before the trial. I left there under short notice, and I gave the owner the impression that I just disappeared, I think. I'd like to go back and apologize for that. But there are a few other reasons I'm asking.

A lot of non-native artifacts and technology found their way into her shop - she has a good eye for that sort of thing, and she has people bringing her stuff from all over the city. Most of it wasn't dangerous, but some of it was, and a lot of it was useful for one thing or another although she couldn't identify it. She's not a supernatural human, she's got no access to the journal networks, I'm not sure she's more than peripherally aware of wanderers and the Rift. There's not a lot of revenue to be made at a junk shop in the best of times, and I don't think she'd mind if she had someone to route a lot of her more inexplicable stock to a reliable buyer. And I'm sure there are people here who have been missing some of those resources.

Also, I

I used to help her in the garage when I wasn't trolling the city for Rift deposits. Breaking down engines, cobbling together things from bits of other broken versions. It's not

If I could


I don't have anything to do with my hands.

[Locked to Gwen]

In the unlikely and hypothetical situation that I found myself caretaking the emotional stability of a young woman trained as an assassin and working for an organization which at one point wanted me dead, is there any possibility I could get out of the Tower for a while to meet with her assuming I had a guardian angel escort?

I just figured I'd ask.

What are your opinions on insane asylums?

That might need elaboration.

So, assume we make a big deal about free will and self-determinism. And assume someone's self-determinism works directly against their own best interests and, as far as we can tell, the best interests of any reasonable goal. (That calls in to question our standards for reasonable, but that's almost my point.) At some point, some functional societies decide that they're perfectly justified in plucking these people off the streets and isolating them. Ignoring for the moment the truly staggering array of systemic abuses in ...well over half of all mental-health policy implementors I know of, actually, and dealing purely in abstracts, is that good? Is it a necessary evil? Or is it just an evil?

So far as I know, no one's arguing against removing people who are a danger to others from the company of others. They've violated the social contract, society has a right to defend itself, and if it doesn't, it has no less right as the aggressor to take aggressive action, so on so forth, but when it comes to the "oneself" part of "danger to oneself or others," is it logical to give more weight to a society's preference (in principle if not specifics) for this hypothetical person to exist than to this hypothetical person's indifference or preference not to?

And when it's a matter of emotional hardship on the people around the subject in question, at what point does "prurient interest because someone's feelings are getting hurt" cross into "society defending itself" again?

There's certainly an argument to be made for people incapable of functioning in society, but why does society get to decide to evict them rather than letting them fail to function on their own free will? And when it comes to treatment and rehabilitation, to what extent is society right in rewriting the processing capabilities of someone's brain? And is there any moral difference between setting it as terms of release (which may or may not be fulfilled, according to a subject's free will) and involuntary treatment?

Does anyone have any business dictating how someone else goes through life, at all?

[Locked to Suzie]

I ran into Sark. He was looking for you.

I trust he found you.

Understanding that this is not a request you probably expected to be fielding.

I have seen the calls for escorts through the plague of darkness.



I could  help.

There's going to be a behemoth looking for me.

I'm fairly sure she's not going to eat me.

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I think you might know my guardian angel. Short, fiery redhead named Mac?