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Gwen tells Jack that she'll gladly kill him if it means protecting her family. Jack returns the sentiment.
 
1927. Jack decided that if the Doctor can take on Companions, so can he. After confessing (quite hilariously) at a catholic church, he started to work as a wine runner for some church-based smugglers and effortlessly worked his way up into larger smuggler activity. It turned out that he was hunting for one specific piece of smuggled cargo: an alien beasty, which [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 E11 Turn Left|the Trickster Brigade]] planned to use to make Roosevelt go insane and subsequently make Hitler win the war. With a few gunshots, Jack saved the regular timeline. Angelo was duly impressed. Their happiness didn't last long, because Jack was shot in the head by the police and only woke up after Angelo had already been carted off.
 
1928, one year later. Angelo was out of prison again, and found Jack waiting for him. He ''freaked the hell out''. Because despite aliens, time travel, vortex manipulators and all that gay romance, he still believed in God and the Devil, and Jack was quite obviously the second one. After some hesitation, he killed Jack and handed him over to the priests of Little Italy's community. Jack was hung up by his hands and killed over and over ([[Camera Abuse|and over and over and over...]]) for a few days. The Italians collected his blood as a relic. One day, he woke up, the blood patterns on his torso indicating that his throat had just been slit, and saw three men making a pact to buy him. Angelo freed him after that, wrecked with guilt, and asked for forgiveness. Jack wouldn't have it, and escaped from Angelo by quite pragmatically taking a shortcut off the building's roof while Angelo was forced to take the stairs. By the time he reached the street, Jack had woken up from his fall and was nowhere to be seen.
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'''Gwen''': (hugs him) I meant every word I said.<br />
'''Jack''': (hugs her back) So did I. }}
* [[Author Appeal]]: [[Russell T Davies]] finally -- ''finally'' -- gets to show the world [[John Barrowman]]'s naked bum. He'd been wanting to do so ever since "[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S1 E12 Bad Wolf|Bad Wolf]]".
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Rex and Esther save Jack and Gwen from the Families' representatives, while Gwen's family is saved by Andy.
* [[Continuity Nod]]: The alien parasite that Jack and Angelo kill was smuggled in by [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 E11 Turn Left|the Trickster's Brigade]] (which works for [[The Sarah Jane Adventures|the Trickster]]).
** In addition, Jack outright references the Doctor and his conversation with Angelo is very similar to the Doctor's first conversation with Rose, right down to "RUN!"
* [[Continuity Snarl]]: Averted, but easy to mistake for one. Seems to happen when Jack refers to himself as a fixed point in time in the 1920s. He won't discover that until he reaches the present day and meets up with the Doctor again. 1920s Jack is also wearing his WWII coat, despite WWII starting over a decade later. However, he tells someone he's over 700 years old, and his vortex manipulator is working fine, which means that he's just travelling in time for a few years. [[Word of God|Jane Espenson]] suggested that Jack has run through his timeline more than once.
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* [[One-Woman Wail]]: plays while {{spoiler|Jack is tortured because of Angelo.}}
* [[Make Wrong What Once Went Right]]: The Trickster's Brigade intends to use the parasite to infect Franklin D. Roosevelt, causing a chain of events that would ultimately lead to Germany winning World War II.
* [[The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life]]: Jack tries to make a [[Doctor Who (TV)|companion]] out of Angelo, but Angelo's negative reaction to his immortality convinces him that it's not a good idea.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Jack's love life, what else?
{{quote| ''"It's been about - oh, 700 years since my last confession. Where do I start? How about the triplets? Or the naked circus? Or that Sapphic Leapfrog Jamboree?"''}}
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* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: After Angelo tries making amends to Jack for {{spoiler|killing him and causing him to be subjected to near endless torture at the hands of sadistic New Yorkers}}, Jack calls him out on his betrayal and leaves Angelo behind forever.
** Uh, did we forget about the {{spoiler|''near-endless torture''?}} Jack has just been betrayed by someone who supposedly loved him - cutting and running is by far one of the kindest reactions he could have had. What the hell, ''Angelo''.
* [[Whole -Episode Flashback]]: Mostly.
* [[You Just Told Me]]: Angelo does this to get Jack to admit to forging his Visa.