THANEPLOT

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Oh God.

Oh God.

FUCKING THANE.

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[edit] The Really Short Summary

Once upon a time Jack Harkness had a buried packet of psychopathic memories that Elashte poked at until they accidentally took over Jack's brain, styled themselves John Thane, and terrorized The Doctor and Torchwood until The Doctor in the watch and The Vesmier unbroke his brain and everyone lived awkwardly ever after, except for John Hart, who got the fuck killed out of him.

[edit] The Slightly Longer And More Helpful Summary

Beginning at The Calisto fiasco at the end of season one, Jack Harkness began to have serious concerns as to his own mental state and violent tendencies. These came to a head during the Archangel attack on the Kashtta Tower at the end of season three, in which Jack orchestrated a defense that kept all of his people alive and without serious injury while killing thirteen of the fifteen attackers in what could be generously termed a massacre. Elashte, who had voiced concerns over this tendency toward excessive force earlier, offered to help Jack uncover what he believed was the root cause of this: buried memories in Jack's subconscious which were beginning to resurface.

In helping to bring these memories to the surface, Elashte accidentally caused a flip in the consciousness so that seven years of mechanically suppressed memories began to suppress the rest of Jack's consciousness. This resulted in a psychotic, obsessive Time Agent personality styling himself John Thane totally taking control of Jack's body, with all the accouterments and advantages implied therein. Like a teleport. And immortality.

This particular Time Agent had a grudge against Time Lords, seeing them as responsible for the unwriting of his planet Boe-Shayne during the Time War in his home universe. Upon learning of the existence of Time Lords in Chicago, he secured the help of one John Hart and attempted to strongarm Torchwood into submission in capturing The Doctor to extract his revenge. The Doctor proved easier to capture than all that and wound up chained to a wall in an unfinished office building while Thane attempted to tear his life down around his ears.

This mostly took the form of capturing and systematically breaking a number of the Doctor's friends, notably April, Toshiko Sato and Dmitri Lang. Fortunately the Doctor had left instructions for the TARDIS to protect a number of his friends, and Desmond Descant was safely hidden in the sewers. Thane also turned on Hart during this time, and Torchwood got a robot which seemed to perform no useful function, but knew an unsettling amount about them and future events.

Torchwood enlisted the help of a number of people, including The Rani, The Vesmier, and Julian Sark in order to rescue the captives and stop Thane, hopefully bringing back Thane in the process. Rescue attempts by the TARDIS and Sark proved disastrous, the latter resulting in April falling through a green rift in a mock-execution which further resulted in Sark's self-incarceration in a Wanderer prison. Finally, an attempt by Des and a special armadillo was successful in rescuing the captives, and in severely psychically damaging, but not containing, Thane.

While the TARDIS held and protected the survivors, Torchwood, the Vesmier, and The Doctorbot worked on ways to contain Thane and put an end to all this. Thane made a nuisance of himself, but a far more broken and ineffectual nuisance than he had previously, notably kidnapping Will Tippin for beer and commiseration. Suzie Costello, noting that Thane was even more unstable than he had been, convinced Torchwood Leadership and the Vesmier that she might be able to see Jack as a shadow and gain some intel on how to destroy Thane. She went to him as a double-agent and did manage to get one critical piece of information, despite being emotionally dismantled and then shot. Unfortunately, the plan made using this information was derailed by a certain superdog.

Thane retaliated by briefly kidnapping and torturing Owen Harper, and attempting to smoke the Doctor out using a number of logic bombs placed around the city. This mobilized Torchwood and, yes, the Doctor as a last resort. By this time however the Vesmier and Doctorbot had created a delta wave meant to forcibly integrate Thane's consciousness with Jack's, and this was in its final stage of deployment. Thane, in checking his traps, was exposed to the psychic imprint of Gallifrey burning (and the Doctorbot's subsequent chance for redemption) and sot (and killed) Sam before the delta wave hit, resulting in the brief appearance of a wildly unstable Jack who killed Hart, was briefly killed by Karunamayee (who had come for Sam's death), and revived Sam in an act of desperation and residual MGF energy unlikely to ever work again. Jack fled offworld immediately afterward, unable to cope with what had transpired.

Torchwood was left to pick up the pieces.

[edit] The Raw Threadlist We'd Like To Pretend Was A Summary

[edit] Season 3

[edit] Season 4

[edit] The sketch before the storm

[edit] The crash is coming

[edit] War crimes and rescue attempts

[edit] Then it fell apart, like it always does

SECTION STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION, DEAR LORD. D:

[edit] The Summary That Makes Us Want To Punch Kittens

WILL BE WRITTEN AT A LATER DATE >:(

Fucking thread-by-threads. Fucking game-eating plots. Fucking Thane.

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