Jerry Jacks
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| Jerry Jacks | |||||||||||||||
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 Sebastian Roché as Jerry Jacks |
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| General Hospital | |||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Julian Stone (1998-1999) Sebastian Roché (2007-present) |
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| First appearance | April 10, 1998 | ||||||||||||||
| Created by | Robert Guza Jr. | ||||||||||||||
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| Aliases | James Craig James Brosnan Mr. Moreau |
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| Gender | male | ||||||||||||||
| Residence | Metro Court Hotel Port Charles, New York |
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 Bobbie Spencer (Jackie Zeman) and Jerry Jacks (played by Julian Stone), 1998/1999 |
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Gerard Aloysius "Jerry" Jacks [1] is a fictional character on the popular ABC soap opera, General Hospital. He was portrayed by Julian Stone from April 10, 1998 to December 14, 1999. In April 2007 the role was resumed by Sebastian Roché, with the in-universe explanation that character James Craig was actually Jerry Jacks, but with a surgically-altered face.
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[edit] Character Background
Jerry is originally from Australia, but he and his family moved to Alaska. He is described as being a playboy, never bothering with love, just in it for fun and games.
He was first seen on the show in 1998, having a fistfight with Jax in his penthouse; that was their way of solving arguments. He came to Port Charles to meet his brother's soon-to-be-wife Brenda Barrett.
He got involved with Bobbie Spencer, and for the first time in his life he had fallen in love. Before moving to Port Charles Jerry had never really stayed in one place for very long, but he eventually considered Port Charles to be home.
[edit] Criminal Past
Jerry was arrested along with his brother and father, when the FBI discovered that their company had been started with drug money. They lost everything, but the Jacks brothers managed to bounce back quite well. Despite Jerry's bitterness that Jax had always been the golden child, while he had to scrape by and also protect Jax, Jax saved him from a prison sentence. Jax and Jerry eventually became very close.
[edit] Relationship with Bobbie Spencer
At the 1999 Nurse's Ball, a tape of Jerry and Bobbie making love was accidentally spliced into Emily Quartermaine's documentary (Emily had left her camera in a room at the hospital; Jerry and Bobbie had no idea the camera was there), embarrassing them in front of the entire town. Both handled the reaction very well, not too surprising considering their outcast status throughout many parts of their lives.
After Jerry nearly died in a car crash, Jerry and Bobbie planned to marry, amidst his promises that his illegal activities were behind him. Jason Morgan and Sonny Corinthos were able to learn that he was laundering money for crime lord Moreno. Jax frantically tried to save his brother from arrest. Roy DiLucca, in trying to bring down Sonny, gave the FBI a series of account numbers that led them straight to Jerry. He was arrested in the middle of his wedding to Bobbie. Jerry asked Bobbie to run away with him, but she refused. Jax got him out on bail and Sonny managed to help him skip town after a tearful good-bye to Jax on the docks. Bobbie missed the chance to say goodbye, showing up moments after his departure, but he called her later. Jerry last made his presence known by sending Bobbie a Christmas gift shortly after going on the run.
[edit] "James Craig"
[edit] The Hostage Crisis
Jerry Jacks returned to the United States under ominous circumstances. Under the alias of James Craig, he returned to Port Charles in January 2007 as a mysterious man with ties to Lorenzo Alcazar. In February 2007, he and a team of masked gunmen invaded the Metro Court Hotel and held numerous employees, guests, and visitors hostage. This was supposedly in an effort to steal a briefcase placed in the hotel's vault by Alcazar. Their plan A to get the briefcase and go failed when Sam McCall activated a silent alarm, locking the vault with Maxie Jones and a masked gunman inside for 12 hours. The silent alarm also notified police, who arrived within a matter of minutes.
During this time, Jerry (as Mr. Craig) brutally tormented all of his hostages with a series of deadly games. He shot Robin Scorpio to show that he was serious and refused requests by other hostages for her to be evacuated. He instead forced medical intern Emily Quartermaine and nursing school drop-out Carly Corinthos to perform crude surgery on her in the hotel's lobby, while Robin's boyfriend, Dr. Patrick Drake dictated instructions by phone. Craig also forced Dr. Alan Quartermaine to suffer through an untreated heart attack (which he later died from). Craig had the lobby rigged with explosives to prevent any of the hostages from trying to overtake the gunmen, as the gunmen secretly rotated control of the detonator.
With the aid of Jason, Sam McCall managed to escape and told the police about the explosives. A rescue attempt was launched, and after a scuffle for the detonator switch, Craig pressed the button and triggered the explosives, then managing to escape in the confusion. A few hours later, Jason tracked him down and they engaged in a shootout. Craig was wounded, but Jason had to let him go in order to rush to the side of his dying father, Alan. However, Jason did not make it in time, and Alan died before Jason arrived.
[edit] Revelations
A short time after the hostage crisis, Craig showed up at Wyndemere, and poisoned Nikolas Cassadine, injecting him with a neuro toxin designed to kill him in 24 hours unless a counter agent is administered daily. Craig wanted Nikolas to create a false identity for him. He also forced Nikolas to break up with Emily and pretend to have a relationship with Robin, who he forced to break up with Patrick. Craig insisted that they maintain this fiction, otherwise he would withhold the counter-agent from Nikolas and cause his death.
During his stay at Wyndemere, Craig has used the alias of James Brosnan, under which name he has had several encounters with Nikolas's aunt, Alexis Davis, who was unaware of Craig's history with the hostage crisis. In April 2007, it was revealed through a series of phone calls that Mr Craig/Brosnan was actually Jerry Jacks. He was being pressured by his mother, Lady Jane, and brother Jasper Jacks to attend Jaxs' upcoming wedding to Carly. On April 30, 2007, Jerry tried to observe the wedding by hiding outside the building and talking to his brother on the cellphone, but his mother saw Jerry and recognized him, even though he had had plastic surgery. Two other close-calls occurred when Jax overheard the music from his wedding in the background of Jerry's phone call, and Damien Spinelli caught a brief glimpse of Craig as he passed by.
Jerry went to Carly's house knowing that she and Jax weren't back from their honeymoon yet and that his mother was still there babysitting Carly's boys Michael and Morgan. He talked with the three of them for a while and was able to hide long enough when Carly came home for a few minutes and left again. The next day, however, Ric Lansing brought Carly a picture from the Metro Court Hotel surveillance camera of "Mr. Craig" for her to identify. It was indeed him. After Ric left, Carly talked to Morgan and he said Jerry when he saw the picture. Carly asked Michael for confirmation, asking him if the guy in the picture is really Jerry, and he replies "That's Jax's brother, Jerry."
General Hospital's headwriter Robert Guza, Jr. has stated on Jerry's change in character, "However much a troublemaker or a wild card Jerry was, he never would have done the things that Mr. Craig did. We will explain the transformation, what 'turned him.' You've got to psychologically explain how could this person do this... and we will."
On May 29, 2007, it was revealed that Craig was forced to watch the brutal murder of a woman he had been in love with. After witnessing the murder, the killers tasked him with the recovery of the case threatening his death if it wasn't recovered.
It was revealed on July 31, 2007 that Irina, Jerry's former lover that is supposed to be dead, is actually alive and holding Jax against his will. Irina planned to murder Jax in front of Jerry, as revenge for betraying her, but in truth, the people who "murdered" Irina helped her fake her death. Irina slept with Jax while holding him at gunpoint, and then called Carly to inform her of the incident. Carly and Jerry would arrive on the scene, and after seeing Jerry kill Irina with no hesitation, Jax told him he did not want him in his life anymore.
He has been threatening Sam with her life into seducing Trevor Lansing to get information on Anthony Zacchara.He was stabbed by Nikolas and was in critical condition at GH, but has since made a full recovery.
It has recently been revealed that Jerry is Mr. Moreau, a lethal drug dealer who is out to get Johnny Zacchara.
Recently Jerry has been seen visiting a man with a wings tattoo on his shoulder. It has been revealed that this man is Dr. Ian Devlin. Jerry works for him and is trying to acquire Alcazar's warehouse property.
[edit] Aliases
- Jerard Aloysius Jacks (real name)
- Jerry Jacks
- James Craig
- James Brosnan
- Mr.Moreau
- John Jacks
[edit] Current Relationships
- Alexis Davis(2007-present)
- Claudia Antonia Zacchara(2008)
