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Jack Dark is Joanna Dark's father, and the founder of Dark Bail Bonds agency. We spend the first 7 Missions around Jack, with the gray-haired companion only being present for 6 of them.
Biography[]
Background[]
Ex-marine, former cop, now single parent of a young woman. Jack Dark has seen it all and lived to talk about it. Now a bounty hunter for hire, Jack runs his own outfit, Dark Bail Bonds, while passing on everything he's learned over the years to Joanna. Morally driven, Jack's major business challenge is avoiding the giant hypercorps as his ethical viewpoints don't often see eye-to-eye with the executives. In times of financial stress, Jack has no idea how his own life and the lives of those he cares for will be affected after accepting an anonymous rescue operation.
Around 2010 father and daughter were in Detroit and he gave a harsh training to her. While she was honing her strength, her father was testing what she learned from him. Primarily he taught her not to misplace her trust to the wrong person or object.
Perfect Dark: Hong Kong Sunrise[]
Dark Bail Bonds was hired to locate the traces of freelance scientist Nathan Zeigler. Previously they had a failure in Chicago where trigger-happy Joanna made a mistake, involving not knowing that a building had people. After that, Jack seemed reluctant to let her join him in his missions.
Starting their search in Zurich, Jack beat crooks and thugs following Zeigler's trace to to Lisbon, then Marseille, Paris, Dublin, London and Sydney, and Hong Kong.
They stayed in an apartment in view to Zeigler's flop-house in the Sham Shui Po district, and Chandra Sekhar was tracking him down. Although Joanna wants to join him, he has her stay at the apartment with Chandra and work on mission prep, cleaning off the guns and gadgets. Jack goes off to find Zeigler and leaves Jo alone.
Soon, Joanna gets into a scuffle with rival bounty hunters and successfully defeats them, saying it was not only business, but a family matter. Jack finally tells her that she's ready for a mission with him.
Perfect Dark Zero[]
We first meet Jack Dark in Mission 0 of Perfect Dark Zero. Joanna is completing a VR training mission in order to sharpen her skills for a big mission the upcoming day. We meet up with Jack Dark once Joanna reaches the main loading deck of the Trinity Platform, We escape in a rocket with Jack, and learn that the mission was a simulation, With Jack telling Joanna that "Tomorrow night, the missions for real."
Jack Dark brings Joanna out on her first mission, to get Zeigler away from Killian, a gang lord in Mainland China. They are set to infiltrate a nightclub, but the mission plans are ruined when Joanna decides she needs to fight her way into the building and upstairs to help Jack. This throws the mission off plans, and Jack is caught off guard, letting Killian escape through the window and leaving the agents with a bruised Zeigler.
Jack insists that Zeigler goes to the hospital as he's losing blood, but Zeigler insists that he can't leave without his research. Jack brings Zeigler to an elevator to monitor him well Joanna retrieves the briefcase containing the research from inside a building behind the nightclub. Once Joanna meets up with them, Zeigler, aware he won't last much longer, transmits his research to Jacks brain using a neurodrive, claiming he "Took out an insurance policy."
The Father and daughter duo set their sights on leaving as fast as possible, thinking they'd rather cut their losses than get involved with Killian and what seems to be a bigger entity that is now working with him. They decide to escape through the rooftops in the city and meet up with Chandra on her powerboat. Plans are foiled when Killian swoops in and shoots Jack Dark with a missile, causing the bridge he's crossing to collapse and for him to fall several feet into a dumpster. With no other option, the two complete the mission separate, with Jack navigating the streets until hes kidnapped at the end of the mission.
Chandra tracks down Jacks whereabouts, learning that dataDyne had kidnapped the ex-cop and was holding him hostage on a dig site, which was being used for mysterious research relating to Zeigler. The megacorp was interested in whatever research the scientist had put in his brain and were invested on getting it out by any means necessary. Joanna would successfully rescue him, but this wouldn't go unpunished. Mei hem is enraged by Joanna's ability to sidestep her and sets it as her goal to capture both her and her father. They quickly devise a plan to escape Via hovercraft, but the mission won't be easy. The two manage to escape but are stopped just before they can leave on a hovercraft. Jack grabs Joanna's pistol convinced he can save them both from Mei Hem and her team, but is overpowered, and dies at her hands.
Perfect Dark: Janus' Tears[]
More than 6 months after the passing of Jack Dark, his death had still a profound effect on Joanna, who often reminisced him and what he learned from him. She was unable to get over the guilt for his death, even knowing she wasn't responsible. The thing she remembers most is his warning about whom to trust. She often has nightmares with him, blaming her for his death, and she revisits the killings of his murderers. While Joanna is in the hospital she has a hallucination where he blames her for his death and tells her his disappointment in her joining the Carrington Institute.
A flashback shows how Joanna was relentlessly trained by Jack to be the ultimate bounty hunter, and how sometimes this left Joanna feeling alone.
Description and Personality[]
Jack has short cut black hair that is turning white on the top, showing his age. He has a muscular build from years of training in many fields of combat. He has a sharp face with gray facial hair and brown-green eyes. He's normally seen wearing a tactical vest, and a white and black suit with blue pants overtop. Jack normally wields two revolvers with a bail bond agent logo on the hilt.
Jack can be described as a calculated and potentially cold individual. He expresses his love and care though his urge to provide for Joanna, and to protect her by teaching her what he knows best, how to fight. He is highly focused on the mission at all times, wanting to complete it no matter what the cost may be. Hes also quite overprotective of his daughter, trying to keep her out of harm's way until he took his last breath.
All his life, Jack continued to move and behave always as if he was a cop. Near his bed he had a "go to war" bag (with cash, passport, food, guns) that he might need in an emergency.
Skills and Abilities[]
Jack Dark, much like his daughter is a highly trained individual. He knows his way around a gun and a battlefield, with experience in the marines and as a Cop for the Detroit PD. He is stone, knowing what's best in any situation sometimes before it even happens.
Triva[]
- Jack Dark is only playable once in Perfect Dark Zero, in Rooftops | Escape
- Jack wears his tactical outfit, even when on vacation as seen in a photograph in the debriefing for Trinity | Infiltration
- Jack is a playable character in DeathMatch, and has the largest hitbox out of all the playable characters.