List of Tru Calling Characters - Jack Harper

Jack Harper, a counterpart to Tru's character, is introduced mid-first season as a foil and possible love interest. He is there to make sure fate got its way, and introduces a philosophical aspect to Tru's endeavors: should she be saving the lives of people who may have been intended to die? Years before his appearance, he works as a paramedic. While trying to save a kid during a neighborhood shootout, he was shot on the back and was physically dead for minutes until being revived by his co-worker. At some point after the event, Jack finds himself reliving days (presumably begins on the same day as Tru) and admits himself to a psych ward believing that he's become insane after a near-death experience until being approached by Tru's father, Richard. In season one, after Tru prevents the death of her brother, Jack sends Tru's boyfriend Luc to die in his place, and he does. In the second season, Tru and Jack compete to get to a person first — she to save them, and he to restore the order of fate, and maintain what he believes to be the balance of the universe. Sometimes Tru wins, sometimes Jack does. However, when someone asks Jack for help instead of Tru, a girl named Megan, he is unsure of whether he is supposed to make sure she dies, or make sure she lives. He finds out she has a disease and will die regardless, and she only wants to have one final good day before she kills herself so her sister will get money through a foundation. Tru convinces her to postpone that plan, and try and have many more good days first. She decides to do that, and she and Jack go to the place where she died before, a tower from which she had jumped, but this time only so she can look off into the sunset. Jack makes sure she falls off the tower, but he grabs her hand, and she begs for him to save her. In the end, he lets her go, and she falls to her death. Tru arrives in time to only watch her fall and she tells Jack, "I wish that were you" and Jack walks away saying, "That makes two of us." He appeared in the last 7 episodes of the first season, and all of the second season. He works for Tru's father, Richard Davies. Jack is played by actor Jason Priestley.