Jack Devlin

Jack Devlin is the main antagonist in the 1995 film The Net.

He is portrayed by Jeremy Northam.

Biography
Devlin is involved in a conspiracy to obtain a floppy disk with a backdoor (allowing it to avoid detection whilst being able to illegally access computer files). The disk is sent to a California systems analyst named Angela Bennett by one of her colleagues, and when Devlin discovers this, he finds out all of her details through a computer system. Bennett goes on holiday to Cozumel in Mexico and Devlin meets her there, introducing himself to her in person and taking her to dinner. He pays a mugger to steal her purse containing the disk and Devlin takes it before shooting him dead. Later, Devlin and Angela make love on board a speedboat, but she soon finds his gun and questions him about it. Devlin reveals his true intentions to her and attempts to kill her, but Angela takes the disk and Devlin's wallet before fleeing with the disk in a dinghy. However, in her haste, she hits a group of rocks and knocked unconscious, and the disk is destroyed.

While Angela is in hospital, Devlin and his fellow conspirators erase all records of her identity and instead assign her the identity of 'Ruth Marx', who has an arrest warrant. The real Ruth Marx, who is one of the conspirators, takes Angela's identity and tells Angela over the phone that she will get her old life back in exchange for the disk.