Jack Robertson is a supporting antagonist in Doctor Who.
He is a corrupted businessman from America who has run ins with The Doctor and her companions.
He is portrayed by Chris Noth who also played Peter Florrick in The Good Wife.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Robertson built his hotels on repurposed land, with the one in Sheffield having been constructed on top of an abandoned coal mine which was being used as a landfill site. He was not just aware of this, but he also knew that the waste in the landfill was toxic, but he willingly ignored it and turned a blind eye on it. By 2018, he decided to run for the American presidency in the upcoming 2020 election. Apparently, he desired to do so because he hated then president Donald Trump. In all of his hotels, he had underground safe rooms that he could lock himself inside if need be and live in isolation for roughly six months, catered by food, water, technology and weapons should he have to defend himself. He was vehemently against Great Britain's political ban on the use of guns in public use, thinking America was smart for allowing its citizens to arm themselves, considering shooting the problem to be "civilised."
Spiders of Sheffield[]
When his bodyguard Kevin was killed by a mother spider, he joined the Thirteenth Doctor, Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin Khan and Jade McIntyre as they tried to locate the source of what made the spiders so large. They eventually discovered the waste and planned to contain the spiders in a safe room. However, when they came across the mother spider, Robertson shot it dead and left. Although Robertson thought that it would advance his political career and make him President of the United States, the toxic waste scandal instead destroyed his political career.
Defence Drones[]
By April 2019, Robertson had funded a new wing in the British Museum, the Robertson Wing, dedicated to the recent past and present. In 2019, Robertson also bought out Rugazzi Technologies and employed the company's CEO, Leo Rugazzi. This was part of a business venture where Robertson bought out several companies after his political career was damaged by the toxic waste scandal. Robertson also bought up several manufacturing plants previously used by car firms after they 'deserted' Technology Secretary Jo Patterson, which were located in the latter's political constituency.
After being tipped off by Patterson, Robertson provided Rugazzi Industries parts from the destroyed casing of the Reconnaissance Dalek found in GCHQ AND 'turbo-boosted' the project of working of a prototype for a Defence Drone. With a political alliance with Patterson, Robertson provided her with the Defence Drones to better her chances of leadership.
In 2020, Patterson blackmailed Robertson into rolling out the Defence Drones nationwide to align with her induction as the British Prime Minister with an investigation into the tax Robertson's companies paid. At this point, Robertson had already overseen the production of 'thousands' of Drones over the course of the year. When Rugazzi had displayed to him a cloned specimen of a Dalek mutant he found from cells of organic life within the original shell of the Reconnaissance Dalek, he ordered its destruction and claimed ignorance as to what Rugazzi had done. When interrogated by Team TARDIS in his headquarters, he displayed the 3D printing manufacturing of the Drones, explaining how they were run by artificial intelligence.
After discovering the true nature of the Daleks in Osaka, Japan - to which he showed little sympathy toward Rugazzi's possession and death by a cloned Dalek mutant, he travelled with Team TARDIS to send a message to a ship of Death Squad Daleks and oversaw them to combat the Defence Drones on Earth. However, seeing the Dalek's power and intelligence, he betrayed the Thirteenth Doctor and 'backed' the Daleks, proposing an alliance to which he offered information on where the Doctor was for his survival. Robertson's betrayal was witnessed by Captain Jack Harkness who was aboard the Dalek ship in order to blow it up with Ryan and Graham. As the Doctor enacted a plan to destroy the Daleks, the three men reluctantly decided to rescue Robertson who offered them money in exchange, although they debated leaving Robertson behind anyway due to his betrayal. Chased by the Daleks, Jack teleported the group back to the TARDIS using his vortex manipulator and Ryan detonated bombs that they had planted throughout the ship, destroying it. Confronted over his betrayal, Robertson gave the Doctor the excuse that his betrayal was him deliberately acting as a decoy.
Returning to Earth, he was heralded as the "saviour of humanity". As of January 2021, there were rumours that Robertson was in line for a knighthood and that he was again running for President of the United States, which he neither confirmed nor denied.
