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| “ | Sam you've come back to me. | „ |
| ~ The Jack of All Trades to Sam through a newspaper piece. |
Albert Newquay, known better as the Jack of All Trades, is one of the two main antagonists (along with Damian Kanaris) of the NBC series Profiler.
He is the major antagonist from series 1 to series 3 episode 14, coming to an end in series 4 during the first two episodes.
He was portrayed by Dennis Christopher, who also portrayed Eric Binford in Fade to Black.
Personality[]
A do it yourselfer by nature he loves to modify his environment to meet his need at will. This can range from simple DIY to making cinematographic prostheses through the creation of software allowing modified glasses to decode an encrypted image. This propensity to want to influence his environment is the direct result of an excessive intelligence confronted too soon with an unmanageable physical and moral sufficiency for another as sensitive as he had to be.
This indelible trauma led him to kill to express the pressure he could feel both because of his experience and of the obligations they imposed on themselves as regards the progressive mastery of all aspects of their environment as well as the people who concern him to the point of madness. From there, his human values were almost completely suppressed, making him the monster he became.
Biography[]
Background[]
Born around 1955, Albert Newquay grew up as the only child of wealthy American parents. The family owned considerable real estate, including warehouses on the quays around Annapolis as well as three houses located in Maryland. During his childhood he suffered from Gaucher's disease and managed to survive thanks to a bone marrow transplant funded by his parents, and performed in what was then the Soviet Union.
The intense pains linked to this pathology as well as the frequent bullying of his schoolmates about his frail physique led him to develop a feeling of intolerable helplessness.
He adopted such inappropriate behavior at an early age that his parents had to move him away from the family cocoon due to unspeakable acts of his own. He attended eight different boarding schools from all of which he was dismissed, respect for authority not being his strong point. He finished his studies (during which he maintained a growing animosity towards his "persecutors" and the human race in its entirety) by preparatory classes which he finished without obtaining anything. It has been said of him that his intellectual interests vary frequently but that the bottom of his heart is always borrowed from rage. It is also ironic to note that the criminal nickname which he likes to be adorned by the media will be the "Jack of all Trades".
Not having excelled academically, his family nevertheless ensured that he received a high quality education in cultural and artistic matters. He also had access to masterpieces and his parents liked good taste and literary references, embellished with informed views on the human condition. But what distinguishes him from other criminals in his evolution towards madness is his pursuit of all possible and therefore, unimaginable vices (up to the most infamous murderers) in full consciousness, guided by an immoderate taste for display and the permanent meeting of the morbid and the absurd, in itself the signature of a master of "the Art of Killing" according to him.
Series 1[]
Three years before the series starts, "Jack of all Trades", a clever and cunning psychopath was identified (by his now infamous soubriquet) as responsible for 18 murders hitherto attributed to many different killers due to inconsistent modus operandi.
Samantha Waters, FBI agent and profiler behind this discovery, attracts the excessive attention of this man determined to make her "his". To this end, he kills two protection officers stationed at her home, as well as her husband.
Invited to return to the profession following a series of murders in the city of Atlanta by her friend and mentor Bailey Malone, Jack takes the opportunity to go on the offensive by leaving a bouquet of roses at home to the dismay of Sam, and to pay homage to her by killing four people in whose mouths he leaves a triangular piece of paper forming only one message: "I miss you Sam".
Series 2[]
Jack, who orchestrated Sam's legal ordeal concerning the murder of Darla Turner, writes a file for the attention of authorities, supporting photos, allowing her to be exonerated when the time comes.
He has corresponded for months with an inmate and comes to pick her up after his release from prison and brings her into his life with the firm intention of making her a clone of Sam and fulfilling his fantasy of making Sam her lover and a killer just like him.
Jack trains Sharon Lesher (aka "Jill of All Trades") in the art of crime on the ground by initiating a series of national crimes for Sam's attention.
Series 3[]
| “ | I'm all you need... we are together now! | „ |
| ~ The Jack of All Trades to Sam after shooting Bailey. |
Jack is putatively identified as Donald Lucas, a former Sunday school classmate of Sam reportedly addicted to her since childhood.
A few months later, the VCTF discovers that Donald Lucas was communicating with someone by computer from his high security prison thanks to fake glasses allowing him to bypass a hologram that engulfs his real interactions on the web.
In addition to the murders its committed in the small town of Otis, in far northern California near the Oregon border.
It turns out that the real Jack (Newquay), in his role as the crackpot sheriff, Ed Post, actually piloted Donald Lucas from his cell, communicating on the computer (as described above). The murders in Otis, committed by presumed Jack acolyte, serial killer Dwight Parnell (who feigned being a local foolish hick when he was actually quite smart and ruthless) allowed Jack to be physically close to Sam who came to investigate, while upsetting her psychologically.
The real Jack sabotage Lucas’ trial to pressure him into eventually confessing to all the crimes. He then finds Sam, whom he kidnaps from a country house, then shoots Bailey in the back, seriously wounding him.
Series 4[]
| “ | Feels good, doesn't it ? | „ |
| ~ The Jack of All Trades's last words as he lays dying on Sam's husband's grave. |
Jack develops his manipulative game in order to bring Sam to accept the new world which is offered to him by becoming a killer in cold blood in order to assert and recognize their trait of common superiority. After escaping, Jack tries to understand why Sam's daughter is angry with her.
Jack, whose face and identity are now known to the authorities, blurs the tracks one last time in order to exercise his will one last time in the game he established there is now a decade between him and Sam. He kills and takes the place of Chloé's new therapist to "help" reinforce the anger and resentment the child feels towards her too often absent mother. He's shot to death by Sam at her husband's gravesite, where Jack, carrying one red rose, took Chloé.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Hyper Competence: He was able to learn and adapt to new situations, as a faculty of adaptation (learning to adapt to the environment or on the contrary, ability to modify the environment to adapt it to his own needs) Jack represents the quintessence. Able to develop deep or even extreme skills in very different fields of expertise. He is incredibly proficient in software development, electronics, makeup and disguises, electromechanical and mechanical machines. He has an intimate knowledge of medicine and pharmacology, biochemistry, the handling of weapons, planning, virtually anything.
- Superhuman Elusiveness: He seems to know in advance the dynamics of all the protagonists of an event. Can escape the most unpredictable situations if he decides to. Seems to be able to predict everything.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Jack wears a silver ring with the Omega symbol on the left ring finger and silver bracelets on the left wrist. The Omega which sometimes means "the eye" can refer to Jack's omniscience.
- Jack's face is hidden until Series 3's fourteenth episode, and Dennis Christopher credited as "Jack" only from Series 4 first two episodes.
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