Doctor Who/Torchwood question

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Because I still have gaping holes in my canon knowledge and an idea percolating:



If the Face of Boe was once Jack, would the Doctor know this? And if so, when would he know it?

Also, who did Jack make the off-hand remark about it in front of? I've not seen that episode of whatever it was yet.

(Can I just say I hate asking time related questions about a circular, knotted time-line?)

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Disclaimers: I've seen up through season three of DW and none of TW.

I think it's unclear. First we know of the Face of Boe from the start, but the time of that episode was, of course, way far in the future. Jack is from the 50th century, so the question is when was the Face of Boe an intergalactically known phenomenon? As a Time Agent, he might be expected to know of FoB, but again, we are not shown anything, at least by the 3rd season of DW.

If Jack is immortal, I say there's plenty of time for him to wind up as the FoB. I even had the thought at one point that it turned out to be the only way for him to eventually die. I have also considered the notion of whether Jack ultimately travels back to a very distant point in the past to become the FoB and to exist again, forwards, through the point where presumably he dies as the FoB.

And of course there's every reason to think that Jack and FoB exist in parallel time lines, because of the whole time travel plus immortality thing, so the mind boggles, but further wonders if his containerization allows one to deal with the fact that Jack the Time Agent, Jack the Immortal going forward from whatever time period he got dumped into [to wind up in Torchwood], and the Face of Boe potentially all coexisting...hrm...

OK, I've gone and tangled my mind all up. 'Scuse me while I unwrap it...