Jack Archer


 * "Jack" redirects here. For the stock trader, see Jack Ryan.

Jack Archer is a main character featured in Season 3 of Criminal Case. Appearing as the Elite Force Agent of the Bureau, he serves as one of the player's three partners throughout the season.

Profile
Hailing from Los Angeles, California, USA, Jack is a 27-year-old elite force agent whose profession was not disclosed prior to his tenure to the Bureau. He has light brown quiff hair and brown eyes. He wears his everyday blue button-up shirt with striped collars. He is also normally seen wearing his typical orange-tinted sunglasses and carries a brown jacket over his shoulder. He has a charming figure, but he can be sneaky and sometimes overconfident. It is known that he takes painkillers and eats W&W's candies.

Meeting Jack
Jack made his debut in The Final Countdown.

Chief Marquez had a new job for the player, a place in the top police force of the world, simply known as the Bureau. The elite force agent informed the player he had a place for the player to continue play given that Pacific Bay's crime rates were beginning to drop. Amy also proved to be capable of handling her duties as a police officer now. Jack allowed the player to say their final goodbyes to the Pacific Bay Police Department before he allowed the player to continue their work in the Bureau.

Rough relationship with Asal Hawaa
Jack first met Asal, who was disguised as a belly dancer, during the murder investigation of Adam Hassan in Morocco, immediately getting attracted to her provocative nature, although Asal's feelings were not mutual. They met again in Egypt during the murder investigation of a fruit vendor, where Asal revealed that she was really an agent for Mossad who had suspicions of the victim being an agent of SOMBRA. After the investigation was closed, she had Jack pass a trust test, which he succeeded in doing, and they participated in a mission to track down a kidnapped child in Dubai and in Iraq.

During their mission, Jack had asked Asal to kiss him, and she complied while placing a tranquilizer in his mouth, poisoning him. However, she visited Jack in his hospital room, which pleased him as he healed from the effects.

Jack revealed to the player that he and Asal were in a relationship during the murder investigation of Nick Kringle in Siberia. Unfortunately for Jack, Asal was incriminated as Nick's assassin. Even though Asal was following Mossad orders and was granted immunity for the crime, Jack told her that he needed some space to figure out where the relationship was going.

After the Bureau took the train to Mongolia, Jack revealed to Carmen and the player that he had forgiven Asal and resumed his relationship with her.

After solving a murder in Indonesia, Jack ran away from the Bureau's boat. When Lars and the player found him, he said that Asal had never called him since in Mongolia. He revealed that Asal called him wth an Indonesian number. When they found Asal, she said that she was investigating SOMBRA in Indonesia.

Knowing that their jobs had made and would make their relationship rockier, the couple broke up after the murder investigation of a SOMBRA scientist.

A Stab in the Dark
Jack came into headquarters shot in his left arm after Anbu Devanesan escaped with Elliot Clayton as his hostage. After taking him to the infirmary, Carmen and the player talked to Jack. He said that he saw Anbu walk out of headquarters with a gun pointed at Elliot's head, unaware that Anbu was a SOMBRA agent. Jack then followed them all the way to the bay gardens before Anbu saw him and fired at him.

In Plain Sight
Jack became a suspect in the murder investigation of Lavinia De Brills after the player and Michelle revealed that the bullet that killed Lavinia came from Jack's gun. He was surprised to be on the other end of interrogation, considering it was not that long ago that they were interrogating Michelle. Unfortunately, he had no idea where his gun was, but he said that did not mean he used it to kill anyone. Sadly, Michelle had trouble believing him despite his pleas and reasoning, and decided to put him into custody until further notice.

Jack later went in drunk, holding a bottle of whiskey and wearing a necktie on his forehead. He suspected Marina until Jonah gave her an alibi. Ingrid later came in, demanding he get locked up in the nearest cell.

Jack was interrogated again regarding a message he wrote to the victim telling her to take some secret to the grave. Although he was scarily reluctant to reveal it, he confessed to sleeping with the victim back in Kenya while he was drunk. He was mortified when he woke up, and he never told anyone about it, even Lars. Michelle was shocked as his actions saying at the least he derailed the player's investigations, and at worst this is all one cover up story. Jack pleaded that this be kept out of the official report, but Michelle requested that he keep quiet from then on.

Jack was found innocent after the team arrested Angela Douglas for Lavinia De Brills' murder and betraying the Bureau. Jack later comforted Lars when he started crying after he watched a video of him and his wife just after their children were born.

Gameplay
The player may choose Jack to join the investigation of each crime scene (in any World Edition case he teams up with the player) and provide hint bonuses. He is available as a 1-hint, level-10 partner.

Trivia

 * Jack is one of the five characters who physically appeared in two different seasons, the others being Eduardo Ramirez, Alden Greene,  Ezra Hope, and Grace Delaney.
 * Jack is one of the characters who animate (or move) during at least one cutscene in the game.
 * Jack is one of the characters who appeared as a quasi-suspect twice.
 * Jack is one of the main characters who were flagged as a suspect for plausible reasons.
 * Jack draws his back to hug Lars in two different occassions, making him one of the few characters to do so at one point in a cutscene.
 * The first is after he sees the latter cured from the virus during the events of Plagued by Death.
 * The second is after viewing a recording of Lars and his wife discussing their children's potential futures during the events of In Plain Sight.
 * This makes Jack the only character thus far to draw his back more than once.