One night years after the events of the year that never was, and after the end of what earth called Miracle Day when they were finally within the safety of the TARDIS the Doctor and Captain Jack Harkness sat at the counsel in companionable silence. Suddenly the Doctor looked at Jack and asked,

"Why did you pick Jack Harkness as your name?"

Jack's eyes got slightly misty as he though back to the time agency then his thoughts led him to Torchwood and Toshiko Sato, Owen Harper, Ianto Jones, and Gwen Cooper. He then remembered when that old dance hall sent him and Toshiko into the past and he meets the man whose name he stole. After that whole night with him, the dance, and then the kiss and to know what happens to that brave man and not being able to tell him.

Jack looks at the doctor and finally said,

"At first it was just a name that I stole from someone on Earth the fact that he was a Captain just made it better but then it changed when the rift sent me and Toshiko back and I meet him." Here Jack pauses suddenly finding it difficult to speak. "Then, well then I meet him and after that I have to tell everybody my name, his name, because if I don't then who will remember him. His plane got shot down and he went missing and he was scared to even go out their but he did for his men. What I hope is that even until the end of time someone will know his name and that this Captain Jack Harkness was a brave, great man from a little planet called Earth."