The Jackal (TV Series)

The Jackal is an American live-action television series based on an OC superhero Gray Wolf created by Bat24. Developed by Dane Brenson in collaboration with Alfred Gough and Andrew Kriesberg and featuring Brenson and David S. Goyer as show runners and head writers, the series serves as a new  media franchise. It follows the adventures of billionaire playboy Connor Mercer, who, after witnessing his mother and father's murder at the hands of a mugger, returns to his beloved Silver City to wage a one-man war on crime, taking the identity of a masked vigilante known as the Jackal. The show is set in the Jackalverse on Earth 42.

2009-2010

Main Cast Edit
Recurring
 * Ian Somerhalder as Connor Mercer / The Jackal
 * Colin Firth as Benjamin O'Reilly
 * Derek Luke as Sergeant Lionel Reddick
 * Keanu Reeves as Captain Harry Davis
 * Taylor Cole as Diana Mcgill
 * Nina Dorbrev as Bethany Mercer
 * Diora Baird as Kaitlin Summers
 * Alex O'Loughlin as Ivan Daniels
 * Alan Ritchson as Harry Davis (Flashbacks)
 * Leo Howard as Connor Mercer (Flashbacks)
 * Jamie Foxx as George Powers
 * Javier Bardem as Lincoln Cusanelli
 * Morgan Freeman as Micah Caine
 * Omari Hardwick as Gregory Reed / Enfilade
 * Adam Baldwin as Nicholas Daniels / Dark Fox

Episodes Edit
Season 1 (2010-2011)
 * 1) "The Pilot"- Connor returns to Silver City after spending many years away studying science and martial arts. Connor returns home deciding to join the Silver City Police Department to be with Commissioner Harry Davis, the only cop he trusts from the force. Davis rejects Connor since he was good friends with him and not wanting him to get hurt. Davis' associate Sergeant Lionel Reddick hates Connor since he dismisses him as a thrill-seeking idiot. Connor reunites with his butler Benjamin, cousin Bethany, and tries to rekindle his romance with Diana Mcgill. Unfortunately, Diana refuses to speak with Connor due to Connor leaving her and has started working at the District Attorney's office with Ivan Daniels, Connor's friend who is now the DA of Silver. Connor contemplates on whether or not he should leave Silver City. Before he can do anything, Benjamin calls him to report that Lionel called him over to Samson Chemicals. Arriving there, and noticing the green pool of hazardous chemicals, Connor and Reddick, only to learn neither one called the other. The access hatch closes and locks and water rushes in. In flashbacks, at 2 A.M. Vincent Mercer sits in the underground portion of his study, slowly realizing that he is hearing strange noises. After making a brief call to the police, he picks up a handgun and goes to find a ransacked study. Making his way to the foyer, Vincent encounters three masked men in Halloween masks. After a brief shootout, Vincent manages to kill one of the thugs and scare the others away. Just as Vincent believes everything will be fine, the thought to be killed intruder aims a gun at him.
 * 2) "Welcome Back, Connor Mercer"- Working together, Connor and Lionel  find a tunnel 20 feet overhead and using acrobatics, Connor gets himself and Lionel to safety. Both agree that someone wants them dead. Nearby, a mysterious man (Adam Baldwin) is watching them. The next morning, Davis calls and tells Connor that Samson Consolidated Middle Manager Micah Caine discovered weekly shipments of hazardous waste. Connor wants to meet, but Davis tells him to stay. Connor gets an idea, alarming Benjamin. Later, Connor arrives at Mercer Shippings, dressed all in black, and follows Lionel, Davis, and Kayden Stevens. Suddenly, the three encounter the bad guys. Connor helps but stays out of sight the whole time. After defeating the last guy with a banana peel, he and Benjamin leave. Connor and Benjamin meet Davis, learning that the chemicals were drugs and that the head bad guy hung himself. Later, Connor goes to a surprise birthday party where Benjamin, Bethany, Harry, and Micah are. Samson Consolidated CEO Derek Samson arrives and tells Connor that their stock might take a beating if word gets out about the drugs. Samson gives Connor a book, "Business for Beginners", and after he leaves, Connor tells everyone that he has a lot to learn and he's staying in Silver which pleases Bethany. In flashbacks, just as Vincent is about to be killed, he is saved by Benjamin. George Powers and his partner Amanda Wu arrive. Powers flirts with Maria Black the newscaster and is chastised by Wu for it. Powers and Wu meet with the Mercer couple and their butler. Powers notes that Benjamin  is a sniper and Natalia Mercer is quite attractive. The detectives depart from the scene believing that the break-in has nothing to do with the recent art thefts that have been plaguing Silver.
 * 3) "Love American Style"- Connor remembers seeing on the board that Davis had in his office believing that Samson Consolidated is responsible for all the crime in Silver City. That makes Connor decide to investigate Derick Samson by having Micah convince Samson to give him a job in the IT department where he meets Kaitlin Summers. Unfortunately, Katrina is disappointed since her fiance, who was illegally immigrating from Cuba, went missing which is why she asked her half brother Kayden Stevens to look into it. Connor, showing sympathy for Kaitlin, decides to be a step ahead of Kayden and investigate a salvage yard owner named Quentin Cavallo and his mistress Tamara Tanner. Connor discovers that Quentin and Tamara have been murdering smuggled immigrants who cannot afford to pay for their freedom. Connor frees the immigrants and sends the evidence he collects to Davis which leads to their arrests. Bethany and her friends break into the school swimming pool for a night of fun, but when a member of their group nearly drowns, the school threatens to expel the person responsible for the break-in. Benjamin finds out that Bethany is responsible and tries to get her confess when it is causing tension between all her friends. Bethany admits her mistakes which please Benjamin. In flashbacks, while in Silver to meet with Powers regarding the break-in, Vincent and Powers deal with a new vigilante called Fumetto  appears in Silver and kills a corrupt politician named Ronald Dander as well as other corrupt officials such as Lt. Bill Scranton by tying them to weather balloons. Vincent and Powers discover Fumetto is social worker Edward Lamont, who wishes to clean Silver of its corruption. Powers gets taken hostage by him. Vincent rescues him and Powers attempts to kill the Fumetto the same way his victims died only for Vincent to intervene. Vincent  asks Harris who his next victim was, Harris tells him that it could be anyone since Silver is corrupt.
 * 4) "Gunfire"-Connor tracks down a corrupt millionaire named Kaleb Dawson, who has been supplying defective fire alarms to people in the Constricts, which resulted in numerous casualties. When Connor confronts Dawson with the intention of giving him a chance to right his wrongs, Dawson is gunned down by Reed, calling himself Enfilade. Connor decides to play the spoiled billionaire playboy routine in order to cover suspicion on him which disappoints Diana. With assistance from his contact in the Red Dragons, Connor deduces that Reed is Enfilade and that he was assigned to kill businessmen, including Samson at an auction. As the Jackal, Connor enlists the help of Davis to prevent Reed's plan while providing him with evidence that New York City businessman Klaus Deleon, who is at the auction to bid for control over Candidacy Industries, contracted Reed. Davis then has Deleon arrested. Connor stops Reed, apparently killing him. However, Reddick is shot during the fight after saving Derick Samson from being gunned down by the assassin. In order to save Reddick's life, Connor is forced to reveal his dual identity to him. In flashbacks, Vincent asks Benjamin for the condition of Nigel the gate guard for Mercer Manor, who was knocked unconscious during the attack on Mercer Manor and hospitalized.Vincent  brings up the possibility that Nigel was involved in the attack which angers Benjamin due to his previous association with Nigel. Vincent later discusses the event with his son Connor, who has a growing anger with injustice and believes that the solutions to the problems in the world are math and science which Connor prefers over literature at school. Before Connor leaves, he asks to take boxing lessons from Benjamin which Natalia rejects. Natalia brings up the possibility that the robbery was an inside job, which grants Vincent an idea.
 * 5) "Father's Day"- Connor offers Lionel a chance to fight at his side and help the city, which the latter refuses. A new drug has been released into the streets of Silver called "Cobra" which endows their user with superhuman strength but makes them unstable and out of control. One of the users is a man named Carl Linker, a convicted rapist who would abuse his daughter Jodie and wife Joanne. Carl kills his wife only for Jodie to escape through the window and go into hiding with two prostitutes named Fever and Louise. Carl tracks his daughter down where he kills Louise and before he could kill Fever to get to Jodie, they are both rescued by Connor as the vigilante. Diana gets involved since she prosecuted Carl while Fever is detained by Reddick for having illicit substances in her apartment. Diana gives Fever legal protection in exchange for her help in finding Jodie and Connor concerned for her safety after learning about this which is why he follows them. Diana goes to the chemical plant where Carl takes Jodie when pursuing them. Carl attempts to kill her only for Connor to arrive and break his neck in front of his daughter. Carl's corpse falls and is run over by the vengeful Fever. Jodie, misunderstanding everything, blames Fever for what happened when Diana saw the whole thing. After taking Jodie into the custody of her grandparents and giving her access to support services, Diana tells her father what she saw and that the vigilante is a monster. Bethany begins her first day at a high school and meets some new students, one of them, a popular student council president named Ulred Kingsely, gives her an illicit substance with a fear toxin that causes her to hallucinate. Lionel meets with a woman named Jessica  Le Vega, who is an agent of SPIRAL, to discuss Connor and Le Vega tells Lionel that the FBI has a file on Connor due to having been away from the country for years. Back at the SSPD on that same afternoon, George and Amanda get to the Forensics Department to find some more answers about the man that was killed by Benjamin  O'Reilly. Freddie Burns quickly explains the background of the intruder after a quick riddle relating to the man's name. The intruder Curtis Stone had been a former inmate of Blackleg Prison after being released only two weeks prior. George quickly remembers the time he was arrested, and how Stone had worked as a freelancer for just about every faction around, Sal Marconi and Lincoln Cusanelli  included.
 * 6) "Adversity"- Judge Baden wishes to sentence Bethany to a long period of time in prison feeling that being tough on the new wave of drugs is best to reduce people taking them. Connor decides to get involved hoping that Judge Baden will go easy on Bethany. There is a news report on Ulfred being dead when trying to rip his eyes out after taking ecstasy only for him to die, saddening his parents Steve and Andrea Kingsley. This prompts Connor to act after learning from Bethany that Ulfred went to Bethany's school before he died and Bethany admits to getting the drugs from Ulfred. Diana, showing sympathy for Bethany despite the fact that she dislikes Connor, asks her father, Mayor Wilson McGill, to use his political influence to get Bethany to do community service. Connor and Benjamin work together to discover that Warren Green is smuggling the drugs in by ship. Connor intervenes as the Jackal only to be captured and almost unmasked by Green only for Connor to activate a sonic howl. Connor takes out the thugs only for  Green to escape when Benjamin starts firing at the ship while in the submarine. Green is able to escape and meets Samson, who is upset that this has happened and orders Green to be locked in a freezer. Green then pleads for Samson to not do this when dragged away by his thugs. Lionel meets with Connor and Benjamin agreeing to work with them to protect Silver due to knowing that the legal system doesn't always work. In flashbacks, Vincent recruits the services of Harry Davis, a former SSPD detective turned private investigator, who had been kept on a retainer by Vincent for the past 10 years as a way of helping keep Ignatius  Strange and his machinations in check. Vincent  remembers the awkward years where he allowed Strange to operate unchecked, followed by the years after, where he funded the various victims of Strange's experiments who over time either died of sickness and natural causes or just gradually disappeared. Davis points out that Vincent should check up on Karen Jennings, the only living survivor of Pinewood Farms. Vincent agrees and after a brief discussion about the break-in, he heads home. But after a series of attempts to contact Karen on the phone fails, he breaks off and heads toward her hideout instead.
 * 7) "Below Zero"-
 * 8) "Kill Switch"-
 * 9) "Once A Year"-
 * 10) "Call Of The Santiago"-
 * 11) "Inherent"-
 * 12) "Childishness"-
 * 13) "Rehabilitation"-
 * 14) "Back From Enfilade"-
 * 15) "Spirit of The Lamb"-
 * 16) "Nimbers"-
 * 17) "Prisoners of War"-
 * 18) "Corruption"-
 * 19) TBA
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 * 21) TBA