Jasper Jacks

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Jasper "Jax" Jacks is a fictional character on ABC's daytime drama General Hospital. He has been played by Ingo Rademacher from 1996 to September 2000. He returned on August 10, 2001.

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[edit] Character History

Jax is originally from Australia, but he and his family moved to Alaska. When Lois Ashton needed a corporate raider to get her company back from Edward Quartermaine, she went to Jax. Jax immediately became interested in Lois, but she was happily married to her husband Ned (Edward's grandson), so she introduced to him to Brenda Barrett. Brenda wanted Jax to help make her mobster boyfriend, Sonny Corinthos, jealous, and Jax went along with it as a way to spent time with Brenda. The two became attracted to each other; the only problem was that Brenda was still in love with Sonny. Jax proposed to Brenda and she accepted having realized there was no hope left for her and Sonny.

Jax and Brenda married on his private yacht, and when they returned to Port Charles they planned to renew their vows in a ceremony at the Quartermaine mansion. Jax secretly was working with Edward's daughter (and Ned's mother) Tracy to take over ELQ. That secret was revealed, and Jax backed off from working with Tracy. On the day that Jax and Brenda were to renew their vows, Brenda realized that she truly loved Jax and that he was the one she belonged with. Unfortunately, Sonny appeared at the wedding with Jax's presumed dead wife, Miranda, to confront Jax and halt the ceremony. Jax had assumed that Miranda had died when she was in a building that had been bombed, but Jax's parents knew the truth. Miranda's face had been badly disfigured after the explosion, and Miranda did not want to burden Jax, so she let him think she was dead. Jax was torn between Miranda and Brenda, but finally realized he was in love with Brenda. However, by this time Brenda had decided to reunite with Sonny.

When Sonny left Brenda at the altar, Jax was there to be by Brenda's side and eventually after trying to win his love again, he and Brenda became engaged. Jax lost Brenda again when her mother, who was mentally ill, drove both Brenda and herself over a cliff, apparently killing them both. On the day of Brenda's funeral, Jax was arrested along with the rest of his family. As it turned out, Jax's father and brother had started their company with money they received from the Morino organized crime family, who were rivals of Sonny. Jax lost everything, but he did not let that get him down. With the help of his friends, V, Ned, and Alexis Davis, Jax managed to win a large sum of money in Monte Carlo, and started to rebuild his empire.

On the night of AJ and Carly's engagement party, Jax met fashion designer Chloe Morgan (a distant cousin of Lila Quartermaine, and the two immediately hit it off. When a ballroom dance act didn't show up to perform at the Nurses' Ball, Jax and Chloe stepped in and delighted the audience. Then Chloe got a call from her business manager reminding her that if she was not married in a month she would lose her company. Ned stepped in and asked Chloe to marry him; Chloe agreed. So Ned and Chloe, along with Jax and Alexis, flew to Las Vegas. The only problem was that Chloe's Aunt Gertrude showed up, and claimed that this Vegas wedding did not comply with the legal definition of "happily married," as it was stated in the will. So to cover the whole thing up, Jax and Alexis married instead. To make it appear that Ned and Chloe's impending marriage was real, Jax and Alexis needed to make it appear as though their marriage was also real. They even went as far as to move Alexis into his penthouse. Alexis and Jax became good friends while they were married, but his heart belonged to Chloe all the while. After a romantic courtship, they proclaimed their love. Shortly after, Chloe was struck by a vehicle in a hit-and-run by Helena Cassadine, meant for Alexis. Helena had meant to kill Alexis, thinking she knew about Lucky Spencer's kidnapping. Chloe was rendered blind from her injuries, but surgery restored her sight. When the mixed pairs divorced after Gertrude caught Jax and Chloe together, Jax moved Chloe into his penthouse and took over Gertrude's company, allowing Chloe to design under her own name again. Unfortunately, it was learned that she had a rapidly growing tumor near her optic nerve. Jax nurtured Chloe through her illness and intended to marry her. Knowing that Chloe was in need of medication, Helena bought the drug company that manufactured it in an attempt to blackmail Jax into bed. Jax pretended to take the bait and then swiftly tied Helena up and electronically purchased the drug company. He then left with the drug sample that Helena had in her possession. Helena was impressed but unapologetic. When Chloe began having visions of how Helena had killed Stefan, Jax took her away on a tropical vacation. Helena followed them and attempted to kill Chloe. She was unsuccessful and escaped without detection.

One day, Jax spotted a picture in a magazine of someone who appeared to be Brenda. Unbeknownst to Jax, it was a set up by Stefan Cassadine to force Jax to leave Chloe. After he took the bait, Stefan planned to kidnap Chloe and use her psychic abilities from her brain tumor to bring down his mother, Helena, with whom he was embroiled in a feud. The plan worked beautifully and Jax broke Chloe's heart to leave Port Charles and go off in search of his former love.

While searching for Brenda, Jax hired and had an affair with professional tracker Angel Ellis. Angel introduced Jax to Kristina Carter, who had hired Angel to find her sister. Jax realized that Kristina and his ex-wife, Alexis Davis, were sisters, so Jax brought Kristina to Port Charles. There Jax dealt with his sudden desertion of Chloe Morgan. After filling Chloe in on the truth surrounding his abrupt desertion of her, she wanted nothing more to do with him and he realized that he wanted more for her than he could give her, but remained protective of her. When Chloe was murdered by Stavros, Jax firmly believed Stefan was the murderer. However, to protect Kristina and Alexis, Jax joined forces with the "good" Cassadines (Alexis and Nikolas) to bring down the "bad" Cassadines (Helena and Stavros).

After Helena and Stavros were dealt with, Jax, who had been buying up huge amounts of Cassadine properties, sold them back at his cost to the Cassadine estate. He then turned his attention to the ruination of the Quartermaines. With the assistance of Skye Chandler and AJ Quartermaine, Jax obtained controlling interest in ELQ. Finally, Jax had to deal with his longtime nemesis, Sonny Corinthos. Jax decided to back Carly, Sonny's ex-wife, in her new club venture. He also was able to obtain condemnation notices on most of Sonny's properties in Port Charles. But while Jax toppled financial empires, he began to fall for Skye Chandler-Quartermaine.

Jax initially disliked Skye, although this did not stop Skye from trying to get Jax to help her go after Sonny. He refused and continually tried to warn her off of getting entangled with Sonny. Sexual tension slowly developed between them despite repeated arguments and setbacks in their growing partnership. When he suspected her of developing feelings for him, Jax informed Skye that he didn't feel capable of ever falling in love again. She took this as a challenge and continually found ways to get Jax to come to her aid by pretending to be a damsel in distress. But her plans nearly backfired when she got locked in the boathouse for real. Believing that no one would come to find her, including Jax whom she had recently argued with, she swam for shore. Jax discovered her half-frozen on the shore and took her to the lake house to care for her. He used body heat to warm her and they made love.

When AJ ran off with Sonny's kid sister Courtney, Skye implored Jax to help her get to AJ before Sonny could. But they were too late, although no harm came to AJ at that point. Jax and Sonny soon got distracted by Carly's sudden disappearance and possible death when her car ran off a cliff. When Jax wanted to shut down Carly's club, Skye told him that Carly would rather it be kept open and that it would be a way to keep her spirit alive. When Carly was discovered to be alive, Skye speculated that Carly faked the accident. Jax began to believe Skye and confronted Carly about it. She vehemently denied it and told Jax not to contact her until he remembered how to be a friend.

Sonny and Carly reunited quickly after her accident, but Carly remained jealous of Alexis' connection with Sonny. She used money from her club with Jax to pay a former boss of Alexis' to hire her and get her out of town. Jax discovered the missing money and went to Sonny, accusing Carly of embezzling from the club. To keep Jax from going to the cops, Carly was forced to give up her share of the club. Jax then gave the club to Skye. But Jax didn't realize that Skye was double-crossing him with Edward in order to become the sole heir to the Quartermaine fortune. Edward played on Skye's insecurities regarding Jax's love and got her to agree to steal the map to the Jacks family oil wells. But someone got to the map first. When Edward threatened to reveal Skye's misdeeds to Jax, she fought him and he had a stroke. When Ned discovered Skye's contract with Edward, he forced her to tell Jax the truth. Jax felt very betrayed and coldly dumped her. But when she got drunk, blacked out, and woke up to discover Edward's respirator unplugged, she feared the worst and went into hiding. He rescued her and eventually forgave her. They resumed their engagement and wedding plans.

On Jax and Skye's wedding night, a ghost from Jax's past revealed herself: a very much alive Brenda. She had survived the car crash and had been rescued by a passing ship. The owner of the ship, arms dealer Luis Alcazar, had then kept her for himself for the past four years, promising to keep her from hurting herself and her loved ones by keeping her away from Port Charles. But Brenda wanted to return to Port Charles to see those she loved one last time. She also wanted to leave Luis. Jax postponed his honeymoon with Skye to help protect Brenda from Luis. While doing so, Jax was shot by Luis and left paralyzed. Feeling sorry for himself, he pushed Skye away. When she refused to leave him, Jax got Brenda to help him by pretending to be in love with him still. She also seemed to help him in his recovery. Skye was suspicious of Brenda and did some digging. She found out that Brenda wasn't actually dying of a mental illness, but she kept that fact to herself. When Jax found out on his own that Brenda wasn't dying, he confronted Skye and she admitted knowing already. Jax dumped Skye for her games and her lies. Jax told Brenda that she was not dying and they reunited.

The night of Jax and Brenda's engagement party thrown by the Quartermaines, Luis and Skye crashed the party and were snubbed by their former lovers. Later that evening, Luis was thrown off the balcony of his hotel suite to his death, and Brenda was one of the prime suspects, thanks in part to Skye's "eyewitness" account of the murder. Jax did everything he could to prevent her from going to jail, including hiring Alexis to defend her and even confessing to the crime himself. Brenda was found guilty along with Jason Morgan and sentenced to jail, but the real killer revealed evidence not known to anyone but the cops and Brenda and Jason were released. Jason and Brenda got an annulment and Jax forged full steam ahead with his plans to marry Brenda. But when it came time for Jax to say "I do," he said "I don't" because he knew that Brenda had kissed Sonny the night before and he couldn't marry someone who didn't love him completely. Humiliated, Brenda told him she didn't want to marry him either because he had hurt her so publicly. Jax tried to console his broken heart with random women, even call girls. This surprised Skye, who tried her best to console him but he pushed her away. Although the romance was gone, Jax continued to help Skye out of the sticky situations she got herself into. When Skye and AJ paired up to kidnap Kristina, Skye ended up confessing her misdeed to Jax. He promised to help her and even offered to whisk her out of town, giving her the wrong impression. Jax also tried to help Alexis by getting her a good defense for her trial and trying to get Ned to let her see Kristina. When Sonny began to suspect Jax of secretly partnering with Faith against him, Sonny taunted Jax to come and kill him at a warehouse. Jax called the cops instead. Later he convinced Jason that he would go after Sonny overtly without a partner. Jax rescued Skye once again when Tracy came to town with the juicy tidbit that Skye wasn't a Quartermaine after all. Jax tried to charm Tracy to tell the truth, which earned him a slap from Skye for enjoying his work a little too much. Jax tried to rescue Skye one last time by persuading Ned to offer her a job at ELQ, but she inadvertently sabotaged it. Later she thanked him for his help and wished that they could recapture what they once had. She tried to persuade him to have a baby with her, but he turned her down and left town for awhile.

He returned in October 2003 hot on the trail of the Dead Man's Hand, which were the 5 cards that Wild Bill Hickok held in his last hand of poker the night he was shot dead. Jax was after the cards because his father had possession of them for the greater part of his life and believed them to be his lucky charm. But someone had stolen the cards from him and John subsequently lost the will to live without the cards. So Jax began the search for the missing cards. Along the way he ran into a tough brunette named Samantha McCall. Sam also wanted the cards but for the opposite reason. Her family had also had possession of the cards at one time and considered them to be the cause of a string of bad luck. So Sam wanted to find the cards and destroy them. Together, Jax and Sam figured out that the cards were stolen by someone from Port Charles. Once there, they narrowed their search to A.J. Quartermaine, who had the other four cards and swiftly figured out that Sam and Jax knew something about the last card. Caught sneaking into the Quartermaine mansion, Jax and Sam were forced to pretend to be a couple. Sam nearly blew their cover by going on to claim to be an heiress, which was far from the truth. Jax made a bet with Sam with the cards as the prize that she couldn't convince anyone that she was an heiress. Of course, she lost. The two constantly fought over the few cards in their possession as the sexual tension between them continually built up. Jax thought he had finally gotten the cards when Luke auctioned them off at the Halloween party, but shortly after wiring the money to Luke the auction crowd was gassed and a mystery person stole the cards. The person turned out to be a former lover of Sam's who tried to bargain one night of sex with her for the cards. Jax finally obtained the cards once and for all and headed off to show them to his father. Sam managed to stow away in his car and persuaded him to let her test the true luck of the cards at a casino along the way. The pair also finally gave into their passion and made love. Jax finally made it to his father's death bed, but just as he was about to show him the cards, John breathed his last breath and died. Devastated, Jax pushed Sam away, blaming her for making him waste time in getting the cards to his father. Jax had also discovered that Sam had rigged his rental car to breakdown. To get her back, he paired up with Tracy Quartermaine, who had recently returned to town, to use Sam and get the cards back to open a new casino. But it quickly became a question of who was double-crossing who as Sam agreed to screw over Jax and get the cards to Luke so that HE could open a casino on the newly-returned Haunted Star ship.

[edit] Occupation

  • Currently the Co-Owner of the Metro Court Hotel (with Carly)
  • Coporate Raider
  • ELQ Stockholder

[edit] Relatives

  • John Jacks (Father; Deceased)
  • Jane Jacks (Mother)
  • Jerry Jacks (Brother)

[edit] Marriages

Marital Status: Engaged to Carly Benson Corinthos

[edit] children

  • Un-Named Miscarried Child (with Courtney) (-Elizabeth surrogate-)

[edit] Flings and Affairs

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