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| Ian Pascoe | |
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| Ian Pascoe | |
| Aliases: | Jack the Ripper |
| Series: | Timecop |
| Gender: | Male |
| Notability: | Antagonist |
| Occupation: | Serial killer |
| Status: | Alive |
| First: | "A Rip in Time" |
| Final: | "Public Enemy" |
| Actor: | Tom O'Brien |
Ian Pascoe was a key villain in the 1997-1998 Timecop television series. Played by actor Tom O'Brien, he was introduced in the series pilot, "A Rip in Time" and also appeared in "Stalker" and "Public Enemy".
Biography[]
Ian Pascoe was a time traveler from the then near future of 2007 who used time travel technology to go backwards through the timestream to commit crimes. To hear Pascoe tell it, he has had an impact on many different time eras and has been quoted as saying, "I've watched a megalodon shark rip the throat out of a tyrannosaurus rex. I've ridden with Hannibal as he crossed the Alps. Sat on the walls of Jericho as Joshua stormed the gates. Walked through the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Jack, I stood on the tip of Mount Everest just five minutes before the world ended and took in the last dying light." [1]
One of Ian's most notorious jaunts was when he traveled back in time to November of 1888 and killed Sir William Gull, aka, Jack the Ripper. He took the Ripper's place and was responsible for murdering prostitute Catherine Eddowes. TEC agent Jack Logan traveled back in time to capture Pascoe, but the intelligent murderer eluded him, jumping back into the timestream at the last possible moment. [2]
Logan encountered Pascoe a second time when the latter traveled to the year 1958 in a bid to slay actress/starlet Rita Lake. This time however, Pascoe was captured and brought back to TEC headquarters. [3]
Ian Pascoe escaped imprisonment soon after and took Logan's colleague as a hostage. He escaped into the timestream back to Chicago in the year 1928. Logan pursued them and assumed the role of Treasury Department officer Elliott Ness. The two fought one another on the fire escape of a tall building, but Pascoe inadvertently activated Logan's temporal watch, generating a chronal rift. He plunged through the rift and escaped once again. [4]
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of Ian Pascoe was created by director Allan Arkush and writers Alfred Gough, Miles Millar and Art Monterastelli based on concepts originally developed by Peter Hyams, Mark Verheiden and Mike Richardson.