Doctor Who: 10 Times Captain Jack Died And Lived To Tell The Tale

3. Buried Alive

Captain John returned with a vengeance in Torchwood's Series 2 finale, Exit Wounds, and this time he was joined by Jack's younger brother Gray who was out to exact revenge on his sibling. To cut a long story short, Gray had been subjected to years of torture by the alien race who had enslaved their home planet and he had subsequently gone considerably - make that categorically - insane as a result. What's more, he largely blamed Jack for what had happened to him after he had let go of his hand and lost him during their attempt to escape the invasion. He believed that Jack never went back to look for him but it was too late to apologise - as the famous song goes - because Gray ordered John to bury Jack alive in 27 AD Cardiff. As this list has already proven, Jack has faced some pretty horrific fates in his time but this one was no doubt one of his worst to date (though it has since been beaten by one that's coming up in a couple of pages). Not only is being buried alive a pretty traumatising prospect on its own but to know you'll never even die is a pretty inconceivable concept. Let's not forget the fact he would've been unequivocally bored out of his mind, too. It was later revealed that he was cryogenically frozen by Torchwood in 1901 which means he was able to be reawakened in the Hub in the present day in the sort of timey-wimey sort of twist that would've made even the Doctor proud. And do you know what else? After enduring centuries of his own respective torture, Jack was still able to forgive his brother. Gray was having none of it, though, so Jack decided that enough was enough and used chloroform to put him to sleep. Some people just can't let things go.