Jack Wilcox

Jack Wilcox was a Man of Letters who specialized in surgical procedures involving monsters and the Akrida.

History[]

He was the assistant to Man of Letters Porter J. Hobbes. He was credited for the creation of the monster morgue underneath the Men of Letters Clubhouse. At some point in the past, the war against the Akrida forced him to exhaust every possible method, including extreme ones. Jack was convinced that the limited time against the Akrida invasion justified him to start experimenting on humans. This act caused the Men of Letters to expel Jack.

Jack was warded against Akrida possession, which forced the Akrida to go after Jack's wife Dorothea in 1957. The Akrida's attack put Dorothea in a comatose state. The former Man of Letters kept Dorothea in a suspended state until he could complete a plan to transfer Dorothea's consciousness into a new body.

With his own key, Jack entered the Clubhouse where he encountered Mary Campbell and John Winchester shortly. He pretended to be Porter J. Hobbes, a neurosurgeon recruited by the Men of Letters. He claimed to have discovered a way to create a neurotoxin to make the Akrida queen suffer and die. Additionally, Jack claimed that he could save humans who were possessed by the Akrida with his surgical methods. His claim convinced Mary and John to capture a possessed police officer, from whom Jack extracted the stingers in the back of his neck that allowed the Akrida to possess the officer. During Jack's preparation for the procedure, John noticed that Jack used to wear a marriage ring. This observation made Mary and John suspicious about what else Jack could be hiding from them. The two hunters went through the Men of Letters files and realized that the man they met was not really Porter J. Hobbes. Mary and John confronted Jack, who compared John to Henry Winchester, a Man of Letters that Jack earlier pretended not to have known. As the two hunters began to attack, Jack used a powder that stunned the hunters.

As John was unconscious in the Atrium, Jack tied up Mary in preparation for a procedure down in the morgue. Jack revealed his true plan was to use modified Akrida stingers to transfer his wife's consciousness into Mary and then to also transfer his own consciousness into John, so that he and Dorothea could live the full lives together that the Akrida had denied them. John managed to escape his binding but met a golem under Jack's control. This golem had a muzzle, which made removal of the scroll in its mouth difficult. As the hunter and the golem fight from the atrium to the morgue, Jack's set-up was put into disarray. Mary was able to free herself and join the fight, knocking the golem head first into an incinerator. She slammed the door shut, which decapitated the golem. However, the construct continued to thrash about blindly. Mary turned on the incinerator, which burned the golem's head. In turn, the Golem's body turned into hard clay and fell onto Jack and Dorothea, killing them both.

Powers and abilities[]

As a former Man of Letter, Jack had extensive knowledge on the occult. He also had surgical and biological knowledge of humans and monsters.

Binding Golem (or a variation of) - Jack had a Golem under his control, which implied he had, at the very least, knowledge of how to control one, if not create one himself
Stun powder - Jack had knowledge of different concoctions and substances. He used an unknown powder to knock out two hunters with minimal effort
Akrida anti-possession - Jack had the tattoo that prevented the Akrida from possessing him.

Weaknesses[]

Mortality - Jack could be killed through traditional methods and was vulnerable to disease, old age, and murder.

Appearances[]

The Winchesters
- Season 1
  - Suspicious Minds
  - You've Got a Friend (mentioned only)

Trivia[]

In a goof, the file that John and Mary look at gives the date of his separation from the Men of Letters as September 1, 1953, despite Jack still being with them until 1957.
Jack is similar to Cuthbert Sinclair in that they were both kicked out of the Men of Letters for their unethical actions and both men had a connection to Henry Winchester. Both Cuthbert and Jack also survived the massacre of the Men of Letters due to their exile from the organization.