John Jackson

John was eleven when his father died, shot by a suspect that he and his partner were trying to arrest. John was adopted by "Uncle Jack" - Detective Jackson Carter, his father's partner - but was raised with a department full of surrogate uncles and aunts in the shape of his father's old collegues.

It was inevitable that John would join the police force, and by the turn of the century he had become a Detective, partnered with Dwayne Stiles. As crimes committed by mutants began to increase in New York, the NYPD found itself needing to evolve with the times and find new ways to combat them. Jackson and his mutant was an asset that New York's newly-formed Mutant Crimes Unit could not afford to ignore.

For about a year, Jackson pursued a romantic relationship with Phillipa Heller, the representative of the District Attorney's office to the New York MCU. Like John she was a mutant, and for several months their relationship was blissful. But before long their respective powers got in the way: Jackson's psychometry forced him to relive the emotions of every argument they ever had, over and over again; and Phillipa's eidetic memory refused to let her forget the reasons. The two parted on less than amiable terms, and have not spoken since.

A month or so later, New York MCU was approached by Michael Stern: an LAPD officer establishing a similar unit in Los Angeles. Having met Jackson before, he personally requested his help as an advisor and ambassador: to help bring the Los Angeles MCU get off the ground, and to provide cooperation and resource sharing between the LAPD and NYPD. Feeling that the change of scenery would do him some good, Captain Sean Pope agreed to "loan" Jackson to the LAPD on an indefinate basis.