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Timothy Lawrence, formerly known as "Jack", is a body double of Handsome Jack. Representing the Doppelganger class, "Jack" is the fifth playable character in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, first revealed at PAX Prime 2014. Jack was added as post-release downloadable content released on November 11, 2014, for $9.99 USD/$14.40 AUS. His Action Skill summons two Digi-Jacks to fight for him. He reappears in the Borderlands 3 DLC Moxxi's Heist of the Handsome Jackpot, where it is revealed that he has been imprisoned on The Handsome Jackpot for seven years following Handsome Jack's death.
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Background
According to ECHO logs in Jack's Office and as part of "Jack'" ECHO logs granted as a personal item at the start of the game, Timothy Lawrence elected to work for Hyperion in order to pay off his student loans, and underwent major reconstructive surgery by Dr. Autohn, becoming one of Jack's Doppelgangers.
Involvement
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel
"Jack" is called in as part of the Vault Hunter group that assists the real Jack on Helios.
Borderlands 3
While looting the Handsome Jackpot, the Vault Hunters hear a cry for help. Pretty Boy is sending Loaders after someone in a makeshift hideout. After defeating Pretty Boy's Loaders, it is revealed that Timothy Lawrence is trapped in the casino and has been since the death of Handsome Jack. His mask is cracked, and his right hand has been grafted with a Hyperion-brand cybernetic authorized access key dubbed "The Winning Hand". After finding out that Timothy is also trying to get into Jack's Tower, the Vault Hunters team up with him upon Moxxi's approval (who still seems to openly distrust him).
Because Timothy's Winning Hand grants him full access to every facility in the casino, Pretty Boy convinces Freddie to eventually betray the crew and abduct him. The Vault Hunters stick to the plan, later killing Freddy and breaking into the tower to confront Pretty Boy, who locked Timothy in a laser cage. They destroy Pretty Boy's robot suit, and the casino activates the "Screw Everyone I'm Rich" Protocol, driving itself into a black hole. Unable to free himself, Timothy resigns to his fate and tells the Vault Hunters to simply escape, however they and Moxxi refuse to abandon him. Timothy then cuts off his cybernetic hand using his laser prison cage and gives it to the Vault Hunters to override the protocol. After averting the casino's destruction, he collapses.
In the ending of the DLC, Timothy, sans one hand, finally asks Moxxi's why she agreed to the date that she had with "Jack" (a detail he has brought up a few times). He did so disguised as Jack, so he was confused why she agreed to have a dinner date with Jack when "He was the worst". Moxxi admits to having known it was never Jack she met up with, otherwise she wouldn't have shown up, something that makes Timothy happy to learn. He is later seen rejoicing alone as he re-enters the casino after Moxxi seizes it.
Appearances
Skills
Action skill: Expendable Assets
Jack's action skill summons two Digi-Jacks to fight for him, who function like temporary turrets, constantly lose health and are continuously resurrected for its duration. They battle using wrist-mounted lasers, punch and kick enemies who come too close, and can serve as a distraction against foes. The Digi-Jacks can be outfitted with modifications via skills, such as a shotgun laser or even being spawned as Badasses. This skill can be canceled holding action skill key, which will refund cooldown.
Base duration for the skill is 40 seconds, and the base cooldown is 40 seconds.
His three skill trees are:
Quotes
- Main article: Jack/Quotes
Notes
- When created as a new character, Jack will spawn with a Galvanizing Vision and a Galvanizing Transmurdera.
- Jack's class mod is represented by a pocket watch on his upper left chest, similar in appearance to Handsome Jack's own pocket watch.
Trivia
- Timothy Lawrence suffers from acrophobia, better known as an abnormal fear of heights. This is mentioned during Intelligences of the Artificial Persuasion.
- In the Pre-Sequel, he is legally forbidden to mention his real name after his surgical change, as when asked by Roland, he only says it rhymes with "Jimothy", as a bomb in his face effectively prevents him from doing so. By the time of Borderlands 3, the bomb still exists and prevents him from leaving the Casino alive.
- He used to have freckles before becoming Jack's body double.
- He cares for his mother, but she doesn't return the sentiment.
- During the Pre-Sequel, Timothy muses that he'd much rather be at home with his mother.
- To become Jack's body double, Timothy's death was faked. His mother laughed when she found out, but Timothy tries to tell himself that she was actually crying on the inside.
- Pretty Boy refers to him as "Timmo".
- Timothy was injected with some of Handsome Jack's DNA, causing him to compulsively act like Handsome Jack at times.
- Timothy's Hyperion designation is Doppelganger 21-C.
- Timothy has been trapped in the casino for seven years.
- Timothy has acted in movies as Handsome Jack under the moniker "Timothy Doppleman". It is implied that they are pornographic films and Jack forced him to participate.
- After Handsome Jack was scarred in the Vault on Elpis, he branded all his doppelgangers to match his current appearance. As a result, Timothy resents Lilith for scarring Handsome Jack.
- Timothy is bisexual, as he is seen to have a crush on Moxxi, and has also slept with Trent, a man in the Handsome Jackpot casino.
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