Surveillance pictures of Jack in Rapture.

However Frank Fontaine 'activated' him using the trigger phrase ' Would You Kindly', when the plane passed near Rapture's location in the North Atlantic, Jack hijacked it using a gun that was smuggled onto the plane in the form of a present gifted from home, forcing it to crash land at the coordinates of the Lighthouse, the main entrance to Rapture. Jack boarded a plane in 1960 supposedly visiting his cousins in England. Sometime in 1958, before Fontaine faked his own death in a shoot out with Chief of Security Sullivan's forces, Jack was smuggled out of Rapture in a bathysphere and sent to the surface as a sleeper agent, living out his pre-programmed life as Jack Wynand where he had memories of being born in 1936 and living on a farm in Overlook, Kansas with his 'parents'. Jack's similar genetic structure to Andrew Ryan meant that he would be able to use the city's bathyspheres that were in lockdown, be resurrected at Vita-Chambers, and the automated security of Rapture would not be as effective against him. Suchong also reveals in another Audio Diary that he was responsible for the mind control imprinting that Frank Fontaine requested. Yi Suchong, who was responsible for Jack's development, Jack, by the age of one, weighed fifty-eight pounds and had the 'gross musculature of a fit nineteen-year-old', thanks to Lot 111.

Jack was 'born' and 'grown' by the scientists of Fontaine Futuristics, including Dr. Jack was to be Fontaine's back-up plan if he was ever forced into an unfavorable situation by Ryan, which happened during Rapture's Civil War. Brigid Tenenbaum on behalf of Frank Fontaine, without consulting Ryan. While pregnant, Jolene suffered some financial difficulties and decided to sell Jack, as an embryo, to Dr. Jack is the illegitimate son of Andrew Ryan and Jasmine Jolene, Ryan's lover. Jack as a baby, accompanied by Tenenbaum on the left and Suchong on the right, as seen in his flashback during Andrew Ryan's monologue.

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