Jerald "Jerry" Aloysius Jacks[1] is a fictional character on the ABC soap opera, General Hospital.
In January 2007, the role was recast with Sebastian Roché, who was initially introduced as a terrorist named Mr. Craig, with his true identity remaining hidden until a few months later.
Jerry Jacks returned to Port Charles in January 2007, as James Craig, a mysterious man with ties to Lorenzo Alcazar.
Sam McCall activated the silent alarm, locking the vault and alerting the cops who arrived within minutes.
A short time after the hostage crisis, Jerry showed up at Wyndemere, as James Brosnan, and poisoned Nikolas Cassadine, injecting him with a neurotoxin which would kill him in 24 hours unless a counteragent was administered daily.
While at Wyndemere, Jerry has several encounters with Nikolas's aunt, Alexis Davis, who was unaware of his involvement with the hostage crisis.
He was being pressured by his mother, Lady Jane, and brother Jasper Jacks to attend Jax's upcoming wedding to Carly.
On April 30, 2007, Jerry tried to observe the wedding, hiding in the shadows, but is spotted and recognized by his mother, even though he'd had plastic surgery.
The next day, Ric Lansing brought Carly a picture from the Metro Court surveillance camera of "Mr. Craig" for her to identify.
After Ric left, Michael and Morgan told Carly that the man in the picture was "Jax's brother, Jerry."
A few days later, Claudia called to tell Jerry that Michael was not responsible for her miscarriage, but that Alexis Davis had "confessed" to the crime.
On December 13, 2010, Jerry returned to Port Charles, picking up the body of a criminal's son, and realized Jason was there, waiting to capture him.
Lucky Spencer had set up a roadblock to trap him, but Jerry ran his car over a cliff, supposedly dying.
During a meeting with Siobhan McKenna, Jerry is shot by an unseen person, causing him to fall into the water and be presumed dead.
In August 2012, Jerry resurfaced at Wyndemere, meeting with Dr. Ewen Keenan, revealing that he orchestrated the abduction of Robin Scorpio-Drake (under the orders of Cesar Faison masquerading as Duke Lavery).
Then he goes to Atlantic City, to recruit an imprisoned Joe Scully Jr. to help him poison the Port Charles water supply.
In August 2013 Luke Spencer and Holly Sutton discovered that Jerry had been hiding in Corinth, Pennsylvania, where he was operating a secret laboratory in the old Alden house.
Jerry believes Robin will try to poison him with a bogus cure, so he wants to give the first dose to Luke to see what happens.
Tracy was under the assumption that the husband in question was Luke, but in fact, Jerry returned Larry Ashton to her.
He later surrenders to the authorities and is sent to prison after Jordan Ashford became the commissioner of the Port Charles Police Department who she informed it to Jerry's accomplice Paul about it.