Jack Hurley is a former investment broker that is now a grifter working for Leverage International.
History[]
Jack would become an investment broker. After some time, Jack would start embezzling from his company. Jack would steal from a lot of people, mostly criminals. Though he does start stealing from a charity, though he intends to return it with interest.
The 12-Step Job[]
The Leverage team would figure out that Jack was embezzling from a charity, and because of it they decided to target him. After seeing agents in his office, looking through his files, he flees and then crashes his car. The team track Hurley down to where he crashed his car and check him into Second Act Rehabilitation Center. After getting control of his alcoholism at the center, Hurley is a jovial friendly person.
Over the course of the team's investigation into where the charity's money has gone, they discover that, other than Michelle's account, Hurley only took money from criminals and intended to help out Michelle (from the charity). As a result, the cheated criminals are out to kill Hurley and get their money back.
Nate attacks him and Jack tells the team where the money is hidden (inside the tube of one of his car's wheels). The team would come up with a plan to "kill" Jack and give him a new identity. Since Hardison and Eliot had recently acquired a car bomb from one of the gangs who tried to kill Jack, the team plan to kill Jack by using the bomb. After the explosion, the criminals Hurley stole from think that he is dead.[1]
After The 12-Step Job[]
Jack would become sober sometime during the events of season 2, and would stay sober till the events of The Boys' Night Out Job. Sometime before the events of The Boys' Night Out Job, he would meet a woman and would become mixed up with the Mexican mob.
The Girls' Night Out Job and The Boys' Night Out Job[]
Jack would return to the States and would track down the Leverage team to help him out. Nate is a bit more suspicious of him. Eventually the issues with the mob are fixed. At the end of both episodes, he would meet Peggy,
After The Girls' Night Out Job and The Boys' Night Out Job[]
When Hardison, Eliot Spencer and Parker started to put Leverage International together, they would call Jack up. Jack wouldn't be assigned to an official team. Instead he would travel between the groups and would help them out as a grifter. He would keep his sobriety, and would become careful at hearing discussions about drugs, alcohol, gambling and tacos since the four can trigger him into having an instant cravings for them that are very difficult for him to resist.[2]
The Golf Job[]
Jack would travel to NOLA and would meet Harry Wilson, a lawyer who had joined the NOLA team to redeem himself of his past crimes when he was working as a corrupt lawyer. Eliot, Jack and Harry would go to a golf course for the day that Jack was in NOLA. At the course, Jack would meet Bo and decided he was going to help the kid. Harry agreed though Eliot was a bit hesitant because it was his day off.
Eventually the team realized that Bo and his mom had been victims of human trafficking, as well as several other women. They would manage to get ahold of the peoples passports and help them get free.