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"Welcome to the family, son!" — Jack Baker |
Jack Baker was the patriarch of the Baker family of Dulvey, Louisiana. He was the husband of Marguerite Baker and father to Zoe and Lucas Baker. He and Marguerite were behind a series of murders from 2015-2017 due to the control of Eveline.
Biography
Jack Baker is known to have enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, based on a photograph dated April 1980. Later on he took up duties as the owner of a 19th century ranch in Louisiana, though it is unknown if it was already under his family's ownership. In the 1990s Jack and his wife Marguerite had two children, Lucas and Zoe.
In October 2014 the family ranch endured a violent hurricane which destroyed their old house, and sent a tanker into the nearby bayou. The Bakers took in Eveline and Mia as survivors of the storm, unaware the former was a highly advanced human bio-weapon and the latter her carer. Jack; Lucas and Marguerite began experiencing hallucinations caused by Eveline, who triggered mutations in them to make them stronger as well as convincing them to see her and Mia as extended family.
Entirely under Eveline's control and withholding from normal duties, the family was declared missing with searches of the ranch finding no one there.
As Eveline became more obsessed with expanding her family, perhaps due to the Bakers not understanding her medicinal needs, the family was enlisted in abducting tourists and homeless people over 2015 and 2016. Jack's patrolling of the family property got the attention of a number of people, leading to newspaper reports of the bayou being haunted, though it was never considered the family were alive and at the house.
In June 2017, the rumored hauntings got the attention of TV producer Andre Stickland, who led his Sewer Gators paranormal investigation team into the house where they were killed by Jack; Mia and Lucas.[1]
The following month, Jack encountered Ethan Winters, searching the area to find his wife. Knocking him out, and stealing his car, he tied up Ethan at the dinner table consisting of pieces of meat and organs from various human victims. Jack insisted Ethan politely eat his food, slicing off Lucas' arm a punishment for hitting Ethan with a plate. The food was one of several methods the family used to induce transformation into Molded. When Ethan refused to eat, Jack stabbed him. However he was unable to deal a fatal blow due to the arrival of a Dulvey Parish deputy investigating the area. Jack left the building to follow the deputy into the garage, who's head he excavated with a shovel. He and Ethan fought, with Ethan eventually getting into his car to escape the ranch; Jack tore open the roof and commandeered the wheel, sending the car straight into steel bars. Jack was seriously wounded in the crash, though was able to taunt Ethan further before the car's subsequent explosion knocked him out. Jack nonetheless got back up and grabbed Ethan's hand, pointing Ethan's handgun into his mouth. Alluding to his regenerative abilities, Jack blew a hole through his head with the handgun to offer Ethan a remarkable sight.
Ethan ends up engaging Jack in combat once again in the dissection room. After a small skirmish, Jack grabs an over-sized, man-made pair of chainsaw-shears, while Ethan grabs a normal chainsaw. Showing resilience and endurance, Ethan weakens Jack multiple times in order to chainsaw him, exposing Jack's growths. Eventually, Jack gets chainsawed to a point, where his upper body completely explodes. Despite his upper body getting blasted, his lower body starts to stand and walk, but eventually falls to the ground, once again, seemingly dead.
Jack isn't encountered again until Ethan finds Zoe Baker, Jack's biological daughter, and Mia Winter, Ethan's missing wife. This time, his regeneration has led him to increasing multiple scores in size, into a reptile-like monstrosity covered in Eveline's black essence. While swearing at Zoe, Jack ends up screaming about how they're being plotted against, and how Ethan continues to plot against him. Jack's speech has also become much more demonic and strained. This leads to a battle in the outhouse, where Jack, now sporting several eyeballs on his new body, attempts to crush Ethan to death. Ethan, using many more weapons at his disposal, defeats Jack by taking out his eyes. Jack retreats into the flooded section of the outhouse. Jack soon ambushes Ethan from underwater and begins to swipe at him in a confined space, but allows his final eyeball to be exposed in his head. As Jack seemingly begins to rot away, Zoe returns to allow Ethan to leave. However, Jack grabs Ethan once more, readying for another fight. Zoe tells Ethan to use a dose of the serum on him. When Ethan does, Jack crystallizes completely, killing his body for good.
Despite being killed by the serum in the Pier Boathouse, Jack Baker later reappears in Ethan's dream, only that he isn't threatening him unlike in the actual gameplay. Instead, Jack reveals to Ethan that his family had stumbled upon Eveline in a wrecked oil tanker and took her in, only that she had infected them with her "gift" and made them into her own "family." He then tells Ethan to save his family from Eveline, right before Ethan wakes up from the dream.
Personality
Jack is a highly sadistic and violent individual who wears a manic grin most of the time. He is very abusive towards his son, Lucas Baker. He's also verbally vocal towards his wife. He insists Ethan joins his family, and is very upset when Ethan refuses. Mia refers to Jack as "daddy". It's revealed that Jack's infected by Eveline who forced him to act in extremely aggressive and violent ways.
When Jack is encountered later after being freed from his body, he is a kind and peaceful father who helped Eveline and Mia when he found them next to a downed tanker. However, he started to lose himself to Eveline's infection. This is a direct contrast to Jack experienced throughout Resident Evil 7: Beginning Hour, and Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.
Abilities
Resident Evil: Beginning Hour
Jack Baker, alongside the rest of his family, is shown to be skilled at stealth. This is especially evident in how he managed to ambush the fourth individual with absolutely no indication that Baker was even in close proximity when the fourth individual tried to leave via the back door, as well as his role in killing the Sewer Gators film crew.
He was also shown to have nearly superhuman endurance and strength, as evidenced by his lifting Ethan by the neck in some encounters with one arm, as well as his shrugging off several otherwise fatal wounds such as being caught in the explosion of a car. Similar to his son Lucas, he also has some degree of regenerative abilities. Even when shot in the heart, it was only sufficient enough to stun him for a few seconds. It is heavily implied that these traits were the result of Eveline's gift.
Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
Jack's stealth skills are shown in full during the game as he walks eerily quietly. He will usually show up out of nowhere, or when the player least expects it, as evidenced by Jack confronting the player face to face, rather than behind if he can help it.
As a benefit of his infection by the Mold, Jack possesses a significantly increased strength threshold that far belies of man of his age and build. Jack has been shown to effortlessly and brutally throw Ethan through walls. He effortlessly tears off the hood of a car with his bare hands and can also wield obscenely large weapons in combat, such as man-made sheers; and use smaller weapons with amazing precision and strength, as shown when he destroys a dinner table with a shovel, splintering it.
Jack's regeneration is on a whole different level as compared to the rest of the Baker family due to his being the first of the Bakers to be infected by Eveline. He is a constant enemy throughout the game as he is invulnerable to conventional means of attacks. While these will slow him down for a couple of seconds, he does continue to fight until he gets stopped by something with much more power. Examples of his superior regenerative powers are (in order of sequence): he gets shot in the head, blowing a hole through the right portion of his skull, lit on fire, and engulfed in a fiery car explosion. He still comes back for more throughout the game as his upper body explodes following a fight with Ethan Winters. Jack then regenerates into a monstrous entity, with his eyes bulging out of its sockets, with him being covered in Eveline's contamination. The only thing that truly stopped him was the administration of the serum, calcifying his body and turning it into dust, removing the threat of Jack Baker for good.
Quotes
- "It's over, boy!"
- 'Ethan! Ethan! Ethan!"
- "Oh, no, no, no, no...! Now you gonna get it!"
- "This was supposed to be a very special feast."
- "Shut the hell up, Marguerite!"
- "You thought you could just slip out before dinner was done?"
- "I'm gon' squash you like a bug. Hope Marguerite didn't hear that. "
- "Goddammit! How'm I gon' replace this?"
- "That gun is not gon' work the way you think it will."
- "Oh boy! Now you look what you done, motherfucker!"
- "This is the end, you know?"
- "You ain't gettin' away!"
- "Boy you are nothing'! Just a man without a family."
- "You came to the wrong house, boy."
- "Welcome to the family, son."
- "Boys got to eat, got to have his supper!"
- "Where's my little Ethan?"
- "Hello there! ...How you been?"
- What's the matter son.. you outta ammo?
- "Here piggy piggy piggy!"
- "Shitcock!" (Mutated Jack)
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Further notes
- Good Ending: A manifestation of Jack will be by Ethan in a dreamlike state after Mia's section in the old tanker. Jack explains that he picked up Eveline, and Mia by the abandoned tanker, not knowing who or what she was. A saddened Jack then tells Ethan that he didn't want to hurt anyone, but he couldn't help it. He continued to explain that Eveline forces her way into the head of her victims, changing them and forcing them to do things against their will. Jack also displays sympathy towards Eveline, telling Ethan that she "just wanted a family". However, he wants Ethan to stop Eveline and free his family who are apparently somehow trapped within Eveline's consciousness. The dream sequence ends with Jack and Zoe fading away.
- Bad Ending: Despite previous reports, the same scene still plays out, even if Ethan chooses to save Zoe, albeit at a different point in the story.
- Midway through the dissection room fight against Jack when he opens the cage containing the chainsaws he will exclaim "Groovy!", a direct reference to Ash from the Evil Dead franchise.
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