Jack Carter, Chief, Boy Next Door and Charmer

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STATS:  Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson) is sharp and charming, with a quick wit and a street-smart edge. Dedicated first and foremost to his career, but a recent separation from his wife has left him at odds with his teenage daughter, Zoe, whose brushes with the law keep Carter nearly as busy as his day job as a Marshall. In fact, it is one of Zoe’s escapades that forced Carter to drive her home to Los Angeles from Seattle. When their car crashed outside the town of Eureka, it set in motion a sequence of events that resulted in Jack becoming the town’s new sheriff.

THE LOOK:  Tall, blue eyed, with sandy blond short hair and quirky smile, that makes his eyes twinkle.

LEADING LADY:  Allison Blake, (Salli Richardson) the government liaison between Eureka and the Pentagon. Allison provides Jack Carter with a steady flow of professional and romantic frustrations. Charged with reporting on the progress of Eureka’s citizens as well as their temperamental innovations, Allison grapples with an endless stream of crises and moral dilemmas, as well as Jack’s obvious crush on her.

BOTTOM LINE: Poor Jack, sheriff of a town full of geniuses who are temperamental and weird all at once. What I love best about Jack is he’s a normal guy in a town populated by individuals with I.Q’s off the chart. Not that he’s any slouch, but he is normal, which brings a lot of pity to him from the local residence.  They fell sorry for him, because he is normal, and often make comments about what it must be like for him to be him. Than there is Allison, his love interest, who Jack has a HUGE crush on. The affection isn’t returned, in fact her ex-husband, Nathan Stark, (Ed Quinn) who is still very much in the picture, proves to be a constant aggravation.  Jack in so many ways is like the boy next door, who is both innocent, and yet streetwise. Honorable to a fault, Jack is in constant struggle to provide a ‘normal’ home life for his daughter, in a not-so-normal town. His morals are strong, keeping him steady on a road that often throws a punch of very unexplainable stuff in his path. But yet his strength is his charming naivety in the face of adversity.

Question of the Day:   I have always loved the innocent naive, but yet, strong hero. Do you find the boy next door type sexy or not?  If so, why?