Jason Kane

Jason Peter Kane (previously Summerfield-Kane) was the husband of Bernice Summerfield. After their divorce, they continued an on-again/off again affair for several years. Born in the 20th century, he acclimatised to life in the 26th and 27th centuries.

After a period living adrift in the multiverse, Jason settled successfully on the Braxiatel Collection with Bernice in the 2600s. Amongst his other achievements he was regarded as a hero to many for saving the lives of children during the Fifth Axis occupation of the Collection, and in other circles as a noted author of erotic xenopornographic literature. Throughout his life, he had multiple romantic interests - male and female, human and alien.

Early life
Jason was born on 24 December 1983 to Peter Kane and his wife. (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad) He had a sister, Lucy, and grew up in the English countryside, sixty or seventy miles outside of London. Perhaps because he lost his own father in World War II, Peter beat Jason and Lucy. (PROSE: Death and Diplomacy) Jason found comfort in his favourite book, The Magician's Nephew, identifying with Digory and wanting a girlfriend with Polly, (PROSE: Eternity Weeps) and built a den at the beach using a pillbox as somewhere to go when playing truant from school. (PROSE: Oblivion)

Due to his father's abuse, Jason ran away at the age of almost fourteen, walking five miles to the nearest town before leaving. Over the course of two and a half years, he wandered around Yorkshire, (PROSE: Death and Diplomacy) Piccadilly (PROSE: Beyond the Sun) and Mile End, staying at places such as Centrepoint. (PROSE: Death and Diplomacy) He worked as a prostitute to make money (AUDIO: Just War) and had sixteen romantic relationships with various men and women. (PROSE: Death and Diplomacy) He felt guilty for leaving his sister behind with their father. (AUDIO: Just War)

Life in the Cluster
In 1996, Jason was caught in a transmat beam set up by Shug and arrived on t'Kao in the Dagellan Cluster in the late 26th century. He got a lift off of the planet on an ore processor, taking Shug as a pet, and spent several years travelling around the Cluster in a second-hand ship that he acquired. He learnt to speak Basic and carried a small-gauge microflenser. During his time in space, he heard talk of Time Lords, Daleks (PROSE: Death and Diplomacy) and Cybermen. (AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Crystal of Cantus) He had sex with at least six aliens (PROSE: Death and Diplomacy) - including a Deneb that he charged before being beaten up by him - (PROSE: Eternity Weeps) drank Malkovian mead and only just managed to escape with his life after giving a smile to a Fnarok.

Fifteen years after arriving in the Cluster, Jason met Bernice Summerfield, the first human he had encountered in the 26th century, and fled Jaris with her without paying his docking fees. He refused to take her to the summit and, after saving her life from asphyxiation, defrauding a casino on Markath and having sex, he left her behind on Kalas, only to return for her and take her to the summit. Shug attempted to kill him on the way and, after he was defeated, Benny informed Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester that Jason had proposed to her and that she had accepted. (PROSE: Death and Diplomacy)

Marriage to Benny
The Seventh Doctor took Jason and Benny to Cheldon Bonniface to be wed on 24 April 2010. The two argued a lot prior to the day but, after defeating, the two were married using Time Rings gifted to them by the Doctor, who in turn was given them by his final incarnation. They were taken to Plautus by the Doctor for their honeymoon, (PROSE: Happy Endings) where Jason gave Benny a Bible. (PROSE: Eternity Weeps) At Benny's insistence, Jason took the surname "Summerfield-Kane" whilst she became "Kane-Summerfield". (PROSE: Happy Endings, Return of the Living Dad)

Jason and Benny decided to have a child, choosing the names Keith and Dorothy, and tried for some time without success. They considered adoption, but found it unlikely that they would be accepted given their respective pasts. Jason helped Benny work towards her PhD, enjoying listening to her.

In 2587, Jason and Benny were reunited with the Doctor, Chris and Roz and travelled back in time to 1983 to meet Benny's father, Isaac Summerfield, and considered visiting his own father to get revenge. There, a ghost handed them an eighteen-month-old Keith who later faded away. Upon returning to 2587, Jason continued to help Benny achieve her PhD (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad) and attended her graduation. (PROSE: Beyond the Sun)

Jason and Benny attended Roz's funeral in Africa in 2982. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin) They once visited South Africa and found themselves stranded due to an outbreak of ebola. (PROSE: Eternity Weeps)

Jason began to find that sex with Benny was becoming boring, something that he saw as a sign of the marriage not working. The two went on a holiday to 2003 using their Time Rings and, following an argument, joined separate expeditions to find Noah's Ark in Turkey. They eventually used their rings to call in the Doctor and Chris and worked with them to stop Agent Yellow, Jason accidentally causing the situation in an attempt to prevent it from happening and finally wiping out the Cthalctose.

Because of a number of reasons, including Benny lying about being pregnant in order to manipulate Jason into arming the bombs, the pair decided to get a divorce whilst on the Moon. Jason returned his Time Ring and chose to stay on Earth in 2003 to help with the aftermath that he himself had created, saying that, unlike his father, he did not shirk his responsibilities. (PROSE: Eternity Weeps) They had a divorce ceremony after which they parted ways. (PROSE: Beyond the Sun)

Return to crime
Having returned to the 26th century, Jason resumed his life of crime and began a criminal and sexual relationship with Iranda, whom he met on Denaria 7. They assisted the Sunless by negotiating for the return of their looted historical artefacts until Jason realised that they were attempting to reassemble a weapon and fled with a figurine, taking it to Benny on Apollox 4 after looking for her at St Oscar's University. The pair had sex and, hours later, he was kidnapped by the Sunless and taken to their homeworld from which Benny eventually rescued him. He asked if they could start seeing each other again, but Benny declined. (PROSE: Beyond the Sun)

Jason was hired by the Knights of Jeneve to look into the Baygent Apotheosis, accepting the job in order to protect Benny and as he knew that Chris was involved. He visited Benny and Irving Braxiatel at St Oscar's and stole the co-ordinates of Ardethe, unaware that they were incorrect, and headed there with Emile Mars-Smith, being led by a distress call to an unconscious Chris. To help Charlene Connor start a new life, Jason agreed to marry her. (PROSE: Deadfall) Jason and Charlene married, but he continued to have sex with others. (PROSE: Oblivion)

Assisting WiRgo!xu, !Ci!ci-tel and !qu-!qu-tala, Jason stole Benny's Time Ring and was taken back in time to Babylon. He sympathised with the People and stayed with them, eventually choosing to escape and convince Ninan-ashtammu to take control. Before leaving with Benny, he bought Miriam her freedom. (AUDIO: Walking to Babylon) Due to the People's bomb, he arrived in 22000 instead of 2593 and was placed in the Charrl's feeding farm before he was able to trick Queen Ch'tizz by supposedly going to Earth to get the other Time Ring. (AUDIO: Birthright)

Thanks to Jared Khan, Jason arrived in 1936 Germany and stayed there for years waiting for Benny, having agreed with her that in such a circumstance they would meet at Guernsey. He acted as a spy for the Royal Air Force and returned to Guernsey in 1941 to investigate the shooting of six islanders, eventually meeting up with Benny and killing Joachim Wolff for harming her. They were able to return home after stopping dealing with the consequences of Jason mentioning radar shortly after arriving in '36. (AUDIO: Just War)

Not long after, Jason was able to trick Benny into using their Time Rings to take them to 1890 Paris - however, they instead arrived in 2150s England. He injured his ankle upon arriving and was rescued from the Grel by Kerrigan, later working with him to try to stop the aliens and coming into conflict with Benny. (AUDIO: The Grel Invasion of Earth)

Two years after last having sex with Benny (from her perspective), a woman in the Proximan Chain-rafts flirted with him and stole his travelling money, leaving him stranded until Sgloomi Po picked him, Chris and Benny up for assistance. He refused to answer Benny's questions about his wife, telling her that she had no idea what she was talking about, and, after being hooked up to virtual reality where he was imprisoned and raped, he headed for the Catan Nebula to deal with some "unfinished business". (PROSE: Oblivion)

Jason caught wind of the Stratum Seven Agent's investigations and, learning that he was a bioweapon from the Catan Nebula, set up a meeting where Mira was able to confirm that he meant Benny no harm using her telepathy. He realised that Benny had "done a Mary-Sue" after reading references to Rebecca in Benny's diary and, with the agent and Mira, headed to Beta Caprisis where he was able to reawaken her true self. (PROSE: The Mary-Sue Extrusion) He later visited the Worldsphere and watched simulations of himself. (PROSE: Tears of the Oracle)

Interdimensional sojourns
Jason joined Benny, Chris, Clarence and Braxiatel on KS-159. He and Clarence went to Virabilis ahead of Benny in order to keep her safe on her holiday, coming into possession of Dorpfeld's Prism whilst there. (PROSE: The Joy Device) He assisted the group during the destruction of Dellah and was held captive by the Ferutu in their universe, being threatened with death unless Benny allow them to enter N-Space. However, Benny refused and left him behind. (PROSE: Twilight of the Gods)

Caught in a state of flux, Jason wandered between dimensions for several years, (PROSE: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Infernal Nexus) driven by the thought of seeing Benny again. (AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Green-Eyed Monsters) He spent a lot of time in Hell and did not age thanks to the Gilhooly Theory of Transdimensional Contrivance. (PROSE: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Infernal Nexus) He met Agragazar Fletchcock and began working for him in order to get home, ultimately missing his opportunity to do so, (PROSE: The Door into Bedlam) and worked for Volan Sleed when he took over. He was finally able to return home through Station Control and was reunited with Benny.

Following the end of his contract, Jason declined Fletchcock's offer of re-employment and reluctantly accepted Benny's offer of accommodation at the Braxiatel Collection. They tentatively began to rekindle their relationship, although this was further complicated when Benny realised that she was pregnant with Adrian Wall's child. (PROSE: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Infernal Nexus)

Stepfatherhood and suspicions
Jason supported Benny through her pregnancy (AUDIO: The Green-Eyed Monsters) but was jealous of Adrian and argued with him about their respective roles during the birth regardless of Benny's own wishes. He took to getting drunk in bars and having casual sex, inadvertently putting his ex-wife in danger when he drunkenly told the cultist Marianne about Benny and her child. Braxiatel took Jason and Adrian to her after she had given birth to her son, Peter Guy Summerfield. (PROSE: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Glass Prison)

Peter's birth did nothing to stop Jason and Adrian's arguing, leading Benny to put them both in charge of looking after him whilst she went to Goron IV. Peter was kidnapped by Ashantra's people whilst in their care and returned after Jason threatened Sloaty's family. Although Jason and Adrian had opened up to one another during the debacle, Jason attempted to take all of the credit when they were reunited with Benny, starting an argument throughout which Benny tried to stop Peter from crying. (AUDIO: The Green-Eyed Monsters)

Benny was able to persuade Jason to use their Time Rings to take them back to the 21st century in search of Britney Spears CDs for the Collection. (PROSE: A Mutual Friend) He found a diary entry of Benny's saying that she was trapped in the past and used his Time Ring to activate a time machine in the Pons Asinorum, transporting him to a luxurious and fully-stocked spacecraft. He proceeded to write a similar diary entry which led Benny to him, allowing them to escape using their Time Rings. (PROSE: The Collection)

Jason and Benny fell through a mirror in the Collection and entered another world and were followed by Braxiatel and Adrian. Jason became suspicious of Braxiatel due to how much he knew about the mirror and because the mirror-world seemed to have no dark side for him, prompting Braxiatel to hypnotise him to forget his suspicions and to suffer migraines whenever they resurfaced. Upon returning, Braxiatel had him sent to a medical satellite. (AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Mirror Effect)

Eventually, Jason recovered and returned to the Collection, making Benny reluctant to travel to Chosan and be separated from him and Peter. (AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Poison Seas)

The Axis occupation
When the Fifth Axis invaded and occupied the Braxiatel Collection, Jason pretended to collaborate with the enemy and began wearing an Axis uniform (PROSE: The Fall) with a fat suit made of polymimetic ceramaline. He arranged for hybrid children living on the Collection to be kept safe in a bunker to be cared for by allies from off-world, also ensuring that the parents pretended not to know what had happened to them in order to keep the operation secret. (PROSE: Suffer the Children)

He accompanied the Axis soldiers (PROSE: Careless Talk) and was charged with directing a group of Thoolmids as they worked. To maintain the allusion, he approached Benny upon spotting her and told her that she did not understand what the Axis were doing. (PROSE: Lockdown Conversations: 1) He, Benny and Mushtaq Anson greeted "Leo Didas" when he arrived at the Collection and wondered about Benny's enthusiasm during a tour that they gave him. (PROSE: The Price of Everything) He arranged for the Killorans to work directly under him, meaning that they would not be sent off-world, and mistreated Adrian. (PROSE: Lockdown Conversations: 2) He later spoke with Ash Madai at a bar and cried due to his powers. (PROSE: Midrash)

Jason received the Cluster of Moral Rectitude (Third Class) for his work in procurement and was the guest of honour at an Axis party, disgusting Benny. When she confronted him about the missing hybrid children, he told her the truth and explained what he had been doing during the occupation, taking her to the bunker and executing a number of soldiers who followed them there. (PROSE: Suffer the Children) His allies began talks with the Resistance and he had Peter moved to the bunker when Bernard Moskof seemed suspicious. (PROSE: Drinking with the Enemy)

Jason assisted Benny in her plan to download the Axis security systems (PROSE: Lockdown Conversations: 4) and located Isaac Summerfield on Heaven. He accompanied Benny there and fought the Daleks before sending a message that caused his mercenaries and the Resistance to attack the Axis, leading to its liberation. Afterwards, Benny told him that she wanted to get back together with him. (AUDIO: Death and the Daleks)

Post-liberation
Left without a gardener following Mr Crofton's death, Braxiatel put Jason in charge of looking after the Collection's grounds whilst searching for a replacement. Jason was off-world after Veronica Bland took on the job and was attacked by lizard women. (AUDIO: Braxiatel in Love)

Jason, Benny, Peter, Joseph and Sophia were transported to the Festival of Piranha in 2022 after Jason gave Peter Benny's Time Ring. They travelled across time and space avoiding the Grel and learnt from a Grel robot that Jason and Benny were to remarry, eventually returning to the Collection using a Grel time machine. (AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Grel Escape)

At Christmas, Jason set up a treasure hunt for Benny which led her to the Eighth Doctor. (PROSE: ...Be Forgot) Braxiatel gave Jason a job as his "consultant", a job without a real description and which he suspected meant that he would be tasked with stealing artefacts for the Collection. (PROSE: Misplaced Spring) He distracted Benny twice whilst she was trying to write her speech for the First Annual Braxiatel Collection Archaeology Conference, wanting to know why she could find the time to talk to students and not to her. (PROSE: Final Draft)

By October 2064, Jason had began writing xenopornography again, his books including such titles as Tongues of the Mollusc-Women, Different Flesh, Sins of the Pseudopod and World of the Vixenoids. After an academic criticised his writing at a party, he wrote an analytical paper of his own work under a nom de plume in order to show him up. The increase in his book sales following the paper led him to write several more under the anagrammatical aliases of Jonas Neak, Dr Jan Jeason, Professor Anne Sojak and Dr Ken J. Aason, as well as Professor Arsenio W. Cockshaft. (PROSE: Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants)

Jason became a celebrity on Zardox after his work as a consultant at a casino intending to branch out into adult services was fictionalised for Aventures de la Frontière Nouvelle. (PROSE: Zardox Break) He used ProxyMations after several of his identities were invited to the same conference and hid away when one claimed that the others were hired by Jason's publishers to drive up book sales, wanting to avoid the bad publicity that would inevitably result. (PROSE: Sex Secrets of the Robot Replicants)

Jason helped Benny stop Rand Gemeno from destroying texts proving the existence of the Harrassi (PROSE: The Blame of the Nose) and caused a power outage when trying to fix Benny's lights. (PROSE: There Never Need Be Longing In Your Eyes) He was framed for murdering Brenda and was arrested by the Brotherhood of Magicians before Benny was able to get him released. (PROSE: Nothing Up My Sleeve) He was at Benny's side after she suffered a mild heart attack. (PROSE: Mentioning the War)

Following an argument with Benny, Jason took her on holiday to Zardox without telling her that they would be taking part in Celebrity Split, a reality show which he believed their love was strong enough to survive. MegaStel Productions called off after Humphrey Pumpkin stabbed Benny and paid for the rest of their holiday, during which Jason was tricked into taking part in Damion Agrazoth's film starring the Glitta Bitches. Afterwards, he was arrested by Dick Strangely (PROSE: Zardox Break) on suspicion of murdering Mark Morton. (PROSE: The Purpura Pawn)

Jason was imprisoned for some time, breaking his spirit, before he was put on trial. He suffered from migraines once again and was eventually found not guilty thanks to Benny pretending to be a weapons expert, but she admitted to Braxiatel that she had some doubts about his innocence. When Kristoffa Tailor and Claire Marsh got close to working out who really did it, they were poisoned by a waiter who suffered a migraine and entered a coma. (PROSE: On Trial)

Whilst Benny went on a trip with Adrian, Jason looked after Peter. (PROSE: You Shouldn't Have) He joined the sleepwalking Benny on her journey to 26 and was left unconscious and injured when she took off. Upon awakening, he met 44, who went on to heal his injuries, and saved Benny from the Monoids. (AUDIO: The Kingdom of the Blind)

Jason was off-world when Peter was abducted by Ms Jones, working with the Plague Dogs to put a stop to Oinky Pete's adaptation of one of his books using slaves. (PROSE: Jason and the Pirates) He was contacted about the abduction by Braxiatel, who sent him after Benny to ensure that Peter did not see her kill, (PROSE: Parallel Lives (III)) and was shot and stunned by Ms Jones when they found her on Thuban. (PROSE: Parallel Lives (IV))

The history machine
After Wolsey died, Jason picked Peter up from school to help Benny out. He attended the press launch of the history machine and was present when it was activated, (PROSE: Inappropriate Laughter) helping repair the damage it caused to the Collection in one world. (PROSE: Siege Mentality) He was reminded of his own migraines in another world after Adrian fell into a coma due to one and, suspicious, visited Braxiatel who beat his skull with the Purpura Pawn to stop him from revealing the truth about him. (PROSE: Dead Mice)

In a third world, Jason visited Benny in hospital and was angry to hear that she intended to use one of Avril Fenman's crystals to give her own life for Peter's. (PROSE: Acts of Senseless Devotion) The history machine killed just Jason in one world (PROSE: Match of the Deity) and both him and Adrian in another (PROSE: The God Gene) whilst another left him alive but disfigured. Worried about whether or not Benny could still love him, he went to Hass who transformed part of the gardens into a love letter for Benny. (PROSE: Writing in Green)

Another scarred Jason employed Paul Stevens to catalogue the artefacts at the Collection after some were misfiled or went missing. (PROSE: Showing Initiative) In another world, he became a depressed alcoholic after Benny left him for Doggles. He received a message from an alternative self and used a device received from a friend whose name he could not remember which made him aware that history had been shattered into pieces. Before history reset, he drew a question mark on his head, hoping that his successor would get to the bottom of things. (PROSE: Back and There Again)

When history was restored, Jason attended Wolsey's funeral and told Benny that he would leave her alone despite his love for her should she feel that there was someone better for her. She assured him that that was not the case. (PROSE: After Life)

Continued career
Jason joined Benny on her mission to Trib City and invented a translation device which allowed the military to understand the locals, later updating the dictionaries and causing both sides to believe that the other had backed down. He also told Benny that Adrian and Bev Tarrant were "at it like rabbits", which she was initially sceptical of. (AUDIO: The Lost Museum)

He discovered how he had been manipulated, though, when Braxiatel nearly tricked him into becoming a Cyberman as part of his scheme to protect the Collection from outside threats. When Jason confronted Braxiatel the latter fled the Collection. (AUDIO: The Crystal of Cantus)

Jason was upset that not enough was being done to find Benny when she went missing. He travelled with CroSSScape to Cerebus Iera where her diary was discovered. When La^Heyne couldn't convert Benny, she tried to convert him because he had spent time in another universe. La^Heyne managed to remove Braxiatel's blocks on his mind. (AUDIO: The Tartarus Gate)

He was asked to give an interview in the Drome to promote his news Xenopornography, but he didn't manage it do to a murder happening. He then asked Benny to investigate it. Jane Peters protected him when he was to be attacked by the security men. He was stabbed by a member of the support staff. Before this he believed that the support staff believed they were at war. After recovering he hacked into the computer to allow Benny access. (AUDIO: The Worst Thing in the World)

He was away from the collection when a sex virus ran through the Collection, which was much to Benny's annoyance. (AUDIO: Summer of Love)

He accompanied Benny to ancient Greece to find the Oracle. He met Megaira who enticed him into her cult, and used him as her voice in the Athenian senate. (AUDIO: The Oracle of Delphi)

Jason stayed on the Collection when Benny went to the Empire State and told her about the weird things that were happening there. (AUDIO: The Empire State)

Though they did not remarry, Jason and Benny continued their on-again, off-again romantic relationship. They aimed to conceive children of their own, bringing about the twins that they had originally been destined to conceive, but for reasons unknown to them, had not. (PROSE: Nobody's Children)

Death
Jason had also become aware of several other peculiarities in the world about them, a growing sense of wrongness about the world. Following Braxiatel's return to the Collection and the destruction of the Stonehauser Medical Facility in the Draconian-Mim War, Jason began to search for proof of the man's interference with the timeline. (AUDIO: Freedom of Information)

He discovered entire sections of his (and Bernice's) life had been rewritten to suit Braxiatel's unknown agenda. Incensed, he confronted Braxiatel and was killed by unarmed attacks from Peter Summerfield, under Braxiatel's control. (AUDIO: The End of the World)

Personality
Although he was left feeling insecure and unworthy by his father's abuse, Jason was charming and able to get on with anybody by presuming that he would be welcome and liked. (PROSE: Beyond the Sun) Hass found him to be immature. (PROSE: Against Gardens)

Appearance
Jason Kane was 35-ish when he and Benny first met, 6'1", fairly good-looking (although usually somewhat unkempt and unshaven), and had dark curly hair which he cut short and dyed blond for a period of time.

Behind the scenes
His change of appearance was due to the casting of Stephen Fewell for the character's appearances in the Big Finish Bernice Summerfield range, who looked very little like Jason's depiction on the covers of Death and Diplomacy and Happy Endings.