He does. He ran Torchwood - our organisation back in Cardiff. Here, he and I each have our own cells in SHIELD. Well, he's from the 51st century, but has been been on our earth since the 1800s. So, you do the math. And he's lived through more than one lifetime. And he can't die. Or he can, but he comes back.
Those are noble aims.
There is something about authority, isn't there? It certainly adds to Jack's charisma.
I tried to seduce him to infiltrate his secret organisation to try and save my girlfriend who'd been turned into a half-cyborg who then tried to kill us all.