Jack ECHO Journal is an item found in Borderlands 2 during the mission Get to Know Jack
Description[edit]
An old audio file detailing Handsome Jack's past.
Transcript[edit]
Journal 1
Young Angel: I don't understand, Daddy.
Handsome Jack: Say hello to your new home, darling. You're like a little princess, and this is your throne!
Young Angel: I want mommy. Where's mommy?
Handsome Jack: She's not coming back, Angel. Now get in the freaking chair.
Young Angel: I don't want to --
Handsome Jack: Get- there we go - in the chair.
Journal 2
Handsome Jack: Okay, any candidates today, Angel?
Angel: There are... four treasure hunters who arrived on a shuttle several hours ago. They are currently on a bus to Fyrestone
Handsome Jack: Great! Say this to 'em: Don't be alarmed. I need you to stay calm and don't let on that anyone is talking to you. Start making your way off the bus.
Angel: The bus is still moving, sir.
Handsome Jack: Shut up. Tell them -- (door closes)
Hyperion President: John? Why has you dispatched on of our satellites to Pandora? What are you doing?
Handsome Jack: Uh... sir, uh, the energy readings, my uh... instruments, uh, at home are getting from Pandora are--
Hyperion President: Get out of there at once, you hideous little code monkey! And shot off that satellite!
Handsome Jack: yes sir - I'm sorry Mister Tassiter, it won't happen again, sir.
Journal 3
Moorin: Uhm, sir - we've lost at least a dozen staff to the Angel's 'malfunctions.' We need to shut her down! Your wife suggested as much before her disappear --
Handsome Jack: Jimmy, please make a note: I'm strangling Mister Moorin for bringing up my wife.
Mister Blake: Choked... Mister Moorin...
Handsome Jack: No, no. Jimmy, choking is something you do when you eat too fast. As I'm crushing Mister Moorin's windpipe with my watch chain, what I'm doing is actually referred to as strangling.
Moorin: Ghkk... please, please--
Handsome Jack: Tut-tut-tut-tut-tut... Shhhhh. There we go. Anything else on today agenda, Jimmy?
Mister Blake: It's 'Jeffrey,' sir. And no.
Handsome Jack: Thanks Jimmy! Well, then. Drinks are on Handsome Jack!
Journal 4
Handsome Jack: Why isn't this working, Angel?
Angel: I don't --
Handsome Jack: I've pumped every frickin' ounce of Eridium I've got into you but the stupid Key isn't working! WHY?!
Angel: I'm sorry, I don't know!
Handsome Jack: You're a SIREN! You're one-of-a-kind, now make it work! I want that freaking Warrior, Angel. I want him awake, ok? I want him under my control, now - I want him now! Not later! Now!
Journal 5
Handsome Jack: Ah, tut tut, now, now Mister Tassiter - 'blackmail' is such a dirty little word, isn't it? Actually, you know what, come to think of it, it's not a dirty word at all. It's kind of awesome. Blackmail! Say it with me: black--
President Tassiter: --Oh, go to hell, John. Just because you got lucky with your Panora hunch doesn't mean --
Handsome Jack: Because I was right, is what you mean. And call me Jack, idiot.
President Tassiter: You may have been able to scare the other directors into giving up their shares, but I know you. I know that beneath that ridiculous mask, you're still a hideous, pathetic little nobody--
Handsome Jack: Mister Tassiter - maybe you can settle up something for me - do you know the different between choking and strangulation?
