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The Day of the Jackal

Episodes
15

12 archived facts 4 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026

A 2024 series adaptation of The Day of the Jackal. The following details cover the assassin's false identities, his preparations and his attempt on de Gaulle.

12 Interesting Facts About The Day of the Jackal

Interesting Facts (7)

  1. #001

    When the Jackal test fires his new rifle at a painted watermelon, the scene directly echoes The Day of the Jackal (1973), in which Edward Fox's Jackal also tests his new rifle on the same kind of target.

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  2. #002

    Ulle Dag Charles is an anagram of Charles de Gaulle, the assassination target in the original novel, and goes by the initials UDC just as De Gaulle is often referred to as CDG.

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  3. #003

    The Jackal assumes Duggan's identity by locating a boy who died in infancy, securing the birth certificate, forging a copy and obtaining a passport under that name.

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  4. #004

    At a British airport, the Jackal steals the passport of a Copenhagen schoolteacher, Pere Lundquist, picked because the two men had similar builds.

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  5. #005

    The conspirators place a woman close to a French government minister: her dog startles his horse in the park, throwing him to the ground so that she can comfort him.

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  6. #006

    Once he learns the police have a description of his car, the Jackal repaints his white convertible blue, only to wreck it in an accident shortly afterwards.

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  7. #007

    The Jackal picks Liberation Day, August 25th, the date Paris was freed in World War II, intending to shoot de Gaulle as he hands out medals to Resistance members.

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Behind the Scenes (1)

  1. #008
    Contains a major spoiler — show

    The Jackal's first shot at de Gaulle misses, because de Gaulle bends down at the very moment the shot is fired.

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Easter Eggs & References (3)

  1. #009

    The Jackal's handle in his deep web chat is &525marTinGuerrE^$, a reference to the famous medieval story of Martin Guerre (or Martin Daguerre), an impostor who takes the place of a man presumed dead and then suddenly returns home, echoing the Jackal's own story. Martin Guerre's tale has been fictionalized on screen several times.

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  2. #010

    Numerous Easter eggs throughout the series refer to Frederick Forsyth's 1971 novel and Fred Zinnemann's The Day of the Jackal (1973); otherwise the series follows the novel and the earlier film only very loosely. Notably, the novel and the 1973 film divulge very little about the Jackal's background or personal life, and the main team hunting him is French rather than British.

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  3. #011
    Contains a major spoiler — show

    The Jackal orders a custom rifle that can be hidden inside an orthopedic boot, a nod to the original novel, in which the Jackal conceals a custom rifle inside a crutch.

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Deeper Meaning (1)

  1. #012

    In every scene set inside MI6, the UK coat of arms is reversed, and in some scenes the computer screens are mirrored.

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Sources & editorial notes

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  • IMDb IMDb title page (trivia)

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