Carl Porter



Carl Porter was the father of Jack and Declan Porter.

Biography
Carl once ran the Montauk tavern, The Stowaway, with his family. Before he got married, he had an affair with Stevie Grayson and his eldest son Jack was born. Stevie left not long after Jack was born and Carl married someone else and had a second son, Declan. After his wife left the family and divorced him, claiming half of his money, they started having financial problems. They sold their house and decided to move into the second floor of their bar.

Season 1
In "Pilot" Carl began a new season in The Stowaway but he had economical problems.

In "Trust" Carl had to fire half of his staff for economical problems. He discovered that Jack sold his boat to help him and got angry with him but Jack told him that they will get through this. He got drunk and saw that Adam was hitting Declan, but when he tried to help him Adam left and Declan confronted him. He then had a heart attack and died. Long before this, he had asked Jack to not give him a burial but just scatter his ashes across the sea, which Jack later does without the guilt-stricken Declan.

Carl also makes an appearance in a flashback in the episode "Lineage" where his involvement in the fatal shooting of Joe Ryan, father of Kenny and Nate Ryan, is revealed. On Thanksgiving of 2006, he was threatened by Joe for refusing to pay protection money. When he met Joe at the dock to pay, Joe had been shot and killed by Matt Duncan, who was getting revenge for his daughter, who had been injured by one of Joe's men, and fell in the water. When Jack heard the gunshots, Carl quickly turned on an outboard motorboat to make it look like he had heard it backfire and sent him back to the house. Afterwards, Carl took Matt's gun and hid it for him.