Quotes

Everything Changes [1.01]

There you go! I can taste it! Oestrogen. Definitely oestrogen. You take the pill, flush it away, and it enters the water cycle. Feminizes the fish. Goes all the way up into the sky then falls all the way back down onto me. Contraceptives in the rain. Love this planet. Still, at least I won't get pregnant. Never doing that again.

Everything Changes [1.01]

Gwen: But those people, last night - the people in the car, who are they? What's Torchwood? PC Andy: I dunno. Special Ops? Gwen: Yeah, but what does that mean? PC Andy: I'll bet you ten quid they're DNA specialists. It's all DNA these days. Like that CSI bollocks. CSI Cardiff, I'd like to see that. They'd be measuring the velocity of a kebab!

Everything Changes [1.01]

Jack: And before we go any further, who the hell orders pizza under the name of "Torchwood"? Owen: Er, yeah, that would be me. Sorry, I’m a twat.

Everything Changes [1.01]

Jack: And this is Ianto Jones. [Ianto nods] Ianto cleans up after us, and gets us everywhere on time. Ianto: I try my best. Jack: And he looks good in a suit. Ianto: Careful, that's harassment, sir.

Everything Changes [1.01]

Gwen: But hold on, if no one can see it when the lift's coming up, there's a bloody big hole in the floor. Don't people fall in? Jack: That is so Welsh. Gwen: What is? Jack: I show you something fantastic; you find fault.

Day One [1.02]

Jack: Alright, usual formation. Gwen: What's the usual formation? Owen: Varies. Gwen: How can the usual formation vary? Tosh: Oh, my God. Jack: [deadpan] Came and went. Owen: [snickers] Now that's how I'd like to go. Tosh: I'm sure we could arrange it. Gwen: So what's this supposed to do? Jack: I'm using satellite tracking data to determine the inward trajectory of the meteorite. Tosh: He means he's trying to find out where it's come from. Jack: Hey! Sometimes a little technobabble is good for the soul! Gwen: What are we doing, having Chinese while a girl fights for her life? Jack: Actually, while we've been eating, the computers have been running a full bio-scan on Carys, profiling her blood, metabolism, organs, and the works. So we can see what effect the alien's having on her. They've also been taking samples of the air in the cell, so we can analyse any changes in the environment around her. Now, is that enough? Do you want more? 'Cause... gets kind of boring. Gwen: You've been hid

Ghost Machine [1.03]

Gwen: No! It... it was as real as this is. More real. I didn't just see that little boy. I could... I could hear what he was thinking, I could feel it. Like I was lost! Owen: Intense emotions can be part of a neurological event. Hallucinations? Dementia? Gwen: I wasn't hallucinating, Owen! And I'm NOT bloody senile! Jack: This kid, Bernie. Where does he live? Tosh: Splott. Owen: Splott?! Ianto: I believe estate agents pronounce it "Sploe". Tosh: [to Bernie's mother] Hi, I'm looking for Bernie. Is he in? Bernie's Mother: [smoking a cigarette whilst dressed in PJ's] Friends of his are ya? Tosh: [looks at Gwen uncertainly] Yes, I'm from the... Bernie's Mother: [looks Tosh and Gwen up and down] Well, I'm his mother, and he's a robbing little bastard who's not setting a foot in this house till he pays me the fifty quid he owes me. [slams the door in their faces]

Ghost Machine [1.03]

Gwen: What? I have to do that again?! Jack: Someone does! Any volunteers? [throws the ghost device at Owen] Owen: Woah! Gwen: We don't know what it is, what it does. Jack: Nope. Gwen: Jack, this could be dangerous. Jack: Yeah. Owen: Uh, I don't mean to be picky, but I think I can spot some flaws in this plan... Jack: I'm sorry! I thought you were the guys who gave up looking for a nineteen year old kid this morning! I figured maybe you were up for something more exciting!

Ghost Machine [1.03]

Bernie: [to Owen after a chase] Don't hurt me, please, I've got asthma! Owen: [panting] I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm gonna bloody kill ya!

Cyberwoman [1.04]

Tosh: All I'm saying is once in a while, I'd like to drive. Owen: Yeah, and all I'm saying is no. Tosh: Why not? Owen: Look, I've shared cars with women before, I know what'll happen, there'll be an emergency, all raring to go, I jump in, what do I find? Seat's in the wrong position, the rear view mirrors out of line, steering wheel's in my crotch. Time it's taken to sort it all out, aliens will have taken Newport! Gwen: What about a rota? Different people on different days? Jack: We're a secret organization hunting alien technology from an underground base, and you want a rota for who drives. Gwen: Just trying to help. Ianto: Oh, god! Oh, my God! What happened?! Lisa: His upgrade failed. Ianto: Was it an accident? [stops] Tell me you didn't do this...! Lisa: I wanted to repay him for helping me - by removing the weaknesses of his humanity. Ianto: [horrified] What have you done? You've killed an innocent man! Lisa: It's all right. Ianto: It's not all right! They're going to come lookin

Small Worlds [1.05]

Jack: You shouldn't be here. Ianto: Neither should you. Jack: What you got? Ianto: Funny sort of weather patterns. Jack: She calls them fairies. I don't. Gwen: What do you call them? Jack: Never really had a proper name. Gwen: Why not? Jack: Something from the dawn of time, how could you possibly put a name to that? Gwen: Are we talking alien? Jack: Worse. Gwen: How come? Jack: Because they're part of us. Part of our world, yet we know nothing about them. So we pretend to know what they look like. We see them as happy, we imagine they have tiny little wings and are bathed in moonlight. Gwen: But they're not? Jack: No. Think dangerous. Think something you can only half-see, like a glimpse, like something out of the corner of your eye. With a touch of myth, a touch of the spirit world, a touch of reality all jumbled together, old moments and memories that are frozen in amongst it. Like debris, spinning around a ring planet, tossing, turning, whirling... backwards and forwards through tim

Countrycide [1.06]

Owen: I hate the countryside. It's dirty, it's unhygienic. And what is that smell? Gwen: That would be grass. Owen: It's disgusting. Jack: Seventeen disappearances within the last five months. Police are clueless. Owen: Now there's a surprise! [to Gwen] No offence, PC Cooper. Owen: What's the matter with a hotel? Jack: People are going missing around here, do you really wanna stay in a place run by strangers? Owen: Oh, 'cause sleeping outside's gonna be a lot safer! Jack: No other race in the universe goes camping. Celebrate your own uniqueness! Owen: [looks helplessly at a tent] What am I supposed to do with this?! Tosh: [amused] Need a hand getting it up, Owen? Owen: If I did, I wouldn't ask you. Ianto: You're used to this, aren't you? That facial expression you all share. When things get a bit, out of control. Like you enjoy it. Like you get a high from the danger. Tosh: You want me to apologize for that? Ianto: Don't you ever wonder how long you can survive before you go mad, or ge

Greeks Bearing Gifts [1.07]

Tosh: What's most amazing are the similarities with our own culture. But that can be horrible, 'cause we find lots of weapons and it just makes you think, "My God, everything wages war." It's not just a trait of ours, but a trait of existence. It makes you feel so hopeless! But then there are times... we found this thing, it was about A-4 size, and it had all these symbols on it. And it took me about three months to translate, and it was a letter someone had written to his family, to his children, to say how much he was missing them! It just made me cry, because I thought, even across these unimaginable distances, there are fundamentals that stay exactly the same. And there's no one to talk to about this. I mean, the guys at work, they're great, but they don't see it the way I do. Ianto: [thinking] Can't imagine a time when this isn't everything. Pain so constant, like my stomach's full of rats. Feels like this is all I am now. There isn't an inch of me that doesn't hurt. [out loud] I'

They Keep Killing Suzie [1.08]

Swanson: At last, you must be Torchwood. My team bitch about you all the time. Jack: And you are? Swanson: Detective Swanson. Jack: I'm Captain Jack Harkness. [shakes her hand] Swanson: So I've heard. Tell me something, are you always this dressy for a murder investigation? Jack: What, you rather me naked? Swanson: God help me, the stories are true. Owen: If it's someone we've pissed off, that narrows it down to four or five million. Jack: And that's just the humans. Jack: Ianto, how many people have we given amnesia pills to? Ianto: Two thousand and eight. Owen: Hey, what if they all become psychotic? Tosh: [annoyed] Do you have to sound so happy? Owen: Yeah, I'm just saying-- Mean Streets! Suzie: "Captain, my Captain!" Do you want to know a secret? There's something moving in the dark and it's coming, Jack Harkness. It's coming for you. Jack: Thanks for doing this. Ianto: Part of my job, sir. Jack: No, I should be doing it. But... [sighs] One day, we're gonna run out of space... Iant

Random Shoes [1.09]

Eugene: [Opening narration] The speed of light is 299,792,458 meters per second. Pain travels through the body at 350 feet per second. Even a sneeze can reach a hundred miles per hour. And as for life? Well... that just bloody whizzes by. Gwen: What was he doing out on that road? Owen: Oh, fuck knows. Categorizing chevrons? He was a geek. Gwen: Do you think Eugene committed suicide? Tosh: It was a road accident, there was no alien involved. Gwen: See, I'm not so sure, because something seems really odd. I mean, I just... I just feel... like there's something going on... Owen: Marvelous. Thank you for that Disney moment. Eugene: The average life is full of near misses and absolute hits. Of great love and small disasters. It's made up of banana milkshakes, loft insulation and random shoes. It's dead ordinary and truly, truly amazing. What you've got to realize is, it's all here, now. So breathe deep and swallow it whole. Because take it from me: life just whizzes by, and then, all of a s

Out of Time [1.10]

Diane: How did it do that? Ianto: It's automatic. It knows you're there. Diane: But how? Ianto: There are wave-bouncing detectors which emit high-frequency radio waves and then they throw reflections - Diane: [looks into the store] Bananas! Ianto: ...Of course, bananas are far more interesting. Emma: How much food money have I got left? Ianto: £15.40. [Emma immediately grabs various confectionery items] £12.10. You'll ruin your teeth. Emma: You sound like my mum. John: Good God! Ianto: Welcome to the wonderful world of scantily-dressed celebrities. John: There's children around! Ianto: She's a children's TV presenter. Gwen: Emma's parents are a bit religious. Rhys: Oh, er... Better not tell them you saw my morning glory, then, eh!

Combat [1.11]

Tosh: Is that his...? Jack: [annoyed] You don't think I would choose that ringtone? Owen: This is Owen's voice-mail, don't leave a message. Jack: Nice try, Owen, I want you back at the hub immediately. We've got a Weevil murder, so get your bony little ass over here now. Jack: [to Torchwood's Weevil] Okay Janet, time for a trip out. Tosh: You call it Janet? Jack: Barbara just never seemed right. Mark Lynch: [about a Weevil] I found one on the streets. It took five of us to bring it in. Other than that, haven't got a clue. Scientific experiment gone wrong? Nuclear victim? One of the lads even reckons it's an alien. You want to know what I think? Owen: Yeah? Go on. Mark Lynch: I think it's us, Owen. You and me, in a thousand years' time. This is what we become when all we have left is our rage. Owen: Not exactly a comforting thought. Owen: What the hell's going on here?! Mark Lynch: Warm up. Owen: "Warm up"? Who are these blokes? Mark Lynch: Same as us. Ordinary blokes just trying to fin

Captain Jack Harkness [1.12]

Jack: I went to war when I was a boy. I was with my best friend. We got caught crossing the border over enemy lines. They tortured him, not me, because he was weaker. They made me watch him die! And they let me go. Captain Harkness: Who were they? Jack: The worst possible creatures you can imagine. I persuaded him to join up. I said it would be an adventure. He hadn't lived. Captain Harkness: Have any of us? Ianto: You have to let Diane go. Like I did with Lisa. Owen: Don't compare yourself to me. You're just the tea boy. Ianto: I'm much more than that. Jack needs me. Owen: In your dreams, Ianto. In your sad wet dreams when you're his part time shag, maybe. Owen: World didn't end after all, did it? Good job you're a crap shot. Ianto: I was aiming for your shoulder. Tosh: He would have been so proud that you took his name. 'Cause here you are, saving the world. To Captain Jack. Jack: To Captain Jack.

End of Days [1.13]

Ianto: "And I heard but did not understand and I said, 'Master, what is the end of all these things?' And he said, 'Go, Daniel, for the things are closed up and sealed until the end of time.'" Daniel 12, verse 10. Gwen: Sounds a bit close for comfort. Owen: This machine's on the blink, keeps losing power. [to Ianto] Sorry, don't let me stop your portents of doom. Or have you finished? Ianto: No. Plenty more where that came from. Abaddon, the Great Devourer, who'll lead the world into shadow. Jack: Yeah, thanks, Ianto. I could do without the superstition; you people love any story that denies the randomness of existence. Ianto: Thanks, that makes me feel a lot better. Jack: Under any other circumstances, an exuberant Roman soldier would be my idea of a perfect morning. Andy: Do you think this is the end of the world? Gwen: Oh, Andy, don't be silly. Do you think the world's gonna end on your shift? Andy: I've seen you use that smile on a lot of people. Gwen: What smile? Andy: That smile

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang [2.01]

Gwen: [pushing Jack] You left us, Jack! Jack: [sigh] I know, I'm sorry. Gwen: We knew nothing, Jack! Tosh: Where were you? Jack: [smiles] I found my Doctor. Owen: Did he fix you? Jack: What's to fix? You don't mess with this level of perfection. Ianto: [softly] Are you going back to him? Jack: I came back for you. [to the rest of the team] All of you. Jack: So, how was rehab? John: Rehabs. Plural. Jack: Drink, drugs, sex and ...? John: Murder. Jack: [laughs] You went to murder rehab? John: I know. Ridiculous. The odd kill, who does it hurt? Jack: [jokingly worried] You clean now? John: [deadpan] Yeah, kicked everything, living like a priest. John: Ooh, you've got a team. How sweet.[looks at Tosh] Oh, pretty, little friend. No blonde, though, you need a blonde. Owen: God, he's worse than Jack. John: Do you have a team name? I love team names. Go on! Jack: Torchwood. John: Oh, not Excalibur? Uh, Blizzard? Bikini Cops? No? Torchwood. Oh dear. Jack: [After introducing the team] Meet- John:

Sleeper [2.02]

Ianto: "Just us. In this room. As long as it takes." Terrifying. Jack: Really? Ianto: [nods] Absolutely. Shivers down my spine. Jack: You don't look scared. Ianto: Well, it passed. Tosh: You said we weren't allowed to use that again. Jack: It's just a mind probe. Ianto: Remember what happened last time you used it? Jack: That was different. And that species has extremely high blood pressure. Ianto: Oh, right, their heads must explode all the time. Gwen: Jack, you can't do this. What if you're wrong? If she is human, it'll kill her. Jack: I'm not wrong. We have to find out what she is. Tosh: Take it easy, Jack. Stop at the first sign of trouble. Ianto: Or at the first sign of exploding. Beth: Will it hurt? Jack: Yeah. Beth: Your bedside manners are rubbish. Gwen: You should see his manners in bed. They're atrocious, apparently... so I've heard. Ianto: Oh, they are. I remember this one... Tosh: No, I can't "just hook something up"! The entire telephone network is down! Owen: What about a

To the Last Man [2.03]

Gwen: [about Tommy] He's a frozen soldier from 1918. Jack: Nobody's perfect. Tosh: So, what do you want to do now? Tommy: Well... We could go back to mine, but there's only room for one and it's bloody freezing. [they both laugh] Jack: [draws a line on a piece of paper] Linear time. [balls the piece of paper up] Screwed up time. Imagine your life is a straight line, from birth to death. Now, try drawing that line on the paper without straightening it out. Gwen: It's impossible. Jack: That's why we gotta stop it. Owen: [about Tommy] You've fallen for him, haven't you? Tosh: I can be myself with him. I don't have to pretend. Owen: No, I understand. I, I didn't think you had some weird fetish for defrosted men. [both laugh] I just, um, don't want you to get hurt, that's all. If you have to say goodbye. Jack: This time tomorrow he'll be back in 1918. Ianto: In his own time. [pause] Would you go back to yours, if you could? Jack: Why? Would you miss me? Ianto: Yep. Jack: ...I left home a lo

Meat [2.04]

Gwen: Have you ever eaten alien meat? Jack: Yeah. Gwen: What was it like? Jack: Well, he seemed to enjoy it. Gwen: Rhys... The things I have seen... The times I have wanted to tell you... Rhys: [half-disbelieving] ...Aliens? In Cardiff?! Gwen: Have you never seen something so mad, so extraordinary... That just for one second, you think that there might be more out there? Rhys: Prove it. Owen: So the protein chains are regenerating, despite the mutilations. So not only is it replenishing its own flesh, but it's increasing it, giving them a brand new meat supply. Gwen: It would last them for years, then. Tosh: If we understood how worked, we could feed the world! Ianto: [deadpan] We could release a single. Rhys: Well, if you stopped and asked me exactly what I saw in there instead of showin' off round the place- Jack: [aside, to Ianto] Do I show off? Ianto: Just a bit. Rhys: -You'd know that I got out by telling them I wanted a job as a delivery boy! So rather than "cock things up", I fo

Adam [2.05]

Tosh: Just what I need, a small rodent looking me while I work. I think I'll call it Owen. Ianto: I think Jack brought it in. Tosh: No, I'm sure Adam found it on an excavation a few months back. Ianto: I'll have a look in the diary. I like to log the interesting stuff. Tosh: You write about artifacts in your diary? Ianto: Among other things. [winks] Adam: And you always remember what you killed, don't you, Jack? Jack: Our memories define us. Adam changed those memories, changed who we are. Now I have to help you all go back. Find a memory that defines you, rediscover who you are. If I'm wrong, he will still be here when we've done this. [turns off computer screen] Let me take you back to before we all met. [turns off lights] Feel around for anything that makes you what you are. The hidden and the forgotten. Tell me where you are. Gwen: College canteen. Rhys is sitting opposite me telling stupid jokes. Rhys: Where do you find a tortoise with no legs? Where you left it! Owen: It's my bir

Reset [2.06]

Owen: So, you and Jack go back a long way? Martha: Forward and back, really. Owen: What brought you together? Martha: Let's say... we were under the same Doctor. Martha: I mean, Jack's right. These attacks are not random. They're clinical, professional. More like assassinations. Gwen: Except Barry Leonard was a student. Who'd assassinate a student? Martha: Student loans company? Gwen: Yeah, yeah, I think you just cracked it. Jack: I'd rely on Martha if the world was ending. In fact... I did. Martha: So, Jack asked me if I could get you a UNIT cap to wear. Ianto: [surprised] Did he? Well, red is my colour. Martha: So, am I right in thinking that you and he... Ianto: We... dabble. Martha: Yeah? Ianto: Yeah. Martha: So, what's his "dabbling" like? Ianto: ...Innovative. Martha: Really! Ianto: Bordering on the avant-garde. Martha: Wow! Ianto: Oh yeah... [stares into space] Huh... [snaps out of it] So, should we get your cover story sorted? Martha: [delighted] Absolutely! Tosh: Ianto, what h

Dead Man Walking [2.07]

Owen: [supposedly telling Martha what death is like] There was a light, a tiny speck of light and I was rushing towards it, like down a corridor, and it glowed brighter, and brighter, then suddenly there were these gates... these big, pearly gates and there was this old geezer and he said, "You've been a very naughty boy!" Jack: "Only in suffering do we recognise beauty." Owen: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who said that? Jack: Proust. Owen: You've read Proust? Jack: Yeah. [pause] Well, no. We dated for a while. He was really immature. Owen: You know, none of us know whether to take you seriously when you say those things. [chuckles] Jack: [seriously] When you've lived as long as I have, you don't make any more up. Jack: ...But then, forever's overrated. Owen: Not from where I'm sitting. Jack: If you've got forever, you don't notice the flecks in the concrete, or bother to touch the bricks. You send your friends into danger, knowing the stakes aren't the same for you, that you might get them

A Day in the Death [2.08]

Owen: [Opening narration] My name is Doctor Owen Harper, and this is my life. A life that is full of action. And violence. And work and wonder. Secrets. And sex. And love. And heartbreak. Death. My death. The death I survived. The death I am now living through. Except.... this isn't living. Every day is the same. I get up. Get ready for work. Same as everyone else. The thing is, I'm not the same. I get to work and everyone is doing the same old thing. Babbling away about aliens, weddings. I'm not real. Three days ago I died. And they think I'm fine. But they're wrong. Owen: Yeah, I was brought back. Like Jesus really, but without the beard, you know. Shit, I'm never gonna have a beard. Not that I wanted one, you understand, but you know, one day I... Maggie: Okay, okay, you're dead, and that's... that's clearly a bit shit, and I'm sorry and everything, but if, if you are dead, then why are you here? You can't be wanting to jump, you can't die twice! Owen: Sorry, are you an expert? Magg

Something Borrowed [2.09]

Gwen: We are not postponing the wedding. No way. Rhys: Forget the money, I want you where they can look after you, right? Getting married today doesn't matter. Gwen: It matters to me!! It's not about the money, Rhys. I want to marry you. Today. Whatever happens. If the skies suddenly fill full of spaceships, or an army of Weevils climb out of the drains on St. Mary's Street, you fool! Do you not understand what I'm saying, Rhys Williams? All I want to do today is marry you. That's all I want to do. Jack: What is it with you? Ever since Owen died, all you ever do is agree with him! Ianto: I was brought up not to speak ill of the dead. Even if they do still do most of their talking for themselves. Jack: [pointing gun at Brenda] Get back, you ugly bitch! Rhys: The hell are you doing, that's my mother! Jack: No! It's the alien! Brenda Williams: I'm not an alien! Jack: Oh, you're good, I'll give you that. Brenda Williams: But I'm not! Jack: Yeah, and the Lone Ranger didn't have a thing with

From Out of the Rain [2.10]

Ianto: Wait! I just saw Jack. Gwen: [surprised] Where? Ianto: In the film! Owen: That is you! Right, now I've seen everything. Ianto: [smugly] Told you so. Gwen: You did stand-up? Jack: I never did stand-up. Gwen: Okay then, [fake American drawl] a song and dance. Jack: I was sensational! Tosh: I don't believe this, Jack, what were you doing there? Owen: He's part of this freak show. Jack: Ha, some things never change. Owen: You being rude about me? Jack: Ianto, with me. I need your local knowledge. Gwen: Oh, is that what you're calling it these days? Christina: Your eyes are older than your face. Jack: Is that a bad thing? Christina: Yes. It means you don't belong. It means you're from nowhere.

Adrift [2.11]

Gwen: Do you think I've changed? Rhys: Eh? Gwen: Since I joined Torchwood, am I different? Rhys: Why? Gwen: It's just something Andy said. Okay, let me just tell you this one thing, okay? Rhys: Okay, go on. Gwen: He still fancies me. [Rhys snickers] Don't laugh, Rhys. That's why he didn't come to the wedding. Rhys: Bloody hell, poor sod. Gwen: Oi! I'm a very sexy lady and you are a very lucky man. Just remember that, okay? [unzips jacket] Rhys: We're not going to talk about kids tonight, are we? Gwen: We could so some practising. Gwen: Oh, wake up, Rhys! What's the point? We don't need to talk! It takes two seconds' thought! How are we supposed to have kids with my job? Torchwood does not do maternity leave - "Oh, I'm sorry, Jack, I'd love to help out with the aliens, but I can't get a babysitter", "No, no, no, I'll sort out that bomb once I've dropped Rhys Jr. off at nursery." Stop dancing around it, it's a dead question! Rhys: You know, sometimes I fucking hate you! I mean, look at y

Fragments [2.12]

Jack: Hey, when you joked about the Millennium Bug, I didn't realise it was gonna have 18 legs stacked with poison. Anyone home? Hey! You know you're supposed to party like it's... [stops and sees his dead crew, then a man] Alex? Alex: Jack! Just in time. Jack: Alex? What happened? Who did this? Alex: Me. Jack: What? Why? Alex: We got it wrong, Jack. We thought we could control the stuff we found. And what's it brought us? So much death. Jack: What happened to them? Alex: It's good you're here. Always did have great timing. This place, it's yours. Torchwood Three. My gift to you, Jack, for a century of service as field operative. Fill this place with purpose. Before it's too late. Please. Jack: Alex, listen. It's going to be okay. Alex: No. It's not. It's really not. I looked inside. It showed me what's coming. They were mercy killings. It's the kindest thing I could do. So none of us see the storm. I'm sorry I can't do the same for you. 21st century, Jack. Everything's gonna change. A

Exit Wounds [2.13]

John: Come on! Sing along! It's our song! Jack: We don't have a song! And if we did have a song, it wouldn't be this song! John: [deadpan] You're no fun! Jack: What do you want? John: I want you to know that I love you. Jack: Funny way of showing it. John: No, seriously. You have to understand. [turns around] I really do love you. [pulls out two submachine guns and shoots Jack repeatedly. John stands over his "corpse".] 'Cause this is gonna get nasty. John: You took your time! Gwen: On your knees! John: [sigh] Honestly, it's just sex, sex, sex, with you people! Gwen: Now! Owen: [hysterical] Tosh! Toshiko, I can't get out! Not like this! I'm not dying here! Get me out of here Tosh, get me out of here, I died once and I'm not doing it again! Where's Jack? Where's Gwen, Ianto, John?!? You wanna watch the dead man die again?! Tosh: Owen, just stay calm. Owen: Why should I do that? Where's the fun in that? I'm gonna rage my way to oblivion! Tosh: [upset, quietly] Please stop. Owen: Why? Giv

Day One

Ianto: You're right, he's back. Jack: [laughs] I said so. Gwen: Who's back? Jack: What's he doing? Ianto: Waiting, just like you said. He's been there twenty minutes. Jack: Persistent. Ianto: Good sign. Jack: Dogmatic. Ianto: Always a plus. Gwen: Oh, Christ, never work with a couple, you two talk like twins! Now tell me who he is! Ianto: Rupesh Patanjali, he saw the Hitchhiker. He's the bodies-going-missing man. Jack: Dr. Patanjali. We need a doctor. Gwen: What, and you just let him follow you? Ianto: Ask about Torchwood and most people point towards the Bay. Gwen: Oh. [Jack and Ianto grin, she laughs] You bastards. That’s exactly what you did to me the first time we met. Well, sod that! I'm promoting myself to recruitment officer.

Day One

Jack: We need a child. 'Cause we need to test those frequencies. Find the right frequency, and we can find out who's transmitting. Ianto: Where'd you get a child, though? I could find you lasers and weevils and hitchhikers, but kids...

Day One

Alice: It said on the news that we should send them back to school tomorrow. Do you think it's safe? Jack: I don't know any more than you. Alice: Oh, come on. Jack: I don't! [pause] Any word from Joe? Alice: In Italy. With her. He finally got married. But he phones every now and then and sends Steven postcards, remembers his birthday... There are worse fathers. Jack: How are you off for money? Alice: Don't worry about that, you give me enough. [pause] Kind of easy writing cheques, huh? Jack: Alice, you're the one who asked me to stay away. I'd come round here every week if you wanted me to, every day. Alice: Yeah... I just can't stand it, Dad. I look older than you do, and it's never going to stop. I get older and older, and you stay the same. One day, you're going to be standing at my funeral - Looking just like you did when you were standing at Mum's. No wonder she was so furious; you make us feel old. Jack: [beat] Actually, I found a grey hair. Alice: [laughs] Oh! Well, that is the

Day One

Rhiannon: Susan on the corner was in town, and it was her anniversary, so they went to that posh French place in town by the memorial, and there was you. Ianto: So... Rhiannon: There was you having dinner with a man. Ianto: So? Rhiannon: Having dinner with a man... in a restaurant. Ianto: So you have dinner with Tina. Rhiannon: Not in town. Susan said he was gorgeous. Like a film star. Like an escort. Ianto: He's my boss. Rhiannon: She said it was intimate. I said well he's had girlfriends, and she said, well no girl was getting her feet around that table. No chance! Have you gone bender? Ianto: [looks at Mica, uncomfortable] Mica's hearing this. Rhiannon: She's not bothered. Her friend Shan's got two mothers. [pauses] Go on? [longer pause] You never tell me anything these days. Dad died, that was it. You were off, you couldn't wait. Like I did something wrong. I didn't. Did I? Ianto: [shaking his head] It's not that. It's my job. It's... difficult. It's... [hesitates] He is very hands

Day One

Jack: How long? Gwen: Three weeks. [both look at the screen] Jack: That's good, isn't it? [Gwen looks at him] From where I'm standing it... looks good to me. Gwen: Yeah... bloody hell. It's brilliant! Jack: [grins] Ianto! We're having a baby. [Ianto comes over, looking surprised and delighted. To Gwen;] You told Rhys? Gwen: Only just found out myself. Jack: Oh, you told me before you told him- he is gonna love that! [Gwen laughs weakly] Ianto: Congratulations. [pause] Would now be a good time to tell you I lost the car? Jack: You did what?! Gwen: [hadn't paid attention] That is just bloody spectacular!

Day Two

If she's anti-terrorist, I would not mind being Uncle Terrorist.

Day Two

Gwen: Are you sure he's going to London? Rhys: I don't question how you defend the world against extraterrestrial infiltration - don't you question my knowledge of the hauling industry, right? Gwen: Sorry.

Day Two

Gwen: You know some announcements you rehearse in your head? This wasn't quite what I had in mind. Rhys: What do you mean, "announcements"? [Gwen looks at him and smiles. Rhys looks confused, but then grins delightedly] Oh, God, no! bloody hell no! Gwen: Yes. Rhys: Oh, bloody hell no! Gwen: Yes! [laughs] Rhys: Oh! Come here! Oh my God! I don't believe it. [concerned] Hang on, the bomb, the guns, the car chase, the hiding from the law. What are you doing in your condition! Gwen: I'm only carrying my bag. Rhys: Gwen, I'm serious. This changes everything. Gwen: No. No, it doesn't. We're up the same creek and we still need a paddle. Rhys: Yeah! But three of us in a boat.

Day Two

Ianto: You worked out my little code, then. Rhiannon: Dad didn't break your leg on purpose, you know. Ianto: He pushed me too hard. He always did. Rhiannon: Well, you should've held on tighter.

Day Two

Rhiannon: What sort of civil servant are you? Ianto: Unappreciated ones.

Day Three

Gwen: So, what do we do? Just sit here? Jack: Worse than that, do I have to stay in these clothes? I mean, come on! Tracksuit bottoms? Not a good look!

Day Three

Ianto: What did it feel like? I mean, getting blown up? Jack: It wasn't the best of days. Ianto: No, but... Did you feel it? Or did everything just go black? Jack: I felt it. Ianto: Shit! Jack: Yeah. Ianto: Do you ever think that one day your luck'll run out? That you won't come back? Jack: I'm a fixed point in time and space. That's what the Doctor says. I think that means it's forever. Ianto: So, one day you'll see me die... of old age... and just keep going? Jack: Yeah... Ianto: We'd better make the most of it then. Jack: Suppose. Ianto: [slyly] Like... right now? Jack: [pauses, then grins] Ianto, the world could be ending. Ianto: World's always ending. And I have missed that coat. Jack: [grins, and turns to Rhys] Rhys, do you want to take the car down to those shops by the Wharf? We need some discs for these things. Should take about twenty minutes. Ianto: Thirty minutes. Jack: [quickly] Thirty! Rhys: I'll go later; the beans are almost done. Jack: [disappointed] Beans are almost d

Day Three

Clem: And who's the queer? Ianto: Oi! [beat] It's not 1965 anymore. Clem: He's queer. I can smell it.

Day Three

Rhys: Took me a while to get used to those things [the filming contacts]. Ianto: [shoots Rhys a questioning glance] What? You've used the lenses? Rhys: Yeah. That's why Gwen had 'em. Gwen: I only took them home for a bit of fun. Ianto: Fun? Gwen: Yeah. Rhys: You know, fun? Ianto: [realising] Yeah, well, been there done that.

Day Four

Johnson: [about Steven] He doesn't know Harkness is his grandfather? Alice: No. Johnson: I suppose it would take some explaining, why Mum looks older than Granddad... Alice: I can only assume that you're holding me here as insurance against my father. But let me warn you; if you've angered him, then God help you. Johnson: This from the woman who's spent her life running away from him. Alice: And why d'you think I did that? A man who can't die has got nothing to fear. So you watch it. And you keep watching.

Day Four

Ianto: This must've been eating away at you. [Jack is silent] Why didn't you tell me? I could've helped. Jack: [shakes his head] No, you couldn't. Ianto: I tell you everything. Jack: [turns around] Ianto, tell me; what should I have done? Ianto: Stood up to them. The Jack I know would've stood up to them. [sadly] I've only just scraped the surface, haven't I? Jack: Ianto, that's all there is. Ianto: No. You pretend that's all there is.

Day Four

Jack: There's a saying here on Earth. A very old, very wise friend of mine taught me it; An injury to one is an injury to all. And when people act according to the philosophy, the human race is the finest species in the universe. Ianto: Never mind the philosophy. What he's saying is, you're not getting one solitary, single child. The deal is off. Jack: Uh, I like the philosophy. Ianto: I gathered.

Day Four

456: This is fascinating, isn't it? The human infant mortality rate is 29,158 deaths per day. Every three seconds a child dies. The human response is to accept and adapt. Jack: We're adapting right now, and we're making this a war. 456: Then the fight begins. Jack: We're waiting for your reply. 456: Action has been taken. Jack: What have you done? 456: You wanted a demonstration of war. The virus has been released. It will kill everyone in the building.

Day Four

Ianto: [holds up gun] If there's a virus, there must be an anti-virus. Release it now, or I'll blow a hole in that tank, and we'll all die together. Jack: [joins Ianto, holds up his gun at the tank] You've made your point, now stop this and we can talk! 456: You are dying. Even now. Jack: What's that noise? What's it doing? [...] [to Ianto] We need to get you out of here. I can survive anything, but you can't! Ianto: It's too late. I've breathed the air. Jack: [horrified] There's gotta be something, there's gotta be an antidote! 456: You said you would fight. Jack: [desperate] Then I take it back, all right?! I take it all back, but not him! [Ianto falls to the ground, and is caught by Jack] No! No, no, no, no, no. Ianto? No, no, no...

Day Four

Jack: It's all my fault. Ianto: No it's not... Jack: Don't speak, save your breath. Ianto: [crying] I love you. Jack: [shakes his head, brokenly] Don't. [Ianto closes his eyes] Ianto? Ianto? Ianto, stay with me. Ianto, stay with me, please. [shakes him, crying] Stay with me! Stay with me, please! Please! Ianto: [looks up at Jack] Hey. It was... Good, yeah? Jack: Yeah. Ianto: Don't forget me. Jack: [shakes head] Never could. Ianto: A thousand years time... you won't remember me. Jack: Yes I will. I promise, I will. [Ianto begins to gasp for breath, then closes his eyes - he is dead] Ianto? Ianto? Don't go, don't leave me, please. Please, don't-- 456: You will die. And tomorrow, your people will deliver the children.

Day Five

There's one thing I always meant to ask Jack. Back in the old days. I wanted to know about that Doctor of his. The man who appears out of nowhere and saves the world; except sometimes he doesn't. All those times in history when there was no sign of him. I wanted to know why not. But I don't need to ask anymore. I know the answer now: Sometimes the Doctor must look at this planet and turn away in shame. I'm recording this in case anyone ever finds it, so you can see. You can see how the world ended.

Day Five

Gwen: The threat still stands. Frobisher: Haven't we gone past that? Gwen: My husband is still out there with everything you've done recorded on his laptop. One word from me, and he will release that information to the public. Frobisher: What do you think Torchwood is now? Do you think you're still players? Gwen: We can try. Frobisher: We're at a tipping point right now. Civilisations about to fall into hell. You want to start that descent a little earlier? Go ahead. Jack: He's right. Look what happened. Phone Rhys... tell him we've lost.

Day Five

Andy: Everyone's on stand-by. It's red alert, riot gear and everything, all ready to mobilize, except no one's saying why. What's going on? Gwen: I can't tell you. Andy: I am the police! Gwen: Right now, I need you to drive this car, and if I told you... Andy: What? Well c'mon then, what? [Gwen doesn't answer] Don't you bloody hate people who don't finish their sentences? Rhys: Hey, she's pregnant. Gwen: Oh, thank you. Who's "she" when she's at home? Andy: [surprised] Bloody hell fire! Who's the father? Rhys: Oh, I'm slapping you, yet! Gwen: It's Torchwood. That's what did it. They give you Retcon and chemicals and radiation and god knows what. The bloody Pill didn't stand a chance. That's what Torchwood does, you see... it ruins your life. Rhys: How is it ruined? Gwen: You want to have kids in a world like this, Rhys? Rhys: You're not getting rid of it! Gwen: Is that right?

Day Five

Johnson: [about Steven] He'll be fine. The nice kids are safe. If you're gonna get rid of ten percent, then take the ten percent you don't want. All those kids on street corners, we've finally got rid of them. Alice: While everyone else just stays indoors. Ninety percent just hugging their kids, not making a sound, just like they did before.... I don't even know your name. Johnson: I protect the state. [pause] I was brought up to believe in and protect the state. Alice: Not much good now, are you? Even if ninety percent look the other way, what sort of world are you leaving behind? I swear to you: if your duty is to protect the state above and beyond any other authority, then the one person you need right now is Jack Harkness.

Day Five

Gwen: Couldn't have just chosen a pub, could you? Rhys: It's bloody freezing! My feet! Jack: I missed that. The Welsh complaining. [to Gwen] You look good. Gwen: I look huge. Rhys: [proudly] She's bloody gorgeous. Gwen: You okay? Jack: Yeah. Gwen: Did it work? Jack: Travelled all sorts of places. This planet is too small. The whole world is like a graveyard. Gwen: Come back with us. Jack: [shakes his head] Haven't travelled far enough, yet. Got a lot of dirt to shake off my shoes. [looks up at the sky] And right now, there's a cold fusion cruiser surfing the ion reefs just at the edge of the solar system, just waiting to open its transport dock. [looks at Gwen] I just need to send a signal. Rhys: Cost me fifty quid, that. Jack: Bill me. Gwen: Are you ever coming back, Jack? Jack: What for? Gwen: [tearfully] Me. It wasn't your fault. Jack: I think it was. Gwen: [shakes her head] No. Jack: Steven. And Ianto. And Owen, and Tosh, and Suzie, and... All of them. Because of me. [looks away] G

The New World [4.01]

Oswald: When are you gonna let me go? Peterssen: Well, I don't think that's possible. Oswald: I've served my sentence. Peterssen: Granted, the execution was... flawed, but that doesn't defer the sentence. With respect, you don't reprieve a man you failed to hang because the rope snapped. Danes: Indeed, and with respect, that particular aphorism applies only for an execution which has failed. Peterssen: And that's you. Oswald: On the contrary, I would maintain, and my lawyers would maintain, my sentence was carried out successfully. Nothing went wrong, absolutely nothing. The fact that life and the laws of life on this Earth have changed is hardly my fault. Peterssen: Society is full of out-there laws, Mr. Danes. Nonetheless, they still apply. Oswald: That's right, Mr. Peterssen. And when considering the persistence of the law, then the Eighth Amendment clearly forbids the application of cruel and unusual punishment, such as mine, alongside the Fifth Amendment, and I quote, "nor shall a

The New World [4.01]

Esther: Torchwood, that wasn't a virus. It's gotta be some sort of malware. Noah: It's like nothing I've ever seen. The word "Torchwood" has vanished. It's been eradicated. If you search for "Torchwood," you get no results. Nothing gets no results. Esther: There's gotta be something on paper. Noah: Shelves are buried. It's all gone. I asked Yvonne. She said it was classified under the 456 regulations. She said you want to stay away. Esther: Why? Noah: They all died. So the story goes, anyone that worked for Torchwood was killed in action. And they died young.

The New World [4.01]

Vera: The metal missed the spine, but the pericardium was lacerated and a coronary artery was crushed and thrombosed. That's the one in your leg. I had to transplant a section of vein from your thigh. Rex: But how did I survive? Vera: I don't know. But even when your heart stopped beating, the process continued. The process of life, the viability of the flesh, the transfer of oxygen. It just didn't stop. Rex: But do I get better? Do I heal? Or do I just hurt for the rest of my life? Because if this thing keeps going, the rest of my life is forever, right? Vera: Rex, now listen to me. Because you might want to take something under consideration. That maybe you were lucky. You should've died last night, but when this thing happened, the miracle, it gave me time to fix you. Without the miracle, you'd be dead. Rex: It's like someone cast a spell over the whole world. But what happens when it stops, huh? What happens to me then? Do I die?

The New World [4.01]

Esther: That man- Jack: He was after me, not you. Jack: On the very day that no one's dying? Wish I knew. And what got you so involved? Esther: I'm not even authorized for this, but this friend of mine, I was telling him about Torchwood and he crashed his car while I was talking to him. And I can't help but thinking that it's all my fault. Jack: I know the feeling. Esther: So what is Torchwood? Jack: Torchwood no longer exists. Esther: Then what was it? Because there were photos in that file of a man who looked just like you, but it said 1939, then 1925. Is he your father? Jack: I suppose it must be. [grimaces] Esther: Are you all right? Jack: Yeah. I hurt my arm. Esther: Considering what we just went through, I would say that was a miracle. Jack: Yeah, another one. The Torchwood Institute was set up by the British Royal Family in 1879 to defend the realm of Great Britain by investigating the unusual, the strange. And the alien. Esther: I'm kind of guessing alien doesn't mean foreign.

The New World [4.01]

Gwen: Look, intensive care overflow. They've got twelve beds with seventeen patients already. What's gonna happen tomorrow? And the day after that? And the day after that? And the day- Rhys: Listen, now. Every time you investigate something, you end up in danger, Gwen. Gwen: Because I can help. Rhys: Don't you dare. Gwen: So you just- Rhys: I said don't you dare! Have you got that? Don't you bloody dare, Gwen! See, the thing is, right, if you think Miracle Day is like a Torchwood case, others are going to think the same, aren't they? They're gonna come looking for you with guns like they did the old days. Gwen: I suppose, yeah. Rhys: We shouldn't even be in the city. There are cameras everywhere, man. And it's different now. You've got a daughter, and you can't go putting her into danger. That is why we live in the back of beyond, to keep her safe. We've got to go back. Gwen: My dad is sick. Rhys: Oh, think about it! People aren't dying. He's gonna survive. Gwen: Shush, now. Shush. Rhy

The New World [4.01]

Jack: I cut my arm. Gwen: Okay. Can't help but thinking there's more important things to be worrying about here. Jack: No. I cut my arm. Look at it. It's not healing. Gwen: Do you mean... Jack: I'm staying hurt. Gwen: Oh, my God. Jack: I know. Gwen: Seriously, though! Rhys: It's only a cut. Gwen: But it's Jack. Don't you see? The whole world becomes immortal... Jack: ...And I mortal. I don't mend. I'm normal again. I'm plain old human. Rex: You're what? Jack: Doesn't concern you.

Rendition [4.02]

Gwen: This thing that's happening to the world, this miracle, it must have something to do with you. Jack: Great, so it's my fault? Gwen: Can't be a coincidence, Jack. Rhys: Of course it's not a coincidence. Doesn't mean to say it's his fault. Jack: Rhys, are you defending me? Rhys: It's like we all got switched, isn't it? Nothing to do with Jack if the wires got crossed. Everything mortal becomes immortal, so everything immortal becomes mortal. See? I can be useful.

Rendition [4.02]

Rex: Dr. Juarez? It's your favourite patient here, and you have something that I want. Vera: You sound like my ex-husband. Rex: So, does he call wanting drugs and sex? Vera: Yes. Rex: Good man, but for now, I'll just settle for the drugs.

Rendition [4.02]

Jilly: There's a good reason the churches are empty. People don't want to hear about Heaven. They'd rather hear from the man who has gazed into Hell itself, and that's you. Frankly I think if the Devil himself were to walk this earth, he'd need representation. Oswald: If the Devil himself walked this earth, he'd surely be working in PR.

Rendition [4.02]

Gwen: Looking a little bit worried there, Rex, like this might all be your fault. You put us on this plane. There's no orange tube. Rex: Is there something between you two? Gwen: What? Rex: You and World War Two. Gwen: I'm married with a baby. Rex: Yeah, married, baby, whatever. You two argue like people who are real close. Gwen: Yeah, well, did you have a thing with your poisoner friend over there? Rex: Yeah, we did. Gwen: Oh, you did? Rex: But we got on each other's nerves. Gwen: Really? Can't imagine.

Rendition [4.02]

Esther: What was that? Was that Lyn? What the hell is going on? Gwen: Welcome to Torchwood.

Dead of Night [4.03]

Gwen: This lemonade. This lemonade's flat. Esther: It's lemonade. It's supposed to be flat. Gwen: What? Fizzy, fizzy lemonade? Esther: It's fizzy in the UK and flat in the US. Gwen: Hmm...Just about sums it up.

Dead of Night [4.03]

Jack: It's like there's some sort of energy behind this. A will, a drive, a consciousness, because this miracle, it's more than people just surviving. They are so alive. You saw Lyn, that woman at the airport. She should have been paralysed but she just kept on going. And I've seen bodies at the morgue, burnt and broken, still alive, staring right at me. They weren't even allowed to be unconscious. It's as if something is willing them to go on, each and every individual forced into life. Rex: That was me. All the way through my accident, wide awake. Gwen: And you could feel everything that happened? It still hurt? Rex: Yeah. Esther: So what did the search say? Jack: Well, that's the problem. Everybody's had the same idea. Morphic field gets ten million results. Esther: Then I'll go through them, all ten million. [to Rex, pointedly] See, that's what I do when I'm at my desk. Hard work. Rex: [softly] I know. Gwen: [laughs] I have no idea what any of that means. Esther: The ATF's the Bure

Dead of Night [4.03]

Jack: I was thinking. About how you're immortal. And I'm dying. And what I wanted to say was... we're good aren't we? You and I? Good team. I missed you. Gwen: I was thinking that... If this had happened a bit sooner... Jack: I know. Gwen: ...He'd still be here. Ianto. Jack: Dead friends. Gwen: I'm sorry. Jack: I wish he was here now. Not much of a team, is it? But we've still got each other. You and me. Just like the old days.

Dead of Night [4.03]

Jack: I saw you on television, saying you feel forgiven for taking the life of a child. That's a lie. I know that's a lie. Oswald: How do you know that, Jack, with such certainty— Jack: Tell the truth! The murder of Susie Cabina. You don't feel sorry at all. Oswald: The truth is, she flaunted it. Her innocence. Most people, they get hit, whatever - it's hours before the bruises rise up. But they showed right away with her, and it was like... I was painting on her. And she looked so beautiful, I thought it couldn't get any better than that, but... oh, Jack, I swear to you... right then, at the end, I felt her life leave, and she left through me. You know that feeling? I think you do. And I relive it, every single night, because that was the best moment of my life. Jack: Now I understand. You're doing all this because you're searching for one thing. One simple thing. Execution. We're without death, so you get to live. And it's killing you.

Dead of Night [4.03]

I'm asking you now to join with me, in this enterprise, as we all walk across the fragile skin of this wide world together. The future is now endless. And it's terrifying, I'm offering you my hand to walk on this long journey. Together. Walk with me. That's all I ask. Walk with me.

Escape to L.A. [4.04]

Esther: I'm leaving town. I've got to go today. Sarah: Don't go to Boston. There's cholera in Boston, they said on the news. Don't go to Philly either. Dysentery. New York's got typhus and hemorrhagic fever. Esther: Sarah, that's just what they're saying online. It's not that bad. Sarah: But we've changed. All of us, didn't we? Something in the air infected us. It made us godless. Esther: Let me in. Let me see the girls. Sarah: I'm not letting them out. They can't come outside. I won't let them.

Escape to L.A. [4.04]

Vera: Can't get rid of you can I, dead man walking? Rex: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me ask you something; What is this Dead is Dead shit? I've seen posters all over the place. Vera: It's the latest campaign. As if Oswald Danes wasn't bad enough, this one is led by Ellis Hartley Monroe - One of those small-town mayors trying to make a name for herself. Where are you? Rex: Sorry, Doc, no can say. But if I wanted to know where I could get prescription drugs in Los Angeles, no questions asked, then you could make your own conclusions. Vera: And that's the only reason you called me? Rex: Well, you are the doctor. Vera: What are you doing in LA? Rex: I never said I was in LA. Vera: Well, it might surprise you to learn that I haven't got my own private network of drug runners on the West Coast. Rex: Come on, Vera. You'll find a way. I've seen what you can do with the doctor patient relationship, and the Hippocratic oath, it doesn't cover it. Vera: Ellis Hartley Monroe started the Dead is Dead camp

Escape to L.A. [4.04]

Our greatest problem is that what's happened to the world is invisible. Quite by chance Oswald's found himself right at the heart of it. George Elliot wrote this chapter in Middlemarch. She said that if you take a piece of metal with random scratches all over it and hold a flame up to the metal, the scratches look like they're forming patterns. Circling around the light. And that Oswald. He's blazin' away. The patterns are starting to revolve around him. And all we have to do is keep watching.

Escape to L.A. [4.04]

How much do you know about our masters at Phicorp? Because I did a little searching of my own last night. It's been a long long time since I was allowed online, so...I tried to find out who's above Phicorp. Who owns them. But the strangest thing happened. The information just scattered away. All sorts of names and tangents and diversions, but nothing tangible. And that's when I recognized the pattern. Because I've had a lot of experience perfecting how to hide myself online. And suddenly, I'm looking at someone else doing the same. But on a massive scale. Worldwide. I wonder why.

Escape to L.A. [4.04]

Mrs. Monroe. We'd like to apologize. We're really very sorry about this. Indeed we'd like to imagine if time and tides had flown in a different way, we could have almost been friends. I hope that's some consolation. At the end. Truth of it is, we liked your message, Mrs. Monroe. We liked your style. But we already have Oswald Danes. We don't need another. And certain aspects of your strategy were revealing our hand just a little too soon. And we have been planning this so carefully for such a long time. Because we are everywhere. We are always. We are no one. And soon, the families will rise.

The Categories of Life [4.05]

Gwen: So listen, Category One is bad, yes? Vera: Yeah. That's people with no brain function or anyone who would normally have died. They're now officially Category One. Jack: Ordinary people are Category Three. Vera: Right. That's people with no injuries, nothing. They're fine. Then, Category Two is everyone in-between; People who are alive and functioning with an illness or injury that's gonna persist, but not kill. Rex: Like me. Vera: Yes, like you. Rex: Wait a minute, when I got hurt, I should have died. I was Category One... But now I'm healing, so I'm Category Two... So which one am I? Vera: Well, that's the point - People don't fit categories. Jack: Worse than that, this process has given the United Nations a definition for life, which is therefore a definition of death. The government now has the power to decide whether you're dead or alive. No one should have that much control.

The Categories of Life [4.05]

Jack: He's on his way. Vera: Right, I'm gonna follow. I phoned Washington and pulled a few strings; I've got observer status. Jack: No, no, no! Wait a minute, that's why we sent Rex! Vera: I am not a member of Torchwood, so you can't give me instructions. And I need to see that place for myself. I was on the panels, Jack. I helped set these things up. Esther: Any trouble, I can help get her out. Jack: ...Okay. I'm going with you. I don't know, I could be your... assistant. Esther: We told you, not a chance. That assassin said that you're too connected. And besides, you're too fragile, Mortal Man. [she kisses him on the cheek] Jack: [sulky] All I get is a kiss? Esther: You look after yourself. You're unique; You're Category Jack. So, don't you go getting into trouble.

The Categories of Life [4.05]

Oswald: Jack Harkness. I could accuse you of having an obsession with me. Jack: What happens after this, Oswald? When the fever dies down and the world wakes up to the fact that a murderer's standing center stage? Somewhere out there, those men are waiting for you in the dark.

The Categories of Life [4.05]

End the miracle. And you can die. You're cursed with intelligence. Clever enough to know who you are. And wise enough to want it to end. You help me and I promise I will help you to die.

The Categories of Life [4.05]

The truth is I know what I am. I know what you are, too. Yes, I do. Each and every one of you. Because I know for certain what has happened to the human race. I know, because this has happened before. 50,000 years BC. What's called the Great Leap Forward. Human beings, suddenly, we started to bury our dead. We created art and money. And love. They loved. They learned to love. We made a leap from animal to human. And now, right now, in our very own lifetimes, it has happened again. The next Great Leap. We have made it from animal to human to what? This is the question. After Miracle Day, what are we now? I know. This is something I know. Because I am the man who has lost Heaven forever. So I can feel the truth of it. I'm telling you, man has risen again! Now, he has a new name. And his name is... Angel. Angel... Angel... We are angels. We have been helped. We have been purified. We have been given life unending. We are the first angels on Earth. And I promise you this: there are even th

The Middle Men [4.06]

My name is Rex Matheson. I'm with the CIA. I'm on an operation inside the San Pedro Overflow. No, strike that. I'm not with the CIA. Or a US government authority. I'm with Torchwood. And we're gonna expose everything that's going on here. Everything that I've just witnessed. [takes painkillers] They're calling them Category One's, and from what I've seen, don't ever let them call you that. The minute you hear "Category One," you better get the hell out of Dodge. Because they are going to burn you. That's what this place is for. Incineration. And we all know the drill. They'll start with the category ones. The ones who can't protest. Then they'll go on to convicted felons or illegal immigrants—hell, anyone we just don't like. Because everybody gets sick. Which means one day everybody ends up here. Those ovens are waiting for all of us. But I will tell you one thing: I'm gonna find the bastard that killed Vera. Oh, yeah, and I'm gonna burn his ass.

The Middle Men [4.06]

Jack: The truth. Stewart: About what? Jack: The Miracle. How was it done? Why was it done? How can it be undone? Stewart: Why would I have the answer? Jack: When the day came, PhiCorp was ready. We found warehouses stocked with painkillers waiting for the Miracle to come along. Stewart: That's your smoking gun? Jack: You're a man in charge. You knew it was coming. Stewart: Mister...? Jack: Harkness. Captain Jack Harkness. Stewart: Are you with the military? Jack: Freelance. I represent the people who are trying to stop PhiCorp. Stewart: So that security breach on the thirty third floor? Jack: That was us. Stewart: It's not me you're after. In fact I've been trying to find out the truth just as much as you. I'm not a bad man, Mr. Harkness. Jack: Captain. Stewart: I'm not a bad man, Captain. I'm not a good one either. I'm a middle man in every sense of the word. And faced with the thought of being who I am for God knows how long, I'm just as keen as you to find out exactly what's going o

The Middle Men [4.06]

Gwen: You watching? Jack: I'm here. And I've opened up the radio link. Make your message. Gwen: This is the truth for the whole world to see. We let our government build concentration camps. They built ovens for people in our names. Now I don't care if the whole of society bends over and takes this like a dog. I'm saying...No. [she blows the complex] Jack: That's my girl.

The Middle Men [4.06]

Rex: Well all the guards are going. Regular army's coming in. They'll shut it down. Esther: It was sanctioned. By the government. And they've got my name. They've got my name, I was on staff as Esther Drummond. Rex: Esther, listen. Stop it, okay? Just stop it. You saved me. Esther: I spent all that time wanting a job like yours. Look at me now. Rex: It's okay. You're allowed to feel like this. Come here. [he kisses her forehead] But listen to me. This is not over. Not for Torchwood. And I need you in this fight. So get it together. And do it fast. Esther: Done. I'm fine now. I'm ready. Rex: Yeah. Me too.

The Middle Men [4.06]

Lenses: We have your mother. We have your husband. We have your child. Gwen: Who... Who are... Who are you? What do you want? What do you want?! Lenses: Bring us Jack.

Immortal Sins [4.07]

Jack: [regains consciousness] I'm tied down. Why am I tied down? Gwen: They're in my eyes. Jack: What? Gwen: They're in my eyes. The contacts, they're in my eyes. Somebody's taken Anwen, Rhys, my mother, the whole bloody family. And they've said if I bring you, they'll let them go unharmed. Don't try moving. You'll never get out of those knots. Jack: My hands are asleep. And my feet. You tied my feet? Gwen: Of course I did, stupid. Otherwise you'd get out of the car, knock me out and turn the car around. Jack: Are you sure they have your family? Gwen: I phoned a hundred times. There's no reply. They've got them. Jack: I want to talk to the lenses. Look at me so I can talk to them. Gwen: Why do you always keep thinking you can tell me what to do? Jack: Pull over, or look into the rear view. Just, please, let me talk to them. Gwen: Don't cock this up, okay? Jack: Listen, whoever you are, there's more than one way to play this. Are you listening? Gwen: Yeah, there's a cursor. They're ther

Immortal Sins [4.07]

Jack: It's a parasite. Like a bug. Angelo: A parasite? Tell me more about it. Jack: Good man. It's a species of brainspawn treated as vermin on more than 150 planets that I know and valued as dinner on one other. It tastes like oysters. Angelo: You did not. Jack: I had to be polite. Now this part drills into the brain of the host and deposits its larvae there. Little worms, sharp as needles, pushing into the brain very slowly. You go insane, but it takes years. Franklin Roosevelt, he's going to be elected Governor of New York this November. But he wouldn't start making the really crazy decisions until his second term as President. Result, America destabilises, pulls out of the war, Germany rises, the Third Reich triumphant and there's a whole new history sprawling out. Angelo: You mean someone is changing the future? Jack: Destroying it. Turning order into chaos and feeding off the results. Angelo: Who would do such a thing? These people above Maranzano? Jack: They're just being used b

Immortal Sins [4.07]

Gwen: It's me. Jack: What do you mean? Gwen: It's me. I caused this. I made this happen. I knew Torchwood was toxic, right from the moment I joined up, the very first day, but I stayed. Jack: I'm glad you did. Gwen: Stop being so nice. We left nice behind a hundred miles back. I'm trying to be honest, okay? Because do you know what the worst thing is of all? Out of all the shit we have seen, all the bloodshed, all the horror...You know what is worse than all that? I loved it. I bloody loved it. And I'd keep telling Rhys I was sorry, and I'd say to little Anwen I'm sorry, but I loved it so much. I knew things no one else knew and, oh, I felt so special. And when we lost people, it was so, so big, and I could say it was worth it. Because the bigger it was, the more important I was. And the more people we lost, the more that meant I was a survivor...and I was better than them. My God, this is all my fault and now they've got my beautiful little girl and I wished this on her. Jack: I used

Immortal Sins [4.07]

Jack: Time to move on. But not with you. Angelo: I'm sorry. I was terrified, Jack. They said you were the devil, but other people said you were a blessing. Jack: Something happened to me once, a long way away. Time itself changed me to a fixed point. And now I can't die. I suffer and I perish, but I always come back. I've lived through a lot of Earth's past and a lot of its future. And I'll keep on living this life forever. Angelo: In the future, are we together? Jack: What does it matter? Angelo: Are we together? Jack: We can't be, because one day you're gonna die and I won't. Angelo: Then we forget the future. We make the moment now. We make a promise and we go forward. Jack: Angelo, don't. Angelo: What? You're lonely too. You said you want a companion. Jack: Don't make me do this. Angelo: You're not going without me. Jack: Just let me go. Angelo: But you can't. I'm never gonna let you go. I could travel this whole wide world, but where would I find another man like you? Please, don'

Immortal Sins [4.07]

Gwen: You're gonna live. Jack: It's a talent of mine. Gwen: I meant every word I said. Jack: So did I. Gwen: Good. [to Olivia] And as for you, you'd better pray that death comes back to this planet by the time I'm finished with you. Jack: So tell us who you are before I let her loose. Olivia: I don't see that anything's changed. You're still coming with me. Jack: Why would I do that? Olivia: You'll want to come with me because I can take you to the one man who knows how the Miracle began. Jack: Who's that? Olivia: Angelo. Angelo Colasanto. He's waiting for you, Jack. He's been waiting for such a very long time.

End of the Road [4.08]

Olivia: He talked about you all the time, Jack. His immortal man in old New York. He never forgot. Rex: You're telling me the whole world got screwed because two gay guys had a hissy fit? Gwen: Rex, get back in your cave. Rex: Come on, give me a break. Olivia: You inspired him. You proved immortality was possible. And he devoted the rest of his life to finding out how to live forever. Jack: And he did it? He's still alive? He's still young? Olivia: Oh yes, he's still alive. Angelo Colasanto is still very much alive... But he's not young.

End of the Road [4.08]

Shapiro: So, these are the Torchwood clowns? Gwen: Torchwood did more to piece this together than the entire CIA. Shapiro: You're that English girl, Cooper...Have I got that right? Gwen: No, I'm not English. And I'm not a girl. Esther: Gwen, this is Allen Shapiro. Don't. Really, don't. Gwen: Well, he's not scaring me. Hello. Shapiro: I am sick of her already. Can we deport her? Let's deport her. Jack: Hey, hey, hey, leave her alone. Gwen: Don't you dare. Rex: Don't touch her. Gwen: Don't you dare. Rex: Sorry, sir. With all due respect, Gwen Cooper's proven herself to be extremely useful. I think it's worth keeping her on our side. Shapiro: Did you sleep with her? Gwen: [outraged] Pardon me?! Shapiro: Because most women that bitter, you've slept with. [to Esther] Did you make that mistake? Esther: No. No, sir, I did not. Shapiro: Esther Drummond. Rex said you did a good job out in the field. Esther: Thank you, sir. Shapiro: In my opinion you deserted your post. I'm docking your pay. [to

End of the Road [4.08]

Shapiro: How? Only him, no one else. The only man in the whole wide world to die. The Miracle continues minus Mr Colasanto. So how did he do it? We've taken the body for autopsy. Any idea what we're gonna find? Jack: I don't know. We should go. Shapiro: No, no, no, no. Nobody is leaving. This house is secure. Jack: It's not a crime scene. Shapiro: Are you sure about that? Dying of old age can now be considered a crime. Something happened here, and we are going to search this place for every last bit of information. And nobody is going to leave until we know exactly what happened. So you can stay just where you are, Captain. Gwen: I'm sorry. Jack: Yeah. Gwen: And you really don't know what happened to him? What is it, Jack? Come on, what's wrong? Are we in trouble? Jack: Yes. Gwen: We're in trouble because he died? Jack: Yeah. Gwen: But why?

End of the Road [4.08]

Oswald: What's Category Zero? Jilly: What's what? Oswald: What's Category Zero, and why does my whore know about it? Jilly: ...Ah. Clever girl. Well, that's what you get for employing someone who sleeps with senators. She's been listening. Oswald: Tell me, what's Category Zero? Jilly: Look, Oswald, did you really think it would never come to an end, your freedom? There's an emergency mandate being passed through Congress defining a new Category Zero, meaning people who have earned themselves a place in the ovens for moral reasons. Oswald: They want to burn me alive? Jilly: Oswald, you were always sentenced to death. What you had was a wonderful delay. And now it's time for that adventure to come to an end. Oswald: But people love me. Jilly: Television loves you. It's a different thing.

End of the Road [4.08]

Esther: [about the Null Field] How does it work? Jack: I can't tell you. That's the point. Just listen to me. I knew this stuff the second I saw it. Yes, it's alien technology. The only examples of it on Earth were in the Torchwood Hub. They were buried in the ruins. Esther: But Angelo had people watching. Jack: He must have salvaged it, knowing the Miracle was coming. Esther: So what did he do? Trigger it with your DNA or something? Jack: Maybe that was revenge, or maybe giving me a clue. But there's only one course of action left now. You have to get me out of here. Rex: Are you crazy? Jack: Turn your head. Rex: Jack, listen to me. The CIA is not the enemy. That's why I brought them in. Don't you understand? You don't- Jack: Keep your head down. Be calm. Rex: Look, you don't need to run anymore, okay? We can protect you. Jack: There's a reason why Torchwood was secret. We kept things hidden from the human race. This technology is a science the world should never know. Esther: How can

The Gathering [4.09]

Rhys: Now you tell me. Tell me quickly, you bastard! You murdering bastard! Come on! Tell me before I get the boys round. Before I shout your name out loud in the street and fetch the bloody mob, tell me, what do you want?! Oswald: Jack Harkness. The men who smuggled me into this country, they brought Harkness in seven weeks ago and they brought him to you. And then you, in turn, found him a haven. Now I paid good money for your name, Gwen Cooper, so I really need to see Jack. And you will do exactly what I ask. Gwen: Why should I? Oswald: Because I have a name. I have the name of a man. I have the name of the man who created the Miracle.

The Gathering [4.09]

Oswald: One man's name keeps reoccurring. Kitzinger was employed to send him information. And his name's Harry Bosco. Gwen: Harry Bosco. Oswald: His name, over and over again. Gwen: Esther? Harry Bosco. Esther: Sorry. Gwen: What, can't you search him? Esther: You think you're clever, Oswald? Is that really all you had? Oswald: It's a name. Esther: Harry Bosco isn't a man. Harry Bosco's a process. It goes back to Vietnam. It was the first war to be televised and the government didn't want US networks taking feed directly from the Vietnamese, because for the first time information was beyond their control. So they put agents into every newsroom, every major TV network, filtering the output for the public. Cleverest of them all was a man called Harry Bosco. Jack: What did he do? Esther: He'd alter information. It was subtle. He did it by mistranslation. He couldn't censor or change, but he could manipulate the English translation. Change one word, change the entire meaning. If you say vic

The Gathering [4.09]

Jack: I think I can get us in. Back in the old days, Torchwood tracked down a black market trade in alien artefacts coming out of China. Skullion metal and coins, things like that. We closed it down but the route stayed open for arms dealing. Esther: We're gonna trust arms dealers? Gwen: I don't care. I'll do it. Esther: Okay, okay, wait. What about Buenos Aires? Gwen: I don't know. Which city is it? Rhys: It's both, you bunch of nuts. You can't see for looking, can you? Eh? Look. Right, Shanghai, Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Shanghai. Opposite sides of the world. Quite literally, opposite sides of the Earth, yeah? Yeah? So whatever's going on, there's got to be something connecting them. Gwen: Are you kidding me? Is that right? Esther: They're antipodes. They're the antipodes of each other. Two massive population centres balanced on either side of the planet. Oswald: As the old saying goes, count your blessings, because it turns out there's two of them. Gwen: But what does it mean? Est

The Gathering [4.09]

The Mother: You must feel terrible. Jilly: No, I'm fine. The Mother: No, I mean you really must. That's what The Blessing does to you the closer you get. You're scared, am I right? Your skin's a little too tight. There's something just out of the corner of your eye you can't quite see, hmm? Jilly: Yes. The Mother: You never get used to it. Come this way, Miss Kitzinger. Jilly: It's Miss Meredith. The Mother: I don't really care. The men enjoy those sorts of games. But the feeling, it started as soon as we dug deep enough. I think it's The Blessing's attempt to communicate. Jilly: Then it's a living thing? The Mother: Oh, we have no idea. But certainly The Blessing sends some sort of impact back at the onlooker. [Jilly is led to a warehouse and into a goods lift] We have a theory. We say The Blessing shows you to yourself. I've seen people look upon The Blessing and end their lives. There's a brilliant truth about that, because each and every time that person was hiding something vile.

The Gathering [4.09]

Gwen: Idiot. You idiot. You told me that was healed. You're not better at all, are you? Let me see. Jack: Sorry. Gwen: It's okay. I got you. Okay, I got you. I got you. Jack: I'm so sorry. Gwen: It's all right. Don't be sorry. I've got you. Okay, let me take a look. Oh, honestly. [rips off his bandage] Oh, God. Jack: Gwen... Gwen: If I had known it was this bad, Jack, you'd never have come. Jack: It got worse when we arrived. Ah! Gwen: I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Okay, I got you. Jack: Fine place to die, in old Shanghai. Gwen: You're not dying. Don't say that. Jack: I'm tired, Gwen. This mortal life, it hurts so much. Oswald: Well, now. Can't say I've been to China before, so I'm not well versed in their customs. But I've got to say I never knew about that. [Jack and Gwen also watch the travelling blood drops] Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Gwen: It's your blood. No wonder it's killing you. I think, I think it's showing us the way. It's The Blessing. It's somewhere over there. And I think whatever

The Blood Line [4.10]

The Mother: I knew it. Jilly: What's happening? The Mother: You're about to meet the creator. Jilly: It's that soldier. The Mother: Hmph. Jilly: He's with Oswald? The Mother: Captain Jack Harkness. At last. Oswald: No, no, no, no, this isn't about Jack. No, ma'am. Excuse me, but it's not at all. My name is Oswald Danes. Well. Hmm. Good evening, Miss Kitzinger. You've been promoted. And this is the new empire you're servicing? My, my, my, my, my, my, my. The Mother: With all due respect, Mr Danes, you're a by-product of the Miracle. Not really relevant at all. Oswald: That's what the Captain said. He tried to tell me that my life has become a very small thing. Tiny. And yet right here, right now, at the very end, I would describe myself differently. I would call myself vital. [Danes opens his coat to reveal a suicide jacket of explosives. He arms the trigger] Madam, you're a fine woman. You should be careful now, very careful indeed. It seems like you've been planning some kind of an ex

The Blood Line [4.10]

Rex: So, you found The Blessing and you worked out this morphic field. The Cousin: The Blessing exists in a symbiotic relationship with the human race. It transmits a morphic field around the planet, binding us together like magnetism, like sunlight. Esther: But finding it wasn't enough. You had to experiment on it. The Cousin: No, we fed it. The Mother: We fed it the blood of an immortal. We had one remarkable artifact. We found a second remarkable artifact. The combination was inevitable. Gwen: So the Blessing absorbed the blood, copied it like a new template. So, the system changed its setting. Jack: You know why it did that? I think you hurt it. It was being attacked, so it took the blood pattern and made it a gift. It's exerting itself to sustain every person on the planet. This whole Miracle, it's trying to be kind. Rex: You've seen immortality. I'm living it. Why would you want this? The Cousin: This is only stage one. Gwen: But you ruined the world out there! The Mother: The Mi

The Blood Line [4.10]

Esther: So as soon as the Miracle happened, you sent the Torchwood email. The Cousin: His blood endangers the plan. We had to draw him out into the open. Jack: Well, you failed. I got to Shanghai. I've got the only mortal blood on the planet. If it gets into The Blessing, life switches back. I can make the whole world mortal. The Mother: No. The Cousin: Oh, no. The Mother: Sadly not. The Cousin: He's not listening. The Mother: He doesn't seem to get it. The Cousin: No, no, no. The Mother: Polar dynamics, Jack. The Cousin: Everything on this axis operates in a polar dynamic field. The Mother: You could reset the Blessing, your blood could make the whole world mortal again, but only by introducing it to both cities at once. The Cousin: Blood in Buenos Aires. The Mother: Blood in Shanghai. The Cousin: Entering The Blessing simultaneously. The Mother: That's how we fed it. The Cousin: That's how we made the world immortal. The Mother: And for you, I'm sorry, it's impossible. The Cousin: Yo

The Blood Line [4.10]

Rex: Listen to me. Oswald: I'll do it! I'll do it! Rex: Wait a minute. If you need the blood of Jack Harkness on the other side of the world, then just- Oswald: I'll do it! Rex: Just listen to me! Jack! All right. I'm all right. As I was saying, if you need Jack's blood, how about this? The Mother: What was that? What happened? Gwen: Rex, what did you do? The Cousin: That's impossible. No way. There's nothing special about you. Rex: Oh, but there is, when I've got Jack's blood flowing through my veins. It's inside me. Gwen: What? Jack: Oh, my God. Rex: See, we knew this blood was important, so as soon as we arrived- Esther: We transfused it into Rex. We exchanged his blood for Jack's. Rex: On most days it might've killed me. But we're all living on Miracle Day. Esther: And everyone thought the blood was gone, so no one even suspected. All we did was keep one final bag, filled the rest with Rex's blood, and Jack's mortal blood... Rex: ...Just walked right in. Hey, Oswald, you want to be

The Blood Line [4.10]

Jack: Get help! Clear the area! There might be more! Gwen: Oh, no! Jack: No way. Gwen: Oh, come on. No, no, not after everything he's gone through. No! Jack: There's nothing we can do. I'm, I'm sorry, Gwen. I am so sorry. He's dead. [Rex gasps back to life] [shocked] What?! Rhys: What?! Gwen: What?! Rex: What? [rips his shirt open and sees his wound heal] What?! Gwen: What the hell? Jack: That's impossible. Rex: You. World War Two. What the hell did you do to me?!