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|series                = ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]''
|season number         = Series 1 (Torchwood)
|series episode number = 1
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|main character        = [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]], [[Jack Harkness|Jack]]
|featuring             = Rhys Williams
|featuring2            = Andy Davidson
|featuring3            = Owen Harper
|featuring4            = Toshiko Sato
|featuring5            = Ianto Jones
|featuring6            = Janet (Everything Changes){{!}}Janet
|featuring7            = Myfanwy
|enemy                 = [[Suzie Costello]]
|setting               = [[Cardiff]], [[2000s]]{{note|Episodes 1-10 of the [[Series 1 (Torchwood)|first series]] of ''[[Torchwood (series)|Torchwood]]'' are set anywhere from [[2006]]-[[2009]] as a result of [[Aliens of London dating controversy|conflicting evidence]] shown in the episodes {{cs|Ghost Machine (TV story)}}, {{cs|Greeks Bearing Gifts (TV story)}}, {{cs|Random Shoes (TV story)}}, {{cs|To the Last Man (TV story)}}, {{cs|Reset (TV story)}}, {{cs|Adrift (TV story)}}, {{cs|Fragments (TV story)}}, {{cs|Exit Wounds (TV story)}}, and {{cs|The New World (TV story)}}. As episode 10, {{cs|Out of Time (TV story)}}, is set at the end of [[December]], this means that episodes 11-13 are almost certainly set the year after episodes 1-10.}}
|writer                = Russell T Davies
|director              = [[Brian Kelly]]
|producer              = [[Richard Stokes]]
|network               = BBC Three
|broadcast date        = 22 October 2006
|next                  = Day One (TV story)
|clip                  = Torchwood Meet Captain Jack Harkness BritBox
|clip2                 = Gwen Enters Torchwood Everything Changes Torchwood
|clip3                 = Gwen Officially Joins Torchwood Everything Changes Torchwood
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'''''Everything Changes''''' was the first episode in [[Series 1 (Torchwood)|series 1]] of ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]''.

Though not a pilot episode, it carried many of the narrative burdens of one. It introduced the programme's regular characters, as well as recurring elements such as [[the Hub]], [[Myfanwy]], [[retcon]] and the [[Torchwood SUV]].

Written by [[Russell T Davies]], it had the distinction of being his only writing credit until the [[series 3 (Torchwood)|third series]]. It also bore certain structural commonalities with {{cs|Rose (TV story)}}, Davies's first episode of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Whereas the earlier script had introduced the mysterious [[Ninth Doctor]] through the eyes of [[Rose Tyler]], ''Everything Changes'' introduced its audience to the mysterious figure of Captain [[Jack Harkness]] through female protagonist [[Gwen Cooper]]. Indeed, long-standing fans of Davies's work would have recognised the structure from as far back as his early-1990s children's TV programme, {{wi|Dark Season}}.

The story was notable for an attempted bit of subterfuge: [[Indira Varma]] was included in the opening titles to suggest that her character, [[Suzie Costello]], was going to be a regular. Her death in the episode was meant to surprise the audience. Because [[BBC Three]] decided to air the first two episodes on the same night, however, the effect fell flat. Nevertheless, it did establish another recurring element of the programme: even main characters could die in ''Torchwood''. By the end of [[Series 4 (Torchwood)|series 4]], only two of the main cast listed in this episode would still be alive, namely Gwen and Jack.

22 October 2016 marked the 10th anniversary of ''Torchwood''. In celebration, and due to its popularity, cast and crew were invited to the Chapter Arts Centre in [[Cardiff]] for a special screening of this, the very first ever episode, to be shown for the fans.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160913041412/https://www.bafta.org/wales/whats-on/special-screening-10-years-of-torchwood BAFTA: 10 Years of Torchwood via the Wayback Machine]</ref>

== Synopsis ==
The [[Torchwood Three]] team arrives at the scene of a brutal [[murder]]. [[Gwen Cooper|PC Gwen Cooper]]'s curiosity is challenged by their attitude; their approach and their technology is at odds with everything she believes in. As she investigates them, she begins to uncover a dark, mysterious and dangerous world right in the heart of [[Cardiff]].

== Plot ==
[[Gwen Cooper|PC Gwen Cooper]] arrives on a [[rain]]y [[murder]] scene, the third of a series of recent killings, and watches as the forensic investigation unit is pulled, mid-investigation, to allow special access to a four-man team in civilian clothing from [[Torchwood Institute]]. A forensic tech believes that Torchwood is some kind of [[special ops]] group. Gwen's concerned about crime scene contamination and spots a good vantage point on a parking garage and runs up there to observe the team at work.

[[Jack Harkness|Captain Jack Harkness]] is waxing philosophical about the taste of contraceptives in the rain as his team sets up around the body. [[Owen Harper|Dr Owen Harper]] complains about the rain. [[Suzie Costello]] puts a metal [[Resurrection Gauntlet|gauntlet]] on her right [[hand]], then places her hand beneath the head of the [[corpse|murdered body]] and he revives. [[Toshiko Sato]] attempts to question the murder victim, but he takes some time to calm down, and he didn't see his murderer. They have some time remaining, and Tosh doesn't know what else to ask, but Jack does — he introduces himself and asks the victim his name — which is [[John Tucker]] — and he wants to know what death is like. John tells him he saw nothing and then falls dead again. Torchwood bickers over what went wrong until, suddenly, Jack yells up to Gwen, "What do you think?"

Gwen runs for it. When she makes it home, her [[boyfriend]] [[Rhys Williams]] is watching a drama. He mentions he saw the story of the murder on the news and Gwen lies, saying she wasn't involved. She lies awake in bed, watching the clock until at least 2 am.

The next morning, Gwen asks her friend [[Yvonne (Everything Changes)|Yvonne]] to do her a favour and look up Captain Jack Harkness. She serves beverages at a briefing about a series of murders, where they mention that the murders were done with the same weapon, some sort of blade. She and her partner respond to a bar brawl and Gwen gets a good knock to the head. She sees a doctor at the hospital and, as she's leaving, she catches sight of a man in a long coat heading up the stairs. She follows up the stairs to the top floor, which is sealed with plastic and caution tape. She hears a porter entering from the floor below and asks him who sealed off the top floor. He'd assumed it was the police or somebody spraying chemicals. She returns and pushes her way through the plastic. She sees what she assumes to be a [[Weevil|strange looking man wearing a mask]] at the other end of the floor. She asks if he's seen the man in the long coat, but there is no reply, only a soft growl. She keeps talking, with no response. The porter comes through, saying he asked around and couldn't find why it was sealed. He admires the workmanship of the mask, especially the teeth, when the creature bites him in the throat and his blood sprays.

Jack bursts in, and as his team sprays the creature with something and hoods it, he rushes Gwen out of the hallway. She keeps running until she's outside, where she's catching her breath when the [[Torchwood SUV]] nearly hits her. She chases it in her patrol car, leaving her partner behind. She calls in the plate to control, and Yvonne asks if she's seeing ghosts, as there has been no Captain Jack Harkness save for an American volunteer that disappeared [[21 January]] [[1941]].

Gwen follows the SUV to the Wales Millennium Centre, where it drops off the four she'd seen before, and drives away. She quickly parks the patrol car and follows them, yelling to them, but they ignore her. Security distracts her, telling her she needs to move her car, and when she turns back they are gone. Control has no record of the plate, and her partner [[Andy Davidson]] shows up, complaining about the walk from the hospital. He says there is no staff missing from the hospital and takes her home.

Even though Rhys has dinner waiting, Gwen lies and says she needs to work. She stakes out the Millennium centre, eventually going to [[Jubilee Pizza]], where they say they deliver to Torchwood. Gwen brings [[pizza]] to a small office by the pier. She says they're for Mr Harkness, and [[Ianto Jones]] presses a buzzer and points her down a secret passage.

She enters [[Torchwood Three]] and a vault door rolls closed behind her, then a metal cage closes around the vault door. She gets her first view of [[the Hub]], including a water feature in the centre, a [[The Doctor's hand|severed hand]] in a bubbling container, and a woman welding. Jack walks down to a desk and they all ignore her... Until Owen and Tosh break down laughing, and we find they've been watching her stalk them for the last three hours. Jack immediately brings up the fact Gwen sneaked in as a pizza girl and asks his team, "And before we go any further, who the hell orders pizza under the name of Torchwood?" Owen replies back, "Me. I'm sorry. I'm a twat."

Gwen confronts them about what she has seen. Tosh says she covered up the murder of the porter, as it's her job to do so. Gwen dodges a [[pterodactyl]] as Jack takes her to show her the murderer, telling her it's an alien being they call a Weevil. He brings her back to the main room and introduces the team, over Gwen's protest that it's classified. Jack ignores her concern and gives everyone an assignment, including Gwen.

Jack takes Gwen out the [[Invisible lift|scenic route]], a [[granite]] slab that lifts them up to the pavement in front of the water tower, where she saw them disappear the night before. Jack demonstrates that the people walking by can't see or hear them until they step off the paving slab. She asks how it works, and he says he has no idea, but he might guess that "there was once a [[TARDIS|dimensionally transcendental chameleon circuit]] placed right on this spot, which welded its [[Perception filter|perception properties]] to a [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|spatial-temporal rift]]."

They go to a bar, where Jack ridicules Gwen's disbelief after [[Sycorax invasion of Earth|the Christmas invasion]] and the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]]. He establishes that they catch aliens and scavenge their tech, and don't answer to anyone so that no one government can abuse the power. Gwen's pretty sure they can abuse it themselves, even if there's a rule about no tech leaving the base. They're the third Torchwood, and they're in Cardiff because there is a rift in Cardiff that drops all sorts of alien things there. Gwen assumes that they've been trying to solve the blade murders, but Jack tells her that's not what they're doing. They were only there to get practice using the [[resurrection gauntlet]], which requires recently deceased murder victims, the more violent the death, the better. Although Gwen feels she has a duty to act, Jack reveals that he's drugged her drink with an [[amnesia]] pill of Jack's design, laced with a sedative. She says she could just tell somebody else — and Jack threatens to do the same to anyone she tells. Gwen runs for home.

Meanwhile, Tosh, Owen, and Suzie have all taken alien items from the base. Tosh scans a copy of ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' with one touch and uploads it to her computer. Owen tries to pick up a girl, who shuts him down until he sprays himself with a spray bottle; then she grabs him, kisses him, and drags him out. Her boyfriend catches up with them and is about to punch him when Owen sprays himself again... and the boyfriend kisses him. Owen calls for a taxi. Suzie uses the gauntlet to resurrect a dead fly.

Gwen is home, hurriedly typing notes about Torchwood. Her vision gets blurry and she makes more and more typos until she passes out. Ianto hacks into her home computer and erases her notes. In the morning, Rhys brings her a drink, worrying that she'd been drinking with a head injury. At work, Yvonne asks her about Captain Jack, and Gwen doesn't know what she's talking about. Over by the murder investigation, they've reconstructed the very odd blade weapon from the shape of the wounds. Gwen says she hasn't seen it, but she spends the rest of her day in a daze, until it is 2am and she is, again, awake and staring at the clock. As she closes her eyes to sleep, she remembers that she's seen the blade. She goes back to her computer room and draws the blade on the back of an envelope. She can't remember, but her mental image includes sparks and smoke. She sees a brochure for the Wales Millennium Centre with the word "REMEMBER" scrawled on it.

Gwen goes to [[Roald Dahl Plass]], and Suzie is waiting for her outside the water tower. They face off next to the paving stones on either side of the lift. Gwen remembers the welding gear. Suzie pulls out the knife, saying she's the only one who bothered to read the police report, and she knew that the sight of the knife could break Gwen's amnesia. While Gwen tries to remember, Suzie fumbles with her bag and then pulls out a handgun, saying Gwen is the only person in the public that could make the link. She loves her job but it's driving her mad. She killed three people to practice with the glove, as she thinks that if she becomes good enough with it she could resurrect people permanently. While she is ranting, Jack comes up on the lift. Suzie continues to rant until she says that the perception filter doesn't work on her, and she shoots Jack in the forehead. Gwen gasps.

Suzie cocks the gun and aims it at Gwen, who gasps again as Jack stands up behind Suzie. The hole in his head heals before their eyes. He says it's over, but Suzie has her own ideas about that. She shoots herself in the head and falls down as Gwen says, "I remember."

Ianto seals away the gauntlet and the knife in a lockbox. Owen and Tosh return their devices to the base. Jack zips Suzie's body into a bag and puts her into a cold storage facility in the Hub.

On top of the Millennium centre, Gwen asks why Jack didn't tell Owen and Tosh he was shot in the head and survived. Jack says that Gwen didn't tell them either. He confesses that he was killed a long time ago and [[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|brought back to life]], and since then he can't die. Maybe if he finds the right sort of [[The Doctor|doctor]] he can explain it. He doesn't tell people because it freaks them out, so he asks Gwen to keep it quiet.

He offers Gwen a job, and she accepts, as the pterodactyl flies overhead.

== Cast ==
* [[Jack Harkness|Captain Jack Harkness]] - [[John Barrowman]]
* [[Gwen Cooper]] - [[Eve Myles]]
* [[Owen Harper]] - [[Burn Gorman]]
* [[Toshiko Sato]] - [[Naoko Mori]]
* [[Ianto Jones]] - [[Gareth David-Lloyd]]
* [[Rhys Williams]] - [[Kai Owen]]
* [[Suzie Costello]] - [[Indira Varma]]
* [[Young policeman (Everything Changes)|Young cop]] - [[Guy Lewis]]
* [[Andy Davidson|P.C. Andy]] - [[Tom Price]]
* [[Scene-of-crime officer (Everything Changes)|SOCO]] - [[Jason May]]
* [[John Tucker|Body]] - [[Rhys Swinburn]]
* [[Yvonne (Everything Changes)|Yvonne]] - [[Olwen Medi]]
* [[Jacobs (Everything Changes)|D.I. Jacobs]] - [[Gwyn Vaughan Jones]]
* [[Officer (Everything Changes)|Officer]] - [[Dion Davis]]
* [[Hospital porter (Everything Changes)|Hospital porter]] - [[Jâms Thomas|James Thomas]]
* [[Janet (Everything Changes)|Weevil]] - [[Paul Kasey]]
* [[Security guard (Everything Changes)|Security Guard]] - [[Mark Heal]]
* [[Pizza lad (Everything Changes)|Pizza lad]] - [[Gary Sheppeard]]
* [[Colin (Everything Changes)|Man]] - [[Gwilym Havard Davies]]
* [[Linda (Everything Changes)|Woman]] - [[Cathryn Davis]]

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== Worldbuilding ==
* [[SOCO]]s investigate John Tucker's body.
* Jack tastes [[oestrogen]] in the rain.
* Andy believes Torchwood are [[DNA specialist]]s.
* Andy jokes that in CSI Cardiff, "they'd be measuring the velocity of a [[kebab]]".
* The porter suggests the Weevil try [[plastic surgery]].
* Jack uses [[Retcon]] on Gwen.
* Colin calls Owen a "[[tosser]]".
* Suzie and Andy use the word "[[bollocks]]" as an insult.

=== Individuals ===
* Andy asks Gwen if she is going to [[Slimbo]]'s.
* Jack implies that, at one point in his life, he's been [[Pregnancy|pregnant]], as he's "never doing that again."
* Rhys has been visited by [[Banana Boat]].
* Beyond John Tucker, victims include [[Sarah Pallister]] and [[Rani Ghosh]].
* The porter asks [[Mahib|Dr Mahib]] about the cordoned off section of the hospital.
* Yvonne states that [[Temple (Everything Changes)|Temple]] has been asking about Gwen, suggesting she may be in trouble.
* [[Myfanwy]] flies over Gwen's head.
* Jack mentions investigating [[Chandler and Bell]].
* Rhys questions if Gwen has been "out on the lash" with [[Diane (Everything Changes)|Diane]].
* Andy has been arguing football with [[Geoff (Everything Changes)|Geoff]].
* Jack is looking for "[[The Doctor|the right sort of doctor]]".

=== Species ===
* Jack mentions the [[Bronze Dalek|Daleks]] and [[Cybusman|Cybermen]].
* Suzie resurrects a [[fly]].

=== Geography ===
* John Tucker was murdered on [[Llangyfelach Lane]] in the [[Cardiff city centre|city centre]].
* [[Rani Ghosh]] was murdered in [[Robintree Alley]].
* Police have cameras watching roads at [[Coryton]] and [[Tredegar Park]].
* Yvonne checks the SUV licence plate with colleagues in [[Swansea]].
* Torchwood has a base beneath [[Cardiff Bay]].

=== Events ===
* Jack mentions the [[Sycorax invasion of Earth|Sycorax ship over London]] on [[Christmas Day]] and the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]]. Rhys was convinced that such events were a form of [[terrorism]] and mass [[hallucination]]s caused by psychotropic [[drug]]s in the [[water supply]].

=== Organisations ===
==== Torchwood ====
* [[Police|Local law enforcement]] considers Torchwood a Special Ops branch.
* Jack states that Torchwood is separate from the [[British government|government]], outside the [[police]] and beyond the [[United Nations]].
* [[Torchwood One]] was in [[London]], but it was destroyed during the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]].
* [[Torchwood Two]] is in [[Glasgow]] and is run by [[Archie (The Twilight Streets)|a very strange man]].
* [[Torchwood Four]] has gone missing, but Jack is hoping to find it again sometime soon.
* There is a staircase consisting of 105 steps between the [[Torchwood Tourist Information Centre]] and the [[Torchwood Hub]].

=== Technology ===
* Torchwood owns an [[Torchwood SUV|SUV]]. The registration number is ''[[CF06 FDU]]''.
* [[Jack Harkness' vortex manipulator|Jack's vortex manipulator]] remotely controls the paving-stone lift up to [[Roald Dahl Plass]].
* Toshiko uses a [[data scanner]].
* Owen uses a [[perfume (Everything Changes)|pheromone spray]].
* Suzie uses the [[resurrection gauntlet]].
* The murder weapon is a [[Life knife|three-bladed knife]].

=== Businesses ===
* Gwen visits [[Jubilee Pizza]].

=== Food and drink ===
* Rhys and Banana Boat have been drinking [[tea]].
* Rhys suggests Gwen eat [[Chinese]] food from the fridge.
* Rhys cooks [[hot pot]].

=== Popular Culture ===
* [[Graffiti]] of [[Pac-Man]] in front of 2 [[Pac-Dot]]s is painted on a wall.
* Andy mentions [[CSI]].
* The porter likens the Weevil to ''[[Hellraiser]]''.
* Toshiko scans ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' by [[Charles Dickens]]. Characters in the book include [[Cruncher (character)|Mr Cruncher]], [[Lorry (character)|Mr Lorry]], [[Manette|Miss Manette]], [[Doctor Manette]], [[Jacques One]], [[Jacques Two]], [[Defarge]], the [[Mender of Roads]], a [[hungry man]] and a [[Marquis (A Tale of Two Cities character)|Marquis]].
* A poster advertising a [[Doctor Who Exhibition (in-universe)|''Doctor Who'' Exhibition]] in Cardiff is present.

== Notes ==
* This story had the working title ''"Flotsam and Jetsam"''.<ref>[http://www.shannonsullivan.com/doctorwho/torchwood/2006a.html?id=omahony Production Notes for Everything Changes]</ref>
* ''Everything Changes'' was transmitted back-to-back with ''[[Day One (TV story)|Day One]]'' on its UK premiere. The episode was repeated on its own on [[BBC Two]], three days later at 9:00pm on Wednesday [[25 October (releases)|25 October]] [[2006 (releases)|2006]].
* This is the only episode where [[Indira Varma]] has her name included in the opening credits. This was done to keep viewers from anticipating that her character would die in this episode, by making her seem like a regular cast member. She was also heavily featured in publicity materials released prior to the broadcast of the episode.
* As the first post-watershed production of the ''Doctor Who'' franchise, the episode features several firsts, including the first use of the F-word in a televised ''Doctor Who'' franchise production, along with a few other strong expletives. The frequency and intensity of swearing on ''Torchwood'' would be dialled back in its later seasons.
* Yvonne mentions [[21 January]] [[1941]] during [[the Blitz]] as the day Jack failed to report for duty. This would suggest that [[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Dances (TV story)|The Doctor Dances]]'' took place on the evening of [[20 January]] [[1941]].
* Owen shows bisexual tendencies when he first seduces a girl and then, more or less to avoid trouble, seduces her boyfriend too and goes off with both of them.
* After broadcasting, it was suggested that Owen's use of the [[perfume (Everything Changes)|pheromone spray]] in the episode was effectively "date rape".<ref>[http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a84181/cult-spy-catching-up-with-torchwood.html Cult Spy: Catching Up With 'Torchwood'] Accessed on 11th October 2008</ref>
* According to a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] file in the 2011 episode ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'', Gwen is said to have joined Torchwood in [[October]] [[2006]]. [[Aliens of London dating controversy|This clashes with and contradicts dates given in several other stories]].

=== Deleted and edited scenes ===
* A pre-credits sequence of Gwen and Jack on top of the Millennium Centre in a flash forward to the end of the story was cut from the finished programme, but appears on the deleted scenes of the series one box set.
* A scene showing [[John Tucker]] being chased and murdered was shot but was eventually dropped.
* Two alternative scenes were shot showing Gwen being retconned — the one in a traditional bar was dropped in favour of the Buffalo Bar that was used for transmission.
* Several scenes were trimmed from the episode for broadcast on the [[CBC]] in Canada, including a scene in which Owen, using the pheromone spray, also seduces the blonde's angry boyfriend.

=== Ratings ===
* 2.52 million viewers

=== Filming locations ===
* Millicent Street, [[Cardiff]], [[Wales]] ''(Resurrection in the [[rain]])''
* NCP Tredegar Street, Cardiff, Wales ''(Gwen spies on Torchwood resurrecting)''
* NCP Cardiff Rapports, Cardiff, Wales
* Old Natwest Bank, Cardiff ''(Entrance of the police station)''
* Dorset Street, Cardiff, Wales
* Cornwall (pub), Cardiff, Wales ''(Pub where Gwen and Andy break up the fight)''
* Newport Road Lane, Cardiff ''(Location where Gwen first sees the Torchwood SUV)''
* A4232 (Grangetown/Butetown Link), Cardiff ''(Gwen in pursuit of the Torchwood SUV)''
* Mumbai Bay Takeaway, James Street, Cardiff ''(Jubilee Pizza, where Gwen goes tracking down Torchwood)''
* Cardiff Castle, Cardiff ''(Part of the tunnel entrance into Torchwood)''
* Icon, Cardiff, Wales ''(Location where Owen tries the spray)''
* Buffalo Bar, Cardiff, Wales ''(Bar where Jack and Gwen have a beer, prior to him retconning her)''
* [[St Mary's Street]], Cardiff
* Altolusso, Bute Terrace, Cardiff ''(One of the tall building shots with Jack standing on top)''
* King Edward VII Avenue (A4161 underpass), Cardiff ''(Location where Gwen runs home after her meeting with Jack and her subsequent retconning)''
* Mermaid Quayside, Cardiff Bay ''(The tourist information shop/entrance to Torchwood)''
* [[Roald Dahl Plass]], Cardiff ''(Exterior of Torchwood)''
* [[Upper Boat Studios]], Upper Boat Tonteg Road, Treforest Industrial Estate, Pontypridd

=== Broadcasts ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Date
!Time
!Channel
!class="unsortable"|Notes
|-
|[[Sunday]] [[22 October (releases)|22 October]] [[2006 (releases)|2006]]
|21:00
|[[BBC Three]]
|First broadcast.
|-
|[[Wednesday]] [[25 October (releases)|25 October]] [[2006 (releases)|2006]]
|21:00
|[[BBC Two England]]
|
|-
|[[Sunday]] [[7 January (releases)|7 January]] [[2007 (releases)|2007]]
|22:00
|[[BBC Three]]
|
|-
|[[Monday]] [[8 January (releases)|8 January]] [[2007 (releases)|2007]]
|03:25
|[[BBC Three]]
|
|-
|[[Friday]] [[14 September (releases)|14 September]] [[2007 (releases)|2007]]
|21:00
|[[BBC Three]]
|
|-
|[[Saturday]] [[15 September (releases)|15 September]] [[2007 (releases)|2007]]
|02:40
|[[BBC Three]]
|
|-
|[[Thursday]] [[15 April (releases)|15 April]] [[2010 (releases)|2010]]
|22:45
|[[BBC HD]]
|
|}

=== Production errors ===
{{Torchwood discontinuity}}
* When Jack and Gwen run from the Weevil at the hospital, Jack's [[Torchwood earpiece|earpiece]] falls from his ear, before reappearing on his ear in the next shot, then vanishes again in the next shot afterwards.

== Continuity ==
* The [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift]] was first encountered by the [[Ninth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]] in [[1869]] when the invasion of the [[Gelth]] was stopped by [[Gwyneth (The Unquiet Dead)|Gwyneth]] as depicted in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Unquiet Dead (TV story)}}.
* Jack continues to wear [[Jack Harkness' vortex manipulator|his vortex manipulator]] on his wrist, which he was first seen wearing in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Empty Child (TV story)}}. It is revealed later that the [[time travel]] and [[teleportation]] functions of the manipulator are burned out during the events of [[TV]]: {{cs|Utopia (TV story)}}
* [[Jubilee Pizza]], a fictional brand of pizza introduced in the ''Doctor Who'' episode {{cs|Dalek (TV story)}} as [[List of references to other DWU media in live-action BBC stories|a reference]] to [[Jubilee (audio story)|the audio drama it was adapted from]], makes an appearance in this episode.
* Jack mentions the Sycorax spaceship over London as seen in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Christmas Invasion (TV story)}}, and the [[Battle of Canary Wharf]] that happened in [[TV]]: {{cs|Doomsday (TV story)}}.
* The [[perception filter]] properties of the paving stone are implied to be a side effect of when [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] stood on that spot and, prompted by the trapped programming of the [[tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator]], began to open the [[Cardiff Rift]] as shown in [[TV]]: {{cs|Boom Town (TV story)}}.

== Home video releases ==
[[File:TWS1Part1.jpg|thumb|Series one, part one DVD cover]]

=== DVD releases ===
* This episode, with four others, was first released on a DVD entitled ''Torchwood: Series 1, part 1'' on [[26 December (releases)|26 December]] [[2006 (releases)|2006]].
* It was later released in ''Torchwood: The Complete First Series'' on [[19 November (releases)|19 November]] [[2007 (releases)|2007]].
* It was also released in the Series 1-4 DVD boxset. (Region 2 release: [[14 November (releases)|14 November]] [[2011 (releases)|2011]])
* It was released in Brazil, with all the other episodes in the series, on a DVD entitled ''Torchwood: Primeira Temporada''.

=== Blu-ray releases ===
* This episode was released on Blu-ray in the US with the rest of Series 1 as a Complete First Season set on [[16 September (releases)|16 September]] [[2008 (releases)|2008]].

* It was released in the Series 1-3 Blu-ray boxset on [[26 October (releases)|26 October]] [[2009 (releases)|2009]] in the UK. The US release was on [[19 July (releases)|19 July]] [[2011 (releases)|2011]].
* It was also released in the Series 1-4 Blu-ray boxset. (Region 2 release: [[14 November (releases)|14 November]] [[2011 (releases)|2011]])

== External links ==
{{dwrefguide|torchwood_01.htm|Everything Changes}}
* {{briefhistory|torchwood/2006a.html|Everything Changes}}
* {{locguide|everythingchanges|Everything Changes}}
* {{whoniverse|tw1_01|Everything Changes}}
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchwood/sites/episodes/series1/ep01_everythingchanges.shtml BBC Website - Torchwood Episode Guide: '''Everything Changes''']

== Footnotes ==
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