Theory:Torchwood television discontinuity and plot holes/Small Worlds

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• Captain Jack claims he does not sleep (TV: Ghost Machine) but at the beginning of this episode he does.

He could have simple being closing his eyes, or attempting to get some sleep. It could also be possible that Jack was simply exaggerating or simply lying. He may have just meant he doesn't need sleep and not that it is biologically impossible for him to sleep at all.

• Fairies kill people who cause harm to chosen ones, then why did they kill Estelle who wouldn't hurt a fly?

They don't just kill those who harm the Chosen Ones. They're not kind faeries, as Jack stated. They kill anyone who gets too close, it is also possible that they were worried if people knew about them, they would develop a way to stop them.

You also have to think about the mess at Gwen's place. She did nothing against the Chosen One as such. A possible explanation is that the faeries travel through time, as the ending of the episode suggests, and from Jack's first explanation "backwards and forwards through time". So the faeries knew that ultimately, it would be Jack's decision to let the Chosen One go. Killing Estelle gives their threat "lots of people will die" weight. As Gwen is the only one witnessing the scene, the mess in her place would have the same purpose.

• If several people were chocking at once wouldn't there be choking noises

I assume this question refers to the scene with Jack's squad. At this point in the episode, we only saw the child molester's choking, and it was noisy. But in the end scene, we see how Roy dies : the faery plunges his arm inside the victim's mouth, and there is no choking as such, and it actually isn't noisy. There still should be noises from the struggle.

• Why didn't they kill Jack? Assuming this was before Rose made him immortal.

Jack hadn't done anything. Or, if this was after Rose made him immortal, and the faeries wanted him dead anyway for whatever reason, they may have known he was immortal and decided that killing him would be a lost cause.

The entire squad was killed and quoting Jack "some of them got drunk, drove a truck into the village, ran over a child, killed her". The faeries did not make any difference between the members of the squad while only some of them were responsible, so an explanation on the basis that Jack hadn't done anything wouldn't be consistent.