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Sacramental wine
Technically "sacramental wine" for use in "religious rituals" was exempted from Prohibition by the Volstead Act - which clarified the 18th Amendment for legal purposes... This detail would have been well known at the time especially by the Priest who would have used such for communion services... Naturally, Jack could have been making a joke by calling their presumably illegal product by an otherwise legal name.Watcher4200 02:08, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
The idea seemed to be that it was sacramental wine, which was legal, but the priest had some extra sacramental wine which he was selling for a profit. That wouldn't be legal as it was no longer being used for religious purposes.Icecreamdif 20:30, August 26, 2011 (UTC)
What was his plan?
Ok, so if his plan was to meet Jack... I suppose that we can assume that he was "too ill" to travel to Cardiff before the Miracle... He must have felt that Jack wouldn't have come willingly, so he planned to force Gwen into bringing him - he assumed that Gwen wouldn't cooperate, so he had to extort Gwen... And he didn't kidnap Gwen earlier because he didn't know where Gwen was until 'the Families' tried to kill 'silence' her (post miracle) - even though he knew where Torchwood was in order to get the Nullifier... Why did he turn the Nullifier on before Jack arrived?
If the Nullifier was turned on accidentally when Jack arrived, did Angelo not know that this would happen? But he knew how to assemble it correctly, so that it blocked the Morphic Fields but not anything else (like sounds instead). He must have known everything about it, except that it would activate when Jack approached, and he happened to leave it in this "ready but deactivated" condition?
Unless he planned to kill himself in front of Jack (what happened), so as to leave a "final puzzle" for Jack to solve - because this was a poetic reversal of Angelo studying Jack's life and deaths? Watcher4200 02:00, August 31, 2011 (UTC)
Perhaps Angelo wanted to die, and knew that the nullifier required Jack's presence, and figured that Jack wouldn't willingly visit (thus using Gwen)... Thus Angelo didn't really want to talk with Jack, and wasn't really doing this "for Jack's safety". I guess sending the message, "come visit me Jack, I have knowledge about The Miracle" didn't seem viable to Angelo. -Watcher4200 20:00, August 31, 2011 (UTC)