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In [[Series 2 (Torchwood)|series 2]], ''[[Meat (TV story)|Meat]]'' is said to be a year after [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]] is recruited to [[Torchwood Three]] (which happened in the series 1 premiere ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]''), while in ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'', [[Jack Harkness|Jack]], after being unearthed by Torchwood staff in [[1901]], asks to be frozen for 107 years. Both of these facts strongly seem to place all of series 2 in 2008. | In [[Series 2 (Torchwood)|series 2]], ''[[Meat (TV story)|Meat]]'' is said to be a year after [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]] is recruited to [[Torchwood Three]] (which happened in the series 1 premiere ''[[Everything Changes (TV story)|Everything Changes]]''), while in ''[[Exit Wounds (TV story)|Exit Wounds]]'', [[Jack Harkness|Jack]], after being unearthed by Torchwood staff in [[1901]], asks to be frozen for 107 years. Both of these facts strongly seem to place all of series 2 in 2008. | ||
However, in ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'' (set on the same day as '' | However, in ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'' (set on the same day as ''Exit Wounds''), [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]]'s flashback to his recruitment to Torchwood is displayed in a caption as taking place 21 months, or one year nine months, ago. Based on earlier evidence, including a scene in ''Love & Monsters'' set in part in [[March]] 2007, and ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'' and ''[[Doomsday (TV story)|Doomsday]]'' (set during the battle where Ianto loses his prior job at [[Torchwood One]]) having [[Ghost Shift|ghosts appearing]] for two months being news to the Tenth Doctor and Rose (which means that the Battle of Canary Wharf happened in ''at least'' May 2007), and assuming that Ianto joined Torchwood Three immediately after most of Torchwood One is wiped out, the "21 months earlier" flashback would mean that ''Fragments'' and ''Exit Wounds'' are set, at the very earliest, in February of ''2009''. | ||
Confusing matters further, according to Gwen Cooper's [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] file in ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'', Gwen joined Torchwood (as seen in ''Everything Changes'') in October ''2006''. | Confusing matters further, according to Gwen Cooper's [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] file in ''[[The New World (TV story)|The New World]]'', Gwen joined Torchwood (as seen in ''Everything Changes'') in October ''2006''. |