Theory:Torchwood television discontinuity and plot holes/Adrift

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• The team (Gwen in particular) seem surprised that the rift can take people, despite it happening in Captain Jack Harkness, End of Days and Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.

Perhaps it's because this is the first time we see it just happening, and not provoked by pre-existing rift activity, screwing with the rift manipulator, or a well-placed explosion.

• Why in the world is Jack going to so much trouble to keep anyone else on the team from knowing that the rift takes people and that he helps those who make it back?

Because of the state they return in.

And yet, Ianto is allowed to know, even though he hasn't been on the Torchwood Cardiff team as long as Tosh or Owen, and apparently the organization employs special doctors and caretakers for the people who come back. So why aren't Owen, Tosh, or Gwen allowed to know?

Jack and Ianto had a special connection from the moment they met and it is heavily implied that they have a relationship and so Jack felt that he could trust the secret to Ianto. Many people would tell their boyfriend in that situation, esp. if he worked with you. Ianto is in charge of the archives, and knows all the codes and passwords, including the ones for Jack's secure archive in his office - therefore why wouldn't Jack trust him with the knowledge of Flat Holm Island?

• Why didn't Jack or any of the other doctors/nurses working at the facility think to warn Gwen about Jonah's screaming fits before she brought his mum there? Unless Jack wanted Gwen to learn the hard way?

• Why didn't they just retcon Nikki since she explicitly said that she'd prefer to have never known?