Everything Changes (TV story): Difference between revisions

|main character= [[Jack Harkness|Jack]], [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]], [[Toshiko Sato|Tosh]], [[Owen Harper|Owen]], [[Ianto Jones|Ianto]], [[Suzie Costello|Suzie]]

|writer= [[Russell T Davies]]

|director = [[Brian Kelly]]

|producer = [[Richard Stokes]]

|network = [[BBC Three]]

|broadcast date= [[22 October (releases)|22 October]] [[2006 (releases)|2006]]

The [[Torchwood Three]] team arrives at the scene of a brutal [[murder]]. [[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]].

[[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|Doctor 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 gasps. [[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 the 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.

They go to a bar, where Jack ridicules Gwen's disbelief after 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.

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 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.