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Jack and Ianto follow the trace radiation through [[the Hub]] and into one of Torchwood’s long, unmapped tunnels. As they walk, Jack theorises that one of the Torchwood team snuck the artefact out in the [[1950s]], recalling that a few Torchwood members at that time would sell [[alien]] [[Artefact|artefacts]] at auction. Just then, Jack receives a message from Tosh. | Jack and Ianto follow the trace radiation through [[the Hub]] and into one of Torchwood’s long, unmapped tunnels. As they walk, Jack theorises that one of the Torchwood team snuck the artefact out in the [[1950s]], recalling that a few Torchwood members at that time would sell [[alien]] [[Artefact|artefacts]] at auction. Just then, Jack receives a message from Tosh. | ||
It’s late in the day, and Gwen and Tosh are at the docks. They visit the scene of the private investigator’s murder. According to the records of their initial investigation of the murder, police were unable to search one [[Padlock|padlocked]] [[warehouse]] because they had insufficient evidence to get a [[Search warrant|warrant]]. Gwen suspects that, if the artefact was at the docks in the 1950s, it would have been stored in that warehouse. When they reach the warehouse, Tosh and Gwen unlock the bolts inside the door using an alien [[Magnetic lockpick|magnetic beam generator]]. Inside they find what appears to be a [[temple]], with [[Tapestry|tapestries]] of bloodied women on the walls and [[Mummy|mummified bodies]] laid across the floor. The corpses are all wearing identical [[Robe|robes]], leading Gwen to suggest that they’ve uncovered members of a [[cult]]. Tosh scans one of the bodies, sending the information back to the Hub for Jack and Owen to analyse. Gwen ventures further into the temple, but there’s no artefact in sight. When she returns to Tosh she finds her on the phone to the Hub. Jack notes that their robes match a cult of religious fanatics active in Cardiff in the 1970s who worshipped alien artefacts. He then informs Gwen and Tosh that, according to the detective’s [[Bank statement|bank statements]], his last payment before he was killed came from Dimitri Arkanovitch, a [[billionaire]] with ties to the [[Russian Mafia]]. Jack theorises that Arkanovitch used his criminal contacts to steal the sculpture from the cult, then had the detective killed to cover his tracks. | It’s late in the day, and Gwen and Tosh are at the docks. They visit the scene of the private investigator’s murder. According to the records of their initial investigation of the murder, police were unable to search one [[Padlock|padlocked]] [[warehouse]] because they had insufficient evidence to get a [[Search warrant|warrant]]. Gwen suspects that, if the artefact was at the docks in the 1950s, it would have been stored in that warehouse. When they reach the warehouse, Tosh and Gwen unlock the bolts inside the door using an alien [[Magnetic lockpick|magnetic beam generator]]. Inside they find what appears to be a [[temple]], with [[Tapestry|tapestries]] of bloodied women on the walls and [[Mummy|mummified bodies]] laid across the floor. The corpses are all wearing identical [[Robe|robes]], leading Gwen to suggest that they’ve uncovered members of a [[cult]]. Tosh scans one of the bodies, sending the information back to the Hub for Jack and Owen to analyse. Gwen ventures further into the temple, but there’s no artefact in sight. When she returns to Tosh she finds her on the phone to the Hub. Jack notes that their robes match a cult of religious fanatics active in Cardiff in the 1970s who worshipped alien artefacts. He then informs Gwen and Tosh that, according to the detective’s [[Bank statement|bank statements]], his last payment before he was killed came from Dimitri Arkanovitch, a [[billionaire]] with ties to the [[Russia|Russian]] [[Mafia]]. Jack theorises that Arkanovitch used his criminal contacts to steal the sculpture from the cult, then had the detective killed to cover his tracks. | ||
Gwen and Tosh then set out to pay Arkanovitch a visit. When they arrive at the [[Arkanovitch Hotel]] they find the sculpture sitting on a pedestal in the centre of the hotel’s atrium. Gwen stares into the moving shapes and lights, recalling the hours she would spend looking into her parents’ [[fireplace]] as a child. Her reverie is interrupted when Tosh tells her the artefact isn’t a sculpture at all. She removes a panel from the pedestal to reveal a tangle of alien [[Circuitry|circuity]]. Jack, Ianto and Owen then arrive. Jack and Tosh explain that the light inside the orb is an [[anti-matter]] [[explosion]], caught a [[femto-second]] after detonation and frozen in place by a combined, concentrated [[Time field|time-field]] and [[Magnetic field|magnetic-field]]. Jack explains that the device is a kind of [[Trojan Horse]], specifically a suspended [[Nuclear weapon|nuclear explosion]] which can be smuggled into a city disguised as a work of art, ready to be unleashed remotely at any time. Reassuring Gwen, he says that the device was never intended for use in Cardiff, and drifted through [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|the Rift]] accidentally. Tosh finishes examining the device, and tells the team that the explosion should remain contained for another few [[Millennia|thousand years]]. However, she notes that some of the wiring is loose, which might account for the radiation leaks. After Tosh fixes the loose wiring the Torchwood team leave the hotel, planning to return later and [[Heist|re-steal]] the artefact before sending it away from Cardiff through the Rift. | Gwen and Tosh then set out to pay Arkanovitch a visit. When they arrive at the [[Arkanovitch Hotel]] they find the sculpture sitting on a pedestal in the centre of the hotel’s atrium. Gwen stares into the moving shapes and lights, recalling the hours she would spend looking into her parents’ [[fireplace]] as a child. Her reverie is interrupted when Tosh tells her the artefact isn’t a sculpture at all. She removes a panel from the pedestal to reveal a tangle of alien [[Circuitry|circuity]]. Jack, Ianto and Owen then arrive. Jack and Tosh explain that the light inside the orb is an [[anti-matter]] [[explosion]], caught a [[femto-second]] after detonation and frozen in place by a combined, concentrated [[Time field|time-field]] and [[Magnetic field|magnetic-field]]. Jack explains that the device is a kind of [[Trojan Horse]], specifically a suspended [[Nuclear weapon|nuclear explosion]] which can be smuggled into a city disguised as a work of art, ready to be unleashed remotely at any time. Reassuring Gwen, he says that the device was never intended for use in Cardiff, and drifted through [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|the Rift]] accidentally. Tosh finishes examining the device, and tells the team that the explosion should remain contained for another few [[Millennia|thousand years]]. However, she notes that some of the wiring is loose, which might account for the radiation leaks. After Tosh fixes the loose wiring the Torchwood team leave the hotel, planning to return later and [[Heist|re-steal]] the artefact before sending it away from Cardiff through the Rift. | ||
