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Jack takes Gwen out the [[Invisible lift|scenic route]], a [[granite]] slab that lifts them up to the pavement in front of the water tower, where she saw them disappear the night before. Jack demonstrates that the people walking by can't see or hear them until they step off the paving slab. She asks how it works, and he says he has no idea, but he might guess that "there was once a [[TARDIS|dimensionally transcendental chameleon circuit]] placed right on this spot, which welded its [[Perception filter|perception properties]] to a [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|spatial-temporal rift]]." | Jack takes Gwen out the [[Invisible lift|scenic route]], a [[granite]] slab that lifts them up to the pavement in front of the water tower, where she saw them disappear the night before. Jack demonstrates that the people walking by can't see or hear them until they step off the paving slab. She asks how it works, and he says he has no idea, but he might guess that "there was once a [[TARDIS|dimensionally transcendental chameleon circuit]] placed right on this spot, which welded its [[Perception filter|perception properties]] to a [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|spatial-temporal rift]]." | ||
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. | They go to a bar, where Jack ridicules Gwen's disbelief after [[Sycorax invasion of Earth|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. | ||
Meanwhile, Tosh, Owen, and Suzie have all taken alien items from the base. Tosh scans a copy of ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' with one touch and uploads it to her computer. Owen tries to pick up a girl, who shuts him down until he sprays himself with a spray bottle; then she grabs him, kisses him, and drags him out. Her boyfriend catches up with them and is about to punch him when Owen sprays himself again... and the boyfriend kisses him. Owen calls for a taxi. Suzie uses the gauntlet to resurrect a dead fly. | Meanwhile, Tosh, Owen, and Suzie have all taken alien items from the base. Tosh scans a copy of ''[[A Tale of Two Cities]]'' with one touch and uploads it to her computer. Owen tries to pick up a girl, who shuts him down until he sprays himself with a spray bottle; then she grabs him, kisses him, and drags him out. Her boyfriend catches up with them and is about to punch him when Owen sprays himself again... and the boyfriend kisses him. Owen calls for a taxi. Suzie uses the gauntlet to resurrect a dead fly. | ||
