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[[Jack Harkness|Jack]], [[Owen Harper|Owen]] and [[Gwen Cooper|Gwen]] pursue a man through the [[Cardiff]] streets, while [[Toshiko Sato|Toshiko]] tracks his alien energy signature through the CCTV network. Gwen separates from the group, chasing down the suspect into [[Cardiff Central Station|a train station]], and is able to grab the man's jacket but he gets out of it and runs away. Gwen discovers an alien device in the jacket pocket, and when she activates it, she sees a brief vision of the past, a young lost boy wandering the train station. Gwen remembers a name tag worn by the boy, and the team tracks down the name to a old man in Cardiff. He admits that during the World War II evacuation, he was sent to Cardiff. With no one to meet him, he wandered through the train station. The group determines from further analysis that the [[nanotechnology]] of the "[[Quantum transducer|Ghost device]]" lets people see moments of the past spurred by strong human emotions, and try to learn how their suspect came upon such technology.

They find the suspect is Sean "Bernie" Harris, a petty thief from [[Splott]], and go there to find him. Unsuccessful, they return to the train station to try the device again. Owen activates it while under a bridge, where he witnesses the rape and murder of a young woman named Lizzie Lewis in the 1960s by a man named Ed Morgan. Returning to the Hub, the team researches the crime to confirm what Owen saw. Ed was interrogated but never accused of the crime. Owen insists on trying to bring Ed to justice despite the case being long closed, and trackd Ed on his own. He confronts the elderly Ed but gets no information out of him; leaving his house, he catches Bernie. He takes Bernie to a pub while the rest of Torchwood is en route. Bernie explains he found the device in a tin of random objects from an old lady, and that he too saw the murder of Lizzie. He wonders if the team wants the "other half". Torchwood follows Bernieto his home to retrieve the other objects in the tin, all alien objects that fell from the Rift. Bernie used the other half once. It showed him bleeding to death outside his home at his current age. As they leave, Gwen accidentally triggers the second half, and has a vision of herself holding a bloody knife, calling out in vain to Owen. Jack tries to calm Gwen, claiming it may be only a possible future.