EVERYTHING CHANGES

Move 'em back they said. Leave it safe. Special access, they said.
Gwen Cooper: For who?
Torchwood.

Gwen: Who's Torchwood?
PC Andy: Special Ops or something. Is that hot?
Gwen: Ah yeah, have it. But they're not allowed in there. They could contaminate the evidence and all sorts. I mean how can they—
PC Andy: Don't ask me. There's no procedure any more. It's a disgrace.

Gwen: But those people last night—the people in the car. Who were they? What's Torchwood?
PC Andy: 'Don't know. Special Ops.
Gwen: Yeah, but what does that mean?
PC Andy: Bet you ten quid they're DNA specialists. It's all DNA these days. Like that CSI bollocks. CSI: Cardiff, I'd like to see that. They'd be measuring the velocity of a kebab.

Yvonne: No sign of Captain Jack Harkness.
Gwen: Did you search outside Cardiff?
Yvonne: No, that never even occurred to me. Of course I did. I went nationwide. There's about 15 Jacks and Johns with that surname. None of them's a Captain.
Gwen: Suppose he could have made it up.
Yvonne: The only Captain Jack Harkness on record is American.
Gwen: That's it—he's American.
Yvonne: Which you forgot to tell me.
Gwen: So who is he?
Yvonne: American volunteer. Royal Air Force. [?] Squadron. Except he disappeared. Vanished off the records, and presumed dead.
Gwen: When was that?
Yvonne: 1941. At the height of the Blitz. On the morning of january 21st, 1941, Captain Jack Harkness failed to report for duty. Never seen again until now. What's going on, Gwen? You seeing ghosts?

Gwen: Who are you?
Jack: Torchwood.
Gwen: What's Torchwood?
Jack: This is Torchwood.

Gwen: I'm getting tired of following you.
Jack: No you're not. And you never will.

Jack: That is so Welsh.
Gwen: What is?
Jack: I show you something fantastic, you find fault.

Gwen: The thing is I just don't understand—
Jack: I'll tell you what I don't understand. You're going to rattle on with that "How can this be true?" kind of shtick. What's it going to take for you people. If you want evidence of aliens, how about that great big spaceship hovering over London on Christmas day? What about the battle of Canary Wharf. A Cyberman in every home.
Gwen: My boyfriend says it's like a sort of terrorism. They put drugs in the water supplies. Psychotropic drugs. Causing mass hallucinations.
Jack: Yeah well, your boyfriend is stupid.
Gwen: Oh, you've met him.

Gwen: I did some research. And there's only one Captain Jack Harkness on record. And he disappeared in 1941.
Jack: Well that couldn't be me. Could it?

Gwen: So go on then. How the hell did you end up in Cardiff?
Jack: This is Torchwood Three. Torchwood One was London—destroyed in the battle. Torchwood Two is an office in Glasgow. A very strange man. Torchwood Three, Cardiff. Torchwood Four has kinda gone missing but we'll find it one day.
Gwen: So you just fancied Cardiff?
Jack: There's a rift in space and time running right through the city.

Gwen: If you let me go, I've got a duty. I can tell them what that does. Because that glove could help us.
Jack: If you remember.
Gwen: What do you mean?
Jack: How's your drink?
Gwen: Have you poisoned me?
Jack: Don't be so dramatic. It's an amnesia pill. My own recipe. With a touch of denial and a dash of retcon. Wake up tomorrow morning, you'll have forgot everything about Torchwood. Worse still, you'll have forgotten me. Which is kind of tragic.

DAY ONE

Jack: Alright, usual formation.
Gwen: What's the usual formation?
Owen: Varies.
Gwen: How can the usual formation vary?

Jack: What do we know?
Owen: Bog standard space debris. to Gwen That's a technical term.
Gwen: Yeah, thanks.

Owen: Make yourself useful, sweetheart. Pass us that big chisel from the toolbox.
Gwen: Not sweetheart. Gwen. One syllable, I'm sure you can manage it.
Owen: Not sweet cheeks. Freckles. New Girl.
Gwen: It's a shame your tool's not big enough for the job. Darlin'.

PC Andy: Gwen?
Gwen: Hi.
PC Andy: Bloody hell. Look at you all posh. Special Ops? We were wondering.
Gwen: I meant to call. It's been a bit of a whirlwind.

Jack: See what you can find out from her.
Gwen: But aren't you going to help me? I don't know what I'm doing.
Jack: Usually better if you don't say that in front of the prisoner.

Carys: You broke my ship.
Gwen: C'mon then. Where are you from and why are you trying to invade Earth? Because you can forget about enslaving us.
Carys: Who said anything about "enslavin'"?
Gwen: Well that's what you lot do—aliens... Isn't it?

Owen about Jack: So what's he told you?
Gwen: What about?
Tosh: Himself.
Gwen: You've been here longer than I have.
Tosh: We were banking on you.
Owen: You're a copper, trained to ask questions.
Gwen: You don't know anything?
Owen: Not who he is, not where he's from. Nothing, except him being gay.
Gwen: No, he's not. Really, do you think?
Tosh: No. Owen does. I don't.
Ianto: And I don't care.
Owen: Period military is not the dress code of a straight man.
Gwen: I think it suits him. Sort of classic.
Tosh: Exactly! I've watched him in action. He'll shag anything if it's gorgeous enough.

Gwen: After all I said, a severed hand is more important to you than Carys' life.

Jack: You want to prove yourself? Find her. Get your old pals in the police to do something useful for once.
Gwen: All right, I'll give them a call. Put out an APB: woman possessed by gas knobbing fellas to death.

THE GHOST MACHINE

Jack: Gwen? Are you alright?
Gwen: I've just seen a ghost.

Owen: Intense emotions can be part of a neurological event. Hallucinations. Dementia.
Gwen: I wasn't hallucinating, Owen. And I'm not bloody senile.

Rhys: Gwen, I can live with all the Secret Squirrel stuff, but if you can't even tell me if you're coming home—
Gwen: Well nagging isn't helping.

Jack: Human emotion is energy. You can't always see it or hear it, but you can feel it. Ever had deja vu? Felt someone walk over your grave? ever felt someone behind you in an empty room? Well there was. There always is.
Gwen: A ghost.

CYBERWOMAN

Ianto: Her name's Lisa. She's my girlfriend.
Gwen: Why didn't you tell us? We could have helped you.
Ianto: Torchwood exists to destroy alien threats. Why would I tell you about her?

Gwen: What the hell was that?
Owen: Wha'?
Gwen: Snogging me.
Owen: Last kiss for the condemned man. Bit embarrassing, given we haven't been killed. What? It's not like I fancy you or anything.
Gwen: I was on top of you. I could feel your hard-on.
Owen: Well you didn't exactly struggle or anything.

Gwen: You would never have shot him, not really.
Jack: Wouldn't I?
Gwen: Would you have shot me if I'd gone and stand by him.
Jack: But you didn't.
Gwen: If I had though.
Jack: But you didn't.

Gwen: When she got ahold of you I thought, just for a moment, I thought maybe you could die after all.
Jack: Wanna know a secret? So did I. And just for a second there I felt so alive.

SMALL WORLDS

Gwen: It wasn't your dad that was in love with her all those years ago, was it? It was you.
Jack: We once made a vow. That we'd be with each other 'till we died.

COUNTRYCIDE

Owen: I hate the countryside. It's dirty, it's unhygienic. And what is that smell?
Gwen: That would be grass.
Owen: It's disgusting.

Owen about to give Gwen a local anesthetic : Alright, do you want a quip about feeling a small prick?
Gwen: No, but thanks for offering.

Gwen: All these things.... All these things, they're changing me. Changing how I see the world. And I can't share them with anyone.
Owen coming up behind her... half-nekkid: You can now.

GREEKS BEARING GIFTS

Gwen: Oh, you' so light! You're like a girl!
Owen: I'm not light. I'm wiry. Fat girls go mad for it. But I guess I don't need to tell you now.

Gwen's thoughts on Tosh: Oh, sweetheart, the jeans in the boots thing has really kind of had its day.

Gwen's thoughts: I can smell Owen. I can smell him on me after that shag in his car this morning. That's twice now. Does that make it an arrangement? No 'has to be more than two times surely. 'Long as we keep it to just the two times we're fine. What's Tosh looking at?

Gwen: Don't let this put you off. The last couple of days you've had a look about you. Love suited you.

THEY KEEP KILLING SUZIE

Gwen: These murders are happening because of Torchwood, so Torchwood has got to do something.

Gwen: Have I got this right? When I die, you get to keep all my po sessions? My whole life's gonna get stashed in a locker.
Jack: Rules and regulations.
Gwen: What if I leave all stuff to Rhys?
Jack: We'll stash him away too. Tread carefully, people. With respect. This is the life of Suzie Costello.
Tosh: That's all we are in the end. A pile of boxes.

Suzie: Funny thing is, you always imagine when you're dead, "Oh they're gonna miss me at work. Indispensable." And look what happened. I got replaced. By someone better. You got that glove working better than I did.
Gwen: I just got lucky.
Suzie: No, it's more than that. The others, they prefer you.
Gwen: Don't say that.
Suzie: You got my job. Almost like you planned it.
Gwen: Except I didn't. And I'm sorry but I've got my own function at Torchwood. And I'm a lot more than just a replacement.
Suzie: Have you slept with Owen? silence. There you go. Replace me completely.

Gwen: So when you die, it's just—
Suzie: Darkness.
Gwen: And you're all alone, there's no one else?
Suzie: I didn't say that.
Gwen: What d' you mean?
Suzie: Why do you think I'm so desperate to come back? There's something out there—in the dark. And it's moving.

RANDOM SHOES

Jack: Anything on his phone from today?
Gwen: Just some pictures of random shoes.

Eugene: Oh wow. This is so... I am totally... Christ almighty! The Head of Vexor Eleven. No way! And... wow. A hand. In a jar.
Gwen: What was he doing out on that road?
Owen: Oh, fuck knows. Categorizing chevrons. He was a geek.

Gwen: Eugene Jones.
Video Guy: Right, I think he used to come in here. With a mate. Bit of a dreamer, kind of—
Eugene: Irresistible?
Video Guy: Ordinary looking.
Gwen: Yeah.

Gwen: It is so good to see you! Eugene, you're on my leg!
Eugene: Goodbye, Gwen.
Gwen: Don't go now, Eugene. Eugene, please don't go now. Eugene, please! Please!

COMBAT

Jack: Sorry to do this, kind of an emergency. I'll have her back for dessert.
Rhys: Hey, hold on Sarge, that's my girlfriend.
Gwen: Rhys, this is Jack.
Rhys: Sit down Gwen.
Gwen: He's my boss.
Rhys: Sit the fuck down.
Gwen: Don't ever speak to me like that.

Gwen: Owen's still not answering his phone.
Tosh: Well, he's been even more erratic than usual since that thing with Diane.
Gwen: Since the what?
Tosh: It's none of my business.
Gwen: What thing? What thing, Tosh?
Tosh: Owen and Diane. Before she took the plane. They had a thing. You knew that, right?
Gwen: Oh yeah. I just didn't know they had a thing thing.

Gwen: Tosh mentioned you and Diane. Did you—
Owen: I didn't want her to go. She went.
Gwen: Why are we still doing this, me and you?
Owen: Fine. Let's not. I was getting bored of your fuck-tricks, anyway.
Gwen: You can be such a wanker sometimes, Owen! Do you know that?
Owen: I do, as a matter of fact.

Gwen: What time will you be back?
Rhys: Not sure.
Gwen: But, I'm in tonight.
Rhys: Well I'm not. he leaves

Gwen: I need to tell you something.
Rhys: What sort of thing?
Gwen: I've been sleeping, I've been having sex with someone else from work. His name's Owen. I mean, he’s a bit of a tosser actually, and it's all gonna stop but, um—
Rhys: Shut up—
Gwen: I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.
Rhys: You wouldn't do that!
Gwen: But I have.
Rhys: Then, then why are you telling me?
Gwen: Because I'm ashamed. And I'm angry. And I want, I want... I need— I need you to forgive me. And because I've drugged you.
Rhys: You've done what?
Gwen: Just sit down, it's nothing. It's just an amnesia pill. Dash of sedative, you'll wake up tomorrow and you'll forget everything. Rhys—
Rhys: God. You selfish bitch!
Gwen: I know, I just thought it would give us a chance— a chance to get everything out in the open, you know? Get everything out. Rhys. Stay with me, Rhys! Say you forgive me. Say, "It's all right, Gwen." "Gwen, it's all right." Say it, please, Rhys. Rhys, just say it once, say it once: "I forgive you." Rhys, please say it! Say you forgive me! Say you forgive me, say it. Say it. Please say it. Say it please.

CAPTAIN JACK HARKNESS

Gwen: Tosh has written a message at the end. It says, "Tell my family I love them."

END OF DAYS

Rhys about the global incidents: Do you think it is terrorists?
Gwen: Terrorists bomb things. This is different.

Jack: Okay, I've been fielding calls all night. The government, UNIT, the CIA. Half the Western world and a good proportion of the Eastern are asking the same question: is this anything to do with us?
Gwen: And is it?

Gwen about Owen: Did you have to pick on him in public like that?
Jack: All of our actions have consequences.
Gwen: And all your staff have feelings, Jack. Even Owen.
Jack: Well, you would know.

Andy: Everyone's saying it, you know. In work, on the streets. Do you think this is the end of the world?
Gwen smiling reassuredly: Oh, Andy, don't be silly. Do you think the world's gonna end on your shift?
Andy: I've seen you use that smile on a lot of people.
Gwen: What smile?
Andy: The smile you use to reassure people when deep down you know everything's gone to shit.

Gwen: If Owen managed to open the rift to get you and Tosh back, can't we do the same for these people? We've stil got the rift manipulator.
Jack: There's a world of difference. We're talking about taking control of time, not bringing people back from the past. Besides, look at the damage Owen caused. We mess with it further, we'll put the whole planet in danger.

Owen: What, so that's it? The whole world is gone to shit and you're gonna fire me?
Gwen: For gods sake, both of you, we need to stick together on this.

Jack: You're a united front now? Toshiko: the poor girl who'll screw any passing alien that gives her a pendant. Owen: so strong he gets in a cage with a Weevil, desperate to be mauled. Ianto: hiding a cyber-girlfriend in the basement. Your three comrades here pumped bullets into her, remember?
Gwen: I've got to get Rhys back.
Jack: Yeah, because you're so in love with Rhys that you spend half your time in Owen's bed.
Gwen slugs him in the jaw: Fuck you!
Owen: We're relieving you of your command, Captain. We're opening that rift and getting back what we lost! Jack gets up Stay down!
Jack: You gonna be in charge, Owen? You've gotta have significantly bigger balls. Owen shoots him in the forehead

Owen about Jack: He's ice cold. No vital signs.
Gwen: He survived when you shot him. When I first joined he said he couldn't die.
Owen: He was wrong.
Gwen: I want to sit with him.
Owen: Gwen, I—
Gwen: I want to sit with him.

Gwen: What happened to the rift?
Jack: It closed up when Abaddon was destroyed. But it's gonna be more volatile than ever.
Gwen: The visions we had. We all saw people we loved. What did you see?
Jack: Nothing. There was nothing.
Gwen: Jack. What would have tempted you? What visions would have convinced you to open the rift?
Jack: The right kind of Doctor.

Gwen: Something's taken him. Jack's gone.

KISS KISS, BANG BANG

Gwen: Excuse me. Have you seen a blowfish driving a sportscar? The woman points the way Thank you.
Woman: Bloody Torchwood.

Gwen: All I'm saying is you are speeding and there are children.
Owen: Well if kids are out at midnight they've got it coming.
Detecting high levels of algae.
Gwen: Who's afraid of a big scary fish, then?
Owen: It's a big fish with a gun.

Jack: Got pretty organized without me.
Gwen: Yeah, well we had to.
Jack: Hey, did you decorate in here?
Gwen: You left us Jack!
Jack: I know. I'm sorry.
Gwen: We knew nothing, Jack.
Owen: Where were you?
Jack: I found my doctor.
Owen: Did he fix you?
Jack: What's to fix? You don't mess with this level of perfection.

Andy: This another one of your spooky doos, is it?
Gwen: Don' know yet, but I'll let you know.

Owen: Okay, so who the hell was that bloke in the hologram?
Ianto: I know Jack recognized him.
Tosh: Why didn't he let us go with him?
Gwen: 'Cause he's typical Jack, isn't he? He disappears, he comes back, then he runs away again. Shuts us out. We don't even know his real name.
Tosh: Or which time he comes from.
Gwen: Exactly. He's supposed to be our boss and we know nothing about him. Drives me crazy.
Ianto: It is more fun when he's around though.
Owen: Yeah. No. Definitely.
Gwen: Yeah it is.

Jack: The work we do, the person I am now, that's what I'm proud of.
Gwen: Then why did you desert us? Where did you go? No no, c'mon on. Where did you go. Tell me. Talk to me.
Jack: I have died so many times. Been dragged back into life. Like being hauled over broken glass. I saw the end of the world.
Gwen: How?
Jack: It doesn't matter how. But after it was all over I knew I belong here. What kept me fighting was the thought of coming home to you.

Hart: Pretty and resilient. Is that even fair.
Gwen: Maybe you didn't realize. you can beat, shoot, threaten and even poison us and we keep coming back. Stronger every time.
Hart: Well I think you oughta know your boss is splayed out on the— Jack walks in pavement. Now that's impressive. Seriously, you can earn a fortune in the Vegas galleries with an act like that. Go on, how's it work?
Jack: I can't die.
Hart: No but really?
Jack: No but really.

Hart: I think I'm starting to see what he likes about this place.She's beautiful. He's stunning.
Gwen: Don't you ever stop?
Hart: What? Five minutes to live you want me to behave? Oh that's gorgeous.
Gwen: That's a poodle.

SLEEPER

Beth: Your bedside manner's rubbish.
Gwen: You should see his manners in bed. They're atrocious. Apparently. So I've heard.
Ianto: Oh, they are. I remember this one time—
Jack: Ahem.

Gwen: Do you feel human?
Beth: Yes.
Gwen: Yes. Well then you are. What makes us human is in our minds not our bodies.

Gwen: It'll be just like you go to sleep.
Owen: Only a bit colder.

TO THE LAST MAN

Jack: Okay. Linear time. Screwed up time. Imagine your life is a straight line. From birth to death. Now try drawing that line on the paper without straightening it out.
Gwen: It's impossible.
Jack: That's why we've gotta stop it.

MEAT

Owen: Well the DNA tracers are stable, there are some signs of animal sedative. But no detectable diseases or residues. My guess is it's good to eat.
Gwen: Would you eat it?
Ianto: Pizza's arrived. I presumed it would be a late one.
Owen: What'd you get me?
Ianto: Usual. Meat Feast.
Owen: Lovely.

Gwen: I have to stop home and check on Rhys first.
Jack: Good idea. Find out how much he knows.
Gwen: That's not what I meant.

Gwen: Have you ever eaten alien meat?
Jack: Yeah.
Gwen: What was it like?
Jack: He seemed to enjoy it.

Gwen: What were you doing at that warehouse?
Rhys: You lied to me! You were at that crash!
Gwen: I don't know what you're talking about!
Rhys: Stop pissing me around, Gwen. You're so used to lying and fobbing me off, like the idiot that I obviously am!

Gwen: All I ever asked was that you trust me.
Rhys: Like you trust me? It's a two-way street, Gwen.

Rhys: What exactly do I need protecting from, huh?
Gwen: I catch aliens!
Rhys: Piss off!
Gwen: No, you piss off. It's the truth.

Rhys: Aliens? In Cardiff?
Gwen: Have you never seen something so mad, so extraordinary, that just for one second you think that there might be more out there?
Rhys: Prove it.

Gwen: What is this? Scooby Doo?

DEAD MAN WALKING

Gwen: Jack what have you got? Jack holds up the glove Oh my god.
Tosh: You can't use that. Not after Suzie.
Gwen: I'm using the glove. I'm bringing Owen back.

Gwen: Last time back when Cardiff was a town it killed twelve people.
So?
Jack: Why didn't it get to thirteen and where does this "faith" bit come into it?

SOMETHING BORROWED

FROM OUT OF THE RAIN

ADRIFT

FRAGMENTS

EXIT WOUNDS

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