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Episode 4: Cyberwoman
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Once again I take the subtitle file and try and turn it into a full transcript. I've not had better ideas for formatting so
(stage directions)
emphasis
NAME: of who is saying this bit here
'this is when they're on comms'
they keep switching between who they're looking at.
it drives me nuts to try and write it all down.
fun to watch though.
SPOILERS, obviously, the whole episode is in here
This programme contains some strong language.
JACK voiceover: Torchwood. Outside the government, beyond the police.
Tracking down alien life on Earth and arming the human race against the future.
The 21st century is when everything changes.
And you've got to be ready.
INT The Hub
(Start with closeup on Ianto, in the lift, straightening his tie. The following scene works mostly from the mismatch between silent Ianto reaction and noisy team stuff.)
(Loud music, SHOUTING AND LAUGHTER)
(Owen playing with a basketball)
OWEN: OK! Come on, Gwen!
( Jack picks up Gwen and pushes her out of the way. Tosh and Jack working together to block her.
LAUGHTER AND SHOUTING CONTINUES)
(Ianto walking in, Owen is up on the meeting room level while the other three are down near the cage door)
OWEN: Gwen, this is for you, baby!
(Chucks basketball. Pterodactyl narrowly misses catching it on the way past.)
Come on!
OWEN: Just get it off him!
Take if out of his hands! Oi!
(Jack has ball, Gwen bats it out his hands, throws it to Owen, still on the top level now right above the basket)
OWEN: Oh, come to Daddy!
(Drops ball in basket.)
OWEN: YES! First round's on you, boss.
(Jack shrugs. We see Ianto staring at all this through the bars.)
OWEN: Girls, get your handbags!
JACK: Of course, that was an illegal move.
TOSHIKO: Totally illegal!
OWEN: Yeah, keep telling yourself that, yeah. Losers. Bye.
(Everyone leaves, past Ianto, still in the cage. Jack tosses him the ball on the way out.)
(Soon as the lift door closes on them, Ianto goes from statue-impression to sprinter, drops the ball and woosh.)
EXT Cardiff, day. Nice sky shot. Then the Millennium place near the fountain again.
(Team Torchwood doing the walk-with-sunglasses line)
GWEN: He's never seen a live rugby match!
JACK: I have other things to do with my time!
GWEN: Rhys knows a bloke whose cousin works at the Millennium Stadium. We should all go to the next home international.
(INT Hub, meeting room, Ianto on the phone. With the BBC THREE stamped right over his face. Honestly, they should either get rid of the thing or give the directors an overlay so they can avoid it.)
IANTO: Can you make it two Pepperoni Feasts tonight? And a tub of coleslaw. My boss says I'm not eating enough vegetables. Yeah, usual time. See you then.
(Closeup of a random plastic thing on a wall says 'Torchwood' and the bit on the window behind Ianto that has the Torchwood T. Do they have their own branding machine, and some obsessive-compulsive urge to use it? Do they have a big problem with people nicking stuff from the office? Inquiring minds want to know.)
(Alarms, flashing lights, big round door rolls back, cage door opens. Stranger walks in. Ianto rushes down to greet him.)
IANTO: Good to see you again, sir. Are they looking after you at the hotel?
(Gets down to floor level, stops and bows formally.)
IANTO: Konnichiwa, Tanizaki-san.
TANIZAKI: Konnichiwa.
(Ianto takes his big silver suitcase and leads the way down to another level.)
(Long shot watching them walk in to a new corridor.)
(Shot of a locked door.)
(They stop outside the door. Ianto gets the key out an inside pocket, then straightens the suit. Closeup unlocking the door, big key and bolts.)
(Tanizaki looks at Ianto.)
IANTO: I did all I could. I really did.
(Door swings open.)
(We see bits and pieces first - clamps, shiny metal, a photo of Lisa and Ianto, respirator pump, heartbeat meter, tubes.)
(Background music: according to the file I, er, have, it's Mogwai - We're No Here. Ominous guitar.)
(Cyborg parts visible, still in pieces... And a full body view of the Cyberwoman.)
TANIZAKI: My God! It's not possible! One of them survived!
(Ianto leans in and kisses unconscious cyberwoman tenderly.)
IANTO: This is Lisa.
(Her eyes open.)
Opening credits
TANIZAKI: Is she awake?
IANTO: It's just a reaction to the medication.
TANIZAKI: She's the only one left. Across the whole world. Thank you, thank you so much. Bringing me here. I never thought... to get my chance... ..to study... to work with... anything like this.
IANTO: Anyone!
TANIZAKI: Tell me, what happened?
IANTO: She worked for Torchwood London. It was the end of the Canary Wharf battle. The Cybermen needed soldiers fast. They started upgrading whole bodies instead of transplanting brains using Earth technology. Lisa was halfway through the process when the machinery shut down.
TANIZAKI: You found her?
INT Torchwood Tower, flashback, redlit
IANTO: Help! Help me, please! Somebody!
Basement
IANTO: I pulled her out.
TANIZAKI: Do you know the percentages?
IANTO: The what?
TANIZAKI: Some elements have been augmented. Some are still human. Sensory capacity, for instance. Her breathing and hearing appears completely cybernetic. And yet...there's also bare flesh. Amazing. Perhaps 55% augmentation with 45% awaiting completion. Do you think? Or perhaps, maybe 60/40. It's fascinating.
IANTO: Can you make her human again?
TANIZAKI: You took parts from a Cyber conversion unit and modified them into a life support for her? How did you know what to do?
LISA: I told him.
IANTO: I thought you were resting. You should be resting. How's the pain? Are the new doses working?
LISA: A little. (pain noise) Oh... Is this him?
IANTO: I promised, didn't I?
LISA: And you always keep your promises.
TANIZAKI: I would like to ask her some questions. My name is Dr Tanizaki. I specialise in Cybernetics. Your friend, Mr Jones, asked me...
LISA: My boyfriend. (serious eye contact with Ianto)
TANIZAKI: Yes. He asked me to come.
LISA: We agreed, together.
TANIZAKI: Few simple questions. What is your name?
LISA: Lisa Hallett.
TANIZAKI: How old are you?
LISA: 26.
TANIZAKI: What is the last thing you remember before coming here?
flashback again
(overlapping voices)
LISA: Screaming
IANTO: Somebody! Anybody!
Basement
LISA: Pain. I remember my body burning with pain. (serious angsty eye contact)
TANIZAKI: You said... there was somewhere I could work upstairs?
IANTO (comes back from angst land and nods)
Autopsy room
TANIZAKI: This first stage should enable her to breathe without the respirator. Once her body functions without support, I can judge what work is needed.
IANTO: What if she's not ready to breathe on her own?
TANIZAKI: You must be prepared for her not to survive.
IANTO (Looks around sharply, shock face)
TANIZAKI: Sometimes... in order to save what we love, we have to risk losing it.
IANTO (Looks doubtful, looks back at Lisa, bites thumb)
TANIZAKI (hits a button on his laptop)
MACHINES BEEP,
HEART MONITOR FLATLINES
IANTO: She's not strong enough!
TANIZAKI: Let me do my work!
Pub (Team Torchwood at the bar)
JACK: And she said, "D'you know how difficult it is to find a man in this city? He had a nice flat, all his own hair, so frankly, a couple of tusks, I can live with!"
PAGER BEEPS
OWEN: Ianto's mate.
TOSHIKO: (holding pda) UFO sighting over Cardigan Bay. Seven calls to the emergency services.
OWEN: Oh... Can we at least finish our drinks, please?
JACK: Sure. Take ten seconds.
(Owen gets up to go. Gwen attempts finish off her pint. All get up to leave.)
Autopsy room
HEART MONITOR FLATLINES,
LISA GASPS
(Ianto holds Lisa's hand)
IANTO: If she dies because of you...
SHE GASPS, (electric sort of boot up noise) HEART MONITOR BEEPS
LISA: Ianto?
IANTO: Yes, I'm here! She's breathing! It worked!
LISA: Why aren't I connected?
IANTO: You're alive! (kiss) He kept you alive!
LISA: Thank you.
TANIZAKI: This is only the start.
COMPUTER BEEPS
(Ianto checks monitor and sees team coming back.)
IANTO: We've gotta move. Quickly!
(Picks up Lisa)
LISA: I'll walk!
IANTO: You've only just woken up. You can't.
LISA: I want to walk! Please.
IANTO: Help her downstairs. I'll clear up here.
(They start to leave, Lisa turns and realises)
LISA: I'm alive.
EXT Cardiff, near fountain (team on way back to office)
TOSHIKO: All I'm saying is, once in a while, I'd like to drive!
OWEN: And all I'm saying is no!
TOSHIKO: Why not?!
OWEN: Look, I've shared cars with women before. I know what'll happen. There'll be an emergency, we're all raring to go, I jump in, what do I find? Seat's in the wrong position, the rear view mirror's out of line and the steering wheel's in my crotch. Time it takes to sort it all out, aliens'll have taken Newport.
JACK LAUGHS
Camera drops through street to see Hub below
(Tanizaki and Cyberwoman climbing down around the fountain, back to her room. Ianto running to catch up and help.)
INT Information office
GWEN: What about a rota? Different people drive on different days.
JACK: We're a secret organisation, hunting alien technology from an underground base. (Click button to open secret door) And you want a rota for who drives?
GWEN: Just trying to help.
(Jack leads way through door, Gwen waits til last and has to hustle not to get closed in door)
corridor below
IANTO: As soon as they're gone, I'll be down.
Hub, main door cage
JACK: Tosh, call up the radar within a 50-mile radius of the Bay for the last six hours. Gwen, check with that man - Neil, I think his name was, voice like Sean Connery - at Jodrell Bank. See if they picked up any chatter around the time of the sightings. Owen, access the airspace provision over Cardigan Bay, also any RAF flightplans, see if it's just a case of mistaken identity.
(Ianto arrives, stops, straightens tie)
Cyber room
TANIZAKI: Take it slowly. You're still very weak. This way.
(Turns her so she can lie down, smiles)
(She stands straight, grabs him by the throat and lifts.
HE CHOKES)
(Feet twitching in mid air, go still)
Hub, workstations
(Ianto walks in slowly, past them)
GWEN: Is that Neil? It's Gwen Cooper from Torchwood. I know, we're always after something, aren't we?
JACK: Ianto! Would you work some coffee magic?
(Turns to look at Jack, who makes prayer hands and looks cute. Ianto heads up stairs to where the coffee lives.)
Cyber room
(Cyberwoman straps Tanizaki into the conversion unit)
TANIZAKI: Lisa! Let me go!
CYBER!LISA ((with electronic voice effect)): I can help you. The human race is weak. I can make you strong.
(Hits button. Blue lightnings on the conversion unit; Tanizaki twitches and screams. Ceiling unit with the drills and knives opens up.)
(Long shot of Lisa from behind, cyber panties and all.)
(Blocks our view of screaming Tanizaki.)
(Then the door slams shut.)
Hub, coffee (Lights flicker)
(Ianto looks up, shock face)
GWEN: What's happening?
TOSHIKO: Internal power drain.
GWEN: What's causing it?
JACK: Something big to drain that amount of power. Tosh, run a system diagnostic.
IANTO: Actually... We've been having generator problems all evening. I was down there checking earlier. Couple of bits of cabling have come loose. I thought I'd fixed it. (Everyone looks at Ianto, as camera on him goes all shaky.) Let me have another look.
JACK: Fine. Go check.
GWEN: Want some help?
IANTO: It's fine.
Corridor (Ianto running)
ALARM BLARES
IANTO: You've got to shut down the power!
(slams through door into) Cyber room
(Flicker lightning light, he runs for the off switch. Hits it, turns, sees... horribly mutilated corpse of Tanizaki.)
IANTO: Oh, God! Oh, my God! (Kneels next to him) What happened?!
LISA: His upgrade failed.
IANTO: Was it an accident? Tell me you didn't do this!
LISA: I wanted to repay him for helping me. By removing the weaknesses of his humanity.
IANTO: What have you done?! You've killed an innocent man!
LISA: It's all right.
IANTO: It's not all right! They're gonna come looking for me in a minute. If they see the body, if they find out what we've been doing...
LISA: I can deal with them.
IANTO: Don't you go near them! (Pause, think, look at ceiling, look back at her) You didn't mean to do this. Something's happened to your mind. Um... just, um... Some kind of side effect from this whole process. It's post-traumatic. You didn't mean to... (Pushes her and yells) You've ruined everything now!
(Lisa regains her balance and stares at him. Walks forwards, cyber noises whirring.)
IANTO: How hard (hands on her face) have we had to work to keep you alive? And now you do this. (leans foreheads together a moment) I need you to stay in here. Rest. Don't come out unless I tell you. This can't happen again, Lisa. If you harm anyone else, I'll...
CYBER!LISA: Yes? What will you do?
IANTO: (Looks lost, looks down) OK, the body. I've got to deal with the body. I can do this. (Starts sobbing, head in hands) This is my fault! I'm responsible for this! (picks up corpse, drags it out awkwardly) I'll hide the body. Everything's gonna be OK.
(Closes and locks door)
(Lisa turns on conversion unit again)
Upstairs, Hub
GWEN: That's a UFO?!
OWEN: Only just!
JACK: Arkan leisure crawler, first generation. Collectors' item, don't see many of those around these days. Tosh, send a polite message saying great to see them, but could they please get the hell out of our atmosphere they're spooking the locals.
TOSHIKO: Done!
GWEN: Shouldn't we be apprehending it? Investigating it?
JACK: Oh, please. You interrogate an Arkan, you'll be in there for a month. And that's just the first question. They are so boring. Besides, they're mostly made of liquid, the cells would be a mess.
(Lights flicker, power noises)
OWEN: There it goes again!
JACK (into wrist device): Ianto, we've got another dose of darkness. You found anything?
Corridor (Lights flashing, ALARM BLARES, Ianto sobs and drags the corpse along)
Workstations
JACK: Ianto? I need to hear those...
Corridor
JACK: ...'beautiful Welsh vowels!'
Cyber room (Cyberwoman in the conversion unit, lightning playing over her)
Workstations
TOSHIKO: Power's draining to the storeroom at the bottom of the building. Looking for human heat signals. We've got...
OWEN: Two signals?
TOSHIKO: So assuming one's Ianto...
GWEN: Who's the other?
(pause)
JACK: I'm thinking we're under attack. (Heads for armoury) Security's been breached. We assume battle protocols.
TOSHIKO: That's impossible! Nobody can get in without triggering seven separate alarms.
(Start getting their guns out)
JACK: Yeah, well, looks like our system needs to be upgraded.
OWEN: I'll head down and look for Ianto.
GWEN: I'll come with you.
OWEN: (to Jack) You all right with that?
JACK: Keep your comms open at all times. Any doubts, shoot first. Priority is to find Ianto.
Store rooms
(Ianto drags the corpse in, puts it next to a heap of stuff, starts covering it with a tarp)
IANTO: I'm sorry.
(Covers what is left of it's face)
Corridor
(Torches and guns out and pointing, red and blue glow from behind the doors at the end)
GWEN: What's down here?
OWEN: Normally? Nothing.
JACK ((on coms)): 'Progress report?'
OWEN: Signs of... (on coms as we watch Jack) 'activity at the eastern end of the main corridor.'
JACK (Now talking into earpiece): We're losing your comms signals.
Corridor
GWEN: We're going in to have a look.
Workstation
TOSHIKO: Whatever that power source is, it's interfering with the comms.
JACK: Gwen, Owen? Can you hear me? Damn! Can we get them back?
TOSHIKO: Trying other channels. There's something else you need to see. I've gone back through our internal CCTV footage for the last couple of hours. Someone's tried to remove the images from our system.
JACK: See, now I'm starting to get a little peeved. These people come into my house, start using my things...
TOSHIKO: I've dug into the system memory.
(They see Ianto welcome Tanizaki)
JACK: What the hell's going on here?!
Corridor
OWEN: Jack? (pause) Tosh?
Workstation
JACK: Gwen? Owen? Can you hear me?
Corridor
GWEN: No comms.
OWEN: We're on our own, then.
(Door, Owen looks in while Gwen covers corridor)
OWEN: What the hell is going on?
GWEN: What's the matter?
OWEN: I can't see well enough. But there's something in there. Some kind of operating table. Get the bolts.
(Unbolts door, Owen unlocks)
GWEN: OK?
OWEN: Yeah. OK, one, two...
(Kick door in unison)
(Go in guns waving, then Owen's droops and he gives shock face)
(We see empty cyber conversion unit, lightning still flickering)
OWEN: No! No, no, no, no!
GWEN: What the hell is it?!
OWEN: It's wrong. It's beyond wrong! It shouldn't be here! Turn the thing off! TURN IT OFF!
(Gwen hits big red off button)
Workstation
TOSHIKO: Internal levels are being restored!
JACK: Gwen? Owen? Can you hear me?
Cyber room
(COMMS CRACKLE)
OWEN: These things brought down Torchwood One. But they were all destroyed. Why is there one in our bloody basement?!
GWEN: Just tell me what it does!
OWEN: It's the remnants of a conversion unit. This machinery turns humans into Cybermen.
JACK: (Workstation)If I don't hear something within 30 seconds, (on comms) 'I'm coming down there!'
GWEN: Jack, it's Gwen. The comms dropped out. We're back online now.
JACK: 'Any sign of Ianto?'
OWEN: No. But we have found parts of a Cyber conversion unit. 'Fully powered up and working.'
JACK: This is no time to be kidding around, Owen.
OWEN: I'm deadly serious! I dunno why it's here, or how it got here. But that's what's draining our power.
(Jack does serious face and straightens up)
OWEN: Jack? You there?
JACK: I want you two back up here immediately!
OWEN: We still haven't found... (*thump* and Owen falls, knocked out by Cyberwoman)
GWEN: (Gun pointed at cyberwoman but shaking, as is the torch) Jack, code zero incursion. Repeat! 'Code zero incursion. We're under attack.'
Workstation
JACK: If you don't hear from me within 15 minutes, activate total shutdown procedures and get yourself to safety.
TOSHIKO: But I can't just leave you all here!
JACK: If there's a Cyberman in this building, we need a last line of defence. Just make sure it never gets to the outside world.
Cyber room
(Cyber!LISA moves around, making lots of full on cyber noises, clunks and whirs and stompy feet)
GWEN: Whatever you... Whoever you are... I don't mean you any harm. But come any closer, I'll shoot.
(Cyberwoman bats the gun away - it was right in her face - then she grabs Gwen by the throat and lifts)
GWEN: CHOKES
(Pushes her to cyber conversion unit)
GWEN: Let me go!
CYBER!LISA: Do not struggle. You will be like me.
GWEN: CRIES IN PAIN
(Cyberwoman puts her on the table, which tilts back and grabs Gwen)
(Cyberwoman hits 'on' button)
JACK: (running down corridor, yelling) Throw down any weapons, put your hands up and turn and face me!
GWEN: SCREAMS
(Cyberwoman turns, full length shot, Jack sees)
JACK: You're a woman!
(Gwen in conversion unit, flickering lights)
GWEN: Owen! JACK!
(Jack shoots, Cyberwoman turns, closeup of damaged by bullet tubes with spray coming out)
GWEN SCREAMS
(Ianto grabs Jack, shoves him up against the door)
IANTO: She doesn't know what she's doing!
JACK: (Shoves Ianto against opposite door) You are fighting the wrong guy!
(Knifey bit opens up again, whirring blades)
GWEN: Get me out of here, someone, please!
(Jack and Ianto both turn to look, run in. Ianto goes to the off switch.)
GWEN: Switch it off!
IANTO: I'm trying! She's changed all the circuits! Shut off the power everywhere!
JACK: Toshiko, cut all power in the base!
TOSHIKO: I do that, the base goes into lockdown! We'll be trapped.
JACK: Just do it!
GWEN: Switch it off!
(Toshiko runs, grabs big switch in Jack's office, pulls)
(Power goes down)
(Doors clunk, clang, lock, all over the base)
JACK: Gwen?
GWEN: I'm fine. I'm fine, I'm fine. Sort of. Jack, please get me out of here!
JACK: It's all right.
GWEN: Where is she? Where did she go? Please tell me you got her!
JACK: (To Ianto) Stand guard by the door.
IANTO: I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.
GWEN: What for?
JACK: Let's just get out of here.
(Uses wrist gadget to unlock cyber conversion unit)
Corridor
(Ianto first, Jack carrying Owen over his shoulder, gun pointed, Ianto and Gwen have torches)
JACK: Clear?
IANTO: Clear.
(Walking, walking... Jumping! Cyberwoman steps into view.)
GWEN: Oh, God, there she is. What is she?
JACK: Some form of Cyberman. They're us, upgraded. Humans with emotions removed, created on a parallel world and supposedly destroyed on this one.
GWEN: What are we gonna do?
JACK: (sounds lost) I don't know.
(Gwen turns to stare at him)
(Cyberwoman walks away, whir clunk)
IANTO: (sounding just as lost) She's gone.
JACK: (points GUN at Ianto's head, CLICKS) Get us back to the Hub.
GWEN: Jack, what are you doing?!
JACK: Resisting the urge to shoot.
Hub, main area
JACK: Tosh, get everything from the weapons room. Fast as you can.
TOSHIKO: It's locked down, there's no manual override.
JACK: Just open the store!
(Gun still pointed at Ianto, now pushes him down)
JACK: On your knees! Hands above your head!
TOSHIKO: Jack, for God's sake! What are you doing?!
JACK: Tosh! I gave you an order! Gwen, help her! (To Ianto)
Did you know that thing was down there?
IANTO: I put her there.
JACK: You hid a Cyberman within Torchwood?! And you didn't tell us? What else are you keeping from us?
IANTO: Like you care. I clear up your shit. No questions asked and that's the way you like it. When did you last ask me anything about my life?
(pause, Jack lowers the gun and it clicks again)
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?
OWEN: A little loyalty, perhaps?
IANTO: My loyalty's to her! She worked for Torchwood. She was caught up in battle. I owe it to Lisa... We owe it to her... to find a cure.
JACK: Ianto, you have to believe me. There is no cure. There never will be. Those who are converted stay that way. Your girlfriend will not be the exception.
IANTO: You can't know that for sure.
JACK: Look, you need to know what's happening here. Because this is where these things start. Small decisions that become mass slaughter. These creatures regain a foothold by exploiting human weakness. Then they take a base. Rebuild their forces. And before you know it, the Cyber race is spreading out across the universe, erasing worlds, assimilating populations. All because of the tiny beginnings here. We need to stop her...together!
IANTO: You're not listening to me! The conversion was never completed!
JACK: She already tried to kill Gwen! You think she's gonna stop there? There is no turning back for her now!
IANTO: I'm...not giving up on her. I love her. Can you understand that, Jack? Haven't you ever loved anyone?
(Gwen stares, Owen rolls eyes in background)
JACK: You need to figure out whose side you're on here. Because if you don't know... you're not going to make it out of this alive.
OWEN: There's no way this weapons store's gonna open.
TOSHIKO: It's going to take six hours for the power to come back online.
IANTO: Let me talk to her. I can still save her. Save all of us. She's not a monster.
MECHANICAL WHIRRING
GWEN: Ianto!
IANTO: Lisa... It's me.
GWEN: You can't just let him go...
JACK: (interrupts) Ssh!
CYBER!LISA: The army will be rebuilt from here. This building is suitable.
JACK: Who are you?
CYBER!LISA: Human point two.
IANTO: No! Lisa...
JACK: So how come you look like human point one?
CYBER!LISA: I do not understand.
JACK: Look at yourself. Go ahead.
IANTO: Remember, Lisa. Remember who you are.
CYBER!LISA: The upgrade is incomplete.
IANTO: You're still human.
CYBER!LISA: I am... disgusting. I have... I am... wrong.
IANTO: We can help you.
CYBER!LISA: I must start again. Upgrade properly.
IANTO: For God's sake! Have you heard yourself? Lisa, please. I brought you here to heal you. So we could be together.
CYBER!LISA: Together. Yes. Transplant my brain into your body. The two of us...together. Fused. We'll be one complete person. Isn't that what love is?
IANTO: No.
CYBER!LISA: Then we are not compatible.
(Grabs Ianto by throat, nasty crunchy noise, lift and throw. Ianto splashes in water / hits concrete and stays still.)
(Jack points gun at Cyberwoman. She points arm at him and zaps the gun.)
JACK: Argh!
(drops gun)
JACK: Code Nine manoeuvres. Go!
(Grabs thingy previously known as book reader, about to be a plot token)
(Cyberwoman clunks towards Gwen, who freezes like a rabbit in the headlights)
JACK:Gwen! Gwen! Get out of there!
OWEN: Lisa! What you waiting for?
(She turns and heads for Owen)
JACK: Gwen!
(They run)
(Cyberwoman clunks along after them.)
CYBER!LISA: Run. We all ran.
GWEN: She's coming after us.
OWEN: There's a surprise(!)
GWEN: Could you be any less helpful?!
OWEN: Oi! I just helped you escape!
JACK: Shut up, both of you! OK, now, this is a fight to the death. We do whatever is necessary to destroy her. Forget what Ianto said. That thing is not human. Clear?
GWEN: Yeah, yeah.
(All nod)
(Jack puts alien tech on table, Tosh picks it up)
TOSHIKO: What's this?
JACK: Something Suzie scavenged last year. She claimed that it could open any lock in 45 seconds. I want you out the exit gates up the emergency stairs to reception.
OWEN: She'll never open that door without power! It weighs a ton!
TOSHIKO: Anyway, I'm not leaving you here!
JACK: Just do as I say! All of you! Once in reception... panel next to the desk, pull it out. Take circuit 357 from the main system and patch it to these (looks like emergency light sticks). There should be enough power in there for what we need. Once the main circuit goes live, get out. Meet us by the water tower. Go!
(she goes)
JACK: You two... find anything that even resembles a weapon.
OWEN: Autopsy room. There should be some lethal equipment there.
GWEN: (over Owen's last word) What are you gonna do?
JACK: Buy you some more time. Go!
JACK: Hey! Lisa! It is Lisa, isn't it? You've been hiding in my basement. That's OK. Draining my power, I can live with that... But now you're starting to hurt my friends. This is gonna stop!
(Lots of chasing around the hub very slowly.)
TOSHIKO: (At door, working unlocker) Come on!
CYBER!LISA: This building belongs to me now. You will all be deleted...
JACK: I'm sorry for what they did to you. But this ends here.
(Cyberwoman grabs & electrocutes him)
GWEN: Jack!
(Gwen runs towards him, Owen grabs her. Neither of them are getting weapons right then.)
(Tosh stares but at least holds the unlocker in place)
(Cyberwoman turns away)
(Unlocker works, cage door opens, Toshiko pulls it open and darts inside, slams it after her)
(Cyberwoman goes to follow her)
JACK: (GASPS and gets up)
OWEN: How did he survive that?
JACK: Is that all you got? I'm not so easily deleted.
(Cyberwoman grabs and does it again)
(Jack fall down go urk. Twitchy, with lightnings. Not so fun when not a Quickening.)
OWEN: We can't help him.
(*Finally* goes to do the job Jack just died twice to give them time for!)
(And Toshiko finally starts unlocking the big rolling door.)
(It works real fast, which is lucky. She unrolls door, Cyberwoman breaks into cage, Tosh gets out and rolls door back in place, leans against it panting.)
(Cyberwoman sticks arm through porthole in approved horror movie fashion)
(Tosh runs for the stairs and away)
(Owen is in the autopsy room, digging around for weapons. Starts with a torch. Handy.)
(Cyberwoman gives up on door and comes after them.)
GWEN: (as scared as any of us would be by now) Shit!
(runs into autopsy room)
GWEN: Is there another exit?
OWEN: No!
GWEN: We're trapped?!
(Owen pulls open door meant for chilling corpses)
OWEN: Get in!
GWEN: No way!
OWEN: Lie on top of me and it'll take us both.
GWEN: I'm not laying on top of you!
OWEN: I'm not saying it's a brilliant idea, but it's the only one we've got!
(Climb in, door closes, then Cyberwoman gets to the doorway)
(Jack gasps and wakes up again. Apparently the second time took more out of him. He sort of curls up on his knees, sounding in pain.)
(Cyberwoman at the autopsy room, clunk whir clunk)
(Gwen and owen hiding in the draw, panting)
(Jack goes to Ianto, pulls him up out the water and turns him over. Cuddles him a bit.)
(Yes, really, that's the most accurate description I could come up with.)
(Cyberwoman looms in the autopsy room. Clunk down the steps to their level.)
(Jack looks, then pats Ianto on the face briskly. Ianto remains unconscious.)
GWEN: What do we do?
OWEN: (*Grab, snog*)
JACK: (Grab Ianto, snog. And no, I'm pretty sure I don't mean CPR. There's serious tongue action going on all round here. Plus his hand slips down his neck to pretty much inside his shirt.)
(Cyberwoman isn't getting any. Poor dear.)
(Cyberwoman looms in red lighting some more.)
GWEN/OWEN (still kissing)
JACK/IANTO (also still kissing)
(Because in Torchwood it's *always* the right time for this.)
(Cyberwoman starts trying the little doors, luckily at the opposite end from Owen/Gwen.)
(Gwen lifts head abruptly, possibly clunks against top of drawer.)
IANTO (wakes up and PANTS, looking a bit surprised)
JACK: (puts finger to Jack's lips) (Sssh!)
MOBILE PHONE RINGS
(incidentally, this one needs to be one of those pre-movie trailers about why phones ruin cinema)
(Cyberwoman looks up)
OWEN & GWEN (repeating): Where is it?
GWEN: Quick, please!
OWEN: Turn it off! Turn it off!
EXT, Cardiff, night
(Rhys is talking on his mobile phone, with a lovely view of the city behind him.)
RHYS: All right, lover, it's the man of your dreams! I've had a couple of beers with Daf and we're off for a curry, so can you video Wife Swap?
INT, Torchwood Hub
(Still red lit and dark and spooky)
(Cyberwoman sees them, goes after Gwen. Owen, behind Cyberwoman, goes for the tool tray, and grabs a chisel.)
OWEN: Don't you touch her!
(Cyberwoman turns, Owen stabs up through stomach)
LISA: (SCREAMS, sounding vaguely like those tapes you used to use for the Spectrum)
(Ianto, was looking at Jack, now looks and sits up, runs to Lisa, splashing through water.)
(Cyberwoman staggers back and collapses, Owen lurches back and Gwen hides behind him.)
GWEN: What the hell was that?
OWEN: What?
GWEN: Snogging me!
OWEN: Last kiss for the condemned man! Little 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: Yeah, well, you didn't exactly struggle, did you?
(Ianto arrives, runs to apparently-dead Lisa, angsts on his knees)
OWEN: It was kill or be killed.
GWEN: Owen's right. There was no choice.
(Lisa's EYES OPEN with a little whir noise)
(This is a horror movie, so it's Cyerwoman's turn to make us jump again. Not dead! Wah!)
(Cyberwoman stands slowly)
GWEN: Ianto, move! Get out! (Pushes him to stairs) Get out I said! Move! Move!
(Cyber stomp stomp in pursuit, Team Torchwood run. For a bottle show that basically has them run in circles for an hour this one do manage to crank up the suspense nicely.)
OWEN: You should be dead.
JACK: I'm the stubborn type.
(Lights a welding torch, very flamey, picks up Mystery Bottle, backs up)
JACK: Get behind me!
Upstairs in the information office
TOSHIKO: 357, 357, come on!
Down in the hub
JACK: (pointing both welding torch and mystery bottle) That's right. Stay back. This'll at least give you heartburn.
CYBER!LISA: The power will run out. I can wait.
IANTO: Jack, help her. Give her a chance to surrender...
OWEN: Have you not seen what she's done?
IANTO: Let her stay in the cells! We have to reverse the process!
JACK: I've told you! We're past that! Hold him back!
GWEN: What are you gonna do?
JACK: Don't ask questions, just get him on there and hold him!
(Owen and Gwen drag Ianto onto lift block.)
(Jack sprays cyberwoman with secret sauce)
GWEN: What is that stuff?
JACK: Kind of a barbecue sauce. It helps identify its food. (Turns off torch and joins them on lift)
GWEN: Help what identify its food?!
JACK: (To Ianto) I'm sorry.
(Jack uses wrist device)
PTERODACTYL (SQUEALS)
JACK: Come on Tosh, hurry up.
IANTO: You'll kill her!
(PTERODACTYL flies in and starts to fight with the Cyberwoman.)
(Yes, this is at least as cool as it sounds. Probably more so.)
IANTO: Let me go! Let me help her!
TOSHIKO: (Upstairs) Yes!
(Power does it's thing, the lift starts to rise)
JACK: Hold him still!
IANTO: NO! Call it off her! You can do that! Have some fucking mercy!
(PTERODACTYL is winning, Cyberwoman is down, beak is having a go at her)
LISA: (Screaming, seems scared)
IANTO: NO-O-O!
(Lift rises, we get the roof opening effect again)
(Pterodactyl has totally pwned Cyberwoman.)
(Lift emerges onto street level, in front of fountain. Jack steps off quickly. Ianto lurches off as soon as he's allowed.)
TOSHIKO: (Running in) It worked! What happened to...?
JACK: No.
(Ianto turns, glares at Jack, then punches him and knocks him sprawling)
IANTO: You could have saved her!
JACK: Argh! (Gets up again)
IANTO: You're worse than anything locked up down there! One day, I'll have the chance to save you... and I'll watch you suffer and die.
JACK: It was the only thing that would stop her!
TOSHIKO: Listen, when I was at reception, I managed to trip the lockdown timer. The power should be coming back on any second. We can get back in.
(Ianto legs it)
JACK: Ianto!
(Team Torchwood in pursuit, but he has a few yards lead)
EXT Outside door, Torchwood information office
PIZZA GIRL: Pizza!
DOOR BUZZES
(She goes in. Doesn't know what genre she's in.)
(We see her on CCTV)
PIZZA GIRL: Ianto?
(Secret door opens, she goes through.)
(Big rolling door opens, we see her coming down the steps, walks in. Looks around.)
PIZZA GIRL: Bloody hell!
(Door rolls closed behind her.)
PIZZA GIRL: Ianto? D'you want these or not?
PTERODACTYL SQUEALS
(Camera pans around until we see CYBERWOMAN lurking, damaged, in the background)
EXT Torchwood Reception, docks near it I think
(Running, Ianto still with a good lead)
JACK: Ianto! Stop!
GWEN: She can't have survived that attack.
TOSHIKO: I used my initiative! I'm sorry!
JACK: When I want you to think for yourself, I'll tell you.
(Ianto gets to the door and barges in)
TOSHIKO: Maybe if you'd told me your plan, I wouldn't have done it!
INT Torchwood reception
(Ianto has stopped to grab a gun from behind the front counter, and press the secret door button. Gets to the door, the others catch up. Swings and points the gun at them.)
(Owen and Gwen, in front, freeze with arms outstretched)
GWEN: Ianto, don't be stupid!
IANTO: I've nothing left to lose.
JACK: There's always something left to lose.
(Ianto points gun at Jack)
IANTO: I'm going back in to save her. Anybody tries to stop me, I'll shoot them.
GWEN: Ianto, put the gun...
(Ianto swings gun to Gwen, Jack moves, grabs, disarms and pins against door. Gets own gun out and points it at Ianto's head. Way quicker done than said.)
JACK: You make a threat like that, you better be prepared to follow it through. (beat) See, you disobey me now... I really will shoot you.
IANTO: Get off me!
JACK: You wanna go back in there? You go in to finish the job. If she's still alive, you execute her.
IANTO: (Turns, looks at Jack.) No way.
JACK: You brought this down on us. You hid her. You hid yourself from us. Now it's time for you to stand as part of the team.
GWEN: (Hand slowly on Jack's shoulder). Jack...
JACK: The girl you loved has gone. Your loyalty is to us now.
IANTO: You can't order me to do that.
JACK: You execute her or I'll execute you both!
IANTO: I won't do it. You can't make me. You like to think you're a hero. But you're the biggest monster of all.
JACK: (Breathes out shakily. They stare at each other.) I'm giving you ten minutes. Then we're coming in.
(Shot of rest of team reaction, or lack thereof.)
JACK: Pick it up.
(Ianto bends, picks up weapons, stands, looks, then turns and goes into the base.)
TOSHIKO: How can you ask him...?
JACK: I don't need your opinion!
(Tosh looks shocked, Gwen has her hand curled over her mouth)
INT Torchwood, door rolls back.
(Ianto runs in, looks around. Lots of wreckage, lots of empty.)
(Two Jubilee Pizza boxes. 02920 509300 I think.)
PTERODACTYL SQUEALS
(Power loss meter on computer screen again)
(Ianto holds gun up and runs through water.)
(Through cells and out far door, down to level with corridor, down to cyber room)
IANTO: Lisa!
(Bursts through doors. Shock horror face. Zoom in close up. Then turn and see dead cyberwoman.)
(Ianto breaks down. Goes to hold her, can't find where to put his hands. Lots of jump cuts, small changes in angle, showing broken blue lit crying Ianto.)
(Goes to hold her head and the handles come off. Hands under head, sobbing, then hands come away soaked in blood.)
PIZZA!LISA: Ianto...
(Ianto stands up, points gun, click.)
(We see pizza girl with your classic frankenmonster line across forehead.)
PIZZA!LISA: Ianto, it's me. It's Lisa. I'm human again. You fought so hard for me, I had to hold on for you, so I took this body and transplanted the brain.
IANTO: You're not Lisa.
PIZZA!LISA: You always said you didn't love me for what I looked like. Last time you said that, it was a Saturday. We were hungover. You made cheese toasties, and moaned I hadn't descaled my kettle. That night, we camped on a beach in Brittany. It got so freezing we wore our coats and shared one sleeping bag. When we woke up the next morning, a dog was pissing on our tent.
(Ianto sobs)
PIZZA!LISA: Hold me, Ianto. I need you to hold me. I need you to tell me it's all right.
IANTO: (CRIES. Goes to hold her. She looks like hell, all blood and mess. He holds her anyway.)
(Backs away. Brings gun up. GUN CLICKS. Points it at her face.)
PIZZA!LISA: What are you doing? Ianto, it's me! You wouldn't shoot me. I did this for you!
IANTO: (Can barely talk for tears) I'm sorry. I'm sorry. (Lowers gun.) Lisa! (Turns away.)
PIZZA!LISA: We can be upgraded together.
BAM
(Gun shot, blood from Pizza!Lisa. See all four of Team Torchwood in the door, guns pointing. Jack fires first but they all join him. Lots of gunshots.)
(She falls back slowly on the conversion unit, staring at Ianto, who stares at her.)
(Team lower guns. Ianto looks at them. Gwen looks away but the others stare back, Jack defiantly.)
(Ianto turns and goes to Lisa. He drops to his knees somewhere between both corpses. And rocks, and sobs.)
EXT. Cardiff, Sky shot of Millennium place, Night
INT. Torchwood, door rolling open
ALARM BLARES, (the usual door alarm. the place is well lit right now.)
(Ianto walks in very slowly.)
(Jack and Gwen are up in the meeting room, pillar visually dividing them, staring down at him. Ianto looks up. Jack nods. Ianto nods back, just a little. Then he turns and goes to work.)
GWEN: You'd never have shot him. Not really.
JACK: Wouldn't I?
GWEN: Would you have shot me if I'd gone to stand by him?
JACK: But you didn't.
GWEN: If I had, though.
JACK: But you didn't.
(Ianto goes to pick up black bin bag and start tidying up.)
GWEN: Will he stay?
(Jack gives a kind of sideways nod and eyebrow flash. Could mean anything.)
GWEN: All that deception. Because he couldn't bear to live without her. (beat) So have you ever loved anyone, that much? (pause) When she had hold of you, I thought, just for a moment, I thought maybe you could die after all.
JACK: Wanna know a secret? So did I. (beat) And just for a second there, I felt so... alive.
(Pull back from Jack and Gwen, pan around, see Ianto methodically picking up the trash.)
***
comment: There was some lovely camera work I was tempted to write about. Zooming in closer and closer for more tension / confrontation, backing off when someone backs down, and the general shakiness of Ianto. But then it would be all full of camera angles and probably less useful.
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