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TORCHWOOD
1X05: SMALL WORLDS
ORIGINAL AIR DATE IN UK: 11/12/2006
TRANSCRIBED FROM DL
Created by: RUSSELL T DAVIES
Written by: PETER J. HAMMOND
Directed by: ALICE TROUGHTON
Producer: RICHARD STOKES
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SUMMARY: Jack and the Torchwood team must deal with the re-appearance of
fairy-like creatures who have returned to claim their Chosen One.
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TORCHWOOD
1X05: SMALL WORLDS
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FADE IN:
[INTRODUCTION]
JACK HARKNESS: (v.o.) Torchwood. Outside the Government, beyond the Police.
Tracking down alien life on Earth, arming the human race against the future. The 21st
century is when everything changes and you've got to be ready.
FADE OUT.
FADE IN:
EXT. ROUNDSTONE WOOD -- NIGHT
(It's nighttime in the woods. A light mist spreads among the tress. A lone figure
makes her way through the path.)
ESTELLE: (v.o.) I'm returning to the same spot. I do hope they're here.
(Estelle, an elderly woman in her 80s, takes verbal notes into a small tape recorder.)
ESTELLE: (v.o.) I have to move carefully. Don't want to frighten them.
(She continues through the path.)
(Estelle approaches the end of the path.)
ESTELLE: Now then ...
(She peers over the shrubbery, hopeful to see what she came there to see. We hear the
fluttering sounds of wings flapping.)
ESTELLE: They are! (to the recorder) They're here!
(Out in view, Estelle sees fluttering lights flying over the roundstone rock formation.
She watches them, a large smile on her face. They look like fairy lights – bigger
than fireflies with larger wings and dangling legs.)
ESTELLE: My little darlings!
(Estelle takes her camera and snaps several photos. The fluttering lights fly around the
rock formation. Then, they hover a moment. Estelle continues to take photos of the
lights.)
CUE SOUND: FLAPPING, FLUTTERING WINGS & TWITTERING
(Finished, she watches them for a moment, then she turns away and leaves. Her back is to
the rock formation and the fluttering lights.)
(The fluttering flapping wing sounds become colder, darker swooshes. The flying lights dim
and grow into long-legged gray-green colored creatures. )
FADE TO
END OF TEASER
ROLL TITLE CREDITS
FADE IN:
INT. TORCHWOOD – HUB – NIGHT
(The monitor workstations are on, but everyone's gone home for the night. Camera
moves along the workstations.)
DISSOLVE TO:
(The workstations are empty. Jack's office is empty.)
DISSOLVE TO:
(There's hold in the floor in Jack's office leading to the room where Jack
rests.)
(ON JACK: Jack is in bed, his eyes were open. He closes his eyes.)
INSERT: FLASHBACK
(A train whistle blows. Jack is in a moving train car and dressed in an old period
captain's uniform.)
BACK TO SCENE.
(Jack is sleeping. He stirs.)
INSERT: A MAN DEAD IN THE BACK OF A MOVING TRAIN CAR.
(Jack's eyes are still closed. He takes a deep breath and exhales.)
INSERT: JACK in his uniform
INSERT: MORE DEAD MEN IN THE BACK OF THE MOVING TRAIN CAR. There are bits of red in the
sepia-toned flashback.
(Jack struggles in his sleep.)
INSERT: JACK in uniform
INSERT: DEAD MEN IN THE MOVING TRAIN CAR, THEIR MOUTHS RED, STUFFED WITH SOMETHING.
(JACK stares at the dead bodies. The dead man has his mouth stuffed with something. His
head lolls forward and the red rose petals fall out.)
ABRUPT CUT TO:
Jack's eyes suddenly open. We hold on Jack who looks scared and haunted.
CUT TO:
INT. TORCHWOOD – JACK'S OFFICE – NIGHT
(Jack climbs out of the hole. He's dressed in a white t-shirt and pants. He walks
over to his desk. He takes a deep breath and exhales. He looks down and finds a single red
rose petal.)
(He picks it up and looks at it.)
(He hears a noise and turns around. Ianto is still there. He's looking through a file
folder.)
JACK: You shouldn't be here.
(Ianto closes the folder and looks at Jack.)
IANTO: Neither should you.
(Ianto goes to one of the workstations. Jack follows him. He stands behind Ianto and puts
a hand on his shoulder.)
JACK: What have you got?
IANTO: (sighs) Funny sort of weather patterns.
CUT TO:
EXT. STREET OUTSIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL – DAY
(School is finished and the kids are let out for the day. Jasmine, an eight year old girl
with braids, leaves the school and waits alongside the stone fence for her ride. She
doesn't socialize with the other kids and doesn't seem to have friends.)
(She looks around, then walks over to the edge of the sidewalk near the curb. She looks
for her ride.)
(A man sits in a car parked across the street. He watches and waits. The man watches
Jasmine who is standing alone on the sidewalk.)
EXT. JASMINE'S HOUSE -- DAY
(Lynn follows Roy out the front door. She's carrying his jacket.)
LYNN: Didn't you see what the time was?
(She hands him his jacket on his way to the car.)
ROY: I was on the phone, wasn't I?
LYNN: Well, shall I call the school?
ROY: Don't be stupid. She'll be all right.
(He gets inside his car and drives away. Lynn heads back to the house. She stops and
watches him go.)
EXT. STREET OUTSIDE COED Y GARREG PRIMARY SCHOOL – DAY
(Jasmine waits outside for her ride. A taller, tougher looking girl passes by and pulls on
Jasmine's braid.)
JASMINE: Ow!
(The girls walk past without a word. Jasmine glares at them.)
(The teacher, Kate, turns and sees Jasmine still there.)
KATE: Who's picking you up, Jasmine?
JASMINE: Roy.
(Kate looks around. She doesn't see him. She glances at her watch.)
(The man sitting in the car watches Jasmine.)
(A couple of children run past. Kate runs to get them, leaving Jasmine alone again.)
(The man in the car parked across the street starts his car and pulls out.)
(Jasmine looks around.)
EXT. PARK STEPS – DAY
(Jasmine is walking home from school. She walks down the concrete steps. The man in the
car is waiting down on the road below.)
(Jasmine turns and walks down the road.)
(The man in the car turns and follows her. The driver, Mark Goodson, pulls up along
Jasmine under the bridge.)
MARK GOODSON: Your mum asked me to fetch you ... cos she's a bit late.
FAERIE POV – Jasmine stops walking.
FLAPPING OF WINGS
(She ignores him and continues walking.)
FAERIE POV – Goodson pulls the car up in front of Jasmine.
(He gets out of the car.)
MARK GOODSON: I promised your mum I'd fetch you, so get in the car.
(She tries to get past him. He blocks her path. She moves the other side, he blocks her
path and grabs her arm.)
MARK GOODSON: Did you hear me?
(Jasmine gasps. He keeps a hold on her. She pulls, trying to get out of his grip.)
FAERIE POV: The faeries fly down. The wind picks up and blows the foliage.
FAERIE VOICE: (raspy, ethereal) Come away, oh, human child!
FAERIE POV: The wind gusts on Goodson.
(Goodson releases his hold on Jasmine and is thrown back against his car.)
MARK GOODSON: Oh!
(The wind increases and Goodson hits his head against the car, cutting his lip. He touches
the cut and looks up.)
FAERIE VOICE: (raspy, ethereal) Come away ... Come away ....
(Jasmine stands just behind him on the road – the sun shines down on her and there is
no wind blowing against her.)
(Goodson struggles to get the car door open. He slips inside and rolls the window up.)
(Jasmine smiles at him. She turns and leaves.)
(Goodson touches the blood from his nose and stares at Jasmine's back as she skips
merrily along the path home.)
EXT. SIDEWALK – DAY
(Gwen and Jack are walking along the sidewalk. Apparently, Jack is taking her somewhere.)
GWEN: What exactly are we doing here?
JACK: I've had an invitation from an old friend.
FAERIE POV: (YELLOW HUE) Jack leads Gwen to the building entrance.)
CUE SOUNDS of fluttering wings.
JACK: Here we go.
(Jack turns and walks in.)
GWEN: (scoffs) Fairies? Are you kidding me?
(Gwen follows him. A poster hanging in the front bulletin board reads: FAIRIES: FACT OR
FANTASY.)
CUT TO:
INT. LECTURE ROOM – DAY
(Estelle stands in front of the room talking with the small group of attendees. She has a
projector up with the photos of the fairies on the screen behind her.)
ESTELLE: I suppose I'm one of the fortunate few who's been allowed to see our
little friends.
(The door opens. Jack and Gwen enter the room. He smiles at Estelle who brightens when she
sees him.)
ESTELLE: And it's been no easy task. One needs to have the patience of a saint and
the blind faith of a prophet.
(He and Gwen sit in the back row and listen to Estelle's lecture. Estelle has a
Cottingley glass-plate photos up on the screen behind her.)
ESTELLE: But for me the long wait has been worthwhile.
(Jack glances at Gwen. She changes the photo to one taken at the Roundstone Wood.)
ESTELLE: This is my first picture. Not that clear, I know, but the ring of stones
can be seen quite distinctly.
(Jack watches intently.)
GWEN: (groans) I don't believe this.
JACK: Shh!
(Estelle puts up close-up blurred photos of the fairy lights.)
ESTELLE: Well, of course, I'm not the world's best photographer. But this little
person is just about visible. I was so lucky to have seen them, so privileged to witness
such a magical moment. Because fairies are shy, you see. But I know in my heart that
they're friendly, loving creatures. (She turns the projector off.) Thank you.
(The attendees applaud politely. The lecture ended, the attendees get up and leave.)
JACK: Wrong. She always gets it wrong.
CUT TO:
(Jack and Gwen are up closer. Jack is reviewing the slides.)
JACK: Estelle, when did you take these?
ESTELLE: A couple of nights ago.
JACK: Where?
ESTELLE: In Roundstone Wood.
GWEN: Not far from here.
ESTELLE: So good to see you again, Jack.
(Jack thinks about it.)
ESTELLE: Oh, look, there's the wood.
(She hands Jack a photo. He sighs.)
GWEN: What's wrong?
ESTELLE: Oh, Jack and I have always disagreed about fairies. I only see the good
ones. He only ever sees the bad.
JACK: They're all bad.
ESTELLE: No. I refuse to believe that.
GWEN: I suppose one person's good could be somebody else's evil.
ESTELLE: That's what his father used to say. Oh, Jack, if only you had seen them
there in the wood. They were happy. They were dancing. The fairy lights were shining.
JACK: Do you have any more photos?
(She looks up at him.)
ESTELLE: Yes, at home.
(He smiles down at her.)
JACK: Right. I need to see them all.
(They smile at each other. Gwen watches them.)
CUT TO:
EXT. THE TREES
(Sunlight filters through the tree tops. We zoom through the trees and then are looking
down at the city below.)
CUE SOUND: FLUTTERING WINGS & TWITTERING LAUGHTER
EXT. SIDEWALK – DAY
(Mark Goodson walks through the sidewalk. Sirens wail in the distance. He tends to his
bleeding nose. He nervously glances around him and is jumpy at loud noises.)
(A couple of men carrying a tarp walk in front of him, the loud sound startles Goodson.
Then he hears the ethereal laughter. He glances behind him and looks up in the trees. He
bumps into a man.)
MAN IN STREET: Something wrong, mate?
MARK GOODSON: Sorry.
MAN IN STREET: Yeah, well, look where you're bloody going.
(Goodson heads toward the CARDIFF MARKET.)
INT. CARDIFF MARKET – CONTINUOUS
(Goodson hurries through the market aisle. He nearly bumps into a man carrying a cage.)
MAN WITH CAGE: You got a problem, pal?
(Goodson doesn't spare him a glance, but continues through the aisle. He stops and
looks up as he hears the sounds of twittering and beating wings. He sees nothing.)
FAIRY POV: (YELLOW HUE) The Fairies look down at Mark.
INSERT: FLASH of the demonic-looking fairy swooping down on Mark.
(Suddenly, Mark is attacked by something invisible. He nearly falls backward, but
doesn't. He gags and retches. He continues through the aisle.)
(He coughs as if trying to get something out of his throat. He continues coughing down the
aisle as he heads toward the other exit.)
(He stops and coughs. Red flower petals fall out of his mouth. He continues to cough,
retch and gag as he staggers toward the exit on the other side of the building. He spits
out mouthful after mouthful of red rose petals.)
VOICE: (o.s.) Oh! What's wrong with you!
(He staggers out of the CARDIFF MARKET and onto the sidewalk. He sees a WPC standing near
a car and runs over to her, grabbing her by her vest.)
MARK GOODSON: Oh, God, help me! Help me, please!
WPC: All right, mate. Just calm down.
(He pushes her aside and tries to get into her car. He opens the door; she slams it shut.)
WPC: Hey, hold on, will you?
MARK GOODSON: I said, just bloody help me!
(He grabs her by her vest again.)
WPC: Right, that's it ... you crazy bastard!
(She grabs him and pushes him down on the hood while grabbing his wrists to handcuff him
behind his back.)
MARK GOODSON: No! No, please ... help me.
CUT TO:
INT. PEARCE RESIDENCE – HALLWAY/KITCHEN – DAY
(The front door opens. Jasmine and Roy enter.)
LYNN: Where was she?
ROY: Walking home on her own.
(Jasmine takes her bag off and puts it down on the hallway floor.)
LYNN: Jas, come here.
ROY: Do what your mum says.
(She turns and looks at them.)
JASMINE: You're not my dad.
ROY: Just bloody well do what she says.
(Lynn walks up to Jasmine.)
LYNN: You must never walk home on your own, you understand? It's not safe.
JASMINE: It's all right, Mum. No-one can hurt me.
(Jasmine exits the hallway. Lynn stares off after her.)
CUT TO:
INT. ESTELLE'S HOUSE -- DAY
(Jack and Gwen help Estelle carry her things into the house. Gwen puts the screen against
the door while Jack puts the stack of books and the projector down on the table. Estelle
puts her bag down on the sofa, then moves toward Jack.)
ESTELLE: Oh, thank you, Jack. This is Moses.
(She indicates the cat. Gwen looks at the cat sitting on the sofa.)
GWEN: Hello, Moses.
(Estelle hands Jack the portfolio of photos.)
ESTELLE: They're mostly just pictures of the area.
(Jack looks through the photos. Estelle picks Moses up.)
ESTELLE: Come on, my darling, it's quite time you went outside, isn't it?
(She smiles at Jack and leaves the room with the cat. Jack continues to look through the
photos with a smile on his face. Gwen looks around the room at the photos on the mantle.)
(There is a particular old framed photo of Jack in uniform. Gwen picks it up and looks at
it. She carries it over to him.)
GWEN: This is you.
(Jack looks at the photo and shakes his head.)
JACK: Sorry. No, that's my dad. He and Estelle were quite an item once upon a time.
(He takes the photo from her and puts it back on the mantle.)
JACK: They were inseparable.
GWEN: Then why did they part?
(He picks up another unframed photo and shows it to Gwen. He walks back to the table.)
JACK: It was wartime, he was posted abroad, she volunteered to work on the land.
(shrugs and shakes his head) It just happened that way.
(Gwen sits on the couch and looks at the very old photo of Jack and a very young Estelle
sitting on a park bench.)
(She looks at Jack. Jack looks at a particular photo.)
CUT TO:
EXT. ESTELLE'S GARDEN – DAY – CONTINUOUS
(Gwen steps outside the house and into the back yard. She touches a hanging wind chimes
and it rings. Estelle steps out of her garden to smile at Gwen.)
GWEN: If you don't mind me asking, did you know Jack's father after the war?
ESTELLE: No. We lost touch. Why?
GWEN: (shrugs) Did all three of you ever meet? You, Jack and his father?
ESTELLE: No. Never. Jack contacted me a few years ago. I was so surprised. He's so
like his dad. Same walk, same smile. I hope he's still alive. He'll be in his early
nineties now.
GWEN: You could always ask Jack about him.
ESTELLE: I have, but he doesn't seem to want to talk about his father.
(Jack walks out of the house carrying the photo portfolio.)
JACK: Estelle, when you next see these creatures you call us immediately,
understand?
ESTELLE: Mm-hm.
JACK: Night or day, it doesn't matter, just call us. And be careful, it's important
to me.
(Gwen turns to head back to the house.)
ESTELLE: (chides) But, Jack, I've nothing to worry about.
JACK: Just be careful. Please.
(When Gwen turns back around, she sees Jack put his arm around Estelle's shoulders,
kiss the top of her head and hold her. Estelle leans into Jack and smiles.)
CUT TO:
EXT. ESTELLE'S HOUSE – FRONT WALK – DAY – CONTINUOUS
(Jack and Gen leave the house. Jack closes the door behind him. He's got the
portfolio of photos tucked under his arm.)
JACK: Estelle shouldn't be living in town. She belongs in the countryside.
GWEN: How often do you get to see her?
JACK: We meet up now and again.
(They exit the front gate and head down the sidewalk.)
GWEN: Whenever she's seen her fairies?
JACK: She calls them fairies. I don't.
GWEN: What do you call them?
JACK: They've never really had a proper name.
GWEN: Why not?
JACK: Something from the dawn of time - how could you possibly put a name to that?
GWEN: Are we talking alien?
JACK: Worse.
GWEN: How come?
JACK: Because they're part of us, part of our world, yet we know nothing about
them. So we pretend to know what they look like. We see them as happy. We imagine they
have tiny little wings and are bathed in moonlight.
GWEN: But they're not?
JACK: No. Think dangerous, think something you can only half see like a glimpse,
like something out of the corner of your eye with a touch of myth, a touch of the spirit
world, a touch of reality, all jumbled together.
(They stop and face each other. Jack is intense.)
JACK: Old moments and memories that are frozen in amongst it. Like debris spinning
around a ringed planet - tossing, turning, whirling. Then backwards and forwards through
time. If that's them we have to find them ... before all hell breaks loose.
(Jack steps out of frame.)
CUT TO:
EXT. PEARCE RESIDENCE – BACKYARD – DAY
(Jasmine skips across the backyard and ducks through the bushes behind the tool shed. She
squeezes through a hole in the wire fence and heads deeper into the woods.)
ROY: (v.o.) Why won't she play anywhere else?
INT. PEARCE RESIDENCE – KITCHEN -- DAY
(Lynn and Roy talk about Jasmine.)
LYNN: She likes it down there.
ROY: Other kids have friends. Where's her friends? Must be something wrong with
her.
LYNN: There's nothing wrong with her.
ROY: Well, when's the last time you saw her watching TV? Or reading a book? Or
playing with a doll? Or sitting down to have a chat with us? When's the last time you
heard her laugh?
(He heads out of the room.)
EXT. WOODS OUTSIDE PEARCE RESIDENCE -- DAY
(Jasmine carries a large stick and skips along the tall grass.)
(She comes to a clearing between the tall trees. She holds the stick up to the sky and
turns around in a circle.)
FAIRY POV: (YELLOW HUE) The fairy looks down at Jasmine.
FAERIE VOICE: (whispers) Come away, oh, human child, come away.
FAIRY POV: (YELLOW HUE) The fairy looks down at Jasmine. Jasmine turns around as she plays
with the fairies. Her childish laughter of delight fills the air. The fairies retreat back
into the trees.
CUT TO:
INT. TORCHWOOD – HUB – WORKSTATIONS -- DAY
(The team is reviewing the Cottingley glass plate slides. Ianto is serving tea.)
TOSHIKO: This is the youngest girl. And the girl's cousin.
(Ianto puts a cup in front of Jack.)
IANTO: I blame it on magic mushrooms.
JACK: What you do in private is none of our business.
(He continues serving cups out.)
GWEN: But these photographs were fake.
OWEN: Conan Doyle believed in them.
GWEN: He was gaga at the time.
OWEN: And Houdini.
GWEN: Self-publicist.
JACK: How do you know so much about it?
GWEN: (rolls her eyes) I wrote an essay on the Cottingley glass-plate photos when I
was at school.
(Owen sniggers.)
GWEN: And when the girls were old ladies they admitted they were fakes.
TOSHIKO: So where was this sighting then?
(She puts Estelle's recent photos up on the wall monitor. Gwen stands up to look at
the monitor.)
JACK: In a place called Roundstone Wood.
OWEN: I know it. Has an odd history.
JACK: How d'you mean odd?
OWEN: It's always stayed wild. In the ancient times it was considered bad luck to
walk in there or even to collect timber. Even the Romans stayed clear of it.
TOSHIKO: I've had no report of any sighting.
JACK: You won't. These things come in under the radar, but they play tricks with
the weather, so set up a program for unnatural weather patterns.
TOSHIKO: Right.
GWEN: Are you saying our machines can't pick them up?
(Jack shakes his head.)
JACK: Nothing can.
CUT TO:
INT. PRECINCT – HALLWAY / CELLS – DAY
(The WPC pushes Mark Goodson through the hallway and into the back room.)
MARK GOODSON: What is it? Is it-is it God?
(He looks eager and half-crazed at the Custody Sergeant.)
MARK GOODSON: Some-somewhere safe, that's all I want, just put me somewhere safe.
WPC: Got a right one here.
MARK GOODSON: They tried to kill me!
WPC: Said there were flowers in his mouth.
CUSTODY SERGEANT: Flowers?
MARK GOODSON: They're trying to choke me.
WPC: (rolls her eyes) We checked. There was nothing.
MARK GOODSON: I think they didn't want me to hurt that little girl. It's just me.
They just want to hurt me, to kill me.
CUSTODY SERGEANT: Who wants to hurt you?
MARK GOODSON: They won't leave me alone. I've done wrong.
CUSTODY SERGEANT: What d'you mean you've done wrong?
(Goodson looks up at the ceiling.)
MARK GOODSON: If it's God, I'm sorry, I can't help it!
(The custody sergeant pick up a clipboard.)
CUSTODY SERGEANT: Name?
MARK GOODSON: It's little girls ... It's their little bodies, it's their little
smiles. They're bright as buttons. Look, um, I've been in trouble before ... So just help
me! (shouts) JUST LOCK ME UP! (beat) Please.
(He looks at them.)
CUT TO:
EXT. PATH TO ROUNDSTONE WOOD – DAY
(Gwen and Jack are walking through the path. Owen is tagging along carrying the kit. He
looks up at the treetops. Jack is fiddling with his watch.)
GWEN: I asked Estelle about your dad. She said she'd never seen the pair of you
together.
JACK: Why would she? She lost touch with him after the war. I just happened to
catch up with her later.
GWEN: Oh.
FAIRY POV: (YELLOW HUE) Low to the ground, something watches Jack, Gwen and Owen walk
past.
(It continues to watch them. It flies up to the tree tops, still keeping them in its
sight.)
(Jack, Gwen and Owen reach the rock formation.)
JACK: The stones in those photographs.
OWEN: You know, this whole area was forest in primeval times. Most of the
development areas have been built on ley lines.
(Jack is studying the readings on his watch.)
GWEN: Anyone could have made this circle.
JACK: Why do you keep doubting me? I spell out the dangers, you keep looking for
explanations.
GWEN: That's what police work's about.
JACK: This isn't police work.
GWEN: All right, then science.
JACK: And it's not science.
GWEN: I know. You told me. It's that corner-of-the-eye stuff.
(She glances behind her.)
FAIRY POV: (YELLOW HUE) A fairy lands just behind and down next to Gwen.
(Gwen does a double-take.)
(Jack, Owen and Gwen are quiet as they continue to work.)
EXT. CARDIFF (STOCK) – EVENING
(A high evening view of the city. The sun is setting. We swoop down on the city, then dip
in closer --
EXT. ROUNDSTONE WOOD – EVENING
-- we zoom down into the stone formation. The setting sun casts long shadows on the
ground.)
INT. PRECINCT – CELL -- NIGHT
(The cell door clicks shut. Mark Goodson is sleeping on the bed. A wind blows into the
cell. Goodson opens his eyes and turns to look up at the ceiling.)
SWOOSH!
(The shadow of a figure swoops across the shadows on the roof.)
(Goodson turns and screams.)
(Then we see it. The demonic-looking creature with wings like dragonflies and razor sharp
teeth – pushes off against the ceiling and lunges down at Goodson.)
(Goodson screams.)
INT. PRECINCT – BULLPEN – CONTINUOUS
(The echoes of Goodson's screams filter into the bullpen. The Custody Sergeant and
the WPC look up from the magazine they're looking through.)
(The scream ends abruptly.)
(They look at each other and sigh.)
(The custody sergeant takes his keys out. He and the WPC head into the back cells to check
on Goodson.)
CUSTODY SERGEANT: All right!
(They head into the back cells.)
CUT TO:
INT. PEARCE RESIDENCE – HALLWAY TO BEDROOMS -- NIGHT
(Lynn passes by the stairs with two cups in her hand. She can hear Jasmine giggling and
talking to someone. Lynn puts the cups down on the stairs and heads up to check on
Jasmine.)
(As she gets closer to the door, she can hear Jasmine talking.)
JASMINE: (through door) Now do a horse! A white horse with wings. (muffled) Tigers
can kill. Show me the tiger.
(Lynn opens the door.)
INT. JASMINE'S ROOM
(The fairies hide, the shadows of their wings barely disappearing along the walls as Lynn
opens the door.)
(Lynn finds Jasmine in bed.)
LYNN: I heard you laughing, Jas. (She comes into the room and sits next to
Jasmine.) It seemed like you were talking to someone.
(Jasmine shakes her head.)
LYNN: Just talking to yourself, were you? It's lovely to hear you laugh.
(She brushes the hair away from Jasmine's face. She looks at her daughter. Jasmine
turns and looks away to the side.)
CUT TO:
INT. PRECINCT – BACK HALLWAY TO BULLPEN -- DAY
(The custody sergeant shows Jack and Gwen to the back cells.)
CUSTODY SERGEANT: I thought I'd seen everything until now. We had him locked up,
for Christ's sake, on his own. He was shouting the odds. Said things were following him.
JACK: What kind of things?
CUSTODY SERGEANT: Shadows, he said. And he was going on about being choked.
(Toshiko joins them. The custody sergeant unlocks the door.)
TOSHIKO: There were four other prisoners. They saw nothing.
GWEN: Where are they now?
TOSHIKO: I've had them transferred.
JACK: CCTV?
TOSHIKO: I'm dealing with that.
(The custody sergeant gets the door open and shows them back to the cell.)
CUSTODY SERGEANT: At first I thought he was a drunk or a nutcase, or both.
JACK: Right, I want this place locked off.
INT. CELL
(He opens the door.)
JACK: Name?
(Gwen and Toshiko step into the small cell.)
TOSHIKO: Mark Goodson. Worked in town. Business consultant.
(Toshiko looks at the body. Gwen looks around the cell.)
JACK: Cause of death?
(Toshiko kneels beside the body.)
TOSHIKO: Well, going by the pinpoint hemorrhages on the eye-lids and around the
hairline, I'd say oxygen deficiency. But it's odd. There's no fingertip bruising on the
face, no areas of pallor.
GWEN: Nothing to suggest that pressure was applied?
TOSHIKO: No.
(Toshiko stands up; Gwen kneels next to the body.)
GWEN: Yet he suffocated alone in a locked cell?
TOSHIKO: Looks like it.
(Gwen leans forward and notices something.)
GWEN: Wait a minute.
(She picks up a forceps out of the open kit and takes out a red rose petal deep out of
Goodson's mouth. Toshiko gasps. Jack looks grim.)
(Gwen takes out two more rose petals.)
TOSHIKO: I've never seen anything like that before.
JACK: (grimly) I have.
(This is really not good.)
CUT TO:
INT. ESTELLE'S HOUSE – LIVING ROOM -- NIGHT
(Estelle has crystals out on the table. She touches each one lightly and picks one up.)
ESTELLE: Quartzite. The searching stone. (She holds it up.) Oh, let the energies
flow. Help me find them again.
(There's a cold, swooshing sound that startles Estelle. She pulls the crystal down as
she looks toward the kitchen where the sounds came from.)
(She puts the crystal on the table and heads toward the kitchen.)
INT. KITCHEN -- CONTINUOUS
(Estelle walks over to the window and looks outside. She hears laughter and wings
fluttering. There in the bushes, she sees a pair of white slits gazing back at her through
the shrubbery.)
(She gasps.)
ESTELLE: Oh ... !
(It swoops at her and smashes the kitchen window.)
ESTELLE: Oh!
CUT TO:
INT. TORCHWOOD – CONFERENCE ROOM -- NIGHT
(Jack talks with the team as they watch the CCTV footage of Mark Goodson in his cell.
He's writhing on the floor as something unseen attacks him.)
JACK: We know the dead man was a convicted pedophile, used to hang around schools.
GWEN: Why the petals in his mouth?
JACK: Just a bit of fun on their part.
GWEN: You call that fun?
(On the monitor, Mark Goodson writhes on the bed, then falls to the floor in the small
cell.)
JACK: That's the way these creatures like to do things. They play games, they
torment and they kill.
GWEN: Why?
JACK: As a punishment or a warning to others. They protect their own. The chosen
ones. Somehow children and the spirit world, they go together.
TOSHIKO: So how do we stop them?
(Jack sits down.)
JACK: First we have to find out who they want. And we can't trap them. They have
control of the elements - fire, water, the air that we breathe. They can drag that air
right out of our bodies. Sometimes I think they're part Mara.
TOSHIKO: Mara?
JACK: Kind of malignant wraiths. It's where the word ‘nightmare' came
from. They suffocate people in their sleep.
(The phone rings. Jack puts it on speaker.)
JACK: (to phone) Yeah?
ESTELLE: (from phone) Jack --
INTERCUT WITH:
INT. ESTELLE'S HOUSE – HALLWAY / LIVING ROOM -- NIGHT
(She's on the phone with Jack.)
ESTELLE: -- it's me, Estelle.
JACK: Yeah, what is it?
ESTELLE: You were right, Jack. There are bad ones. They've come to me.
JACK: Estelle, we're on our way. Stay where you are, don't go anywhere near them,
do you understand?
ESTELLE: Yes.
(Jack hangs up. They head out.)
(Estelle hangs up. She sighs as she waits. She turns and heads back into the living room.
Its quiet.)
(Then she hears Moses screech.)
ESTELLE: Moses.
(She hurries through the living room. She stops and the door leading outside and
hesitates.)
ESTELLE: Oh, God, Moses, you silly cat.
(She opens the door a crack.)
ESTELLE: Come on, Moses.
(She calls for her cat.)
ESTELLE: Come on, darling. Moses!
(She opens the door and steps outside.)
ESTELLE: Moses ... come on.
(We hear wings fluttering. Estelle calls for her cat.)
ESTELLE: Come here, darling. Come on, puss.
(More flapping wings sound.)
ESTELLE: Moses?
(There's no response.)
ESTELLE: Moses!
(The door slams shut behind her. She tries to open it and finds it locked.)
ESTELLE: Oh, no! Oh, no!
(The door won't open. Moses is quietly watching from the bushes.)
ESTELLE: Oh... Oh!
(It starts raining on her.)
ESTELLE: Oh, no! Oh! Oh!
(It doesn't let up.)
EXT. ROAD (STOCK) – NIGHT
(The Torchwood SUV travels along the road.)
INT. CAR (TRAVELING) – NIGHT
(Toshiko and Owen sit in the back seat. Toshiko scans the weather.)
TOSHIKO: It makes no sense. It's a fine night yet the weather map says there's
rain.
(She zooms in on a specific spot on the map lit up with red.)
EXT. ESTELLE'S GARDEN – NIGHT
(Estelle is standing out in the rain.)
FAIRY POV: The fairies look down at Estelle.
ESTELLE: Oh!
(Estelle falls to her knees on the ground.)
(Moses stands in the garden nearby. He's nice and dry.)
(The rain continues to pelt down on Estelle.)
ESTELLE: Oh God!
(She falls back on the ground – rainwater beats down on her nose and mouth.)
ESTELLE: Oh!
(Estelle groans. In the background, we hear twittering laughter.)
(Moses is dry. Estelle is soaked. She coughs and moans. The fairies laugh.)
EXT. ROAD (STOCK) – NIGHT
(The Torchwood SUV continues down the road.)
INT. CAR (TRAVELING) -- NIGHT
(Everyone is quiet.)
EXT. ROAD OUTSIDE ESTELLE'S HOUSE – NIGHT
(The SUV pulls up the front and screeches to a halt. Jack parks and gets out of the car.
The others follow.)
(He runs up the front walk.)
JACK: Estelle! Estelle!
(He pounds on the front door. There's no answer. He runs around the side of the
house.)
JACK: Estelle!
EXT. ESTELLE'S BACK YARD – NIGHT -- CONTINUOUS
(Estelle is dead on the ground when Jack finds her. Owen checks her. Jack waits.)
OWEN: Looks like she died from drowning. The rest of the garden's dry as a bone.
(Jack is just stunned. He kneels next to Estelle and closes her eyes. He lifts her up and
holds her in his lap. Owen and Toshiko step away. Gwen stays with Jack.)
(Jack wraps his arms around Estelle and holds her. Gwen kneels next to him. Jack cries.)
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.
(Gwen stands up. Tears run down Jack's face. He kisses the top of Estelle's head
tenderly. He puts her back down on the ground and stands up.)
(He takes a deep breath and sighs.)
JACK: I need a drink.
(Jack turns and leaves.)
EXT. CARDIFF (STOCK) – NIGHT
(Cardiff at night.)
INT. TORCHWDOOD -- NIGHT
(Jack and Gwen share a drink.)
GWEN: Where did you and Estelle meet?
JACK: In London at the Astoria ballroom a few weeks before Christmas. (Gwen
smiles.) She was seventeen years old and she was beautiful. I loved her at first sight.
But nothing lasted back then. Promises were always being broken. Estelle ... to have to
die like that.
(Jack takes a drink.)
GWEN: The petals in Goodson's mouth, where had you seen that before? Was that
during the war?
JACK: No. Long before then.
EXT. TRAIN (STOCK) – DAY – FLASHBACK
JACK: (v.o.) On a troop train.
(The coal-powered train travels on the tracks.)
LEGEND:
LAHORE 1909
INT. TRAIN (TRAVELING) – DAY -- FLASHBACK
(Someone in the car plays a harmonica. The car is full of soldiers.)
JACK: (v.o.) Fifteen men with me in charge.
(The men play cards, laugh, mingle – Jack sits on the sides, his arms crossed in
front of him and a small smile on his face as he watches them.)
JACK: (v.o.) Everyone happy. Too happy. Too noisy.
(The car grows dark as they enter a tunnel.)
BACK TO SCENE
(Jack is quiet for a moment, his eyes glazed as he remembers.)
JACK: Then we hit a tunnel.
INT. TRAIN (TRAVELING) – DAY -- FLASHBACK
(The train car is dark. Wings flap and flutter. The harmonica dies out along with the
laughter and talking. The train car is eerily silent.)
(Jack looks around, trying to see inside the dark train car.)
JACK: (v.o.) We thought some birds had flown in through an open window. Then came
the silence.
(They exit the tunnel and now Jack sees that all the men are dead.)
JACK: (v.o.) And when we came out of the tunnel, ...
(He gets up and looks at the bodies.)
JACK: (v.o.) ... all fifteen men were dead.
(The train lurches. Jack grabs onto the side to steady himself. One of the men's dead
lolls forward and red rose petals fall out of his mouth.)
(Jack looks around with disbelief.)
BACK TO SCENE.
(Jack continues his story.)
JACK: They'd been suffocated. My squad. Men I was responsible for.
GWEN: But why were the men killed?
(He takes a drink out of his glass.)
JACK: About a week earlier some of them had got drunk. Drove a truck through a
village, ran over a child, killed her. That child was a chosen one.
(We hold on Gwen.)
INT. PEARCE HOUSE – JASMINE'S ROOM – NIGHT
(The rocking horse toys on the shelf move forward and back. Jasmine sits up in bed. She
looks out and smiles. We hear the sounds of wings fluttering.)
INT. PEARCE HOUSE – HALLWAY – NIGHT
(Lynn locks the front door and turns off the lights. She continues through the house and
turns the hallway lights off.)
(Outside, we hear the dog barking.)
(She stops outside the backdoor and opens it to check. She looks outside.)
VARIOUS FAIRY POV: The fairies fly toward Lynn.
(Lynn suddenly goes back inside and closes the door.)
FAIRY POV: The door closes on the fairy.
(Lynn locks the door. The fairies laughter echoes in the silence.)
(She turns around and turns off the lights.)
FADE OUT.
FADE IN:
INT. GWEN'S APARTMENT – NIGHT
(Gwen and Rhys return home. Gwen turns the lights on as she heads for the living room.
Rhys is talking behind her.)
RHYS: She's a nightmare, three hours and wouldn't say a word, just sat glowering
because she thought I'd nicked her special stapler.
GWEN: Don't worry about it.
RHYS: You okay?
GWEN: No. I've had a bit of a weird day actually.
(Gwen turns the living room lights on and finds the entire room a mess. The furniture has
been tipped over and the dirt in the plants have been scattered on the floor along with
red rose petals.)
RHYS: Bloody hell! What the hell's gone on here?
(Rhys enters the living room.)
RHYS: How'd they get in? They smashed everything up, the bastards!
(Gwen looks around and focuses in on the roundstone rock formation made up of stones,
leaves, twigs and red rose petals on the floor in front of her.)
CUT TO:
EXT. PEARCE HOUSE – FRONT – DAY
(Jasmine is dressed for school. There are balloon decorations tied to the front of the
house. Lynn is tying more balloons to the light post in front of their drive when Jasmine
and Roy step out of the house.)
LYNN: I'll fetch you straight home from school, Jas. You don't want to miss our
party, do you?
JASMINE: I'd rather play down the garden.
(Jasmine walks past her. Roy steps up next to Lynn.)
LYNN: (to Roy) You're right. She's spending too much time down there.
ROY: Don't worry. I'm going to put a stop to things.
(Roy heads for the car. Jasmine is waiting next to the passenger door.)
ROY: So what are you going to do when they start building at the bottom of the
garden?
(He opens the car door.)
ROY: It'll happen one day.
(Jasmine doesn't say anything.)
ROY: Don't you ever want to have a conversation with me?
FAIRY POV: (YELLOW HUE) The fairies are up in the treetops watching Jasmine at the car.)
ROY: (mutters) No wonder your dad left when you were a baby. He must have seen what
was coming.
(Roy gets into the car.)
(Jasmine looks up at the treetops. She smiles and waves.)
FAIRY POV: (YELLOW HUE) The fairies back up back into the treetops.
INT. CAR – CONTINUOUS
(Roy looks behind them and sees no one. Jasmine gets in the car.)
ROY: Who are you waving at?
JASMINE: Just friends.
ROY: (scoffs) You don't have friends.
FAIRY POV: The fairies watch as Roy starts the car engine and drives away.
EXT. COED Y GARREG PRIMARY SCHOOL – PLAYGROUND – DAY
(Children play on the playground.)
CHILDREN CHANT: Cross eyes, mince pies, catch the buggers by surprise.
(A couple of larger girls come up behind Jasmine and push her down. The teacher sees
Jasmine on the ground and goes to check on her. Jasmine gets up.)
KATE (TEACHER): Jasmine? Did someone push you, Jasmine?
JASMINE: Yes, Miss.
KATE (TEACHER): Who?
JASMINE: Don't know, Miss.
(Kate looks around.)
CUT TO:
INT. GWEN'S APARTMENT – LIVING ROOM – DAY
(Jack is in the doorway surveying the damage as Gwen is inside cleaning up the mess.)
GWEN: (angry) In the whole of my working life I have never had to bring the bad
times home with me. I have never had to feel threatened in my own home. But not any more,
because this means these creatures can invade my life whenever they feel like it and I am
scared, Jack. What chance did Estelle have? What chance do any of us have?
(Jack shakes his head and says nothing. Gwen stops and gets ahold of herself. Jack
continues to survey the room.)
GWEN: You said these creatures protect their own.
JACK: Yeah.
GWEN: You mentioned the chosen ones. What are they? How many are there?
(Jack picks up the rocks from the formation and looks at them. He still doesn't
answer her.)
GWEN: (shouts) Tell me, Jack!
JACK: All these so-called fairies were children once from different moments in
time, going back millennia. Part of the lost lands.
GWEN: Lost lands? What?
JACK: The lands that belong to them.
GWEN: What exactly do they want? Why are they here?
(Jack turns and looks at Gwen.)
JACK: They want what's theirs - the next chosen one.
EXT. COED Y GARREG PRIMARY SCHOOL – PLAYGROUND – DAY
(Jasmine is sitting alone. She looks up at the treetops while the other children laugh and
play.)
(The two girl bullies talk with each other while glancing at Jasmine.)
(Kate, the teacher out on the grounds, turns and looks at Jasmine who is sitting on the
fence by herself. The two girl bullies head over to Jasmine.)
GIRL BULLY 1: Hey, you. Did you tell on us?
JASMINE: No.
GIRL BULLY 2: Yes, you did.
FAIRY POV: The fairies see Jasmine with the two girls.
GIRL BULLY 1: Yeah, well maybe you need a good kicking. Get those teeth of yours
kicked in.
(They pull Jasmine off the fence and push her down on the ground. One of the girls kicks
Jasmine. She gasps from pain.)
FAIRY POV: The fairies see Jasmine get kicked. They back up and retreat to the trees.
(Jasmine turns around and looks up at the trees.)
(A gust of wind blows the tree tops.)
CUT TO:
INT. TORCHWOOD – CONFERENCE ROOM – DAY
(Jack and Gwen return.)
JACK: I want a check on all unexplained deaths in the area.
(Gwen nods. Toshiko sits at the table with her laptop. Ianto is studying the monitor.)
TOSHIKO: What's the weather forecast for today?
IANTO: Long, sunny spells.
TOSHIKO: It's happening again.
(Jack leans forward to see the monitor as Toshiko zeroes in on the abnormal weather found
at: COED Y GARREG PRIMARY SCHOOL.)
EXT. COED Y GARREG PRIMARY SCHOOL – PLAYGROUND – DAY
(A gust of wind blows continuously on the two girl bullies. The children start to scream.
Jasmine gets up, turns and smiles at the girls. There's no wind on her at all.)
(The two girl bullies are pushed back up against the fence.)
FAIRY POV: They watch the girl bullies down below.
(The children scream. It's windy all over the playground – everywhere, except on
Jasmine. Jasmine continues to smile at the girls.)
(The two girl bullies are huddled at the fence. The force of the wind knocks the fence
down. Everywhere else, children and running and screaming.)
(Jasmine continues to smile at the girls. She chuckles at the sight.)
INT. TORCHWOOD – CONFERENCE ROOM – DAY
(Toshiko is working on the laptop.)
TOSHIKO: I can't understand it, it's going crazy.
JACK: Just leave it, let's go.
(Jack heads out. Gwen follows.)
EXT. COED Y GARREG PRIMARY SCHOOL – PLAYGROUND – DAY
(Children run and scream while Jasmine continues to smile and laugh.)
(The two girls are huddled together in the corner of the playground, the wind gusting in
their faces. Kate turns and sees them in trouble. She runs to get them.)
(The closer she gets, she's suddenly hit with a stronger bout of wind that nearly
knocks her off her feet. She runs over to the two girls who are stuck against the fence.
She dodges a falling branch and reaches the two girls.)
(She holds on to the two girls.)
KATE (TEACHER): Hold on to me ...
(Jasmine stays where she is – smiling and laughing.)
CUT TO:
EXT. PEARCE HOUSE – BACKYARD – DAY
(Roy repairs the hole in the fence.)
FAIRY POV: The fairies watch Roy hammering the wooden planks into place, blocking
Jasmine's path to the back garden.
(Roy continues to fix the fence.)
EXT. COED Y GARREG PRIMARY SCHOOL – FRONT DRIVE / PLAYGROUND – DAY
(The Torchwood SUV arrives at the school. The team gets out of the car.)
(Parents are there to take the children home. Jack and the team head inside. Gwen sees
something and detours to the back of the school where the playground is.)
(The adults are cleaning up the mess. It looks like whatever hit them, hit them in the
playground.)
(Gwen walks through the playground to look around.)
FAIRY POV: The fairies watch Gwen walking through the playground.
(Suddenly, Gwen stops and looks up at the trees.)
FAIRY POV: The fairies laugh and move in closer to Gwen.
(Gwen knows they're up there.)
FAIRY POV: Gwen backs away.
(Gwen turns and runs to the building.)
FAIRY POV: The fairies watch as Gwen runs back to the building.)
INT. COED Y GARREG PRIMARY SCHOOL – PLAYGROUND – DAY
(Kate talks with Jack, Toshiko and Owen.)
KATE (TEACHER): I've never seen anything like it. It was so sudden. Then it ...
then it just ended.
TOSHIKO: Kate, is it?
OWEN: Was anyone hurt?
KATE (TEACHER): No. Two children were almost scared to death, but they're okay.
(Gwen joins up with them. She gives Jack a look.)
JACK: What is it?
GWEN: (scared) I saw them.
(Kate continues to walk to the classroom.)
KATE (TEACHER): And there was little Jasmine in amongst it all. She hadn't been
touched. The sun was shining down on her. It was ... it was like an aura, like something
protecting her.
JACK: Who is Jasmine?
KATE (TEACHER): Jasmine Pearce. She's a pupil of mine.
JACK: Where is she now?
KATE (TEACHER): We're sending all the children home. We have to.
JACK: (nods) Yeah, thanks.
(Kate leaves.)
GWEN: The chosen one?
JACK: Yeah.
CUT TO:
EXT. PEARCE HOUSE – BACKYARD – DAY
(There's a backyard party at the Pearce home. The guests are already there. Roy
carries a plate and mingles on his way to the barbeque. The banner hanging on the fence
reads: LYNN & ROY, 5 HAPPY YEARS.)
INT. PEARCE HOUSE – KITCHEN – DAY
(Lynn and Jasmine are in the kitchen. Jasmine is filling a plate with edibles.)
LYNN: Must have been scary at school today.
JASMINE: It was fun.
LYNN: Roy said you saw some of your friends this morning. He said you waved at
them. Only Roy said when he looked he couldn't see anyone.
JASMINE: That's because they were in the trees.
LYNN: Trees? What trees?
JASMINE: The trees along the road.
LYNN: Is this one of your games, Jas?
JASEMINE: No.
EXT. PEARCE HOUSE – BACKYARD – DAY
(Roy puts the plate down on the table and picks up his beer.)
VOICE: Ah, boy, not got a beer?
(He takes a long drink. Then he starts putting the buns on the grill.)
INT. PEARCE HOUSE – KITCHEN – DAY
(Lynn continues to talk with Jasmine.)
LYNN: So who are they?
JASMINE: Just friends.
LYNN: You should have invited them to the party.
JASMINE: They don't like parties.
LYNN: I'm not surprised if they live in trees.
JASMINE: Oh, they don't always live in trees. They can be anywhere and everywhere.
They can even be in this room.
LYNN: In this room? When?
JASMINE: Now.
LYNN: Don't be silly, Jas.
(Jasmine continues to fill the plate.)
LYNN: So where did you meet these friends? You must have met them somewhere.
JASMINE: They said they'll always look after me, even through time.
LYNN: When did they say that?
JASMINE: I forget.
(Lynn doesn't say anything. She picks up the salad bowl and carries it out. Jasmine
picks up her tray of cookies and follows her.)
EXT. PEARCE HOUSE – BACKYARD – DAY
(Roy talks with the guests.)
ROY: Oh, yeah, I've got big plans for this place, going to extend the patio and
landscape this garden.
(Lynn and Jasmine walk out of the house. Jasmine puts the salad bowl on the table and goes
to stand by Roy. Roy turns around and sees Jasmine by the table.)
ROY: Come on, Jas, hurry up with that food. People are hungry.
(Roy puts his arm around Lynn's shoulders.)
WOMAN GUEST: So when are you going to name the day, Roy?
ROY: Shoo, never. I can't afford to keep her.
(Jasmine notices the new fence. Roy watches as Jasmine runs over to check it out.)
JASMINE: No! (She hits the fence.) No! Please, no! No ...
(Roy appears.)
ROY: Jas, get away.
JASMINE: You can't do this! That's my own place! It's mine!
(He grabs her arm.)
ROY: I said, get away!
(Jasmine kicks Roy in the leg.)
ROY: Oh, Jas!
(She grabs his arm and bites him.)
ROY: Ow!
(He slaps her across the face. She turns and glares at him.)
JASMINE: Ah!
ROY: You little bitch!
(Thunder rumbles above.)
(Roy emerges from behind the shed and sticks his hand in his pocket to hide the bite from
Lynn. He walks up to Lynn.)
LYNN: That's all we need.
ROY: Just a bit of bad weather. It'll pass.
(He looks around.)
(Camera lingers on the pinwheels stuck in the ground. The wheels are still ... then
they start to SPIN wildly.)
EXT. OLD FOREST ROAD – DAY
(The Torchwood SUV speeds down the road. The sign on the road reads: OLD FOREST ROAD.)
EXT. PEARCE HOUSE – BACKYARD – DAY
(Roy is mingling with the guests. Lynn walks out of the house.)
LYNN: Where's Jas?
ROY: Oh, she's around.
(He kisses Lynn. She smiles back at him. Roy steps toward the center of the yard to make
an announcement.)
ROY: Ladies and gentlemen ... Ladies and gentlemen, can I have your attention,
please? As you all know, today is a very special day - Lynn and me have been together now
for the past five years, and not only is she my partner, but she's also been my rock and
my best friend.
WOMAN: Aw ...
ROY: And now we're looking forward to having children of our own.
(Jasmine isn't pleased by the news.)
(A strong gust of wind blows hard on the party.)
LYNN: Oh my God!
(The guests scream. They look up and see that high above them, large gray winged creatures
linger on the highest tree branches.)
(The guests scream. The creatures hiss and jump down from the trees. They surround Roy
from the other screaming guests.)
FAIRY POV: The creatures advance toward the group of guests. They knock over the barbeque
and the table. The guests hurry toward the house.
(On particularly large fairy hisses and bares its sharp, razor teeth at Roy.)
(The guests run and knock over the furniture in an effort to get away from the creatures.)
(Jasmine stands by the shed watching them. She has a small smile on her face.)
(As the guests run out, Jack, Gwen, Owen and Toshiko run in.)
JACK: Go! Go! Go! Get out!
OWEN: Go!
(As they watch, one particular fairy separates Roy from the others and prevents him from
leaving.)
JACK: (o.s.) Come on
LYNN: (screams) Roy!
[THE FENCE]
(A fairy bursts through the newly patched fence and makes a big hole in it for Jasmine to
crawl through. It jumps back into the yard.)
[BACKYARD]
LYNN: (screams) Roy!
(The fairy circling Roy knocks him backward and jumps on him.)
LYNN: (screams) Get off him!
(The creature holds his face still and opens his mouth. It sticks its hand down Roy's
throat.)
(Jasmine stands on the side watching and laughing.)
(A second fairy keeps Jack and Gwen from helping Roy. The fairy climbs up on Jack and
tilts his head back.)
GWEN: No!
(Gwen knocks Jack to the ground and out of the fairy's reach.)
(The fairy is still on Roy, its hand down his throat. Roy goes limp and dies. The fairies
on top of him gets up and leaves with the other.)
LYNN: (screams) Roy...!
(The two fairies jump up into the trees.)
(Jack gets up.)
(Jasmine stands on the side watching the scene unemotionally. She turns and heads for the
fence. She slips through the hole in the fence and leaves.)
(The wind dies down. Toshiko lets go of Lynn. Lynn, Jack and every goes to check on Roy
who is unmoving on the ground. Lynn cries and puts Roy's head on her lap.)
(Owen check's Roy's pulse.)
LYNN: No! Oh, Roy ...
(Jack runs after Jasmine.)
LYNN: No!
(Roy's mouth is stuffed with red rose petals.)
EXT. OLD FOREST – CONTINUOUS
(Jack and Gwen run after Jasmine. Jasmine is standing there looking up at the trees when
Jack and Gwen arrive. Her back is to them.)
JASMINE: Do you know you're walking in an old forest? Well, you are. It looks like
a very old forest, and it's magical. I want to stay in it.
JACK: You can see this forest?
JASMINE: Yes.
JACK: But it's not here. It's just an illusion, Jasmine. It is.
(Jasmine shakes her head.)
JACK: Your friends are just playing a game with you. (to the fairies) The real
forest can never come back.
JASMINE: Oh, it can. When they take me to it.
(Gwen looks at Jasmine.)
GWEN: They told you this?
(Jasmine nods.)
GWEN: But what about your mother? Don't you want to stay with her?
(Jasmine shakes her head. An unnatural wind pushes Gwen back away from Jasmine. She
gasps.)
(High above them in the treetops, the fairies sit on the branches. Jack looks at them.)
JACK: Come on. The child isn't sure.
JASMINE: I am sure.
(Jack grabs Jasmine and holds her.)
JASMINE: No!
JACK: Leave her alone.
FAIRY POV: They move in closer to Jack, Gwen and Jasmine.
JACK: Find another chosen one.
FAERIE VOICES: (v.o.) (raspy, ethereal) Too late. She belongs with us.
JACK: The child belongs here.
FAERIE VOICE: (v.o.) (raspy, ethereal) No-o-o-o. She lives forever.
CUT TO:
EXT. PEARCE HOUSE – BACKYARD – DAY
(Lynn heads for the fence behind the shed.)
LYNN: Jas? Where's Jas?
(Toshiko and Owen try to stop her.)
TOSHIKO: Please, wait.
OWEN: You can't go down there.
(Owen holds onto Lynn who struggles against them.)
LYNN: No! Jas!
LYNN: No, no! Let go! My daughter!
CUT TO:
EXT. OLD FOREST – CONTINUOUS
(Jack continues to talk with the fairies.)
JACK: Suppose we make her stay with us?
JASMINE: Then lots more people will die.
GWEN: Did they tell you that?
JASMINE: They promised.
FAERIE VOICE: (raspy, ethereal) (v.o.) Come away, oh, human child!
(Jasmine takes a step away from Jack. He pulls her back to him.)
JASMINE: Next time they'll kill everyone at my school like they killed Roy and that
man and your friend.
GWEN: How do you know these things?
JASMINE: If they want to they can make great storms, wild seas, turn the world to
ice. Kill every living thing. Let me go!
(Jack looks at the fairies.)
JACK: The child won't be harmed?
GWEN: Jack, you can't ...
JACK: (shouts) Answer me! She won't be harmed?
FAIRY POV: The leader looks down at them.
FAERIE VOICE: (raspy, ethereal) (v.o.) We told you.
[CU: FAIRY]
FAIRY: She lives forever.
JASMINE: A dead world. Is that what you want?
(Jack kneels and looks at Jasmine.)
JACK: What good is that to you? There will be no more chosen ones.
JASMINE'S FAIRY VOICE: (raspy, ethereal) They'll find us. Back in time.
(Jack touches Jasmine's cheek.)
JACK: Take her.
(Jasmine steps away from them. The fairies turn into lights and descend from the tree
tops.)
GWEN: Jack, NO!
(Gwen runs after Jasmine. Jack grabs her and holds onto her.)
JACK: You asked me what chance we had against them. For the sake of the world, THIS
is our only chance.
(Gwen pulls away from Jack's grip and steps back. Jack watches Jasmine walk
determinedly toward the trees. She stops and turns to look back at Jack.)
JASMINE'S FAIRY VOICE: (raspy, ethereal) Thank you.
(Jack doesn't smile.)
(Jasmine skips away down the path into the woods, the fairy lights surround her as she
goes.)
(Lynn, Owen and Toshiko arrive just in time for Lynn to see Jasmine skipping away.)
LYNN: (screams) Jas!
(Jasmine doesn't look back. As she skips, she turns into bright fairy lights and
vanishes into time.)
LYNN: Jas!
(Lynn runs forward down the path.)
LYNN: Jas, Jas ...
(She stops and calls out to her daughter.)
LYNN: (shouts) Jas!
(There's no answer. Jack watches her. Lynn turns and glares at Jack. She charges
toward him.)
LYNN: No! No!
(She reaches him and he holds her as she screams, beating her fists on his chest.)
LYNN: No! No!
(Jack grabs her wrists and holds her, feeling her pain. She continues to scream.)
LYNN: Jas!
(The others stand aside and watch.)
(Jack holds her tightly, tears in his eyes. They both sink to their knees. He doesn't
let her go.)
JACK: I'm so sorry.
-- and she cries.)
EXT. PEARCE HOUSE – FRONT DRIVE – DAY
(Jack and the rest of the team head back to the car. Jack turns around and none of the
team will look at him. They walk past him and head for the car.)
JACK: What else could I do?
(They don't answer him. They get into the car and leave him standing outside.)
(Jack walks around to the driver's side and gets into the car.)
(The car starts and drives away.)
INT. TORCHWOOD – CONFERENCE ROOM -- NIGHT
(CAMERA moves over the various fairy photos strewn around the conference table. Gwen is
gathering up the papers. The monitor behind her switches on and the image of a Cottingley
glass-plate photo appears on the monitor. It's of a girl surrounded by fairies.)
(Gwen stops, turns and looks at the photo on the monitor. She stops and picks up
Toshiko's pad and stylus. She zooms in on one of the fairy images.)
FAIRY VOICE: (v.o.) (raspy, ethereal)
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
[Note: 'The Stolen Child,' William Butler Yeats.]
ZOOMS in even closer to the individual fairy face. She recognizes her. It's JASMINE.
(Gwen looks at the image.)
(Gwen leaves. We linger on the image.)
FADE TO BLACK.
INSERT: PREVIEW FOR NEXT EPISODE
ROLL END CREDITS
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END OF EPISODE
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TITLE/OPENING CREDITS
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TORCHWOOD
1X05: SMALL WORLDS
ORIGINAL AIR DATE IN UK: 11/12/2006
TRANSCRIBED FROM DL
Created by: RUSSELL T DAVIES
Starring:
JOHN BARROWMAN as Captain Jack Harkness
EVE MYLES as Gwen Cooper
BURN GORMAN as Owen Harper
NAOKO MORI as Toshiko Sato
GARETH DAVID LLOYD as Ianto Jones
Producer: RICHARD STOKES
Written by: PETER J. HAMMOND
Directed by: ALICE TROUGHTON
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END CREDITS
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CAST & CREW
JOHN BARROWMAN as Captain Jack Harkness
EVE MYLES as Gwen Cooper
BURN GORMAN as Owen Harper
NAOKO MORI as Toshiko Sato
GARETH DAVID-LLOYD as Ianto Jones
KAI OWEN as Rhys Williams
EVE PEARCE as Estelle
LARA PHILLIPART as Jasmine (Pearce)
ADRIENNE O'SULLIVAN as Lynn (Pearce)
WILLIAM TRAVIS as Roy
ROGER BARCLAY as (Mark) Goodson
HELEDD BASKERVILLE as Kate (Teacher)
FFION WILKINS as WPC
NATHAN SUSSEX as Custody Sergeant
PAUL JONES as Man in Street
SOPHIA DAVIES as Bully 1
VICTORIA GOURLEY as Bully 2
Co-Producer: CHRIS CHIBNALL
1st Assistant Director: NICK RAE
2nd Assistant Director: LYNSEY MUIR
Location Manager: PAUL DAVIES
Production Co-Ordinator: CARMELINA PALUMBO
Continuity: SUZANNA BINDING
Script Editor: BRIAN MINCHIN
Camera Operator: JENNY BUDD
Gaffer: MICKEY REEVES
Chief Super Art Director: STEPHEN NICHOLAS
Supervising Art Director: KEITH DUNNE
Art Dept. Prod. Manager: JONATHAN ALLISON
Standby Art Director: JON HOWES
Designer: PENNY HARVEY
Construction Manager: MATTHEW HYWEL-DAVIES
Graphics: BBC WALES GRAPHICS DESIGN
3D Artists: NICHOLAS HERNANDEZ / JEAN-CLAUDE DEGUARA / NEIL ROCHE
Costume Supervisor: BOBBY PEACH
Make-up Supervisor: CLAIRE PRITCHARD
Assistant Editor: MATT MULLINS
Post Prod Supervisors: HELEN VALLIS / CHRIS BLATCHFORD
Colourist: MICK VINCENT
Dubbing Mixer: TIM RICKETTS
Supervising Sound Editor: DOUG SINCLAIR
Casting Director: ANDY PRYOR CDG
Production Accountant: CERI TOTHILL
Sound Recordist: DAVE BAUMBER
Costume Designer: RAY HOLMAN
Make-up Designer: MARIE DORIS
Music: MURRAY GOLD / BEN FOSTER
Visual Effects: THE MILL
Special Effects: ANY EFFECTS
Production Manager: CATRIN LEWIS DEFIS
Editor: BOBBY SHEIKH
Production Designer: EDWARD THOMAS
Director of Photography: RAY ORTON
Associate Producer: TERRY REEVE
Production Executive: JULIE SCOTT
Assistant Producer: SOPHIE FANTE
Executive Producer: RUSSELL T DAVIS
Executive Producer: JULIE GARDNER
A BBC Wales Production in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
bbc.co.uk/torchwood
(c) BBC MMVI
Dated:02/16/2007~lky
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