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Episode 3: To the Last Man

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Episode transcribed by beccaelizabeth (e-mail address beccaelizabeth @ yahoo.com ) of the Torchwood Transcripts LiveJournal community as follows.
Transcript hosted at beccaelizabeth.livejournal.com/1332794.html (link valid on 11 March 2010).

Right! Disclaimer time: We all know this belongs to the BBC, the very nice people who make pretty guys kiss for us. I pay my licence fee but that don't mean I own any of it. So clearly I'm pretty much hoping they don't mind. But it's not like anyone will be reading these things and not watching, right? Everyone can go watch on the website. But we'll be buying the DVDs and everything. Yes? Yes.

Key:
LOCATION
(stage directions)
emphasis
NAME: of who is saying this bit here
'this is when they're on comms' (or being telepaths, but that was only in 1-07)
#singing.#
stuff I added that wasn't in the subtitles
stuff on subtitles but I didn't hear it
*action* like in chat, or a *sound effect*.
between // and // they're talking over each other, same time.

If that all looks a bit complicated please to be coming up with something simpler.

Torchwood 2-03 To The Last Man


opening credits

JACK: (voiceover)

Torchwood.
Outside the Government, beyond the police.
Fighting for the future on behalf of the human race.
The 21st century is when everything changes...
And Torchwood is ready.

INT Hospital Night

GERALD: Nothing so far. You getting anything on that?
HARRIET: Well, hold on a tick. Yes, follow me, Gerald.
GERALD: Well?
HARRIET: We're pretty close. This way.
GERALD: (Grabs Harriet.) Shh. (NURSE comes in and drops towels.) Don't panic.
NURSE: I thought you were a ghost. Scared the wits out of me!
GERALD: Sorry. Thought you'd be used to us creeping around by now.
HARRIET: Have you seen any recently? Ghosts.
NURSE: I've seen three today. It's getting worse.
GERALD: Well, you're a very brave girl.
NURSE: Thank you, sir.
HARRIET: (*clears throat*) Where did you see them?
NURSE: In the ward.

(Caption: St Teilo's Military Hospital)

INT Hospital ward 1918

NURSE: Mind, half of this lot see things anyway.
GERALD: Nerves shot to pieces. Poor chaps.
NURSE: Soon as they're better, they'll be sent back to the Front.
HARRIET: Field Marshal Haig's order. 'Every position must be held to the last man. Each one of us must fight on to the end.' Whenever that is. Gerald.
GERALD: Come on.

INT Hospital, store room

HARRIET: We're right on top of it!
(Lights, sound, Rift opening.)
GERALD: Hello?
TOSH: Tell them.
GERALD: Tell us what?
TOSH: Tell them what to do. You're the only one who can stop this. If you don't, it's the end of everything! Tommy!
TOMMY: Take me. I'm in there in the ward, in 1918. You have to take me so I can be here now. Just take me!

GERALD: Tommy, I think you'd better come with us.
TOMMY: Why?
GERALD: Don't worry. I'm Gerald and this is Harriet. We'll look after you.
TOMMY: Who are you?
GERALD: We're Torchwood.

Credits with the names

INT Toshiko's new flat
(Tosh is getting up, dressed, and pretty.)

#One of these mornings
Won't be very long
You will look for me
And I'll be gone

One of these mornings
Won't be very long#

(Calendar is circled on Friday 20th, which makes it June if it's 2008)

INT Hub, Jack's office
(Jack has a little metal calendar that turns over. Says Friday 20th.)

GWEN: Who is he?
JACK: Thomas Reginald Brockless.
IANTO: Tommy.
JACK: 24 years-old.
IANTO: Sort of.
GWEN: Well, he's either 24 or he's not.
IANTO: Depends how you work it out.
GWEN: All right, when was he born?
JACK: 1894
(Gwen's face is a picture as she goes from grinning to actually thinking about it.)

INT Hub, Desk area

JACK: Owen, you ready?
OWEN: Yeah, nearly. Is that a dress, Tosh?
TOSH: I do believe it is, Owen.
GWEN: Well, where is he?

INT Hub, Morgue

JACK: He's been here for 90 years, longer than any of us. Any of you.
TOSH: Torchwood have used alien cryogenics since Victorian times. They froze Tommy in 1918.
JACK: So he's 24 or 114 years old. I know which one I'd choose.

INT Hub, Autopsy area

OWEN: We have to wake him up every 12 months or so. Well, defrost him. One day only, then back in the freezer.
GWEN: Why?
IANTO: Check he still works.
JACK: One day, we're gonna need him.
OWEN: Right, everybody ready? (Squirty injection noise, but the flatline noise remains.) Come on, Tommy. (Waits a long moment then grabs the defib paddles.) Charging 200, clear! Charging 360. Clear! Gwen, quick. (Hands off paddles to her.) It's all right!
TOMMY: Get off me, leave me alone.
TOSH: Tommy!
TOMMY: Leave me alone!
OWEN: Tommy!
TOSH: Tommy, listen to me! Tommy Brockless! It's me, Toshiko.
TOMMY: Toshiko.
TOSH: Remember?
OWEN: Gets harder every year.
IANTO: Good left hook, though.
TOSH: Do you know where you are?
TOMMY: Torchwood.
TOSH: That's right.
TOMMY: Is it time again? Blimey.
TOSH: How are you feeling?
TOMMY: (*coughs*) I could murder a cup of tea.
(Everyone grins. Then Tosh looks to Ianto and the grin falls off. Cause we all know who has to make it...)

INT Hub, New meeting room

IANTO: Don't expect the best china.
TOMMY: I'm starving.
IANTO: Visitors only.
TOMMY: Here, tuck in. There's enough to feed an army.
JACK: (indistinct in background)We should do this every morning. Breakfast I mean.
TOMMY: Nice dress.
TOSH: Thank you.
TOMMY: Got your slacks on underneath. Is it that cold outside?
IANTO: It's the fashion this year.
TOMMY: 1968, they were in miniskirts. Thought all my Christmases had come at once. Shame they haven't made a comeback.
GWEN: I still don't get it. Why is he here?
JACK: Like I said - one day, we're gonna need him.

INT Hub Autopsy area

OWEN: And pull to me. Good. Seems fine. I just need to take a few //blood samples.
TOMMY: Blood samples.//
TOSH: We wake you up once a year and stick needles into you, it's not fair.
TOMMY: Once a year for you, it's every day for me.
TOSH: So, while we wait.
TOMMY: Tommy Reginald Brockless, born 1894 February the 7th in Blackley, Manchester. Private officer in 10th West Yorkshire regiment.
TOSH: Very good.
TOMMY: Only son of Constance May Bassett, died 1900, and Thomas Campbell Brockless, died June 1931, aged 57. Heart attack. That's right, isn't it?
TOSH: Yes. I'm sorry.
TOMMY: It's all right. I just haven't had that much time to get used to it.
OWEN: Right, I need to have a look at this leg.

INT Hub, Jack's office

JACK: St Teilo's Hospital, 1918. There was a time-shift. A fracture in the rift means that two slices of time were erupting into each other.
GWEN: A slice of 1918, and...
JACK: A slice of the future. But we don't know exactly what slice. It could be tomorrow, it could be in 100 years' time.
GWEN: What will happen?
JACK: Chunks of 1918 will start to appear at the hospital. A few at first, then more and more. When the time-shift is complete, it'll start a chain reaction. Unless we stop it, time-shifts'll start happening all over the country, then all over the world.
GWEN: But how does Tommy fit in?
JACK: He helps to stop it somehow. Torchwood 1918 left us sealed orders.
GWEN: 'Eyes-only documents. FAO Torchwood commander overseeing case 1918/T B." Tommy Brockless?
JACK: (*nods*)
GWEN: Okay It's stuck.
JACK: No, it's locked.
GWEN: OK, where's the key?
JACK: It's a Temporal lock tied in with the rift frequencies at the hospital. When the Rift nears completion the box will open and we'll find out exactly what Tommy does.
GWEN: But why would they keep us in the dark, Jack?
JACK: I guess we'll find that out, too.
(Tommy, in new clothes, and Tosh walk in.)
TOSH: Ta da.
TOMMY: Seriously, what do you think?
GWEN: You look like a film star.
TOMMY: Who, Charlie Chaplin?
TOSH: Come on.
(They leave, and Jack and Gwen go to stand leaning on opposite sides of the doorway.)
GWEN: Jack? Have you got any more of those pretty boys in the freezer?
JACK: Hands off, missy. Tosh got there first.
TOSH: Thanks for holding the fort while I'm out.
OWEN: No worries, have fun. Be careful.
GWEN: Where are you off?
TOSH: Drink, film, maybe a pizza.
GWEN: Oh, //very nice.
JACK: Very nice.//
TOSH: I'll be on the mobile if you need me.
GWEN: Have a lovely time.
JACK: Bye!
GWEN: He's a frozen soldier from 1918.
JACK: Nobody's perfect.

EXT DAY, Little white church

TOSH: Slow down, what's the hurry?
TOMMY: I've only got one day, I want to see everything.
TOSH: Captain Scott... sailed from here, when he went off to the Antarctic.
TOMMY: 1910. I was 16, papers were full of it. Took him two years to get there and then he snuffed it. So, what've you been up to since I last saw you?
TOSH: This and that. Work, mostly.
TOMMY: (*laughs*)
TOSH: What?
TOMMY: I knew you were going to say that. It's what you always say. So how's the piano playing going? That's what you said last year remember. 'I'm gonna learn the piano.'
TOSH: Never got round to it.
TOMMY: I bet you never learnt Spanish, neither.
TOSH: I bought a book, though!
TOMMY: Oh, are you made of money?
TOSH: I haven't had time.
TOMMY: You talk about your life like you've got no control over it.
TOSH: Well, Torchwood's pretty much 24/7. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
TOMMY: But you weren't conscripted. I mean, it's your choice, right?
TOSH: Yeah... I suppose it is.

INT Hub, Jack's office
(Looking at photos on the light box again.)
GWEN: He's a bit of all right.
IANTO: He's the boss.
GWEN: Nothing changes.
(Look at each other and... like laughing only with snorting?)
IANTO: She's all right, too. Harriet Derbyshire.
GWEN: Wonder what happened to her.
IANTO: She died the year after that was taken. 26 years old.
GWEN: So young.
IANTO: They all were. Nothing changes. (She gets up and walks out, grabs her coat.) Where are you going?
GWEN: St Teilo's Hospital. And bloody cheer up, will you?

INT DAY A pub with a pool table.
(Music in the background – ID it anyone?)

TOSH: Good shot!
TOMMY: You're still winning.
TOSH: It's all just maths, really. Angles, velocity...
TOMMY: Give you women a vote, equal rights, look what happens, eh? So, er, you got a boyfriend yet?
TOSH: You sound like my mother.
TOMMY: Ah, so you haven't, then.
TOSH: You had a girlfriend? In 1918.
TOMMY: Yeah. Ellie. We courted for two years.
TOSH: What happened?
TOMMY: I, er, stopped seeing her... last time I was home on leave. The war changed me. I couldn't just carry on like before.
TOSH: I'm sorry.
TOMMY: Right pair we make.

INT DAY Hospital
(Gwen wanders around looking at stuff. Walks into empty ward. Hears laughter behind. Turns around, still empty. Then sees a man in pyjamas on crutches, one leg amputated. Lights flicker and it gets spooky.)
GWEN: Hello? I said hello. Can you hear me? Look, can you hear me? If you just...
(He advances as she talks, she backs away. Covers her eyes and squawks and then he's gone. Searches through corridors and empty rooms. Very spooked. Pigeons flying.)
GWEN: Hello? (Lights flicker again and then *thump* and Gwen spins round shrieking.)
BUILDER: Are you all right, love? You look as if you've seen a ghost.

INT DAY Hospital
(Builders gone, empty again except for Jack and Gwen.)

JACK: They're knocking down the hospital?
GWEN: Yeah, that's what they said. Could that have triggered the time-shift?
JACK: Could have. Maybe all the psychic trauma and rift energy charged it up like a battery. 1918, this place was full of wounded soldiers. They had four years of it. Passchendaele, the Somme. A million British soldiers killed during the Great War. It was like walking into hell. (Stands up and dusts his hands off.) Believe me. I was there. Owen? You got anything?
OWEN: All quiet here. Just that little spike from earlier. Look This is more Tosh's thing than mine. 'Shall I give her a call?'
JACK: Not yet. Just keep watching.

INT DAY Pub again

BARKEEP: Yes, mate.
TOMMY: Half a bitter, and a vodka and diet tonic with a slice of lemon, please.
(He looks to Tosh to check he got that right, and she nods with a cute little grin. Then there's a chattering noise, sound of guns, and his attention is drawn to a TV up on the wall.)
TV: At least 20 Iraqi civilians have been killed by a roadside bomb in Basra in southern Iraq. Soldiers en route to a patrol... (It continues indistinctly. Mostly there's images of tanks and such.)
TOSH: Iraq
TOMMY: Seems like there's always a war somewhere.
TOSH: That's not exactly a war.
TOMMY: Looks like one. First year they woke me up... 1919... they told me it was all over. We won. 'The war to end all wars,' they said. And then three weeks later, you had the Second World War. After all that.
(Gets drinks, goes to sit down. Background music instead of news. Identify?)
TOMMY:Do you never wonder if we're worth saving? The human race.
TOSH: Yes. I think we're worth saving. Wars and all. What? What?
TOMMY: I was just thinking... I'd do anything for you. Yeah, all you have to do is say, 'Tommy, you're my brave, handsome hero, and I need you.'
TOSH: Is that all?
TOMMY: And whatever it is, I'll do it. I mean it. Anything.
(Tommy flinches, hand to head. Sound effects like screeching roaring. ... or possibly that's my headphones going. Urrgh, squeaking.)
TOSH: What is it?
TOMMY: I dunno. I just felt something...

INT Hospital
(Images of builders, taking a sledgehammer to the walls. Then dark corridor, Jack and Gwen walking away. Jack stops, turns, looks for something.)

GWEN: Jack? Jack.
JACK: Shh. (whispers) Go ahead.

(Jack and his torch wander more dark corridors.)

WHEELCHAIR GHOST:
# Tick-tock, wind up the clock #
# I like them all...#

NURSE: I bet you say that to all the girls.

WHEELCHAIR GHOST:
# Show me a skirt, and my
brain simply whirls...#

NURSE: Shhh. Matron won't have singing. You'll get a good telling off if she hears you.

WHEELCHAIR GHOST:
# I love their dimples and curls #
# Tick-tock, wind up the clock #
# And I start my day over again #
# Tick-tock, wind up the clock #
# And I start my day over again...#

OWEN: 'Jack, you see anything? Cos I've got a little mountain range this end.'
JACK: Yeah, we've got a few ghosts here.

INT Hospital corridor elsewhere

JACK: 'Gwen, you OK? Gwen?'
GWEN: I'm fine.

(Wandering around in the almost dark, flicks a light on, the tube blinks. Spooky string music. And a ghost on a chair. Sitting slumped over. Then the NURSE walks in behind/beside Gwen, over to the chair guy.)

NURSE: They're ready for you now. (Helps him up into the next room, then leaves through well lit corridor. For a moment. Focus on Gwen looking back and away... then a blur of movement and focus shifts back to the NURSE, who is leaning into the corridor. She steps back in. Gwen turns and sees the NURSE look at her. She looks around for what else she might be seeing in 1918 but there's nothing. Nurse advances on her slowly.) Hello? Hello? I see you. Why won't you leave us alone? You shouldn't be here!
GWEN: I don't mean you any //harm.
NURSE: You //shouldn't be here! You shouldn't be here!
GWEN: I don't mean you any harm.

(Light stops blinking, Nurse disappears, amid distorted echoes of her shouting. Gwen is left standing there warding off nothing.)

EXT DAY A pier with a little building on it, empty, rainy and windswept

TOMMY: I'm going to get you! (Tommy chases Tosh around, picks her up, makes her drop her bag. Which doesn't seem to have her laptop in, despite her 'never' going anywhere without it.)
TOSH: Stop, stop, no. // Please, no, Tommy, no. Stop!
TOMMY: It's a fireman's lift. I'm putting// you down. I'm putting you down.
(They stand and look at each other a moment, as Tosh fixes her hair. Tommy kisses her quickly, on the lips. Tosh reacts with surprise and a bit of... I don't know, uh oh? Erk? Blank? Not a happy face.)
TOMMY: What?
TOSH: Nothing. (smiles, with some work) Thanks.
TOMMY: Thanks?
TOSH: It just caught me out. It doesn't matter.
TOMMY: What?
TOSH: I know it's silly... but I'm a bit older than you.
TOMMY: I was born in 1894.
TOSH: You know what I mean.
TOMMY: So I'm old enough to die for my country but I'm too young to give you a kiss? You daft lass. What goes on in that head of yours?
(Tosh kisses him same way.)
TOMMY: Thanks.
TOSH: (Looks down, shy smile.) You're welcome.
TOMMY: I might be young, but I've seen a fair bit in my time.
TOSH: So what do you want to do now?
TOMMY: Well, we could go back to mine but there's only room for one and it's bloody freezing.
TOSH: You want to come back to my place?
TOMMY: I'm hardly rushing you. You've known me four years.
TOSH: Four days...
(Both lean in for a kiss. And this one isn't quick.)
TOSH: OK. Let's go.
TOMMY: I'll race you, come on!
(Phone goes, Tosh pulls it out.)
TOSH: Jack.
TOMMY: Toshiko!
TOSH: We're on our way.

INT Hub Meeting room

JACK: Demolishing the hospital is what triggers the time-shift.
OWEN: So, don't demolish it.
JACK: Too late, it's already started.
GWEN: What happens next?
JACK: Two different times should never exist simultaneously. You want to be in 1918, or now. Not both.
TOSH: So when 1918 becomes fully manifest...
OWEN: It's really going to screw us up.
JACK: OK. Linear time. Screwed up time. Imagine your life as a straight line, from birth to death. Try drawing that line on the paper without straightening it out.
GWEN: It's impossible.
JACK: That's why we've got to stop it.

INT Hub Main area

JACK: Ianto, is that box doing anything yet?
IANTO: Still locked.
JACK: Okay We need to find out how fast the time-shift is happening. Get some idea when it's going to complete. Tosh, Owen, go to the hospital, we need readings. Cover the place with rift monitors. Gwen, go through the files, see if there's anything we missed.

(Tommy and Tosh have been having significant eye conversations throughout. Now Tosh has to leave.)

INT Hospital

OWEN: Need a hand?
TOSH: Just a couple more.
OWEN: Listen, Tosh, I've been meaning to say... just be careful.
TOSH: What do you mean?
OWEN: You're very close to Tommy.
TOSH: I've only known him for four days.
OWEN: Yeah. You've fallen for him, haven't you?
TOSH: I can be myself with him. I don't have to pretend.
OWEN: No, I understand. I didn't think you had some weird fetish for defrosted men. I just, um... I don't want you to get hurt, that's all... if you have to say goodbye.
(Tosh nods)
GWEN: 'Owen, can you hear me?'
OWEN: What is it?
GWEN: 'I need you to go down into the east wing of the hospital, head for the second floor, what used to be the radiology section. I think that area contains a clue to the time-shift. I read this earlier, but it didn't make any sense.' In the Torchwood 1918 field report at the hospital, they describe a 'certain detail of their encounter. It reads...' "Through a hole in the external wall, we hear the roar of great engines. Outside is a woman in strange armour, ripping 'a Union jack, perhaps some future heroine of the 'Empire." I mean ... What does it mean? 'It doesn't sound like us, now. I mean... The time-shift has started, but maybe it doesn't complete until' years in the future.
OWEN: Got it! (He's been searching the area specified, now he pulls up a chair and climbs to see through a hole in the wall... possibly the one we saw the builders make, yesno?) It's some kind of advert... for car insurance. 'That sound they heard must have been traffic.' It's not years in the future... it's now.

(Riftquake, with bleeping monitors. Tosh checks them and all the lights flash. Alarms echo.)

INT Hub, Jack's office
(Jack, sitting at his desk doing paperwork, sees the lid pop on the sealed orders. With a nice riftglow effect I might add, including some reflection in his eyes. Gets out some paper sealed with a T in a hexagon. Which considering the basic shape of Gallifreyan numerals is just kind of interesting; even more like it than the modern Torchwood logo. Opens envelope, lots of pages of handwritten instruction, which he reads quickly.)

IANTO: Instructions?
JACK: Yeah, for Tommy. And Toshiko.

INT Hub, Meeting room

JACK: In 12 hours, there'll be a brief moment when both times exist before the time-shift completes, when Tommy can be here now, and in 1918. He needs to be in the hospital, ready to step from one time to another.
GWEN: So he'd be right inside the time-shift?
JACK: And he can close the fracture that caused it.
TOMMY: And when the fracture's closed?
OWEN: 1918'll be back where it belongs.
TOMMY: So will I.
JACK: (nods)
TOMMY: For good?
JACK: Yeah. You're the only one who can do this. We brought you from 1918 to now, and when you go back to 1918, your life will be like a thread, stitching time back together again.
TOMMY: A stitch in time.
TOSH: How?
JACK: This is a rift manipulator. It's basically a key. Once you're inside the time-shift, you can close the door behind you.
TOMMY: And that's it? I'm gone?
(Looooong pause of reactions. Then the door open sounds and Ianto walks in.)
JACK: Tommy, stay with Ianto. Tosh? With me.

INT Hub, Jack's Office

TOSH: What happens to him?
JACK: Three weeks after we send Tommy back, he dies.
TOSH: How?
JACK: He's shot by a firing squad.
TOSH: I don't understand.
JACK: In 1918, Tommy was suffering from shell shock. That's why he was in the hospital. When Torchwood took him and froze him, they froze his most recent memories. When he returns to 1918, he'll revert back to who he was. He'll be shell-shocked and so he'll be executed by the British Army for cowardice.
TOSH: They can't shoot him for that.
JACK: Lots of soldiers who were shell-shocked recovered enough to be sent back to the Front. But once they were there... they broke down again.
TOSH: So they kill him?
JACK: More than 300 of them.
TOSH: Then we can't send him back.
JACK: We have to.
TOSH: I can't do that.
JACK: Yes, you can. He trusts you.
TOSH: To send him to his death?
JACK: To help him save the future. It has to be you. (Holds out sketch of her, from sealed orders.)

INT Hub, Meeting room

IANTO: We've kept these in the archives. You were wearing them in the hospital when Torchwood took you.
TOMMY: Good job the moths haven't got into them. So I'll be saving the world in some pyjamas? How daft is that?

INT Hub, Jack's office

JACK: Torchwood 1918 saw you with Tommy in the hospital, telling him what to do. I know you. You're strong enough to do this.
TOSH: Does Tommy know what happens to him?
JACK: No.
TOSH: If he asks me, what do I say?

INT Hub, Desk area

TOMMY: Where's Toshiko?
GWEN: Still in with Jack.
TOMMY: So. Tomorrow morning. What time is it now?
(Gwen fumbles with a loose jewelry type watch and can't see it, Ianto just raises his arm neatly.)
IANTO: Ten to nine.
TOMMY: So what do we do till then?
(Long pause of everyone looking at each other and looking awkward.)
TOMMY: You don't know, do you?
GWEN: What would you like to do?
TOMMY: The night before we went over the top, we used to play cards, write letters, have a drink, if anyone had some.
OWEN: Yeah Well, we could do that.
IANTO: Yeah. (Turns to go get stuff. Stopped when Tommy says.)
TOMMY: But you're not coming with me. I'm going on my own.
(Tosh comes out of Jack's office. Jack stays leaning on the door frame.)
GWEN: We were just wondering what Tommy should do tonight.
(Jack draws breath but...)
TOSH: He can come home with me.
(Everyone stare at Tosh time.)
TOSH: He's not our prisoner, he doesn't have to stay here. Does he?
JACK: No. If that's what you both want.
(Tosh and Tommy do eye contact and smile nod.)
JACK: Tomorrow morning, 6.30.

INT Toshiko's New Flat

TOSH: Come in.
TOMMY: You're very neat.
TOSH: Yes. Well, there's only me here.
TOMMY: And me. Just for tonight. Then I'll be gone.
TOSH: I never thought it would really happen.
TOMMY: I won't even be able to write to you. You're going to be so far away.
TOSH: I worried you'd see me getting older.

(Kissing. Lots of. Romantic. And then pull back with them shadows in the background as the clock ticks over to midnight.)
(Wait a minute, it took them 3 hours to get from that briefing to bed? I mean he said they had 12 hours and then he said? 0630... Er, but that would make it 6 hours of gap to explain. Huh. But hey, very symbolic.)

INT Hub, Jack's office
(Ianto walks in up the stairs behind Jack's desk, slowly and with feet noises. Jack talks without looking around.)

JACK: This time tomorrow, he'll be back in 1918.
IANTO: In his own time. (Stops and stands near stairs, hands in pockets.) Would you go back to yours? If you could?
JACK: Why, would you miss me?
IANTO: Yep. (Walks to desk slowly.)
JACK: I left home a long time ago. I don't really know where I really belong. Maybe that doesn't matter any more.
IANTO: I know you get lonely. (Sits on edge of desk next to him. Jack closes the file he was reading and looks at Ianto.)
JACK: Going home wouldn't fix that. Being here, I've seen things I never dreamt I'd see. Loved people I never would have known if I'd just stayed where I was. (Waits for eye contact with Ianto.) And I wouldn't change that for the world.

(Short Pause of Significant Eye Conversation. Then Ianto pounces Jack. Hand to the back of his head, leans in, big kiss. Jack pulls him closer with hands on his shoulders before moving to cup his face. I note this in detail not just because I'm going *squee* but also because Jack kisses other people, he puts his hands on their face and controls the kiss, but this one was initiated and controlled by Ianto until Jack joins in. And also, OMG hot. I'm, er, just going to watch that again fullscreen.)

INT NIGHT Toshiko's flat
(T&T in bed together, skin showing. Probably 'after'. Tosh looks at clock – 0200.)
TOMMY: What did he tell you? What happens to me?
TOSH: They send you back to France.
TOMMY: Then what? (Tosh looks down. Can't.) Do they find my body? (Tosh reaches up to touch his face, nods.) That's something. (Leans in to kiss and hold.)

EXT DAY Cardiff bay from above
(One slow shot with lots of strings music, then)

INT DAY Toshiko's new flat
(Tosh in robe watches Tommy in bed, looking bleary as he wakes up.)
TOSH: It's time.

INT DAY Hospital

JACK: You know we can't be here when it happens.
(alarms and flashing lights and riftquake)
TOSH: Come on.
(leave ward, wander in a group through corridors)
TOMMY: Shhh.
(Echoes of song, probably the wheelchair guy again, think it was the wind up the clock song again.)
JACK: We're safe for now.
(Nurse with oil lamp? Steps out of corridor in front of them. Walks off. Tommy follows.)
TOSH: Are you all right? Tommy!
(Runs into brightly lit 2008 ward.)
TOMMY: Where is she? In 1918?
(walks forward, flashes back with sound only)
GERALD: 'Tommy, I think you'd better come with us. Don't worry. I'm Gerald, this is Harriet. We'll look after you.'
TOMMY: Torchwood took me.
(Now with vision – Tommy in bed seen over the shoulder of Tommy's uniform jacket.)
TOSH: 'Tommy!'
(Tommy runs off, Tosh follows, then Jack follows but the rest of the team obey when he says)
TOSH: Tommy!
JACK: Stay here.

INT DAY Hospital room with the two lights in the ceiling

TOMMY: I won't do it. I can't go back.
JACK: You've got to.
TOMMY: No! I know what'll happen. They'll send me back to the Front, I'll be back in the trenches. Help me.
TOSH: You've got to go.
TOMMY: Why me? (He drops the Rift key. Tosh and Jack exchange looks.) You're no better than the generals. Sitting safely behind the lines, sending us over the top. Any one of you lot could go, but you're not are you, you're sending me.
JACK: We belong here.
TOSH: I'm sorry.
TOMMY: I've been shoved from pillar to post all my life. By the Army, by Torchwood.
(He gets right up in Jack's face, Jack pushes him back with a )
JACK: Hey, hey.
TOMMY: All this time I've had, it means nothing.
(He goes over to the wall and slides down it, sits slumped on the floor. Tosh looks to Jack, who goes over to Tommy.)
JACK: Tommy.
TOMMY: Get off.
JACK: Tommy, get up.
TOMMY: No!
TOSH: Leave us alone. Please.
(Jack gets up, pats Tosh on the shoulder as he leaves.)
JACK: You've got two minutes.
(Tosh takes the Rift key over to Tommy. She puts her hand on his shoulder but he flinches away.)
TOSH: Listen, you're a hero. Do you know that? Because you stop the time-shift and save everyone. You save us all.
TOMMY: I can't do it.
TOSH: We need you.
TOMMY: I don't want to be a hero. I want to stay here with you.

(Rift noises, big winds, bright light, and the time slip to 1918 we saw at the start, but from the other side. It sounds different.)

GERALD: Hello?
TOSH: Tell them.
GERALD: Tell us what?
TOSH: Tell them what to do. You're the only one who can stop this. If you don't, if you don't, it's the end of everything. Tommy!
(Very long moment, then he gets up and goes forward.)
TOMMY: Take me. I'm in there in the ward in 1918. You have to take me so I can be here now. Just take me!

(Wind and light again and time slip ends for now.)

TOMMY: I'll be gone soon.
TOSH: Remember... the rift key. Use it. (Kisses him.) You've got to get back into bed. Like you've never been away. Then use the key. Tommy? Remember. (Looks around.) It's nearly time.

(Riftquake has been ongoing, the sounds like tearing and crashing, but now as Tommy walks away the wind comes up again and the light flares and... he's in 1918, in a store room.)

NURSE: What are you doing? You shouldn't be in here.

(She turns him and pushes him out.)

(2008, hospital corridor, Team Torchwood doing an impressive bit of walking towards us. Then Tosh appear from behind the camera and runs at them.)

TOSH: Go, go!
(They turn and run. Tosh pauses and looks back, Jack goes back for her and grabs.)
JACK: Come on!

1918 on the hospital ward again

GERALD: Tommy, I think you'd better come with us.
TOMMY: Why?
GERALD: Don't worry. I'm Gerald, this is Harriet. We'll look after you.
TOMMY: Who are you?
GERALD: We're Torchwood.
TOMMY: Where are we going?
GERALD: Somewhere safe. Trust me.
(1918!Tommy gets out of bed and gets his jacket on, as 2008!Tommy comes in the door at the other end of the ward. This gets fiddly – last thing they need with time gone shaky is him meeting himself.)
GERALD: It's all right. Keep going. Don't look back.
(Just as they get 1918!Tommy out the door, Gerald turns to see 2008!Tommy, who is watching himself being led away. But the Nurse is oblivious.)
NURSE: You should be in bed.
(Tommy gets his jacket off and gets back in, looking confused.)
NURSE: Still warm, at least. Not been gone long.

INT Hub, desk area watching the cog door open
(the door alarm stops but the Rift siren doesn't, and they head straight for the computers)

GWEN: What's happening?
TOSH: I don't know.
JACK: The time-shift hasn't stopped. Toshiko, show me the city, now!
(Computer graphic of satellite map with lots of little glowy lights on it.)
TOSH: It's spreading out from the hospital.
GWEN: What the hell are they?
JACK: Chunks of the past, erupting into the present.
OWEN: They're everywhere.
GWEN: What about the rift key?
TOSH: Tommy isn't using it.
IANTO: Why not?
TOSH: I don't know. Because he's just gone back to 90 years ago, because he's shell-shocked?
(In the background Ianto does a cute eybrows and nodding thing as answer. Not that I always watch his reactions.)
JACK: One of us will have to go back. (Heads for the door immediately.)
OWEN: Jack, wait! You'll get stuck in 1918. (Jack's reaction is all heroic drawing himself up ready, but then the camera looks at Owen.) I've got an idea.

INT Hub Autopsy area

OWEN: The time-shifts are forcing the rift open. If we're quick We can use it to our advantage. (Goes to fridge full of blood samples... which apparently they can put a camera in. /distracted) A tiny amount should do. We know Tommy's exact location in time. If we send an image of you through to him...
JACK: I can go into Tommy's mind.
OWEN: As a psychic projection, yes, if we're lucky.
GWEN: And Tommy will be able to see you.
JACK: I can make him use the key.
(Getting Jack's arm ready for a needle (Is that just Tommy's blood???), but)
TOSH: Let me do it. He trusts me.
JACK: OK.
(Tosh is wired up with lots more stuff around her head... maybe it's dangerous and they don't have to worry about Jack?)
TOSH: How long have I got?
OWEN: Minutes.
JACK: You've got one shot, Tosh. That's all.
OWEN: All right?
(Injection and Tosh closes her eyes. Owen holds her wrist, finger on pulse... which is clearly necessary with all that technology watching her. Sneakily being personal, Owen? There's some dramatic music and Jack looks at his watch, then...)

INT 1918 Hospital ward
(Riftquake, chaos, screaming. Close up on Tommy in bed. Then Tosh sitting on his bed.)

TOSH: Tommy. Tommy. Tommy.
GWEN: (Back in the Hub for about a second.) She's found him.
TOSH: It's me. Toshiko.
TOMMY: Who?
TOSH: I'm here to help you.
TOMMY: Is this yours?
TOSH: No. Do you know what it is? Tommy, it's a key. You have to use it.
(Back to the Hub for a few seconds, everyone looking anxious, no words. This is happening in realtime in two different centuries. *blinky*)
TOMMY: I'm scared.
TOSH: It's all right.
TOMMY: That's why I'm here. I'm a... I'm a coward.
TOSH: No, you are not.
TOMMY: What am I fighting for?
TOSH: For the future, for me. Because you're my brave, handsome hero. Tommy, use the key.
(Lovely steampunk device, he twists the key and it glows time-gold.)
TOSH: Thank you.
TOMMY: Goodbye.
(And if he can't remember her then how does he know to say that? Anyways, big glow, big noise, Riftquake... Over.)

INT Hub, Autopsy area
TOSH: (*gasps*)
OWEN: It's all right.
TOSH: He did it.

INT Hub, Desks
(Later... Tosh is packing Tommy's new clothes carefully, like it's ceremony. Puts the lid on.)
(Owen comes up from Autopsy room. Sees her put the strap on. She gets up and gets her coat.)
(Jack comes to doorway of office, leans there.)
JACK: Hey. Thank you.
(Tosh nods and leaves.)

EXT DAY Cardiff bay is it? Ah, and the little white church again.
(There's a big black railing and one of them money telescopes. Everything is wet. It looks surprisingly exactly like when she was there with Tommy.)

TOSH: He trusted me right to the end.
OWEN: Because you were strong. All of this. Is still here because of you.
TOSH: Because of Tommy. Let's hope we're worth it.

(Tosh walks towards camera, face quite undecided between happy, proud and sad.)

#One of these mornings
Won't be very long
You will look for me
And I'll be gone.#


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These subtitles didn't say BBC made them. I grabbed them off some wiki subtitles site.

 

 

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