Lost Souls

(Adjusting something in a tunnel.)

CATRIONA: Leon? How are you getting on?
FOIRET: Er ... I've re-secured the valve, so the magnet's fixed, Professor. Er - inspected the cooling pipes, they're all okay.
CATRIONA [OC]: That's excellent. We don't want any hitches tomorrow. See you when you get back.
FOIRET: Okay. See you up there.

(He gasps as a noise starts, part electronic, part vocal.)

FOIRET: Who's that?
VOICE: Come closer, Leon.
FOIRET: Who's there?
VOICE: Come to me.
FOIRET: Get away from me!
VOICE: There is nowhere to hide.
FOIRET: No!
VOICE: Your life ... is our life.

(Foiret screams.)

(Beat music. Crowded room.)

JACK: Stand back, everybody! Get back!
MAN: Hey! What do you think you're playing at?
JACK: Chasing a Weevil. Tall thing, leather skin, sharp teeth. Terrible dress sense.
MAN: Who the heck are you?
JACK: Captain Jack Harkness. Torchwood.
GWEN: Gwen Cooper. We catch aliens.
IANTO: Ianto Jones. We need to catch this one before...

(Growl. Screams in distance.)

GWEN: Over there by the fire exit. Come on!
JACK: Excuse us! Mind your backs! Come on! Coming through!

(Pushing door open to outside. Noise of mobile phone ring.)

JACK: Oh. You two carry on.
GWEN: Got it.
IANTO: We're on it.
JACK: Hello?
MARTHA [OC]: Jack?
JACK: Martha Jones. Suddenly outside a tacky nightclub, the voice of a nightingale.
MARTHA [OC]: Where are you?
JACK: Oh, you know, chasing a Weevil around Cardiff Bay.

(Shouts of Gwen and Ianto in the distance.)

JACK: It's a quiet night, really.
MARTHA [OC]: Jack, I need you.
JACK: Don't tell me, you've finally seen the light and dumped that fiancé of yours. I'm on the first train to London.
MARTHA [OC]: I'm not in London, I'm in Switzerland. Have you heard of CERN?
JACK: Home of the famous particle accelerator? What are you doing there?
MARTHA [OC]: There's a big thing here tomorrow - lots of politicians, diplomats. UNIT are covering security for it.
JACK: Oh, sounds like fun.
MARTHA [OC]: Anyway, listen. A friend of mine works here, and when I arrived she told me that people were going missing, and ... Look, Jack, something really odd's happening. My friend's disappeared. Please tell me you'll come.
JACK: You know I will.
MARTHA [OC]: Oh, and ... don't come in all guns blazing, yeah? Leaving new Torchwood isn't going to make my bosses happy but I need a fresh pair of eyes looking over things, and ... Dammit, someone's coming, I've got to go.
JACK: Martha?

(Noise of Gwen and Ianto out of breath.)

JACK: Where's the Weevil?
GWEN: It's er ... it went into the bay.
JACK: Oh. Can Weevils swim?
IANTO: Apparently not. Anyone for coffee?
JACK: Right, coffee, good idea. Then Torchwood's going to Switzerland.

(Aeroplane landing noise.)

FEMALE VOICE: Ladies and gentlemen, we should be arriving in Geneva in about thirty minutes.
JACK: Did I ever tell you about the time I flew from Venus to Mars? You should have seen that flight crew. All those hands, all those pincers...
GWEN: Yes, thank you, Jack! Anyway, I found out a few things about this particle physics lab. Over ten thousand people work there from a hundred different countries.
JACK: Martha said people were disappearing.
GWEN: Well, I certainly couldn't find any official record of any accidents or people disappearing. Just a load of scientists all working on something called the LHC?
JACK: The Large Hadron Collider. A thing of beauty.

(Gwen slight laugh.)

JACK: Oh, I love what they're doing, pushing the boundaries of human knowledge.
IANTO: So what exactly are they trying to do with this collider thing?
JACK: They're looking for the Higgs Particle.
GWEN: The what?
JACK: The fundamental particle of existence. Look out the window. See those clouds?
GWEN: Yeah.
JACK: Well, what do they look like?
IANTO: Candy floss.
JACK: They look solid, though, yeah? But they're not.
GWEN: Yes, thank you, Jack, we all know what clouds are made of.
JACK: Well, imagine you had a huge digital camera, and you could zoom in, right into the clouds so you could see the individual raindrops, then zoom in further and you ... you see that the raindrops are made of molecules, H Two O.
GWEN: Mm-hmm.
JACK: Then zoom in further and see what hydrogen is made of, one proton and one electron, and zoom in to the proton - that's where it gets interesting. At CERN, they've found a way to look at those particles. To the very building blocks of matter of the Universe, of everything.
IANTO: They've got a really big camera.
JACK: Not exactly. They've built the world's biggest particle collider. It goes through Switzerland and France, deep underground. It's in a circular tunnel, twenty-seven kilometres round. They're gonna send protons racing around it at the speed of light, smash them into each other, and boom!

(Chuckling.)

JACK: Kinda like the big bang.
GWEN: That's impressive. So why would they want to make anyone disappear?
JACK: I don't know. Maybe those people found out something and had to be removed. This proton smashing isn't trivial stuff. Some people think it could open a gateway to a parallel dimension, or ... create a black hole. Or even turn the world inside out.
GWEN: What?
JACK: Hey, hey, hey, don't look so worried. It's only a theory. Everything gonna be fine. And Martha's got us front row tickets.

(Aeroplane landing.)

JACK: Get ready for the biggest hug of your life, Doctor Jones.

(They laugh.)

MARTHA: Jack. It is so good to see you. Gwen, Ianto, how are you?
GWEN: We're doing okay, thanks.
IANTO: Nice to see you, Martha. How have you been, since the funeral?
MARTHA: I've been okay, thanks. Working over here mostly.
JACK: So, tell us what's going on.

(Walking.)

MARTHA: Right. This mate of mine Julia Swales, well she worked here as a doctor, and a few weeks ago she noticed that people had been taken ill with symptoms no-one could really understand. So because nobody here could do anything, the patients were sent to some specialist hospital across the border in France. Which all makes sense, except when Julia contacted the hospital, she found that they never arrived. They vanished, all eleven of them.
JACK: Hmm.
MARTHA: Julia was worried, and as soon as I got here with the rest of the UNIT medical team, she told me about it.
JACK: Clever Julia.
MARTHA: Clever Julia, who's now gone missing as well.
GWEN: Why didn't UNIT investigate?
MARTHA: They did, but couldn't find any evidence of anything wrong. And once Julia vanished, I knew I needed you guys. Two days ago, another worker fell ill. He's still in the sick bay. I want you to take a look at him.
JACK: And you can get us in there, without UNIT security guys being alerted?
MARTHA: They're rushed off their feet. The Large Hadron Collider's being activated today, so they've got loads of dignitaries and ambassadors here and right now, there's a reception being held for them.
JACK: Ho-ho-ho! A reception for the ambassadors. An ambassador's reception.
MARTHA: Yes, Jack.
IANTO: Excellente.

MAN: Security passes, please.
MARTHA: Here's mine, and this is Mr Ianto Jones. You should have him on your list.
MAN: Mr Ianto Jones. Ah. The Ambassador for Wales?
IANTO: Oh! Hello. That's me.
JACK: What?
MARTHA: And this is his wife, Gwen.
GWEN: Hi.
MARTHA: And their personal assistant, Mr Harkness.
JACK: Oh.
MAN: Sir and Madame, here are your passes.

(Passing papers to them.)

IANTO: Thank you. Darling? Shall we go in?
GWEN: Darling, it would be a pleasure.
MAN: And here's one for you.

(Papers passed.)

JACK: Yeah, whatever.
MARTHA: Well, if you'd like to follow me, Ambassador? Oh, and before I forget, here's an entry pack. It's got a map and itinerary and stuff. We'd really hate for you to get lost down there.
IANTO: Mademoiselle, with these maps you are really spoiling us.

[A further reference to the Ferrero Rocher advert.]

(Lift screech.)

MARTHA: Just get in the lift.

(Entering lift.)

MARTHA: Going down.

GWEN: Ooh ... oh. My ears just popped. How much further down is it?
MARTHA: It's about a hundred metres altogether.
IANTO: Will our Bluetooths work down there?
MARTHA: Should do. Give it a try now.
JACK: Jack calling Gwen, Ianto?
GWEN: Yep.
IANTO: Loud and clear.

(Lift stops.)

MARTHA: We're there. Undercover, Jack, remember?

(Lift doors open.)

JACK: Sure.

(Walking.)

MARTHA: It's like an underground city down here. Research labs, offices ... the control room's on this side, and that is ATLAS.

(Jack laugh. Machinery humming.)

MARTHA: The biggest of the particle detectors.
GWEN: Oh, wow.
JACK: Oh, impressive.
IANTO: It's like a ... jet engine.
GWEN: The size of the London Eye.

(Walking towards them.)

MARTHA: And behind that, is the entrance to the tunnel.
JACK: That's where the LHC is.
CATRIONA: The Large Hadron Collider, that's quite correct. It's the tube that the proton beams will be fired through. Welcome. Professor Catriona Johnson, head of the LHC project. And you are?
JACK: Jack Harkness.
IANTO: My personal assistant. Ianto Jones. Ambassador for Wales. This is my wife Gwen.
CATRIONA: Well, it's - it's good to have you here.
GWEN: This must be a very exciting day for you.
CATRIONA: Nothing could be more important. I've been working all my professional life towards this moment. Today we could unlock the secrets of Dark Matter. What we're about to do could change our understanding of the Universe.
JACK: How long until the collider's activated?
CATRIONA: The countdown's already started. In fact, Doctor Jones, perhaps you'd like to take these guests to the viewing area.
MARTHA: Yes, of course.
CATRIONA: Now, if you'll excuse me.

(Walking off.)

MARTHA: Ambassador, if you'd like to come with me.
IANTO: Thank you, Doctor Jones.
MARTHA: Right. Sick bay's down this corridor.

(Door opened, closed.)

HARRINGTON: Hello, Martha. I was wondering where you'd got to.
MARTHA: I've been roped in to show visitors around. Ambassador, this is Doctor Oliver Harrington, head of UNIT's medical team, and my boss.
JACK: Nice to meet you, Doctor.
IANTO: Looks like you've got some very impressive equipment down here.
HARRINGTON: Well, we're not exactly in an ordinary situation, cut off from the outside world in a little underground base.
IANTO: I know the feeling.
HARRINGTON: Well, I mean, it's quite an honour being here, there's not many get the chance to work alongside the world's brightest scientists.
GWEN: Doctor Harrington, when they activate the LHC, could there be side effects - you know, could the health of the people working here be affected?
HARRINGTON: No, not at all, no, no, we've checked and double-checked everything, so no. Not expecting any problems at all. Today you're more likely to injure yourself slipping on a vol-au-vent. (Laugh.)
GWEN: That's reassuring.
HARRINGTON: Well, if you'll excuse me, I'm representing UNIT's medical team so I really should be getting along to the control room. I'm sure Doctor Jones will take good care of you.

(Door closes.)

JACK: Handsome guy. Sad eyes though.
MARTHA: His wife died last year. Now he just works all the time. Guess he's blocking out the pain.
JACK: Okay, Martha Jones. Let's take a look at your patient.
MARTHA: Yeah, he's in intensive care ... it's this way.

(Bleeping of medical instruments.)

IANTO: Who is he?
MARTHA: His name's Leon Foiret. a technician. He was working in the tunnel when ... something happened. His Bluetooth was switched on, they heard him screaming.
JACK: I can't see any obvious injuries. No attack marks.
MARTHA: He's in a deep coma. Won't respond to anything. Well, nothing we've got, anyway.
GWEN: Okay. Well, let's try a Bekaran deep tissue scanner.

(Noise of the scanner.)

MARTHA: That's brilliant.

(Gwen chuckles.)

MARTHA: I've never seen an X-ray like it.
GWEN: Owen was working on and adapted it before he...

(She stops.)

GWEN: The readings don't make any sense.
JACK: What the hell is that?
GWEN: Oh.
IANTO: Look at his skin.
MARTHA: It's glowing.
GWEN: You can see right through it.
IANTO: That is disgusting.
MARTHA: Yeuch.

(LEON FOIRET rapid breathing.)

MARTHA: Right, everyone stand back. Come on, Leon, stay with me. Leon, can you hear me? Leon?

(LEON FOIRET speaks in a part-echoed alien voice mixed with his own.)

FOIRET: Your life is our life.
GWEN: What ... what is he saying?
MARTHA: Okay Leon, we're gonna help you.
FOIRET: Please ... don't take him for ... don't take him...
MARTHA: Leon, shh, shh, shh, shh ... I'm giving you something for the pain. Shh, shh.

(Bleeps. LEON FOIRET groans.)

GWEN: It looks like he's stable again.
MARTHA: I have never seen anything like this.
IANTO: Do you think this is what's been happening to the missing people?
JACK: Leon here was in the tunnel when he got sick, yeah? So was he exposed to something?
GWEN: The collider?
JACK: Possibly. So let's find out where the other people were when they got sick. There has to be some connection between them.
MARTHA: I've got a list of their names. Here.
GWEN: Is there a computer we can use, check the facilities, databases, that kind of thing?
MARTHA: Erm ... there's the main computer room. Down the corridor, third door on the right.
GWEN: Right. Ambassador, you're with me. We're going hacking.
IANTO: Yes, Ma'am.
JACK: Don't you just love it when she gets bossy?

(Door slides closed.)

JACK: Now, let's see if we can find out what's wrong with the angel Gabriel here.

(Instrument used.)

MARTHA: How are you, Jack? It's been a while since Owen and Tosh. The last time we talked about it...
JACK: They're dead, and I've got to stay strong for the others. I'm fine.
MARTHA: Fine? I know you, Jack. I know what they meant to you, I know what they meant to me .
JACK: We're getting through it. You know how death follows us ... follows me. All the times we try to cheat it but no-one escapes. Just me. Always me. I couldn't save them, Martha.
MARTHA: Jack, I'm so ... I am so sorry.
JACK: The best I can do now is take care of Gwen.

(He sighs.)

JACK: And Ianto.
MARTHA: Don't blame yourself. You can't. What happened to Owen and Tosh, it's not your fault.
JACK: (laugh) I recruited them. Showed them a different sky, and - and now it...

(He coughs.)

JACK: Right. Back to golden boy, let's see if we can find out what's happening to him .

(In the room.)

GWEN: Okay, let's start with Martha's mate Julia.

(Typing on keyboard.)

IANTO: Swales, Julia.
GWEN: When did she fall ill?
IANTO: Two days ago. Says she was transferred to a hospital in Evian-Les-Bains.
GWEN: Hmm. Has she been in the tunnel where they found Leon?
IANTO: Erm ... wait a minute. It says here that ... she was the one that found him.
GWEN: Janet Russo, disappeared a week ago.
IANTO: And yeah, according to her work log, she was working on the quadruple magnets? the day she collapsed. With what Doctor Harrington diagnosed as a severe migraine.
GWEN: According to what I'm seeing on here, those magnets are part of the collider. In the tunnel.
IANTO: Alan Nielson. He was a maintenance worker, in the tunnel. Jacques Fournier, a coolant expert, collapsed after final temperature adjustments were made...
GWEN: In the tunnel. So all these people go into the tunnel perfectly normal and they come out complaining of migraines. But ... but if Leon's anything to go by, then they actually...
IANTO: Lit up like a Christmas tree.

MARTHA: Jack, look at the liver composition.
JACK: What?

(Bleeps of instrument.)

MARTHA: I've never seen anything like it. It looks like it's losing its density.
JACK: Weird.
MARTHA: All his organs are fading. It's like he's made of tissue paper or something. He's disintegrating. I don't believe it.
JACK: What?
MARTHA: The human body's made up of atoms, right? And every atom has a nucleus made up of protons and neutrons floating in a cloud of electrons. Well, that's why he's falling apart! His neutrons are missing!
JACK: But you can't just lose your neutrons, they're part of you.
MARTHA: Oh, I don't think he's lost them. I think they've been taken.

(Bleeps of readout stop.)

JACK: Oh God!
MARTHA: You recognise this, don't you?
JACK: Years ago ... well, years ago for me ... back when I was with the Time Agency, I saw a whole colony go the same way as golden boy. Trust me, it wasn't pretty. There was this creature ... (Sighs.) We'd better tell Gwen and Ianto.

(In the room.)

GWEN: Okay, so something's happened in the tunnel, but how is it linked to the collider? It hasn't been activated yet.
IANTO: Hang on, let me just access this.

(He types on the keyboard.)

IANTO: There was an injection test back in May, only for a few seconds, but they went live.

(Door opened.)

JACK: And I wonder what they let through.

(Door closed.)

JACK: The collider may have only been activated for a few nanoseconds, but something got into the tunnel.
MARTHA: A creature that feeds on neutrons in the human body.
JACK: A few nanoseconds back in May were long enough to let one creature through. The full experiment today, who knows what's waiting to pay us a visit? I think it's time I had a word with Professor Johnson.
GWEN: Some of the missing people away from the base is medics, and from UNIT. We're talking about twelve people. They can't disappear without someone covering it up.
JACK: Someone in charge.
GWEN: Mm.
MARTHA: Someone who knows this base inside out.
GWEN: I know what I'd do. Why risk taking them out at all? I mean, you said it yourself, it's like a city here. Plenty of room to hide the bodies.
IANTO: I'll bring up a satellite image of this place, and compare it with the site plan you gave us, Martha.

(Tapping on keyboard.)

IANTO: Here you go.
GWEN: Look. There's a small building up on the surface. To the west of the main complex. It's not marked on the site plan.
MARTHA: Julia could be in there. I'm gonna find out.
JACK: Okay, good luck. Gwen, Ianto, I need to get to the control room. I know how we can neutralise the creature but we've got to locate it first, which means you going into the tunnel.
GWEN: Okay.
IANTO: On our way.
JACK: Hope you're wearing your thermals.

(The tunnel. Shivering with cold.)

IANTO: That is no job for the Ambassador for Wales.
GWEN: Okay. Jack, we're in the tunnel.
JACK [OC]: What can you see?
GWEN: Not much, It's dark.
IANTO: And cold.
JACK: Is Ianto moaning?
GWEN: Oh yes!
JACK: Okay. Get scanning. See if there's any trace of the creature. If you find it, call in immediately, and I'll tell you what you have to do. Don't engage it by yourselves.
IANTO: Let's hope it doesn't want to engage us .
JACK: Good hunting.
GWEN: Well, I'll go this way, you go al... (surprised) Bikes?

(Movement of bicycle.)

IANTO: It said in the information pack, this is how the workers get around down here.
GWEN: Okay ... okay! Let's give it a go.

(she climbs on a bike.)

GWEN: Well, I don't feel stupid at all.
IANTO: So, we ride through the tunnel, in opposite directions...
GWEN: Mm-hmm...
IANTO: ...And meet up in the middle.
GWEN: Yeah. A nice bit of exercise.

(Starting to ride.)

IANTO: Yeah. Just what we need.
GWEN: Be careful, yeah?

(Control room. Whirr of instrument.)

TOM: Professor Johnson, we're nearly ready to begin.
CATRIONA: Thank you, Tom. (Amplified) Er, ladies and gentlemen, if I could just have your attention.
TOM: Powering up.
CATRIONA: (amplified) Firstly I want to thank you, every single one of you, for your hard work, your dedication, your ... well frankly, your brilliance, over the last few months. Today is a landmark in the history of science. In a few short minutes, our knowledge of the laws of Physics will be propelled into a new era.
TOM: Temperature in tunnel's being lowered.

(Door opened.)

JACK: Professor Johnson, shut it down. Shut it down now!
CATRIONA: What the hell is this man doing in here?
JACK: Professor Johnson, I'm ordering you to shut down the accelerator.
CATRIONA: (amused) You're the ... the Welsh Ambassador's assistant, right?
JACK: Jack Harkness, and I'm Torchwood.
CATRIONA: Torchwood. And Torchwood is ...?
JACK: Torchwood is here to protect Earth against the threat of alien invasion.
CATRIONA: Alien invasion, right ... What are you talking about?
JACK: Listen to me. When the Large Hadron Collider was tested back in May, something came through.
CATRIONA: How do you know about the test?
JACK: A creature that feeds on the neutrons in the human body.
CATRIONA: And you think this, why?
JACK: Well, because of the twelve missing people, and because the one you've got in your sick bay has a tendency to glow in the dark.
CATRIONA: What are you talking about, missing people. What missing people?
JACK: (laugh) Come on, Professor. I can't believe anything happens here that you don't know about.
CATRIONA: I don't have time to listen to this madness. Status report please, Tom.

(The tunnel. Riding bikes.)

MARTHA [OC]: Gwen?
GWEN: Hey, Martha. What's it like up top?
MARTHA [OC]: Raining. How are things down below?
GWEN: Er ... cold, damp, underground, I could have stayed in Cardiff! (Laughs.)
MARTHA [OC]: No trace of Jack's creature, then?
GWEN: No nothing. How are you getting on?
MARTHA [OC]: It's a bit of a trek, but I'm nearly there.

(Pause, only the sound of bikes.)

MARTHA [OC]: Gwen, are you okay? You know, after Tosh, Owen...
GWEN: Honestly?

(Bike stops.)

GWEN: No. I mean, it's just the whole accepting they're gone thing, you know. I thought the funeral service would give us all closure or whatever, but erm ... when I think about it, or talk to you or Jack or anyone, I get this ... well, I get this feeling of, erm...
MARTHA [OC]: Guilt?
GWEN: Yeah, guilt. And God knows what it's like for Jack. Outliving centuries of friends and lovers.
MARTHA [OC]: The man who can never die.
GWEN: I can't imagine a life more ... lonely.
MARTHA [OC]: Gwen? I think I've found the building.
GWEN: Okay. Good luck. Be careful Martha, all right?

(Raining and the sound of thunder.)

MARTHA: Yeah. Martha out. Okay...

(Trying to open a door.)

MARTHA: Couldn't half do with the sonic screwdriver, but ... a rock will have to do.

(She grunts, rock hit at door. door pulled open.)

MARTHA: Oh my god, no. Julia? Julia, can you hear me?

IANTO: Gwen? Come in, Gwen.
GWEN [OC]: What is it?
IANTO: My bike's got a bell!

(He ring the bell.)

GWEN [OC]: I'm very pleased for you. Oh, it's getting colder.
IANTO: Yeah, same here. You see anything?
GWEN [OC]: Nope.

(Half-metallic sound.)

VOICE: Ianto?

(Bike stopped.)

IANTO: Gwen?
GWEN [OC]: What is it?
IANTO: I think I've found something. Who's there?
VOICE: The dead. The dead. We're coming back.
IANTO: You hear that?
GWEN [OC]: Yeah. I'm on my way.
IANTO: Quick as you can, yeah? Afternoon. So ... you're the dead then, not an alien creature?
VOICE: I was always alien to you, coffee boy! You told me I was a good doctor.
IANTO: Owen? Is that you?
VOICE: Help me, Ianto.
IANTO: Did I ever tell you, I don't actually believe in ghosts?
VOICE: (plaintive) Help us. We're lost.
IANTO: Where are you? Where are you?
VOICE: We're in the darkness. Help us, Ianto Jones, we're starving!

CATRIONA: How long until activation, Tom?
TOM: Twelve minutes and fifteen seconds.
JACK: You're making a big mistake, Professor.
CATRIONA: Look, even if I believed all this nonsense you're talking, it just isn't possible to stop it. It's not like flicking a switch.
GWEN [OC]: Jack?
JACK: What is it Gwen?
GWEN [OC]: Ianto's found the creature. I'm on my way back to him now.
MARTHA [OC]: Jack, it's Martha. Come in.
JACK: What is it?
MARTHA: I found the building, the one that's not on the map. The missing people are here.
CATRIONA: There are no missing people.
MARTHA [OC]: All twelve of them, in comas, Jack, and they're glowing. They're glowing like angels. I found them, Professor Johnson!
CATRIONA: I don't understand. I don't know about this.
MARTHA [OC]: So who put them all here and faked the hospital reports, then?
JACK: Someone who knows more about that creature in the tunnel than they should. Your tests last May let something through into our world, Professor, and far worse is on its way if you don't stop what you're doing now.
CATRIONA: It's all pre-programmed. Nothing can stop it. There's nothing I can do.

(The tunnel.)

VOICE: Ianto, it's me, Tosh.
IANTO: You're in my head, That's how you're doing this. You're just particles.
FEMALE VOICE: Help me, Please, Ianto, It's Lisa. Hold me.
IANTO: You can't be Lisa. She's gone. They're all gone.
JACK [OC]: Ianto, can you hear me?
IANTO: Yes, Jack?
JACK [OC]: Gwen's on her way. You okay?
IANTO: Er ... Yeah. No. Sort of.
JACK [OC]: Oh, that helps. What's going on?
IANTO: It's in my head, Jack. The alien. Talking to me! Saying it's Owen and Tosh and Lisa.
JACK: The dead stay dead, Ianto, they don't come back. It's just an alien, like the Weevils. Trust me.
VOICE: Ianto Jones, you only need to listen to me, to my voice, so it's just us.
JACK [OC]: Ianto? Listen, it's not...

(Communication ended.)

VOICE: That's it. Just you and me.
FEMALE VOICE: Ianto Jones and Lisa Hallett.
GWEN: (off) Ianto, can you hear me?
FEMALE VOICE: Remember how we used to...
IANTO: Stop it.
FEMALE VOICE: ... go to that Greek restaurant?
IANTO: Stop it.
FEMALE VOICE: and that night when you told me you loved me...
IANTO: Stop it!
GWEN: (off) Ianto, answer me, where are you?
FEMALE VOICE: Ignore her. I'm here.
GWEN: (off) I'm nearly there.
FEMALE VOICE: I've always been here for you.
GWEN: (off) Hold on!
FEMALE VOICE: Come closer. Come to me.
IANTO: (yelling) No!

(In the building.)

MARTHA: Hold on, Julia, just hold on. Jack, what's happening?
JACK [OC]: Ianto and Gwen have found the creature and Professor Johnson says she can't shut the collider down.
MARTHA: Well, make her.
JACK [OC]: Oh! Never thought of that. Just look after your patients, Doctor Jones, leave the Professor to me.
MARTHA: Oh, Oliver, thank God. Listen, something's happening.

(Door opened.)

HARRINGTON: Martha, you shouldn't be in here.

(Gun cocked.)

MARTHA: Oh my God. It's you! You had any authority, your UNIT credentials...
HARRINGTON: Please, don't try to resist.

(Martha gasps.)

HARRINGTON: Because I really don't want to have to start shooting people.

(The tunnel.)

GWEN: Ianto. Oh God. Ianto, can you hear me, sweetheart?
IANTO: Lisa!
GWEN: No it's me, Gwen. Come on, hold on.
VOICE: We'll be back for you, Gwen Cooper. So much death in your short lives.
GWEN: So not listening! Ianto?
IANTO: Gwen, let me go.
GWEN: What? What are you talking about, Ianto? Come on.
IANTO: You don't understand. They need our help. Let me go to Lisa, to Tosh.
GWEN: Come on! I am not leaving you here. Come on.
IANTO: I want to be with them! (Tearfully) I just want them back again.

(Control room.)

JACK: Listen to me. I'm Torchwood, you lot are scientists. You're here searching for answers? Well, I know the answers. If you fire up the collider now, all hell is gonna break loose.
CATRIONA: You're serious, aren't you? Okay, I don't know what's going on here, but something is, so until we can sort this out, safety procedures. We need to prepare for a total lock-down. (Amplified) Listen, everyone. I want you to step away from the controls.
JACK: Right. You're firing two beams of protons at each other, yeah?
CATRIONA: That's right.
JACK: Didn't this place used to have an anti-proton beam facility?
CATRIONA: We won the Nobel Prize for it in the Eighties.
JACK: Oh I'm pleased for you. Do you still have the facility?
CATRIONA: we use it for making atoms of anti-matter. Of course! If I can flip the polarity of the magnets, and replace one of the proton beam with anti-protons...
JACK: They'll cancel each other out. Then the portal can open and we'll all live happily ever after.
CATRIONA: That's brilliant!
JACK: That's me.

(Door slid open.)

HARRINGTON: Move away from there!
MARTHA: Jack?
JACK: Martha, Doctor Harrington.
HARRINGTON: Get away from the controls or I'll shoot her!
JACK: Okay, Oliver, just put the gun down.
HARRINGTON: I said stand back!

(In the tunnel. Gwen grunts with effort, dragging body.)

GWEN: Come on, Ianto. Come on!
VOICE: Gwen Cooper?
GWEN: Not listening!
VOICE: Is Ianto an angel yet?
GWEN: (grunts.) Ianto, quick, up! Jack, come in.
JACK [OC]: Not a good time, Gwen, I've got company.
GWEN: It attacked Ianto. He's glowing, he's getting worse, it's coming back for me.
JACK [OC]: Are you near an exit?
GWEN: Ye... yes. I can see it, we're nearly there.
JACK [OC]: Gwen, I'm gonna have to go. Get out of that tunnel.
GWEN: What if we don't make it?
JACK [OC]: Too much talk of death around here, Gwen. I'm not losing you. Now, fight. Get out of there. You stay alive!
GWEN: Jack? Jack?
VOICE: Jack doesn't care about the dead.
GWEN: Oh, you really don't want to mess with me right now.

(Control room.)

JACK: Oliver, listen to me. Killing Martha won't achieve anything.
HARRINGTON: It won't matter if I do. She'll come back. Don't you understand?
JACK: Back in May after the test, you heard a voice, yeah?
HARRINGTON: Uh.
JACK: Whose voice was it?
HARRINGTON: My wife. She came back to me.
CATRIONA: That isn't impossible.
HARRINGTON: Don't you see what you've done here? Am I the only one who can see it?
CATRIONA: What do you mean?
HARRINGTON: You've opened the doorway, to Heaven.
JACK: No. Oliver, it's not Heaven, it's another dimension. A creature has come through and it's feeding off people. The voices are a trick to draw you to it.
HARRINGTON: You're wrong. Marie spoke to me. She told me that if I helped her she'd bring everyone back. And it's happening.
MARTHA: But the creature, it attacked those people.
HARRINGTON: Attacked? Didn't you see them glowing? They're becoming angels. That's why I had to hide them, to protect them until they were strong enough. When the portal is fully open, their souls will be drawn back from Heaven, and they, and Marie, will return to life.
MARTHA: No, it's their neutrons that have been taken, not their souls. Oliver, your wife's gone. She's not coming back.
HARRINGTON: And you think that's it? That there's nothing else?
MARTHA: I don't know. Honestly, I don't know. Maybe there is an afterlife, maybe there is a Heaven, but ... that's not where the voice you've heard has come from.
HARRINGTON: You're wrong. I have faith.
MARTHA: And I respect that. But the creature's been using you. What if we're right and you're wrong? Are you really gonna sentence everyone on this planet to death?
HARRINGTON: But ... but they won't die.
JACK: You don't know that. You're going to risk all those lives because a voice told you it was Marie? Can't you see that's wrong?
HARRINGTON: She told me things. Things only we knew.
JACK: Oliver, it's clever. It knows which buttons to push. These voices, they're not the dead. Trust me.
CATRIONA: Doctor Harrington, listen to me. I don't care whether you think it's your wife, or a ghost, or ... or whether Jack's right and it - it's some kind of alien. We're not taking the risk. We're neutralising the collider now.
HARRINGTON: No, no. I can't lose her again.

(Moving off. Metal door opened.)

JACK: Martha, go after him, Don't let him near the collider.
MARTHA: I'm on it.
JACK: Now, Professor, we have to reverse the polarity or those creatures will be here for good, and the first thing they're gonna find?

(He sighs.)

JACK: Gwen and Ianto.

(The tunnel. Dragging.)

GWEN: Look, we're nearly there. Just a few more feet.
IANTO: Everything we've seen ... Torchwood, the wonder of the universe. And we're gonna die in a tunnel, in Switzerland.
GWEN: What did you imagine, the Bahamas?
IANTO: It's cold, so cold.
GWEN: Shh! Ianto, listen to me. We are nearly out of here, right? Look. Look, according to the map, the exit's near the control room. That's where Jack is. And coffee. You love coffee. Coffee and Jack. Come on, please. Ianto, I can't carry you any further, please.
VOICE: Don't leave me, Gwen. Don't leave me in the darkness.
GWEN: Get back. Just keep back!
VOICE: But we're Owen. We're Tosh. We're all the dead. We want to live again.
GWEN: I'm alive, Ianto's alive, and I'm not listening! Come on, Ianto, please, get up!

(Control room. Bleeps.)

JACK: Okay, stand back, everyone. I can smell two beams of protons about to be launched.
CATRIONA: Have you got any idea what you're doing?
JACK: Not really. Making it up as I go along. What I do best.
CATRIONA: Can you actually stop them?
JACK: No, but I can try and prevent them creating their portal in Time and Space. And trust me, portals like that are more trouble than they're worth.
CATRIONA: What about Doctor Harrington?
JACK: Professor, Oliver Harrington is one short step away from destroying the world. I kinda don't care about his well-being right now.
CATRIONA: Okay, okay.
JACK: Right. Professor, I think I'm gonna do what you wanted. Show you the fundamental particle. The Higgs.
CATRIONA: The Higgs? I'm really going to see it today?
JACK: Guess so, if we get a move on?
CATRIONA: Of course. The proton beams won't hit each other, they'll hit the anti-proton beams instead. They won't explode, they'll create the Higgs particle. We're doing it all wrong, and this way ... oh my God.
TOM: By George, I think she's got it!
CATRIONA: the particle is life and the anti-protons and protons are going to create it.
JACK: Professor Johnson, we're gonna have a baby!
CATRIONA: But ... but how is it going to stop this portal forming?
JACK: The anti-protons will do that by neutralising the protons. The Higgs particle is just a side effect. Almost an afterthought.
CATRIONA: We're going to create life as a side effect? So the Higgs particle - Dark Matter, Dark Energy, all of us, everything, we're just an accident?
JACK: Guess so. And isn't that cool?

(Alarm sound from control panel.)

TOM: Professor Johnson.
CATRIONA: Yes Tom, what is it?
TOM: Doctor Harrington. He's activated the tunnel lockdown sequence.

(The tunnel. Gwen gasps.)

GWEN: Ianto, come on, we're at the exit now. Come on. Doctor Harrington!
HARRINGTON: What are you doing here?
GWEN: Getting out of this tunnel as fast as I can. Just help me with him.
HARRINGTON: Yes. Yes, all right, come on.

(Grunt by Harrington and Gwen.)

HARRINGTON: There you are.

(Distant, further up the tunnel, calling down.)

MARTHA: Gwen! Stop him, stop Harrington!
GWEN: What?
HARRINGTON: I'm going back into the tunnel. Don't come after me. I ... I'm sorry.
MARTHA: Wait, you'll die in there! Oliver, the doors are locking!
GWEN: Martha, I need to get Ianto into the warm. Now, please.

(Control room.)

TOM: Tunnel lockdown sequence complete. It's sealed up. The collider is active ... now.
JACK: Come on, come on! Professor, that switch there.
CATRIONA: Okay. Look, an anti-proton beam. We've created it.
JACK: Gwen, tell me you're clear of the tunnel.
MARTHA [OC]: Jack, it's Martha. I've got Gwen and Ianto, they're safe. But Oliver's locked himself in the tunnel.
GWEN [OC]: I couldn't stop him, Jack.
CATRIONA: The poor man. It's going to...
JACK: It's too late.

(Power build up.)

(The tunnel.)

HARRINGTON: Marie, are you there? It's Oliver.
VOICE: I'm here, Waiting for you, my love.
HARRINGTON: Oh, it's so good to hear your voice. We'll be together again soon, my darling. All these months without you, I ... I've been so lonely. All I've done is dream of you. But ... but now we're going to be together again, forever.

(Voices laughter.)

VOICE: You humans. So often undone by love. Dream of it, in the void. Be ready to embrace the dark times.

(Harrington cry.)

VOICE: We're back. We're home.
HARRINGTON: So it was true what he said. You were never really Marie. It was all a lie.
VOICE: You don't need her. But we need you.
HARRINGTON: But you know things! Things only she could know!
VOICE: Drawn from your fractured mind. You have given us passage. Enabled us to control and devour the minds of this world. A whole new source of energy to feed us for centuries.
HARRINGTON: Feed on our ... on our minds?
VOICE: We used you, Oliver Harrington. Your weakness, your gullibility.
HARRINGTON: Oh my God. Those people.
VOICE: Your species - you all mean nothing to us except as food.
HARRINGTON: No! No, no, no, no. No, you're wrong. We're so much more. And we're going to stop you! We die, together!

(Power build up. Screams.)

(Control room.)

TOM: Professor, look. On the screen.
CATRIONA: The Higgs particle. It's so beautiful.
JACK: And it's inside all of us. (Laugh) It's life. You see? Something good out of all this.
CATRIONA: Are you sure you've stopped those creature things coming through?
JACK: Yep. And with them gone, your angel coma patients should be returning to normal. Gwen? Gwen, are you there?
GWEN [OC]: Yeah. Yeah. Freezing like a, er ... whatever. And Ianto's stopped glowing. Jack, it looks like he's gonna be okay.
JACK: We'll come and get you.
GWEN: Thank you.
CATRIONA: Yes, thank you. For everything.

(Walking.)

GWEN: I dragged you all that way, and you don't remember?
IANTO: No. Can't remember a thing. But Gwen?
GWEN: Yeah?
IANTO: Thank you.
GWEN: It's okay.
MARTHA: Here he is, hero of the hour.
JACK: Doctor Jones! How's your mate Julia?
MARTHA: She's fine. You know what, they're all fine. Guess I just need to let HQ know about Oliver.
IANTO: The stream will cease to flow, the wind will cease to blow. The clouds will cease to fleet, the heart will cease to beat.
JACK: For all things must die. Never saw you as a Tennyson man, Ianto.
IANTO: We all have hidden depths.
JACK: You twenty-first century humans with your science, your beliefs and your poetry and ... oh yeah, you're pretty great.
GWEN: You say all these things. The human race has to be ready. What do you know, Jack?
JACK: I know you're worth fighting for.
IANTO: No, not good enough. Why us? Why do they keep coming to us?
JACK: Because you're special. You never stop searching for answers. Sometimes I don't think you know what the questions are, but you never stop searching.
GWEN: Questions of life and death?
MARTHA: Yeah.
JACK: Somewhere out there in that chaos of darkness and light, of science and protons, of Gods and stars and death ... somewhere there's an answer. And sometimes I think that just asking the question ... is the answer. And sometimes I think I just ... need a coffee. Come on, let's go home.
IANTO: Mm-hmm.

(Jack laughs.)

(Transcribed by David Tait)

Transcript originally provided by Chrissie. Adapted by TARDIS.guide. The transcripts are for educational and entertainment purposes only. All other copyrights property of their respective holders.

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