They Keep Killing Suzie

IANTO: ...Jack? What do you want me to say on the death certificate?

JACK: Good question.

IANTO: She had quite a few deaths in the end.

JACK: I don't know. Death by Torchwood.

JACK: I'm Captain Jack Harkness.

SWANSON: So I've heard. Tell me something. Are you always this dressy for a murder investigation?

JACK: What, you'd rather me naked?

SWANSON: God help me, the stories are true.

OWEN: You know, we never gave it a cool name.

TOSH: I thought we called it the Resurrection gauntlet.

OWEN: Cool name.

IANTO: What about the Risen Mitten? I think it's catchy.

JACK: As a matter of fact, I was wondering if you could do us a favour.

SWANSON: What, the humble police helping the mighty Torchwood? Why don't you just help yourselves like you normally do.

JACK: Because we can't.

SWANSON: Why's that?

JACK: We're sort of busy.

SWANSON: Well, I'm busy too, try someone else.

JACK: No, no, no. It's just because we can't at the moment because we're sort of stuck.

SWANSON: In what way?

JACK: We're locked in.

SWANSON: You're locked in?

JACK: Just a bit.

SWANSON: Locked in where?

JACK: Er, in our own base.

SWANSON: You're locked inside your own base?

JACK: And it's not funny.

SWANSON: Er, how am I supposed to help you, exactly?

JACK: We need a book of poetry. It's not funny.

GWEN: But if there's nothing, what's the point of it all?

SUZIE: This is. Driving through the dark. All this stupid, tiny stuff. We're just animals howling in the night, because it's better than silence. I used to think about Torchwood, all those aliens, coming to Earth, what the hell for? But it's just instinct. They come here because there's life, that's all. Moths around a flame. Creatures clinging together in the cold.

IANTO: If you're interested I've still got that stopwatch.

JACK: So?

IANTO: Well, think about it. Lots of things you can do with a stopwatch.

JACK: Oh, yeah. I could think of a few.

IANTO: There's quite a list.

JACK: I'll send the others home early. See you in my office in ten.

IANTO: That's ten minutes and counting.