Downstairs. Brenda asks Mrs. Cooper if she has any clue what’s going on. She does not. Brenda lays the finger of blame on Gwen and “an American with no sense of timing or fashion”. Two out of three ain’t bad, as they say. I don’t care how obnoxious Jack becomes, he is always going to be absolutely wearing the hell out of that coat. Apple comes wailing in and cries for someone to call the police, because Mervin’s dead. Ianto follows her in and sighs “I’m afraid the situation is uncontained” into his comms.
Gwen’s room. Jack replies to Ianto’s hail, telling him to get to the Hyena and block all phone signals so they can at least stop the police getting involved in the clusterfuck. He tells Tosh to come with him and identify Pomegranate, who is still a shapeshifter, you morons. Rhys again demands that Gwen be taken to safety. “I want her safe too, Rhys, so we DO WHAT I SAY!” Jack yells. He’s got a point, I suppose. I mean, it was his abject stupidity that got them into to this situation, but now they’re here, they kind of need to work together, united behind one leader, and Jack is the obvious candidate, for better or worse. Gwen seconds this motion, softly telling Rhys that Jack knows what he’s doing, which is perhaps going a bit far. Owen reaches for his bag, obviously for the Scalpel. “Fine, then I’m staying here,” Rhys says, a bit sulkily. Jack has no problem with that, and leaves with Tosh to go needle hunting in a field of hay.
…Or, they would be, if Pomegranate wasn’t so cocky as to still look like Pomegranate. And that’s going to get confusing when she finally does start using her shapeshifting capabilities, so I’m going to start calling her Bride of Teeth. Everyone mills around, some more, wondering why their phones aren’t working any more. Jack bursts in and yells at everyone to stay calm and do what he says. “And who the hell are you?” Barry demands. “Torchwood,” Jack says. Mr. Cooper is shocked that Gwen was actually telling the truth about all that alien nonsense. Tosh spots Bride of Teeth, who bares her teeth and claws and veiny skin and growls at everyone. Jack yells “Everybody get down!” and the crowd does so with panicked screaming. Jack and Tosh open fire, Bride of Teeth leaps through a window and runs off into the trees. Jack and Tosh chase her. “My God…” whispers Mr. Cooper, as he hesitantly gets to his feet. Bride of Teeth is just too fast for Jack and Tosh, and they lose track of her somewhere in the trees. They agree, though, that she’ll still be nearby, since she’s still after her baby.
Gwen’s room. Gwen gets pissy at Owen because she doesn’t trust the Scalpel, what with all the explosion. Well, if you wanted more reliable equipment, maybe you should have gone to the Hub when you had the chance? Someone starts knocking at the door and yelling “Rhyyyyys! Rhyyyyyyys!” It’s Brenda, Gwen says, she’d recognise that howl anywhere. Rhys lets her in, and Gwen rather bizarrely grabs a bouquet of flowers and holds it in front of her stomach bulge. I think that cat’s out of the bag at this point, dear. She frantically tells Rhys that there’s a monster around, and that Jack and Tosh went after it, and Owen, for some reason, slips out of the room, telling the other three to stay put. Brenda stares at Gwen oddly. I wonder what that could possibly mean.
April 9, 2009 at 10:30 am
I think that it is a very interesting and amusing article. Practically all its main points are true.