TEXT: Opening shots and recap. JACK : (VO) Torchwood : outside the government, beyond the police. Tracking down alien life on Earth and arming the human race against the future. The 21st century is when everything changes, and you've gotta be ready. EXT. A WOOD - NIGHT Camera closes on a figure moving through the woods, speaking. ESTELLE : (VO) I'm returning to the same spot. I do hope they're here. As the figure moves closer it can be seen that the voice belongs to an elderly, though active, woman with short grey hair. She has a camera around her neck and speaks into a dictaphone, quietly, like a bird watcher. ESTELLE : I have to move carefully. Don't want to frighten them. Now I'm there. She pauses behind the edge of a tree branch and views the scene before her. ESTELLE : They are. They're here. Shot moves behind Estelle. Before her is a clearing within which is a circle of stout stones. A group of small, bright white lights fly above the stones - fairies from a children's tale. The view closes on Estelle's face once more; she is overjoyed by the sight. ESTELLE : The darlings! Estelle raises a professional analogue camera and takes several photographs. The fairies are unconcerned by the flashes of light and even pause briefly in flight as if posing. A whispering of half hear voices and laughter of children can be heard on the wind. As Estelle turns to leave some of the fairies fly away, others land near the stones. The fairies on the ground morph into tall, grotesque figures with elongated limbs and they give a throaty, cackling laugh. OPENING CREDITS. INT. THE HUB - NIGHT It is dark and quiet. Track through the hub to Jack's office then down. Overview : Jack lies on a narrow bed under a stone arch. His eyes are open but as they close a steam train horn is heard and flashes of memory
SUMMARY:
A withdrawn child has her suppressed anger taken advantage of by fairies at the bottom of her garden. Jack catches up with a very old friend who is investigating fairy sightings in the local wood. After having visited her, Torchwood is informed of a man's mysterious death in a prison cell, and Tosh uncovers a series of localized, extreme weather patterns. Nobody at the organization is sure of these events, or how they may be connected. Except for Jack, who has witnessed the creatures causing this, almost a century ago.