TEXT: NB : Throughout this script the 'original' Captain Jack is referred to as 'The Captain' and 'Torchwood' Captain Jack is referred to as Jack. Opening shots and series 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 gotta be ready. EXT. DANCE HALL - PRESENT - DAY The Torchwood SUV comes down the road towards the dance hall, horn honking as it crosses an intersecting road without stopping. The SUV stops outside the dance hall and Jack and Toshiko exit the vehicle. Toshiko is dressed up to go out and taking on her mobile phone in Japanese. Jack approaches the entrance of the dance hall. Toshiko explains her conversation as she walks towards him. TOSHIKO : My grandfather's eighty-eight birthday today. JACK : Oh, I thought you'd gone to all this trouble for me. TOSHIKO : Huh. Eighty-eight is a joyous year for the Japanese. I'm off to London to watch grown men throw rice. JACK : You can get that in the balti after stop-tap. Okay, down to business, what have we got? They enter the dance hall. Fly posters litter the front door - 'Vote Saxon' among others. Inside the furniture is covered in sheets, empty for years. They look around the lobby and up the stairwell. TOSHIKO : The Ritz Dance Hall, it's been derelict since 1989, but someone's complained about hearing music drifting out. Jack jogs up the main stairs - a wide staircase with a landing halfway up. TOSHIKO : Music from the 1940s. Jack pauses on the stairs and looks upwards. JACK : Sshh. Music can be heard drifting down the stairs. JACK : Listen. Coming up? Jack jogs the rest of the way up the staircase smiling to himself, Toshiko following a little more reluctantly. The open
SUMMARY:
Investigating reports of ghostly music, Jack and Toshiko find themselves stranded in a packed dance hall - in 1941. As Gwen, Owen, and Ianto work to rescue their colleagues, Jack and Toshiko meet a handsome young American squadron leader by the name of Captain Jack Harkness.