TEXT: 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. Open on blurred lighting, a darkened background. EUGENE : (VO) The speed of light is three hundred and ninety nine million, seven hundred and ninety two thousand, four hundred and eight metres per second, pain travels through the body at three hundred and fifty feet per second. Even a sneeze can reach a hundred miles per hour. As for life, well, that just bloody whizzes by. Overview of a young man lying on his back in the middle of a road. He is average - average height, build and looks - Eugene. EUGENE : (VO) So then, this is me. Eugene Jones. Eugene looks to either side of him and sits up. Confused. He stands and looks about, walks slowly down the road, past the Torchwood SUV and the police cordon. An officer holds up the rope while he passes. He sees the Torchwood team and calls out, he knows who they are. EUGENE : Hey. Gwen! Jack! Tosh! The guys at the rope just let me through so... Jack and Gwen stand with Toshiko next to a police patrol car and an ambulance. GWEN : I'd say at least 50 miles per hour. Gwen walks away from Jack to look at a body. They talk, ignoring Eugene. JACK : Travel on the bonnet, bounced, maybe rolls, smashes his face on the road. Eugene moves closer to Gwen and looks at the body lying on the verge at the side of the road. EUGENE : Aye? Er, excuse me, that looks a lot like me... The body of Eugene lies face down on the floor, blood covering the side of his head - dead. TOSHIKO : Couldn't even cross the road without messing it up. Jack crouches down next to Gwen to look at the
SUMMARY:
Known to the team as being obsessed with alien life, Eugene Jones wakes up in the middle of a road and discovers that he has been the victim of a fatal hit-and-run incident. As Gwen investigates the suspicious circumstances around his fatality, Eugene recalls events leading up to his death, involving a mysterious alien eye.