Jack Harkness

[LOCKED to Mio Hongo, Martha Jones, Phoebe Donovan, and Elashte]

All right. Someone needs to tell me why more of Chicago's fallen down than usual, why our friends the CLF are back and making life miserable, and – most importantly – WHERE THE FUCK I WAS WHEN ALL OF THIS WAS HAPPENING.

I really don't appreciate walking into my office in the morning and finding out I'm missing several weeks.

[Locked to Charlie Walker]

Hey. Charlie. I just wanted to give you a heads-up: Romana tried sent a team to assassinate two people in Torchwood here, and her attack didn't go as planned. The Doctor's decided that he's going to fix things, which I really hope won't lead to him to do something like walk up to Romana and ask her to negotiate. But you know the Doctor.

For what it's worth, I'm really sorry for the trouble. Not that I have much control over insane First Angels, but I feel like I should say something.

[Locked to Gwen and Sam]

I'm going to be returning to the Main Gauche for a while – I want to keep an eye on Toshiko (she's fine, if a bit blue, at the moment; I got to see her earlier in the week) and I have some business to discuss with Elashte. And then there's Suzie.

Sam, if you don't know, Suzie Costello is a former (where I come from, and where most of Torchwood Three comes from) member of Torchwood whose tenure there ended in a sequence of be mur events which forced us to kill her twice. She'd laid plans to deal a strike against Torchwood in the event that we turned on her. It wound up being used to turn on us.

What makes this overcomplicated is why. Part of what lead up to this was a subtle psychic manipulation by an alien glove that pulled her into more trouble than she thought she could get out of without us finishing her. Part was a tendency toward paranoia and an aversion to trust which I'd find concerning even if she wasn't Torchwood-trained and capable of a hell of a lot. She's from before a point in her timeline when she's had any real exposure to the glove, and when I told her what happened, she admitted that she'd been laying plans to extract herself from Torchwood for some time if she needed to. She also said that, as things stood now, she wouldn't turn on anyone unless they turned on her first.

Oh, and in case that wasn't complication enough? The Rift seems to have given her the ability to see and converse with part of one's subconscious. She explained it as the Jungian concept of the Shadow. Which, you know, is... a horrifying proposition.

It seems to me that we can't very well leave her at the Main Gauche indefinitely – a bored Torchwood agent is never a good thing, and we should at least try to take care of our own. Besides, it might be best if we can keep an eye on her. But I imagine that bringing her back into the fold is going to rub some raw nerves, not to mention the inherent problems of bringing a woman with confirmed paranoid tendencies into contact with a number of people who might not trust her when she can see the repressed parts of their psyches.

Gwen, you're technically still in command of Torchwood Three, and given the atmosphere around here at the moment, it might be best for you to retain that position for a bit.

My tentative recommendation to both of you is that we bring her in on some form of probationary position. Sam, it might be best were she assigned to your team, to minimize contact, at least initially, with the people in Torchwood Three who remember her from their universe. You also have the advantage that you'll know if she's lying. But if either or both of you feel uncomfortable with that, let me assure you that I totally understand.

...this sort of thing is one of the many reasons Torchwood One had a psychic on staff, honestly.

[Locked to Toshiko]

I'm sorry I vanished on you. Elashte made it more than clear that I wasn't to remove you from the grounds.

I'll be back in tonight. I'm sure you have questions.

[Locked to Suzie]

I know you saw Elashte's message. I'm sorry I didn't stop by to talk to you, but I was out the door as soon as Elashte briefed me, and even so, we were engaged within fifteen minutes of my arrival.

At some point you will need to meet the members of Torchwood who are here, but that should be in a controlled situation, not on a battlefield. I'm speaking to them, though.

[Locked to Elashte]

Elashte,

I'll be back at the Main Gauche tonight. Thank you for your help re: the archangel attack.

Is there any possibility that we could reschedule our appointment to tonight?

–Capt. Jack Harkness

[Locked to Elashte]

You know I appreciate everything you've done for me and my te Torchwood, but could you please, in the future, respect the privacy of our thoughts?

I'm not going to make assumptions about demon social codes, but in our business, mind-reading a serious breech of trust and privacy with a number of risks to the perpetrator as well as the target.

[Locked to the Doctor]

{{Several lines of text are stricken out so comprehensively that not even the general shapes of letters or words can be discerned.}}

So, hypothetically speaking, what would you do with a Wanderer with paranoid tendencies and paramilitary training who happens to have gained the ability to see into a person's subconscious?

[Locked to the Doctor]

The basement's been compromised. Gwen is confirmed infected, and Rose is seriously ill with something. I've broen the quarantine, and I'm having them move everyone who's not testing positive into individual isolation rooms on the top floor. I wouldn't be so worried, but —

[Locked to the Sydney Jasper Research Team]

We have our first confirmed fatality native to this universe: the paramedic who flew to Texas passed away late last night. I'm waiting on the postmortem to see whether she had any prior health concerns which could have been complicated by this, or whether this is the time frame we should be expecting.