Jack Harkness

Understanding that this is not a request you probably expected to be fielding.

I have seen the calls for escorts through the plague of darkness.



I could  help.

[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 the Vesmier]

Vesmier,

After some consideration, I would appreciate any assistance you can offer. Several members of my team are experiencing the anomalous memories we discussed, and we need to have some light shed on their origins as soon as possible. If you could come see me, I'd be grateful.

[Locked to Torchwood 3]

If those of you with memories you shouldn't have could come meet me, we'll try to get this sorted out. We have a Time Lord willing to help up shed some light on it.

I'm in my room.

[Locked to Sam]

Sam, you might want to track down a medic, have them give you a dose of painkiller, and then lie to you, just to see if you can still feel anything that way. We don't need you incapacitated by pain through this.

[Locked to Torchwood, Sam Tyler, Martha Jones and Nicholas Angel]

Sam, I really hope you accepted the post with Torchwood 4, because I'm about to give you your first assignment.

Sam, Gwen, I want the two of you to sit down, see if you can get that police angel Nick in, and talk about what we're going to do if we start getting a lot of frightened people in the basement. Put that police training to work and see what resources we have to keep everyone calm and safe.

And here's hoping that it'll never be necessary, but Ianto? Get Sam and Gwen maps of the city and floorplans of whatever buildings we think Calisto might have. God help us, if we need to mount any rescue missions —

Tosh, anything you need for those panic buttons, tell me and I'll get if for you if I need to raid an armory.

And Owen, I really hope we don't need you in the coming days. Keep your fingers crossed.