JackTime to move on. But not with you.
I'm sorry. I was terrified, Jack. They said you were the devil, but other people said you were a blessing.
Jack
Something happened to me once, a long way away. Time itself changed me to a fixed point. And now I can't die. I suffer and I perish, but I always come back. I've lived through a lot of Earth's past and a lot of its future. And I'll keep on living this life forever.
In the future, are we together?
Jack
What does it matter?
Jack
We can't be, because one day you're gonna die and I won't.
Then we forget the future. We make the moment now. We make a promise and we go forward.
Jack
Angelo, don't.
What? You're lonely too. You said you want a companion.
Jack
Don't make me do this.
You're not going without me.
Jack
Just let me go.
But you can't. I'm never gonna let you go. I could travel this whole wide world, but where would I find another man like you? Please, don't leave me on my own.
Jack
I'm sorry, Angelo, but this is the story of my life. It always ends the same way - you kill me. [he stands at the edge of the roof] Men like you... You kill me... [he falls backwards off the building and then disappears]
Jack
It's a talent of mine.
I meant every word I said.
Jack
So did I.
Good. [to Olivia] And as for you, you'd better pray that death comes back to this planet by the time I'm finished with you.
Jack
So tell us who you are before I let her loose.
OOlivia
I don't see that anything's changed. You're still coming with me.
Jack
Why would I do that?
OOlivia
You'll want to come with me because I can take you to the one man who knows how the Miracle began.
Jack
Who's that?
OOlivia
Angelo. Angelo Colasanto. He's waiting for you, Jack. He's been waiting for such a very long time.
OOlivia
He talked about you all the time, Jack. His immortal man in old New York. He never forgot.
You're telling me the whole world got screwed because two gay guys had a hissy fit?
Rex, get back in your cave.
Come on, give me a break.
OOlivia
You inspired him. You proved immortality was possible. And he devoted the rest of his life to finding out how to live forever.
Jack
And he did it? He's still alive? He's still young?
OOlivia
Oh yes, he's still alive. Angelo Colasanto is still very much alive... But he's not young.
So, these are the Torchwood clowns?
Torchwood did more to piece this together than the entire CIA.
You're that English girl, Cooper...Have I got that right?
No, I'm not English. And I'm not a girl.
Gwen, this is Allen Shapiro. Don't. Really, don't.
Well, he's not scaring me. Hello.
I am sick of her already. Can we deport her? Let's deport her.
Jack
Hey, hey, hey, leave her alone.
Sorry, sir. With all due respect, Gwen Cooper's proven herself to be extremely useful. I think it's worth keeping her on our side.
Because most women that bitter, you've slept with. [to Esther] Did you make that mistake?
Esther Drummond. Rex said you did a good job out in the field.
In my opinion you deserted your post. I'm docking your pay. [to Jack] And what is it with you, Red Baron? You got Snoopy up your ass?
Jack
While you're wasting time, Mister Shapiro, we've got the names of the people who are responsible for causing the Miracle. I suggest we get to work.
Torchwood is going to work for the CIA?
Jack
I think the CIA can work for Torchwood, if you're lucky.
We've got a plane ready and waiting twenty minutes away. The sooner we pool our resources, the sooner we can end this thing. All right, let's go. Everybody out.
Jack
What about him (Angelo)? We've got a very sick man here.
Didn't you read the news? Nobody dies. Now, there's a nurse around here somewhere. You got two minutes. Don't leave them alone. [leaves]
Jack...did we just join the CIA?
Jack
I think we did.
[After Angelo dies]
How? Only him, no one else. The only man in the whole wide world to die. The Miracle continues minus Mr Colasanto. So how did he do it? We've taken the body for autopsy. Any idea what we're gonna find?
Jack
I don't know. We should go.
No, no, no, no. Nobody is leaving. This house is secure.
Jack
It's not a crime scene.
Are you sure about that? Dying of old age can now be considered a crime. Something happened here, and we are going to search this place for every last bit of information. And nobody is going to leave until we know exactly what happened. So you can stay just where you are, Captain.
[Shapiro leaves. Jack sits on Angelo's bed]
Jack
Yeah.
And you really don't know what happened to him? What is it, Jack? Come on, what's wrong? Are we in trouble?
Jack
Yes.
We're in trouble because he died?
Jack
Yeah.
[about the Null Field] How does it work?
Jack
I can't tell you. That's the point. Just listen to me. I knew this stuff the second I saw it. Yes, it's alien technology. The only examples of it on Earth were in the Torchwood Hub. They were buried in the ruins.
But Angelo had people watching.
Jack
He must have salvaged it, knowing the Miracle was coming.
So what did he do? Trigger it with your DNA or something?
Jack
Maybe that was revenge, or maybe giving me a clue. But there's only one course of action left now. You have to get me out of here.
Jack
Turn your head.
Jack, listen to me. The CIA is not the enemy. That's why I brought them in. Don't you understand? You don't-
[an agent walks past, they quickly pretend to be examining the lattice]
Jack
Keep your head down. Be calm.
Look, you don't need to run anymore, okay? We can protect you.
Jack
There's a reason why Torchwood was secret. We kept things hidden from the human race. This technology is a science the world should never know.
Jack
I know, Esther, because I've seen the future. I've walked the future world and breathed its air. And this technology would send it to damnation. Just imagine the stealth technology of a null field hiding bombs, hiding planes, shielding one side from radiation while the other side burns. This thing would be the end of us. This timeline would be terminal.
Even if the government... Even if the government had this one panel and they put people inside and they died, it's the same thing as the ovens. It's control over life and death, and we've seen that that doesn't work.
Jack
But you trust me, don't you? Both of you? After all we've done? Please, I'm begging you, get me out of here. Look, this is the Alpha plate. Without it this is just a bunch of metal. You've got to get me and the plate away from this house.
Jack, listen to me. We can't, okay? We are the CIA and this is a genuine CIA operation.
Jack
This is history, Rex. This is everything. Please, get me out.
One man's name keeps reoccurring. Kitzinger was employed to send him information. And his name's Harry Bosco.
His name, over and over again.
What, can't you search him?
You think you're clever, Oswald? Is that really all you had?
Harry Bosco isn't a man. Harry Bosco's a process. It goes back to Vietnam. It was the first war to be televised and the government didn't want US networks taking feed directly from the Vietnamese, because for the first time information was beyond their control. So they put agents into every newsroom, every major TV network, filtering the output for the public. Cleverest of them all was a man called Harry Bosco.
Jack
What did he do?
He'd alter information. It was subtle. He did it by mistranslation. He couldn't censor or change, but he could manipulate the English translation. Change one word, change the entire meaning. If you say victims instead of bodies, you influence public opinion. All the channels Harry Bosco these days.
So that's it? Dead end? Done? You finished with him? Can I have him now?
Could you keep your dog on his leash?
My point still stands. The name's still important because Kitzinger works in PR. Why would she be handling this Harry Bosco process?
To be fair, it's a good question. Why would the families hire Jilly to do all this in the first place?
Jack
What's she translating?
What's she mistranslating? Because the three families changed their name, now Jilly's changing words? Maybe they're connected.
Jack
I think I can get us in. Back in the old days, Torchwood tracked down a black market trade in alien artefacts coming out of China. Skullion metal and coins, things like that. We closed it down but the route stayed open for arms dealing.
We're gonna trust arms dealers?
I don't care. I'll do it.
Okay, okay, wait. What about Buenos Aires?
I don't know. Which city is it?
It's both, you bunch of nuts. You can't see for looking, can you? Eh? Look. Right, Shanghai, Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Shanghai. Opposite sides of the world. Quite literally, opposite sides of the Earth, yeah? Yeah? So whatever's going on, there's got to be something connecting them.
Are you kidding me? Is that right?
They're antipodes. They're the antipodes of each other. Two massive population centres balanced on either side of the planet.
As the old saying goes, count your blessings, because it turns out there's two of them.
Look at the PhiCorp logo. The letter phi, a circle with a line through it. It's been right there in front of us staring us in the face all this time.
A line through the world?
Jack
The Blessing. The Miracle.
Jack
We need to find out. We can get into Argentina no problem.
Maybe we need to get into both, Jack. Maybe you should go one way.
Jack
And you the other.
Jack
Shanghai.
So this is what we're doing? A mission on both sides of the world?
Jack
Biggest mission yet.
And you're taking me with you.
No, no, no. I've got, I've got better plans for you, bub.
And that's your problem, isn't it, Gwen? You can't let me walk free. Not a man with my desires. And you can't have me arrested. Not now that I know all about your little plans.
They can leave you here with me.
Well, that's just it, you joyous man. You've just trapped your wife completely. Leave me here with him and I think he would. I actually think he would. Your husband would kill me. He'd make me Category One with his own bare hands. You would kill me, wouldn't you?
Is that what you want? No. I'm coming with you. There's no choice. There's not a choice in the whole of the world. Okay?
[Gwen discovers that Jack's wound is getting worse]
Idiot. You idiot. You told me that was healed. You're not better at all, are you? Let me see.
Jack
Sorry.
It's okay. I got you. Okay, I got you. I got you.
[Gwen helps Jack onto a bunk bed]
Jack
I'm so sorry.
It's all right. Don't be sorry. I've got you. Okay, let me take a look. Oh, honestly. [rips off his bandage] Oh, God.
Jack
Gwen...
If I had known it was this bad, Jack, you'd never have come.
Jack
It got worse when we arrived. Ah!
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Okay, I got you.
[Oswald watches as a drop of Jack's blood drips from the bandage onto the floor then moves across the floorboards]
Jack
Fine place to die, in old Shanghai.
You're not dying. Don't say that.
Jack
I'm tired, Gwen. This mortal life, it hurts so much.
Well, now. Can't say I've been to China before, so I'm not well versed in their customs. But I've got to say I never knew about that. [Jack and Gwen also watch the travelling blood drops] Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
It's your blood. No wonder it's killing you. I think, I think it's showing us the way. It's The Blessing. It's somewhere over there. And I think whatever it is, it's calling you, Jack.
Jack
Captain Jack Harkness.
No. I spent a long time in prison. And I know the smile of a man who's done terrible things. And your friends. I've been watching them. Sometime they like you, sometimes they love you... and sometimes once or twice, fluttering away in those tiny little gaps, they fear you.
Jack
I'm from the future.
Jack
I come from the future.
Then you must know. Do we make it through this day?
Jack
The future can change. It's being written right now. One thing I do know. I've seen the stars. I have seen the universe. I have seen the human race become vast and magnificent and endless. And I wish you could see it, Oswald. I wish you could see that, too. Because then you'd know how small you've made your life.
You're about to meet the creator.
[As Gwen, Jack and Danes come down in the lift, the Mother goes to meet them. Her guards have their guns ready]
Captain Jack Harkness. At last.
No, no, no, no, this isn't about Jack. No, ma'am. Excuse me, but it's not at all. My name is Oswald Danes. Well. Hmm. Good evening, Miss Kitzinger. You've been promoted. And this is the new empire you're servicing? My, my, my, my, my, my, my.
With all due respect, Mr Danes, you're a by-product of the Miracle. Not really relevant at all.
That's what the Captain said. He tried to tell me that my life has become a very small thing. Tiny. And yet right here, right now, at the very end, I would describe myself differently. I would call myself vital. [Danes opens his coat to reveal a suicide jacket of explosives. He arms the trigger] Madam, you're a fine woman. You should be careful now, very careful indeed. It seems like you've been planning some kind of an explosion, but I'd love to make sure you're still inside.
Jack
Advantage Torchwood.
Well, I'm afraid we have a major disagreement here in Buenos Aires. I'd say advantage Families. Say hello to your friends.
Jack
What's that supposed to mean?
Rex? Oh my God. And Esther?
I'm here. They caught us.
Just glad to hear you're alive.
I'll swap your standoff for my standoff. [aims his gun at Esther's head]
But nobody dies. She'll keep on living, just perforated.
Threaten me, you coward, not her.
Jack If you hurt her, we've got explosives here ready to go.
And don't imagine I won't. Whatever happens here tonight, there's no place on Earth that I can go, and I wasn't planning on coming out of here alive.
[lowers his gun] So, who's gonna lose their nerve first?
Jack
The thing is, we don't need explosives or guns or threats, because I've got the most powerful thing of all. [walks to the cleft in the world and cuts his finger. His blood flies into it] It wants me. Mortal blood. The only one in the whole world. So I suggest you're very careful with me, okay?
And if you fail to take the Captain's advice, you can certainly come to oblivion with me. Jack, you're the future man. You've seen wonders beyond this world, so tell us of these Blessings and Miracles.
So, you found The Blessing and you worked out this morphic field.
The Blessing exists in a symbiotic relationship with the human race. It transmits a morphic field around the planet, binding us together like magnetism, like sunlight.
But finding it wasn't enough. You had to experiment on it.
We fed it the blood of an immortal. We had one remarkable artifact. We found a second remarkable artifact. The combination was inevitable.
So the Blessing absorbed the blood, copied it like a new template. So, the system changed its setting.
Jack
You know why it did that? I think you hurt it. It was being attacked, so it took the blood pattern and made it a gift. It's exerting itself to sustain every person on the planet. This whole Miracle, it's trying to be kind.
You've seen immortality. I'm living it. Why would you want this?
But you ruined the world out there!
The Miracle shocked the economy. The economy collapsed. We tear down in order to rebuild. And now it's almost within sight. The new world.
Yeah, with no room for the poor, the weak or the ones that don't fit in.
That's the way the world works. Now, we're just making it official. The families have just been waiting. Now we can step in to control the banks. The banks control government. The government controls people. Soon we'll be able to decide who lives, how long, where and why.
Oh, great. So it's the world according to Kitzinger, is it?
Listen, you can bleed your liberal heart all over the place, but are you really gonna tell me the world was working before? Because I have worked for the rich and the powerful and the obese. I have stared into the high end of Western society and let me tell you, it is like shovelling an open sewer. These families, they want to make the world fitter, more compact, more disciplined. And I like the sound of that. That sounds like salvation.
Jack
But before you launched this brave new world, you had to deal with one more thing. Yeah. Me.
So as soon as the Miracle happened, you sent the Torchwood email.
His blood endangers the plan. We had to draw him out into the open.
Jack
Well, you failed. I got to Shanghai. I've got the only mortal blood on the planet. If it gets into The Blessing, life switches back. I can make the whole world mortal.
[As Jack is about to slit his wrist, the Mother laughs]
He doesn't seem to get it.
Everything on this axis operates in a polar dynamic field.
You could reset the Blessing, your blood could make the whole world mortal again, but only by introducing it to both cities at once.
Entering The Blessing simultaneously.
That's how we made the world immortal.
And for you, I'm sorry, it's impossible.
You did very well, almost worked it out, but all that spare blood of yours went up in flames.
So I'm just gonna have to kill you. [gives an order to her Chinese henchmen]
Jack
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Whoa, whoa.
Jack, I know how your mind works. Even now you're ferociously calculating how you can get your blood to the other side of the world. But I can't allow that. Absolutely not.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. I'm warning you, I'll do it.
Then I'll die. And that's a shame, because you can blast his blood into that wall and it won't make any difference at all.
[The henchmen cock their weapons]
Wait a minute. If you need the blood of Jack Harkness on the other side of the world, then just-
Just listen to me! Jack! All right. I'm all right. As I was saying, if you need Jack's blood, how about this?
[Rex cuts his finger, and the blood flows to the cleft. The ground shudders]
What was that? What happened?
That's impossible. No way. There's nothing special about you.
Oh, but there is, when I've got Jack's blood flowing through my veins. It's inside me.
Jack
Oh, my God.
See, we knew this blood was important, so as soon as we arrived-
We transfused it into Rex. We exchanged his blood for Jack's.
On most days it might've killed me. But we're all living on Miracle Day.
And everyone thought the blood was gone, so no one even suspected. All we did was keep one final bag, filled the rest with Rex's blood, and Jack's mortal blood...
...Just walked right in. Hey, Oswald, you want to be a walking bomb?
Well, try this. Shoot me! Shoot me! Come on! Shoot me!
Pull that trigger! Splatter my blood! Shoot me!
Get him out! Get him out!
[Jack produces a gun]
Jack
Nobody move! Huh? Wow, Rex, you're a genius!
You just shut the hell up. All right? This shit hurts.
Yeah, we've got blood on both sides of the world, Jack, but-
But they will die. Is that what you want? The Blessing will take every last drop. You'll both die, gentlemen. You'll both kill yourselves. You will die in a pit in Shanghai. Is that what you want?
Jack
I think I've lived long enough. Are you ready, Rex?
Oh, you know I wish I'd never met you, you World War Two idiot. Good times, huh?
Just one last thing, Jack.
Jack
What is it?
You're never gonna be a suicide. [aims her gun at him]
Jack
Thank you.
Jack
Bye.
[Jack faces the Blessing]
Jack
This is it, Rex.
I think this might. [shoots Esther]
[Rex has been shot by Charlotte]
Jack
Get help! Clear the area! There might be more!
Jack
No way.
Oh, come on. No, no, not after everything he's gone through. No!
Jack
There's nothing we can do. I'm, I'm sorry, Gwen. I am so sorry. He's dead. [Rex gasps back to life] [shocked] What?!
What? [rips his shirt open and sees his wound heal] What?!
Jack
That's impossible.
You. World War Two. What the hell did you do to me?!
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