Gwen Cooper quotes from Torchwood

Gwen

She's going out with a frozen soldier from 1918.

Jack

Nobody's perfect.

Jack

[draws a line on a piece of paper] Linear time. [balls the piece of paper up] Screwed up time. Imagine your life is a straight line, from birth to death. Now, try drawing that line on the paper without straightening it out.

Gwen

It's impossible.

Jack

That's why we gotta stop it.

Gwen

Have you ever eaten alien meat?

Jack

Yeah.

Gwen

What was it like?

Jack

Well, he seemed to enjoy it.

Owen

So the protein chains are regenerating despite the mutilations, so not only is it replenishing its own flesh, but it's increasing it, giving them a brand new meat supply.

Gwen

It would last them for years, then.

Toshiko

If we understood how worked, we could feed the world!

Ianto

We could release a single.

Gwen

Rhys... The things I have seen... The times I have wanted to tell you...

Rhys

[half-disbelieving] ...Aliens? In Cardiff?!

Gwen

Have you never seen something so mad, so extraordinary... That just for one second, you think that there might be more out there?

Rhys

Prove it.

Rhys

They're expecting me. You lot can hide in the back of the van-

Gwen

What is this, Scooby-Doo?! Absolutely no way is he getting involved!

Jack

Now I have to help you all go back. Find a memory that defines you, rediscover who you are. If I'm wrong, he will still be here when we've done this. [turns off computer screen] Let me take you back to before we all met. [turns off lights] Feel around for anything that makes you what you are. The hidden and the forgotten. Tell me where you are.

Gwen

College canteen. Rhys is sitting opposite me telling stupid jokes.

Owen

It's my birthday, ten. My mum spends the whole day screaming, ‘I love you because you're my son but that doesn't mean I have to like you.'

Maths club. There's something so reliable about maths. Always the right answer.

Ianto

Meeting Lisa. Falling in love. I never felt so alive.

Owen

Turned sixteen, she packs my bags. That is the nicest thing you've done for me in years mother.

Gwen

Kissing in the supermarket. The look on his face.

My first flat. I don't have a flat warming – there's no one I want to invite.

Ianto

Losing Lisa. Like the world had ended.

Gwen

The way he looks at me sometimes, as if he's scared of what he feels for me. I love him [turns to Jack] but not in the way I love you.

Jack

[to Gwen] Take this [Gwen takes the retcon pill]

Knowing there has to be more to life than this, knowing I'm special, waiting for someone to see it.

Jack

I saw it [gives her a pill]

Owen

You save one life, a hundred lives but it's never enough. Who will save me?

Jack

I will [gives him a pill]

Ianto

Coming here, it gave me meaning again. [Turns to Jack] You. [Jack kisses his forehead then gives him a pill]

Jack

[to everyone] You each have a short-term amnesia pill. It will make you forget Adam. We have to wipe out the last 48 hours from our memories. Go back to who we were.

[Switches the screen on to look at Adam in his cell] I'm going to lose so much.

Jack

None of it was real.

He loved me and I loved him. It's no different from real memories.

Jack

He forced it on you. You have to let it go

[Takes her pill, then looks at the screen] Goodbye Adam.

Ianto

Jack? Your V.I.P guest is here.

Gwen

I didn't know we were expecting anyone. [The rest of the team turn towards the entrance to the Hub]

Jack

On a dark night in Cardiff, I hear the song of a nightingale.

Martha

Jack's right. These attacks are not random. They're clinical, professional. More like assassinations.

Gwen

Except Barry Leonard was a student. Who'd assassinate a student?

Martha

Student loans company?

Gwen

Yeah, I think you just cracked it.

Gwen

Oh, um, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I get a bit confused, which one's UNIT?

Jack

Intelligence. Millitary. Cute red caps. Acceptable face of intelligence gathering on aliens. We're more ad hoc, but better looking. [emphasis on "better looking" directed at Martha]

Ianto

I always loved Tintin.

Owen

Yeah, well you would, wouldn't you? And he never had a girlfriend, did he? Just the dog, so I reckon he was actually shagging the dog.

Gwen

Meanwhile, back at Torchwood...

Owen

We've been monitoring Parker for ages, nothing to be scared of, is there?

Ianto

[uncomfortable pause] Unlike, say... Tintin?

Owen

Okay, I never liked Tintin. [everyone smirks] What? He's weird! He's got a funny face. And his hair is just... it's horrible.

Ianto

I always loved Tintin.

Owen

Yeah, well you would. And he never had a girlfriend, did he? Just the dog, so I reckon he was actually shagging the dog. [gives a grin. Ianto looks at him in disgust]

Gwen

Okay, meanwhile, back at Torchwood...

Gwen

We're not postponing the wedding. No way.

Rhys

Forget the money, I want you where they can look after you, right? Getting married today doesn't matter.

Gwen

It matters to me!! It's not about the money, Rhys. I want to marry you! Today. Whatever happens. If the skies suddenly fills full of spaceships, or an army of Weevils climbs out of the drains on St. Mary's Street, you fool! Do you not understand what I'm saying, Rhys Williams? All I want to do today is marry you. That's all I want to do.

Owen

It's a kind of alien egg. But don't worry, I'm going to look after you, I promise. We've got procedures for this situation.

Gwen

You mean, this has happened before?

Jack

You've heard of immaculate conception, haven't you? Well...

Gwen

[talking about getting married] It'll happen for you one day, Tosh. There's always Owen.

I don't think so. "In sickness and in health, 'til death do us part". It's gonna sound like a bad joke.