Gwen Cooper quotes from Torchwood

Jack

I was thinking. About how you're immortal. And I'm dying. And what I wanted to say was... we're good aren't we? You and I? Good team. I missed you.

Gwen

I was thinking that, ah, if this had happened a bit sooner...

Jack

I know.

Gwen

He'd still be here, Ianto.

Jack

Dead friends.

Gwen

I'm sorry.

Jack

I wish he was here now. Not much of a team, is it? But we've still got each other. You and me. Just like the old days.

Rhys

[on video phone] Can you see me? I can see you. Can you see me?

Gwen

Yes, I can see you. A little too much of you. Put up the baby!

Jack

It's like there's some sort of energy behind this. A will, a drive, a consciousness, because this miracle, it's more than people just surviving. They are so alive. You saw Lyn, that woman at the airport. She should have been paralysed but she just kept on going. And I've seen bodies at the morgue, burnt and broken, still alive, staring right at me. They weren't even allowed to be unconscious. It's as if something is willing them to go on, each and every individual forced into life.

Rex

That was me. All the way through my accident, wide awake.

Gwen

And you could feel everything that happened? It still hurt?

Rex

Yeah.

Esther

So what did the search say?

Jack

Well, that's the problem. Everybody's had the same idea. Morphic field gets ten million results.

Esther

Then I'll go through them, all ten million. [to Rex, pointedly] See, that's what I do when I'm at my desk. Hard work.

Rex

[softly] I know.

Esther

He cockblocked the ATF.

Gwen

[laughs] I have no idea what any of that means.

Esther

The ATF's the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. They asked the CIA about information on a warehouse here in Washington, but Friedkin forwarded the request onto ancillary three times.

Gwen

What's ancillary?

Rex

It's a paper chase. It's a guaranteed way to lose something in the system.

Esther

So if he tried to stop people from seeing the warehouse, then maybe he was paid to protect it, which would indicate there's something in there. It's at Third and Boston, south west.

Rex

All right, so we've got a mission. First thing we need to do is steal a new car.

Jack

Ahem. So, who's giving the orders?

Rex

Okay, Torchwood, what do you say?

Jack

We need to steal a new car. [grins]

Gwen

Anyway, so how's my little girl?

Rhys

Don't call me that, Gwen.

Gwen

Very funny.

Gwen

Just get my dad out, Rhys, and I'll phone you tonight.

Rhys

It's already tonight!

Rhys

Just like the old days.

Gwen

No it's not. It's worse. It only ever gets worse.

Gwen

So listen, Category One is bad, yes?

Yeah. That's people with no brain function or anyone who would normally have died. They're now officially Category One.

Jack

Ordinary people are Category Three.

Right. That's people with no injuries, nothing. They're fine. Then, Category Two is everyone in-between; People who are alive and functioning with an illness or injury that's gonna persist, but not kill.

Rex

Like me.

Yes, like you.

Rex

Wait a minute, when I got hurt, I should have died. I was Category One... But now I'm healing, so I'm Category Two... So which one am I?

Well, that's the point - People don't fit categories.

Jack

Worse than that, this process has given the United Nations a definition for life, which is therefore a definition of death. The government now has the power to decide whether you're dead or alive. No one should have that much control.

Gwen

They move the category ones at 6am. They take them to the module--

Sorry. Not my department.

Gwen

Really? Is that so? Well do you even know what your department is, Dr. Patel? Do you even know what really happens here? Do you know what happens in the module?

Like I said, I'm rather busy.

Gwen

They burn people. They burn living people.

Category Ones are dead. That's the law. Under the emergency rulings for the sake of public health, category ones can be incinerated en masse.

Gwen

Well I'm glad you've got the law on your side.

Gwen

You watching?

Jack

I'm here. And I've opened up the radio link. Make your message.

Gwen

This is the truth for the whole world to see. We let our government build concentration camps. They built ovens for people in our names. Now I don't care if the whole of society bends over and takes this like a dog. I'm saying, No. [she blows the complex]

Jack

That's my girl.

We have your mother. We have your husband. We have your child.

Gwen

Who are you? What do you want? What do you want?!

Bring us Jack.

Jack

[regains consciousness] I'm tied down. Why am I tied down?

Gwen

They're in my eyes.

Jack

What?

Gwen

They're in my eyes. The contacts, they're in my eyes. Somebody's taken Anwen, Rhys, my mother, the whole bloody family. And they've said if I bring you, they'll let them go unharmed. Don't try moving. You'll never get out of those knots.

Jack

My hands are asleep. And my feet. You tied my feet?

Gwen

Of course I did, stupid. Otherwise you'd get out of the car, knock me out and turn the car around.

Jack

Are you sure they have your family?

Gwen

I phoned a hundred times. There's no reply. They've got them.

Jack

I want to talk to the lenses. Look at me so I can talk to them.

Gwen

Why do you always keep thinking you can tell me what to do?

Jack

Pull over, or look into the rear view. Just, please, let me talk to them.

Gwen

Don't cock this up, okay?

Jack

Listen, whoever you are, there's more than one way to play this. Are you listening?

Gwen

Yeah, there's a cursor. They're there.

Jack

You want me? Let her family go and I'll come to you alone.

Gwen

Tell them they can have me too.

Jack

No, just me. Let Rhys go, let Anwen go, let her mother go free. You guys, you know what? Here I am. You got me.

Gwen

Nothing.

Jack

Give them a minute.

Gwen

There's just nothing now.

Jack

Maybe they're thinking about it.

Gwen

My mother's name is Mary. Mary! You've known me all this time and you can't remember her name?

Jack

All right, I'm sorry, okay?

Gwen

Yeah, well, you should be, because this is all your fault. They want to kill you, but why do they want to do that?

Jack

I don't know.

Gwen

What have you done?

Jack

I don't know!

Gwen

Well you've done something haven't you? Way back when in that long bloody life of yours. God, you've lived so long you can't remember half of it! Now you think. Think! What the hell have you done?

Gwen

It's me.

Jack

What do you mean?

Gwen

It's me. I caused this. I made this happen. I knew Torchwood was toxic, right from the moment I joined up, the very first day, but I stayed.

Jack

I'm glad you did.

Gwen

Stop being so nice. We left nice behind a hundred miles back. I'm trying to be honest, okay? Because do you know what the worst thing is of all? Out of all the shit we have seen, all the bloodshed, all the horror...You know what is worse than all that? I loved it. I bloody loved it. And I'd keep telling Rhys I was sorry, and I'd say to little Anwen I'm sorry, but I loved it so much. I knew things no one else knew and, oh, I felt so special. And when we lost people, it was so, so big, and I could say it was worth it. Because the bigger it was, the more important I was. And the more people we lost, the more that meant I was a survivor...and I was better than them. My God, this is all my fault and now they've got my beautiful little girl and I wished this on her.

Jack

I used to think the same about Torchwood.

Gwen

That's what I'm saying. Have you got what I'm saying to you, Jack? What I'm saying is, no more! Because I know exactly what you’re thinking, Jack; "She won’t do this, not really. Not my Gwen." "No, Gwen, she can’t hurt me. Gwen loves me. She’d never harm me." And, well, this is about my daughter. And I swear for her sake, I will see you killed like a dog right in front of me if it means her back in my arms. Understood?

Jack

Understood. And let me tell you. Now that I'm mortal, I'm gonna hang onto this with everything I've got. I love you, Gwen Cooper, but I will rip your skin from your skull before I let you take this away from me. Understood?

Gwen

Understood. I feel like I know you now better than I've ever done before.

Jack

Yeah. Right at the end.

Gwen

Mmm. Right at the end.

Gwen

You're gonna live.

Jack

It's a talent of mine.

Gwen

I meant every word I said.

Jack

So did I.

Gwen

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.

I don't see that anything's changed. You're still coming with me.

Jack

Why would I do that?

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?

Angelo. Angelo Colasanto. He's waiting for you, Jack. He's been waiting for such a very long time.

Rex

Gwen Cooper's proven herself to be extremely useful. I think it's worth keeping her on our side.

Shapiro

Did you sleep with her?

Gwen

[outraged] Pardon me?!

Shapiro

Because most women that bitter you've slept with.