OswaldWho are you?
Oswald
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.
Oswald
Well, now.
Oswald
Then you must know. Do we make it through this day?
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.
Oswald
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.
Oswald
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.
Well, I'm afraid we have a major disagreement here in Buenos Aires. I'd say advantage Families. Say hello to your friends.
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.
Oswald
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?
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?
Oswald
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 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.
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]
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.
Oswald
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]
Oswald
I'll do it! I'll do it!
Wait a minute. If you need the blood of Jack Harkness on the other side of the world, then just-
Oswald
I'll do it!
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.
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]
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?
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.
You're never gonna be a suicide. [aims her gun at him]
[Jack faces the Blessing]
I think this might. [shoots Esther]
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