Jilly Kitzinger quotes from Torchwood

What's Category Zero?

Jilly

What's what?

What's Category Zero, and why does my whore know about it?

Jilly

...Ah. Clever girl. Well, that's what you get for employing someone who sleeps with senators. She's been listening.

Tell me, what's Category Zero?

Jilly

Look, Oswald, did you really think it would never come to an end, your freedom? There's an emergency mandate being passed through Congress defining a new Category Zero, meaning people who have earned themselves a place in the ovens for moral reasons.

They want to burn me alive?

Jilly

Oswald, you were always sentenced to death. What you had was a wonderful delay. And now it's time for that adventure to come to an end.

But people love me.

Jilly

Television loves you. It's a different thing.

S4 E8 End of the Road

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You must feel terrible.

Jilly

No, I'm fine.

No, I mean you really must. That's what The Blessing does to you the closer you get. You're scared, am I right? Your skin's a little too tight. There's something just out of the corner of your eye you can't quite see, hmm?

Jilly

Yes.

You never get used to it. Come this way, Miss Kitzinger.

Jilly

It's Miss Meredith.

I don't really care. The men enjoy those sorts of games. But the feeling, it started as soon as we dug deep enough. I think it's The Blessing's attempt to communicate.

Jilly

Then it's a living thing?

Oh, we have no idea. But certainly The Blessing sends some sort of impact back at the onlooker. [Jilly is led to a warehouse and into a goods lift] We have a theory. We say The Blessing shows you to yourself. I've seen people look upon The Blessing and end their lives. There's a brilliant truth about that, because each and every time that person was hiding something vile. Isn't that wonderful? It's exhilarating, the damage it does. I wonder what you'll see.

S4 E9 The Gathering

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I knew it.

Jilly

What's happening?

You're about to meet the creator.

Jilly

It's that soldier.

Hmph.

Jilly

He's with Oswald?

[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.

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.

What's that supposed to mean?

He means us.

Rex? Oh my God. And Esther?

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]

Don't you do it.

But nobody dies. She'll keep on living, just perforated.

Threaten me, you coward, not her.

Esther

Rex. Hey, I'm okay.

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?

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.

S4 E10 The Blood Line

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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.

Esther

But finding it wasn't enough. You had to experiment on it.

No, we fed 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.

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?

This is only stage one.

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.

Jilly

It's about time!

Oh, great. So it's the world according to Kitzinger, is it?

Jilly

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.