Jack, Rex and others in “Dead of Night”

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]