Torchwood (TV Series)

Small Worlds (2006)

John Barrowman: Captain Jack Harkness

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• Gwen Cooper : Where did you and Estelle meet?

  Captain Jack Harkness : In London. At the Estoria ballroom. A few weeks before Christmas. She was seventeen years old and she was beautiful. I loved her at first sight. But nothing lasted back then. Promises were always being broken. Estelle... to have to die like that...

• Gwen Cooper : [a man has been choked to death in a locked cell with flowers in his mouth]  Never seen anything like that before!

  Captain Jack Harkness : I have.

• Toshiko Sato : [showing photos of "fairies"]  This is the youngest girl, and the girl's cousin.

  Ianto Jones : I blame it on magic mushrooms.

  Captain Jack Harkness : What you do in your own time is none of our business.

• Captain Jack Harkness : We know the dead man was a convicted pedophile. Used to hang around schools.

  Gwen Cooper : But why the petals in his mouth?

  Captain Jack Harkness : Just a bit of fun on their part.

  Gwen Cooper : [referring to the victim thrashing on the CCTV footage]  You call that fun?

  Captain Jack Harkness : That's the way these creatures like to do things: they play games, they torment, and then kill.

  Gwen Cooper : Why?

  Captain Jack Harkness : As a punishment, or a warning to others. They protect their own, the chosen ones. Somehow, children and the spirit world, they go together.

  Toshiko Sato : So how do we stop them?

  Captain Jack Harkness : First, we have to find out who they want. And we can't trap them. They have control of the elements: fire, water, the air that we breathe. They can drag that air right out of our bodies. Sometimes I think they're part Mara.

  Toshiko Sato : Mara?

  Captain Jack Harkness : Kind of malignant wraiths. It's where the word "nightmare" came from. They suffocate people in their sleep.

  [telephone rings, snapping Gwen's attention away]