Elsewhere in the city, a man named Brian Hatter is involved in a car accident, and the other driver steps out of his car, says hello, and collapses with blood streaming down his face. Outside the hospital, an ambulance has stopped some distance from the door while the driver chats with an old man in a wheelchair. When she calls for help, the person on the other end of the phone says hello and introduces herself as Lucy Philpott. Staff nurse Angie Mercer is horrified, but anaesthetist Bob Gordon and doctor's assistant Benjamin Okeno respond by saying hello to her. But what will it do with that information? And what's going to happen to the city if people keep talking about themselves instead of doing their jobs?Īt the hospital, Dr Cornfield stops in the middle of an appendectomy, says hello to his patient, and walks out of the operating theatre. Jack theorises that whatever came through the Rift has made first contact and is using the telesensual field to make people talk about themselves so it can learn about the planet it's landed on. Ianto reports that telephone usage has gone up 87%, and most of the calls seem to consist of people saying hello and talking about themselves, their friends and their families. Gwen and Jack both score five out of five on an impromptu Zener card test, which implies that the field is linking their minds together. The Torchwood operatives determine that the energy field is registering on the PK scale. As he drives, he passes a bus that's pulled over to the side of the road paramedics are working on a slumped figure inside while police are questioning the traumatised Gemma Sands, who panicked and stabbed the strange man in the neck with her pen when he wouldn't stop talking to her. The usually short-tempered Vic thanks her, gets into his cab and drives off alone. Outside the train station, a woman approaches cab driver Vic Royce, says hello, introduces herself as Jane Broading and starts telling him all about herself. 26-year-old supply teacher Alan Kennedy walks into his classroom, only to have all of the children stand up and say hello to him in unison. Gemma boards her own bus, but as she sits down and starts to work on her sudoku, the creepy man from the queue sits down next to her and says hello.Įlsewhere, a schoolboy named Ishram Kapoor is beaten up by white thugs when he walks up to them, says hello and starts talking about himself. Gemma heads out to the bus stop, where a queue is forming behind a woman who seems to be having a conversation with the driver. The vendor and the old man respond by saying hello, introducing themselves as William McGarrish and Vernon Hines, and asking her about herself. A slightly creepy guy whom Gemma has noticed leering at her at the bus stop seems to be trying to make eye contact with her, so Gemma pushes up to the front of the queue to pay for her newspaper and get out of the shop. Last night, something came through the Rift and blanketed Cardiff with a powerful energy field, but they can't pinpoint the source and have no idea what the field's purpose is.Ī woman named Gemma Sands is held up on her morning commute when her newsagent and an old man begin holding a protracted conversation about each other. Owen and Gwen report the strange encounters to Jack, but for the moment he's more concerned with the energy readings Tosh has detected. Outside the Hub, Gwen encounters an early-bird tourist who says hello to her, introduces himself as Kurt Stoltzman from Hamburg, and tells her his mother's maiden name. As Owen pushes past the babbling man to get to his car, a postman stops and says hello to him. Jack calls Owen in to work early, but as he leaves the house, a milkman named John Davies says hello, introduces himself and starts talking about his wife and kids. Time-Placement: Owen survives an injury with no lasting ill-effects, placing this at some point before Reset.
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