Cold Case TV Show

• Unlike last week’s episode of Torchwood (“Cyberwoman”) which suffered from a weak first half-hour but rebounded with a great second half-hour; this week’s episode of Torchwood was solid from beginning to end.

• The mystery of Captain Jack got a little clearer and also a little murkier in this episode. We already knew that he spent some time in the British Army during WWII; but what we didn’t know prior to this episode was that Jack had fallen in love with a woman at that time, but unfortunately had to break his promise to be with her forever. (I think the reasons that Jack left the WWII era were explained on Dr. Who, so I’m hazy on those details). We also found out in this episode that Jack spent time in the army prior to the First World War, which is when he had his first encounter with the fairies. What was he doing on a troop transport train in 1908???

• Jack’s interactions with Estelle in this episode were sweet, especially the scene at the end where she died and he admitted to Gwen that he had been Estelle’s lover (and not his father).

• Kudos to Gwen for putting two and two together and realizing that Jack was Estelle’s man in WWII. I like that Gwen is figuring things out quickly and that Torchwood isn’t playing out all these little mysteries over three or four episodes.

• The fairies targeting the little girl as their “chosen one” was disturbingly creepy, but I assumed that Jack and the team would of course find some way to save her. Needless to say I was very surprised when Jack and Co. couldn’t save her and Jack had to sacrifice the girl to the fairies at the end. I had the same reaction as Gwen and the others: “WTF, Jack?!”

• Jack’s inner turmoil in that moment, followed by the mother’s grief and then the team refusing to speak to him made for some great (albeit somewhat depressing) television moments.

• Some of the other standout moments from this ep included:
– The fairies killing the pedophile;
– Gwen freaking out to Jack after she found her apartment trashed;
– The flashbacks;
– Gwen finding the girl’s face in the old photograph; and
– Jack and Ianto’s “moment” (for lack of a better word) at the beginning of the episode when they were both working late – letting the viewers know that these two have reached some kind of truce/apology/understanding since the shattering events of the previous ep.

(http://torchwood.time-and-space.co.uk)

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