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INT. TORCHWOOD FRONT OFFICE

Stephan walks in. The Professor is pacing. Nobs is laid out on a desk, staring up at the ceiling. Evie is at her desk flipping random pages in a book. They all jerk up when Stephan enters.

STEPHAN

Nobs, do you have that blood analysis?

NOBS

(apologetically)

Not yet. These things do take time.

STEPHAN

That's fine. Hurry if you can. I want him in lock down. He doesn't go anywhere. Do we have cells in this place?

NOBS

Floor below.

STEPHAN

Put him there. Don't take any chances. Also, I want him thoroughly examined. Find out about what happened to bring him back. Whose job is that?

PROFESSOR

Nobs is a competent medical examiner.

STEPHAN

That means you get stay and check him out. The Professor and I are going back to those sewers. We missed something the first time, I know it.

EVIE

What did Peter say when you questioned him?

STEPHAN

It doesn't matter. He's not to be trusted.

EVIE

But what did he say? We have to take him at his word. I mean its obvious that he's a victim in all this.

STEPHAN

If he's a victim, then there's no harm in keeping him safe. Until we have hard evidence of his innocence, we treat him like he's guilty.

EVIE

That has never been our policy.

STEPHAN

I make policy now. If you don't like it, then go somewhere else. Now, in between flirting with a corpse and being mad at me, I want you to do your job and watch for any unauthorized communication. We know that whoever it is we're dealing with has a remote device connected to the hopscotch. If he's dumb enough to use it again, then we can trace it. Are we clear?

EVIE

(livid)

Oh, we're clear.

STEPHAN

(briskly)

Good. Professor, time for some exercise.

Stephan heads for the door, grabbing his hat on the way out. The Professor follows him out, grabbing his coat. Evie looks at Nobs, who just shrugs his shoulders and leaves to go to work. Evie fumes alone.

EXT. CRASH SITE: GRAVEYARD - LATER

Stephan and the Professor pull up in front of the graveyard. The day is still very gray in the afternoon. They hop out of the jeep and go over to the manhole.

PROFESSOR

Down the rabbit hole.

STEPHAN

Its better than a looking glass.

They climb down.

int sewer

Stephan shines a flashlight down the tunnel.

PROFESSOR

So what's the plan?

They start walking down the tunnel.

STEPHAN

What plan?

PROFESSOR

Well, you always seem to know what you're doing, so I assume you have a plan.

STEPHAN

I don't plan. I just do what needs to be done.

PROFESSOR

So you had to talk to Evie like that?

STEPHAN

(sighing)

She's not thinking right. Too many emotions. I had to set her straight.

PROFESSOR

She had a point though. We do usually treat people as innocent until proven guilty.

STEPHAN

Yeah, well. I'm not willing to risk it. Somethings not right, I can feel it.

PROFESSOR

An instinct you learned in the war, perhaps?

STEPHAN

(turning to face him)

You're going all the way around something, which is tedious. Say what you want to say already.

PROFESSOR

We're not in the army, Captain. Things have to be handled differently, delicately. You don't know us and we don't know you.

STEPHAN

This isn't a therapy group and I'm not your shrink. We're here to do what needs to be done, that's all.

Stephan starts walking again.

PROFESSOR

They didn't tell you anything about Torchwood, did they? What we're like. What our mission is?

STEPHAN

As far as I've seen, trouble finds us and we deal with it.

PROFESSOR

That's not the half of it. Torchwood's mission is to protect this planet from the dangers of the universe. Things from beyond that may be harmful to us, or even to themselves. We deal with the extra-terrestrial, the supernatural, anything unexplainable. We solve mysteries that would boggle the minds of the worlds greatest scientists. And we can't tell anyone about it. This job is inherently lonely and the only people who understand this are the people we work with. This isn't just a job. Its a family. You're going to have to accept that if you're going to make it here. You might want to keep that in mind.

STEPHAN

I don't need a family, Professor. I need people to do their jobs. Here we are.

The turn a corner and come to the place where they found Peter. Stephan looks around.

STEPHAN

This is where what's-its-face left Peter, so this is its last known location. There's no way up, so it either went back or forward.

Professor

There should be some sign, footprints, debris.

STEPHAN

But there's nothing is there. I mean, there aren't any footprints to begin with, not in this muck, but everything leaves signs. There's nothing.

PROFESSOR

Maybe it had a teleportation device?

STEPHAN

Not likely. That's some pretty rare technology, at least in this decade.

PROFESSOR

You mean its common in others?

STEPHAN

(ignoring that comment)

When we were first down here, do you recall seing any signs of Peter's attacker?

PROFESSOR

I don't think so. You were ahead of me, but I would have seen something.

STEPHAN

I don't remember seeing anything either. We had the blood trail, the tracks at the cemetery, and then we found Peter down here.

PROFESSOR

There were two sets of tracks up top. Maybe we just missed the ones down here.

stephan

That doesn't account for the blood. Nobs said that Peter had no blood. He's a corpse, he can't bleed on anything. So where did the blood come from?

Stephan and the Professor start going in opposite directions. Stephan goes onward for awhile. Then he sees something in the water. He reaches down and picks it up. Its a cat that's had its throat cut.

PROFessor

Nothing over here.

STEPHAN

There is something over here.

The Professor comes over and sees the cat.

PROFESSOR

That explains the blood. Looks like we won't need Nobs' analysis after all.

STEPHAN

Let's go check those tracks again.