![]() Tommy is dressed in hospital pyjamas with an unmistakable leather jumper belonging to a man of the 1918 war front. She is Toshiko Sato, part of a Torchwood ninety years into the future, along with a soldier from the WWI era who somehow ended up in their time, Tommy Brockless. This woman is a familiar face to some, but a complete stranger to Gerald and Harriet. They gaze at a woman dressed in clothes completely unlike their own, as though they were from another era entirely. To Gerald and Harriet, it appears that two people have emerged from out of nowhere. The rift has split open and a time shift is in full force. They are greeted with a ferocious burst of white light and turbulent wind. The Torchwood agents enter the storage room, where the rift activity is peaking on Harriet's detector. This is not the product of a bomb explosion it is a fissure about to tear open in the Cardiff Rift. However, it becomes evident they do not have time to have condolences for the victims when the hospital lurches violently. They have been ordered by Field Marshal Haig to "fight to the last man" and "fight on to the end," at which Gerald and Harriet express pity. Inside the ward, the nurse laments that these reported sightings could be a result of delusions brought on by patients having nervous breakdowns - the wounded and shell-shocked soldiers being treated at St Teilo's aren't in the best mental state from their traumatic experiences at the war front. Gerald and Harriet take heed, heading into the ward on the double. Gerald apologises for the intrusion and Harriet asks the nurse if she has caught sight of any ghosts today, to which she testifies three sightings in the hospital ward thus far. The two Torchwood personnel unintentionally spook an unusually jumpy nurse as they come clamouring down the stairs of the hospital in search of what they suspect to be triggering the disturbances of the rift. Harriet is using a device to track the activity of the Cardiff Rift that has suspiciously coincided with these sightings. It is the year 1918, the climax of World War I, and two members of the Torchwood Institute, Gerald Kneale and Harriet Derbyshire, have arrived at St Teilo's Military Hospital to investigate the rumours of ghostly apparitions appearing within its walls, spooking its populace. He is kept alive until the day he is needed and, when ghosts appear at a hospital, it's clear that time has come. Once a year, for a single day, Tommy Brockless is defrosted in the Torchwood hub to make sure he's still working.
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