Prologue
Torchwood. Outside the government beyond the police. To protect Earth and the human race. The 21st Century is when everything changes. And we weren't... we aren't ready.
Torchwood Three has fallen. A shadow looms over Cardiff, Wales. The city itself mourns the loss of its saviours. Owen Harper, deceased. Toshiko Sato, deceased. Ianto Jones, deceased. Only two remain. Gwen Cooper and Captain Jack Harkness. A lost little girl who feels she cannot carry on, and a man who has forever to live in grief.
Somewhere far across the stars is the Doctor, mourning the loss of a human girl who was so much more. The girl who held the time vortex in her head and survived. Gone, never to return. The Doctor did not turn away from the Earth in shame - he didn't see its pain through his own. But someone else, something else, did.
Everything happens for a reason, and everyone knows: "The end is where we start from."
